Goldblum's Moment

Goldblum's Moment
All credits: Hollywood-Elsewhere.com

Okay, no more Jerry Lewis jokes. Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected, which just screened at the Telluride Fillm Festival, is in no way a problem film, a friend says, and Jeff Goldblum's lead performance is, he insists, an Oscar-level achievement. Seriously -- that's what he said.

Scale that back a bit and at the very least Goldblum is looking lucky, skillful and back in the groove with God smiling down. If the buzz is real, people may be calling his work in Adam Resurrected his best performance since....Jurassic Park? The Big Chill? Igby Goes Down?

A little rain began to pour this afternoon, and with it the temperature dropped down to cool. But those mountain aromas!

Jeff Goldblum: The Media Diet, Telluride 2008

Jeff Goldblum: The Media Diet, Telluride 2008
By Kevin Buist on August 30, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Blog.spout.com / PasteMagazine.com

Jeff Goldblum, star of Paul Schrader's Adam Resurrected, shares what he's been watching.

Jeff Goldblum is at Telluride to promote his new film, Adam Resurrected, directed by Paul Schrader. The film follows the story of a Holocaust survivor who also happens to be a clown. Committed to an asylum after the war, he becomes a ring leader of sorts. On the opening day of the festival Goldblum was graciously hugging young fans and striking odd poses for snap-shots. We got a chance to ask him about his media intake, which includes a substantial amount homework from Schrader.

Spout: What movies have you seen and enjoyed lately?

Jeff Goldblum: I’ve gone to the movies theaters recently and saw two movies I really enjoyed. The Woody Allen movie, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, I had a very very good time at that, loved that. Then I saw this documentary called Man on Wire. It’s really, really good, I enjoyed that to no end.

Spout: Have you been watching anything lately on television that has compelled you?

Goldblum: The Democratic Convention.

Spout: Yes, I see your Obama t-shirt there, that was pretty good stuff. What about on the internet, in terms of reading or watching any video online?

Goldblum: Hhhmm, haven’t seen much of that recently, that I can say.

Spout: If you were on a desert island, and you had five pieces of media, they could be books, they could even be websites, they could be movies, to entertain you until your death, and you are all alone, what would you bring with you?

Goldblum: Oh God, very difficult. I’m reading now Talks With Ramana Maharshi, I guess I’d bring that. I like… let me see… let me see… oooooh… oooooh…

Spout: What about a movie, a favorite all-time film that you will never get sick of?

Goldblum: How about Rosemary’s Baby, or Being There. I like those movies Paul Schrader suggested I see before we made Adam Resurrected: Rules of the Game, Tokyo Story, l’Eclisse by Antonioni, Masculin Féminin by Godard, Vertigo, his favorite Hitchcock, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul…

Spout: That is a great movie, we (FilmCouch) discovered that about a year ago, I don’t know how Paul found it, but it’s incredible.

Goldblum: Yeah, it’s really something. Seven Men from Now, Budd Boetticher, he puts that on his recommended list.

Spout: That’s a great list, thanks for your time.

Telluride 2008 line-up reactions

Telluride 2008 line-up reactions
By Chris Thilk on August 29, 2008 at 4:40 pm
www.blog.sprout.com

Snippet:

"Adam Resurrected: The perception - at least among the staffers at here at Spout HQ - is that a good deal of Jeff Goldblum’s appeal comes from his unpredictability. So with a career that’s had him saving the world, dodging dinosaurs and turning into a fly his latest turn is as a Jewish entertainer in Nazi Germany who survives because of his ability to entertain the children being held at the concentration camps. Combine that with the fact that he and co-star Willam Dafoe are directed by Paul Schrader and you have a film that could make a decent splash with audiences and awards voters."

Moving to a new host

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Earth Girls Are Easy ... If You're Jeff Goldblum!

