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Death of a President scores TIFF critics' prize

The controversial British film Death of a President, which depicts the assassination of U.S. President George W. Bush, has won the international critics' award at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Lee seeks global audience for Katrina doc

Though he is adamant about calling his latest work incomplete, Spike Lee wants people around the world to see his documentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.

Abolitionist tale closes Toronto film festival

The 31st Toronto International Film Festival draws to a close Saturday with Michael Apted's Amazing Grace, a historical drama about the fight to abolish the slave trade in Britain.

The Banquet serves reworked Hamlet at Toronto film festival

The story of Shakespeare's Hamlet gets turned on its head in The Banquet, which opens to a gala presentation Friday night at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Hotel fined over Penn's smoking at Toronto film festival

Sean Penn will get off with a warning, but Toronto's Sutton Place Hotel, one of the key venues at the Toronto International Film Festival, faces more than $600 in fines for allowing the actor to light up during a press conference last weekend.

Pinsent blushes over attention from fainting spell

If Canadian acting legend Gordon Pinsent was ever worried that people didn't care about him, a fainting spell earlier this week has convinced him otherwise.

Infamous gives Toronto film fest another Truman show

Toronto International Film Festival attendees might be getting a sense of déjà vu with the Thursday screening of Infamous, the second film about author Truman Capote in as many years.

Estevez's Bobby to make gala entrance at TIFF

Emilio Estevez's look at the assassination of Robert Kennedy through the eyes of ordinary Americans has its North American premiere Thursday at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Former Italian PM skewered in Il Caimano

Michael Moore and Italian director Nanni Moretti have both won the top prize at the Cannes film festival. But when it comes to influencing elections, Moore has nothing on Moretti.

Marc Anthony, salsa music both star in El Cantante

With her latest film El Cantante, Jennifer Lopez says she wants the spotlight to shine on a Puerto Rican musical icon and the acting chops of her real-life husband, Marc Anthony.

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