For the past couple of weeks, the Toronto International Film Festival has been looming over my head. I've been making lists and schedules and spreadsheets just to make sure I don't miss anything. As the days have been getting closer, the pressure has been mounting. Am I seeing enough movies? Have I written enough reviews? Do I have enough interviews booked? TIFF to me was like this giant vortex of film that was sucking my entire life into it but I don't like getting pulled into anything unless I'm good and ready to go. Last night, I got there. Today is the first day of TIFF and instead of being a nervous wreck, I am a very happy guy. I am ready to take whatever it wants to give me because whatever that is, is certainly going to be incredible.
Well, most of it will be anyway. I don't want to poo poo this festival right off the bat but they bring it upon themselves when they decide to program embarrassments like SCORE: A HOCKEY MUSICAL as the opening night gala screening. There will be no TIFF Bits today as there are only a handful of other screenings on the opening day but instead, I do have a full review of this painful Michael McGowan picture.
If you will excuse me, I need to get to my first screening: COOL IT, a documentary about that pesky environmental problem we seem to be having. Don't miss my first TIFF'd video piece at the end of the day. Happy TIFFing!
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