TIFF

Before putting this TIFF blog to bed, I should mention that I caught up with to two prize-winning features that I’d missed during...

Now that you’ve seen the official TIFF awards, here are a few of my own. . . Best debut by a new festival co-director : Cameron...

You know that the Iraq war has draggged on too long when Hollywood is making a jaunty road movie about returning soldiers. In The...

As the festival winds up, despite the glut of stars in town, it’s now clear that TIFF 08’s cinematic vintage was far from...

This year Toronto’s festival-goers have developed a curious ritual. At the beginning of every film, before the string of...

At a film festival, amid the stars and the hype and lurid glare of over-sponsored glamour, you live in hope that you’ll stumble...

In case you’re wondering if I’ve dropped off the face of the festival, or gone to a party and never come back, I’ve been...

I never recognize anyone. In my recent blog about the Saturday night party of Blindness ( Blindness, Deafness and Babbling Zombies...

Talk abut unlikely Oscar candidates. First Anne Hathaway—once dismissed as just another pretty woman in Brokeback Mountain , The...

One of the maddening things about TIFF, at least for a journalist trying to cover it single-handedly, is that most the action is...