Toronto International Film Festival
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Kenny G Is Fine With Some People Hating His Music – Even Pat Metheny (Video)
TIFF 21: “I’m full of confidence and good reps of doing things that I think are great, and plus I like the way that I play,” jazz icon says
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‘I Care a Lot’ Film Review: Rosamund Pike Is Very Bad, and That’s Pretty Good
J Blakeson’s black comedy is a nasty little piece of provocation based around scenery-chewing badness from Pike and Peter Dinklage
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‘Ammonite’ Film Review: Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan Romance Burns With Quiet Passion
The 19th-century romance is a chamber duet by two virtuosos, reined in by a director who embraces the emotional but rarely gets sentimental
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Katherine Waterston on What ‘The Third Day’ Did to Keep Fans Engaged With 12-Hour Episode (Video)
TIFF 2020: Live Facebook event aired Saturday
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‘MLK/FBI’ Director Risked Helping the FBI Tarnish Dr King’s Legacy Because Story Was That Important (Video)
TIFF 2020: Sam Pollard’s documentary is a densely-packed story about how King was constantly harassed and surveilled by the FBI
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Why ‘A Suitable Boy’ Director Mira Nair Needed to Be the One to Adapt Novel: ‘It Is Us Who Need to Tell This Story’ (Video)
TIFF 2020: “Because it’s so much a portrait of our country and our culture and our people that it is us who need to tell this story”
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What Vanessa Kirby Told Ellen Burstyn Just Before Her ‘Pieces of a Woman’ Monologue (Video)
TIFF 2020: “I kept on going. I don’t know what I said,” Burstyn says of the scene
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How a Small Film Slate at Toronto Film Festival Translated Into Big Sales
“People are buying with the notion that things will get back to some level of normalcy and some level of physical engagement again,” IFC Films’ Arianna Bocco says
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How Ben Sharrock’s Study Abroad in Syria Inspired Refugee Film ‘Limbo’ (Video)
TIFF 2020: “It’s something that goes back quite a long way,” filmmaker tells TheWrap
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‘Nomadland’ Wins Audience Award at Toronto Film Festival
Nine of the last 10 TIFF audience winners have gone on to receive Oscar nominations for Best Picture, and three have won
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How a COVID-Era Toronto Film Festival Found a New Purpose – as a Platform for Unheard Voices
This year’s TIFF wasn’t dominated by awards contenders, but its heart was in smaller films from underrepresented voices who deserve to be heard
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Why ‘Ammonite’ Director Created a Same-Sex Love Affair for Kate Winslet’s 19th-Century Paleontologist (Video)
Film is based on the life of pioneering scientist Mary Anning
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Why Playing Dementia Was Easy for Anthony Hopkins in ‘The Father’ (Video)
Toronto Film Festival 2020: “This sounds like actor talk, but I couldn’t believe my luck at my age to be offered that,” Hopkins tells TheWrap
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Viggo Mortensen Explains How His Family History Influenced Directorial Debut ‘Falling’ (Video)
TIFF 2020: TheWrap’s Sharon Waxman talks with actor-director and main cast
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‘David Byrne’s American Utopia’ Film Review: Byrne and Spike Lee Burn Down the House With Style
Toronto Film Festival 2020: Like all of Byrne’s work, the film is sly performance art masquerading as rock ‘n’ roll, or maybe it’s sly rock ‘n’ roll masquerading as performance art