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How landscape upstaged the actors in Cannes

The first of three Canadian films gets a chilly reception in Cannes

Atom Egoyan tiptoes around the mystery of the West Memphis Three

Canadian directors are hooked on Hollywood stars

Our daily dose of the TIFF scene, from Sandra Bullock’s space cadet to Eli Roth’s hungry fans

Oscar buzz mounts for Denis Villeneuve

Amanda Seyfried and Ben Stiller to take a walk on the wild side with auteurs Atom Egoyan and Noah Baumbach.

In Atom Egoyan’s ‘Chloe,’ Amanda Seyfried has the scary power of a young Bette Davis

“I haven’t paid my Rogers cable bill,” says Denis Villeneuve after getting the $10,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award

It’s not every day that I get to quote myself, but as President of the Toronto Film Critics Association, I want to pass on the news that the TFCA has voted to award its inaugural Jay Scott Prize for emerging talent to Quebec’s Xavier Dolan, the wunderkind writer, director, producer and star of J’ai tué ma mère (I Killed My Mother).  The prize, which comes with a $5,000 cheque, is named for the legendary Globe and Mail writer who became Canada’s most influential film critic before his death in 1993. Rather than re-write a press release that I helped craft earlier today, I’ll reproduce it the gist of here, complete with my own quote:

There was plenty of bad behaviour at this year’s event, thanks to the likes of Drew Barrymore, Neil Young and Colin Farrell

Oprah kick-stars an Oscar campaign and Egoyan jolts the audience, and his dad, with a commercial movie