Toronto Film Festival

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Tyler Perry Discusses I Can Do Bad All by Myself

Brad Balfour | Posted 11.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: I Can Do Bad All by Myself, Madea, Tyler Perry, Toronto Film Festival, Oprah Winfrey, Sundance Film Festival, Lee Daniels, Adam Rodriguez, Taraji P. Henson, New York Film Festival, Gladys Knight, Mary J Blige, Pastor Marvin Winans, Entertainment News

Tyler Perry came to Manhattan to offer a lively Q&A session with a broad range of press people. Once it opened it topped the box office.

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Toronto Film Festival Wrap-up

Michael Giltz | Posted 11.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Toronto Film Festival, The Coen Brothers, Vera Farmiga, Documentary, Michael Moore, George Clooney, Movies, Capitalism: A Love Story, Entertainment News

The Toronto Film Festival ended over the weekend. In covering it I saw some 24 films in all, including a few Oscar hopefuls that actually delivered.

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Toronto Film Fest Day 7 and 8: The Homestretch

Michael Giltz | Posted 11.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Solomon Kane, Hugh Hefner, Toronto Film Festival, Richard De Klerk, Documentary, Lebanon, Film Festival, Playboy, Tilda Swinton, Conan, Movies, Entertainment News

I'm hitting the homestretch on Toronto. Six films in the last two days I'm here. Have I made it clear that you don't always know what you think about a film on a first viewing?

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Toronto Film Festival: Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" Is Powerful - And Frustrating

Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman | Posted 11.21.2009 | Entertainment

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Film festivals often have an uncanny way of channeling the mood of the moment. But I doubt if that dynamic has ever been at work more strikingly than ...

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'Precious' Snags Toronto Film Festival Prize - The One 'Slumdog' Won

AP | Posted 11.20.2009 | Entertainment

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TORONTO — A raw film about an abused teen named Precious won the audience choice award at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, s...

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The Coen Brothers Get "Serious" with a Comic (and Spiritual) Masterpiece

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Toronto Film Festival, The Coen Brothers, Doubt, Hudsucker Proxy, Miller's Crossing, Suffering, No Country for Old Men, Fargo, Fred Melamed, Joel Coen, Faith, A Serious Man, Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski, Entertainment News

The Coens have created moral universes in which some of life's essential questions are asked -- if not always answered. It seems there's no question the brothers are afraid to tackle.

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Toronto Film Fest Day 6: Mild Disappointment, Happy Success and a Hero

Michael Giltz | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Toronto Film Festival, Tom Ford, Todd Solondz, Christopher Isherwood, Colin Firth, Movies, Julianne Moore, Entertainment News

The strength of designer Tom Ford's film, A Single Man, is not some flashy or gorgeous visual style but the acting. Ford brought out an award-winning performance from Colin Firth.

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Live from the Toronto Film Festival: The Wrap-Up

Marshall Fine | Posted 11.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Antichrist, Precious, Up in the Air, Lars Von Trier, Toronto Film Festival, Broken Embraces, Life During Wartime, A Serious Man, Todd Solondz, Marshall Fine Blog, Entertainment News

I have nothing against transgressive cinema; but Antichrist has the feeling of pushing buttons for its own sake, like a child smearing its own feces on a wall. Why does Lars von Trier do it?

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Drew Barrymore's Colorful New Look: What's The Craziest Part? (PHOTOS)

Posted 11.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Toronto Film Festival, Whip It, Drew Barrymore's Hair, Drew Barrymore, Slidepoll, Entertainment News

Drew Barrymore is in Toronto for the Film Festival and she's making news as much for her new two-toned hairdo as for her directorial debut, "Whip It" ...

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From Toronto to Pittsburgh to Jay Leno, Capitalism Marches On...

