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FRANCO-FILE�36James Franco has made a name for himself in the big-budget Spider-Man movies,and most recently in the stonerhit Pineapple Express. So whydid the hot young actor say yesto a small role in the sweetRichard Gere, Diane Lane movieNights in Rodanthe?• By Bob Strauss

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If you sat down to write a character specifically for Brad Pitt, wouldthat character be an idiot? A goof? A dork? A doofus?

Maybe it would. If we’re honest, maybe we’d all like to take one of the world’s most beautifulpeople down a notch on the coolness meter. But alas, most of us don’t have that power. We have towait for a couple of filmmakers like the Coen Brothers to come along and fulfil our wishes (andapparently theirs).

Writing and directing sibs Joel and Ethan Coen say the idea for their new movie, the off-kilter capercomedy Burn After Reading, evolved from the characters up. They decided to write parts for a handfulof actors with whom they wanted to work and then those characters led to the story of a fired CIAagent whose memoirs fall into the hands of a couple of scheming gym employees. Hilarity ensues.

They wrote roles for George Clooney, Richard Jenkins and Frances McDormand, all of whomthey’d worked with before. And then they wrote one for someone they’d always wanted to workwith, Brad Pitt.

People magazine’s two-time Sexiest Man Alive (1995, 2000) quickly agreed to the role, but was a bittaken aback by the character, one of those bonehead gym employees. The film’s production notesquote Pitt: “I didn’t think the guy would be a dumbbell, a gum-chewing, Gatorade-swilling, iPod-addicted bubble-brain. I said to Joel and Ethan, ‘He’s such an idiot.’”

Tee hee hee. Surprisingly, this is Pitt’s first out-and-out goofball. I spent quite a while going over his filmoraphy;

I was sure I’d seen him play a dolt before, but must have been thinking of one of his alter egos fromthe Ocean’s movies, or maybe his jittery kook from Twelve Monkeys — but that character (whichearned Pitt an Oscar nomination) was certainly no idiot.

Nope, this is Pitt’s first true knucklehead.And, apparently, it wasn’t easy to turn this piece of beefcake into a meathead. Short of CGI, the

crew used all of the tools at their disposal — gym shorts, crew socks, big white sneakers and thatspiky hairdo with the big blond streak. The last hunky actor the Coen Brothers gave a bad hairdo wasJavier Bardem in last year’s No Country for Old Men. And that haircut deserves at least some of thecredit for Bardem’s Best Actor Oscar. Just saying.

In “What a Goof,” page 38, the Coens, Clooney and Pitt discuss their star-studded caper comedy.James Franco goes from starring in last month’s pot comedy Pineapple Express to a small role in this

month’s Richard Gere romance Nights in Rodanthe. Why? Franco explains in “High on Drama,” page 36.And on page 15 you’ll find our Fall-Holiday Movie Preview, a handy guide packed with pictures

and info on the must-see movies from now until New Year’s.//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

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The book’s B&B is fictional,so the filmmakers needed to find a breathtakingoceanfront property to serveas the exterior of theirgetaway, and settled on ahouse named Serendipity,located on the northern tip ofHatteras Island.

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Knightley plays youngGeorgiana Spencer, the Duchessof Devonshire, a notorious 18th-century socialite, a powerfulpolitical figure and, it just sohappens, a distant relative ofDiana Spencer, Princess of Wales.

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The plot synopsis reads, “Likeher direct ancestor Princess Diana,[Georgiana] was ravishing,glamorous and adored by anentire country.... But even as herpower and popularity grew, she

was haunted by the fact that theonly man in England sheseemingly could not seduce washer very own husband, the Duke.”

Ralph Fiennes plays the Duke,who had a long-standing affairwith Georgiana’s friend, LadyElizabeth Foster, and married herwhen Georgiana died in 1806.Georgiana also had an affair, butwith an Earl, not her riding coach.

The trailer, too, evokes Diana,specifically her influenceon the fashion world, asthe Duchess is introducedto a crowd with, “What wesee her wearing tonight, Ilook forward to seeingthe rest of you wearingtomorrow. The empressof fashion herself, theDuchess of Devonshire.”

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ruce McDonald swears there’s nothing specific he andwriter Tony Burgess were getting at with Pontypool,their movie in which a virus travels through the Englishlanguage infecting its victims in weird and violent ways.

“It’s not French, it’s not Armenian, so the people whospeak French have a slight advantage over the people

who can only speak English,” explains McDonald, director of suchfilms as Hard Core Logo and The Tracey Fragments. He’s in a café acrossthe street from his home in Toronto’s Little Italy. “What I’ve alwaysloved about the idea of it is that it is quite ripe for interpretations.There’s a lot of decoding to be done.”

But don’t call the infected people zombies. For one thing, they’renot undead. “We ended up calling them conversationalists,” saysMcDonald. “This language virus effects their behaviour in reallystrange ways. They basically end up trying to chew their waythrough the mouth of another person to escape their condition. And

the early stages are quite odd, where they repeat things and thenthey get confused and mixed up, and they can’t express themselves.”

Based on Burgess’ novel Pontypool Changes Everything, the movietakes place in a talk-radio station in the real town of Pontypool, Ont.But since the whole movie happens inside, it was shot in Toronto.

“It’s all interior,” says McDonald. “That was the big challengebecause people get really nervous about being in one place for toolong. But it’s been done many times before. We were inspired by thesuccess of Das Boot and 12 Angry Men and My Dinner with Andre.”

