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Toronto Fest Back in Black
Jack Black is ready to rock Toronto.
The School of Rock, the manic actor's new comedy from Slacker director Richard Linklater, is one of 336 films set to tune up at the 28th Toronto International Film Festival, September 4-13.
Organizers confirmed the complete slate of films Tuesday. Also announced were R.S.V.P.s from the Hollywood likes of Nicole Kidman, Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Sean Penn, Anthony Hopkins and Katie Holmes.
The festival, its pomp and circumstance held in check in 2001 by the 9/11 terror attacks, is the first to be held in the wake of Toronto's SARS scare and the massive blackout that left the city, like much of the U.S. Northeast, in the dark last week.
"I think we'll roll with the punches," festival director Piers Handling told a press conference Tuesday, per Reuters.
School of Rock, about a free-stylin' guitarist turned substitute teacher (Black), will be screened as part of Toronto's prestigious Gala slate. Other movies in that division include: The Company, a Robert Altman world premiere with Neve Campbell; Robert Benton's The Human Stain, starring Hopkins and Kidman; Carl Franklin's Out of Time, with Washington as a police chief accused of the proverbial crime he didn't commit; Ridley Scott's Matchstick Men, his con-men comedy with Nicolas Cage; and, Joel Schumacher's Veronica Guerin, a biopic about an ill-fated Irish investigative reporter (Cate Blanchett).
Kidman also will be seen in Toronto in Lars Von Trier's Dogville, previously a Cannes entry. Scott will pull double-duty, as well, hosting a director's cut of his 1979 sci-fi classic, Alien.
Other festival-tested films to test Toronto: Mayor of the Sunset Strip, a doc about Los Angeles radio demigod Rodney Bingenheimer; The Singing Detective, with gumshoe Robert Downey Jr.; and Gus Van Sant's Elephant.
Vincent Gallo's The Brown Bunny, denounced by Roger Ebert at Cannes as the worst film ever in that festival's history, will try its luck in the Visions showcase for filmmakers who "push the boundaries of contemporary cinema." Earlier this month, Gallo month pushed the boundaries of something when the actor-director claimed credit for Ebert having been stricken with cancer of the saliva gland.
Less controversial hyphenates at Toronto include: Adam Goldberg, briefly Chandler's scary roommate on Friends, showing off his second film, I Love Your Work, with Giovanni Ribisi; and Scott Caan, son of James, offering his writing-directing debut, Dallas 362, costarring Jeff Goldblum and Dad.
Charles Martin Smith, who starred as Canadian author Farley Mowat in the 1983 wilderness adventure Never Cry Wolf, will be at Toronto as director of The Snow Walker, based on a Mowat short story.
In all, films from 55 countries, including 252 features, will be screened at Toronto, regarded as the fall's most important North American festival.
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