Report From Toronto
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‘Ammonite’ Film Review: Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan Romance Burns With Quiet Passion
The 19th-century romance is a chamber duet by two virtuosos, reined in by a director who embraces the emotional but rarely gets sentimental
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‘City Hall’ Film Review: Frederick Wiseman Celebrates the Power of Civic Engagement
Boston mayor Marty Walsh becomes a constant figure in this examination of the good that government can potentially do with community involvement
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‘MLK/FBI’ Director Risked Helping the FBI Tarnish Dr King’s Legacy Because Story Was That Important (Video)
TIFF 2020: Sam Pollard’s documentary is a densely-packed story about how King was constantly harassed and surveilled by the FBI
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‘The New Corporation’ Director on How Companies Contribute to Spread of Disease – and Pandemics (Video)
TIFF2020: “I think its a really important and often ignored part of the narrative of the pandemic,” director tells TheWrap’s Brian Welk
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‘The Way I See It’ Director Dawn Porter Says Documentary Is a Non-Subtle Critique of Donald Trump (Video)
TIFF 2020: The film highlights former White House photographer Pete Souza’s work and the visible contrast between the Trump and Obama administrations
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‘Wolfwalkers’ Directors Say Medieval Irish Folklore Highlights Same Fear and Division Prevalent Today (Video)
TIFF 2020: Animated feature from “The Secret of Kells” team finds parallels from modern day to 17th Century
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Why ‘A Suitable Boy’ Director Mira Nair Needed to Be the One to Adapt Novel: ‘It Is Us Who Need to Tell This Story’ (Video)
TIFF 2020: “Because it’s so much a portrait of our country and our culture and our people that it is us who need to tell this story”
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Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw on Discovering the Secret Culture of ‘The Truffle Hunters’ (Video)
TIFF 2020: “Nobody really knew who these truffle hunters were,” Dweck tells TheWrap
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How ‘Wildfire’ Director and Star Coped With Loss of Co-Star Nika McGuigan (Video)
TIFF 2020: “She’s such a fierce talent, you don’t think a light as big as that can be extinguished so quickly,” director Cathy Brady says of actress who died last year
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What Vanessa Kirby Told Ellen Burstyn Just Before Her ‘Pieces of a Woman’ Monologue (Video)
TIFF 2020: “I kept on going. I don’t know what I said,” Burstyn says of the scene
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Rosamund Pike, Eiza Gonzalez Thriller ‘I Care A Lot’ Acquired by Netflix
TIFF 2020: This is the streamer’s fourth acquisition from the festival
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How a Small Film Slate at Toronto Film Festival Translated Into Big Sales
“People are buying with the notion that things will get back to some level of normalcy and some level of physical engagement again,” IFC Films’ Arianna Bocco says
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How ‘Beans’ Director Turned Mohawks’ Darkest Hour Into a Coming-of-Age Film (Video)
TIFF 2020: Based on Tracey Deer’s personal experience, “Beans” tells the story of a 12-year-old Mohawk girl facing racism in Quebec
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How Ben Sharrock’s Study Abroad in Syria Inspired Refugee Film ‘Limbo’ (Video)
TIFF 2020: “It’s something that goes back quite a long way,” filmmaker tells TheWrap
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‘Nomadland’ Wins Audience Award at Toronto Film Festival
Nine of the last 10 TIFF audience winners have gone on to receive Oscar nominations for Best Picture, and three have won