Earth Girls Are Easy ... If You're Jeff Goldblum
Posted Aug 29th 2008 11:01AM by TMZ Staff
When it comes to scorin' chicks, Brody Jenner ain't got s**t on Jeff "Silky" Goldblum.

The Video

Cameras caught "Silky" trollin' the streets of NY, spitin' game to everything with a pulse -- and scorin' numbers like it was his damn job. Can ya dig it?

Four ladies in under an hour -- one even had a kid with her. Sure Silky's been burned before, but today, redemption is spelled J-E-F-F ... even if he does wear a goofy lookin' hat.

You can see Jeff TONIGHT on TMZ!!!

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Adam Resurrected Movie Stills

"Adam Resurrected" movie stills. Courtesy of AceShowbiz.com

My Life As A Dog

My Life As A Dog
By Patrick Healy, staff writer
Daily Planet / TellurideNews.com
Thu Aug 28, 2008, 06:44 PM MDT

Telluride, Colorado -

Maybe all stories have been told because Paul Schrader, the guy who wrote “Taxi Driver” and “Raging Bull,” surveys the landscape of Hollywood and says this: “It’s hard to find anything fresh in the movies, particularly in our era of exhausted narrative possibilities. Virtually every idea is described as, ‘It’s the four couples on a road-trip movie.’ They have a category for everything.”
And then, a while back, Schrader opened up a script that defied category and convention. Schrader describes the outline of the plot like this: a man who was once a dog meets a dog who was once a boy.

“I’d never read anything like this,” Schrader says.

No kidding.

The movie that emerged from that script is “Adam Resurrected,” and it could be one of the most original, kaleidoscopic films to open at this weekend’s Telluride Film Festival, a film directed by Schrader that blends dark comedy, the pain of memory and the catharsis that can come when profoundly violated people manage to become a balm for each other.

Roughly, it tells the story of Adam Stein, a circus clown and well-known Jewish performer who survives the Holocaust by entertaining his Nazi guards. Fifteen years after the liberation of the camps, he’s in an Israeli asylum, being tossed through madness and memory, when he meets a feral boy who grew up chained in a basement in Tel Aviv and now can act only like a dog. The two find a common link.

The movie is obviously rooted in some historical realities, but its real basis is Israeli author Yoram Kaniuk’s 1969 novel of the same title. The book and the movie aren’t verisimilar recreations of the Holocaust, and aren’t “Holocaust works” in the same vein as Night or Schindler’s List.

“It is not a Holocaust film,” Schrader says. “It’s from a novel, a wildly imaginative Israeli novel. The tone of the novel is like “Catch 22.” It’s a rather dark and comic look. One of the challenges we had was trying to describe this film, to get it out of that Holocaust box. This one doesn’t quite fit in that box. And that frustrates people: How come it doesn’t fit in that box?”
It kind of constructs its own.

“It’s an aggressive act of the imagination,” Schrader says.

Jeff Goldblum (“Jurassic Park,” “The Big Chill”) plays Adam Stein, a circus clown living and performing in Berlin on the eve of World War II, a polymath performer who reads minds, plays music, does animal tricks and magic tricks. He owned a night club and cabaret, but when the Nazi machinery of extermination gears up, inevitably and inexorably, he and his family are shipped off to the death camps.

A German commandant (played by Willem Dafoe) recognizes Adam, and greets him thus: “Adam Stein, funniest man in Germany! Do a trick for us. Do a dog.” He complies, and it’s Adam’s ticket to survival. He apes a dog for the next year, eating out of a dog bowl, crawling on all fours, amusing the Jews — including his wife — as they’re herded off to the gas chambers.
Scene break. It’s 1961, and a grayer Adam has survived the war and found his way to Israel, where he lives in an asylum for Holocaust survivors, set in the middle of the Negev Desert. He’s half-insane and reads minds and perhaps touched with a divine madness, but one thing is certain: he cannot stand dogs anymore.

