7+ hour, 12+ min ago   (263+ words) U.S. President Donald Trump’s new hairstyle was heavily mocked in “Saturday Night Live U.K.’s” Weekend Update segment. “This week, President Trump stepped off Air Force One sporting a different hair color,” quipped co-anchor Ania Magliano. “He appears to be…...

8+ hour, 6+ min ago   (1032+ words) As delightfully plain-spoken as Hynde is when you get her to sit down and talk, she can be to get into that chair, as a naturally camera-shy personality, so Crowley’s film is particularly useful in further immortalizing a subject who…...

8+ hour, 37+ min ago   (789+ words) Mia Wasikowska fills out the screen in Kuba Dorabialski’s “Agata the Writer.” Metaphorically and figuratively, as one especially arresting sequence shows her in close-up looking directly at the audience and recounting the rest of the story. “I was so curious…...

13+ hour, 33+ min ago   (538+ words) Courteney Cox feels as if she was meant to be a director. “I notice everything,” she says. “I love actors, I love people, I love human stories.” Cox is best known for acting — including marquee roles in “Friends” and in…...

14+ hour, 33+ min ago   (653+ words) When it comes to “ Up Against It,” a TIFF title premiering Sept. 12, director Trudie Styler says, “I know this story like the back of my hand.”... Antonio Banderas, Trudie Styler and Eva Birthistle on the Sorrow and Joy of TIFF…...

15+ hour, 48+ min ago   (84+ words) A strong lineup from Taiwan hits the Toronto Intl. Film Festival, with two world premieres in the special presentations strand, a Taiwan-Japan genre title in Midnight Madness, virtual reality, market projects and an international Oscar contender. Feng-I Fiona Roan’s “Happily…...

16+ hour, 3+ min ago   (786+ words) That girl, Kotoko, is the center of Nishikawa Miwa’s “ Children Untold,” a drama built from years of archival testimony about Japan’s war orphans that the director says forced her to ask how much of... Nishikawa Miwa Confronts Japan’s Failure to…...

16+ hour, 51+ min ago   (196+ words) Jeremy Thomas, one of the film industry’s most highly respected independent producers with a body of work spanning more than half a century, has died. He was 77 years old. Across his career, Thomas — who founded the Recorded Picture Company and…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (246+ words) Ocean Way is going away, at least for a year. Goldenvoice‘s inaugural Ocean Way Festival, which was scheduled to take place on the beach in Santa Monica Sept. 26-27, has been called off, with city officials saying the culprit is…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (23+ words) Samuel Goldwyn has acquired U.S. rights to “De Gaulle,” Antonin Baudry’s historical epic that was just shortlisted by France's Oscar committee....