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Magnolia grabs Swinton’s Venice/TIFF success ‘I Am Love’

Tilda Swinton’s well-received I Am Love parlays festival critical success into a distribution deal with Magnolia

TIFF ‘09: Norton, Douglas, Green (Eva) and Farrell (Colin)

Toronto reviews of Tim Blake Nelsons ‘Leaves of Grass’ starring Edward Norton, ‘Solitary Man’ starring Michael Douglas, ‘Cracks’ starring Eva Green and Neil Jordan’s ‘Ondine’ starring Colin Farrell

TIFF ‘09: Weinstein picks up ‘A Single Man’ – ‘Nine’ to 2010?

The Weinstein Co picks up Tom Ford’s Venice Film Festival award winning A Single Man starring Colin Firth

TIFF ‘09: Mother and Child, father and sons

A look at reviews of Rodrigo Garcia’s Mother and Child starring Annette Bening, Naomi Watts and Kerry Washington; and Scott Hicks’ The Boys Are Back starring Clive Owen

TIFF ‘09: Dogtooth and Valhalla Rising to find US theaters

Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth and Nicolas Winding Refn’s Valhalla Rising have been picked up for US distribution at Toronto.

TIFF ‘09: Revolting youths, getting low and guardian angels

A look at Toronto reviews of Youth in Revolt starring Michael Cera, Atom Egoyan’s Chloe starring Julianne Moore, Liam Neeson and Amanda Seyfried and Get Low starring Robert Duvall and Bill Murray

TIFF ‘09: Portman, Ozon and Caine

The reviews are coming fast and furious out of Toronto so let’s get right back to it.
Love and Other Impossible Pursuits. Based on Ayelet Waldman’s novel, Don Roos’ irritatingly titled new film starring Natalie Portman sounds like a bit of an emotional slog frankly. Cute as a button Portman seems to be getting good notices [...]

TIFF ‘09: Vampires, Vikings and Trash Humpers

A look at TIFF reviews of Daybreakers, Valhalla Rising, I Don Giovanni and Trash Humpers

TIFF ‘09: Dogtooth revisited with a new trailer

A new trailer and another review for the fascinating looking Un Certain Regard winner from Greece: Dogtooth.

TIFF ‘09: Opening Night

Creation. d:Jon Amiel
s:Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Jeremy Northam and Toby Jones.
I can’t say my hopes were high for this one. In fact, it’s exactly the kind of movie I was planning on skipping coverage of. It seemed to sort of appear out of nowhere smelling vaguely of Oscar bait only lacking a US distributor (it [...]