Shot for just over $1-million (100 percent privately funded), filmingended in June, and by July Pontypool had earned a spot at this month’sToronto International Film Festival. “Yeah, we were very thrilled.We’re working like maniacs,” McDonald says of post-production.“It’s tight, but it’s nice to have a finish line to go for.”////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

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Bangkok Dangerous, Burn After Reading, Righteous Kill, The Women, Ghost Town,Taken, Igor, Blindness, The Duchess, My Best Friend’s Girl, Lakeview Terrace, Eagle Eye, Miracle at St. Anna, Nick and Nora’s Infinite Playlist, City of Ember, Body of Lies, High School Musical 3: Senior Year, Pride and Glory, Zack and Miri Makea Porno, Changeling, Quantum of Solace, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, Australia,Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Milk, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Twilight,The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Revolutionary Road, The Spirit, Yes Man

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Bangkok DangerousDirecting brothers Danny Pangand Oxide Pang Chun remaketheir 1999 Thai thriller BangkokDangerous with Nicolas Cage asJoe the hitman. Joe tries to livehis life by a simple code: don’task questions, and don’t getinvolved with anyone. Whadda yaknow? While in Thailand to carryout a hit, Joe breaks both rules.�RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 5

Burn After ReadingAfter he’s fired, CIA analystOsborne Cox (John Malkovich)decides to get drunk and writehis memoirs. Unfortunately, theyfall into the hands of HardbodiesFitness Centers employees Lindaand Chad (Frances McDormand,Brad Pitt), who try to takeadvantage. Written and directedby Joel and Ethan Coen, thefantasy cast includes TildaSwinton as Cox’s wife and GeorgeClooney as her married lover.See Brad Pitt interview, page 38.�RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 12

Righteous KillYou’d think the first on-screenpairing of Robert De Niro and Al Pacino since 1995’s Heatwould have garnered more buzz.

Hmmm... The quintessentialtough-guy actors play NYPDpartners Turk and Roosterwho are asked to investigatea pimp’s murder. Strangely, allevidence connects the killing to a case they thought theysolved years before. Jon Avnet(88 Minutes) directs.�RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 12

The Women This remake of the 1939George Cukor movie starsMeg Ryan as Mary, a richNew Yorker whose husbandis cheating on her with aperfume-counter attendant(Eva Mendes, who looks moreand more like Raquel Welchevery day). Candice Bergen isMary’s mother


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controversy?While at Cannes

to promote thismovie, Lee started a war ofwords with Clint Eastwoodwhen he said Eastwoodhadn’t featured a single blacksoldier in either of his WWIImovies — Flags of Our Fathersand Letters from Iwo Jima.Eastwood said neither hadan appropriate role for ablack soldier, and that Leeshould “shut his face.”

Miracle at St. Anna, yousee, is Lee’s response to theomission of black soldiersfrom WWII movies.

Based on the novel byJames McBride, the film usesthe real-life Sant’Ana diStazzema massacre as itsbackdrop. In 1944 the Nazisattacked the Tuscan villagekilling 560 people. In Lee’smovie, four African-Americansoldiers (Derek Luke,Michael Ealy, Laz Alonso,Omar Benson Miller) aretrapped in the village afterone rescues an Italian boy.

But the film’s first whiffof controversy came beforeshooting had even started,when residents of Sant’Anasaid the dramatic libertiestaken in the film woulddishonour their sad history.

The movie has its worldpremiere at the TorontoInternational Film Festival(Lee showed only eightminutes at Cannes) andopens across the countryat the end of the month.

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and Carrie Fisher, AnnetteBening and Debra Messing areher friends. Smart marketing sawthe trailer run before Sex and theCity screenings; expect the sameaudience to fall for this comedy.�RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 12

Ghost TownEnglish funnyman Ricky Gervaisstars as mean-spirited dentistBertram Pincus, who dies duringa colonoscopy, but then comesback to life. The experience hasleft him with the ability to seeghosts, and one very persistentdead guy (Greg Kinnear) wantsBertram to stop his widow (Téa Leoni) from remarrying.�RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 12

The Family That Preys One-man show Tyler Perry — hewrites, directs, designs sets andacts in his own movies — churnsout pics at an astonishing rate.His latest concerns a wealthysocialite (Kathy Bates) and herbest friend (Alfre Woodard),whose married children — Cole Hauser and Sanaa Lathan— are having an affair with each other. �RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 12

TakenA retired spy’s (Liam Neeson)daughter (Maggie Grace) iskidnapped by slave traders while

on vacation in Paris, so daddydearest puts on his game faceand sets out to rescue hisdaughter and kill the scum whotook her. Directed by Frenchcinematogrpaher Pierre Morel.�RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 19

IgorThis animated flick focuses onIgor, well, actually a lot of Igors,because that’s what all of theassistants who work for the madscientists in the kingdom ofMalaria are named. One Igor(John Cusack) threatens thesocial order when he sets out todesign his own evil creature andenter it in Malaria’s annual “EvilScience Fair.” Steve Buscemi andJohn Cleese also lend their pipes.�RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 19

The DuchessLate-18th-century Englishsociety is scandalized by theexploits of Georgiana Spencer,Duchess of Devonshire (Keira Knightley), whosepassion for gambling, politics,fashion and a handsome lover(Dominic Cooper) make herunique among women of hertime. Too bad her staid husband(Ralph Fiennes) and nervousmother (Charlotte Rampling)don’t share the Duchess’s senseof adventure.�RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 19

