What do Deerhoof, the city of Toronto, the Black Panther Party, a Brooklyn visual artist and Jean-Luc Godard have in common? Apparently, the Toronto International Film Festival. A TIFF-sponsored video-art-installation-cum-rock-concert at Yonge and Dundas Square orchestrated by Adam Pendleton has brought the San Francisco avant-indie darlings and French New Wave pioneer together for something called, simply, BAND. ...more

With one day left in the the film festival, it’s time to reflect on the last week and a half of okayness. Here are the lights — both high and low — of TIFF 2009.
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Today's headlines: Michael Douglas and Matt Damon — as lovers? Plus: news on Diablo Cody, Werner Herzog, Woody Harrelson and yet another anti-Tel Aviv protest.
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Gucci designer-turned-filmmaker Tom Ford's gay love story A Single Man finds a suitor in Harvey Weinstein. Plus: Michael Moore is sick of talking about health care, would rather go after Obama; and Jason Bateman confirms the Arrested Development movie is soooo on.
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When TIFF attendees complain about exhaustion, dehydration and the weight of their goody bags, it’s not coming from back-to-back screenings. Partying is the real sport of TIFFing, and while EYE WEEKLY’s staff revelers aren’t really the kind of high-gear socialites that get off on the after-after-after-party starfucking, we hit up a few TIFF fiestas and lived to tell about it. Here's our soiree scorecard.
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The whole tempest over the selection of Tel Aviv for the TIFF's first City-to-City program has likely peaked after the Declaration Group presser-and-protest went down yesterday. Plus: George Clooney gets schooled on manners; and Tom Ford makes a deal.
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Just when we thought Toronto couldn’t get any more celebrity-clogged… it’s OP-RAHHHHH! Plus: Neil Young's Yonge-Dundas Square replacement gets announced (surprisingly, it's not quite as exciting as Neil Young) and the latest dish on distribution deals.
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Considering that my life tends to function more like a Todd Solondz film and less like a Hollywood rom-com, no one was more surprised than me to find myself at a glass mansion on the Bridle Path petting a subdued goat. Caged animals brayed quietly in front of the door for the Men Who Stare at Goats soiree, sponsored by (who else) Vitamin Water. ...more

Between the Jennifer Connelly insult, the Megan Fox vs. Hitler slag-fest, The Road getting punted around the release schedule like an unwanted stepchild and Lars Von Trier hating us, this is shaping up to be the Nastiest TIFF Ever.
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Sure, the city is swarming with celebs right now, but for certain British-pop fans, no star in town is bigger than Andy Rourke. The former bassist for '80s indie legends The Smiths has assumed a new career: party DJ. We spoke to Rourke last night before his gig at the Drake Hotel's opening-night TIFF soiree about his new vocation, his recent move to Brooklyn and life in the shadow of one of the most influential pop bands of our time. 
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Today's headlines: Lars Von Trier's Antichrist — coming soon to a video-game console near you. Plus: Neil Young has a pretty good excuse for blowing off TIFF, and a trio of legendary Canadian filmmakers take TIFF's side in the Tel Aviv stand-off.
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Welcome to the TIFF Tattler, where everyday throughout the Toronto International Film Fesitval EYE WEEKLY will provide a round-up of what movies, celebrities and oddities have been making news at the festival. Today's edition: the festival's barely even a day old and we've already got one cancellation — Neil Young's Yonge-Dundas Square appearance.
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Leave it to TIFF to draw one of the most influential women in the world to Toronto: Oprah Winfrey. However, it’s times like these that we almost forget the more insidious activities of The O; namely, serving as a sort of overlord for a dangerous collective of celebrity science pushers whose media-savvy sway is leading scores of dedicated viewers on personal-health witch hunts based on medical advice that’s about as sound as George W. Bush’s reasons for invading Iraq. ...more

Aside from the 4pm “get the hell out” volume-kill at this afternoon’s press conference for the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, there appears to be no evidence to suggest that this city is gearing up for its first recession-era TIFF. In fact, with some 600 submissions to the Short Cuts Canada program and 200 Canadian feature submissions, the industry — as one of the festival’s programmers said during the announcements at the Fairmont Royal York’s Imperial Room — is clearly thriving. ...more

Victorian England looks to be all the rage at TIFF this year. On the boot heels of recent news that Darwin biopic Creation will open the 34th annual film fest comes word that writer-director-actor Oliver Parker’s Oscar Wilde adaptation Dorian Gray will make its world premiere as part of the Gala program, along with the North American debut of Rebecca Miller’s The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. ...more

The mental image of Transformers starlet Megan Fox feasting upon the living caused an outbreak of woodies among genre-movie fans when the Toronto International Film Festival announced Midnight Madness’ opening selection on Tuesday, along with the contents of Wavelengths and much of TIFF’s documentary slate. (The fest runs Sept. 10-19.) ...more

Ancient Norsemen were dealt a harsh blow at a press conference on Tuesday morning at the Hyatt Regency when the year’s most anticipated new work of Viking cinema was not named the opening night gala for the Toronto International Film Festival. ...more