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TIFF Makes Our Head Explode

By David Topping


The Toronto International Film Festival made a whole fleet of announcements today. In addition to revealing their full line-up and gala presentation details (including the Coen Brothers’ no-way-it-won’t-be-amazing Burn After Reading), the fest is also rolling out the red carpet at Yonge-Dundas Square, which will host a ton of free stuff in the first half of September, like a slam dunk competition featuring LeBron James for some reason.
But oh, show-off TIFF wasn’t over, deciding to get all cocky and unveil a list of 500 guests expected to attend TIFF, a list that is unbelievably frustrating to scan but that you will slowly and steadily freak out about as you find more and more names of people you will be totally starstruck by. Brad Pitt. Michael Cera. Charlie Kaufman. Dakota Fanning. Matt Damon. Gael García Bernal. Ricky Gervais. Alec Baldwin. Zooey Deschanel. Renee Zellweger. Spike Lee. Viggo Mortensen. Christopher Walken. Keira Knightley. Ben Kingsley. Jessica Biel. Queen Latifah. Zac Efron. David Schwimmer. Two of the Culkin brothers whose first names aren’t “Macaulay.”
God bless you and keep you, TIFF; we’ll see you in September.
Photo of Gael García Bernal at TIFF last year by Taylor Zhou from the Torontoist Flickr Pool.

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  • Audrey

    All that info is swell, but all I want is an easy-to-read calendar with films by day. Damn you, TIFF! (*fist shaking*)

  • antiboy

    How hard do you think it’s gonna get into Burn After Reading? Hahaha…. ohhh this is gonna be fun.

  • GonzoForMayor

    uhh…. is it just me, or is Gael Bernal photoshop’d into this picture?

  • dc_comics

    i think the slam dunk competition features LeBron James because a documentary about him is playing in the Festival. “More Than A Game” is about his time in high school basketball.

  • Jonathan Goldsbie

    Audrey: The complete schedule comes out Tuesday, August 26, which is the same day as the programme book. Right now, the only schedules that have been released are for the Galas (the stuff playing at Roy Thomson Hall), the Visa Screening Room presentations (the stuff playing at the Elgin), the midnight showings of the Midnight Madness movies, and the Wavelengths screenings.

  • bigdaddyhame

    It’s ‘Asplode,’ not ‘Explode’, ninnies.

  • greatcop

    I do know that Justin Simms’s “Down to the Dirt” (based on the book by Joel Hynes) is playing September 9th at 8:45 at the Scotiabank Theatre.
    Go Newfoundland Go!