Toronto International Film Festival: Jason Patric

Guy Maddin Dept: Three movies with a criminal element are featured at this year's festival, which opens Nov. 30 and runs to Dec. 4. They're part of a diverse lineup of 77 films 31 features, 46 shorts that have been culled from 17 countries. Writer-director Nathan Morlando's Edwin Boyd is about a notorious yet charming Canadian bank robber in the 1950s; it picked up Best Canadian First Feature at the Toronto International Film Festival, according to Vancouver Sun. The third movie in the Whistler crime wave is Keyhole, the latest bit of cinematic strangeness from Winnipeg auteur Guy Maddin. Starring Jason Patric and Isabella Rossellini, it's an homage to vintage gangster movies, shot in the dreamy, film noirish black and white Maddin favours and gangsters have taken over the Whistler Film Festival! But don't worry about packin' heat or wearing a bulletproof vest if you're planning on attending: The bad guys are all up on the silver screen. Marilyn was conceived by another legendary Canadian bank robber, Paddy Mitchell, who wrote the original script while he was in Leavenworth prison in the U.S., serving out a 65-year sentence. Unfortunately Mitchell died before he got to see Christopher Petry turn it into a film starring Ryan Robbins and Allison Mack, a movie that will have its world premiere at Whistler Dec. 3. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.