TORONTO — It's TIFF's 50th edition — TIFFty feels like something of a missed branding opportunity — and the event once known as the Festival of Festivals is going big.

More than 200 features are scheduled to screen between Sept. 4 and 14. The Canadian Press' arts and entertainment team has picked out 10 buzzy films hitting the festival, from celeb-driven Netflix fare, to European avant-garde, to a couple of well-known actors' first foray into filmmaking.

"BLUE MOON"

Director Richard Linklater reunites with his “Boyhood” and “Before ” trilogy star Ethan Hawke for the Canadian premiere of this portrait of a musical genius' unraveling, all played out in a single evening in the early days of Broadway's golden age. Hawke is nearly unrecognizable in a trailer revealing him as bald, short lyri

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