JANUARY 8, 2011 FRONT PAGE POLITICS BUSINESS MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT COMEDY SPORTS STYLE WORLD GREEN FOOD TRAVEL TECH LIVING HEALTH DIVORCE ARTS BOOKS RELIGION IMPACT EDUCATION COLLEGE NY LA CHICAGO DENVER BLOGS Michael Giltz Freelance writer and raconteur Posted: September 9, 2010 12:07 AM BIO Become a Fan Get Email Alerts Bloggers' Index 5 39 views 0 16Inspiring Funny Hot Scary Outrageous Amazing Weird CrazyToronto Film Festival Preview What's Your Reaction: Read More: Docuementaries , Film , Midnight Movies , Movies , Toronto Film Festival , Entertainment News I'll be covering the Toronto International Film Festival and contributing stories to Huffington Post throughout.</p><p> Hundreds of movies and documentaries, from early in the morning till the Midnight Madnessscreenings run by Colin Geddess, not to mention interviews, networking, giving interviews to OTHER journalists so they can do their job, providing somecoverage of gay flicks for AOL's blog Queersighted,and doing the work I do to pay the bills so I can do stuff like attend the Toronto.</p><p> I'm ready to see as many movies as possible but here are some of the highlightsI really don't want to miss.</p><p> LET ME IN -- The Let The Right One In English remake.</p><p> Could it actually be good? The trailer certainly delivers.</p><p> MOST POPULAR ON HUFFPOST 1 of 2 BIG NEWS: The Kardashians | Bristol Palin | Celebrity Skin | Jersey Shore | Smarter Ideas | More...</p><p> Elizabeth Edwards' Will Revealed Camille Grammer's Porn Past Comes Back To Haunt Her GOP Congresswoman Caught In Sexually Suggestive Photos Intestinal Parasites May Be Causing Your Energy Slump Should The Leader Of The Free World Dress Like THIS? What Not To Say When Your Loved One Is Upset Thousands Of Birds Found Dead In Italy John Edwards Spokesman Denies Rumored Proposal To Rielle Hunter Betty White: 'I'm Going Away For A While' LOG IN | SIGN UP SHARE THIS STORY Get Entertainment Alerts Email Comments 16 Recommend 553 Like 748 Like 456 Like 652 Like 536 Like 356 Recommend Like 4K Like 537 BLACK SWAN -- Darren Aronovsky's intriguing dance world melodrama that's either brilliant or bizarre or both but certainly not to be missed.</p><p> Reviews out of Venice were mixed but fascinating.</p><p> Nonetheless, I keep confusing it with that business book about improbable events.</p><p> That would make a cool Aronofsky project too.</p><p> CLIENT 9: THE RISE AND FALL OF ELLIOT SPITZER -- A new documentary by Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney that's unsparing about Spitzer's failings but posits a wide-ranging conspiracy of the enemies he made while fighting corruption.</p><p> The film argues they exploited a personal failing that should not perhaps have come to light or resulted in his resignation from the position of Governor of New York.</p><p> Spitzer blames only himself but it's a sobering reminder of the many abuses and excesses on Wall Street he was combating long before the (latest) financial meltdown caused by many of those very same practices.</p><p> A solid companion piece to terrific documentary Inside Job.</p><p> RABBIT HOLE -- Director John Cameron Mitchell ( Hedwig and the Angry Inch ) directs the film adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize winning play about a married couple devastated by a car accident that kills their son.</p><p> We're bummed Cynthia Nixon didn't get to repeat her Tony winning performance, butNicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Dianne Weist and Tammy Blanchard will do nicely.</p><p> TABLOID -- A new Errol Morris documentary.</p><p> Need I say more? Okay, how about modern masterpieces like The Thin Blue Line; Mr.</p><p> Death; The Fog Of War; Gates Of Heaven; Vernon, Florida; and more? Need more? How about this description: it's the story of a former Miss Wyoming beauty pageant contestant accused of kidnapping a Mormon Missionary.</p><p> Okay, now you're interested.</p><p> THE ILLUSIONIST -- a new animated film from the director of The Triplets of Belleville and based on a screenplay by Jacques Tati.