Then one day, he hears a kind of baying from the corners of the asylum, and comes upon the feral kid who is more dog than boy. And they start to feel each other out.

Taking on Adam was a leviathan task for Goldblum. He had already memorized the script when he and Schrader first sat down to discuss it, and he’s described Adam as the most difficult role he’s ever played.

The film is a largely German/Israeli collaboration, featuring German and Israeli actors and shot on location in Haifa, Tel Aviv and near Mount Sodom. To capture the texture of the novel, Schrader said he shot the movie with a shaky handheld camera, muted the color palette and made quicker editing cuts from scene to scene and shot to shot.

“I did change my style,” he says. “I just felt that I needed to make this film a little more aggressive. It’s an attempt to get out of a kind of sort of reverential filmmaking about these subjects. One of the two things about films about the Holocaust is, one they’re based on true events, and they have a reverential tone. Well, this doesn’t have either.”

Adam Resurrected Telluride Film Festival News

Adam Resurrected at the Telluride Film Festival
A series of different articles... Any more news, I'll post. If you have any news, be sure to send it in to: jeffgoldblumonline@yahoo.com=Telluride Film Festival.

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Telluride Film Festival unveils lineup
U.S. filmmakers are missing in action from fest
By MICHAEL JONES
Posted: Thurs., Aug. 28, 2008, 12:00pm PT

American pics are largely absent from the 35th Telluride Film Festival lineup, with films from only two U.S. filmmakers so far.

Paul Schrader will preem his drama "Adam Resurrected," starring Jeff Goldblum, and Tim Disney will debut "American Violet," with Alfre Woodard.

"Adam Resurrected"
Directed by Paul Schrader, Germany-Israel l, 2008

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Serendipity rules the screens at Telluride's weekend film fling
By Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post Film Critic
Updated: 08/29/2008 01:48:43 AM MDT

Snippet:

And speaking of Paul Schrader, that festival mainstay returns with "Resurrecting Adam," starring Jeff Goldblum in what is rumored to be a masterful turn as a Holocaust survivor institutionalized in an Israeli mental hospital.

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Telluride Film Festival unveils lineup
Writers strike affects American contingent
By Gregg Kilday
Aug 28, 2008, 02:00 PM ET
Updated: Aug 28, 2008, 11:10 PM ET


Snippet:
But Telluride also will unveil several new films, including Paul Schrader's latest feature, "Adam Resurrected," an adaptation of Yoram Kaniuk's novel in which Jeff Goldblum plays a troubled concentration camp survivor. "It will split audiences right down the middle," Meyer predicted. "We had a small screening of it, and people stood around in the lobby for over an hour discussing it."

Jeff Goldblum Prowls Manhattan!

Wednesday, August 27 -

Jazz musician/actor Jeff Goldblum was spotted prowling the urban jungle of Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon. At first, it appeared that the Goldblum had trouble readjusting to the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple. According to onlookers, Goldblum looked pensive while trying to enjoy a cappuccino at a café. The witness said, "It seemed like he was really missing L.A." After leaving the café, however, his frown turned upside down when he began chatting up a young filly. According to another onlooker, Goldblum did not appear to be as pensive as before, adding, "It looked like he was using the old 'I'm new to town' routine and I think it worked."

Credits
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Photo: INF Daily

Adam Resurrected Screening Scheduel for TIFF

Scheduel

Date: Wendesday, September 10
Time: 07:45 PM
Theater: Isabel Bader Theater
MAP


Date: Friday, September 12
Time: 09:45 AM
Theater: SoctiaBank Theater 2
MAP


Date: Saturday, September 13
Time: 01:15 PM
Theater: AMC 10
MAP



Summary
Adam Resurrected (MA)

"Director Paul Schrader's newest film, Adam Resurrected, is based on the crowning achievement of one of Israel's literary masters,Yoram Kaniuk. Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum) is a charismatic patient at a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in Israel. Before the war, Adam was a Jewish vaudeville performer in Germany, until he found himself in a concentration camp confronted byCommandant Klein (Willem Dafoe). He survives the camp by becoming the Commandant's "dog", entertaining him with his musicaland comedic talents. While at the institution years later, Adam must confront his past head-on for the sake of someone else's salvation."

