A profile of a former Montreal Canadiens enforcer, Morgan Spurlock's latest offbeat slice of real life, and an Alaskan search for the "real" Sarah Palin are among the documentaries coming to next month's Toronto International Film Festival.
Movies playing in five programmes were announced Wednesday for 2011 TIFF: Real to Reel (documentaries), Midnight Madness (offbeat horror or thrillers), Vanguard (cutting-edge works from young international filmmakers), City to City (this year spotlighting Buenos Aires) and TIFF Kids (formerly known as Sprockets Family Zone).
In Real to Reel, filmmaker Alex Gibney's The Last Gladiators profiles former hockey tough guy Chris "Knuckles" Nilan, who played for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1980s and helped them win a Stanley Cup in 1986. Spurlock follows up Super Size Me, Where in the World is Osama bin Laden and The Greatest Movie Ever Sold with Comic-Con Episode Four: A Fan's Hope, which follows the lives of seven fans attending the annual geekfest-turned-pop-culture-extravaganza in San Diego. In Sarah Palin -- You Betcha! filmmakers Nick Broomfield and Joan Churchill battle mid-winter Alaska to interview reluctant locals about the former hockey mom who became governor and influential right-wing politician.
Other docs include:
Paul Williams Still Alive. (Stephen Kessler's search for the diminutive '70s musician/actor who left the public eye by the '80s).
The Story of Film: Odyssey. Brit Mark Cousins' 15-hour epic chronicling innovation in movies around the world over the past 11 decades.
Undefeated. A look at how a Memphis inner-city high school football coach led his team to its first playoff berth in its 110-year history despite the school's recent history of turning out more jailbirds than college students.
Among the 10 films in the Midnight Madness program, nine of which will be world premieres:
Lovely Molly. The latest from Eduardo Sanchez -- director of The Blair Witch Project -- is a thriller about a newlywed who returns to her long-abandoned family home, which awakens memories of her horrid childhood.
God Bless America. Comedian/filmmaker Bobcat Goldthwait's scathing take on 21st Century America follows a man at the end of his rope who decides to go on a killing spree to rid the world of the "stupidest, cruellest and most repellent members of society," and he takes a 16-year-old girl along for the murderous ride.
The Day. American Douglas Aarniokoski's post-apocalyptic story of how five survivors wander the back roads, fighting to survive.
Kill List. Brit Ben Wheatley's tale of an ex-soldier-turned-contract-killer who agrees to a job far more harrowing than anything he experienced on the battlefield.
Smuggler. From Japanese cult director Katsuhito Ishii, the story of a failed actor who, in desperation, becomes a smuggler and unwittingly outrages a psychotic gangster.
"Ravenous cinephiles will devour the roster of chillers, action thrillers and pitch-black comedies that fill this year's slate," Midnight Madness programmer Colin Geddes said in a statement.
For more information about Wednesday's announcements and 2011 TIFF, including how to buy tickets, go to tiff.net/festival.
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