Sunday, September 12, 2010

"Remember in November"




St. Louis is well-represented at Toronto film festival  (click title to entry - thank you)

...The tropical heat wave in Toronto should be no surprise to Davis Guggenheim, the native St. Louisan who directed and won an Academy Award for the climate-change documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." (No, Al Gore did not direct the movie or win an Oscar.) His new movie, "Waiting for Superman" (opening Oct. 8) is about another looming crisis: the breakdown of the public-education system.
Education unites two other St. Louisans who are screening films at the fest. St. Louis University High graduate George Hickenlooper presents "Casino Jack" (release date TBD), starring Kevin Spacey as lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Hickenlooper's classmate James Gunn presents his new comedy "Super" (TBD), starring Rainn Wilson as a self-styled vigilante and Ellen Page as his sidekick....