</p><p> To top it off, the reviews in Europe have been virtually all positive.</p><p> I'm excited. 127 HOURS -- James Franco teams with Danny Boyle on a film about the true story of a mountain climber who is stranded and must cut off his own arm in order to survive.</p><p> How the heck will they make this watchable for the squeamish (ie. me)? The response at Telluride was very positive so it's gonna befun to find out.</p><p> THE BANG BANG CLUB -- Ryan Philippe and Taylor Kitsch ( Friday Night Lights ) star as two members of a group of war photographers capturing the last days of apartheid in South Africa.</p><p> It must have been nice for them to be on the other side of the camera for a change.</p><p> Press interview prediction: one or both of them has taken up photography as a hobby. 13 ASSASSINS -- latest from Takashi Miike, samurai epic period piece with team of assassins working together to kill a warlord.</p><p> Sure to be violent and bizarre and somewhere in there sentimental.</p><p> Crazily fun 1 of 5 Dylan Ratigan Free Market Fraud Sen.</p><p> Jon Tester Tester Pushes to Reform Senate Rules With Greater Transparency, EfficiencyDON'T MISS HUFFPOST BLOGGERS HOT TRENDS TOP VIDEO PICKS Queen's Royal Wedding 1 of 9 camille grammer lady gaga natalie portman pregnant raven symone weight loss snooki nude More Celebrity News at People.com More Celebrity News at Popeater.com Ginnifer Goodwin Reacts to Uproar over Her Weight Watchers History READ MORE History Channel Won't Show Katie Holmes Miniseries The Kennedys READ MORE Lindsay Lohan's Post- Rehab Gift: a $25,000 Necklace READ MORE Katie Holmes 'Kennedys' Miniseries: Canceled! 'Hawaii Five-O' Books Lachey and Minnillo Salma Hayek's Red Bikini Stands Out in St.</p><p> Bartsfight scenes from what I hear.</p><p> MONSTERS -- Shot on a dime post-alien "invasion" movie (opening October 22 around the country) with a journalist dragooned into escorting a tourist through the infected zone of Mexico to the relative safety of the US, all taking place six years after a space probe disintegrated over Mexico and alien lifeforms began popping up.</p><p> Reportedly shot for pennies with the two leads later getting married.</p><p> Writingand directing by Gareth Edwards, Emmy nominee for visual effects work.</p><p> It's District 9 with less lovable aliens.</p><p> CASINO JACK -- Kevin Spacey stars as Jack Abramoff, lobbyist extraordinaire.</p><p> Juicy fun that could remind people of what a terrific film actor Spacey is.</p><p> BRIGHTON ROCK - A new adaptation of the Graham Greene novel with a stellar cast -- Helen Mirren, Andy Serkis and rising star Sam Riley (of Control and the upcoming On the Road film).</p><p> Plus, it's written and directed by Rowan Joffe, an intriguing screenwriter who wrote The American and the gem Last Resort.HOW I ENDED THIS SUMMER -- I know nothing about it except that Film Movement has picked it for its monthly series of DVDs and they have great taste.</p><p> Two men manning a meteorological station at the Arctic Circle.</p><p> An "existential thriller." Arthouse! FUBAR II -- The Canadian answer to Wayne's World or Beavis and Butthead or SCTV's Bob & Doug.</p><p> Oh wait, they're Canadian too.</p><p> THE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER -- A highly lauded Israeli film about the unlikeliest of Rift Kourtney K.'s Stunning Bikini Bod Jane Krakowski RevealsBaby Bump MOST DISCUSSED RIGHT NOW HOT ON FACEBOOK HOT ON TWITTER Natalie Portman Television Sudan Christianity Careers War Wire CES 2011 Models AfghanistanHUFFPOST'S BIG NEWS PAGES MORE BIG NEWS PAGES »One And Done: 'Sarah Palin's Alaska' NOT Renewed: Report 42 Comments Natalie Portman: I Was 'Barely Eating' During 'Black Swan' 435 Comments Camille Grammer's Porn Past Comes Back To Haunt Her 969 Comments PHOTOS: Olivia Wilde Dons See-Through Bikini 101 Comments Amanda Seyfried, Ryan Phillippe Dating: Romance Heats Up 4 Comments Ashton Kutcher: Training, Paranoid About Real Life 'End Of Days' 904 Commentsheroes: the human resources manager of the largest bakery in Jerusalem.