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Has Hollywood hijacked our festival?
By LIAM LACEY
There's an expression called "the fog of war," which refers to difficulty in interpreting history in the midst of chaos. You could
also talk about the "fog of the Toronto International Film Festival," for any single point of view is inevitably partial and
incomplete.
Toronto International Film Festival Ang Lee, Burns win top prizes
By LIAM LACEY
TORONTO -- Ang Lee's visually gorgeous, balletic martial arts film, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, was the audience favourite at the 25th Toronto International Film Festival.
French art-porn buddy film has tongues wagging at festival
By ALEXANDRA GILL
TORONTO -- Everybody in the festival's Gallic delegation has been talking about l'affaire (the scandal) of the week.
I love to party, but it's the films that make the festival
By JOHANNA SCHNELLER
This is the part of the week where everyone decides whether 2000 will go down in history as a good festival or a mediocre one, whether all those stiff necks and bad sandwiches were worth the effort.
Toronto International Film Festival Mad shadows
The Samuel Beckett Project brings the master's dark works to the big screen, writes film critic LIAM LACEY
By LIAM LACEY
TORONTO -- You don't just watch the series of films based on the works of Samuel Beckett, that are part of the Toronto International Film Festival, you feel a physical shudder of recognition: sickbed vigils, the senescence of parents, the late-night chattering voice in the head that denies sleep. Sometimes bitter, sometimes blackly comic, Beckett's language is painfully true to the time-ticking awareness of existence stripped down to its basics.
Navy hero wades through waves created by De Niro
Festival's Men of Honor based on exploits of one-legged soldier
By LIAM LACEY
TORONTO -- Several hundred people huddled under umbrellas across the road from Roy Thomson Hall last night, held back by a cordon of police. They were soaked to the proverbial bone, but this didn't dampen their enthusiasm as they chanted: ''Robert! Robert! Robert!''
Gleaning art from life in the rough
Agnès Varda discovers people who 'have a little light in their eyes'
By RAY CONLOGUE
TORONTO -- Agnes Varda is bewildered by the bewilderment of the journalists at the Toronto International Film Festival. Here she is, 72 years old, a founder of the French New Wave, with a string of funky, innovative movies behind her -- and nobody can think of anything to ask about her latest, Les glaneurs et la glaneuse (The Gleaners and I). A documentary about poor people who forage for food in dumpsters and fields, it has evidently been written off as a tired bit of anticonsumerist tub-thumping from a filmmaker who has outlived her time. The journalists come to the festival press conference, but they sit on their hands.
The best of the fest
Can't decide what to see? Here's our critical guide to the films worth getting in line for
By RICK GROEN, LIAM LACEY, RAY CONLOGUE, MATTHEW HAYS, DON IRVINE, STEPHANIE NOLEN and MARK PERANSON
Today's
reviews:
How to Kill Your Neighbour's Dog
Blackboards (Takhté siah)
Possible Worlds
Previous reviews:
Almost Famous
Love Come Down
Gohatto [Taboo]
The Wrestlers (Uttara)
A Shot at Glory
Me, You, Them (Eu, Tu, Eles)
Waiting List
Une vraie jeune fille
Sade
Innocence
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