Jake Gyllenhaal

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Jake Gyllenhaal, twice nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actor, talked to the journalists of the Hollywood Foreign Press in 2005 about Brokeback Mountain directed by Ang Lee from the 1997 short story by Annie Proulx. The son of screenwriter/director parents Stephen Gyllenhaal and Naomi Foner, the younger brother of actress/director/screenwriter Maggie Gyllenhaal, Golden Globe winner and five-time nominee, Jake grew up in a show business family engaged in politics, so he was aware of the cultural implications of portraying a cowboy opposite Heath Ledger in this landmark same-sex love story.

Not the greatest week for German cinema: only one film reached six figures in ticket sales, all the others in the top ten hovered around half a million. Matt Reeves’ The Batman brought in € 1,24 million and was the sole film that had more than 100.

The Guilty stars Jake Gyllenhaal in a remake of the 2019 Danish Oscar entry, Den Skylidge about a 911 dispatcher in a race against time as he endeavors to save a kidnapped woman. In this rendition, a woman (Riley Keough) is held captive in a moving van on an LA highway.

In Toronto, HFPA journalist Ting Ting Xu talks with Jake Gyllenhaal, star of The Sisters Brothers, about the experience of shooting a western in Romania with a French director – Jacques Audiard, winner of the Best Director prize at the Venice Film Festival – and an international cast.

Stronger by David Gordon Green tells the story of Boston bombing survivor Jeff Bauman and stars Golden Globe winner Jake Gyllenhaal as Bauman and Globe nominee Tatiana Maslany as his marathon runner girlfriend. It is a highly personal portrait of Bauman’s odyssey as he is thrust into national prominence and subsequently struggles to regain a normal life as a double amputee and PTSD victim.

Year after year Jake Gyllenhaal makes the Toronto Film Festival a regular stop in his calendar -that's because he's not an actor that chooses the easy path. He didn't hesitate to lose a lot of weight to portray a human vulture that preys on other people's misery in director Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler - which earned him his second Golden Globe nomination- just to gain it back and a few pounds more to play a failing boxer in Antoine Fuqua's Southpaw.

Tom Ford’s critically acclaimed debut, A Single Man, garnered three Golden Globe nominations (Colin Firth, Julianne Moore and Abel Korzeniowski’s score). Seven years later the man better known as successful global fashion designer of Gucci and Yves Saint-Laurent (and Tom Ford) fame, returns to the screen with Nocturnal Animals – a taut, moody thriller that spans glitzy urban locales and scours the dark American hinterlands as a sort of topography of guilty consciences.

You could tell the first weekend was here by the loud music thumping from various Lido locales on Friday. On Day 3 the Venice Film Festival was definitely firing on all pistons with the competition featuring El Cristo Ciego by Chilean director Cristopher Murray, Frantz from French stalwart François Ozon, a disturbing documentary on big game hunting by Austrian Ulrich Seidl (Safari) and Tom Ford’s literary noir Nocturnal Animals  with Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhall, Michael Shannon and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.

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