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It was a big day Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival, with world premieres by Tom Hanks, Daniel Craig and Chris Evans, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Lopez and Dreamworks Animation. How this for a full plate? Of course, at TIFF, it just would not be a normal day without at least six or seven major firsts, is not it?
The highly anticipated film of Mister Rogers, A nice day in the neighborhood, with Hanks as famed children's TV presenter Fred Rogers was a big hit for Sony's TriStar when he started at Roy Thomson Hall early Saturday night. You might expect Hanks to fit in perfectly with this role, and he did not disappoint. He slipped into his slippers as he played this character forever, and apparently just as easily as he lived Walt Disney Save Mr. Banks. Hanks looks like a chameleon in his ability to inhabit these icons and not miss anything.
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The film 's strategists tell me that Hanks will be campaigning for the best actor in a category that already promises stars like Brad Pitt, Christian Bale or Matt Damon, Anthony Hopkins, Jamie Foxx, Al Pacino and many others. . How a real Supporting actor even has a chance? Nevertheless, Hanks' decision really makes sense, since the story revolves around the character of Matthew Rhys as a magazine writer on a personal downward spiral charged with writing a simple profile for Esquire's Mister Rogers, the only celebrity who would agree to be interviewed by the writer frustrated and very depressed at this point. Rhys plays it morose and is a good echo for the perfect performance of Hanks, who embodies Rogers with grace and credibility. It's an impression of sorts, but the actor goes a lot further and offers a three-dimensional twist as a man who looks too good to be true but who is absolutely loyal to his televised character. . The life lessons that he teaches to the man who interviews him are invaluable and lives change along the way. I promise you that Hanks, twice winner of Best Actor but unfortunately neglected for some first-rate performances in recent years, is once again going to the Oscars.
For some reason, it reminded me of the Christmas classic, It's a beautiful life. Rhys is Jimmy Stewart, suicidal and in very dark places when Clarence the Angel, in this case Mister Rogers, comes to his aid and teaches this grown man lessons that he will never forget. Director Marielle Heller, who is one of many films made by a woman who debuted yesterday at TIFF, said it very simply in her introduction. "I know we're here to be rewarded for our prizes and criticism, but it's important to remember something else," she told the packed crowd, reminding them that it's a good thing to say that it's a good thing. was more important in terms of make in our lives, it really matters in the end. What she has done is more than necessary now, more than ever in these dark times, and as The two popes, reminding us of ourselves better. Heller, director of the wonderful Can you ever forgive me? which was one of my top three movies last year, has another beautiful winner this year.
At the same time, at the Princess Of Wales Theater, a mysterious gem of murder was being resolved in the hilarious and dramatic film of writer / director Rian Johnson to thrillers in the manner of Agatha Christie, Knives released, Lionsgate for the holidays, and a better gift that I could not imagine for movie buffs or fans of that kind of thing. With a cast of stars, including Daniel Craig as an inspector trying to solve the problem of the death of Patriarch Christopher Plummer, all the suspects in the family are questioned in the old but impressive manor house where everything is going on . Among them, Chris Evans, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson and Ana de Armas, as well as another detective played by LaKeith Stanfield. It's beautiful, because Johnson knows exactly how to divide this genre and produce a film that is true to its form, but full of contemporary twists on the concept. I can not imagine a world that, with this cast, would not be a success. He played as gangbusters in his world premiere.
At Patria's after-party, I met Johnson, who told me he was extremely pleased with the reaction, although he was worried that in some places the laughter would be so big that the following replies have not been heard. Plummer received the only standing ovation in the cast when he was introduced to the Q & A, and it was well deserved for this Canadian native to his home country. He praised his manager, telling me that he really knew what he was doing. He also loved working with actors, including actress K Callan, who, believe it or not, was younger by several years and played the role of Plummer, 89 years old. mother in the movie. I've caught up with the veteran actress, who modestly attributes makeup and costumes to having the Great Thromb Nana run as well as she does. In fact, his reactions in the film are invaluable.
