Now that’s a beautiful sight! Today was ticket pickup day, and I’m happy to report that the whole process went rather smoothly. I wasn’t doing any exchanges, so I only had one line-up to wait in…and thankfully that line was in the shade. All in all, the process took me 45 minutes (less than half…
Perfect
Yep – that about sums up my excitement. Just got the email from the Festival Box Office – I got all twenty of my first picks. I was actually splitting the order with three others, and combined we went forty for forty in first picks!! For those curious, my schedule is as follows… Thursday 9/4$9.99,…
The Waiting
So my envelope containing my TIFF schedule selections has been handed in, nothin’ to do for the next three days but sit back and wait. It’s kind of a nice moment actually…the calm before the storm. In less than a week, I’ll be running all over town, staying up too late, waking up too early,…
Rock With You
This afternoon I’ll take my lunch hour to run my selections over to the Dundas Square box office. Say a little prayer to the gods of Random Selection that I get at least half my choices OK? One of my choices was this film, Guy Ritchie’s ROCKNROLLA. Has it really been eight years since this…
Putting It Together
Here’s what I learned last night: Trying to schedule your TIFF selections + Brand new HDTV service = Amazing lack of concentration. I got through it eventually, and find myself rather happy with how everything might play out. As usual there are a handful of conflicts, but in going through the program book and the…
Missing You
Today’s the day I order take-out for dinner and spend a few stressful hours with highlighters scattered across my desk, my outlook working overtime, and working some mad google skills to get the scoop on titles I’ve never heard of. In short, it’s the day I try to draw up my Toronto Film Fest schedule.…
Breakin’ Me
About this time last year, someone in the know told me that The Toronto International Film Festival was getting close to point break (As in the point where the wave breaks…not the lousy movie cited in the photo above). I could follow the logic – galas were getting bigger, guest lists were getting longer, it…