One of the reasons I go to film festivals—perhaps at this point the main one—is to see movies the way they’re meant to be seen. I don’t mean dazzling images on a silver screen, although that part is nice, especially compared to the frequently undazzling presentation of my local multiplexes. I mean sitting in an audience full of people who are excited to be there, hungry to see something they’ve never seen before, and open to whatever that might be. I look forward to the movies, of course, but most of them will, in one form or another, be around six months later. The audiences, with rare exceptions, won’t.

On Thursday, there was no audience that I would rather have been a part of than the one for the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie . I

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