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Daily TIFF Riff: Day Three - TIFF 2010 Street Level

Daily TIFF Riff: Day Three

arts-tiff-town-hamm-594.jpg Jon Hamm, centre, in a scene from The Town. (TIFF)


By Greig Dymond, CBC News

arts-dymond-52.JPGGood morning, everyone. Before I get to Day Three, a quick note from last night: how cool was it to see Mickey Rourke, Megan Fox and Bill Murray together on the red carpet at Ryerson for the Passion Play screening? Rourke has ditched his long locks in favour of a closely shorn look, which makes him look even more bad-ass than usual. I desperately want to see this film, just to comprehend how these three radically different actors manage to inhabit the same universe.

OK, on to the first Saturday of TIFF 2010. Truly, if you're a film fan in the T-Dot, this is the best weekend of the year, offering an absurd amount of cinematic riches.Two very high-profile galas at Roy Thomson Hall tonight -- Ben Affleck brings his second directorial effort, The Town, to the fest, along with his genetically gifted stars Jon Hamm and Rebecca Hall. There's a surfeit of good-looking film types parading through Toronto this weekend, but no one has generated more buzz among the women in our office than Don Draper himself. Let's hope they don't skip work today to try to spot Hamm at a Yorkville Starbucks.

Director Robert Redford -- a Hollywood dreamboat from an earlier generation -- also gets the gala treatment for The Conspirator, his drama about the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

The British dramedy Made in Dagenham is one of the galas tonight at the Elgin Theatre. I went to a press screening a couple of weeks ago; although it feels a bit like Norma Rae lite, this is a charming film about a group of women factory workers fighting for equal pay in 1969. It's got a great soundtrack featuring the Small Faces, and, as always, Sally Hawkins delivers a luminous performance. You can tell she's going to have an amazing career.

Lots of good stuff for you documentary fans today as well. Force of Nature is the much-anticipated David Suzuki doc. My CBCNews.ca colleague Martin Morrow interviewed director Sturla Gunnarsson. We also snagged Suzuki for an in-person video interview.

And Alex Gibney -- the guy who gave us the excellent 2005 doc Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room -- is here today with Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, the story of the former New York governor. It looks to be a fascinating film about the intersection of politics, finance, sex and revenge.

Happy viewing, see you tomorrow.

You can follow Greig throughout #TIFF10 on Twitter at @cbcarts
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