As the Toronto International Film Festival celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, there may be no two people better suited to talk about this milestone than Tom Bernard and Michael Barker, the co-presidents of Sony Pictures Classics who have spent decades making the annual trek to Canada to screen films that include (but certainly aren’t limited to) Couching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Whiplash and last year’s best international feature Oscar winner, I’m Still Here.
Ahead of this year’s festival — where the distributor is screening Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, the historical drama Nuremberg and Scarlett Johansson’s directorial debut, Eleanor the Great — Bernard and Barker discuss some of their favorite memories, from sharing a green room with Jimmy Carter to cheering on Philip Seymour Hoffman with the actor’s mom.
Where does TIFF sit among the other film festivals? And how has it changed?
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