My Best Friend’s GirlWhen Dustin (Jason Biggs) isdumped by his girlfriend Alexis(Kate Hudson), he calls out thebig guns, his best friend Tank(Dane Cook), who makes a living by going out with a guy’sex-girlfriend and then treatingher so badly that she runs backinto the arms of the guy she justkicked to the curb.�RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 19

Lakeview TerraceIf you think your neighbourreorganizing your recycling binor spying over your back fenceis bad, wait until you meet AbelTurner (Samuel L. Jackson), aby-the-book L.A. cop who can’tstand the fact that an interracialcouple (Patrick Wilson and KerryWashington) has moved into hisneighbourhood so terrorizesthem. They have no choice but tofight back against this cop whoknows how to manipulate thelaw to get what he wants.�RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 19

Eagle EyeStuff blows up real good in thisexplosive thriller starring ShiaLaBeouf and Michelle Monaghanas two innocent people who areframed as terrorists by a secretorganization that needs them tocarry out an assassination.�RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 26

Nights in RodantheAfter a summer of superheromovies comes this adult-oriented love story about anunhappily married woman

(Diane Lane) who takes careof her friend’s beachfront innfor a weekend and falls in love with the inn’s only guest, ahunky doctor (Richard Gere). James Franco plays thedoctor’s son. Lane and Gerecan probably tell you whereevery mole is on each other’sbodies, having played loversin The Cotton Club, Unfaithfuland now here. This is also thefourth Nicholas Sparks novelto be turned into a film, afterMessage in a Bottle, A Walk toRemember and The Notebook.See James Franco interview,page 36.�RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 26

ManagementAn uptight travelling sales-woman (Jennifer Aniston)has a fling with a motelmanager (Steve Zahn)who thinks he’s the perfect man for her and follows heracross the country tryingto win her love. �RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 26

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BlindnessAnarchy ensues when themajority of people living in anunnamed city suddenly becomeblind. To control the situation thegovernment locks away theafflicted, but one woman

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City of EmberAn underground world that hasbeen home to a colony ofhumans for more than 400 yearsis about to be snuffed out. Theancient generator that powersEmber’s lights and machines isdying, so its residents —lead bytwo teens (Saoirse Ronan,

Harry Treadaway) — haveto find a way out. Bill Murrayplays Ember’s corrupt mayorin this family film based on abook by Jeanne Duprau.�RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 10

Body of LiesLeonardo DiCaprio andRussell Crowe join forces withdirector Ridley Scott to adaptthe novel by David Ignatius.DiCaprio plays a continued �

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ngelina Jolie makesher second moviein two years based on a real-lifekidnapping. But

unlike A Mighty Heart — thestory of Mariane Pearl, wifeof kidnapped and murderedjournalist Daniel Pearl —this plot wasn’t snatchedfrom the headlines, butrather some dusty, long-forgotten documents.

Jolie plays ChristineCollins, a Depression-erasingle mother whose son,Walter, went missing in Los Angeles in 1928.

After five months, thepolice — who were undergreat public pressure to findthe boy — located Walter inIllinois and returned him tohis mom. Only it wasn’tWalter. But when Collinsprotested, she was thrownin a psychiatric institution.Admitting that they had thewrong boy would have beentoo embarrassing for theLAPD. However, Collinscontinued her fight,eventually bringing thecase to L.A.’s City Council.

The 80-year-old storycame to light afterscreenwriter J. MichaelStraczynski, also a journalistwho has written for the L.A. Times, was sent somefiles by a source who wasin charge of burning old City Hall documents.Fortunately, that sourcethought this particular casewas far too interesting to goup in smoke. Clint Eastwooddirects.

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PasschendaelePaul Gross, best known as Due South’s wisecrackingMountie and the star of the lightCanadian comedy Men WithBrooms, has dedicated morethan a decade to this epic dramaabout the WWI battle that tookthe lives of 67,000 Canadiansoldiers. Gross felt it was time topay attention to Passchendaele,which received relatively littlepress at the time, since anhonest account of the death tollwould have had a negativeimpact on recruitment.�RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 17

Flash of GeniusGreg Kinnear does his bestRussell Crowe circa The Insideras he transforms fromhandsome movie star to middle-aged David fightinga corporate Goliath. Based ona true story, Kinnear plays Robert Kearns, inventor of theintermittent windshield wipersystem, who is forced to take onthe big automakers when theyrefuse to give him credit (and $$$) for his creation.�RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 17

High School Musical 3:Senior YearThe third film in the phenomenallypopular High School Musicalfranchise is actually the first toget a theatrical release. The firsttwo were created exclusively forthe Disney Channel. In their finalyear at East High, Troy andGabriella (Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens, who’ve alsobeen involved off-screen) dealwith the possibility of going theirseparate ways after graduation.�RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 24

Pride and GloryWhen four NYPD officers arekilled, the cop investigating

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Zack and Miri Make a PornoLifelong friends Zack (Seth Rogen) and Miri(Elizabeth Banks) think doinga porno flick together will be agood way to make some cash.Kevin Smith directs, and as faras we can see, Judd Apatow isin no way involved.�RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 31

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taking off from the island ofMadagascar only to crash-land in Africa. For the firsttime these tame animalscome face to face with theirwild brethren, which makes foruncomfortable family reunions. �RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 7

AustraliaA rugged leading man (HughJackman), a feisty leading lady(Nicole Kidman), sweepingvistas and simmeringromance, it’s all here indirector Baz Luhrmann’sepic saga of an aristocrat(Kidman) who inherits asprawling Australian cattleranch during WWII. She, andher stubbly


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his 22nd James Bondmovie, and thesecond to star fair-haired Daniel Craig,was beset with

production problems — aset fire, two car crashesinvolving stuntmen — andproved harmful to Craig,who cut his face and slicedthe tip off one of his fingersduring filming.

