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Red carpet burn

Old heroes Mickey Rourke and Jean-Claude Van Damme score TIFF’s only true triumphs

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And the best swag goes to...

BY Rea McNamara

A rundown on the TIFF gift lounge scene

Charlie Kaufman

BY Jason Anderson

One of a tiny few contemporary screenwriters who is as famous and acclaimed as the people who shoot his scripts, Charlie Kaufman conceived three of the most inventive American films of the last...

Julianne Moore

BY Jason Anderson

Though it most certainly would’ve squashed a lesser actor, the burden of playing the one person who can actually witness a society’s descent into squalour, cruelty and degradation during an epidemic...

Short Cuts Canada

The main attraction here is Denis Villeneuve’s Cannes prizewinner Next Floor, which depicts the most revolting dinner-table behaviour since Monty Python’s Meaning of Life — and the most surreal smorgasbord since The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.

Teenager Hamlet 2006

In a scene from Toronto painter Margaux Williamson’s first feature-length “movie” (the scare quotes are hers), Teenager Hamlet 2006, interviewer Sholem Krishtalka and one of a cast of Ophelias (York Lethbridge) discuss the potential virtues of vanity and...

JCVD

At this year's Toronto International Film Festival, Jean-Claude Van Damme takes on his most difficult character yet: himself

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Dawn of the heads

The zombies in Bruce McDonald's Pontypool don't eat brains — they blow minds

Four corners

When Thom Andersen’s essay film Los Angeles Plays Itself was released in 2003, the obvious joke was to suggest a sequel: Toronto Plays Everywhere Else. Just this past summer, local filmgoers thrilled to a Zanzibar cameo in the ostensibly New York City–set...

The right Wavelengths

TIFF's experimental film program serves tonic

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