My TIFF 2011

Here’s my own TIFF 2011 line-up, arranged in a descending order of preference. Asterisks indicate that although the movie was screened this year in Toronto, I saw it on a different occasion. I saw 30 movies at TIFF, all of which are included below. I didn’t rate my two walk-outs, which were HELENO and HEADSHOT. Of the films I wanted to see but failed to do so, the most important ones are: THE KID WITH A BIKE, SHAME, THE ARTIST, DAMSELS IN DISTRESS and DRIVE.

Positions 1-7 represent film I would rate as PROs in CrixPix at CineMasters. It follows that positions 8-18 are *pros*, 19-27 are *mixed*, 28-33 are *cons* and 34-39 are *CONS*.

1. A SEPARATION* (Farhadi)

2. ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA* (Ceylan)

3. THE CARDBOARD VILLAGE (Olmi)

4. THE LONELIEST PLANET (Loktev)

5. DARK HORSE (Solondz)

6. TWILIGHT PORTRAIT (Nikonovna)

7. THE DEEP BLUE SEA (Davies)

8. FOOTNOTE (Cedar)

9. MELANCHOLIA* (von Trier)

10. GOD BLESS AMERICA (Goldthwait)

11. MICHAEL* (Schleinzer)

12. THE TURIN HORSE* (Tarr)

13. ELENA (Zvagintsev)

14. TWIXT (Coppola)

15. KEYHOLE (Maddin)

16. A DANGEROUS METHOD (Cronenberg)

17. MONEYBALL (Miller)

18. THE MOUNTAIN (Salhab)

19. YOUR SISTER’S SISTER (Shelton)

20. DREILEBEN – ONE MINUTE OF DARKNESS (Hochhäusler)

21. BARRYMORE (Canuel)

22. PINA* (Wenders)

23. OUTSIDE SATAN* (Dumont)

24. DREILEBEN – DON’T FOLLOW ME AROUND (Graf)

25. BURNING MAN (Teplitzky)

26. CHICKEN WITH PLUMS (Parronnaud/Satrapi)

27. THINK OF ME (Wizemann)

28. THE STUDENT (Mitre)

29. DREILEBEN – BEATS BEING DEAD (Petzold)

30. HABEMUS PAPAM* (Moretti)

31. LE HAVRE* (Kaurismäki)

32. ALOIS NEBEL (Lunák)

33. MICHAEL (Basgupta)

34. LIPSTIKKA (Sagall)

35. IN DARKNESS (Holland)

36. ELLES (Szumowska)

37. THE INDICENT (Courtès)

38. THE ORANGES (Farino)

39. ANONYMOUS (Emmerich)