</p><p> Naturally, the Israeli- Palestinian conflict intrudes.</p><p> When an employee is killed by a suicide bomber, the harried manager seems too indifferent and the HR manager is called in to set things right, launching him on an unexpected journey to a post-Soviet satellite country.</p><p> From director Eran Riklis, of The Syrian Bride.</p><p> A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO ENDINGS -- Jonathan Sobol film about three brothers who discover they are doomed to die in a few days and decide to make the most of their remaining hours.</p><p> Stars Scott Caan and Harvey Keitel but I'm most interested because the film was smart enough to cast Tricia Helfer of Battlestar: Galactica (Number Six), who is Canadian and criminally underutilized by Hollywood.</p><p> Don't they realize she's a star? HOME FOR CHRISTMAS -- The latest from the drolly amusing director behind O'Horten and Factotum and Kitchen Stories.</p><p> This one tells interlocking tales on Christmas Eve.</p><p> Bent Hamer is a genuine talent.STAKE LAND -- Midnight Madness.</p><p> Vampire spin on Zombieland with a much darker tone.</p><p> The US is overrun by vampires, so teen Martin (Connor Paolo of Gossip Girl) is lucky to be mentored by a veteran vamp killer (Nick Domici).</p><p> The bloodsuckers aren't the only trouble.</p><p> Michael Cerveris is the leader of the Brethren, who believe that the vamps are the Lord's work, a curse for our evil ways.</p><p> Director Jim Mickle follows his zombie rat epic Mulberry Street with a real shot at the big time.</p><p> They've already sent me apromo knife for protection; I'll keep it with me in Canada...just in case.</p><p> MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED -- Documentary film about the era when all sorts of B movies were shot in the Philippines, despite the country's miserable existence under the dictatorship of the Marcos family.</p><p> Talking heads include Roger Corman, Joe Dante, John Landis, Eddie Romero, R.</p><p> LeeErmey and more. (The trailer continues brief nudity and mild profanity and lots and lots of violence.</p><p> This ain't no Sunday picnic.) NSFW! SUBMARINE -- Based on the dark coming of age novel by Joel Dunthorne, it follows 15 year old Oliver on his twin objectives: to lose his virginity and keep his mum from leaving his dad for another man.</p><p> Overseen by Ben Stiller, it's the film directorial debut of actor Richard Ayoade of sitcom The IT Crowd.</p><p> THE WAY -- Emilio Estevez intrigues me.</p><p> He's clearly a serious filmmaker.</p><p> And if Bobby was earnest and overreached its grasp, at least it tried to overreach.</p><p> Now he's written and directed a film starring his father Martin Sheen, a father who finds out his son has died in Spain while making a pilgrimage knownas The Way Of Saint James.</p><p> Sheen goes to retrieve the body but decides to finish the pilgrimage his son couldn't.</p><p> THE LAST CIRCUS -- 40 years of Spain under the thumb of Franco, as told via the love triangle between a "happy" clown and a "sad" clown and the woman they love.</p><p> Sounds so hard to swallow, so Benigni-like, that it must be good.</p><p> ANOTHER YEAR -- Second chance to see this Mike Leigh film, one of my favorites at Cannes.</p><p> A piercing and moving look at the year in a life of friends, especially a nice but awkwardly lonely divorced woman who suddenly looks around and sees even her friends' children are finding lovers and spouses and she wonders what exactly she's done wrong.</p><p> Just marvelous with a great cast all around led by JimFOLLOW HUFFINGTON POST Comments 16 Pending Comments 0View FAQ 31 Fans Camille Grammer's Porn Past Comes Back To...</p><p> Andy Samberg, Johnny Knoxville To Star In...</p><p> Olivia Wilde Dons See-Through Bikini (PHOTOS) Natalie Portman: I Was 'Barely Eating' During...Broadbent, Lesley Manville (Oscar worthy), the rock-solid Ruth Sheen and in a sensational but very brief turn by Imelda Staunton. ***** Thanks for reading.