'North Country' in Toronto

North Country has become the latest film to join the Toronto Film Festival lineup. Due in theatres October 14, I'm still anxiously awaiting a trailer. DAMN IT! Various reviews have popped up online claiming that Frances McDormand and Richard Jenkins deliver powerhouse performances. Also joining:

Bee Season - the Juliette Binoche/Richard Gere drama from the directors of The Deep End and the screenwriter who gave birth to Jake & Maggie Gyllenhaal (to which I give her a big THANK YOU!)
Breakfast on Pluto - hottie actor Cillian Murphy plays a transvestite in Neil Jordan's film
Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride - featuing the voices of Johnny Depp and Emily Watson
Dreamer - Dakota Fanning and Kurt Russell in a family drama about a horse
Elizabethtown - Cameron Crowe's latest dramedy with Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst
Everything Is Illuminated - Liev Schreiber's directorial debut with Elijah Wood
Romance & Cigarettes - John Turturro's musical with James Gandolfini and a buxom Kate Winslet

These films join Brokeback Mountain, In Her Shoes, Walk the Line, Pride and Prejudice, Proof, A History of Violence and Shopgirl.

Aren't festivals like Toronto places to discover films and not launching grounds for Oscar campaigns? There are some films on here I'm dying to see but this is getting slightly ridiculous. Enjoy the film buffet those who go!