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Daily TIFF Riff: Day Six - TIFF 2010 Street Level

Daily TIFF Riff: Day Six

arts-tiff-promise-584.jpg A still from the documentary The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town. (TIFF)


By Greig Dymond, CBC News

arts-dymond-52.jpgGood morning, everyone. It's Bruce Springsteen day at TIFF. The Boss has crafted some exquisite movie theme songs, including Streets of Philadelphia and The Wrestler. But he's here in Toronto with his very own film project, Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town.

Directed by Thom Zimny, the documentary takes a look at Springsteen's sublime 1978 album, which was delayed for a couple of years back then due to career-crippling legal hassles. Promise gets the gala treatment at Roy Thomson Hall tonight, and a few hours before that, the legendary singer-songwriter sits down for a Mavericks chat session at TIFF Bell Lightbox; actor Edward Norton will do his best James Lipton impression and conduct the on-stage interview. No doubt some wag in the audience will yell out "Bruuuuuuuuuuuce." If you're there, please, don't encourage him.

Another music-related doc premiering at TIFF today is Mother of Rock: Lillian Roxon, which traces the all-too-brief career arc of an Australian writer who moved to New York and became a seminal figure in 1970s rock music criticism. Iggy Pop and Alice Copper deliver their cogent opinions on her work.

The last time any of us saw Ryan Reynolds, he was waxing poetic about British Columbia's wide open spaces in one of those tourism ads that aired endlessly during the Vancouver Winter Olympics. He's here at TIFF promoting an altogether more claustrophobic project: Buried gets its TIFF premiere at Ryerson tonight, and, yes, he spends the movie "buried" alive in a coffin. It's getting some good buzz.

A couple of interesting Canadian films to watch out for, both set in Montreal: 21-year Quebec directing prodigy Xavier Dolan's Heartbeats screens at the Varsity tonight, and Jacob (The Trotsky) Tierney is back at TIFF with Good Neighbours (starring Scott Speedman and Jay Baruchel). Yesterday I had the pleasure of doing some web video interviews with Barney's Version actor Bruce Greenwood and Ed Gass-Donnelly, writer-director of Small Town Murder Songs.

I'm heading out now to do some more on-camera chats with Canadian filmmakers. Should be fun.Happy viewing. See ya tomorrow.

You can follow Greig throughout #TIFF10 at @cbcarts

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