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TIFF announces 50 films starring awesome famous people who might come to Toronto

By Karon Liu
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Robin Wright, shown here at TIFF last year, stars in Robert Redford's The Conspirator (Image: James Helmer)

Today’s edition of TIFF celebrity stalking is a little meatier, as co-directors Piers Handling and Cameron Bailey announced 50 films (15 galas, 35 special presentations, including 25 world premieres) and the whackitude of celebrities associated with them. We’ve got two Friends (Lisa Kudrow and David Schwimmer), the Gilmore Girls (Lauren Graham and Alexis Bledel), the Mad Men man himself (Jon Hamm), Office favourite Rainn Wilson, the ever-intriguing Winona Ryder, plus Robert Redford, Woody Allen, Helen Mirren, Natalie Portman, Javier Bardem and more. This year might just top 2009’s Oprah-Clooney juggernaut appearances. Too lazy to go through the list? The lowdown, after the jump.

Screen legends: Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey, Robert Redford, Helen Mirren, Gerard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve, Nicole Kidman, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Woody Allen, Stanley Tucci, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robert De Niro

Hot hunks: Ryan Phillippe, Ben Affleck, Jon Hamm, James McAvoy, Jeremy Renner, Michael C. Hall, Colin Firth, Guy Pearce, Sam Worthington, Andrew Garfield, Sam Rockwell, Aaron Eckhart, Javier Bardem, Antonio Banderas, Ewan McGregor, Ryan Gosling, Penn Badgley, Keanu Reeves, Edward Norton, Ryan Reynolds

Cool chicks: Malin Akerman, Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder, Robin Wright, Evan Rachel Wood, Mila Kunis, Blake Lively, Brittany Snow, Elisabeth Shue, Marion Cottillard, Keira Knightley, Hilary Swank, Juliette Lewis, Minnie Driver, Sandra Oh, Freida Pinto, Michelle Williams, Lisa Kudrow, Amanda Bynes, Vera Farmiga

Fan favourites: Rainn Wilson, Helena Bonham Carter, Zach Galifanakis, Sarah Silverman

Galas

Casino Jack (Canada) Director: George Hickenlooper Starring: Kevin Spacey, Rachelle Lefevre, Jon Lovitz, Yannick Bisson

The Bang Bang Club (Canada/South Africa) Director: Steven Silver Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Malin Akerman, Taylor Kitsch

Barney’s Version (Canada/Italy) Director: Richard J. Lewis Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Minnie Driver, Rachelle Lefevre, Scott Speedman

Black Swan (U.S.) Director: Darren Aronofsky Starring: Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman, Winona Ryder

The Conspirator (U.S.) Director: Robert Redford Starring: James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Kevin Kline, Tom Wilkinson, Evan Rachel Wood, Justin Long, Alexis Bledel

Janie Jones (U.S.) Director: David M. Rosenthal Starring: Abigail Breslin, Elisabeth Shue, Brittany Snow

Peep World (U.S.) Director: Barry Blaustein Starring: Michael C. Hall, Rainn Wilson, Taraji P. Henson, Sarah Silverman

The Town (U.S.) Director: Ben Affleck Starring: Blake Lively, Jon Hamm, Ben Affleck, Jeremy Renner

The Way (U.S.) Director: Emilio Estevez Starring: Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, Deborah Kara Unger

The Debt (U.K.) Director: John Madden Starring: Helen Mirren, Sam Worthington, Tom Wilkinson

The King’s Speech (U.K.) Director: Tom Hooper Starring: Guy Pearce, Helena Bonham Carter, Geoffrey Rush, Colin Firth

West Is West (U.K.) Director: Andy DeEmmony Starring: Om Puri Vanessa Hehir, Jim Mistry

Little White Lies (France) Director: Guillaume Canet Starring: Marion Cottillard, Francois Cluzet, Gilles Lellouche

Potiche (France) Director: Francois Ozon Starring: Gerard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve

The Housemaid (South Korea) Director: San-soo Im Starring: Do-yeon Jeon, Jung-Jae Lee

