This year’s edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF to its friends) might have been a “bloodbath” business wise, but that’s doesn’t mean it was a total loss. Anyhow, it seems like a good time to show trailers for two of its most acclaimed films that really may be coming to a theater fairly near you, at least if you live in a reasonably large city. The coincidental part is these similarly named films each deal with a minority group very frequently found on films sets, but who appear openly on camera as characters only from time to time, though more and more often of late.
Anyhow, we’ll start with the Jews and proof that we, too, enjoy a natural sense of rhythm.
The trailer for Tom Ford’s likely Oscar contender might not be as flat-out mold-breaking as the trailer for the Coens’ latest, but this trailer for Ford’s adaptation of a novel by the openly gay British-American Angeleno, Christopher Isherwood, is definitely classy and stylish. That’s fitting for one of the few films made by someone with a background as a clothes designer.
