'Precious' snags audience choice award at TIFF

A raw film about an abused teen named Precious won the audience choice award at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, stoking predictions that the harrowing, Oprah Winfrey-backed tale is Oscar-bound.

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Palestinian artists boycott Toronto film festival

Palestinian artists are calling for a boycott of the Toronto International Film Festival for screening a series of movies about the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.

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Damon, demons, Darwin among Toronto fest offerings

The cinema smorgasbord of the Toronto International Film Festival has something for all tastes, a place where zombies, demons and vampires share screen time with art films, Hollywood awards contenders and studio crowd-pleasers.

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Emily Blunt's `Young Victoria' to end Toronto fest

Next month's Toronto International Film Festival is ending on a regal note.

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Connelly, Bettany open film fest with Darwin tale

Real-life couple Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany will kick off the Toronto International Film Festival with the life story of Charles Darwin.

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Cinema central: Toronto film fest builds a nest

After decades as one of the world's leading cinema showcases, the Toronto International Film Festival finally is getting a home of its own.

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Clooney, Pitt, Coens join Toronto festival lineup

Movies featuring Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Kate Beckinsale, Edward Norton and Colin Farrell and a documentary about Paris Hilton have joined the lineup for the Toronto International Film Festival.

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Bush 'Death' Drama Aired at Toronto Fest

A sellout crowd at the Toronto International Film Festival gave a warm reception to the British TV movie "Death of a President," which centers on a fictionalized assassination of George W. Bush. The audience applauded at the end and several more times during a question-and-answer session with the filmmakers.

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"Reams of depressing data, loads of hand-wringing about the woeful state of humanity," that's how film critics described Leonardo DiCaprio's The 11th Hour.

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The directors Reitman, father Ivan and son Jason, mixed a little business with pleasure at TIFF this year.

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"Manifesto" was one of the titles being bandied around by Michael Moore for his new movie - a fitting one given that his scathing attack on capitalism calls for nothing less than putting a "stake through the heart of the beast." "Capitalism: A Love Story" examines the economic  …

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Seventeen doc films (nine world preems) have been added to the festival, but still no mention of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story, while The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights Update: Michael Moore's doc is also coming

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Movie Review: Burn After Reading

I had the opportunity this past Friday, September 5 to check out the 32nd Annual Toronto International Film Festival's Gala Presentation of the Coen Brothers highly anticipated, "Burn After Reading".

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ACRASSICAUDA, the Iraqi heavy metal band which now lives in Damascus, Syria (where the men are among more than 1.2 million Iraqis seeking refuge from a war-torn nation), has been denied exit visas to attend the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, where a documentary focusin …

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A Brief Chronicle of The Toronto International Film Festival's Unreel Rise

From Fourth-Run Fest Fiddle to All-Star Premiere Powerhouse

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The new epic by Richard Attenborough, the latest dose of politics from Michael Moore and a host of new films by such acclaimed directors as Jonathan Demme, Sidney Lumet and Brian De Palma were saved for the Toronto International Film Festival's last and biggest announcement Wedne …

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Filmmakers expected to attend include David Cronenberg, Woody Allen, Ang Lee, George A. Romero, Gus Van Sant, Joel and Ethan Coen, Denys Arcand, Werner Herzog and Julie Taymor.

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Tales of the Rat Fink eulogizes the Salvador Dali of Kustom Kulture

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