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The Toronto International Film Festival have announced 73 films today, which is, er, a lot. Too many for us to even pretend to give them even coverage, so as usual we’re just going to pick and choose from today’s announcements, which are made of films from international filmmakers, and tell you about the ones that interest us personally.

Happy 10th Birthday Reel Asian Film Festival. Yep next year you enter your preteens and we all know it's downhill from there until you hit 18 or so.

Oh man! This week’s big news in films comes from a crazy place called Vancouver??? We know! Torontoist have never heard of it either, but apparently it’s in Canada! Wild! So anyway, it’s clearly going to be an exciting place to be come September, as the famous for being terrible German director Uwe Boll wants to have a fight with YOU. Yes, you! As long as in the year of 2005 you’ve written two articles insulting him (and you’re in-shape, male and weigh between 64 and 86 kilograms) you can, apparently, fight him in a boxing ring as an extra in his big screen remake of Postal, the rubbish and intentionally controversial shoot-em-up from Running with Scissors.

- We've had too much of a popcorn summer - too much mugging Murray, and prattling Pitt and dervishy Depp. It's time for something slow, meandering and altogether beautiful. It's time we got to seeing the Wong Kar Wai epic we've been hearing about for years now. Thank goodness it has finally crawled into the theatre. 2046 takes us back to the world of Mr. Chow (Tony Leung) of In the Mood for Love. Sadly, life hasn't treated him well. Happily, Tony Leung is best when playing browbeaten.

Much has been made of the fact that lazy Scorcese has already snapped up the rights for an anglo remake starring DiCaprio and Damon. Like Shall We Dance, which went from slight beauty of a film to Gere Grotesque, and Fever Pitch, which Travis1051am points out looks to be the most fatuous of all the remakes, Torontoist fears that DiCaprio and Damon won't quite be able to pull off the Lau and Leungish brooding. And if these Infernal Affairs prove fiery, the lag time means no waiting for a sequel. There are two of them already made.