The organizers of the Toronto International Film Festival this week announced the complete lineup of 312 films -- 249 features and 63 shorts -- that will screen next month at TIFF.
The list added 11 gala screenings, including Burn After Reading, the hotly anticipated new film directed by the Coen brothers and starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich and Tilda Swinton, all of whom are expected to attend the festival.
Other gala screenings include the world premieres of Neil Burger's The Lucky Ones, starring Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins and Michael Pena as returning U.S. soldiers on a road trip across America; of Rod Lurie's Nothing But the Truth, in which Kate Beckinsale plays a reporter jailed for protecting a source; and of Gavin O'Connor's Pride and Glory, a story about New York City police officers starring Colin Farrell and Edward Norton.
The festival will kick off with a gala screening of Paul Gross's First World War story Passchendaele on Sept. 4, which should give filmgoers just enough time to commit its tricky spelling to memory. The closing-night film is The Stone of Destiny, about four Scottish students who stole an ancient coronation stone in 1950; it screens Sept. 13.
Stars expected to attend the festival include Renee Zellweger and Viggo Mortensen, who will be in town to promote the premiere of the Ed Harris-directed Appaloosa.
-- Canwest News Service
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