The Toronto International Film Festival takes place every September, which really is a great time to have a film festival because it marks the end of summer blockbuster season and the start of Oscar season. I’ve been patiently awaiting the line-up for this year’s fest in the hopes that I might be able to catch one or two of the many films that I am looking forward to in the latter part of 2007. The full listing won’t be available until August 21st, but the organizers have already started issuing press releases that reveal some of this year’s films. Here are some of the films confirmed so far:

Midnight Madness
- DIARY OF THE DEAD George A. Romero, USA
- DAINIPPONJIN Hitoshi Matsumoto, Japan
- THE DEVIL’S CHAIR Adam Mason, UK
- FLASH POINT Wilson Yip, Hong Kong/China
- FRONTIÈRES Xavier Gens, France
- À L’INTÉRIEUR Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo, France\
- STUCK Stuart Gordon, Canada/USA
- VEXILLE Fumihiko Sori, Japan
- THE MOTHER OF TEARS Dario Argento, Italy/USA
- SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO Takashi Miike, Japan

Vanguard
- CONTROL Anton Corbijn, UK/Australia
- CHRYSALIS Julien Leclercq, France
- DÉFICIT Gael García Bernal, Mexico
- EX DRUMMER Koen Mortier, Belgium
- HELP ME EROS Lee Kang-sheng, Taiwan
- LES CHANSONS D’AMOUR Christophe Honoré, France
- ME Rafa Cortés, Spain
- NAISSANCE DES PIEUVRES Céline Sciamma, France
- THE ORPHANAGE Juan Antonio Bayona, Spain
- PARANOID PARK Gus Van Sant, France
- PING PONG PLAYA Jessica Yu, USA
- XXY Lucía Puenzo, Argentina/Spain/France

Special Presentations
- L’ÂGE DES TÉNÈBRES Denys Arcand, Canada
- ACROSS THE UNIVERSE Julie Taymor, USA
- THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD Andrew Dominik, USA
- ATONEMENT Joe Wright, UK
- BATTLE IN SEATTLE Stuart Townsend, USA
- BEFORE THE RAINS Santosh Sivan, USA/India
- THE BRAVE ONE Neil Jordan, USA/Australia
- CASSANDRA’S DREAM Woody Allen, UK
- EASTERN PROMISES David Cronenberg, UK/Canada
- ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE, Shekhar Kapur, UK
- FUGITIVE PIECES, Jeremy Podeswa, Canada
- HERE IS WHAT IS Adam Vollick, Daniel Lanois, Adam Samuels, Canada
- I’M NOT THERE Todd Haynes, USA
- IN THE VALLEY OF ELAH Paul Haggis, USA
- INTO THE WILD Sean Penn, USA
- MARGOT AT THE WEDDING Noah Baumbach, USA
- MICHAEL CLAYTON Tony Gilroy, USA
- MY WINNIPEG Guy Maddin, Canada
- NIGHTWATCHING Peter Greenaway, UK/Poland/Canada/The Netherlands
- NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, USA
- NOTHING IS PRIVATE Alan Ball, USA
- POOR BOY’S GAME Clement Virgo, Canada
- RENDITION Gavin Hood, USA
- RESERVATION ROAD Terry George, USA
- THE SAVAGES Tamara Jenkins, USA
- LE SCAPHANDRE ET LE PAPILLON (THE DIVING BELL AND THE BUTTERFLY) Julian Schnabel, France
- SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL Roger Spottiswoode, Canada
- SILK François Girard, Canada

Jay has also written about the documentary line-up from the Real to Reel programme over at The Documentary Blog.

Anyone out there going to this year’s festival? What are you seeing?

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