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Stars of Degrassi, the longrunning Canadian high school series that changed teen TV, had a class reunion on Saturday night at the Toronto Film Festival that nearly never happened. “We are thrilled to be here at TIFF and to celebrate this iconic series,” Carrie Mudd, producer of Degrass: Whatever It Takes, told a Scotiabank Theatre…
In introducing his new comedy just ahead of its TIFF world premiere, director Bobby Farrelly noted that Dumb and Dumber, the 1994 release that introduced him and brother Peter to jaded audiences hankering for something edgier or grosser, or, yes, dumber, was also a road movie. But while that 1994 Jim Carrey-Jeff Daniels hit firmly…
VENICE, TORONTO Documaker Gianfranco Rosi returns to his native Italy for this stunningly shot look at life at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, then and now. The film surveys Pompeii’s prized ruins; ventures into the tunnels beneath them, dug by tomb robbers selling antiquities on the black market; hovers over the Gulf of Naples to…
Taking the notion of skeletons in the family closet quite literally, Alex Winter‘s Adulthood sets out to expose something sinister lurking just beneath suburbia’s fake wood-paneled veneer of respectability. In the case of adult siblings, Megan and Noah, it’s the discovery of a seriously decomposed cadaver stuffed behind one of the basement walls of their…
Back in the early 2000s, a pair of blue-eyed Scottish lads with dreams of becoming the next Eminem — but dismissed as sounding like “the rapping Proclaimers” — proceeded to pass themselves off as Southern California hip-hoppers, remarkably managing to pull off a hoax that gets them signed by a major record label. It’s the…
A feature documentary about Paul Shaffer, best known David Letterman’s longtime sidekick and Late Show bandleader, is in the works. The life rights to the story of the musician and TV personality from Thunder Bay, Ontario who got his start as the musical director of a 1972 Toronto stage production of Godspell have been acquired…
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict rippled through the Toronto International Film Festival in surprising, disruptive and important ways Wednesday as a once-canceled film about Oct. 7 made its splashy premiere to nearly 2,000 ticketbuyers amid a small but intense group of protesters. The film at the center of the tumult, Barry Avrich‘s The Road Between Us, is a largely…
There’s a video in Julian that Fleur (Nina Meurisse) keeps returning to. In it, her lover Julian (Laurence Roothooft) sings Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” while dancing playfully for the camera. Fleur watches the video on her laptop quietly, eyes filled with longing. That’s the way Fleur looks at Julian in real life too…
Swiss-Kenyan filmmaker Damien Hauser‘s (After the Long Rains, Blind Love) new feature, Memory of Princess Mumbi, world premiered in the Giornate Degli Autori, or Venice Days, program, the independent parallel section of the Venice Film Festival. The sci-fi romance mockumentary, which is set in a futuristic Africa and explores such themes as memory, finding happiness in a tragic world and…
Palestine has selected Annemarie Jacir’s Palestine 36 as its official submission for the 2025 Academy Awards in the best international feature category. The historical drama is set in 1936 during the Palestinian revolt against British colonial rule. The film follows Yusuf, a young villager caught between his rural home and the political upheaval in Jerusalem,…