Toronto in the Round

As the Toronto Film Festival neared its end, I agreed to participate in a roundtable discussion about the festival's highs and lows, organized by Eye Weekly critics Jason Anderson and Adam Nayman (the latter an occasional L.A. Weekly contributor) and also featuring Variety critic Robert Koehler and Cinema Scope magazine editors Mark Peranson and Andrew Tracy. The ensuing, six-part podcast will, I suspect, do little to abate people's innate suspicions that film critics are a bunch of obscurantist blowhards in love with the sound of their own voices, but so be it. Nobody's putting a gun to your head and making you watch.