Film Fan Fridays for Friday October 26, 2007!

Hello Film Fans and Fanatics!

Welcome to Film Fan Fridays for Friday October 26, 2007! I hope you had a great week, I've been spending mine by watching scary movies at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, which just closed last night. If scary movies are your bag, I'd highly recommend checking it out next year, it was a wild ride!

Our limited releases this week include Rails & Ties the directorial debut of Allison Eastwood (Clint Eastwood's daughter), Kenneth Branagh's latest Sleuth, documentary where the title tells you all you need to know 10 Questions for the Dalai Lama and finally Control, the biopic on Joy Divisions frontman, Ian Curtis which is my pick of the bunch this week.

We have only 2 wide releases this week: Dan in Real Life starring Steve Carell and the only scary film of the bunch just in time for Halloween Saw IV. How they make a new Saw film almost yearly is beyond me.

Have a happy Halloween!

Shannon

Festival Watch

Est Docs Film Festival
Estonian Documentary Film Festival
Continues until October 26, 2007 at various locations, Toronto, Ontario
http://www.estdocs.com/

Planet in Focus Film Festival
International Environmental Film and Video Festival
Continues until October 28, 2007 at various locations, Toronto, Ontario
http://www.planetinfocus.org/

Friday October 26, 2007 Releases

10 Questions for the Dalai Lama
Writer/Dir: Rick Ray - feature film directorial debut
Documentary
USA
Limited Release

Control
Dir: Anton Corbijn - feature film directorial debut
Cast: Sam Riley, Samantha Morton, Alexandra Maria Lara, Craig Parkinson
UK/USA/Australia/Japan
Limited Release

Dan in Real Life
Dir: Peter Hedges (Pieces of April)
Cast: Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook
USA

Rails & Ties
Dir: Allison Eastwood - directorial debut
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Marcia Gay Harden, Miles Heizer
USA
Limited Release

Saw IV
Dir: Darren Lynn Bousman (Saw II, Saw III)
Cast: Tobin Bell, Costas Mandylor, Scotto Patterson, Betsy Russell
USA

Sleuth
Dir: Kenneth Branagh (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Dead Again, Henry V)
Cast: Michael Caine, Jude Law
USA
Limited Release

**please note this list of releases reflects first run film released in Toronto, Ontario, Canada October 26, 2007**