
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.
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.
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.
In 2005, Greg McLean's 'Wolf Creek' introduced a new sub-genre to the horror tradition, that of the Outback slasher. This year, the Aussie filmmaker passes the baton on to Sean Byrne, whose film 'The Loved Ones' also takes place in rural Australia but is arguably more violent than its predecessor. The first-time filmmaker's "retro-deranged date movie" has taken the cinema world by the cojones and could be the first in a series of new "hot-pink horrors."
Earlier in the week, Moviefone laid out the
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.
On the 20th anniversary of Michael Moore's first movie shown at the Toronto International Film Festival - 'Roger & Me' in 1989 - the line-up for the North American premiere of his newest venture, 'Capitalism: A Love Story' stretches nearly four city blocks.