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Sci-fi movie "The Fly" gets opera treatment

Sci-fi movie "The Fly" gets opera treatment
Tue Aug 26, 2008 7:30pm EDT
By Jill Serjeant

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - David Cronenberg's sci-fi terror movie "The Fly" has taken on a new life in the Canadian director's first foray into the world of opera.

"The Fly", described as a classical re-imagining of the 1986 movie about an eccentric scientist who turns into a massive fly, will open the new season at Los Angeles Opera in September with LA Opera director Placido Domingo conducting the orchestra.

But fans be warned. Although "The Fly" reunited the movie's director, composer, costume designer and creature designer, this isn't just a revered film set to classical music.

"I didn't want to remake the movie. I didn't want to rewrite the screenplay again," Cronenberg, 65, told reporters at a news conference on Tuesday. "This production has a power and charisma all its own."

Cronenberg directs the production to a first opera score by Howard Shore, who composed the movie soundtrack, and a libretto by David Henry Hwang. "The Fly" was commissioned about three years ago by Domingo and got a brief first outing in Paris in July in a co-production with LA Opera.

Movies have rarely made the transition to the world of opera, but Cronenberg said the basic plot of "The Fly" had the elements of love story, retribution and transformation common to many operas that made it ideal for a stage treatment.

Canadian bass-baritone Daniel Okulitch plays love-struck researcher Seth Brundle -- the role played on screen by Jeff Goldblum -- who mutates into a hybrid of a man and a fly after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.

Cronenberg said there had always been music in his life -- his mother was a pianist -- but added; "I can't say I've been an obsessive opera buff."

"The Fly" is one of a number of successful Hollywood movies getting the opera treatment. Italy's La Scala opera house has commissioned an opera based on Al Gore's global warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" and New York City Opera has commissioned an opera treatment of 2005 gay cowboy movie "Brokeback Mountain", which was itself based on a short story by Annie Proulx.

http://www.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idUSN2637111820080826

TV Guide: August 24 - September 7, 2008

TV Guide: August 24 - September 7, 2008

FMC - Sun, Aug 24, 2:30 PM - Independence Day

FMC - Sun, Aug 24, 8:00 PM - Independence Day

SHOe - Mon, Aug 25, 10:00 AM - Powder

SHOe - Mon, Aug 25, 6:30 PM - Powder

LIFE - Mon, Aug 25, 11:00 PM - Will & Grace

SHOe - Tue, Aug 26, 4:15 AM - Powder

FMC - Tue, Aug 26, 11:30 PM - Nine Months

AMC - Fri, Aug 29, 5:30 AM - Movies That Shook the World

AMC - Fri, Aug 29, 6:00 AM - Movies That Shook the World

ENCR1 - Fri, Aug 29, 9:50 PM - Independence Day

FMC - Sat, Aug 30, 3:15 AM - Independence Day

ENCR1 - Sat, Aug 30, 6:00 AM - Invasion of the Body Snatchers

FMC - Sat, Aug 30, 12:00 PM - Independence Day

FMC - Sat, Aug 30, 4:30 PM - Independence Day

SCI FI - Sat, Aug 30, 9:00 PM - Jurassic Park

ENCR1 - Sun, Aug 31, 3:45 AM - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai

