In 2010, one of TIFF’s biggest guests was not a movie star at all, as the festival hosted the world premiere of The Promise, a movie about the making of Bruce Springsteen’s Darkness on the Edge of Town album. Building on that repertoire at this year’s event are three projects with major musicians attached, including From the Sky Down (pictured), which looks into the enduring popularity of U2. Directed by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth), the film managed to snag TIFF’s coveted opening night slot. Almost equal in status is pioneering rock band Pearl Jam—the Cameron Crowe-directed doc Pearl Jam Twenty celebrates two decades of music from Eddie Vedder and company. Finally, and perhaps even more intriguingly, Madonna makes an appearance as the director of W.E., a romance inspired by the marriage of King Edward the VIII of England and American divorcee Wallis Simpson.
