Boston in Toronto

For a few hours last night, Wesley was here, Ty was here, and I was here, and we managed to coordinate schedules enough to grab a fast dinner before Ty ran off to see "Atonement'' and Wesley went to pack for his 6 a.m. (!) flight back home.

Meanwhile, it seemed, most of the Boston film community was nearby, checking out former Harvard grad student Nina Davenport's "Operation Filmmaker,'' which Wesley saw and wrote about in Monday's Globe. There at the screening: Gerry Peary of the Phoenix, Harvard Film Archive honcho Haden Guest, and filmmaker John Gianvito, whose "Profit motive and the whispering wind'' is playing in the festival's experimental Wavelengths program.

I didn't see Bo Smith of the MFA or Ned Hinkle and Ivy Moylan of the Brattle. But there they were later that night, when we all watched Julian Schnabel's mesmerizing "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.''