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TIFF Talk
August 23, 2011 | 1:16 pm

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TIFF announces this year’s Mavericks program

TIFF announced its full programming schedule today, which means its time to start planning individual movie lineups. It also means a few more big names have been added to the festival through TIFF’s Mavericks program, which brings out celebrities and newsmakers to discuss their latest projects. Last year may have had Bruce Springsteen and Bill Gates, but this year’s slate is equally impressive: Christopher Plummer, Tilda Swinton, Neil Young, Deepa Mehta, Salman Rushdie, Jonathan Demme, Maldives president Mohamed Nasheed, Francis Ford Coppola and Sony Pictures Classics founders Michael Barker and Tom Bernard will be making presentations. The program also includes the world premieres of Barrymore, The Love We Can Make, Neil Young Life and The Island President, and the North American premiere of Tahrir 2011: The Good, the Bad and the Politician.

Check out more details about the Maverick program after the jump.

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TIFF Talk
July 28, 2010 | 1:27 pm

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The Big Chill, Water, Fly Away Home and more: we rate TIFF’s best and worst opening night films

Jennifer Connelly and Paul Bettany at the premiere of Creation in 2009 (Image: James Helmer)

This year, the Toronto International Film Festival will open with the homegrown Score: A Hockey Musical, which stars Olivia Newton-John and boasts a bunch of cameos from our countrymen (Nelly Furtado, George Stroumboulopoulos). We’re waiting to see if the film will be corny-awesome or corny-awful. In the meantime, we’ve gathered the most spectacular opening night failures and successes in TIFF history to see how they fared after the festival. Begin the slide show now >>

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Power Couples
June 16, 2010 | 11:22 am

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Royal tour of Canada to allow Queen to watch self in 3-D

QEII3-D (Image: King David UK)

Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip will arrive in Canada on June 28 for a nine-day tour that will shuffle them past the HMCS Haida, the Canadian Museum of Nature, the Barenaked Ladies and Peter MacKay. But perhaps the most exciting item from yesterday’s itinerary announcement is Betsy and Phil’s visit to a Toronto production studio.

12:50 p.m.: Supporters of Canada’s film industry the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh arrive in Toronto at Pinewood Studios for a luncheon hosted by the Province of Ontario and a tour of Canada’s largest film and television production complex and the third largest film studio in North America after Los Angeles and New York. Deepa Mehta, the acclaimed Canadian film director, explains a current project to Her Majesty and His Royal Highness, and they watch a scene being shot in 3-D. Her Majesty also views footage of her 1953 coronation that was shot in 3-D.

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Cinemania
March 18, 2010 | 9:00 am

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Don McKellar named Canada’s George Clooney

Stellar McKellar pleases his fans at TIFF (Photo by Karon Liu)

Don’t get us wrong. We’re fans of Don McKellar, but it’s hard to see him as Canada’s version of Clooney, as the Montreal Gazette declares, or even as the nation’s “ultimate male role model.” (We’re pretty sure Sidney Crosby is the Canuck who’s setting young male hearts aflutter.) Cooking With Stella, the new comedy from Dilip Mehta, co-written with his sister Deepa, opens this week. In it, McKellar plays the husband of Maya (Lisa Ray), who struggles to accept class differences when the couple moves to India—with, presumably, hilarious results.

But it’s not just the Gazette gushing over Stellar McKellar’s artistic chops. Dilip is doing his fair share, too, telling the National Post:

Had I made him into the Terminator, if he was a surgeon or if he was a CIA operative, I’d say no problem. I asked him to play the quintessential Canadian; not naive, simple, a little apologetic, nice. To act that is not simple.

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Toronto International Film Festival 2009
September 21, 2009 | 12:48 pm

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RED CARPET INTERVIEWS: Our final seven TIFF videos

Our last batch of red carpet videos includes encounters with Michael Moore, Emily Mortimer and Eva Green. Check out the full versions, below:

CRACKS: Miss Jean Brodie meets Lord of the Flies
Eva Green talks about her complex character in new female-centered film, Cracks.

COOKING WITH STELLA: Sure to make you hungry
Dilip Mehta and Deepa Mehta bring their latest film to to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.

CAPITALISM: Michael Moore’s latest documentary
Michael Moore brings his latest documentary to the audience of the Toronto International Film Festival.

CAIRO TIME: The new city of romance
Ruba Nadda explains to the Joan Kelly that the director of Cairo Time is what drew him to the project.

BEAUTIFUL KATE: Past secrets are confronted
Dynamic duo Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward sit down to discuss Rachel Ward’s directorial debut.

L’AFFAIRE FAREWELL
The French intelligence service alerts the U.S. about a Soviet spy operation during the height of the Cold War.

HARRY BROWN: Injustice meets an iron fist
We sit down with Emily Mortimer to discuss her role as an upright police officer in Harry Brown.

Toronto International Film Festival 2009
September 19, 2009 | 12:48 pm

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PHOTO GALLERY: Jack and Meg White at the premiere of The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights

Jack and Meg White on stage for the premiere of The White Stripes Under the Great White Northern Lights at the Visa Screening Room, during the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday September 18, 2009

Jack and Meg White

Jack and Meg White were in town to support the documentary made about their unusual tour through Canada, The White Stripes Under White Great Northern Lights. We were there to catch pictures of them and their celebrity fans on the red carpet. Check out the photos below.

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