TIFF

Wow…that state-of-the-art tiff07.ca server sure is working out well. In case you keep score of such things, the scoreboard is currently at Box Office 1 – Hatter 0. Went to try and grab a same-day ticket for my fiancee to come with me to PERSEPOLIS tonight but found out that it was rush only (even…

So after taking another long hard look at the film list, I realized there were many many great-looking films that I hadn’t chosen. So I selected a good thirty or so and jotted them down on the list of “Screenings to Add”. You know the drill – you have a hole in your Tuesday schedule…

After standing in the courtyard at College Park for an hour and twenty minutes to pick up my tickets today, I am left with one unanswered question… Why was it taking so long to dole out orders? In the past, when I’ve gone on the same day- at the same time on said day -it’s…

Wow! I got my email this morning telling me that my selections have been processed. Of my nineteen selections, I got tickets to seventeen of them! I have never done that well off the opening draw. This might be the last time I get to do a 20+ screening festival for a few years, so…

So the brain has been racked, the picks have been made, the order has been submitted. Nothing to do now but sit and wait for Monday to arrive and find out what I’m seeing for sure, and which films I’ll be lining up for later. But just a little while ago, I spoke with a…

Selecting my Toronto Film Fest choices is something I have down to a bit of a science by now, but I still get amazed at how much time and effort it takes. There might be a change or two coming, but after going through the schedule once or twice, I think these will be the…