Look at all of the "free" events staged in the city and generally they are sponsored by big business.....somebody has to pay the freight for being elitist.Toronto filmfest a farceCommon folk get 2nd billing to big business |
The Toronto International Film Festival is no longer the people's film festival. Co-founder Dusty Cohl would be appalled. His widow, Joan Cohl, is certainly unhappy about this breach of trust.
Dusty, the gruff yet big-hearted conscience of the festival for its first 32 years, would have railed against turning it into an elitist corporate spectacle, as it has now become.
He would have hated the annoying new policy of increasing ticket prices and letting donors go to the head of the line, while heartland people -- cinephiles, working stiffs, the common folk who are the lifeblood of the event -- are treated as rudely as dozens were on opening night, and as thousands have been in the distribution of tickets for the entire festival.
But Dusty is not here to analyze, complain and set things right. He died Jan. 11. So we have to speak up for him.
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