Indie Roundup TIFF: ‘Looper’ director reveals film’s surprising influence plus ‘Thale’ and ‘No’

Toronto International Film Festival, Day-One Screenings:

Rian Johnson’s sci-fi thriller “Looper“ launched this year’s Toronto film festival and it was a great choice. The movie has the singularity of vision and the integrity of an indie or art house movie but it’s on an epic scale with Hollywood actors; exactly the sort of movies that Toronto loves to showcase. It’s also just about impossible to talk about without spoiling it. So if you’re remotely concerned about learning too much about this flick, do yourself a favor and skip down to “Thale.”