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Today marks day one of the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival, a massive congregation of filmmakers, buyers and journalists that starts the Fall Film season and the race toward the Oscars.
Some of the the films showing in Toronto include, Nate Parker’s “The Birth of a Nation,” Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land,” Werner Herzog’s “Into The Inferno” and Denis Villaneuve’s sci-fi thriller, “Arrival.
Our friend Kyle Buchanan is covering the Toronto Festival. He’s senior editor at Vulture.com and he’s also my co-host of the podcast, The Awards Show Show.
We had him in the Frame studio when I was still in Telluride to talk about the advance buzz out of Toronto.