Arnold Gorlick has spent decades working in the movie industry: as a projectionist, the owner and manager of the belated York Square Cinemas, and now the owner and manager of Madison Art Cinemas in Madison, CT. But when he attended the Toronto International Film Festival for the first time in 2014, he knew that he had experienced something special.
“When I returned from the festival last year,” Gorlick said on a recent episode of “Deep Focus” with Tom Breen, “when the shuttle dropped me off in front of my house and my wife greeted me on my front porch, I said, ‘I’m 67 years old, and I’ve had many experiences. And this was one of the greatest experiences of my life.”
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Gorlick (pictured) returned to the 10-day Toronto fest this year, which celebrated its 40th anniversary in September, running for 10 days and featured well over 300 movies. Click on the audio player below to hear Gorlick’s conversation with Breen about his experiences at this year’s festival, including a discussion of the best movies (Brooklyn, Sicario, 45 Years, Spotlight, and Miss Sharon Jones) and biggest disappointments (Our Brand Is Crisis, Being Charlie) Toronto had to offer.
Gorlick stuck around for the second segment of the episode to talk with Breen, Lucy Gellman, and Allan Appel about .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address), the new movie by Paul Weitz that features Lily Tomlin as an irreverent octogenarian who drives around LA with her granddaughter, looking to scrounge up enough money for the latter to pay for an abortion.