{"id":2278,"date":"2007-09-06T17:13:56","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T21:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:00:47","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:00:47","slug":"tiff-when-toronto-belongs-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/09\/06\/tiff-when-toronto-belongs-to-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"TIFF: When Toronto belongs to the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/26\/43723846_75b37ee830.jpg\" height=\"375\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Life in a big city means from time to time it belongs to everybody else. In some major cities and world capitals, like London or New York, this is a near constant condition (a motorcade an hour, it would seem). Here in Toronto the city only really feels like that during certain times like Pride, Caribana or one-off events like World Youth Day in 2002. (Remember those subway cars full of young Catholics with red backpacks singing happily together?)<\/p>\n<p>The Toronto International Film Festival, starting today, tended to be more of an acute phenomenon in the past, generally located in and around Yorkville &#8212; but over the last few years, with the closure of Queen Street for the CityTV party, and new hubs of activity around the city like at the Drake, it&#8217;s much more of a city-wide event. It&#8217;s easy to get that sort of intangible sense that &#8220;something is going on&#8221; walking around many parts of Toronto. I&#8217;m always amazed at how many people not at all involved in the film industry are excited about TIFF &#8212; the vast majority remaining on the less-couture side of the velvet ropes during all the parties and events that go along with the films themselves &#8212; indicating it really does take over a chunk of the city&#8217;s consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>A couple weeks ago <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertsharp.co.uk\">Robert Sharp<\/a>, on his fine political and social commentary blog based out of Edinburgh, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertsharp.co.uk\/2007\/08\/27\/clocks-in-edinburgh\/\">posted about the<\/a> sad-but-kind-of-relieved feeling of a city returning to its citizens as the month-long Edinburgh Festival winded down:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Spare a thought for those of us still here.  Although there is a week left to run on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eif.co.uk\/\">International Festival<\/a>, the chaos on the streets ends tonight as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edfringe.com\/\">Fringe<\/a> finishes for another year. For us residents, it is nice to have the city \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcback&#8217; (along with the keys to the flat we have so prudently rented out), but it also seems empty and lonely. During August, media focus is weighted heavily in our favour. As the cultural influence boomerangs back to London, I think we feel the loss.<\/em><em><\/p>\n<p>No more late openings either. During the festival, it is as if the clocks in Edinburgh are put back a few hours, Edinburgh Daylight Squandering Time (EDST). In this local time-zone, 5am is the new 3am. Everywhere stays open later. This means parties and revelry finish later, which means bedtime is later, which means hang-overs are solved later\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 which means work starts later, which means work finishes later, which means parties and revelry start later, which means parties and revelry finish later. But the clocks go forward again tonight.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It would be interesting to hear about what people think about Toronto being given over to TIFF  (keeping in mind Edinburgh&#8217;s much smaller population of 450,000 people means the impact it has on that city is much greater). I could do without the Cadillac Escalades letting people off at the gala events (a challenge to enlightened activist-actor&#8217;s like Sean Penn: ride a bike to the parties &#8212; big heavy Schwinns for the bodyguards too), but otherwise living in a city hosting what Roger Ebert calls the second most important film festival in the world after Cannes, is not so bad.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of a lineup at the Cumberland by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/roy_sinai\/\">late_blOOmer*<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life in a big city means from time to time it belongs to everybody else. In some major cities and world capitals, like London or New York, this is a near constant condition (a motorcade an hour, it would seem). 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