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Last updated: Thursday September 18, 2008 05:27 PM EDT

Slumdog Millionaire wins as audience favourite

Inspirational comedy by English director Danny Boyle is about orphan from Mumbai who knows all the answers to the Indian version of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

Rachel Weisz

‘Chance is a good notion'

A short Q&A with Rachel Weisz, starring in The Brothers Bloom, that screened at the Toronto International Film Festival

Evangeline Lilly

TIFF's best and worst Popup

Who sparkled and who sputtered on the red carpet

Freida Pinto

TIFF red carpet Popup

The stars come out over Toronto on opening weekend

Rachel Getting Married

The Globe's review centre

Rachel Getting Married will have you leaning into the screen

Latest From The Festival

Did Hollywood save the best for later?

Hollywood studios appeared to be holding back a number of high-profile films until November and December

Battle of the bling

The Good, the Bad, and the Weird from the end of the party

Our TIFF army's most memorable moments

Hindu goddesses and Hollywood glam

The story behind the goodbye film

Once the closing slot at the festival was as gilt-edged as the opener, but these days, with the adrenalin ebbing, the goal is the feel-good movie

A week of reel deals

The business side: Major deals were inked at the festival, among them the acquisition of Steven Soderbergh's Che by art-house film specialist IFC Films, which acquired North American distribution rights

Friday TIFF sheet

Festival is winding down, but it ain't over yet

Luck be a lady who spots Tim Robbins twice in one night

Star of The Lucky Ones clearly wanted to savour his big night

Head of the class

Don McKellar just can't, or won't, lose

Oops! I'm playing an icon

Benicio Del Toro found the prospect of playing Che Guevara in Steven Soderbergh's epic Spanish-language opus a daunting task

Real men do some crying

Actor Mark Ruffalo discusses his role in movie about a friend who overcame drug addiction

For 30 minutes, pure movie heaven

Where the stars of the films that count get to talk to one another

Buddy, can you spare a celebrity?

Shirley MacLaine gets a friendly reception at Best Buddies charity gala; Paris Hilton has a night off from the stalkerazzi

All bets off for Lightbox launch date

TIFF's gleaming $196-million future home is unlikely to open in time to host festival's 2010 edition

Oscar suitors give TIFF a miss this year

The stars are here, but the Oscar hype is on low volume as major studios hold their promotional fire

Actress Evangeline Lilly arrives for the movie premier of Blindness at the Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, Saturday, Sept. 6. (Photo: Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press)

Lilly follows her moral compass

Canadian actress talks about making the move to the big screen

Kingsley and queens of the party circuit

Sir Ben leaves InStyle fashionably early, Del Toro is smokin' at Greenhouse and Beckinsale shares the secret of her aroma

Skogland strikes deal

Canadian director's Fifty Dead Men Walking will have its world premiere Wednesday evening at a red-carpet gala

A rough yet thoughtful portrait of New York's finest

One of the greater challenges the creators of Pride and Glory faced was to take the polish off the New York Police Department, without having the NYPD want to take the polish off them

'We have no clue'

Deepa Mehta confronts domestic abuse in immigrant communities in her new film, writes Guy Dixon

Matt Damon OneXOne

Despite a hectic schedule, the actor keeps coming back to the annual charity fundraiser for one simple reason – it has raised millions for impoverished children.

Matt Damon hunts for celebrity goodwill

Charity gala One X One and VIP vortex of the Park Hyatt rooftop bar draw Hollywood's upper echelon as TIFF reaches its halfway mark

Too many movies, not enough time

Inside Alliance's offices, there are framed serviettes marking deals for movies negotiated in a hurry, including the 1999 film East is East

A visceral connection

Director Bruno Baretto shot his latest film in Rio slums, with actors who know them well

A date at the altar with Oscar?

Rachel Getting Married, starring Anne Hathaway, has everybody talking

It's St. Valentino's day for the fashionistas of film

Famed designer shares his gratitude at warm response to documentary about his life as the Dsquared{+2} team spices up the red carpet

Weekend warriors

It was two days and three nights of non-stop films, parties and interviews at this festival. Our team reports from the front lines on the stars, the chatter and why Julianne Moore's co-star licked her face

His film will be controversial - so what?

39-year-old Turner Prize-winning artist Steve McQueen has made one of the most talked-about films of 2008 – Hunger

Bad hair days welcomed on set of Coen brothers film

Forget winning an Oscar. According to Tilda Swinton, the cast of Burn After Reading wanted to outdo each other in a most literal way

A true style-setter

Few would have predicted that Keira Knightley would become such a fashion plate.

Futile efforts, bleak fates

A sense of unease permeates the offerings at this year's Toronto International Film Festival

A ‘candy shop' for actors and idols

To be at the eTalk festival party was to score one of TIFF's hottest invites. And to have a gold wristband was akin to hitting the all-access jackpot. Did this reporter have one? You bet

The seven films you didn't know you had to see

With more than 300 films, how hard could it be to find a few nice, smart, watchable movies you don't need a film degree to enjoy? Liam Lacey takes up the case

Festival Watch: All the latest news and gossip

Sometimes, even being a big name in the film biz won't get you past the velvet rope. At Thursday's Passchendaele after-party at the Drake Hotel, the fiery Victor Loewy, chairman and CEO of Alliance, the people behind the film and the lavish party swirling around him, was refused entry to the second level of the hotel bar.

With the tip of a cowboy hat, the festival begins

Industry's inner circle gathers to remember TIFF's founding father, Dusty Cohl, as a film tribute precedes opening gala Passchendaele

'Gimme a head with hair'

Zack and Miri Make a Porno poster gets banned in the United States

The schmooze circuit

Scene and Herd: Amy Verner on the ultimate battle of the bling

Ronson aims for the high road

The DJ will appear appear with friend Lindsay Lohan at an Ultra Supper Club event on Sept. 12

 

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