TIFF in a Time of Strike

Last year, the Toronto International Film Festival peaked—at least from a publicity perspective—with a sold-out Q&A with Taylor Swift about her self-directed music video for “All Too Well (Taylor’s Version),” framed by the fest as a “short film” and lauded by CEO Cameron Bailey as evidence that its maker is a “brilliant visual thinker.” To give Swift credit where it’s due, “All Too Well” was one of the only entries at last year’s TIFF screened on 35 mm; somewhere, Quentin Tarantino and Christopher Nolan were surely pumping their fists.