Photo Coverage: Inside the TIFF Presentation for MAPS TO THE STARS
By: Walter McBride Sep. 15, 2014
The Toronto International Film Festival just concluded yesterday, September 14, 2014. A total of 393 films were shown, including 143 world premieres. Below, BroadwayWorld brings you photos from the presentation for MAPS TO THE STARS.
Hollywood, Babylon, USA. Working from a wicked script from novelist Bruce Wagner, David Cronenberg strips Tinseltown bare in this fiendish and fiercely intelligent satire of the movie business.
Julianne Moore gives a stunning performance as Havana Segrand, a desperate and insecure middle-aged actress scheming remorselessly to land the lead in a remake of a film her mother starred in years ago. She divulges a flood of inner fears and childhood trauma to her therapist, Dr. Stafford Weiss (John Cusack), a TV psychologist and self-help guru with a stable of celebrity clients. But Weiss has problems of his own, including a teenaged movie-megastar son whose career is already threatened by his out-of-control ego and drug problems.
To this ensemble of eccentrics, Cronenberg and Wagner add Agatha (Mia Wasikowska), a pyromaniac who gets hired as Havana's assistant based on a Twitter friendship with Carrie Fisher (playing herself ); Jerome (Robert Pattinson), a limo driver, struggling actor and aspiring screenwriter; and various wives, agents, and phantoms who stroll periodically through the carnage.
The Toronto International Film Festival has become the launching pad for the best of international, Hollywood and Canadian cinema, and is recognized as the most important film festival after Cannes. TIFF is dedicated to presenting the best of international and Canadian cinema to film lovers. What began as a ten-day film festival has grown to embrace programming 365 days a year. TIFF offers screenings, lectures, discussions, festivals, workshops, industry support and the chance to meet filmmakers from Canada and around the world. In September 2010, the opening of our new home, TIFF Bell Lightbox, enabled TIFF to expand to truly become a creative, community and global leader, and one of the world's premiere organizations in the discovery and understanding of film.
Photo Credit: Walter McBride
Producer Martin Katz
Producer Martin Katz
Sarah Gadon and Olivia Williams
Evan Bird
Evan Bird
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