The Most Toronto Movie Ever: NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE | TIFF

Midnight Madness programmer Peter Kuplowsky sits down with Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol to talk Nirvanna the Band the Show The Movie—a wildly Toronto-specific time-travel odyssey that turns CN Tower mythology, 2008 nostalgia, and Canadian pop culture into pure cinematic chaos. From turning Ontario landmarks into narrative fuel, to scoring the film with loving nods to Back to the Future, to chasing the collective fever dream of a Midnight Madness screening, this conversation digs into how the film was built, edited, and emotionally engineered for an audience in full eruption mode. A deep-dive into process, place, and the strange magic of making something fiercely local and gloriously unhinged.

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