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FESTIVALS | TORONTO

Toronto | OPENING DAY
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
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 >