LIFE - Sun, Aug 31, 10:00 AM - Will & Grace

AMC - Sun, Aug 31, 11:30 AM - Movies That Shook the World

SHOe - Sun, Aug 31, 12:30 PM - Powder

SCI FI - Sun, Aug 31, 6:00 PM - Jurassic Park

FMC - Mon, Sep 1, 2:00 AM - Nine Months

MOMAXe - Mon, Sep 1, 11:30 AM - Man of the Year

ENCR1 - Mon, Sep 1, 2:00 PM - Independence Day

HBOSGe - Tue, Sep 2, 2:30 AM - The Fly

ENCR1 - Tue, Sep 2, 3:15 AM - Independence Day

SHOe - Tue, Sep 2, 3:00 PM - Earth Girls Are Easy

SHOe - Wed, Sep 3, 5:45 AM - Earth Girls Are Easy

ENCR1 - Wed, Sep 3, 1:50 PM - Powder

TCM - Thu, Sep 4, 2:00 AM - Nashville

ENCR1 - Thu, Sep 4, 7:35 AM - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai

IFC - Thu, Sep 4, 9:50 AM - Dallas 362

IFC - Thu, Sep 4, 5:00 PM - Dallas 362

MOMAXe - Fri, Sep 5, 3:00 AM - The Sentinel

IFC - Fri, Sep 5, 8:30 PM - The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

SHOe - Sat, Sep 6, 12:45 PM - Earth Girls Are Easy Buy

MOMAXe - Sun, Sep 7, 10:00 AM - Man of the Year

TIFF Press Release Finals: Masters

MASTERS

Adam Resurrected Paul Schrader, Germany/Israel/USA
World Premiere

Director Paul Schrader's newest film, Adam Resurrected, is based on the crowning achievement of one of Israel's literary masters, Yoram Kaniuk.
Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum) is a charismatic patient at a mental institution for Holocaust survivors in Israel. Before the war, Adam was a Jewish vaudeville performer in Germany, until he found himself in a concentration camp confronted by Commandant Klein (Willem Dafoe). He survives the camp by becoming the Commandant's "dog", entertaining him with his musical and comedic talents. While at the institution years later, Adam must confront his past head-on for the sake of someone else's salvation.

http://tiff08.ca/press/pressreleases/default.aspx?newsId=589

Article Archives: JEFF GOLDBLUM & SIR DEREK JACOBI IN LONDON

Article Archives: JEFF GOLDBLUM & SIR DEREK JACOBI IN LONDON

Jeff Goldblum was the very first international star to agree to become a Friend of Children of Peace. So when he came to London to perform in the celebrated David Mamet play: Speed the Plow at the Old Vic theatre he was delighted to meet up with fellow Friend of the charity - Sir Derek Jacobi. The play also featured artistic director Kevin Spacey as Fox and Laura Michelle Kelly as Karen.

http://www.croque.co.uk/cop/newsdesk.html

Jeff Goldblum's Latest Film & TV Projects

I thought I'd add this page, if anyone is interested or who wanted to be updated:

Jeff Goldblum's Latest Film & TV Projects

1. Adam Resurrected - Fall / Winter 2008
As: Adam Stein


2. Law & Order: CI - November 2008
Will be replacing Chris Noth.


3. Broadway: The Next Generation: A Documentary - 2009

"BROADWAY: THE NEXT GENERATION" picks up the story in 1980 as the entire landscape of Broadway and theatre in America begins to change. The film chronicles Broadway in the 80's – up to the present and also goes beyond traditional Broadway to theatre that is developing in storefronts, apartments and theatres all over the country, bringing the story up to the present. The film already includes Jason Alexander, Debbie Allen, Alec Baldwin, John Barrowman, Bryan Batt, Jim Borstelman, Jason Robert Brown, Glenn Close, Alan Cumming, Loretta Devine, Daisy Eagan, Hunter Foster, Sutton Foster, Joanna Gleason, Jeff Goldblum, Harry Groener, Adam Guettel, Ruthie Henshall, Cady Huffman, Richard Jay-Alexander, Cherry Jones, Simon Jones, Isabel Keating, Michael John LaChiusa, Robert Lopez, Cameron Mackintosh, Jeff Marx, Audra McDonald, Liza Minnelli, Matthew Morrison, Christine Pedi, Amanda Plummer, Noah Racey, Phylicia Rashad, Camille Saviola, Liev Schreiber, Marc Shaiman, Douglas Sills, Josh Strickland, Mary Testa, Richard Thomas, Ben Vereen, Wendy Wasserstein, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Scott Wittman, George C. Wolfe, Karen Ziemba and many more now filming. Advance previews and trailers will be available on this site soon.
Both films will have limited art house Theatrical runs in major cities followed by International TV and DVD.
www.broadwaythemovie.com


