{"id":10983,"date":"2019-08-14T10:56:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T09:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=10983"},"modified":"2019-08-14T10:56:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T09:56:21","slug":"14-films-to-look-out-for-at-this-years-major-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/08\/14\/14-films-to-look-out-for-at-this-years-major-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"14 films to look out for at this year&#8217;s major festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s that time of year again where the late summer through\nautumn film festival circuit kicks into gear with the Venice, Telluride and\nToronto Film Festivals with London and New York following in late autum to\nearly winter. We have a range of features premiering from the mainstream likes\nof DC\u2019s standalone <em>Joker<\/em> film with\nJoaquin Phoenix, James Gray\u2019s long-awaited sci-fi epic <em>Ad Astra<\/em> and James Mangold\u2019s motor racing drama <em>Ford v Ferrari<\/em> (or for us UK folk, <em>Le Mans \u201966<\/em>) to a list of the indie and\nforeign language fare that will be revealed in this blog post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> About Endlessness <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Five years after<em> A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence <\/em>conquered the Venice Film Festival, we look set to be taking another trip into the surreal imagination of Roy Andersson with this comedy with a plot inspired by <em>One Thousand and One Nights<\/em>. After five years away, can Andersson once again achieve greatness on the Lido?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Dolemite Is My Name<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ws1YIKsuTjQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>From the pen of <em>Ed Wood<\/em>, <em>The People vs Larry Flynt<\/em> and <em>American Crime Story<\/em> scribes Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski and director Craig Brewster of <em>Hustle and Flow<\/em> comes this biopic of Rudy Ray Moore, the actor and musician most famous for his Blaxploitation <em>Dolemite<\/em> film series. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eddie Murphy takes on the role of Moore with a supporting cast consisting of Wesley Snipes, Chris Rock, Da&#8217;Vine Joy Randolph, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson, Titus Burgess, Keegan-Michael Key and Kodi Smit-McPhee. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Ema <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2016, Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larra\u00c3\u00adn managed a biopic double-whammy with native production <em>Neruda<\/em> and getting out a mesmerising performance from Natalie Portman in his English language debut <em>Jackie<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now he has returned to the director\u2019s chair (after producer duties on fellow Chilean filmmaker Sebastian Lelio\u2019s <em>A Fantastic Woman <\/em>and <em>Gloria Bell<\/em>) for a feature about a household falling apart after an adoption goes awry, with some interpretive dance thrown in. This is also the second time he has collaborated with Mexican acting sensation Gael Garc\u00c3\u00ada Bernal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Jojo Rabbit<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d-TdAi4FW-Y\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking a break in between<em> Thor: Ragnarok <\/em>and the recently announced<em> Thor: Love and Thunder, <\/em>Taika Waititi brings us this \u201d\u02dcanti-hate satire\u2019 based on the Christine Leunens novel<em> Caging Skies. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking influence from<em> Dr Strangelove <\/em>and <em>The Great Dictator, <\/em>the plot is of Jojo &#8220;Rabbit&#8221; Betzler, a member of the Hitler Youth learning to confront his blind nationalism after his mother hides a young Jewish girl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Waititi also plays a supporting role as the boy\u2019s imaginary friend (an imaginary Adolf Hitler) with Scarlett Johansson, Sam Rockwell, Rebel Wilson, Alfie Allen, Stephen Merchant and Leave No Trace\u2019s Thomasin McKenzie forming the rest of the ensemble with Michael Giacchino providing the score and<em> The Master\u2019s <\/em>Mihai M\u00c4\u0192laimare Jr lensing the feature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Laundromat<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can\u2019t keep a good filmmaker down since Steven Soderbergh\u2019s supposed retirement didn\u2019t last long as he is set to bring along his second film of 2019 (after sports drama<em> High Flying Bird<\/em>) to Toronto. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again pairing up with recurring screenwriter Scott Z. Burns (who made his second directorial outing this year with political drama<em> The Report<\/em>), Soderbergh adapts<em> Jake Bernstein\u2019s book Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite <\/em>for this story of a group of journalists unearthing the Panama Papers in 2015. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As if that\u2019s not enough, this film boasts an ensemble that includes Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, David Schwimmer, Melissa Rauch, Will Forte, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeffrey Wright, James Cromwell, Alex Pettyfer, Larry Wilmore, Robert Patrick and voice actors Chris Parnell and Juliet Donenfeld<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let\u2019s hope Soderbergh has another winner on his hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Marriage Story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In his second film for the online streaming company Netflix, Noah Baumbach pairs up with<em> Harry Potter<\/em>,<em> Gravity <\/em>and<em> Paddington <\/em>producer David Heyman (who also has producing duties on Quentin Tarantino\u2019s<em> Once Upon a Time in Hollywood<\/em>) to present this story of a marriage falling apart as his follow-up to 2017\u2019s <em>The Meyerowitz Stories: New and Selected. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For this, Baumbach reteams with Adam Driver and forms a cast that also includes Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern, Alan Alda and Ray Liotta. Is this the film that gets Baumbach the awards attention he was denied back in 2005 with <em>The Squid and the Whale<\/em>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Motherless Brooklyn<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For his first directorial outing in nineteen years, Edward Norton elects to write, helm, produce and star in this adaptation of Jonathan Lethem\u2019s 1999 novel of a private investigator with Tourette\u2019s trying to solve his mentor\u2019s murder (but with the setting altered to the 1950s). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside Norton are Willem Dafoe, Bruce Willis, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin, Leslie Mann, Bobby Cannavale, Fisher Stevens and Michael K. Williams with cinematography being provided by Mike Leigh\u2019s frequent collaborator Dick Pope and music by Daniel Pemeberton. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Perfect Candidate<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After stumbling with her English language debut <em>Mary Shelley<\/em> but slightly recovering with <em>Nappily Ever After<\/em>, rising filmmaker Haifaa Al-Mansour returns to her home country of Saudi Arabia, where she burst onto the filmmaking scene in 2012 with her scathing social drama <em>Wadjda<\/em>, for her fourth directorial outing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Like her previous native feature, the film focuses on and critiques the role of women in Saudi society with the story of a woman who runs for political office while her father is away touring with the re-established Saudi National Band. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to Al-Mansour reuniting with her <em>Wadjda<\/em> producers, this will be the first film to be created through support from the newly formed Saudi Film Council. With it competing in the competition line-up at Venice, can Al-Mansour return to form?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Personal History of David Copperfield<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After his political black comedy <em>The Death of Stalin<\/em>, Armando Iannucci takes things in a different direction with this adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The players for this new adaptation are Dev Patel as the titular character with Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi, Ben Whishaw, Paul Whitehouse, Benedict Wong and Gwendoline Christie in supporting roles. This film will premiere at Toronto and will kick off the festivities at this year\u2019s BFI London Film Festival.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Truth<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Director Hirokazu Kore-eda follows up his Palme d\u2019Or winning and Oscar nominated <em>Shoplifters<\/em> with this French family drama with Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story of an actress and her complicated relationship with her screenwriter daughter, this will be Kore-eda\u2019s first film not in his native language. It\u2019s opening the Venice Film Festival, will there be fireworks again?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Uncut Gems<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After surprising this author in 2017 with their crime drama <em>Good Time<\/em>, the Safdie Bros (Benny and Josh) return with this comedic entry into the genre with Adam Sandler as a diamond dealer who must find a way to pay his debts following the theft of his merchandise from one of his clients and his girlfriend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with Sandler, the film sports an ensemble featuring <em>Sorry to Bother You<\/em>\u2019s Lakeith Stanfield, Idina \u201d\u02dcLet it Go\u2019 Menzel, Judd Hirsch and Pom Klementieff (MCU\u2019s Mantis) and has Martin Scorsese and Scott Rudin attached in producing roles. Here\u2019s hoping the Safdies have another triumph on their hands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Waiting for the Barbarians<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In recent years, Colombian cinema has found a strong place on the cinematic map, mostly due to the work of Ciro Guerra. He landed the country\u2019s first Oscar nomination for Foreign Language Film with his Amazonian drama <em>Embrace of the Serpent<\/em> and last year wowed us with his epic crime drama <em>Birds of Passage<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Continuing his theme on the impact of influences of the western world on the native populations, Guerra makes his English language debut with this adaptation of J. M. Coetzee\u2019s acclaimed 1980 novel of a magistrate who witnesses first-hand the harsh and brutal effects of colonialism that make him question his loyalty to \u201d\u02dcthe Empire\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mark Rylance stars as the magistrate with Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, <em>The Player<\/em>\u2019s Greta Scacchi, Harry Melling and Sam Reid starring alongside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Wasp Network<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:left\">After a trilogy of films delving into the world of celebrity and the creative process (<em>The Clouds of Sils Maria<\/em>, <em>Personal Shopper <\/em>and<em> Non-Fiction<\/em>), Olivier Assayas returns to the territory he covered in his 2010 miniseries <em>Carlos <\/em>with this feature on the Cuban Five (five Cuban agents sent to Miami to infiltrate anti-Castro groups in the late nineties). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, this features the cream of the Spanish-language acting crop including Penelope Cruz, Gael Garcia Bernal, Narcos star Pedro Pascal, Blade Runner 2049\u2019s Ana de Armas and a reunion between Assayas and his<em> Carlos <\/em>star Edgar Ramirez (though the film will be in English).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Weathering with You <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>After conquering the Japanese box-office and winning over many in the western world with his animated film <em>Your Name<\/em>, Makoto Shinkai brings along his long-awaited follow-up for its debut in the Western world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> The story is of a recent high school graduate who lives an isolated life in Tokyo until he meets a young girl with the ability to stop rain and clear the skies. 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