Surely that bad luck won’t follow the film to thebox office, where Quantumis primed to rake in cashfrom fans eager to see avengeful Bond hunt downthe people who blackmailed,and killed, his lover Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale.His search takes him toSouth America, where heconfronts baddie DominicGreene (Mathieu Amalric)and the organization knownas Quantum, which plansto seize control of thecontinent’s water supply.

Aiding 007 in his missionis the mysterious beautyCamille (Olga Kurylenko)and the comely Agent Fields(Gemma Arterton), but it’sthe watchful M (Judi Dench)who could prove to be themost dangerous woman inBond’s life as she believesthe superspy’s thirst forrevenge puts MI6 in peril, and is willing to cut Bond loose.

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The RoadThis adaptation of CormacMcCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize-winningnovel is set in a post-apocalypticAmerica, where ash covers thecountryside, most people, plantsand animals are dead, and afather (Viggo Mortensen) andson (Kodi Smit-McPhee) slowlytravel southward toward theocean. Along the way they fendoff desperate survivors —including cannibals — whiletrying to hold onto their ownhumanity. �RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 21

Harry Potter and theHalf-Blood PrinceHarry (Daniel Radcliffe)spends much of his sixth yearat Hogwarts with Dumbledore(Michael Gambon) investigatingVoldemort’s (Ralph Fiennes)early life, hoping to find cluesas to where The Dark Lord hidhis horcruxes (objects containinga piece of his soul). Meanwhile,Ron (Rupert Grint) andHermione (Emma Watson)continue their mating dance.The Fiennes clan keeps theVoldemort character in-house,as Ralph’s young nephew, Hero Fiennes-Tiffin, playsthe 11-year-old Voldemort. �RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 21

BoltIn this animated flick, canine TV star Bolt (voiced by JohnTravolta) believes he really doespossess the superpowers of thedog he plays on TV. But whenhe’s separated from his handlersand has to make his way backhome, the German Shepherdlearns the ugly truth, he’s justa regular pooch. �RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 26

Transporter 3Frank Martin (Jason Statham),a.k.a. “The Transporter,” sets upshop in Paris to continue hispackage delivery service.Although the exact nature of thepackage Frank delivers this timearound is being kept under wraps,we do know the movie’s villain isplayed by Robert Knepper (whostars as Prison Break’s residentpyscho T-Bag), and that Frank’sride is a souped-up Audi. �RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 26

MilkSean Penn portrays Harvey Milkin Gus Van Sant’s bio-pic of theopenly gay San Francisco citysupervisor who was gunned downby fellow supervisor Dan White(Josh Brolin) in 1977. Penn andJames Franco, who plays Milk’scampaign manager and one ofhis lovers (Diego Luna and Emile Hirsch are Milk’s otherpartners) contemplated livingtogether before filming startedin order to get to know eachother better, but had to nix theplan due to scheduling conflicts. �RELEASE DATE: NOVEMBER 28


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TwilightAfter choosing to abstain fromdrinking human blood, vampireEdward (Robert Pattinson) findshis vow hard to keep wheneverhe’s around his soulmate Isabella(Kristen Stewart). Based on thenovel by Stephenie Meyer.�RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 12

The Curious Case ofBenjamin ButtonNearly a decade after Fight Club,Brad Pitt reunites with directorDavid Fincher for this decidedlyless violent, but just as strange,fantasy flick. Pitt plays Benjamin Button, a man who

ages backwards. At 50, he fallsfor a beautiful 30-year-old (Cate Blanchett). But as sheages, he hurtles toward infancy.�RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 19

Yes ManIn 2005, British comedianDanny Wallace published Yes Man, a memoir of the six-month period in which he decidedto say “yes” to all the things towhich he would have previouslysaid “no,” just to see what wouldhappen. This film, which starsJim Carrey as a character namedCarl, was inspired by the trialsand adventures that ensuedfrom Wallace’s positive approach.�RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 19

Revolutionary RoadTitanic’s Leonardo DiCaprio andKate Winslet, together again. Butlet’s hope this isn’t how doomedlovers Jack and Rose would haveended up. Here the maturedactors play a dysfunctionalcouple who thinks they’retoo good for their Connecticutneighbours, drink too much,

bicker and have affairs whiletheir marriage disintegrates.Winslet’s real-life hubbie, Sam Mendes, directs.�RELEASE DATE: DECEMBER 26


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ark. That’s whatyou can expectfrom directorFrank Miller’s The Spirit. The

adaptation of Will Eisner’scomic was filmed with thesame aesthetic and green-screen technology asMiller’s first movie behindthe camera, Sin City, whichhe co-directed with RobertRodriguez. This is the firsttime Miller, a famed comicwriter and artist in his ownright, has directed alone.

Eisner’s masked crime-fighter first appeared in a1940 newspaper insert andhas gone through severalincarnations. Always avery mysterious character,Miller’s Spirit (Gabriel Macht)is a dead cop who’s comeback to life and dedicateshimself to fighting baddies.As of press time, the studiohad yet to release a stillimage of The Spirit. Butthey did release this shotof Samuel L. Jackson as hisarch nemesis The Octopus,a villain trying to gain hisown form of immortalityby wiping out Central City.

