This is an archive of our 2002 Coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival

THE IMAGE FOR THE 2002 FEST

Over the duration of the festival, this site will be home to daily reports from one of the world's premiere festivals. Coverage of films will be mixed with diary entries, news, and other information gleaned from the streets and screens of the fest.

This year's fest has a shadow covering it, with the commemoration of last year's tragedy in New York. Several films deal with the topic of September 11th, and there will no doubt be much talk and reflection about the event that occurred in the midst of last year's fest.

I'm extremely excited that many films will be appearing that I've been looking forward to for some time - Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine promises to be scathing and erudite, while the doc on Gilliam's La Mancha sounds excellent (unfortunately, the bane of the fest strikes these two films - the screening times conflict!) In terms of big Hollywood fare, I'm pumped for Paul Thomas Anderson's Punch Drunk Love - an Adam Sandler / Emily Watson vehicle just has to be seen to be believed.

So, some time between now and the fourteenth, I'll see a whole bunch of movies, many of them no doubt becoming among my favourites that I'll ever see. It happens every year, a magnificent surprise, that freakishly good flick that seems to come out of nowhere.

May the fest be with you,

Jason Gorber
Filmfest.ca / TorontoFilmfest.ca

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