If you're reading this, that means I've survived Day 1 at TIFF with at least part of my sanity intact, which means that I'm probably crazy enough to schedule just as busy a day tomorrow. (Saturday will probably be lighter on the movie screenings as I conduct a bunch of interviews for the movies I've already seen.)
Tomorrow is going to be tricky because it'll start with a super-early screening (8:45AM!) of Gavin Hood's Rendition, starring Reese Witherspoon, in the Varsity's biggest room (capacity 580) and I still expect it to be packed.
Next up is my most anticipated movie of the fest, the Coen Brothers' No Country for Old Men, which I expect to be mobbed despite being shown in two screening rooms simultaneously, followed at 3:30 by Jason Reitman's Juno, which I also expect to be packed considering how well Thank You for Smoking was received two years ago at the fest, and the raves that Juno received from the recent Telluride Film Fest. Oh, and it stars the ultra-cute Ellen Page, who despite her role in Hard Candy is legal.
At 8pm, I'll finally get to see my second most anticipated movie of the fest, that being David Cronenberg's Eastern Promises, which opens next week. I'll be doing interviews for this movie on Saturday morning with David Cronenberg and the cast, which I'm looking forward to, as well.
Unfortunately, this screening is a good two miles away from the rest of the screenings so I might call it a night after that, but if I'm still alive, I'll try to get to Dario Argento's Mother of Tears at 10:15, which they're screening in the theatre at the Royal Ontario Museum.
Hopefully, tomorrow will go as well as today, and keep checking back for updates as I start cranking out some reviews for movies I've already seen.