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THE CANADIAN PRESS/chris young

September 15, 2011

Butter, a political satire featuring Jennifer Garner as an uptight conservative taking on an African-American foster child in Iowa’s annual butter-sculpting contest, has quickly drawn allusions to Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann.

In Pictures: TIFF celebrity portraits by Hipstamatic and an iPhone

September 14, 2011

Canadian Press photographer Chris Young has been making the rounds at the Toronto International Film Festival and having some fun with the dynamic duo of an iPhone and Hipstamatic.

Clooney reveals new relationship during TIFF

September 12, 2011

George Clooney and Stacy Keibler have decided to use the opportunity of the Toronto International Film Festival to go public with their rumoured romance, according to Us Weekly.

A ‘violent’ Drive to remember

September 11, 2011

For a guy who plays a stunt driver that moonlights as a getaway driver in Drive, Ryan Gosling says he didn’t get a whole lot of time behind the wheel in the film.  “I drove myself to set and I drove myself home,” he says with a laugh.

The best rock documentaries ever made

September 08, 2011

Is a documentary to start the 36th annual Toronto International Film Festival? And a rock doc?  Makes sense, really, given that the festival and the band involved pretty much share the exact same birth date.

Who will get the ‘Cannes bump’?

May 27, 2011

At a rumoured cost of more than $100 million US, Terrence Malick’s drama The Tree of Life may be the most expensive film to ever win the Palme D’or at Cannes.

Loveable losers of Fubar are back in action

September 23, 2010

When Fubar came out in 2002, nobody expected it to become the massive cult hit that it did — including writer and director Michael Dowse.

Spirits abound in challenging Thai film

September 22, 2010

When Apicatpong Weerasathakul became the first Thai director to win the Palme D’or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, it was a major news story, not only because of the difficulties that the director experienced trying to get a travel visa to accept the award in person.

The best things overheard at TIFF

September 20, 2010

From celebrity breasts to celebrity cats, here are some choice quotes from this year's Toronto International Film Festival.

Some of TIFF's biggest off-screen highlights

September 20, 2010

Throw together 258 feature films, hundreds of famous folks and a celebrity pet lounge and you have the good, the cool and the silly from this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.

Mongrel no mutt at TIFF

September 17, 2010

One of the first images projected on a screen at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival was the Mongrel Media logo which popped up in the opening credits of Score: A Hockey Musical.

Good Neighbours that can make you 'uncomfortable'

September 16, 2010

The terms parking garage and glamour don’t often appear in the same sentence, but for four nights during this year’s TIFF, ET Canada has transformed an ugly duckling industrial building into a chic “pop up club” high atop a downtown industrial building.

Caan loves a movie with a good story

September 16, 2010

James Caan is always pleased when he gets his hands on solid, character-driven script.

Girlfriend lets Sneider show off he has acting chops

September 16, 2010

Breaking down barriers and living his silver screen dream, actor Evan Sneider is proof that talent conquers all.

TIFF Movie Review: Trigger

September 16, 2010

Bruce McDonald’s latest is a rock n’ roll variation on A Dinner With Andre that’s somehow more entertaining and insightful than that description suggests.

TIFF Movie Review: Of Gods and Men

September 16, 2010

A patient build yields a deeply emotional payoff in Xavier Beauvois’ fact-based drama, which focuses on a group of French monks living in an isolated Algerian monastery.

TIFF Movie Review: Blue Valentine

September 16, 2010

Whether one thinks Blue Valentine is a sincere meditation on the fragility of relationships or an actors’ showcase for Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams, there's no doubt it works.

TIFF Movie Review: Easy A

September 16, 2010

A surprisingly hilarious comedy about a good girl (Emma Stone) willfully accepting a less than ladylike reputation at her school to help her fellow rejects and create some semblance
of a social life.

TIFF Movie Review: The Bang Bang Club

September 16, 2010

The Bang Bang Club was a name given to four international news photographers who covered South Africa’s civil war in the waning days of white rule in the early ’90s.

TIFF Movie Review: Sarah’s Key

September 16, 2010

Kristin Scott Thomas is a journalist obsessed by the story of a Jewish girl called Sarah, whose story of sacrifice and love during the Nazi occupation of France reveals the grim realities of French collaboration.

TIFF Movie Review: I Wish I Knew

September 16, 2010

Jia Zhangke’s last film, 24 City, was about the difficulty of locating a personal perspective within Chinese history.

TIFF movie review: Henry's Crime is a loveable kind of heist film

September 15, 2010

Keanu Reeves plays a poor but honest Buffalo tollbooth collector who is framed for a hold-up and sent to prison.

Will Ferrell stares up from rock bottom in Everything Must Go

September 15, 2010

Everything Must Go stars Will Ferrell as a newly unemployed, newly abandoned alcoholic who has hit the bottom.

Patience pays off for Biutiful Bardem

September 15, 2010

Over the past ten years Javier Bardem has established himself as one of the finest actors in international cinema.

Red carpet for Rover

September 14, 2010

Bianca Kapteyn wants celebrities — and their dogs — who visit Toronto for its world-class film festival to know it has world-class pet care, too.

Darkly comic meltdown fuels oddball Amazon Falls

September 14, 2010

Katrin Bowen’s groovy little Vancouver shot serio-comedy, Amazon Falls, is the kind of offbeat, oddball low budget opus that gives Canadian film a good name.

New York feeds Ryan's acting in Jack Goes Boating

September 14, 2010

Amy Ryan, in Toronto for the Canadian premiere of Jack Goes Boating at the Toronto International Film Festival, says that New York is not only home, it is an intrinsic part of her acting process.

In Pictures: Ellen Page, Justin Long and Anne Hathaway at TIFF Super premiere

September 12, 2010

Ellen Page, Anne Hathaway and other stars were on hand for the Sept. 10 premiere of Super at the Toronto International Film Festival.

In Pictures: Josh Brolin, Justin Long, Kate Mara at TIFF Fox Searchlight party

September 12, 2010

Fox Searchlight teamed up with Vanity Fair and Belevedere vodka for one of the hottest parties during TIFF's opening weekend.

In Pictures: Hilary Swank, Minnie Driver and Juliette Lewis at TIFF Conviction premiere

September 12, 2010

The stars of Conviction lined the red carpet for the film's premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, Sept. 11. All photos by George Pimentel.


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