Michael Moore | Posted 11.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Labor, Class Warfare, Venice Film Festival, Jay Leno, Michael Moore, Toronto Film Festival, Afl-Cio, Universal Health Care, Capitalism: A Love Story, Single Payer, Capitalism, Labor Unions, Movies, Pittsburgh, Capitalism Movie, Entertainment News

My crew and I had one thought in mind while we were filming Capitalism: What if the powers-that-be refuse to give us funding for the next movie after they see what we've put in this one?

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Toronto Film Fest Day 5: Cycling, Silliness, Senior Citizens, Soul and Sexy Babes

Michael Giltz | Posted 11.15.2009 | Entertainment

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If you get to Cannes, you stay there for much of the fest. But if you can make it to Toronto for a weekend, why not?

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Michael Moore: I May QUIT Documentaries

AP | DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 11.15.2009 | Entertainment

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TORONTO — Michael Moore says he made his latest documentary, "Capitalism: A Love Story," as though it were his last. And it might be. The George ...

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Live from the Toronto Film Festival: Day 5

Marshall Fine | Posted 11.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Tim Blake Nelson, Michael Cera, Youth in Revolt, Dickensian, David Duchovny, Edward Norton, Leaves of Grass, Toronto Film Festival, Demi Moore, The Joneses, Marshall Fine Blog, Entertainment News

It's rare that you see five films in a day at a film festival and hit all good ones. But as I settled in to Tim Blake Nelson's Leaves of Grass Monday ...

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Expanding the Narrative

Jane Fonda | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tel Aviv, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Toronto Film Festival, Jane Fonda, Gaza, Israel, Tiff, Politics News

Protesting the use of the Toronto Film Festival to "rebrand" Israel was perhaps misunderstood. The greatest "re-branding" of Israel would be to celebrate that country's long standing and robust peace movement.

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Atlanta Jews Reject Vilification and Stand Up for Jane Fonda

David Minkin | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

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The claim that Jane Fonda seeks Israel's destruction is shameless slander and lobbing such an accusation makes it impossible to hold an honest conversation about Israel and the Palestinian Territories.

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Oprah Winfrey & Tyler Perry Start The 'Precious' Oscar Push

AP | ALICIA QUARLES | Posted 11.14.2009 | Entertainment

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TORONTO — Lee Daniels has an Oscar-winning movie to his credit, but he still needed some big-time help to draw attention to his latest film abou...

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Live from the Toronto Film Festival: Day 4

Marshall Fine | Posted 11.14.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: The Road, Ricky Gervais, Viggo Mortensen, The Invention of Lying, Toronto Film Festival, Cormac McCarthy, Marshall Fine Blog, Applause, Entertainment News

Sunday in Toronto saw three films back to back that offered powerful, sometimes disturbing ruminations on the idea of family.

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Toronto Film Fest Day 4: Two Documentaries and a Little Girl

Michael Giltz | Posted 11.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Toronto Film Festival, Documentary, Ballet, Michael Moore, Movies, Frederick Wiseman, Adoption, Capitalism: A Love Story, Entertainment News

You could spend an entire film festival going from press conference to round table to one-on-one interviews. I'd rather see the films and worry about interviews some other time.

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Hugh Hefner: I Waited A Decade To Divorce For The Kids

Posted 11.13.2009 | Entertainment

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(AP Article, scroll for photos of Hefner in Toronto) TORONTO -- Hugh Hefner said he waited more than ten years to complete his divorce "because of ...

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Ten Toronto Reviews (and Counting...)

indieWIRE | indieWIRE | Posted 11.13.2009 | Home

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Catch up with indieWIRE‘s first batch of reviews from the Toronto International Film Festival: Jon Amiel's "Creation" Mia Hansen-Love's "T...

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Producer: Darwin Film Can't Find US Distributor Because Of Controversial Evolution

Telegraph | Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor | Posted 11.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Toronto Film Festival, Creation, Film, Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Jeremy Thomas, Evolution, Entertainment News

Jeremy Thomas, the Oscar-winning producer of Creation, said he was astonished that such attitudes exist 150 years after On The Origin of Species was p...

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