Niki Caro's "North Country" starring Charlize Theron, James Mangold's "Walk The Line" about Johnny Cash and June Carter, Phyllis Nagy's "Mrs. Harris" about Jean Harris who killed her lover Dr. Herman Tarnower, author of the best-selling The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet. Also on tap are Cameron Crowe's "Elizabethtown" with Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst and John Gatins' "Dreamer: Inspired By A True Story".

Among the films singled out as star-studded new fest titles include Scott McGehee & David Siegel's "Bee Season", baed on the best-selling novel, Neil Jordan's "Breakfast On Pluto" starring Cillian Murphy, Mary Harron's "The Notorious Bettie Page" with Gretchen Mol as the famous pin-up model, Udayan Prasad's "Opa!", Michael Winterbottom's "Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story", Roger Donaldson's "The World's Fastest Indian", Steven Soderbergh's "Bubble", Mike Johnson & Tim Burton's stop-motion animated "Corpse Bride", Liev Schreiber's "Everything Is Illuminated", Shane Black's "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang", Abel Ferrara's new film "Mary", and John Turturro's "Romance & Cigarettes".