It's getting to be festival time again. VIFF in Vancouver is soon to announce its schedule for this year. TIFF in Toronto has been releasing bits of it for some time and this week revealed it all. There are almost 300 features including new work by Sarah Polley, Richard Linklater, Guillermo del Toro ( Frankenstein ) and get this, Jude Law as Vladimir Putin in The Wizard of the Kremlin. Baz Luhrman has a follow to his huge hit Elvis with “EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert” made up of concert clips, rare film and memories.

TIFF will open with a documentary on John Candy and close with Peak Everything a Canadian black comedy that played well at Cannes.

TIFF has also stirred up and then backed off its first controversy. It canceled a film about events after the Hamas at

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