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Tiff: Toronto's Ego and Iran's Politics

15 September 2009 9:58 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Hi, I'm MattCanada, the new guest blogger from Toronto. My first mission is to relay information on the Toronto International Film Festival, but because I have just started a new job at a talent agency my ability to see hoardes of amazing films has been seriously diminished. I am only going to four films this year (very dissapointed!), but I thought I might give impressions of Tiff from a Torontonians perspective.

It is always an incredible experience being in the city for the festival. Films, celebrities, and film critics routinely make the front page of the major papers. Yorkville, the hub of upscale Toronto and thus the festival, becomes overrun with celebrity spotters, international media types, and, to be honest, a lot of tacky women and sleazy looking men looking to party and eat beside people like Oprah. At work people from La and NYC are constantly dropping in, and »

- CanadaMatt

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Last Minute Additions at Tiff: Makhmalbaf's Green Days and Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Warrior and the Wolf

27 August 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Tiff are also getting in on Hana Makhmalbaf's Green Days. After the title was added as a last minute addition to the Venice Film Festival, the politically-driven, very much relevant half doc/have fiction account of women in Iran has been added to Tiff's Vanguard lineup. The story is about an Iranian playwright who suffers a creative crisis as her country convulses on the eve of this year's election. Features never before seen footage shot on the streets of Tehran. Maybe Hana should stay in Canada for a little while, check out the sights, Rockies, Niagara Falls and not be in a rush to return home. The other title to make the last boarding call, might be a major coup for the festival - in Tian Zhuangzhuang's The Warrior and the Wolf. Based on the Inoue Yasushi novel, the disillusioned general of an ancient Chinese army regiment finds »

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Last Minute Venice Surprises: Hana Makhmalbaf, Joe Dante's 1968 Orgy and Peter Greenaway's The Marriage

24 August 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Joe Dante will be presenting not one, but two films at the Lido. The Venice Film Festival will be presenting Dante's latest film - the 3D supernatural called The Hole and will include a re-cut showing for The Movie Orgy - Ultimate Version. The stitched together pic, that Dante made during his student days, is a back-breaking 280-minute look at the B films from the 50's and 60's which I'm sure would be a blast for film aficionados like Quentin Tarantino. The 66th Venice International Film Festival will also include a film from the Makhmalbaf. Youngest member Hana will show Green Days, which looks at women in Iran in docu form and fiction, this will be shown Out of Competition. Also showing is Angela Ismailos's Great Directors. There was a private screening at Cannes which I couldn't make and I regret, since it looks at contemporary cinema and talks with Bernardo Bertolucci, »

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