Byand.This article was updated at 8:20 p.m.New films from Spike Lee, Kevin Spacey, John Waters and Danny Boyle are among the 328 titles announced Tuesday for the 29th Toronto Intl. Film Festival.Providing initial momentum for the annual awards season, the Canadian event will showcase a number of key specialty releases being positioned by their distribs for attention, including Pedro Almodovar’s “Bad Education” from Sony Pictures Classics, Walter Salles’ “The Motorcycle Diaries” from Focus Features and Richard Eyre’s “Stage Beauty” from Lions Gate. Also joining the Special Presentations lineup and sure to be high on the acquisitions radar is the world preem of Laurence Dunmore’s “The Libertine,” starring Johnny Depp and John Malkovich in the story of licentious wit and poet John Wilmott, the Second Earl of Rochester. In the same section is Jim Brown’s doc “Isn’t This a Time!
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A Tribute Concert for Harold Levanthal,” to be followed by a live performance from legendary folksters Pete Seeger and the Weavers.While acquisitions execs will get their first peeks in Venice or Telluride at available titles including Todd Solondz’s “Palindromes,” Gregg Araki’s “Mysterious Skin” and Lodge Kerrigan’s “Keane,” dealmaking activity customarily is kept on hold for key titles until Toronto. Last year’s edition was marked by significant sales of foreign-language fare, outshining deals on English-lingo pics. On paper, this year’s fest looks likely to restore the balance with a number of unacquired titles from the U.S. And Britain.“One of the great things that makes us happy about this year’s list is that it has so many returning filmmakers on it,” said Noah Cowan, who steps in for his debut edition as fest director this year. “When people leave your festival happy, it makes it a lot easier to get films.”Lineup of films from 61 countries includes roughly 100 world premieres.
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Among returning directors is Iranian Bahman Ghobadi (“A Time for Drunken Horses”) with “Turtles Can Fly”; and “La femme de Gilles” from Belgian helmer Frederic Fonteyne (“Une liaison pornographique”).
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