Sundance has Sebastian Silva. Cannes has the Dardenne Bros. And at this point, we can call him a VIP guest at Toronto Intl. Film Festival as David Gordon Green will open the 49th edition of the festival with Nutcrackers – a dramedy about a workaholic, Mike (Ben Stiller) who has to travel to rural Ohio to look after his recently orphaned nephews. Gordon Green has shored up at the fest with the likes of everything from George Washington (2000), All the Real Girls (2003), Undertow (2004) and Snow Angels (2007) to Stronger (2017), and most recently, Halloween (2018). For us, this is a welcome return to working in a genre that is not popcorn studio horror projects.… Read the rest