The actress of Cuban origin Ana de Armas (Blade blade 2049) also draws our attention as a kind of sensitive voice as a Plummer Nurse. She told me that she had never worked with so many stars in a movie before, and that it was a little intimidating, but that they all worked together during several weeks and that they did everything together in a big mansion in the Boston area where everything was planned. stroke. de Armas also worked with Craig in the latest James Bond movie, No time to die, but his time on this set was shortened when Craig was injured. So, instead, during the unexpected break, she returned to LA and started working on Blond, in which she plays none other than Marilyn Monroe. After the TIFF activities this weekend, she returns to finish the film, then in three weeks, she will finish No time to die, now that Craig has recovered from his wounds. He looked great at first, so she's happy to go from Bond to Blond and back to Bond. Phew!
And there is more to a festival where there is no rest for the weary.
Eddie Murphy made his tiff debut with the movie Netflix Dolemite is my name, which drew huge crowds lined up in the street of the Princess Of Wales Theater (right after Knives released left up) to catch sight of Murphy and his team coming together for the world premiere of the comedy about famed blaxploitation star and pioneering rapper and rapper Rudy Ray Moore. I do not know the Oscars, but I can guarantee that Murphy is definitely heading for the Golden Globes (comedy category) for this one. It's a great return to form for the superstar, who has never yet portrayed a real person.
"It's one of the best roles I've ever played," said Murphy of the project he's been trying to screen for 15 years. "I could never have told you without Netflix." It's very fun, no question. Murphy also said that he was so happy to bring back a sequel to one of his biggest hits, Coming to America, with the entire cast, including Arsenio Hall. Hall, by the way, has an interesting cameo somehow A nice day in the neighborhood via an interview he's already done on his talk show with Fred Rogers, except in this segment, Hanks is sitting on the couch with Hall instead of the real Rogers. It was perfectly executed.
Earlier Saturday at Roy Thomson Hall, there was the world premiere of the animated Universal / DreamWorks Animation / Pearl Studios, the charming film Abominable. Open on September 27th, the family audience should be stuck there, as it features an abominable young snowman looking for a way to return home with his parents and family. This is the second edition of this year about a Yeti accompanied by human beings in order to return to the Himalayas. The other was from Laika The missing link, but he had by far the most adorable main character. The consultants working on the film hope that it will have its place in the race for the best feature film. At the screening, the children obviously ate it. They could therefore be given a place, making it one of the few original cartoons in the mix this year.
On the opposite side, and still very busy – and very busy – by Roy Thomson Hall, Jennifer Lopez led her stripper team for STX's world premiere on Saturday night. Hustlers, which seems to be a significant success for the distributor, who can use one now. Critics to date are optimistic for the release of September 13, especially for Lopez, who has undoubtedly led the TIFF. I'll catch that in L.A. before it opens on Friday.
And although it has already been presented in Venice with a standing ovation of seven minutes, the North American debut of Saturday night Seberg sparked an enthusiastic response to TIFF, especially with star Kristen Stewart, the troubled star's interpreter who was investigated by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI for her personal and political connection with the defender civil rights Hakim Jamal (played by Anthony Mackie). She is impressive in this role, to the point of forgetting that I was watching Stewart and I thought it was Seberg herself who, as an actress, was always underestimated, if you ask me. I hear well that Amazon studios are perhaps preparing a qualifying tour for the 2019 Oscars for the end of the movies, which also includes an excellent Jack O'Connell.
After all this activity on what is still TIFF's busiest day, almost all of these celebrities went to the Four Seasons to attend the bustling and lively annual festival of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association that lasted until the end of the year. in the early hours of the morning. . The impressive turnout in this city, which attracted several people after the annual Sony Pictures Classics-hosted annual dinner organized by Michael Barker and Tom Bernard, proves that if it's the beginning of the Oscars season, is also the beginning of the Golden Globes season, too.
A nice day in the TIFF neighborhood, indeed.
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