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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
September 20, 2010
From celebrity breasts to celebrity cats, here are some choice quotes from this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
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.
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.
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.
September 16, 2010
James Caan is always pleased when he gets his hands on solid, character-driven script.
September 16, 2010
Breaking down barriers and living his silver screen dream, actor Evan Sneider is proof that talent conquers all.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
September 16, 2010
Jia Zhangke’s last film, 24 City, was about the difficulty of locating a personal perspective within Chinese history.
September 15, 2010
Keanu Reeves plays a poor but honest Buffalo tollbooth collector who is framed for a hold-up and sent to prison.
September 15, 2010
Everything Must Go stars Will Ferrell as a newly unemployed, newly abandoned alcoholic who has hit the bottom.
September 15, 2010
Over the past ten years Javier Bardem has established himself as one of the finest actors in international cinema.
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.
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.
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.
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.
September 12, 2010
Fox Searchlight teamed up with Vanity Fair and Belevedere vodka for one of the hottest parties during TIFF's opening weekend.
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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