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TIFF Makes Our Head Explode
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.