TIFF Curated Headlines

Pre-TIFF, South Korea’s Hong Sang-soo On How He Maximalizes The Minimalism

“Nearly 50 homegrown features will make their debut at the Toronto International Film Festival–but most will disappear without a trace.”
Simon Houpt Surveys Canuck Kino Scene, Makes Crisp Points About The State Of North American Indie Cinema To Boot

Toronto Int’l Adds Truth, I Saw The Light, Our Brand Is Crisis, Hardwicke, Reiner, Haigh, Szumowska, Moretti, Scafaria, Portman, Kawase, Tsangari, Muntean, Chris Doyle, Sono, Tsai, Loznitsa, Gomes, Akerman

Toronto Int’l Gala Presentations Include New Delpy, Egoyan, Emmerich, Frears, Helgeland, Mehta, Moorhouse, Scott, Sollett, Vallée

“Contrary to critics’ easy characterization, Maps To The Stars doesn’t have a satirical bone in its elegiac, messy, hysterical body. I’ve given you the lay of the land as I see it, saw it, and lived it. Maps is the saga of a doomed actress, haunted by the spectre of her legendary mother; of a child star ruined by early celebrity, fallen prey to addiction and the hallucination of phantoms; of the mutilation, both real and metaphorical, sometimes caused by fame and its attendants–riches, shame and nightmare.”

deadline

Pete Hammond Counts Down The Quality Pics Without Distribution That Are Running Out Of Time For A 2014 Awards Season Release
With – Fleming On New Purchasing Powers At Toronto

hollywoodreporter.com

How Par Plucked Chris Rock’s Top Five At TIFF, Plus Notes On Other Acquisitions

TIFF-Preemed 99 Homes Listed By New Distrib Broad Green

Alison Willmore Outlines How Baumbach’s Latest Is Really A Twist On Catfish

At Toronto, SPC Takes Still Alice For North America

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SPC Buys Into Julianne Moore-Starrer Still Alice At Toronto

At TIFF 14, Michael Moore Proposes A 13-Point Doc Manifesto

The Torontonian reviews Good Kill

HBO Doc Films Takes Broomfield’s Tales Of The Grim Sleeper At Toronto

“People want to go home and have sex after your movie. Don’t make them feel urggghh. Don’t do that to your fellow sexually active people.”
In Toronto, Michael Moore Reminds Documentarians To Entertain 

“I’m telling you straight and true that Paul Dano‘s performance as the youngish Brian Wilson in Bill Pohlad‘s Love and Mercy is almost spookily great.”
Avers Jeff Wells

Imitation Game Screenwriter Champed To Tell Alan Turing Tale Since He Was 14

NY Times

Cieply Listens Into SPC’s Toronto Dinner To Get Some Award Season Cues

NY Times

“This movie was born in a blaze, and will be released in a blaze.”
Kevin Smith’s Tusk Gets Medicinal Marijuana Tie-In severe spoiler

hollywoodreporter.com

Scott Feinberg Thinks Mike Binder’s Black And White Is On Its Way To Awards

RADiUS Acquires Anna Kendrick-Starrer The Last 5 Years At Toronto

NY Times

“People could call him a sociopath. But I wouldn’t at all. I would call it the birth of an artist. It’s poetry to him.”
Jake Gyllenhaal Tries A Festival-Friendly PR Tack For Nightcrawler

“I’m not sure if I’m allowed to talk about it yet, but screw it: I love this nasty little movie! It’s f—ing bonkers, and I can’t wait for you to see it.”
Kyle Buchanan Serves T. O. Buzz With His Starred-Up 15 Picks For The Fest

Adam Sandler Goes Doubly Dramatic In Toronto

variety

GGoldstein On How New Tech Is Changing The Film Festival Experience, Including at TIFF14

TIFF Programmers Suggest 15 “Must-Sees” At Toronto

hollywoodreporter.com

THR Cover-Stories Jon Stewart On Making His Directorial Debut With Rosewater

NY Times

Bill Murray Will Attend Bill Murray Day At Toronto Film Fest

thestar.com

Toronto Mayor-For-Life Rob Ford Votes Down Funding For Toronto Int’l Film Fest As Well As Symphony

Barbie Latza Nadeau On The Factual Fiction Of Michael Winterbottom’s Face Of An Angel

Toronto Int’l Sets Preems, Including New Kevin Smith, Winterbottom, Broomfield, The Yes Men, Sion Sono, Strickland, Dave McKean

Nayman On TIFF’s City-To-City Athens Survey Of Contemporary Greek Cinema

“Scrap the significance of nation; Scrap the one-country, one-film rule; Institute a US release requirement.”
TIFF’s Cameron Bailey On Oscar’s Foreign Language Rules

Truly Taking TIFF As The “People’s Festival”

“Following up a torrent of increasingly irate tweets about TIFF’s “disregard for the integrity of cinema” and, ludicrously, attempting to mount “a major campaign to take action” (this from an adult man who deputizes hard-pressed TIFF volunteers to shush people for him), Billington has posted his own, billion-word, response. And is it ever a read: a full-on frothing expose of a treacherous conspiracy that goes all the way to the top of TIFF.”

indie wire

Koehler Kisses TIFF

“There are always hard choices to make at film festivals. Looking at our numbers versus other major festivals’, I can only view complaints about Toronto’s size as compliments on the quality of our selection.” 

hollywoodreporter.com

“It was one of the strangest and most interesting and puzzling interviews I’ve ever done. I often think my job description is that I’m required to try to capture something of the complexity of the individual I am talking to and the complexity of the world that they were dealing with.”
Errol Morris In Snowflake Town

Wiseman On His “Novelistic” Approach To Documentary

“During the first half of TIFF, when most industry executives and press are attending, there is simply too much going on at the same time. The last four or five days might feel more relaxed with programming conflicts, but that’s when most industry guests have already left town. No publication I’ve encountered has the resources to do proper reviews of all those films, or even just all the world premieres.”

Behind TIFF People’s Choice Doc Winner The Square

12 Years A Slave Wins TIFF People’s Choice Award

thestar.com

Deducing Benedict Cumberbatch

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Chastain And Benson On The 10 Years To Make TIFF Hit The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby

Infographing The Tweets Of TIFF

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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?

So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.

And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.

There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.

I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.

So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.

But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”

My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher

“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.

~ David Simon