TIFF 07: Stevie's Blog

I'm here in Toronto!!!

After waking up at the ungodly hour of 5am, then hoping for a bit of serious sleep on the plane ride from NYC to here, I was woken up by the announcement of our landing just a measely hour later.

By the time I dropped off my bags and grabbed my press pass, my whole pre-festival experience was over by 11am. Trust me, I'm not usually that time efficient! Since the festival itself doesn't officially begin until tomorrow, I'm left to my own devices and currently twiddling my thumbs!

I did stop by the Toronto Film Festival public screenings box office to check out some pre-screening buzz and not only saw (at least) 50 film fans lining up for tickets outside, but also a heavily crossed out film board with loads of movies sold out through the 1st weekend! 

(the yellow marks are sold out!)

I grabbed my notepad and took down the hot titles (to see if I was missing any from my own viewing list) and just in case you were wondering, the hot films through the weekend seem to be:

Jar City / Fugitive Pieces / Young People F**king / Disengagement / Edge Of Heaven / Iron Ladies of Liberia / Lust, Control / Secret Sunshine / Control / The Orphanage / Persepolis / 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days / Juno / No Country For Old Men / Brick Lane / The Assassination of Jesse James... / Diary of The Dead / Before The Rains / Into The Wild / In Bloom

(bold movies I luckily saw at Cannes a few months back)

Looks like I have a LOAD of stuff I should check out!

If you want to find out more of what's showing at Toronto, click on this link here.   

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Posted by Stevie on September 5, 2007 8:00:00 AM EDT #