Rumored / Pre-Production / In-Production (estimated dates 2009 - 2012)

1. Jurassic Park IV (2009?)
Director: Steven Speilberg


2. A.P.A. Gordon Who?
Other well-known Cast member: Daryl Hannah, Kurt Fuller
Director: Nino Salvia


3. Progenitor
A group of explorers travel from Arizona to the Brazilian rain forests in an attempt to save a colleague who has been swallowed by a gigantic subterranean being.
Director: Patrick Read Johnson


4. Into A Far Country (a Canadian production)
Director: Damian Lee



5. Blowing Smoke
The lives of a group of cigar-smoking men, who pass the hours chatting about women and work, are disrupted when a beaten and bruised woman wanders into their smokers' club.
Well-known cast members: variety
Director: ?
Info: Movie seems to be already out according to www.blowingsmokethemovie.com. Hollywood.com has Jeff listed as a cast member. I haven't seen Jeff in the trailers or any promos, but I'll keep this on the list anyway.

If you know of anything else, don't hesitate to send an e-mail to:

jeffgoldblumonline@yahoo.com, subject = Film & TV Projects

You'll be credited. Thanks!

More TIFF Adam Resurrected News

The 2008 Toronto International Film Festival will be held from September 4 - September 13.

If you would like to view the TIFF complete list -
Complete List

AR will be listed as:

Adam Resurrected - Paul Schrader - Germany/Israel/USA - 2008 - Masters TIFF Tags: Immigration, Jewish, Mental Health, Religion/Spirituality

For ticket purchases and more information, please visit:

www.torontointernationalfilmfestival.ca or www.tiff08.ca for this year's events.

Adam Resurrected at Toronto Film Festival

Variety.com

The Toronto International Film Festival is claiming it has stars galore.

Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Anne Hathaway and Laura Linney are among the celebs the festival touted Tuesday as red carpet shoo-ins as it announced its 500-plus guest list and completed its lineup.

Like any festival call sheet, the list can be pretty squishy: In fact, TIFF also claimed George Clooney was a lock, but the Clooney camp Tuesday denied it.

Other stars expected to show include Steven Soderbergh, Queen Latifah, Colin Farrell, Liam Neeson and Michael Caine, while Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Kathryn Bigelow and Julian Schnabel will be part of the Mavericks Q&A panels.

There's more: Guy Ritchie, John Malkovich, Tim Roth, Ethan Hawke, Benicio Del Toro, Antonio Banderas, Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Hudson and Colin Firth are all among the wattage skedded to appear, per the festival.

Fest also announced that seven world premier join the Gala section: helmer Gavin O'Connor's Gotham cop family saga "Pride and Glory," starring Norton and Colin Farrell; Toa Fraser's period pic "Dean Spanley," starring Peter O'Toole; Jodie Markell's "The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond," from a rediscovered Tennessee Williams screenplay; Neil Burger's "The Lucky Ones," with Rachel McAdams, Tim Robbins and Michael Pena as U.S. soldiers on an unplanned road trip; Rod Lurie's government scandal pic "Nothing but the Truth," starring Kate Beckinsale and Matt Dillon; family secret story "A Year Ago in Winter," from director Caroline Link; and Jerry Zaks' Leonard Chess biopic "Who Do You Love," starring Alessandro Nivola.

