TIFF 2012: A Near Perfect Festival Day – Four Films & Two Interviews

It’s my 6th year back at the Toronto Film Festival (aka TIFF), my 5th at Telluride, 4th year in Cannes, and earlier in the year, my 7th back to Sundance. I love film festivals, and as long as I can continue to cover them, I’ll be back to these four every single year. The ludicrous precedent I set for myself, years ago back in January of 2007, was an insane day at Sundance. Somehow I caught 6 films, did 2 interviews, and survived to live another day. Anyone who attends film fests knows that, even with a perfect schedule, squeezing in 4 or 5 films in one day is the limit. But if I can pull that off, and do some interviews, it’s a perfect festival day. That just happened here at TIFF 2012. By some miracle, I pulled off a perfect day, and honestly that rarely happens in Toronto. The …