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FESTIVALS | TORONTO
Toronto | OPENING DAY
Joseph Gordon-Levitt opens the fest
The Toronto Festival launched yesterday with Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt on hand to promote “Looper,” screening out of competition (the fact that Gordon-Levitt, virtually unknown internationally, is first to walk the Toronto steps is noteworthy. Just when we thought Jeremy Renner was squarely in the leading-man chair, Gordon-Levitt swoops out of nowhere to steal the spotlight--good on ... more >
Quick takes from Toronto
New doc about water to be screened at Toronto this year
Do you remember the documentary Protagonist (Jessica Yu, 2007) about obsessive individuals as seen through the precepts of Euripides? The same filmmaker, Jessica Yu, has done a new documentary called Last call at the oasis which illuminates our ever-growing concern with water becoming scarce in the not-so-distant future. Although it covers 70 percent of the earth’s surface, there is a very ... more >