A few more additions to the Toronto International Film Festival have been announced and none that will surprise anyone. The first being Fernando Meirelles’ apocalyptic pandemic parable, “Blindness,” which debuted earlier this year at Cannes and Bruce McDonald’s horror zombie film, “Pontypool,” which we may or may not have reported when we met him at the NY debut of “The Tracey Fragements.’
Canadian films added to the fest (naturally) include, Warren Sonoda’s “Coopers’ Camera” and Justin Simms’ “Down to the Dirt” and Atom Egoyan’s “Adoration,” but the cerebral Armenian/Canuck is Canadian royalty and they’d save a spot to screen his wet farts if it came down to it (the film is about a youth who reinvents himself in “cyberspace,” it premiered at Cannes ’08 and it stars Scott Speedman).
McDonald’s film stars stars Stephen McHattie from “300,” Cronenberg’s “A History of Violence” and chronicles a deadly virus that has spread across a small Ontario town. TIFF ’08 has been leaning heavily on Cannes retreads, but the inclusion of films by Spike Lee and Guy Ritchie are giving the fete some glow.
