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In these pages, you'll find my annual reports from the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Unlike Cannes and Sundance, the TIFF is geared towards pleasing crowds, not industry players, and with over 300 films screened every year, it grants moviegoers access to talent (via in-theatre Q&As and the like) on a much larger scale than Telluride. (Deals are brokered and careers are made at Toronto, but the trades tend not to emphasize this fact.) I've yet to sit through a public screening at the TIFF that wasn't met with at least modest enthusiasm--the Canadian crowd relishes the opportunity to have their reactions seen (read: heard) by the directors, producers, writers, and stars of motion pictures great and small. I can only hope you get a similar pleasure out of reading these articles.-Bill Chambers
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2005 coverage
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2004 coverage
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2003 coverage
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plus: PROGRAM LISTING
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2002 coverage
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2001 coverage
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2000 TIFF poster
2000 coverage
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1999 TIFF poster
1999 coverage
07/14/04 - TIFF Announces Its First Selections for 2004 09/15/03 - Winners of TIFF 2003 Awards 09/16/02 - TIFF 2002 is Over but Our Bitching is Not 09/16/01 - Fin 09/19/00 - Winners, Also-Rans 09/25/99 - Goodnight, You Princes of Maine (Festival Wrap-Up)
09/15/03 - Film Freak Central Interviews Actress Virginie Ledoyen 09/16/02 - Winners of TIFF 2002 Awards 09/13/01 - Limbo 09/18/00 - Weird Trends 09/19/99 - Smiling Lobsters and Martin Scorsese Invitations
09/07/03 - Film Freak Central Interviews Actor Omar Sharif 09/15/02 - Film Freak Central interviews Bruce Campbell and Don Coscarelli of Bubba Ho-Tep 08/31/01 - Last Minute Intrigue 09/17/00 - Name-dropping (to Make a Point)

09/17/99 - I Love Galas

08/07/03 - You've Got to Be Kidman 09/10/02 - Film Freak Central interviews Peter Sollett, the writer-director of Raising Victor Vargas 07/31/01 - Catching Up with TIFF Selections 09/11/00 - Norman Jewison's Sizzlin' Good Time

09/16/99 - Romero & Me

08/01/03 - TIFF 2003 Makes the "Cut" 08/21/02 - TIFF 2002's Final Selections Announced (complete list of Festival entries here) 07/04/01 - TIFF Starts Anew 09/03/00 - Review: Low Self Esteem Girl; Bill (Sort of) Eats His Words

08/25/99 - This Year's TIFF Line-Up

07/23/03 - TIFF 2003's Perspective Canada Line-Up 08/09/02 - TIFF 2002 Brings Washington to Toronto and More 08/30/00 - Caffeine Required
06/24/03 - TIFF 2003's Opening Press Conference: Skedded Thus Far 07/03/02 - Ararat and a Spider Walk Into a Film Festival 07/31/00 - "Perspective Canada" Line-Up
06/23/03 - Sneak Peek: TIFF's 2003 Poster Design 07/04/00 - Stardom Leads the TIFF 2000 Pack

I SAW IT AT THE TIFF (Last updated: July 14, 2004)

8 Femmes, The Addiction, The Agronomist, Albino Alligator, All the Little Animals, All the Rage (US), Almost Famous, The American Astronaut, American Buffalo, The Barbarian Invasions, Bus 174, Antz, Ararat, Assassination Tango, Auto Focus, Birthday Girl, Black & White, Blood & Donuts, The Blood Oranges, Bon Voyage, Box of Moonlight, The Brown Bunny, Bullet Ballet, Bullets Over Summer, Chicken Rice War, Chopper, The Cider House Rules, The Cooler, The Crossing Guard, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Danny Deckchair, Devil in a Blue Dress, The Dish, Dogma, Dog Park, Dolls, Elephant, Falling Angels, Fast, Cheap & Out of Control, Femme Fatale, The Five Obstruction, Fulltime Killer, Gattaca, The General, The Good Thief, Gozu, The Grey Zone, Hair Shirt, Hayseed, Happiness, Home Fries, The House of Mirth, I'm Losing You, In & Out, In the Mood for Love, Jack & Jill, Jude, Ken Park, L.A. Confidential, Last Night, The Law of Enclosures, The Legend of 1900, L'Idole, Life Is Beautiful (La Vita E Bella), The Limey, Living in Oblivion, Living Out Loud, Lola (2001), Looking for Richard, Love Liza, Low Self Esteem Girl, Max, The Mighty, Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran, Mr. Death, Mulholland Drive, Music of the Heart, My Life Without Me, Onegin, On Their Knees, Pandaemonium, Pecker, Permanent Midnight, The Pillowbook, Pleasantville, The Princess and the Warrior, Punch-Drunk Love, Rabbit-Proof Fence, Rain, Raising Victor Vargas, The Red Violin, Requiem for a Dream, Rushmore, The Safety of Objects, Simpatico, A Simple Plan, Six-String Samurai, Slam, The Spanish Prisoner, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Strumpet, Suicide Kings, The Sweatbox, The Sweet Hereafter, Tales of Hoffman, That Thing You Do, A Time for Drunken Horses, Total Eclipse, Training Day, Undead, The Usual Suspects, Vodka Lemon, The War Zone, When the Sky Falls, The Wings of the Dove, Wonderland, Without Limits, The Young Unknowns