1987 Toronto International Film Festival

Annual Canadian film festival 1987 Toronto International Film Festival 1987 Toronto International Film Festival poster.jpg Festival poster Toronto International Film Festival Group I've Heard the Mermaids Singing Toronto, Ontario, Canada English 1987 09 10–1987 09 19 tiff.net 1986 1988 The 12th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 10 and September 19, 1987. I've Heard the Mermaids Singing by Patricia Rozema was selected as the opening film.http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/tiff-openers/ TIFF: A history of opening nights October 18, 2013 CBC News The Princess Bride by Rob Reiner won the People's Choice Award at the festival. André the Giant, one of the stars of the film, sat on a girth constructed especially for him during the premiere of the film at the festival.http://www.torontolife.com/informer/features/2010/08/26/from-the-archives-a-look-back-on-tiff%E2%80%99s-most-memorable-moments/ From the Archives: a look back on TIFF's most memorable moments October 18, 2013 https://web.archive.org/web/20131017181040/http://www.torontolife.com/informer/features/2010/08/26/from-the-archives-a-look-back-on-tiff%E2%80%99s-most-memorable-moments/ 2013-10-17 deadhttp://jam.canoe.com/Movies/Film_Festivals/Toronto/2009/about/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160126145058/http://jam.canoe.com/Movies/Film_Festivals/Toronto/2009/about/ dead January 26, 2016 Taking a look back at TIFF October 18, 2013 The festival featured a retrospective of seven films by Pedro Almodóvar.Variety 9 September 21, 1988 Almodóvar 'Women' Favorite Fest Film; 'Glick,' 'Lives' Cited Adilman Sid Awards Award"TIFF Awards" https://web.archive.org/web/20120927032100/http://tiff.net/thefestival/festivalawards/awardsarchive 2012-09-27 . tiff.net, October 16, 2013.http://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/tiff-peoples-choice-2012/ TIFF People's Choice prize heralds film industry kudos October 16, 2013 CBC News Film Director People's Choice Award The Princess Bride Rob Reiner Best Canadian Feature Film Family Viewing Atom Egoyan Best Canadian Feature Film - Special Jury Citation Artist on Fire Kay Armatage International Critics' Award Night Zoo Jean-Claude Lauzon Programme Galas Aria by Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, Bill Bryden, Jean-Luc Godard, Derek Jarman, Franc Roddam, Nicolas Roeg, Ken Russell, Charles Sturridge and Julien Temple Boyfriends and Girlfriends by Eric Rohmer Dark Eyes by Nikita Mikhalkov The Glass Menagerie by Paul Newman I've Heard the Mermaids Singing by Patricia Rozema Night Zoo by Jean-Claude Lauzon Orphans by Alan J. Pakula The Princess Bride by Rob Reiner Sammy and Rosie Get Laid by Stephen Frears Too Outrageous! by Richard Benner Special Presentations Baby Boom by Charles Shyer Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll by Taylor Hackford Sister, Sister by Bill Condon The Thief of Baghdad by Raoul Walsh Contemporary World Cinema Babette's Feast by Gabriel Axel Barfly by Barbet Schroeder The Belly of an Architect by Peter Greenaway Big Shots by Robert Mandel Comrades by Bill Douglas A Death in the Family by Stewart Main and Peter Wells Diary for My Lovers by Márta Mészáros Dudes by Penelope Spheeris Dust in the Wind by Hou Hsiao-hsien Field of Honor by Jean-Pierre Denis Five Corners by Tony Bill A Flame in My Heart by Alain Tanner Gaby: A True Story by Luis Mandoki Good Morning, Babylon by Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani Half of Heaven by Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón Jean de Florette by Claude Berri Julia and Julia by Peter Del Monte Keep Your Right Up by Jean-Luc Godard King Lear by Jean-Luc Godard Magdalena Viraga by Nina Menkes Matewan by John Sayles Maurice by James Ivory Mauvais Sang by Leos Carax Near Dark by Kathryn Bigelow Night of the Pencils by Héctor Olivera Paradise by Doris Dörrie Personal Services by Terry Jones A Prayer for the Dying by Mike Hodges Repentance by Tengiz Abuladze Slam Dance by Wayne Wang Sorceress by Suzanne Schiffman South of Reno by Mark Rezyka A Successful Man by Humberto Solás A Taxing Woman by Juzo Itami The Theme by Gleb Panfilov Tough Guys Don't Dance by Norman Mailer Travelling avant by Jean-Charles Tacchella Under the Sun of Satan by Maurice Pialat Wish You Were Here by David Leland Perspectives Canada And Then You Die by Francis Mankiewicz Candy Mountain by Robert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer The Climb by Donald Shebib The Critical Years by Gerald L'Ecuyer Deaf to the City (Le Sourd dans la ville) by Mireille Dansereau Eva: Guerrillera by Jacqueline Levitin Family Viewing by Atom Egoyan In the Shadow of the Wind (Les Fous de Bassan) by Yves Simoneau Juju Music by Jacques Holender The Last Straw by Giles Walker Life Classes by William D. MacGillivray Le Lys cassé by André Melançon The Secret by Leuten Rojas Seductio by Bashar Shbib So Many Miracles by Saul Rubinek Taking Care by Clarke Mackey To Hurt and to Heal by Laura Sky Train of Dreams by John N. Smith Too Outrageous! by Richard Benner Undivided Attention by Chris Gallagher A Winter Tan by Jackie Burroughs, Louise Clark, John Frizzell, John Walker and Aerlyn Weissman World Dreams by Niv Fichman Documentaries Aqabat-Jaber, Passing Through by Eyal Sivan Artist on Fire by Kay Armatage Broken Noses by Bruce Weber Call Me Madame by Françoise Romand Chuck Solomon: Coming of Age by Marc Huestis Dancing Around the Table by Maurice Bulbulian Distant Harmony by Dewitt L. Sage The Finest Kind by Mary Jane Gomes From the Pole to the Equator by Yervant Gianikian Gap-Toothed Women by Les Blank Greenham Granny by Caroline Goldie Handsworth Songs by John Akomfrah The Houses Are Full of Smoke by Allan Francovich Huey Lewis and the News: Be-Fore! by Les Blank In the Name of God by Patricio Guzmán International Sweethearts of Rhythm by Greta Schiller It Is Not Easy to be Young by Y. Podnieks Joe Polowsky: An American Dreamer by Wolfgang Pfeiffer Resan by Peter Watkins Kamikaze Hearts by Juliet Bashore Landslides by Sarah Gibson Poundmaker's Lodge by Alanis Obomsawin Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars by Howard Brookner Those Roos Boys and Friends by Barbara Boyden Signed, Lino Brocka by Christian Blackwood Vincent by Paul Cox Weapons of the Spirit by Pierre Sauvage Where Is Here? by Sturla Gunnarsson Wild Flowers: Women of South Lebanon by Mai Masri Ziveli: Medicine for the Heart by Les Blank The Zoo by Kevin McMahon Buried Treasures Alone Across the Pacific by Kon Ichikawa (1963) The Girl Friends by Michelangelo Antonioni (1955) Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures by James Ivory (1979) Kanchenjunga by Satyajit Ray (1962) King Lear by Grigori Kozintsev (1971) A New Leaf by Elaine May (1971) Rendezvous at Bray by André Delvaux (1971) The Spy in Black by Michael Powell (1939) Went the Day Well? by Alberto Cavalcanti (1942) References External links Official site TIFF: A Reel History: 1976 - 2012 1987 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb 1987 Category:1987 film festivals Category:1987 in Toronto Category:1987 in Canadian cinema Category:September 1987 in Canada