The Al Yankovic Story Wins Hearts & Applause At Toronto International Film Festival

Bizarre: The Al Yankovic Story: Daniel Radcliffe’s Portrayal As The Beloved Parody Musician Cheered On At The TIFF ( Picture Credit score – Flickr )

“The world belongs to the bizarre,” so says the tagline for ‘Bizarre: The Al Yankovic Story’. The wee hours of Friday morning belonged to Daniel Radcliffe because the comedy made its world premiere when the clock struck midnight on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition.

Radcliffe stars because the beloved parody musician within the upcoming Roku authentic movie, which made its world premiere on the Royal Alexandra Theatre, kicking off TIFF’s Midnight Insanity programming lineup, experiences Selection.

It was a full home on the theater and the group ate up each second of the parody biopic, cheering loudly for each shock cameo (of which there have been many) on the first “backstory” behind Yankovic’s greatest hits from ‘My Bologna’ to ‘Eat It’.

A few of the most raucous applause was saved for the Radcliffe-fronted rendition of ‘Amish Paradise’.

‘Bizarre‘ is directed by Eric Appel, who co-wrote the movie with Yankovic. Produced by Humorous or Die and Tango, the venture tells a largely fictionalized model of how the parody artist rose to superstardom.

It additionally marks Appel’s characteristic directorial debut, born from his 2010 viral video that depicted Yankovic’s life story as way more scandalous than it actually was, skewering the stereotypes of typical biopics.

Yankovic, Appel, Radcliffe and Wooden took the stage after the screening to interrupt down all the things the viewers had simply consumed and reply their urgent Bizarre Al questions. So, how did Radcliffe study to play Yankovic’s iconic accordion?

The opposite Midnight Insanity screenings embody anthology horror movie ‘V/H/S 99’, ‘The Blackening’ from director Tim Story, ‘The Folks’s Joker’ from Vera Drew, ‘Mission Wolf Searching’ by Kim Hongsun, ‘Sick’ by John Hyams, ‘Sisu’ by Jalmari Helander and ‘Venus’ by Jaume Balaguero, all of which can make their world premieres on the competition.

Ti West’s ‘X’ prequel ‘Pearl’ makes its North American premiere within the line-up, which can shut the Canadian premiere of “Lenore Will By no means Die,” from Filipina filmmaker Martika Ramierez Escobar.

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