TORONTO, Canada — Double Oscar-winner Denzel Washington and a motley band of gunslingers opened the Toronto film festival on Thursday, blazing trails in a much-anticipated remake of the 1960 Western The Magnificent Seven. "Westerns change for the times they’re in," Fuqua told a press conference ahead of the gala screening of the film in Toronto. Toronto film festival co-director Piers Handling said of the film: "It’s an interesting metaphor for what’s going on in America right now." Spotlight on politicsThis year’s Toronto film festival also shines a spotlight on American politics, youth radicalization, racism, feminism and alien arrivals. Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone’s performances as a jazz musician and an aspiring actress in the bewitching musical La La Land, which opened the Venice film festival, has also stirred up a frenzy.

Source: Viet Nam News September 10, 2016 01:30 UTC