Scarlett Johansson plays The Octopus’ssecretary, Silken Floss, andEva Mendes is the jewelthief Sand Saref, one ofthe various beautiful anddangerous women whopopulate The Spirit’s life.

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1. Paul Gross wrote, directedand stars in this year’s openingnight TIFF film, the WWIdrama Passchendaele. Which ofthe following Canadian filmsdid not open TIFF? a) Dead Ringersb) Stardomc) Away From Her

2. This year’s TIFF entry The Other Man stars Liam Neesonas a husband who discoversthat his wife (Laura Linney)is exchanging emails witha mystery man (AntonioBanderas). Neeson and Linneyco-starred in a film thatscreened at TIFF in 2004.Name the film.

3. TIFF often programs films that end up winningOscars. One year wasparticularly noteworthy,as the Toronto fest screenedOscar-winning pics AmericanBeauty (Best Picture, BestDirector, Best Actor), Boys Don’tCry (Best Actress) and The CiderHouse Rules (Best SupportingActor). The year was: a) 1998 b) 1999 c) 2000

4. James McAvoy and Keira Knightley are seen here posing before the galapresentation of their 2007 TIFFfilm. Which film was it?

5. Canadian director BruceMcDonald (whose Ponytypoolunspools at this year’s festival)picked up a $25,000 cash prizewhen his film Roadkill wonBest Canadian Feature at the1989 edition of TIFF. In hisspeech he said the moneywould buy a “big chunk of ________________”?a) film stockb) studio timec) hash

6. Which 1992 crowd-pleasing TIFF flick featured apair of mismatched ballroomdancers taking on Australia’sdancing establishment?

7. Denys Arcand’s The Declineof the American Empire wontwo awards at the 1986 editionof TIFF. In total, how manyArcand-directed films havebeen screened at TIFF? a) three b) five c) seven

8. Which director’s 1990breakthrough film, An Angel atMy Table, was screened at TIFF?a) Jane Campion b) Jonathan Demmec) Jim Jarmusch

9. Here, Naomi Watts lightsup the red carpet prior to the 2007 TIFF screening ofEastern Promises. For whichfilm did Watts attend TIFFin 2003? Clue: It co-starred Sean Penn and Benicio Del Toro.

10. In 1987 TIFF staff hadto construct a theatre seattwice the size of a regularseat to accommodate one ofthe stars of The Princess Bride.Who was the star?

11. Don McKellar, whowrote the screenplay for,and stars in, this year’s TIFFflick Blindness, used to workfor TIFF as an usher andremembers one star whowas late for his ownpremiere because he refusedto stop playing a pianolocated backstage. That star was:a) Jeff Goldblumb) Johnny Deppc) Richard Gere

12. True or False: The BigChill won TIFF’s People’sChoice Award in 1983.

13. Viggo Mortensenreturns to TIFF with two pics— the western Appaloosa,and the euthanasia-themeddrama Good. Last year hewowed TIFF audiences withhis turn as a Russian mobsterin David Cronenberg’sEastern Promises.

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14. The lovely AnneHathaway is the star ofthis year’s TIFF film RachelGetting Married, about anacerbic woman (Hathaway)attending her sister’s wedding.In Brokeback Mountain, whichtook TIFF by storm in 2005,Hathaway played JakeGyllenhaal’s young wife. Whatwas her character’s name?a) Lureenb) Laurenc) Missy

15. If TIFF had a residentfilmmaker, it would have tobe Atom Egoyan, who hasscreened 10 films at TIFF over the years. This yearhe returns with Adoration,starring Scott Speedman.

Which of the following Egoyan films takes place primarily inside a strip club and pet store? a) Family Viewingb) Exoticac) Where the Truth Lies

FESTIVAL ROUNDUPToronto serves as ground zero when it comes to film festivals, butthat doesn’t meanthere aren’t otherfestivals taking placeacross the countrythis season

ATLANTIC FILM FESTIVALHalifax, Nova ScotiaSeptember 11-20www.atlanticfilm.com/aff/

CINÉFEST SUDBURYSudbury, OntarioSeptember 15-23www.cinefest.com

OTTAWA INTERNATIONALANIMATION FESTIVALOttawa, OntarioSeptember 17-21www.ottawa.awn.com/index.php

ANTIMATTER UNDERGROUNDFILM FESTIVALVictoria, British ColumbiaSeptember 19-27www.antimatter.ws/

CALGARY INTERNATIONALFILM FESTIVALCalgary, AlbertaSeptember 19-28www.calgaryfilm.com

VANCOUVER INTERNATIONALFILM FESTIVALVancouver, British ColumbiaSeptember 25-October 10www.viff.org/home

EDMONTON INTERNATIONALFILM FESTIVALEdmonton, AlbertaSeptember 26-October 4www.edmontonfilmfest.com

FESTIVAL NOUVEAU CINÉMAMontreal, QuebecOctober 8-19www.nouveaucinema.ca/EN

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INTERVIEW JAMES FRANCO

Just whenyou think you’ve gotJames Franco figured out, he goes and con-founds your expectations.

For the few who caught the cult sitcomFreaks and Geeks, the first impression of thePalo Alto, California-born actor was as theunderachieving metalhead Daniel Desario.

Quickly, though, the starring role in aJames Dean TV movie and high-profile workas the tormented Harry Osborn in the threeSpider-Man movies transformed Franco intoHollywood’s poster boy for youthful angst.His choice of smaller, artier projects addedto the ultra-dramatic image.

