Saturday, September 15

• Toronto loves David Cronenberg

  The 32nd annual Toronto International Film Festival ends today and before closing they elected their king.

  Audiences awarded David Cronenberg's Russian mob thriller Eastern Promises  Best Picture, and Jason Reitman's teen pregnancy comedy Juno was runner up.

  Hey, I'd vote for a naked Viggo Mortensen, too.

  
  
  

  Eastern Promises trailer

  Cronenberg directs Naomi Watts & Viggo Mortensen.

  Posted 09/15/2007 by reelz

  Related: Eastern Promises

Friday, September 14

• Toronto today: Reservation Road and Married Life

  Today on Dailies we check in with the stars who are promoting their movies Reservation Road and Married Life in Toronto.

  And you know what that means: interviews with Rachel McAdams, Patricia Clarkson, Chris Cooper, Joaquin Phoenix, and Mark Ruffalo. \

  That's some haul!

  Only today on Dailies.

  
  
  

  Reservation Road trailer

  To find the truth, you have to find who's hiding it.

  Posted 09/14/2007 by reelz

Thursday, September 13

• Today's Toronto focus: Sleuth

  The Toronto Film Festival is drawing towards it close, but we're still there making sure we don't miss anything.

  Today's Dailies' Toronto coverage includes interviews with the stars in front of--and behind--the camera for Sleuth. That is to say, Michael Caine, Jude Law and Kenneth Branagh.

  Tune in to Dailies for the details!

  
  
  

  Sleuth trailer

  An aging writer matches wits with a struggling actor.

  Posted 09/13/2007 by reelz

Wednesday, September 12

• Today's Toronto coverage

  More Toronto interviews on Dailies today: Jodie Foster and Terrence Howard (The Brave One), Mark Ruffalo (Reservation Road), Josh Brolin and Javier Bardem (No Country For Old Men), Maggie Grace and Kathy Baker (Jane Austen Book Club), and... EWAN MCGREGOR (Cassandra's Dream). Yummy!!!

  
  

  Posted 09/12/2007 by reelz

Tuesday, September 11

• Toronto Toronto Toronto

  Today on Dailies, we talk to even more stars as they promote their movies at the Toronto Film Festival.

  Tune in for interviews with Jude Law and Michael Caine (Sleuth), Keira Knightley and James McAvoy (Atonement), Cate Blanchett and Clive Owen (Elizabeth: The Golden Age), Terrence Howard (The Brave One) and Ryan Gosling (Lars and the Real Girl).

  H-O-T.

  
  
  

  The Brave One trailer

  Jodie Foster turns vigilante.

  Posted 09/11/2007 by reelz

Monday, September 10

• Dailies' Toronto coverage: Pitt, Clooney, Foster oh my!

  The Dailies team is at the Toronto film festival getting all the interviews. Who are they talking to on today's show? 

  Brad Pitt and Casey Affleck (in town promoting The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford); George Clooney (Michael Clayton); Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard (Rendition); Clive Owen (Elizabeth: The Golden Age), Jodie Foster (The Brave One); Helen Hunt (Then She Found Me); Naomi Watts (Eastern Promises); and Jennifer Garner (Juno).

  Who could possibly be left for tomorrow?!

  
  
  

  Trailer

  The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

  Posted 09/10/2007 by reelz

• The buzz at Toronto

  Our friend Greg Ellwood at MSN has done it again, compiling a nice list previewing the hot ticket films at the Toronto Film  Festival.

  This week will be full of coverage on Dailies, who is there interviewing all the celebs. But in the meantime, check out Greg's list of ones to watch here.

  
  

  Posted 09/10/2007 by reelz

Saturday, August 25

• Toronto unveils full line up

  The Toronto Film Festival, which starts in just under 2 weeks, has unveiled its full line-up. Nearly 350 movies will be screened.

  So, which ones are the ones to watch? Honestly, there are so many big names at this one, we feel a little like headless chickens. We've been hearing some buzz about Michael Clayton and Atonement. But then there's the Jodie Foster revenge drama, The Brave One and the '60s musical political drama Across the Universe, which could go either way. And the chance to see Lust, Caution, the Chinese film by Ang Lee that just got the NC-17 rating, or a Michael Moore movie he stars in and directs, Michael Moore Across America, or the adaptation of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild...

  All we know is: we love Oscar campaign season!

  For the full list of the films in the Toronto Film Festival, click here.

  
  

  Posted 08/25/2007 by reelz

Thursday, July 12

• 2008 Oscar race beginning at Toronto

  The Toronto Film Festival (TIFF), which takes place in September, is heralded as the beginning of the annual Oscar race. That is to say, studios often save up the films they think will be contenders to release in the fall (they don't trust the Academy's memory to reach back more than a few months come nomination time), and often debut said films at the TIFF.

  So what are some of the films on the TIFF lineup that are being buzzed about?

  Rendition, a Middle East political thriller starring Reese Witherspoon, Jake Gyllenhaal, Meryl Streep, Alan Arkin and Peter Sarsgaard, and Elizabeth: The Golden Age, a costume drama about Queen Elizabeth I with Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush (reprising their roles from Elizabeth) lead the pack.

  Other potential TIFF Oscar candidates: Tony Gilroy's directorial debut Michael Clayton, a law firm drama starring George Clooney; Peter Greenaway's historical drama about Rembrandt, Nightwatching; the Indian drama Before the Rains; the Jodie Foster revenge drama The Brave One; a Joaquin Phoenix-Jennifer Connelly drama about coping with the death of a child entitled Reservation Road; the biography about paralyzed Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Beauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly; and Alan Ball's (American Beauty) drama about the struggles of an Arab-American girl, Nothing is Private.

  Source: Variety.com.

  
  

  Posted 07/12/2007 by reelz

  Related: Rendition | Elizabeth: The Golden Age | Michael Clayton | Nightwatching | The Brave One | Reservation Road | Nothing is Private