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Toronto 2009: A New Film from the Coen Brothers

By Robert Davis on 9:15 AM on September 22, 2009

The Toronto International Film Festival, which vies annually with Sundance for the title of Most Important Film Exhibition in North America, wrapped this past weekend, and Paste was there to sample the latest wares from the world's filmmakers. Red carpets were unfurled and appropriately soiled, movies were projected onto silver screens, and viewers were duly exhausted by both pretty pictures and, I'm told, nights on the town. In just nine days, TIFF screened over 250 feature films of all types, from major Hollywood business gambits to small experimental pieces, from the personal work of emerging filmmakers to the latest movies... read more

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Middle East Conflict Comes to the Toronto Film Fest

By Emily Riemer on 4:30 PM on September 17, 2009

Usually, nothing is less controversial than Canada, but heated political conflict has arisen this year at the Toronto International Film Festival, which runs Sept. 10-19.... read more

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Richard Linklater Gets Long-Awaited Release Date for Orson Welles Biopic

By Emily Riemer on 5:30 PM on September 10, 2009

Pushing through multiple delays, a filmmaker finally manages to get a release date for his film about another filmmaker directing a Shakespeare play on Broadway. It rarely gets more convoluted or meta than that. Small wonder, then, that it took nearly a year for said film to get that release date in the U.S.... read more

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Toronto International Film Festival 2008

By Robert Davis on 5:06 PM on September 16, 2008

The Toronto International Film Festival, which wrapped up its 10-day run this past weekend, is arguably the most important film festival in North America. But to the average moviegoer it's not as well known as Sundance, in part because TIFF samples the most promising new film from around the world while Sundance emphasizes home-grown movies, for better or worse. But TIFF showcases its share of English-language films, too -- often with star-studded red-carpet premieres -- and this year some of the festival's best movies were among them:Rachel Getting MarriedI'll have to admit that the new film from Jonathan Demme (Silence... read more

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