Special Presentations
Another Year (U.K.) Director: Mike Leigh Starring: Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville

Brighton Rock (U.K.) Director: Rowan Joffe Starring: Helen Mirren, John Hurt, Sam Riley

The Illusionist (U.K.) Director: Sylvain Chomet Starring: Jean-Claude Donda, Edith Rankin

Made in Dagenham (U.K.) Director: Nigel Cole Starring: Rosamund Pike, Miranda Richardson, Bob Hoskins

Never Let Me Go (U.K.) Director: Mark Romanek Starring: Carey Milligan, Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley

Submarine (U.K.) Director: Richard Ayoade Starring: Sally Hawkins, Paddy Considine

Tamara Drewe (U.K.) Director: Stephen Frears Starring: Gemma Arterton, Roger Allam

The Trip (U.K.) Director: Michael Winterbottom Starring: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (U.S./U.K./Spain) Director: Woody Allen Starring: Antonio Banderas, Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Freida Pinto

Beginners (U.S.) Director: Mike Mills Starring: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Melanie Laurent

Blue Valentine (U.S.) Director: Derek Cianfrance Starring: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams

Conviction (U.S.) Director: Tony Goldwyn Starring: Sam Rockwell, Hilary Swank, Minnie Driver, Juliette Lewis, Peter Gallagher

Easy A (U.S.) Director: Will Gluck Starring: Emma Stone, Amanda Bynes, Stanley Tucci, Lisa Kudrow, Patricia Clarkson, Penn Badgley

Henry’s Crime (U.S.) Director: Malcolm Venville Starring: Keanu Reeves, Judy Greer, Vera Farmiga

Jack Goes Boating (U.S.) Director: Philip Seymour Hoffman Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan

It’s Kind of a Funny Story (U.S.) Director: Ryan Fleck and Anna Bowen Starring: Zach Galifanakis, Emma Roberts, Lauren Graham

Rabbit Hole (U.S.) Director: John Cameron Mitchell Starring: Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Sandra Oh

Stone (U.S.) Director: John Curran Starring: Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Milla Jovovich

Trust (U.S.) Director: David Schwimmer Starring: Clive Owen, Catherine Keener

Miral (U.K./France/Israel) Director: Julian Schnabel Starring: Willem Dafoe, Freida Pinto, Vanessa Redgrave

The Big Picture (France) Director: Eric Lartigau Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Branka Katic

Love Crime (France) Director: Alain Corneau Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Ludvine Sagnier

Yves Saint Laurent - L’Amour Fou (France) Director: Pierre Thoretton Starring: Yves Saint-Laurent (archival footage), Pierre Berge

A Screaming Man (France/Belgium/Chad) Director: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun Starring: Emile Abossolo M’bo, Youssouf Djaoro

Outside the Law (France/Algeria/Tunisia/Italy/Belgium) Director: Rachid Bouchareb Starring: Jamel Debbouze, Sami Bouajila

In a Better World (Denmark/Sweden) Director: Susanne Bier Starring: Ulrich Thomsen, Mikael Persbrandt

Biutiful (Spain/Mexico) Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Starring: Javier Bardem

Buried (Spain/U.S.) Director: Rodrigo Cortes Starring: Ryan Reynolds

Lope (Spain/Brazil) Director: Andrucha Waddington Starring: Sonia Braga, Leonor Watling

Cirkus Columbia (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Director: Danis Tanovic Starring: Miki Manojlovic, Boris Ler

Dgobi Ghat (India) Director: Kiran Rao Starring: Aamir Khan, Prateik Babbar

That Girl in Yellow Boots (India) Director: Anurag Kashyap Starring: Kalki Koechlin, Naseeruddin Shah

I Saw the Devil (South Korea) Director: Kim Jee-woon Starring: Byung-hun Lee, Min-sik Choi

Norwegian Wood (Japan) Director: Tran Anh Hung Starring: Rinko Kikuchi, Ken’ichi Matsuyama

The Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (Hong Kong) Director: Andrew Lau Starring: Donnie Yen, Qi Shu

Complete list of films on the TIFF site.

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