Toronto Film Festival Articles
Nadine Labaki Musical WHERE DO WE GO NOW?: Toronto Surprise Winner
Nadine Labaki, Where Do We Go Now? Lebanese actress-filmmaker Nadine Labaki's second feature, the musical Et maintenant, on va où? / Where Do We Go Now?, was the surprise winner of the Toronto Film Festival's Cadillac People's Choice Award. Toronto doesn't have a jury like Cannes, Berlin, or Venice; festivalgoers pick the winner each year. Apparently inspired by Aristophanes' Lysistrata — which presents women as [...]
Toronto 2011 Awards: WHERE DO WE GO NOW?, AVALON, THE FIRST MAN
Nadine Labaki, Where Do We Go Now? Cadillac People's Choice Award Nadine Labaki for Where Do We Go Now? Cadillac People's Choice Midnight Madness Award Gareth Evans for The Raid Cadillac People's Choice Documentary Award Jon Shenk for The Island President The International Federation of Film Critics Awards Prize Discovery Axel Petersén for Avalon The International Federation of Film Critics Awards Prize Special Presentation [...]
THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO Sneak 8-Minute Trailer: Toronto Film Festival
Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo David Fincher and Trent Reznor were present at a screening of Rod Lurie's Straw Dogs held at the Toronto Film Festival on Wednesday evening. Are Fincher and Reznor fans of Lurie's The Contender? Possibly. But the reason they attended Toronto's Straw Dogs screening was something else altogether: a "sneak" eight-minute trailer of Fincher's upcoming The Girl with [...]
Channing Tatum, Rosario Dawson, Kate Mara, Jessica Chastain, Michael Shannon: Toronto 2011
Rosario Dawson, Channing Tatum, Ten Year Charlotte Rampling, Francis Ford Coppola, Pearl Jam, Andy Lau, Freida Pinto: Toronto 2011 Ten Year — Jamie Linden, World Premiere — Ten Year focuses on a group of friends – married and unmarried, successful and unsuccessful, happy and unhappy – as they return home on the night of their high school reunion. It stars a large ensemble cast that [...]