All About the Movies

AwardsDaily has posted a great rundown article describing the upcoming Oscar fever and listing the major contenders coming up at September's Toronto Film Festival.

When you’re an awards watcher it all becomes about whether the film lives up to its promise or whether it fails and its failure, again, is so subjective — its success such a matter of personal opinion, all at once we are caught up in an endless cycle of the Emperor’s New Clothes. This person doesn’t feel anything. He tells everyone else this. They agree that they didn’t feel anything – ergo, the movie is bad. Vice versa, they are “rocked to their core,” and that enthusiasm is catchy.

Before you know it, a masterpiece is born. But here’s the dirty little secret: nobody ever really knows for sure. Time proves a film’s greatness or lack of, but that’s the one thing we don’t have in the four months of Oscar: time.

A ton of news will come out of Toronto: we'll be getting the first word on possible contenders like The Damned United, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Bright Star, Broken Embraces, Capitalism: A Love Story, An Education, The Informant!, The Road, A Serious Man, and Up in the Air. While a festival like Sundance tends to hype films that subsequently go nowhere, Toronto is different, more tapped into what actual audience responses will be; Juno is one big example of a movie that got kick-started there.

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