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'Seven Psychopaths' Among 60+ New Titles Added to Toronto Lineup; Classics Include Hitchcock, Polanski & Rossellini
The Toronto International Film Festival adds sixty new films to its previously announced titles, including titles in the Documentary, Midnight Madness, Vanguard, Kids and Cinematheque programs, as well as the ten films from Mumbai playing in City to City. Still not listed in the official line-up is ...
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LAFF: Jonathan Demme Talks 'Passion for Filming Real Life,' Neil Young as 'Wandering Troubador' in 'Journeys' (VIDEO)
New York flmmaker Jonathan Demme is showing at LAFF the latest film in his Neil Young concert trilogy, "Neil Young Journeys" (June 29), which debuted at Toronto. Demme likes alternating the long gestation and production periods necessary for fiction films with micro-budget documentaries. B...
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Ex-'Island President" Nasheed Talks Timely Eco Doc': "It's Not Just Us"
One of the surprise hits to come out of Telluride and Toronto (where it won the People’s Choice Documentary Award) was small political doc "The Island President," which takes the drama of climate change to another level.
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Rising Star Tom Hiddleston Talks Davies' 'Deep Blue Sea,' Spielberg's 'War Horse,' Marvel's 'Thor' and 'Avengers'
Five years ago rising star Tom Hiddleston could not have imagined that he would have a year like 2011. At the time, as the theater actor was shooting the "Wallender" crime series with Kenneth Branagh in Sweden, he went to see Marvel's "Iron Man" and asked himself if he could ever star in a film lik...
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Cameron Bailey Moves Up as Artistic Director of Toronto International Film Festival
It was inevitable, given how well he's taken to the job of co-director of the Toronto International Film Festival. Now congrats are in order: Cameron Bailey is moving up as the artistic director.
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Bloor Hot Docs Cinema Opens Its Doors In Toronto
Tonight in Toronto, the newly renovated Bloor Cinema will make its official debut as the "Bloor Hot Docs Cinema" -- the primary venue for the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and a year-round showcase for documentary programming in the city.
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Watch: Michelle Williams Navigates Life and Longing in Trailer for Polley's 'Take This Waltz'
Michelle Williams considers the fact of being alive (and a kind of idiotic, marvelous, ridiculous longing) in the new trailer for "Take this Waltz" (Magnolia, June 29), Canadian actress-writer-director Sarah Polley's follow-up to 2006's "Away from Her," which earned tw...
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Atlantic Film Fest's Andrew Murphy Named Programmer of Toronto's Inside Out Festival
Former Atlantic Film Festival Programming Manager Andrew Murphy will move from Halifax to Toronto to serve as the Director of Programming of Inside Out, which runs the annual Toronto LGBT Film Festival. The move comes after twelve years for Murphy at Halifax's Atlantic Film Festival.
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Oscar Watch: Janet McTeer Talks Gender-Bending Albert Nobbs and Glenn Close
Janet McTeer didn't mean to steal the gender-bender drama "Albert Nobbs" from its writer-producer-star, Glenn Close, who developed and willed the $8-million period film into being. But McTeer does, partly because the tall powerful stage actress (Oscar-nominated for "Tumbleweeds&qu...
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Goldwyn Acquires Global Warming Doc The Island President
The Toronto Film Fest doc audience award-winner The Island President has been acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films for stateside release in February 2012. The film will be screened at DOC NYC on Tuesday November 8, followed by a Q and A with director Jon Shenk by Michael Moore. Goldwyn has acquired all ...
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