The Toronto International Film Festival opens tomorrow with “Looper,” a twisty riff on “The Terminator” starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as a hit man assigned to kill his middle-aged self (Bruce Willis), who’s been transported from the future.
Here are this year’s other hot titles:
“The Master” — Philip Seymour Hoffman plays an L. Ron Hubbard-esque science-fiction writer who founds a cult that sounds suspiciously like Scientology. The latest from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson (“There Will Be Blood”) co-stars Joaquin Phoenix and Amy Adams.
“Hyde Park on Hudson” — Bill Murray as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, hosting the King and Queen of England at his estate in 1939 while trying to get in a little action with his cousin Daisy (Laura Linney).
“Argo” — Ben Affleck directs and stars in the fact-based thriller about a CIA agent who poses as a filmmaker to evacuate Americans caught up in the Iranian revolution.
“Cloud Atlas”— “Matrix” directors Andy and Lana (née Larry) Wachowski return with a time-twisting epic starring Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugh Grant.
“Anna Karenina” — Keira Knightley plays Tolstoy’s tragic heroine opposite Jude Law and Aaron Johnson for her “Atonement” director, Joe Wright.
“Silver Linings Playbook” — Bradley Cooper as a mental patient who moves back in with his football-fanatic dad (Robert De Niro) and becomes involved with a mysterious widow (Jennifer Lawrence of “The Hunger Games”). Directed by David O. Russell (“The Fighter”).
“Great Expectations” — Helena Bonham Carter takes on Miss Havisham as Ralph Fiennes joins her in a new version of the Dickens classic from Mike Newell (“Four Weddings and a Funeral”).
“Frances Ha” — Black-and-white comedy from Brooklyn’s Noah Baumbach (“The Squid and the Whale”), co-written by and starring his girlfriend, Greta Gerwig.
“The Company You Keep” — Robert Redford directs himself as a widowed attorney whose past as a former terrorist/activist is exposed when another ex-Weatherman (Susan Sarandon) turns herself in.
“Jayne Mansfield’s Car” — Robert Duvall heads a dysfunctional clan in 1969 Alabama in Billy Bob Thornton’s first directorial effort in more than a decade.
“To the Wonder” — Terrence Malick’s follow-up to “The Tree of Life” stars Ben Affleck as a Midwesterner who returns from Paris with a new love but drifts toward his childhood one (Rachel McAdams).
“Thanks for Sharing” — Gwyneth Paltrow and Mark Ruffalo go the 12-step route for sex addiction in this dramatic comedy, written and directed by Stuart Blumberg (“The Kids Are All Right”).