By Ghita Loebenstein See our documentary picks » Last month, a documentary opened the Toronto International Film Festival for the first time in its history: Davis Guggenheim’s U2 profile From the Sky Down. Soon, the Bloor Cinema in Toronto will reopen its doors under the stewardship of Hot Docs, and will almost exclusively screen documentary [...]

By Laura deCarufel See photos of Natalia’s style picks » What’s your approach to modelling? “It’s like acting for me. I always try to understand the inspiration behind the photo shoot—the woman, film or book that we’re translating into a photograph.” Which photographers do you enjoy working with? “Everyone who works with Steven Meisel gives [...]

Popcorn at the ready, we’re looking forward to a season of intriguing fare. FALL FILMS OUR IDIOT BROTHER Paul Rudd as a cheerful stoner. A grinning, bearded Paul Rudd—clad in baggy attire and Crocs—sweetly agrees to sell a little non-sanctioned herb to a despondent police officer in uniform while manning a farmer’s market stall. Promptly [...]

The designed life Toronto’s annual Interior Design Show (January 27 to 30, interiordesignshow.com) is a blow-up labyrinth of commercial and sponsor exhibits, indie design experiments and much spectacle in-between. On opening night, 20 one-off Vitra Panton chairs will be up for charity auction, all reimagined by big names like design legend Bruce Mau and fashion [...]

There’s a whole generation of girls that knows Stephen Dorff best, or perhaps only, from his transformative role as…the guy who rescued Britney Spears from a bathtub in “Everytime.” With Somewhere, the latest tender, plotless, irresistible film by Sofia Coppola (in theatres January 7), that should change. The love story of an adolescent father (pill-popping, [...]

By Karen Ashbee Last night marked the opening of the Calgary International Film Festival and ten days of non-stop movie going and partying. Having attended at least a dozen film fest galas world wide, Jacqueline Dupuis, executive director of CIFF, knows a few things about getting red carpet ready. Luckily she took a few moments [...]

If you’re not burned out on films and documentaries, post-TIFF–and can swing a last-minute trip to Paris–A Shaded View On Fashion Film, the world’s first annual fashion, style and beauty film festival, will be kicking off at the Centre Georges Pompidou on September 24. Presented by Diane Pernet, the fashion critic behind the blog A [...]

Matt Damon and Bryce Dallas Howard, in a dress by Elie Saab, for the premiere of Clint Eastwood‘s Hereafter. Click the images below to see pics from the premiere or see all our TIFF 2010 red carpet galleries>>