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Review: Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

Posted by: Matthew Ardill  •  October 31, 2022 @ 8:08pm

I stood in the audience to see New Order, a band with a dark and tragic past whose phoenix-like rise from the ashes of Joy Division was the source of several documentaries and biopics.

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TIFF Red Carpet: Blood Quantum

Posted by: Sharilyn Johnson  •  September 6, 2019 @ 11:15am

The Toronto International Film Festival's 2019 slate of Midnight Madness films - the edgier and darker of the festival fare - launched with the premiere of the Canadian social justice horror Blood Quantum Thursday night.

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TIFF Red Carpet: First Man Press Conference Arrivals

Posted by: Sharilyn Johnson  •  September 11, 2018 @ 1:03pm

Ryan Gosling and the cast of First Man (along with Neil Armstrong's sons Mark and Eric Armstrong) arrive at Tuesday morning's press conference at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.

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TIFF Review: Beautiful Boy

Posted by: Sharilyn Johnson  •  September 11, 2018 @ 12:28pm

Based on the autobiographical books by journalist Bill Sheff (Steve Carell) and his son Nic Sheff (Timothée Chalamet), Beautiful Boy chronicles a teenage Nic's addiction to drugs, and his family's heartbreaking attempts to guide him through recovery. The film also stars Maura Tierney as Bill's wife, and Amy Ryan as his ex-wife.

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TIFF 2014 Interview: Thorsteinn Bachmann

Posted by: Elizabeth Hughes Belzil  •  October 5, 2014 @ 6:42pm

It's commonly said that actors appear smaller in real life than they do on the screen. However, such is decidedly not the case with Thorsteinn Bachmann, star of the acclaimed Icelandic film, Life in a Fishbowl.

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TIFF 2014 Interview: Omar Joseph Hady

Posted by: Elizabeth Hughes Belzil  •  September 24, 2014 @ 2:43pm

Lebanese-Canadian author Rawi Hage published Cockroach: A Novel, in 2008 to generally positive reviews and even snagged a few literary awards.

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TIFF 2014 Interview: Albert Shin

Posted by: Elizabeth Hughes Belzil  •  September 15, 2014 @ 9:05am

In a small patio nestled in a high-rise apartment building in downtown Toronto, I sit across from Albert Shin. Despite the periodic sounds of honking from below and the roar of planes from above, the spot is peaceful, illuminated by the mid-morning sun. The young Canadian writer-director is friendly and informal, with a boyish face and irrepressible grin.

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The Best (& Worst) of TIFF 2013

Posted by: Elizabeth Hughes Belzil  •  September 24, 2013 @ 2:43pm

A little over a week ago the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival ended so what better time to ruminate on the good and the bad. And what better way to do so than create a "best and worst" list? (Sure, lists are reductive to the point of absurdity, they force an arbitrary ranking system, I usually come to regret them at some point, etc., etc.

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TIFF 2013 Interview: Director & cast of The Dick Knost Show

Posted by: Elizabeth Hughes Belzil  •  September 15, 2013 @ 8:30am

In all the hubbub of the Toronto International Film Festival, sometimes it's easy to forget where you are. Amidst the wall of people crowding the streets, the buzz of foreign languages, and Hollywood celebrities emerging from black SUV's you might be at any major world film festival.

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TIFF 2013 Interview: Director Pirjo Honkasalo

Posted by: Elizabeth Hughes Belzil  •  September 13, 2013 @ 4:06pm

A teenage boy stares at his reflection in a fogged mirror shrouded in darkness. Moments later the same boy watches a train derail off a bridge. Then he is trapped in one of the train's cars as it fills with water. He impotently slams his hands against the ceiling in an attempt to free himself.

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