Why do one film if you can do more?

Work it: James Franco is slowing down. He’s got just one film, In Dubi

ous Battle, at TIFF this year. Yes, he directs and stars in it. But that’s nothing for him. In years past, he would have directed, starred, gaffed, focuspulled and written the theme song, and it would be just one of three James Franco movies at the festival, plus a head-scratching art installation and a DJ set with Michael Cera.

This means that, in Franco’s quasiretirement, other stars have the rare opportunity to earn the title of hardest-working TIFF star. This year, there are numerous actors with two films apiece: Kristen Stewart, Amy Adams, Natalie Portman, Rooney Mara, Riz Ahmed, David Oyelowo, Olivia Cooke, Ethan Hawke, Sandra Oh, Michael Shannon, Dakota Fanning and Sigourney Weaver.

There are also a few directors with more than one film, which is arguably more impressive because they can’t just show up for a one-day cameo to get their IMDb credit. This club includes Jim Jarmusch, Werner Herzog and even the meticulous Terrence Malick, here with two quite different versions of his history-of-the-universe doc Voyage of Time, one of them screening in IMAX.

Finally, there are those actors who are so in-demand they must be employing face-and-body doubles to be appearing in three films in a single fest. This year, we’ve found four. Rooney Mara has a starring role in

Lion, The Secret Scripture and Una, the latter role stirring early Oscar chatter. Gemma Arterton does triple duty in Their Finest, Orphan and Wednesday’s Midnight Madness event The

Girl with All the Gifts. And look for Armie Hammer in Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, the Midnight Madness thriller Free Fire and the controversy-plagued The Birth of a Nation.

But the champion has got to be 63-year-old French star Isabelle Huppert, who not only has a leading role in three films ( Souvenir, Elle and

Things to Come), but she was also in town over the weekend for an onstage conversation about her career, with 131 credits and counting.

Time to give up that medal, Franco. Ariel Teplitsky

A biting drama: Paramedics were called early Tuesday to a Midnight Madness screening of the film Raw at the Ryerson Theatre after “multiple” audience members passed out, the Hollywood Reporter says.

“An ambulance had to be called to the scene as the film became too much for a couple patrons,” Ryan Werner, a publicist for the film who was at the screening, told the Report- er. The graphic film, directed by French filmmaker Julia Ducournau, follows a vegetarian college student who becomes a cannibal.

The movie made its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where critics praised the film, comparing it to the work of David Cronenberg.

Raw will next screen Saturday at 12:30 p.m. After that, it heads to Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas. Officials there might want to have the smelling salts ready. Ups and downs: The escalators at Scotiabank Theatre are becoming worthy of their own documentary (Suggested titles: You Let Me Down, Staircase to Nowhere, Up with Critics). The down escalator went out on Monday. Tweeted the Star’s own Peter Howell: “Now the down escalator is busted at Scotiabank Theatre. Will our national embarrassment never end?”