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With TIFF wrapping up, Good Neighbours actress Emily Hampshire is ready to let her hair down. When we talked with her on Thursday, she still hasn’t washed her loosely bundled brunette hair since her film premiered on Tuesday. “You can tell, right?” she laughs over coffee at the Bloor Street Diner. “That is clearly hair that has been done and been slept in.” It’s a testament to Hampshire’s whirlwind week that she’s still pulling bobby pins out of her hair Thursday morning. With a candour and bubbly it-girl energy reminiscent of Sienna Miller, the 29-year-old actress reflects on a week in which she finally felt like a movie star.
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Looking back at TIFF 2010: actor Emily Hampshire on how the festival has gone for her
Canadian filmmakers, Lisa Ray and an OC mom party at the Spoke
Last night, the Spoke Club launched the film festival season with its annual Canadian Filmmakers party, hosted by actress Lisa Ray, who looked fresh-faced and fabulous, as usual, and Ben Mulroney, who looks more like dad Brian every year. The frigid temperature and grey sky spitting rain didn’t mar the festivities; guests huddled around propane heaters on the rooftop patio and warmed up by dancing to Motown jams downstairs. Industry insiders and Spoke members lapped up the free Skyy TIFF-themed cocktails, but actual celebs (other than the OC‘s Melinda Clarke) were few and far between.
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It’s business time: TIFF outgrows relaxed vibe, prepares for major film deals
The Hyatt Regency will be a sales hub this year (Image: Hyatt)
For most of us, TIFF is synonymous with glamorous parties and getting to see major films before the rest of the world, but for many in the industry, it increasingly means big business. According to Variety, Toronto has become the “unofficial marketplace” for the world’s top film execs to sell premium films that debut at Cannes and to launch films they’ll take to the American Film Market (AFM) in November.
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Celebrities confirmed for TIFF: Edward Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Helen Mirren and more
Helen Mirren will be coming to plug Brighton Rock (Image: Rubenstein)
Alliance Films is the first distributor to confirm its TIFF lineup and talent, giving us a preliminary look at the stars we’ll be stalking in September. Here, a list of some big films and the celebs who’ll be here to promote them.
1. Blue Valentine
Derek Cianfrance (Director)
Ryan Gosling
2. Brighton Rock
Rowan Joffe (Director)
Helen Mirren
Andrew Riseborough
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Michael Dowse (Writer/director)
Dave Lawrence (Writer/actor)
Paul Spence
TIFF blamed for stealing the spotlight from Montreal World Film Festival
Stolen: Xavier Dolan's Les amours imaginaires (Image: TIFF.net)
It’s a little strange to think of TIFF as doing a disservice to the Canadian film industry, as it is the biggest platform around for CanCon. But the organizers of the Montreal World Film Festival (and its apparently unfettering devotee the Gazette) certainly disagree. The two film fests shared a Tale of Two Cities-style rivalry for years, but last week TIFF unveiled its Canadian lineup on the exact same day the Montreal fest presented its lineup, prompting the Gazette to call it a “deliberate shot across the bow for the World Film Festival, an attempt to underline that Toronto does more for Quebecois cinema than Montreal does,” in a story today. So rather than chewing out the Montreal fest for having only two Quebecois films on offer, they’re mostly blaming Toronto for showing off Quebec-made selections like Jacob Tierney’s Good Neighbours and Xavier Dolan’s Les amours imaginaires.
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David Suzuki, Jay Baruchel and Fubar II: TIFF’s CanCon lineup
Terry and Dean are back in Fubar II (Image: TIFF.net)
TIFF co-directors Piers Handling and Cameron Bailey announced this year’s Canadian lineup yesterday to a room of film industry and media types noshing on little plates of poutine at the Royal York. Among the 858 Canadian films submitted for consideration, 72 were selected to screen at the 35th film festival.
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From Kingston to New York: a big month for The Trotsky
Jay Baruchel in The Trotsky
It’s been a big month for The Trotsky, the indie film written and directed by Montreal’s Jacob Tierney. The movie stars Jay Baruchel (who is also the lead in She’s Out of My League, though we prefer to remember him from those Popular Mechanics for Kids episodes with Elisha Cuthbert) and premiered at last year’s TIFF. It’s one of three Canadian films to make it to the Tribeca Film Festival this year, along with Cairo Time and the documentary Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage. It follows a Montreal high school student who believes he is the reincarnation of Leon Trotsky and is obsessed with recreating the leader’s life, complete with exile and assassination. Typical teenage stuff, really, minus any Jonas Brothers. Coming off its massive People’s Choice win at the Kingston Canadian Film Festival (which enjoyed an increase of 20 per cent in attendance this year) last week, Tierney and co. will surely feel right at home amid the glamour of New York.
• The Trotsky wins Kingston film fest People’s Choice Award [Kingston Whig Standard]
• The Trotsky makes U.S. debut at Tribeca [CBC]
• 1997 Popular Mechanics for Kids: World Trade Center [YouTube]
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