TIFF names its Mavericks

Michael Caine, comedian Chris Rock and Barry Levinson will be in Toronto next month, part of the Mavericks sidebar at TIFF.

Organizers said Tuesday that the program — in which filmmakers discuss their latest — will see Levinson on stage to discuss his hour-long doc The Band That Wouldn’t Die, which follows a marching band in Baltimore. Rock, meanwhile, will talk up his Good Hair, which examines the culture behind African American hairstyles, while In Conversation with… Michael Caine will see the esteemed British thesp discuss his varied and extensive career, including his latest Harry Brown.

The Mavericks program also includes Peter Berg and his Kings Ransom, an hour-long doc that follows Wayne Gretzky’s move from Canada to Los Angeles and the effect it had on hockey.

The festival also revealed its plans for the Dialogues: Talking with Pictures program, in which filmmakers present pictures that have inspired them. Sook-Yin Lee, who will premiere her Year of the Carnivore at TIFF, will screen 1989’s Sweetie, the first theatrical release from Jane Campion. Also part of Dialogues this year are Joe Dante, screening Norman McLeod’s It’s a Gift, Neil Jordan with The White Sheik from Federico Fellini and Ted Kotcheff will present his own work, Wake in Fright.