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TIFF 2009, This Is Your Life

By now, all the red carpets are rolled back up and sitting in a broom closet at the Elgin (or something, wherever they keep them), Clooney’s handsome footprints are stored away for another long year, and all the hottest celebs have flown off to resume being glamourous in their own cities. We’re sad, kinda, but [...]

Getting Ready to Turn on the Lightbox

Yesterday, while diehard TIFF-goers were well into their second screenings, Torontoist was getting a preview of the future of the festival: the Bell Lightbox. Spanning the northwest corner of King and John, the enormous 175,000-square-foot space already feels like TIFF Central, despite being at present uniformly grey, dusty, and full of building materials. Artistic Director [...]

Urban Planner: September 15, 2009

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. Winter Gloves will be playing at the Hard Rock Cafe this afternoon as [...]

TIFF 2009: The Damned Armoire

Accident Today’s Picks 12 p.m. – Cairo Time (Scotiabank 3) – 4/5 2 p.m. – The Sunshine Boy (AMC 10) – 3.5/5 2:30 p.m. – Accident (AMC 5) 3 p.m. – Short Cuts Canada Programme 3 (Jackman Hall) – Review 5:30 p.m. – Karaoke (AMC 6) – 4/5 6 p.m. – Short Cuts Canada Programme [...]

TIFF 2009: Fish Tank Wavelengths

George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead Today’s Picks 12:30 p.m. – Fish Tank (Winter Garden) – Review 1:00 p.m. – Short Cuts Canada Programme 1 (Jackman Hall) – Review 2:15 p.m. – All Fall Down (AMC 10) – 1/5 4:00 p.m. – Short Cuts Canada Programme 2 (Isabel Bader) – Review 5:15 p.m. – [...]