Moment of Truth: DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus Talk Kings of Pastry
Welcome back to Moment of Truth, Movieline's spotlight on the best in nonfiction cinema. Today we hear from DA Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus about Kings of Pastry, which…
Screenwriter Rowan Joffe on the American He Wrote -- and the One You Saw
Rowan Joffe may be in Toronto to premiere (and hopefully sell) his directing debut Brighton Rock, but the awkward afterglow of this month's box-office triumph The…
Mark Romanek on Never Let Me Go and Who'd Pull Him Out of Music-Video Retirement
It took a while (and a studio debacle over The Wolfman), but Mark Romanek finally has a second feature under his belt. And it's not wanting for prestige: Opening today…
Dustin Lance Black on What's Wrong With Virginia, Mormon Underwear and Polarizing Toronto
Despite the most spirited endorsement of yours truly, Dustin Lance Black's directorial debut What's Wrong With Virginia hasn't found the warmest reaction this week at…
9 First Impressions of Nicole Kidman's Oscar-Ready TIFF Drama Rabbit Hole
I don't know where these rumors start, but no sooner had Rabbit Hole concluded its Toronto Film Festival premiere Monday night than the talk had begun: Is John Cameron…
James Gunn on His TIFF Hit SUPER, Sidekick Sex and Blending Art House with the Grindhouse
James Gunn just spent one of the most successful weekends of his life in Toronto, premiering his new superhero-splatter-comedy SUPER to Midnight Madness raves before…
Michael Sheen on His Latest TIFF Premiere, the Art of Preparation and Breaking Dawn Limbo
Another year of TIFF almost always means another year featuring Michael Sheen, and 2010 is no different. Though the subject most definitely is: The Welsh stage and…
Weinsteins Drop Seven Figures on TIFF's Dirty Girl
The second big deal of the Toronto Film Festival occurred today when the Weinstein Company acquired the road-trip flick Dirty Girl for a reported $3 million. Uh, wow…
9 First Impressions of Dustin Lance Black's Wild Directorial Debut What's Wrong With Virginia
Writing Milk earned him an Oscar, but naturally, what Dustin Lance Black really wanted to do was direct. And thus we have What's Wrong With Virginia, the…
The Verge: Bill Skarsgård
Look out: Here comes another Skarsgård. The fourth in the venerable Swedish acting clan to get into full-time acting after father Stellan and brothers Alexander and…
IFC is SUPER
As predicted after its raucous, well-received Toronto premiere, James Gunn's SUPER emerged from a bidding war this weekend with a new distributor. Not quite as…
Hometown Girl Malin …kerman on the Toronto Premiere of Bang Bang Club
Pick any random film that's opened in the last year, and odds are about 50/50 that Malin Åkerman starred in some capacity. OK, so I exaggerate, but let me put it this…
Passion Play Duo Mitch Glazer and Kelly Lynch on Their 20-Year Road to Toronto
So the winged woman-meets-jazz trumpeter romantic fable Passion Play premiered Friday night here in Toronto, and say what you will about the headscrather of a story, the…
Andrew Garfield Talks to Movieline About Never Let Me Go, Spider-Man, and 'Death Around the Corner'
Andrew Garfield's lunch arrived before he did this afternoon in Toronto: a light salad with chicken and broccoli, vinaigrette on the side, and six slices of tomatoes…
9 First Impressions of Rainn Wilson's Instant Cult Classic SUPER
James Gunn's SUPER just concluded its Midnight Madness world premiere, and if there's any early favorite on that list of bidding-war candidates coming out of Toronto…
