The Toronto International Film festival turns 25 this year – “an event that not only has grown into one of the world’s most important film markets but also has become the prime launching pad for Oscar bait.” – New York Times
- WHY ART FILM LIVES: Back in the 1970s it looked like big commercial Hollywood blockbusters would take over the world. Toronto was begun as an antidote to that. The festival quickly proved that “in a miraculously sustained but constantly shifting way, international cinema refuses to lie down and die. You can starve it and stomp on it with Sylvester Stallone movies, but its lifeblood keeps pumping, and it keeps growing new limbs.” – The Globe and Mail (Canada)