Many point to the fest's ability to launch Oscar campaigns — «Room,» «The Danish Girl» and «Spotlight» all had red carpet premieres there last year — while others look to programs like Vanguard or
even Midnight Madness for films that are off the beaten path.
Even the Midnight Madness screenings have red carpets now, if a movie as star - studded as Seven Psychopaths is playing.
Not exact matches
I saw four films, two back - to - back in the
evening, and did two interviews, one for Looper which I had seen the day before, and one for Dredd (which is playing
Midnight Madness here at TIFF
even though I originally saw it back at Comic - Con).
Even with
Midnight Madness, I didn't start seeing films in the programme until my fourth festival.
Now in its 25th years,
Midnight Madness has premiered films from the likes of Eli Roth (back this year with «The Green Inferno»), James Wan («Insidious»), and
even Oscar winner Peter Jackson («Meet the Feebles»).
The atmosphere in the screening rooms are terrific (don't
even get me started on
Midnight Madness) and I haven't once encountered a problem where someone was acting obnoxious during a screening.
Vacationing American friends, David (Naughton,
Midnight Madness) and Jack (Dunne, Lisa Picard is Famous), stumble off the beaten trail into a pub called the «Slaughtered Lamb» only to find its inhabitants odd and the pentagram they have drawn on their wall to be
even odder.
Even the writing on this film was campy beyond anything Disney had ever put on screen (including Trenchcoat and
Midnight Madness):
Plenty more friends, critics, film directors, hell,
even Programmer Colin Geddes» mom chime in, along with random folks waiting in line, on what it is like to attend TIFF
Midnight Madness — and why you should be planning out your way - after - hours vacation time for September 2013.