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stanley cup tt and Kari Skogland s Fifty Dead Men Walking with Jim Sturgess, Ben Kingsley, Rose McGowan and Kevin Zegers have joined the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival s line-up of Canadian gala presentations.Special Presentations i
stanley cup nclude Deepa Mehta s Heaven On Earth, Fernando Meirelles Blindness and Philippe Falardeau s C est Pas Moi, Je Le Jure! These titles join Atom Egoyan s previously announced Adoration.This year s Canadian Open Vault selection is Fran莽ois Girard s 1993 feature 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould, while Canada First! opens with Neil Burns s Edison And Leo, Canada s first stop-motion animated feature.Additional Canada First! titles include Marie-Helene Cousineau and Madeline Ivalu s Before Tomorrow, Warren Sonada s Cooper s Camera, Justin Simms Down To The Dirt, Charles Officer s Nurse. Fighter. Boy, Ingrid Veninger and Simon Reynolds Only, Randall Cole s Real Time, Terry Miles When Life Was Good and Cameron Labine s Control Alt Delete.Contemporary World Cinema titles include Rodrigue Jean s Lost Song, Lea Pool s Maman Est Chez Le Coiffeur, Carl Bessai s Mothers Daughters, Francis Leclerc s Un Ete Sans Point Ni Coup Sur and Toronto Stories from film-makers Sook-Yin Lee, Sudz Sutherland, David Weaver and Aaron Woodley.The Real To Reel programme includes Malcolm Rogge s Under Rich Earth, Astra Taylor s Examined Life and Luc Bourdon s La Memoire Des Anges. Among the Vang Vumf Gaumont launches Val茅rie Lemercier s comedy Homecoming
It is an early March morning at Shepperton Studios and Sam Rockwell is in a spaceship, shaving. He stars in Moon, an u
stanley canada nusual and ambitious film which is being made in the spirit of classic 1970s sci-fi such as Ridley Scott s Alien and Douglas Trumbull s Silent Running.The film marks the debut feature of British director Duncan Jones formerly known as Zowie Bowie, son of rock star David Bowie . Jones is renowned in the ad world for his commercials, working with brands including French Connection and Carling.The film is set in the near future and follows a man isolated on a moon base, who is lonely bu
stanley cup t not alone. The film-makers are reluctant to give away too much of the plot but it is clear Rockwell has a very taxing role - in certain scenes, he will have
stanley us to play against versions of himself. I am a huge fan of Sam, Jones says of his leading man, who has previously starred in Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind and The Assassination Of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford. It s been a real strain and pretty exhausting for him but he has given everything. Jones also accepts that Rockwell - who recently earned praise in Sundance for his performance in Choke - will help open doors for the film in the US. We re making a British film but I spent an awful lot of time growing up in the United States. And if you have an American actor in a film, an American audience will take it on a lot easier than if it is a purely British cast. Sam Rockwell was our first and only choice from day o