Then last month, funny Franco came roar-ing back as perhaps the sweetest stupid potpusher ever put on screen in co-star (and oldF&G pal) Seth Rogen’s ultimate stoner comedyPineapple Express, which was directed by in-die icon David Gordon Green (All the Real Girls).

“The character is kind of silly,” the actorunderstates about the heavily improvised

role, “but I certainly made a bigger ass ofmyself than what ended up on the screen!So it was good I could trust David to not putall the unfunny stuff in there.”

So what does Franco do next? Um, takesa supporting role in a schmaltzy romance,Nights in Rodanthe.

“I have a pretty small part in it,” admitsFranco, 30, during a call from the UCLAcampus where he’s finishing up a degree.Franco plays the estranged son of a doctor(Richard Gere) who falls in love with a con-fused married woman (Diane Lane) whilethey’re stormbound at an old inn on theNorth Carolina coast. Adapted from a novelby The Notebook’s Nicholas Sparks, it’s along way from the cooler projects Francohas been involved with of late.

But he had a good reason for doing it. “It was an opportunity to work with

George C. Wolfe,” says Franco. “He’s theNew York theatre director who won a Tony

for Angels in America. He’s always up forTonys, incredible director.”

Strangely, Franco hooked up with thehighbrow director through one of hisPineapple Express co-stars. “Rosie Perezwas in Pineapple and she’s really goodfriends with George, they’ve done somethings together,” Franco says. “And shesaid, ‘Hey, my friend George really wantsyou to do this part in his first movie.’ So Ijust jumped at that opportunity.”

If Franco seems to be on the receivingend of good Hollywood mojo, rest assuredthese things haven’t always come easily.

“I had to really learn how to let go of amovie once I was done with my work,”says Franco. “It’s a difficult thing to put somuch time into a role, so much research,shoot for months, then have it come outnot like you expected. One thing that’shelped is doing smaller films or having asmaller part. I don’t have a large role inRodanthe, like the case with The Dead Girland American Crime and In the Valley of Elah.If those films don’t make any money, I’mfine, because I’m happy to be a part of themand I think that they’re special films.”

Franco also copes with the ups anddowns of the movie biz by committing towhat he originally moved to Los Angeles to do: become an author. He completedUCLA’s writing program in June and plansto continue studying the craft in New York.

“It’s something that I’ve always wantedto do,” Franco explains. “I was a literaturemajor, and then acting kind of took offfirst. It became my focus for a while andI left school. But even when I was actingprofessionally full time, it was some-thing that I would do on my own on theside. It can be a very isolating endeavour,though, so I wanted to be around otherpeople that were doing it and I came backto the writing workshops.”

Maybe making a film based on a popularbook isn’t so surprising after all.//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Bob Strauss lives in L.A. where he writesabout movies.

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A month afterstarring as alovable pothead in the blockbusterPineapple Express,James Francodelivers a smallrole in the maturelove story Nights inRodanthe. Here heexplains why� BY BOB STRAUSS

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COVER STORY BRAD PITT & THE COEN BROTHERS

fterthe unrelenting bleakness of Joel and Ethan Coen’s Oscar-winningcrime thriller No Country for Old Men, a crafty little comedy calledBurn After Reading seemed like the right thing to do.

“I thought so,” says Joel, looking over at his brother Ethan duringan interview at the Beverly Hills Four Seasons Hotel last October,just after they had wrapped Burn After Reading. The Coens say theywere happy to pack up their movie belongings in continued �

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Brad Pitt hasn’t played a truly goofy character since, well, we

can’t remember when. It took the Coen Brothers to bring out the

goof in the big star for their capercomedy Burn After Reading, a film

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Texas, where they shot No Country, and move them to Brooklyn Heights,near their New York homes, to film the spy-caper romp.

The film has John Malkovich playing Ozzie Cox, an old CIA pro whois unceremoniously fired because of a drinking problem. For revenge,he pens a dangerous memoir and saves it on a disc, only to have thatdisc stolen by his soon-to-be ex-wife Katie (Tilda Swinton).

Of course, she loses the disc at a Washington, D.C., gym where a self-involved trainer, Chad Feldheimer (Brad Pitt), and the gym’s owner,Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand), find it and decide to blackmail Cox.

Enter one Harry Pfarrer, played by George Clooney. Harry’s a sexaddict and a federal marshal who’s sleeping with Katie. He stumblesinto the blackmail mess via an online dating service. One incompetentmove leads to another as the players fail to outplay each other asthey plot and plan and screw up along the way.

No wonder Clooney’s involved. The exaggerated tone and style isreminiscent of his previous Coen Brothers comedies O Brother, WhereArt Thou? and Intolerable Cruelty. Of course, Pitt’s a buddy of Clooney’sfrom the Ocean’s series of heist movies, so the pairing was a good fit.

While the casting of Clooney and Pitt seems just about right, bothCoens shrug off the good fortune. “It was all about the availability ofthe actors we wanted,” says Joel. “It’s that simple.”

Simple’s the operative word when it comes to Clooney. He said“yes” to Burn After Reading with a nod, script unread, the Coens say.On set, he’s just as casual. “The last two movies we’ve done withGeorge have been the same sort of thing,” notes Joel. “Our wholediscussion of each character took place in about five minutes beforewe started shooting. Same again with Burn After Reading.”

Pitt was a different story for more logistical reasons. His partnerAngelina Jolie and their brood of children, including their then 15-month-old daughter, had busy agendas (and this was before thetwins). Somehow, Pitt found a way to wedge the Coen Brothersmovie into his schedule from late August to mid-October of last year.

