It’s an exciting day when the schedule for the Toronto International Film Festival is announced. That day was yesterday, and I have already put together my master schedule for the week. Each year, while planning the trip to the festival, we always have to decide how long we want to stay. This is our longest stay for the festival, leaving Boston on Thursday morning, September 8, and returning on Thursday evening, September 15. A week seems like a good length of time. We are usually okay with missing the last two days of the festival (which wraps on Saturday, September 17) because, after all, it’s just two days. Well this year, I am greatly disappointed.
Perhaps the single film I was most excited about seeing in Toronto was Tsai Ming Liang’s THE WAYWARD CLOUD. The master director of WHAT TIME IS IT THERE? and GOOD BYE DRAGON INN returns with a surreal musical about a porn star. Does it get any better? I wonder what it would take to extend the trip an additional couple of days? We’ll have to ponder that.
(And if you’re wondering if this blog is going to discuss anything other than the Toronto International Film Festival; don’t worry, there are 6 other posters/writers for this blog and they’ll start posting soon!)