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Here are some more of the quiet indie/Fall 2015 awards season movies that I'm anticipating; many of these are premiering at either Toronto Film Festival TIFF, Cannes, or New York Film, Festival, or Venice...(A Few are coming next week at Sundance); the ones that are underlined are my most anticipated:
1.Icon (Directed by Stephen Frears, Starring Ben Foster, Chris O'Dowd). An Irish journalist becomes convinced that legendary cyclist Lance Armstrong is using controlled substances and sets out to expose him.
2.Spotlight (Directed by Thomas McCarthy, Starring Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo). The true-life tale of how journalists at the Boston Globe revealed the shocking story of a cover-up of child molestation by local Catholic priests.
3.Legend (Directed by Brian Helgeland, Starring Tom hardy). The story of legendary twin gangsters Ronnie & Reggie Kray, and their rise through the British criminal underworld of London in the 1950s and 1960s.
4.Triple Nine (Directed by John Hillcoat, Starring Casey Affleck, Chiwetel Ejiofor). A group of corrupt cops are blackmailed into pulling off a heist and plot the murder of a rookie officer in order to cause a distraction.
5.Black Mass (Directed by Scott Cooper, Starring Johnny Depp, benedict Cumberbatch). The incredible true story of the infamous Whitey Bulger, one of South Boston’s most notorious and violent Irish mobsters who turned FBI informant to take down the Italian mafia encroaching on his turf.
6.Jobs (Directed by Danny Boyle, Starring Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogen). The story of the late visionary Apple founder’s rise to prominence, told via three product launches representing three different periods in Jobs’ life —the Mac, NeXT and the iPod.
7.Sea of Trees (Directed by Gus Van Sant, Starring Matthew McConaughey, Ken Watanabe). A suicidal American travels to the famous "suicide forest" at the base of Mount Fuji, where he meets a similarly depressed Japanese man.
8.Trainwreck (Directed by Judd Apatow, Starring Amy Schumer, Bill Hader). Plot details are pretty much under wraps, but this is said to be an unconventional rom-com about a terrible woman trying to find love.
9.Sicario (Directed by Denis Villenueve, Starring Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin). A female cop and two male Delta Force rangers cross from Tucson to Mexico to catch a drug lord —but once they cross the border, it's a more dangerous and depraved world than they were expecting.
10.High Rise (Directed by Ben Wheatley, Starring Tom Hiddleston, Jeremy Irons). Life in a high-tech ultra modern tower block descends into carnage as the inhabitant shut themselves off from the world.
11.Midnight Special (Directed by Jeff Nichols, Starring Michael Shannon, Kirsten Dunst). A father and son attempt to evade government officials when they learn the boy has supernatural powers.
12.St. James Place (Directed by Steven Spielberg, Starring Tom hanks, Amy Ryan). In the midst of the Cold War, lawyer James Donovan is asked to help negotiate the release of a pilot whose plane was shot down in the Soviet Union.
13.The Lobster (Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, Starring Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz). In a dystopian near-future, lonely people are obliged to find a matching mate within a 45-day period in a hotel. If they fail, they are transformed into animals and sent off into the woods, but one man escapes and finds love.
14.Beasts of No Nation (Directed by Cary Fukunaga, Starring Idris Elba). Based on the book by Uzodinma Iweala, the film tells the story of Agu, a boy forced to become a child soldier.
15.Macbeth (Directed by Justin Kurzel, Starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotilliard). Macbeth is driven to murder after hearing a prophecy and led on by the scheming machinations of his wife.
16.Silence (Directed by Martin Scorcese, Starring Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield). Two 17th-century Jesuit priests face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and to spread the gospel of Christianity.
We got Scorcese, Villeneuve, Benn Wheatley, Spielberg, Jeff Nichols. Yorgos Lanthimos (If you've never seen Dogtooth, you lost in life), and Cary Fukunaga all dropping heat this year!!!!
Happy 2015