"Eastern Promises" tops at Toronto film festival
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"Eastern Promises," a Russian mob thriller directed by Canadian cult legend David Cronenberg, won the Toronto International Film Festival's top prize on Saturday, positioning itself as an early Oscar favorite.
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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  - Critics and acquisitions executives might swarm to the Toronto International Film Festival, now heading into its final days, but this is one fest that always has been about the fans.
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A quirky teen-pregnancy yarn and a love  story involving a life-sized sex doll have won over critics at  the Toronto International Film Festival, stealing the spotlight  from darker films on war and politics.
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The latest movies from Paul  Verhoeven, Ridley Scott, Anthony Minghella, Douglas McGrath and  Patrice Leconte will get the red carpet treatment at the  Toronto International Film Festival next month, organizers said  Tuesday as they released the full 352-film lineup.
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NEW YORK  - Michael Apted's slave-trade   drama "Amazing Grace" has lined up a U.S. distribution deal on   the eve of the Toronto International Film Festival, where it   will make its world premiere in the closing-night slot.
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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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Home-grown films will bring a foreign  feel to this year&#39;s Toronto International Film Festival, as  Canadian entries include a Russian mob thriller set in London,  a look into the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and a search for  heavy-metal music in Iraq.
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"Emotional Arithmetic," a drama about three Holocaust survivors who reunite after 40 years apart, will be the closing film at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
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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 maker of hits like Dead Ringers and Crash is back with Eastern Promises, an excruciatingly violent and engagingly tender film about the bottomless cruelty we humans are capable of.
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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 harrowing film about illegal abortion in Communist-era Romania beat 21 movies by well-known directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Ethan and Joel Coen, and Wong Kar-wai to win the Cannes Film Festival's top prize Sunday.
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Reese, Jake and George glam up a pair of politically worthy dramas in Toronto
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This year's Toronto International Film  Festival will offer more star wattage and world premieres than  almost any edition of the event in its 30-year history, as well  as the potential for a goodly amount of controversy.
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Departing from tradition,  the Toronto International Film Festival on Wednesday chose the  homegrown drama &quot;Emotional Arithmetic,&quot; starring Susan Sarandon  and Christopher Plummer, to close its 32nd edition, which runs  September 6-15.
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'The Kingdom' offers up a foreign-policy lesson amid lots of gunfire. A London woman becomes deeply enmeshed in the inner workings of the Russian mafia in 'Eastern Promises.'