Posted on 17/09/04
A wrap for them, but not for you
One of the continuing truths of the Toronto International Film Festival is that you can't always see what you want. Sellouts have been common at the event and the box office decidedly boffo, as the entertainment publication, Variety, puts it. The same publication said TIFF's function "is to serve as a canary in the coal mine of future Oscar campaigns" -- presumably without the dying part. That's the TIFF dilemma: Some of the best movies of the year, but only a limited time and space in which to see them.
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