</p><p> Michael Giltz is the cohost of Showbiz Sandbox, a weekly pop culture podcast that reveals the industry take on entertainment news of the day and features top journalists and opinion makers as guests.</p><p> It's available free on iTunes.</p><p> Visit Michael Giltz at his website and his daily blog.</p><p> Download his podcast of celebrity interviews and his radio show, also called Popsurfing and also available for free on iTunes.</p><p> Follow Michael Giltz on Twitter: www.twitter.com/michaelgiltz More in Entertainment...</p><p> Brother-in -Law just returned from his annual Telluride visit.</p><p> THE TALK of the festival was "The King's Speech." Hollywood Reporter completely backs him up SOcheck it out Michael!Recency | Popularity HUFFPOST SUPER USER Aitch5 05:30 PM on 9/10/2010 Permalink | Share itComments are closed for this entry View All 59 Fans 253 Fans 253 Fans 31 Fans 59 Fans 55 Fans 59 Fans 59 FansWill do my best, though I missed the first screening due to travel snafus.</p><p> Love Mike Leigh and can't wait to see that film.</p><p> Why remake "Let the Right One In"? The film was excellent and does not need an English retelling.</p><p> I agree with you but I agree with the filmwriter --the trailer looks amazingly surprising ly good.</p><p> It doesn't give too much away which always indicates to me that a film sucks.</p><p> I'm with you.</p><p> Have you read the book? I'm sorry I didn't get a chance yet.</p><p> There are way too many people who simply will not watch a subtitled film.</p><p> Sadly, I know a lot of them.</p><p> At least this remake seems from the trailer to be faithful to the original.</p><p> Somany wonderful foreign films have been totally ruined in their American remakes.</p><p> I amfearful of what will happen to the Millennium Trilogy movies in their US incarnatio ns.</p><p> Wow! are you going to all those films?? I certainly want to see them all.</p><p> Plus more.</p><p> I will probably see about 40 films during thefestival's ten days.</p><p> I always end up missing something I really want to see but it's a bigjigsaw puzzle of screening times, interviews , grabbing a bite, sleeping (a little) and so on.</p><p> I'll do my best!HUFFPOST BLOGGER Michael Giltz 01:35 AM on 9/11/2010 Permalink | Share it uglygnome 09:43 AM on 9/10/2010 Permalink | Share it uglygnome 09:39 AM on 9/10/2010 Permalink | Share it HUFFPOST SUPER USER Aitch5 05:28 PM on 9/10/2010 Permalink | Share it HUFFPOST BLOGGER Michael Giltz 01:36 AM on 9/11/2010 Permalink | Share it HUFFPOST SUPER USER binq56 01:13 PM on 9/11/2010 Permalink | Share it HUFFPOST BLOGGER Melody Breyer-Grell 12:54 AM on 9/09/2010 Permalink | Share it HUFFPOST BLOGGER Michael Giltz 01:17 AM on 9/09/2010 Permalink | Share it360 Fans 117 Fans 59 Fansgot any other links for ``MACHETE MAIDENS UNLEASHED` `, the video has been pulled.</p><p> There are More Comments on this Thread.</p><p> Click Here To See them All hey, Michael--S ounds like a film freak's dream come true; hope you have a great time.</p><p> But try to get out for some fresh air--Toron to's lovely this time of year.</p><p> There are More Comments on this Thread.</p><p> Click Here To See them All That is quite a feat:) I just saw one at the IFC here and it look a day for me to recover:) FRONT PAGE POLITICS BUSINESS MEDIA ENTERTAINMENT COMEDY SPORTS STYLE WORLD GREEN FOOD TRAVEL TECH LIVING HEALTH DIVORCE ARTS BOOKS RELIGION IMPACT EDUCATION COLLEGE NY LA CHICAGO DENVER BLOGS Advertise | Log In | Make HuffPost your Home Page | RSS | Careers | FAQ | Contact Us User Agreement | Privacy | Comment Policy | About Us | Powered by Movable Type Copyright © 2011 TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc. | "The Huffington Post" is a registered trademark of TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.</p><p> All rights reserved.</p><p> HUFFPOST SUPER USER freddychef 11:22 PM on 9/09/2010 Permalink | Share it 3fingerbrown 12:41 PM on 9/10/2010 Permalink | Share it HUFFPOST BLOGGER Melody Breyer-Grell 08:07 AM on 9/11/2010 Permalink | Share it
