News,TIFF 2009
Dine with the stars during TIFF!
July 20, 2010Restaurants and stores in Yorkville will soon be buzzing with Hollywood celebrities. If you want to see stars once the Toronto International Film Festival has begun, they can usually be spotted during the day getting their caffeine fix in Yorkville coffee shops like Starbucks, Lettieri or Second Cup. In the evening, or for lunch, you [...]
“Precious” wins festival’s top prize
September 19, 2009Precious: Based on the Novel “Push” by Sapphire has won the People’s Choice Award as Best Picture at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival. Produced by Oprah Winfrey, the film had already won several awards at the Sundance Film Festival prior to screening at TIFF. It’s interesting to note that last year’s People’s Choice Award [...]
Sarah Ferguson to attend film about royalty
September 19, 2009The final gala screening at Roy Thomson Hall is The Young Victoria, about Queen Victoria’s romance with Prince Albert, at 8 p.m. tonight. Sarah Ferguson, ex-wife of Prince Andrew, co-produced the movie and will be attending the closing night screening. Helmed by acclaimed Quebecois director Jean-Marc Vallée, the film stars an impressive array of British [...]
Free festival wrap party tonight
September 19, 2009TIFF’s free closing-night party in Yonge-Dundas Square features the infectious improvised audiovisual mashups of Eclectic Method. For the party, the renowned trio will thrill film and music lovers with a video remix set incorporating clips from the films included in The Essential 100, a TIFF list of the 100 best films ever. “We’re going to do [...]
Werner Herzog talks murder
September 18, 2009Director Werner Herzog has to be one of the most versatile filmmakers of all time. Though most directors stick to one genre, Herzog has ventured into many, even taking a turn at acting in several projects, including playing himself in the hilarious mock-documentary Incident at Loch Ness (which he co-wrote). He won a Directors Guild [...]
Freebies and a royal party today at TIFF!
September 18, 2009The Sarah Ferguson Foundation, which serves children and families in dire need will be hosting a party at the Ultra Supper Club at 314 Queen Street West, starting at 8 p.m. Ferguson, aka The Duchess of York, who’s also at TIFF as co-producer of the film The Young Victoria, will of course be there, as [...]
Heath Ledger’s last film gets gala screening
September 18, 2009The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, the movie Heath Ledger was working on when he died of an accidental prescription drug overdose, receives a gala screening at Roy Thomson Hall at 6:30 p.m. In attendance on the red carpet will be director Terry Gilliam and stars Christopher Plummer and Colin Farrell, who along with Johnny Depp [...]
Robin Wright Penn’s Private Lives
September 17, 2009Robin Wright Penn is at TIFF to promote her new film, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, but she’s got a lot going on in her own private life as well. When asked about her impending divorce from actor Sean Penn, to whom she’s been married for 13 years, she told the Toronto Star: “It [...]
