The stars of foreign screens enjoy their time at a film festival in a country where they're not swarmed by fans

It took six years for the Hoffman brothers, acclaimed actor Philip Seymour and writer Gordy, to bring their film about a husband's grief to the screen

Lisa Ray's exoticism is her signature and her passport, writes LIAM LACEY. First it brought a career in modelling, then it landed her the lead in Deepa Mehta's new comedy

Are Shelby Lee Adams's documentary stills of rural Kentucky insightful or exploitative? SARAH MILROY talks to the photographer, who is himself tormented by contradiction

The film festival went into subdued mode yesterday, even having a counsellor on standby

Finding the "back stories" of small children struggling in public over big words

How the director of Rub and Tug spent the day of her film's Toronto International Film Festival premiere

The man who's played a Nazi, a liar and an ill-fated lover talks to GAYLE MacDONALD about his strange new role in David Cronenberg's Spider

Jim Simpson finished his film about a New York editor and a grieving fire chief just in time for its Sept. 11 premiere

Greg Kinnear explores the divide between the public and private lives of troubled Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane

A documentary film chronicles the sad story of two men destroyed by their attempt to publish an unauthorized biography of George W. Bush

Expect a walk on the dark side in many festival films, LIAM LACEY writes

CTV News talks to Bruce Campbell, the B-movie legend who's leading the list at the festival's Midnight Madness programme

Before reality TV, there was Allan King. A retrospective and a new book pay tribute to one of Canada's premier documentary filmmakers, LIAM LACEY writes

Contemporary films Camel(s), Turning Gate and Oasis are the spirited standouts in this year's spotlight

Salma Hayek laboured for more than six years to bring Mexican painter and icon Frida Kahlo to the big screen. She talks to JAMES ADAMS about breaking away from bombshell roles and realizing her dream film

New York comedian Reno, takes on American patriotism and the U.S. war on terrorism in Nancy Savoca's documentary "Reno, Rebel Without a Pause" which premiers at the Toronto International Film Festival

Stars in search of ever more hyphenated titles - actor-director-producer-god - are creating ever more films, and the results can be bad-forgettable-heinous

Hotel concierges are unfazed by film-fest requests, finds REBECCA CALDWELL

CTV News talks to director Deepa Mehta about her fusion film, the appropriately named Bollywood/Hollywood

Michael Moore, a moviemaker best known for his commando, knocking-down-door techniques, is once again trying to break barriers with his latest work, Bowling for Columbine

Quebec filmmaker Manon Briand explores what happens when things turn unpredictable

Forget the film festival stars, forget the flacks, what do we really gain from watching a movie? Last Sept. 11 brought a chorus of wrong answers to that question, writes RICK GROEN

TIFF rookie Soo Lyu talks about the unique blend of anxiety and excitement she's experiencing at the festival as she waits for the world premiere of her first feature film Rub & Tug

Perspectives Canada and Wavelengths have assembled their short films series in themes, and two programmers offer some tips on how to get the most out of the short film experience

Admitting he blew it with Picture Claire, Bruce McDonald returns with Planet Claire, a documentary of what went wrong

What's a lowly civilian's best bet to get close to a celebrity during the film festival? Try an elevator

We can't help sifting through the Canadian films of the Toronto International Film Festival for hints on who we are

It takes countless people to make the Toronto International Film Festival happen. Here are three of their stories

On the surface, it seems to be business as usual as the Toronto International Film Festival unspools its 27th annual instalment today.

When you get more than 300 movies, major-league distributors and an excitable press in one place, not everything is as it seems, SIMON HOUPT writes

Screening a variety of viewpoints is more important than ever in a post-Sept. 11 world, writes PIERS HANDLING, the director of the Toronto International Film Festival.

Armed with our film festival guide you'll be on the VIP list, schmoozing like a seasoned Hollywood pro in no time

It takes a certain breed of hotel to be hip enough, discreet enough and luxurious enough to cater to the whims of Hollywood's A-list

The Globe's TRALEE PEARCE goes shopping with a pair of on-air beauties as they set out to beat the film fest celebs at their own game

Michelle Pfeiffer, John Cusack and Sophia Loren are among the stars expected for next month's bash, writes LIAM LACEY