On to Toronto

The Toronto film festival starts in a little over a month, offering a preview of the rest of the calendar year's releases. The lineups get broken down here. And here is a comprehensive list of all the films.
And here is a list from the upcoming Venice film festival.

Some titles we're looking forward to, from TORONTO:

• Kelly Reichardt, who has never made a bad film (most recently "Meek's Cutoff"), returns with "Night Moves."
• Francois Ozon, who has never made a bad film, is represented with "Young and Beautiful."
• Indie god Jim Jarmusch offers up the love story "Only Lovers Left Alive," with Tilda Swinton.
• Alfonso Cuaron finally follows up "Children of Men" with "Gravity," an astronaut tale with America's Guy, George Clooney, and America's Puppy, Sandra Bullock.
• Asghar Farhadi follows up the amazing "The Separation" with "The Past."
• Nicole Holofcener directing Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Catherine Keener and James Gandolfini? Enough said. The movie is "Enough Said."
• Steve McQueen follows up "Shame" with an impressive cast in a Civil War-era drama, "12 Years a Slave."
• Jason Bateman goes behind the camera to direct himself as a man who crashes a kids' spelling bee in "Bad Words."
• Joseph Gordon-Leavitt also directs himself, as a porn addict, in "Don Jon."
• Agnieszka Holland gives us a docudrama about a young man who immolated himself in Czechoslovakia in 1969, "Burning Bush."
• John Hawkes stars in an Elmore Leonard story, with Jennifer Aniston, "Life of Crime," directed by Daniel Schechter ("Supporting Characters").
• "Mad Men" creator Matthew Weiner hits the big screen with some funny people (Owen Wilson, Amy Poehler and Zach Galifianakis) in "You Are Here."
• There's the racy May-September sizzler that took the big prize at Cannes, "Blue Is the Warmest Color."
• WikiLeaks gets a dramatization in "The Fifth Estate."
• Matthew McConaughey, who has been on a roll, finally rolls out the role that made him the talk of the tabloids because of his gaunt appearance, the AIDS saga "Dallas Buyers Club."
• One of our favorites, Atom Egoyen, is back with the mystery "Devil's Knot."
•  Pawel Pawlikowski ("The Woman in the Fifth") spins the story of a nun who finds out she's Jewish, "Ida."

THE DOCS

• Frederick Wiseman does the hippie college scene with "At Berkeley"
• A look at the Penthouse mag founder, "Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story."
• "Finding Vivian," about a nanny whose trove of pictures showed her to be a talented photographer.
• Errol Morris documents Donald Rumsfeld with "The Unknown Known."

VENICE

• "Jiaoyou (Stray Dogs)," by Tsai Ming-liang 
• "Walesa. Man of Hope," by Andrzej Wajda and Ewa Brodzka