It may be hard to assess the sheer scope of a festival with over 300 features on offer, but TIFF 2012 looks like a particularly exciting year, opening with Rian Johnson's Looper and continuing with new films by Paul Thomas Anderson (The Master), Brian De Palma (Passion), Terrence Malick (To The Wonder), Joss Whedon (
Much Ado About Nothing), Noah Baumbach (Frances Ha), David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook), Olivier Assayas (Something In The
Air), Sally Potter (Ginger And Rosa), Harmony Korine (Spring Breakers), and many others.
Couple that with the choice of writer / director Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the
Air) to use Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot speech as an awkward framing device — combined with shots of the Voyager spacecraft leaving our galaxy — and you get
much hysterical
ado about not
much at all.