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TORONTO: Herzog's Riveting New Film That Explores A Man's Struggle With War and Nature

Controversial "Death" Screens Today

The controversial "Death of a President" premieres today at the Toronto International Film Festival. CBC reports that writer-director Gabriel Range has already received death threats, though the film has yet to screen anywhere. The film was referred to as "D.O.A.P." on the festival's program to "k...

Sidewalk Fest To Honor Sayles, Renzi

The 8th annual Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival will honor John Sayles and Maggie Renzi with a special award for "two decades of collaboration and a stellar body of work" next month. They will be honored September 22nd as part of the Opening Night Celebration, with a free panel discussion entitled ...

Globe and Mail: Black market below the surface at TIFF

There's a black market operating under the surface of the Toronto International Film Festival. With many screenings sold out and Gala tickets hard to come by, a cottage industry has sprung up on e-Bay, with sellers hawking everything from tickets to dinner reservations. A pair of Festival Passes - g...

Globe and Mail: Shortbus

While some early critics speculated the film would never get mainstream distribution, ThinkFilm picked up the picture after it screened at Cannes. With a certain [NC-17] rating, however, the screen will only get so much exposure. "Obviously it's a small film," the director John Cameron Mitchell said...

TIFF 2006.3: All the Buyers Saw 'Mandy Lane'

TORONTO '06 CRITICS NOTEBOOK: "Half Moon," "Venus," "Art of Crying" Focus on Death; "Escape" and "Fi

With many of Hollywood's biggest offerings bombing here in Toronto (stay away from "A Good Year" and "All the King's Men"), critics have sought solace in half a dozen already proven Cannes favorites ("Volver," "Climates," "Babel") and a number of smaller, newer foreign discoveries and documentaries.

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