'American Fiction' wins People's Choice award at Toronto Film FestivalCord Jefferson’s “American Fiction,” a biting satire starring Jeffrey Wright as a disillusioned academic, has won the People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, a much-watched bellwether in the Oscar race.
On movie screens in Toronto, home is a battlegroundAs the Toronto International Film Festival winds down after a week of wall-to-wall premieres, there has been no more fraught turf than the land that families try to eke out a life on, amid geopolitical storms knocking on the front door.
Film festival season carries on in Toronto, despite a star-power outageWhen SAG-AFTRA announced a strike this summer, Cameron Bailey, the longtime chief executive of the Toronto International Film Festival, dusted off his COVID-19 playbook.
Alexander Payne makes 'em like they used to: Fall Movie PreviewThe great films of the 1970s have long loomed in the imagination of filmmakers raised during one of the most fertile periods of American movies.
Fall Movie Preview: Hollywood readies for a season with stars on the sidelinesHollywood is at a standstill.
Randall Park adapts a favorite graphic novel for his feature debut 'Shortcomings'Randall Park was a struggling actor when he first encountered Adrian Tomine’s graphic novel “Shortcomings” in 2007.
A trio of standout roles reveals Hong Chau's boundless rangeThe seemingly limitless range of Hong Chau is on display in three films this year, in roles so different that they hardly seem the work of one actor.
