Two-time Academy Award winner, Tom Hanks, will unveil his directorial debut, That Thing You Do at the Toronto International Film Festival where it will close the event on 14 September.
That Thing You Do is the story of a rock band from Erie that hits the big time in the summer of 1964. The film stars newcomers Tom Everett Scott, Steve Zahn, Johnathon Schaech and Ethan Embry alongside Hanks and Liv Tyler.
Also making their bow in Toronto this year are John Herzfeld's 2 Days In the Valley; Michael Corrente's adaptation of David Mamet's award winning play, American Buffalo; David Wellington's film version of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night; and Mira Nair's Mississippi Masala. North American premieres' include from Cannes, Lars Von Trier's Breaking the Waves and Stephen Frears' The Van, and from Venice, Abbel Ferrara'sThe Funeral. The Toronto Festival runs 5-14 September.
Mike Leigh's Secrets and Lies, which won the Palme d'Or in Cannes, has been chosen to open the New York Film Festival at the Lincoln Center on 27 September. Secrets and Lies is being distributed domestically in the US by October Films which opens the film nationally on 28 September.
The New York Festival will also unveil a newly restored 70mm print of Alfred Hitchcock's classic Vertigo on 5 October before it goes out nationally to ten cities. Kim Novak, who starred alongside James Stewart, is expected to attend the New York opening.
CHRISTOPHER PICKARD
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