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TIFF [1999]

MovieForum.com Covers First Film Festival - Avoids International Incidents (or so he says!)

Given what I've been reading in the light of the TIFF fallout from our illustrious "competition" in the print realm, I figure this is the part where I'm supposed to strike up the string section and bemoan what a big hassle the whole thing was.

Y'know, how "hard" it is to be a roving reviewer in the MegaCity, pretending not to notice celebrities and lamenting for films as they (allegedly) were in the 1970s. How ten consecutive days of marathon seat sitting and watching celluloid unspool and collecting free "stuff" from distributors are sacrifices of one's energy only slightly less desirable than passing a bowling ball.

Well, chalk it up to my stereotypically "nice" Canadian nature, or maybe I'm still delirious from Second-Cup-"Energy Latte" overload, but I have nothing but fond memories of having attended the 24th Annual Toronto International Film Festival as MovieForum.com's official rep. By the end of the last day, I wanted to shake the next black-clad sourpuss I happened upon, and tell him "you can't score a "Reservoir Dogs" every year, pal, so why not drop the long face, turn off the cell phone, and attend the midnight screening of "Gamera 3: The Revenge Of Iris", with the rest of us citizens?"

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