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Will the Oscar go to this actress?

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Vanessa Kirby is sure to be nominated for the Best Actress Oscar. Frances McDormand will give her healthy competition, reports Aseem Chhabra from the Toronto International Film Festival.

IMAGE: The TIFF Bell Lightbox is seen during the coronavirus pandemic in Toronto. Photograph: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images

I first attended the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009.

Toronto is very…

Will the Oscar go to this actress?

Vanessa Kirby is sure to be nominated for the Best Actress Oscar. Frances McDormand will give her healthy competition, reports Aseem Chhabra from the Toronto International Film Festival.

IMAGE: The TIFF Bell Lightbox is seen during the coronavirus pandemic in Toronto. Photograph: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images

I first attended the Toronto International Film Festival in 2009.

Toronto is very close…

NOLLYWOOD FILMMAKER & STAR OMONI OBOLI ATTENDS CITY TO CITY PRESS CONFERENCE @ TIFF16

Yesterday, Nollywood’s finest converged on the TIFF Bell Lightbox – HQ for the annual Toronto Int’l film Festival – where a panel of filmmakers representing Nigeria’s sizzling movie industry spoke about their films being showcased at TIFF this year, as well as the challenges involved in attracting international audiences and distributors.Award-winning writer~director~producer and actor, Omoni…

so, i thought i'd fly the Canuck flag tonite and go see the new Cronenberg film. I"m happy to report i really enjoyed it. it was far better than i thought it would be, so that was nice.

But...WTF is with the theatre TIFF put it in? it's on the 3rd floor, not the 2nd, and it has to be the least comfortable theatre i've been in in over 20 years. The seats are a complete joke, barely more comfortable than a costco poker chair. It left my friend and myself, and other patrons we'd never met but who'd all spent money to watch a film in Toronto's top theatre, with a lousy experience. And, we all compared identical notes about our experience. Next time, some of these people will simply stay home. 

Additionally, it's an absolute embarrassment that one of Canada's leading filmmakers, one we are hyped to believe has extraordinary value in the eyes of Bell Lightbox and/or TIFF, should have his work treated so badly as to be put in what amounts to be the worst theatre in the country's largest city.

I challenge Cameron Bailey @cameron_tiff and his well coifed buds to sit through a film in that room and come away with some conclusion other than this: its an embarrassingly crummy physical experience that has no room to exist in Toronto in 2014. 

TIFF 2014: Here We Go Again, My Friend

By: Daniel Reynolds

Were you as surprised as I was to learn that the 38th Toronto International Film Festival starts today? Perhaps surprise is the wrong emotion. Let me explain.

At my first year at the festival back in 2005, I didn’t know what I was doing. I read somewhere (online?) that tickets went on sale on a specific date in early September. So being an industrious sort, I ventured downtown…

Al Pacino and the 3rd TIFF Gala

It’s Wednesday night at the TIFF Gala, the third edition of the luxe soiree in the festival’s 39-year history. Tickets cost $1,500 a pop and feature two tiers of swanky — a cocktail reception on the second floor of the Lightbox and a rooftop party above, catered by Oliver and Bonacini.

Really, guests paid the hefty admission to see  Al Pacino, who has two films at the festival, sit down for…

stills from Scott Treleaven's new film installation Picture Yourself In a Burning Building, with soundtrack by Terence Hannum from Locrian. Premiering June 13:

Toronto, June 13 – August 17 TIFF Bell Lightbox’s major exhibition Queer Outlaw Cinema:

"Internationally renowned artists working at the intersection of film and the visual arts open debates about alternative sexual, romantic and aesthetic practices, celebrating the possibilities and origins of contemporary queer identity. Featuring work by Derek Jarman, Isaac Julien, Bruce LaBruce, Ulrike Ottinger, and Scott Treleaven”