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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Red carpets, Oscar hopefuls and a grim  bite of political reality make up the agenda of this year&#39;s  Toronto film festival, where producers strut their stuff and  Hollywood stars party into the night.
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Oscar-winning actress Helen Hunt is to make her directorial debut at the Toronto Film Festival.
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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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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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The Toronto International Film Festival has developed a status in recent years as the curtain-raiser to Oscar season, when trophy-hungry directors premier their late-season star-studded epics, biopics, and dramas.
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TORONTO  - The Toronto International Film Festival kicks off Thursday at a time when few, if any, Oscar contenders have emerged so far.
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Maverick filmmaker Michael Moore   steered the Toronto International Film Festival firmly toward   politics with a scathing denunciation of the Iraq war and a   preview of his next film, "Sicko," which slams a patchwork U.S.   health care system.
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This, among many other hassles at the film festival.
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Rituparno GhoshÂs THE LAST LEAR had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday,   9th September.
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The Toronto Film Festival urges visiting stars to respect anti-smoking laws at this year's event.
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Hollywood actors including Oscar winners Kevin Spacey and Charlize Theron are due at the Toronto Film Festival.
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TORONTO  - Global politics, seniors in   love, fantastical fairy tales, technical glitches and the   Weinstein brothers dominated the 31st Toronto International   Film Festival, which wraps Saturday with the world premiere of   the slavery drama "Amazing Grace."
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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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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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The Toronto International Film Festival  shifted into high gear on Friday feeling a little bit upstaged  by a festival in a small Colorado resort town that screened  some of the major premieres touted for first release at the  giant Canadian movie gala.
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Did somebody blow a whistle and decide that mid-October should be some kind of ad hoc, free-floating film fest? Not really. Current movie-business dynamics are at work.