Toronto Film Festival 2004: Controversies

At the 2004 Toronto Film Festival, besides Charlize Theron’s no-show and Kevin Spacey’s show sporting a dyed scalp, there’s writer-director Paul Haggis‘ Crash (Haggis also wrote Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby), a well-received new film that has the same title as the 1996 David Cronenberg picture about car crashes, mutilations, and kinky sex. According to the Toronto Star, those behind Cronenberg’s work are now threatening to take legal action against the producers of the new Crash (above, with Matt Dillon).
Then, there’s George Butler’s documentary, Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry, about Kerry’s (seemingly never-ending) Vietnam war years. Of the U.S. presidential candidate, Butler told the Associated Press, "I truly believed the moment I saw him: This [...]

by Andre Soares | September 13, 2004   
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