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Post by Admin Sat Jul 30, 2011 12:07 am

http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/tiff-2011-look-shame-starring-carey-mulligan-michael-fassbender

TIFF 2011 First Look: 'Shame' Starring Carey Mulligan and Michael Fassbender

Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender team up once again
By: Brad Brevet
Published: Friday, July 29th 2011 at 4:00 PM
Carey Mulligan in Shame

Primarily known as a minimalist filmmaker, Steve McQueen's debut feature film Hunger starred Michael Fassbender and was critically praised even if it didn't get any kind of Academy recognition. Now, McQueen has teamed with Fassbender once again with Shame, a film that sounds like it's really going to test its audience once you consider the plot synopsis below in conjunction with the film's title:

Brandon is a 30-something man living in New York who is unable to manage his sex life. After his wayward younger sister moves into his apartment, Brandon’s world spirals out of control. From director Steve McQueen (Hunger), Shame is a compelling and timely examination of the nature of need, how we live our lives and the experiences that shape us.

Along with Fassbender, the film co-stars Carey Mulligan, James Badge Dale and Nicole Beharie. It has not yet been picked up for domestic distribution, which means its Toronto Film Festival screening as well as its premiere at the Venice Film Festival will serve as its coming out party, where I am sure the producers hope it will be picked up for an assumed Oscar season run.

Carey Mulligan and Michael Fassbender in Shame
Michael Fassbender in Shame
(I'm unsure of the actress in this still) and Michael Fassbender in Shame
Michael Fassbender in Shame

The 2011 Toronto International Film Festival plays from September 8-18. For my complete coverage click here.
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Post by Admin Sat Jul 30, 2011 12:09 am

http://blogs.indiewire.com/thompsononhollywood/2011/07/29/stars_working_double_time_at_toronto_2011/

Toronto Sees Double: Two Films Each for Busy Clooney, Gosling, Fassbender, Mulligan and Butler
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These five stars are working double time at the Toronto Film Festival this year: George Clooney (The Ides of March, The Descendants), Michael Fassbender (Shame, A Dangerous Method), Ryan Gosling (The Ides of March, Drive), Carey Mulligan (Shame, Drive) and Gerard Butler (Machine Gun Preacher, Coriolanus) are keeping busy, each with two films, at the September 8-18 fest. Which one will come out on top with some Oscar buzz? Easier said than done. Consider their Toronto track records:

RYAN GOSLING:

Gosling’s The Believer went to Toronto in 2001, and showed that Canada’s once-upon-a-time Mickey Mouse Club child star could be one of the strongest actors of his generation. In 2007 he returned with the impressive Lars and the Real Girl and in 2010 Blue Valentine left the fest 2010 buzzing (though not enough to land Gosling his second Oscar nomination). Half Nelson skipped Toronto but launched at Sundance and earned Gosling his first Oscar nomination in 2007.

Toronto Films Pictured: The Ides of March (Dir: George Clooney, Co-stars: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood) and Drive (Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn, Co-stars: Carey Mulligan, Albert Brooks, Bryan Cranston, Ron Perlman, Oscar Isaacs, Christina Hendricks).

GEORGE CLOONEY

Clooney’s Toronto history goes on forever; highlights include 2007’s Michael Clayton, which yielded his first Best Actor nomination, the Coen brothers mainstream 2008 comedy Burn After Reading, and 2009’s Up in the Air, which scored at the fest and earned Clooney another best actor nomination.

In 2005, both Clooney’s Oscar-nominated 2005 sophomore directorial effort (after his debut with Confessions of a Dangerous Mind in 2002) Good Night, and Good Luck and Syriana skipped Toronto, for which Clooney won an Oscar as best supporting actor.

Toronto Films Pictured: The Descendants (Dir: Alexander Payne, Co-stars: Judy Greer, Shailene Woodley, Matthew Lillard, Beau Bridges) and The Ides of March (Dir: George Clooney, Co-stars: Ryan Gosling, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood)

MICHAEL FASSBENDER

Toronto 2008 ushered in Fassbender as one to watch with Steve McQueen’s Hunger, and 2009’s Fish Tank (from director Andrea Arnold, whose Wuthering Heights is premiering at Venice) confirmed him as a rising star.

Here is our 2009 interview with him, long before Mr. Rochester (Cary Fukunaga’s Jane Eyre) and Magneto (Matthew Vaughn’s X-Men: First Class) won the hearts of many this spring.

Pictured: Shame (Dir: Steve McQueen, Co-stars: Carey Mulligan) and A Dangerous Method (Dir: David Cronenberg, Co-stars: Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley, Vincent Cassel).
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CAREY MULLIGAN

Mulligan debuted at Toronto with a supporting role in 2005’s Pride & Prejudice, and when she returned in 2009 with An Education she went on to receive her first Oscar nomination. Never Let Me Go premiered at Toronto in 2010 but didn’t gain much traction despite several strong performances, from Mulligan and co-stars Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley.
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Pictured: Shame (Dir: Steve McQueen, Co-stars: Michael Fassbender) and Drive (Dir: Nicolas Winding Refn, Co-stars: Carey Mulligan, Albert Brooks, Bryan Cranston, Ron Perlman, Oscar Isaacs, Christina Hendricks).
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GERARD BUTLER

Butler is an old Toronto hand; Dear Frankie screened in 2004, Beowulf & Grendel in 2005 and Rocknrolla in 2008. Butler’s two Toronto entries are true redemption story Machine Gun Preacher (Dir: Marc Forster, Co-stars: Michelle Monaghan, Michael Shannon, Madeline Carroll) and Shakespeare’s Coriolanus (Dir: Ralph Fiennes, Co-stars: Fiennes, Brian Cox, Jessica Chastain, Vanessa Redgrave, James Nesbitt).
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OSCAR HOPEFULS

Who among this gang will be due for some awards consideration this year? Fassbender is already in line for Jane Eyre, although either of his Toronto films could supersede that early 2011 release. Much depends on how Shame and A Dangerous Method play in Toronto; both directors could go too far to the dark side for mainstream Academy voters. Gosling is on a roll; hit Cannes genre-film Drive could help to push him into contention for Liberal Academy-fave Clooney’s The Ides of March, which boasts some of the same right stuff as Good Night and Good Luck.

The Academy smiled on Alexander Payne’s Sideways, but The Descendants needs to score with critics and audiences in Toronto to achieve the same goals. Both of Mulligan’s roles seem small and supporting. As for Butler, while he is a skilled and sensitive actor (Dear Frankie), Academy actors will need to get past his larger-than-life persona in order to take him seriously. Thus far he’s been nominated for MTV and People’s Choice Awards (300) and Razzies (The Bounty Hunter).
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