Toronto Film Festival

Not many actors have the ability to make the ladies swoon and the guys envious (Johnny Depp, of course, is up there), but under-the-radar film and television actor Timothy Olyphant can. The star of now-defunct series 'Deadwood' and FX hit 'Damages', Olyphant is simultaneously super-friendly and intimidating.

Moviefone.ca sat down to talk with Olyphant at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival, where his latest film, 'High Life', had its premiere screenings. Olyphant plays an ex-con fresh out of jail who's searching for the clean life, free of drugs and crime. But things take an unexpected turn when he meets up with his old pals for one last heist.

The movie looks at the issue of redemption – can all of us truly be forgiven for our trespasses? Or are some of us just bad? Olyphant spoke with us about the film, and what it's like to make a movie in a bitter Manitoban winter.

The 2009 Toronto Film Festival came to a close this weekend, with the Oprah-approved (and produced) 'Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire' taking home the fest's top prize, the People's Choice Award.

And while that movie is certainly scoring raves and plenty of Oscar buzz to boot, it's not the only movie getting attention coming out of Toronto. After the jump, check out 11 of the best-reviewed films of Toronto 2009.

TORONTO (AP) - A raw film about an abused teen named Precious won the audience choice award at the Toronto International Film Festival on Saturday, stoking predictions that the harrowing, Oprah Winfrey-backed tale is Oscar-bound.

'Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire,' snagged the coveted award at a luncheon that also named 'Cairo Time,' from Toronto director Ruba Nadda, the best Canadian feature.

As the 2009 Toronto Film Festival wraps up, we take a look at the best and worst fashion that graced the red carpet.

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Ben Whishaw is so thoughtful and soft-spoken that you don't dare interject when he pauses – and he pauses a lot. For a journalist with a relatively short time limit with the British actor, it is equal parts frustrating and refreshing. Frustrating because you wish you could peer into Whishaw's head to see exactly what he means (prior to the thoughts getting caught up in everyday verbiage) and refreshing because so few film stars dare to offer reporters answers that are not canned or watered down.

Whishaw was in Toronto last week to attend the Toronto film festival premiere of Jane Campion's 'Bright Star,' in which he plays poet John Keats. The film takes place in the last few years of Keats' life when he forged a relationship with his neighbour, Fanny Brawne (Australian actress Abbie Cornish). The duo embarked on a passionate love affair only to have it cut off abruptly by Keats' death, at age 25, from tuberculosis.

Earlier in the week, Moviefone laid out the highlights from the first half of the 2009 Toronto Film Festival, including a pair of Oscar-worthy performances from George Clooney, a monstrous turn from Megan Fox in 'Jennifer's Body' and awards buzz for Clooney's good pal Matt Damon.

Now we're back to finish up the job with all the latest reviews, celeb sightings and sound bites from the fest's second half. This time around, Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page 'Whip It' real good, 'Youth in Revolt' heralds the dawn of the age of a new Michael Cera, and Keanu Reeves reminisces about Patrick Swayze. Read all about it after the jump.

There's a reason Terry Gilliam was nicknamed Captain Chaos. The filmmaker harbours the type of brain in which order dies and pandemonium reigns. This cerebral mishmash has served him well in his cinematic career, particularly when it weaves around clear plots such as those in 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' (1975), 'Brazil' (1985) and even 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' (1998). It's when Gilliam refuses to tether the cacophony in his brain that his films fall flat. Unfortunately, his latest opus, 'The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus,' which premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival, is an exercise in pure unadulterated self-indulgence.

Oprah Winfrey can turn an unknown novelist into a New York Times bestseller almost overnight, simply by adding the writer's work to her famed Book Club. So if getting the daytime TV goddess' endorsement for one's book is tantamount to guaranteed success, does the same thing apply for a movie based on a book? The world is about to find out.

Back in January, Oprah saw the movie 'Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire' just before it debuted to raves at the Sundance Film Festival, where it went on to win the competition's coveted Grand Jury Prize, as well as the Audience Award and the Special Jury Prize for Acting (for Mo'nique) ... and she was utterly blown away.