Quiz: Toronto International Film Festival
TIFF Twosomes
In celebration of this year’s 33rd edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (September 10th to 19th, www.tiff.net for info), we test your knowledge of TIFF’s most celebrated duos — the real-life celebrity couples, filmmaking teams and unforgettable on-screen pairs who’ve lit up Canada’s pre-eminent film festival.
By Ingrid Randoja
1. Real-life hubby and wife Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly star as the married Charles and Emma Darwin in Creation (pictured above), this year’s opening night film. It’s rare for a real-life couple to play a couple on screen, but in the 1991 TIFF entry Paradise, we saw just that. Which acting couple starred in that film?
a) Sean Penn and Robin Wright Penn
b) Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger
c) Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith
2. Directing duo Joel and Ethan Coen wowed TIFF audiences in 2007 with their searing No Country for Old Men. Which one is married to actor Frances McDormand?
3. In 1992, Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs won TIFF’s FIPRESCI Prize for Best First Feature Film. Which of the following Reservoir Dogs actors has appeared in the most Tarantino-directed films?
a) Quentin Tarantino
b) Michael Madsen
c) Tim Roth
4. Director Atom Egoyan, who’s screened 12 flicks at TIFF, including this year’s Chloe, often casts his wife. Name her.
5. Roger and Me picked up TIFF’s People’s Choice Award in 1989. The “Me” in the title refers to the film’s director, Michael Moore. Who is the mysterious “Roger?”
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6. Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher (seen here) arrive for the gala
presentation of their 2006 TIFF-screened political drama, which was
loosely based on true events. Name that film.
7. The beginning of the end of Woody Allen and Mia Farrow’s
relationship is mirrored in an Allen film that co-starred Farrow and
screened at TIFF in 1992. Was it…
a) Husbands and Wives
b) Crimes and Misdemeanors
c) Shadows and Fog
8. The hottest celebrity story at last year’s TIFF was whether
exes Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston would run into each other. Pitt was
here for the screening of Burn After Reading; what was the name of Aniston’s TIFF pic?
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9. TIFF isn’t all about movies — it’s about the parties, baby!
Last year during TIFF Lindsay Lohan accompanied her DJ girlfriend to a
gig at which a partygoer in a wheelchair was smacked by a rabid Lohan
fan trying to get a glimpse of the star. Name Lohan’s then-girlfriend.
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10. Leaves of Grass makes its world premiere at TIFF this
year, and its star, Edward Norton, doubles his workload by playing
identical twin brothers. Jeremy Irons pulled off the same trick in
which movie that opened the 1988 edition of the fest?
11. TIFF regular David Cronenberg has screened five feature films
at the fest. His sister, Denise Cronenberg, works alongside him. What
is her cinematic trade?
a) casting director
b) on-set caterer
c) costume designer
12. Director Neil Jordan returns to TIFF with Ondine, a fable
about a fisherman (Colin Farrell) who catches
a mermaid in his net. The film co-stars another Irish actor (seen here
with Farrell) who’s appeared in almost all of Jordan’s films. Name him.
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13. Real-life brothers Rory and Kieran Culkin played on-screen
brothers in a film that won the FIPRESCI Prize for Best First Feature
Film at last year’s festival. Name the film.
a) Synecdoche, New York
b) Lymelife
c) Stone of Destiny
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ANSWERS:
1. c
2. Joel Coen
3. a. Tarantino has appeared in four of his own films: Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms and Grindhouse
4. Arsinée Khanjian
5. Roger Smith, then the CEO of GM. He spends most of the movie avoiding Moore, who wants to interview him for his documentary about the closing of a GM plant in Flint, Michigan
6. Bobby
7. a
8. Management
9. Samantha Ronson
10. Dead Ringers
11. c
12. Stephen Rea
13. b
Festival Roundup
You don’t have to live in Toronto to enjoy film festival fun – September and October marks the height of Canadian film festival season. Here’s a look at the various fests unspooling across the nation
Atlantic Film Festival
Halifax, Nova Scotia
September 17-26
www.atlanticfilm.com/aff/
Cinéfest Sudbury
Sudbury, Ontario
September 19-27
www.cinefest.com
Calgary International Film Festival
Calgary, Alberta
September 25-October 4
www.calgaryfilm.com
Edmonton International Film Festival
Edmonton, Alberta
September 25-October 3
www.edmontonfilmfest.com
Vancouver International Film Festival
Vancouver, British Columbia
October 1-16
www.viff.org/home
Festival Nouveau Cinéma
Montreal, Quebec
October 7-18
www.nouveaucinema.ca/EN
Antimatter Underground Film Festival
Victoria, British Columbia
October 9-17
www.antimatter.ws/
Ottawa International Animation Festival
Ottawa, Ontario
October 14-18
www.ottawa.awn.com/index.php