The Coen brothers' Venice fest opener "Burn After Reading," starring George Clooney, Frances McDormand and Brad Pitt, gets its North American premier as a Gala entry, as does Anne Fontaine's "La Fille de Monaco."

Gala program also includes work-in-progress "Public Enemy No. 1," French helmer Jean-Francois Richet's thriller starring Vincent Cassel as legendary gangster Jacques Mesrine, and Indian box office hit "Singh Is Kinng," helmer Anees Bazmee's romantic action-comedy starring Akshay Kumar, Om Puri and Katrina Kaif.

The Masters program adds the world preem of Paul Schrader's "Adam Resurrected," based on Israeli Yoram Kaniuk's novel about a charismatic patient in a mental institution for Holocaust survivors. It stars Jeff Goldblum and William Dafoe.

Real to Reel features the world premier of Adria Petty's examination of the Paris Hilton phenomenon "Paris, Not France," modeled after 1960s pic "Darling." Doc program also adds "Sounds Like Teen Spirit: A Popumentary" and "The Heart of Enin," about a Palestinian father who donated his slain son's organs to several Israeli children.

Special Presentations adds Daniel Burman's domestic comedy "Empty Nest" and the work-in-progress omnibus "New York, I Love You," featuring 12 shorts from international filmmakers, including Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Brett Ratner, Scarlett Johansson, Ivan Attal and Natalie Portman.

Twenty-five titles round out the Contemporary World cinema lineup, which now includes 58 films from 42 countries. Among the pics announced Tuesday are world preems of Mika Kaurismaki's "Three Wise Men," Nigel Cole's Christopher Walken starrer "$5 a Day," Rashid Masharawi's "Laila's Birthday," John Stockwell's "Middle of Nowhere," Ella Lemhagen's "Patrik, Age 1.5," Nicholas Oceano's bio about "The Real World" cast member Pedro Zamora, Anthony Fabian's apartheid drama "Skin" and Samira Makhmalbaf's "Two-Legged Horse." The section also adds the international preem of Dogma 95 helmer Ole Christian Madsen's "Flame & Citron" and the North American preem of Olivier Assayas' "L'Heure d'ete."

Canada First! adds the international premier of helmer Lyne Charlebois' feature bow "Borderline."

Also announced is the new public street hub of Yonge-Dundas Square, featuring screenings and free public performances, including musical artists featured in some of this year's films (Youssou Ndour, Keb' Mo' and cast members of "A Chorus Line").

Event runs Sept. 4-11. Among the 249 features, 116 are premieres and 61 are first features.

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Get Ready to Feel Inferior and Ugly -- Celebrities Are Coming!
Stephanie Marcus
Published: Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Get your camera and sharpie pen ready, Torontonians! Celebrities are about to descend on out fair city once again for the Toronto International Film Festival.

Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, Edward Norton and Canadian darling Rachel McAdams are just a few of the stars expected to add some sizzle to the city this year, organizers announced today.

Keep your eyes out for stars like Renee Zellweger and Viggo Mortensen, who will be in town to promote the premiere of the Ed Harris-directed Appaloosa. The same goes for Mark Ruffalo and Julianne Moore, who will be here for their new flick, Blindness. And Matt Damon and Josh Brolin are also slated to walk the red carpet.

Almost 250 films are expected to screen at the festival, including premieres from Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman, Colin Farrell, Peter O'Toole, Tim Robbins, Kate Beckinsale, Matt Dillon, Bryce Dallas Howard, Jessica Biel and Jeff Goldblum.

And the much anticipated Coen Brother's Burn After Reading, staring Brad Pitt and George Clooney, will make its North American premiere. But don't expect Clooney this year; he's promoting the worldwide premiere at the Venice Film Festival just days before TIFF.

However, Alec Baldwin, Alicia Keys, Charlize Theron, Dakota Fanning, Evan Rachel Wood and Zooey Deschanel are all on the 2008 TIFF guest list.

The festival runs September 4-13. Ready. Set. Spot that celeb!

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