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Yesterday was another bustling day in the Tribute TIFF Media Suite. Lots of younger actors, including I Declare War's Gage Munroe and Michael Friend, as well as Dead Europe star Kodi Smit-McPhee, all stopped by the suite today to talk to us about their latest flicks. Gage and Michael had a great time, even taking a moment to read the […]
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In Nick Murphy’s thriller The Awakening, set in 1921, Rebecca Hall plays an author and debunker of hoaxes and when she’s called to explain away sightings of a phantom boy, she begins to questions her deductive methods. Ola Sturik of Tribute sat down with the actress at the Toronto International Film Festival to find out […]
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Director Paddy Considine sits down with Tribute to talk about his film Tyrannosaur, which premiered at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. Tyrannosaur is the story of Joseph (Peter Mullan), an angry alcoholic whose life is changed when he meets Hannah (Olivia Colman), a spirited middle-class woman trying to survive her abusive marriage.
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In Hysteria, Hugh Dancy plays the role of Mortimer Granville, the young misunderstood doctor who invented the very first vibrator in the 1880s. Dancy talks to Ola Sturik of Tribute at the Toronto International Film Festival about his thoughts on the history of the vibrator, what it was like being on set, and some of […]
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Maggie Gyllenhaal stars in Tanya Wexler’s film Hysteria -- about the invention of the vibrator -- which premieres at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. The actress sat down with Ola Sturik of Tribute to talk about her role in the film, what drew her to the project, and how she perfected her British accent.
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When director Tanya Wexler first heard the premise of her film Hysteria, she remembered thinking, “I’m gonna laugh my ass off”. And that’s the reason she wanted to make this film. Hysteria is a cheeky romance (and true story) about the invention of the vibrator in London’s Victorian era. Ola Sturik of Tribute had a […]
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In Nancy Savoca’s film Union Square, Mira Sorvino plays the role of a pre-meltdown New Yorker who decides that it’s finally time to reunite with her estranged sister, but she’s not exactly welcomed with open arms. The Oscar-winning actress talks to Ola Sturik of Tribute at the Toronto International Film Festival about her role and […]
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When two estranged sisters reunite, you’d expect excitement, maybe even some happy tears. But that’s not how it plays out in Nancy Savoca’s Union Square. The director sat down with Ola Sturik of Tribute at the Toronto International Film Festival to talk about the film.
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British actor Hugh Dancy and American actress Maggie Gyllenhaal star in the new movie Hysteria, set in London in the 1880s. The gorgeous Dancy, who's married to Claire Danes, plays a physician with a modern way of thinking. He teams up with an older doctor, played by Jonathan Pryce, who specializes in treating women with "hysteria." […]
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Director Leonard Farlinger feels that it’s important as film artists to be validated by the Toronto International Film Festival, so he feels honoured to have his film I’m Yours being premiered at TIFF this year. Farlinger, joined by lead actor Rossif Sutherland, sat down with Tribute to chat about the challenges of filmmaking and the […]