“It’s worth it,” Pitt says, while taking a break from shooting BurnAfter Reading to attend last year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

Why the Coens? Pitt says that while “it’s true” that his friendClooney can be persuasive, there was more to it than that. “I justwant to work with people that I like and respect. The Coen elementsadd to the flavour of the film,” he says, “but I don’t choose accordingto just that.

“It’s always story first,” he insists. “It’s the story and the story-teller, which is what I feed on.”

And no, he says, smirking a little, he didn’t take a lot of advice fromrenowned joker Clooney about how to work with the Coens. “Wedon’t spend much time on advice, or we never get to it,” suggests Pittof his pal. “Too many good-natured insults get in the way.”

So are the Coens willing to compare Pitt and Clooney’s acting styles?Ethan is. “George likes to get things done before dinner,” he says.

On the other hand… “Brad struggled a little bit more in trying tofind the right thing,” reports Ethan. “I think Brad’s whole [character]came together from a botched dye job for a commercial he was aboutto do. He arrived on set that day and we all looked at it, and we allsaid, ‘Oh, okay. That’s the guy,’” says Ethan, smiling.

As humourous as that anecdote may be, Clooney understands thatPitt should not be underestimated in any role.

“In fairness, I’ll tell you he’s a really brave actor, which is an inter-esting thing,” Clooney says during a press conference also at last year’sfilm festival in Toronto. “People don’t often say that enough about him.”

But Clooney does. In fact, he pretends he’s a little irked by Pitt’s BurnAfter Reading performance. “He’s doing stuff in it that kills me,” saysClooney. “He’s going to steal the movie and I’m going to murder him.”

In fact, Pitt is most proud of creating from both sides of the camera.While filming Burn After Reading in New York he was also producingThe Time Traveler’s Wife with Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams in Toronto.

“It was nice to be attached to a movie in a lower profile way,” saysPitt, who quietly visited the Toronto set a few times in the fall.

So it seems that despite all of the media scrutiny that has come withhis high-profile relationship and his growing swarm of children, Pitt’scareer goals have not gone ignored. Indeed, he thinks his personalresponsibilities have helped him refine his professional objectives.

“I’m working on things that I’m interested in and I’ve got thefamily first, which actually makes me enjoy the work more,” he says.“I don’t feel defined by the work in any way, so I feel free to just followwhat’s interesting to me.”///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Bob Thompson is a Toronto-based writer. He covers movies for the National Post.

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Watch enough fashionmedia and you’ll eventually seethis: a glamourous, sunglasses-worn-indoors fashion type paying the most backhandedcompliment of all — namely, thata collection is, yawn, “wearable.”

Declaring something“wearable” is the industry’sfavourite form of condescension,tantamount to saying “these weredull, ordinary clothes that will beunquestioningly purchased bythe dull, ordinary masses.”

In the upside-down code of fashionspeak, it is much much better to be “modern” or “innovative,” “witty” or“revolutionary” — which usuallytranslates to weirdly coloured,oddly cut and ultimately un-wearable clothes for most of us.

So how to cope? This fall, likeevery season, trends are clusteredinto grandiose themes: Sicilianwidow, new wave gothic,equestrian. A tip: don’t think of them as one-look costumes.

Your job is to find the individualpieces that most easily fit intoyour life, like a reinterpretation of the classic little black dress, a narrow black lace skirt, a richly coloured winter floral or a beautifully tailored jacket.

And because “It bags” havehad their day, satisfy your must-buy-the-latest-trend urges with asartorially transformative, wickedlyhigh-heeled bootie or shoe.

And now the beauty part.Beauty is going to be easy thisfall. Here’s the formula: rock chickmeets boho goddess meets lazyperson. Ergo, messy, but well-tended, hair, natural glossed lipsand sooty, smudged eyes. Justthink. For the first time in yourlife, being clumsy with eyemakeup is a definite asset.

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Star Wars: TheForce Unleashed DS, PS2, PS3, PSP, WII, X360This action game fromLucasArts fills in the lost erabetween Episode III andEpisode IV, but with a darktwist: you play Starkiller,Darth Vader’s apprentice.Using a variety of Dark Sidepowers plus your trustylightsaber, your evil missionis to exterminate theremaining Jedi do-gooders. �RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 16

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Run, Fat Boy, RunSTARS: Simon Pegg, Thandie NewtonDIRECTOR: DavidSchwimmer (debut)STORY: Former Friends starSchwimmer makes his big-screen directing debut with afilm co-written by another TV

actor, Michael Ian Black fromTV’s Ed. Black and Britishcomic Simon Pegg co-wrotethis comedy about an out-of-shape underachiever(Pegg) who tries to get hisex (Newton) back by runninga marathon. DVD Extras:deleted scenes, outtakes,goofs, commentary track

Sex and the CitySTARS: Chris Noth,Sarah Jessica Parker DIRECTOR: Michael PatrickKing (debut)STORY: Big asks Carrie tomarry him. Carrie plans ahuge wedding. Big getsscared. Carrie cries. A lot.Meanwhile, Miranda pushesSteve away; Samantha triesto be faithful; and Charlottegets what she’s alwayswanted. If none of that makessense, you weren’t a fan ofthe show and you shouldskip the movie. But if it does,grab the Kleenex and enjoy.

Release dates aresubject to change.

George Clooney directs himself, and Renée Zellweger, in Leatherheads

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VirgoAugust 23 � September 22You’re less routine-orientedand more willing to take anovel approach at work. Theresult? Lots of applause, butsome resentment. A friendis reluctant to ask forsupport — it’s up to you tomake the first gentle move.Late September sees smallfinancial gains.

