As I wrote a couple of weeks ago, this past trip was my 10th TIFF (in 12 years – I didn’t go in 2000 or 2001). It’s all The Indignant Wife’s fault, our first year together, she had me come up to the festival, a ritual that she and her friends had enjoyed for years […]

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Since I am a collector, it was easy to come up with the list of the best films I’ve seen at the festival, I just looked at my DVD list and sorted it by the films I’ve seen in Toronto. For the most part, I’ve seen many more good films than bad at TIFF, but […]

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I always try to choose at least one documentary at the festival each year. I live documentaries because they bring out a person, or a time, or an true event into sharper focus. Yes, they often have a point of view and most are relatively liberal in political slant, but so am I, so it […]

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As I’ve written above, I’ve seen far more good movies than bad ones at the Toronto International Film Festival. For one thing, most Hollywood dreck – stupid “rom coms,” sick comedies, inane films, don’t get shown in Toronto. Unfortunately, this is not to say that there aren’t some stinkers that we had to sit through. […]

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Well, before I get to this year’s wrap up of the Toronto International Film Festival (my tenth, unbelievable), it was a bit of a different experience for me this year. First, I had a feeling it would be different since my lottery luck seems to have run out. I should have known that this wasn’t […]

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Now, the annual recap of the films I saw. Warning: there are numerous spoilers in this article. Friday, September 10, 2010 I arrived last Friday afternoon and then had to traverse to pick up my tickets. I inadvertently went to the new building, which had one locked door and still a lot of construction equipment. […]

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Just to let you know – the show I wrote for (and started my need to proclaim my thoughts upon the world) is coming back. Next month, Comcast Sports Net will be showing “best of” editions of “The Sportswriters on TV” on Friday and Sunday nights at 11:00 PM. Look for my credit at the […]

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