Toronto film festival starts on grim note
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The 31st annual Toronto film festival   opened on Thursday amid warnings from critics that happy movies   are going to be few and far between, as themes from many of the   350-plus entrants reflect the grim state of the world.
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The Toronto International Film Festival offered a snapshot of the variety of styles and sensibilities that characterize world cinema today.
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Political and religious conflict and  humanitarian crisis were portrayed in several movies at the  Toronto film festival on Sunday including &quot;Elizabeth: The  Golden Age&quot; that premieres on Sunday night.
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Business is abysmal at local moviehouses. Weekend attendance was off 27 percent from the 2004 low reached the previous weekend. The opening of the SouthSide Works Cinemas 10 on Friday should more than make
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Politics, genocide and animal cruelty  will share the spotlight with Hollywood glamour when the  Toronto International Film Festival kicks off its 29th edition  on Thursday.
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The Special Presentations  sidebar of the Toronto International Film Festival, which runs  September 6-15, will host the directorial debuts of actress  Helen Hunt and screenwriter David Auburn (&quot;Proof&quot;), as well as  world premieres of the latest work by filmmaker John Sayles.
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It was the kind of scenario that   comedian Sacha Baron Cohen himself might have scripted,   although the setting would have been a fictional run-down   Kazakh movie theater, and not a posh 1,000-seat auditorium on   the opening night of the Toronto film festival.
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A tiny Colorado village has upstaged  the Toronto International Film Festival by screening major  premieres that were touted for first release at the giant  Canadian movie gala.
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Some of the biggest names in Hollywood   had their egos bruised at this year's Toronto International   Film Festival.
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Buddhadeb Dasgupta's film has a dream opening in Toronto.
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The Toronto International Film Festival, which opened on Thursday, has been all but overrun with films attacking President Bush or the protracted war in Iraq.
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A controversial fake documentary gets its world premiere in Toronto
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If cinema is the mirror of the  world, then the films at this year&#039;s Cannes festival suggest  the world is in a sorry state.
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The Sundance Film Festivalâs opening weekend drew to a close looking more and more like a disappointment, if not an outright dud.
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TORONTO  - A critic's reaction to a film festival is akin to the old story about the five blind men who all touch an elephant and report wildly different descriptions of what the animal must look like based on the particular body part encountered.
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On Monday night at the Toronto Film Festival, a hero of the blacklist era was expected to deliver some posthumous words that might finally put to rest the hunt for good guys and bad.
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Reader Vinod Makkar spots the two stars at the Toronto International Film Festival.