LibraSeptember 23 � October 22You help make an awkwardsituation easier for someone.It’s no coincidence that yourown life gets a boost —perhaps you receive abonus — by the end ofSeptember. You’ll be dealingwith a medical or othernew professional. Give therelationship time to warm up.

ScorpioOctober 23 � November 21It’s a month of validation.People realize what a goodjudge of character you are.They also see how decentyour motives have been.Expansion is a theme thismonth. Your circle of friendsexpands, and you makeyour personal environmentless claustrophobic.

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Gwyneth PaltrowSIGN: LibraBORN: September 27, 1972WHERE: Los Angeles, California

STARGAZINGHOROSCOPE FOR SEPTEMBER 2008 � BY DAN LIEBMAN

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SagittariusNovember 22� December 22Expect delays duringthe first two weeks ofthe month, but use thisperiod to renew afriendship and work onyour appearance. Yourrecent research leads toa smart financial movearound the 19th. The lasttwo weekends are greatfor the arts, whetheryou’re in the audienceor on stage.

CapricornDecember 23� January 20Even the simplestbusiness dealings can betricky. Read the small andlarge print, and don’t holdback from asking obviousquestions. Clear yourplate before taking on yetanother obligation. Latemonth sees you rekindlea one-time romance orfriendship.

AquariusJanuary 21 � February 19Pick your battles, only afew are worth fightingnow. A job proves moredemanding (andstimulating) thanexpected. A youngrelative helps you make

a key decision. Business,pleasure and travel — or twoout of three of them — mixvery well.

PiscesFebruary 20 � March 20Your people skills areoutstanding. You bringtogether feuding relativesand take charge atmeetings. You’re vulnerablearound the 15th, when youcan reveal professional orpersonal secrets. Aroundthe 23rd, you receivesomething you asked formonths ago.

AriesMarch 21 � April 20The first two weeks ofSeptember are a good timeto reconnect with a formercolleague. The full moon ofthe 15th launches a periodof enhanced prestige. Watchout for a tendency to gooverboard — with spending,gifts and rich foods —between the 23rd and the 30th.

TaurusApril 21 � May 22 You can satisfy your naturalcuriosity by signing up fora fall course. Since you’rethe zodiac’s money sign,something finance-relatedmight be suitable. Unlessyou can handle anopinionated partner, stayclear of joint ventures duringthe last 10 days of themonth.

GeminiMay 23 � June 21 You take charge of a familysituation and prevent adisaster at work. After arecent loss, you see signsof a small profit. You makeseveral critical choicesabout an event comingup later this fall.

CancerJune 22 � July 22Don’t write anyone off tooquickly — people show theiraffection in unexpectedways. It’s a good month toorganize family gatherings,but be sure to be inclusive,and expect fireworks. Thelast two weeks are good forshort trips and fashionmakeovers.

LeoJuly 23 � August 22A new friendship gathersmomentum thanks to anintellectual connection. The12th marks the beginning ofa shift in your political views.Aim to complete a project bythe third week of September.

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1st: Lily Tomlin2nd: Keanu Reeves3rd: Charlie Sheen4th: Beyoncé Knowles5th: Raquel Welch6th: Rosie Perez7th: Julie Kavner8th: Henry Thomas9th: Hugh Grant10th: Ryan Phillippe11th: Harry Connick Jr.12th: Paul Walker13th: Jacqueline Bisset14th: Faith Ford15th: Tommy Lee Jones16th: Alexis Bledel17th: Baz Luhrmann18th: James Marsden19th: Jeremy Irons20th: Sophia Loren21st: Ricki Lake22nd: Bonnie Hunt23rd: Jason Alexander24th: Nia Vardalos25th: Catherine Zeta-Jones26th: Linda Hamilton27th: Gwyneth Paltrow28th: Hilary Duff29th: Ian McShane30th: Fran Drescher

SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS

You help make anawkwardsituationeasier forsomeone,Libra. And Virgo, afriend needssupport. Goahead andmake the first move

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ANSWER ONLINE at Cineplex.com/famouslastwordsAll responses must be entered by September 30th. Look for the answers to this question in the November issue. Responses may be edited for length and clarity.

We asked you…Of all the big-screenmovie teachers, whichone would you mostwant to teach your class?

LASTWORDSOUR READERS HAVE THEIR SAY

You told us…

NEXT QUESTION: Which professional athlete most deserves to have their life story made into a movie?

By far, it’d have to be Dewey Finn [Jack Black] from Schoolof Rock! I mean, what’s amore important lessonthan learning how to rockout? Algebra pales incomparison.—Courtney Poole, Victoria, BC

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‘Bueller? Bueller?’ Theteacher played by

Ben Stein in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. In fact, I’d be thrilledto learn from Ben Stein.He’s so smart.—Susan Samuels, Toronto, ON

Indiana Jones… because the field trips

would be awesome!—Victor Mah, Grand Prairie, AB

I am a teacher today because of

Herbert Gower played byRichard Mulligan in Teachers:dressing up like Abe Lincoln,acting out the crossing of theDelaware River! I wish more teachers would look outside the boxwhen teaching.—Andrew Zalameda, Toronto, ON

John Keating fromDead Poet’s Society.

Robin Williams stars as anEnglish professor at an all-boys prep school in the1950s. He teaches hisstudents a love of poetryand to seize the day. Best Actor nomination for Williams.—Shelley Bourdeau, Grimsby, ON

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