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Spotlighting early greats of Canadian cinema

Glitz, glamour and a red carpet that gets longer every year. The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) never fails to draw Hollywood heavyweights, stargazers and paparazzi. But for all its star power and industry panache, right from its early days as the Festival of Festivals, it was the films and wildly enthusiastic audiences which made TIFF the most widely attended film festival in the world. CBC Archives looks back at the growth of Toronto's little festival that could.

Critics pick the top 10 Canadian films of all time - and in 1984, that means an emphasis on the 1960s and 1970s.
Medium: Television
Program: The Journal
Broadcast Date: Sept. 10, 1984
Guest(s): Jay Scott
Host: Barbara Frum
Duration: 9:54
Film Footage from: Mon Oncle Antoine courtesy ONF, Nobody Waved Goodbye courtesy NFB Canada, Goin' Down the Road courtesy Edvon Films Ltd, J.A. Martin Photographe courtesy NFB Canada, Pour la suite du monde courtesy NFB Canada, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz courtesy Astral Bellevue Pathé, The Grey Fox courtesy Mercury Pictures, Les bons débarras courtesy Les Productions Prisma Inc.

Last updated: November 29, 2012

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