Hopefully, you’ve all enjoyed my coverage of TIFF these past two weeks. You might be tired of hearing about it, but spare me one more moment to talk a little about what I’ve learned on my trip to that spot of land a bit north of the USA.
This was my first time going to TIFF, going to Canada, covering and even attending a film festival. It’s a lot of firsts for me to handle – I hope I did okay.
I watched a grand total of 35 films (all listed here). I posted reviews for 22 films and did 1 interview. I took in 4 movies and 3 cups of coffee a day. I walked out of 2 films, fell asleep in 3 and couldn’t complete 2 due to projection issues. I saw my first film ever projected in 70mm (The Master, of course) and overall had a blast. I’m still trying to figure out how to go back to “normal” everyday life after that, but so it goes.
It’s only been a week and I miss you out of town folk
already. You all made TIFF so much fun this
year.
I must say that I 100% agree with point number seven. It is tempting to want to see all the “high
profile” films but every year, without fail, it is the randomness that sticks
out the most. There were films I enjoyed
this year, such as Lore and Blondie, which got no buzz whatsoever. Plus, sometimes the randomness you see turns
out to be bigger films once they actually get released. Examples of this for me include: The
Hurt Locker, No Man’s Land, In the Bedroom, Pan’s Labryrinth, Old Boy, Spirited
Away and Slumdog Millionaire.
I plan on having my final TIFF wrap up posted tomorrow.
From the minute I was in the airport I started to miss TIFF already… it was everything I could ever have hoped for in my festival going experience. Hope to see y'all soon and I pray that some of my randomness will turn into some of those that you listed… Oldboy played TIFF? Wow.