A Look at How My 2013 Toronto Film Festival Schedule is Shaping Out

August 21, 2013

By Brad Brevet

The 2013 Toronto Film Festival Press and Industry schedule was just released and after a quick look I think I have my nine days on the ground mapped out. There were a lot of conflicts, some of which are forcing me to see the second screening of films such as Labor Day, Gravity and 12 Years a Slave, but as of right now it looks like it will be a 25 film festival for me, beginning tiwth The Fifth Estate and ending with Hayao Miyazaki‘s The Wind Rises.

The only films I couldn’t really fit into the schedule were Xavier Dolan‘s Tom at the Farm, which conflicts with Rush and The Railway Man, which conflicts with the only screening of Parkland and if I was to see it the second time it shows it would mean missing both Joe and Under the Skin.

Of course, this year I may try and work the ticket system and see some of the films at their premieres the night before, which may change the schedule entirely. However, what follows is how things will most likely shape out.

Additionally, on the second page I have posted the complete list I was looking at and considering while putting this final schedule together, conflicts and all. You’ll see it isn’t very easy to sort these things out.

The 38th Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 5 to 15, 2013 and I will be there through the 13th covering as many of these films as possible, but clearly it’s going to be tough.

The Current, Tentative Schedule

September 5th

11:30-1:34 – The Fifth Estate (TIFF Lightbox 1)
3:00-5:59 – Blue is the Warmest Color (Scotiabank 1)
9:30-11:02 – Blue Ruin (Scotiabank 1)

September 6th

11:15-12:59 – Child of God (TIFF Lightbox 3)
2:30-4:33 – Rush (Scotiabank 1)
6:30-8:56 – Prisoners (Scotiabank 1)

September 7th

9:00-10:33 – Parkland (Scotiabank 3)
11:30-1:27 – Dallas Buyers Club (Scotiabank 2)
3:45-6:17 – Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (Scotiabank 1)

September 8th

8:30-10:11 – Therese (Scotiabank 4)
11:30-1:03 – The Double (Scotiabank 3)
2:15-3:56 – Can a Song Save Your Life? (Scotiabank 1)
4:30-6:04 – Philomena (Scotiabank 1)

September 9th

9:15-11:09 – Devil’s Knot (Scotiabank 3)
1:15-3:07 – Night Moves (Scotiabank 2) or 1:45-3:30 – Man of Thai Chi (Scotiabank 1)
4:45-6:55 – August: Osage County (Scotiabank 1)

September 10th

8:30-10:43 – 12 Years a Slave (Scotiabank 1)
1:00-3:20 – Third Person (Scotiabank 3)
9:15-10:45 – A Field in England (Scotiabank 5)

September 11th

8:30-10:21 – Labor Day (Scotiabank 2)
11:00-12:33 – Gravity (Scotiabank 2)
4:30-6:08 – Fading Gigolo (Scotiabank 7) or 6:00-7:33 – Dom Hemingway (Scotiabank 1)

September 12th