Friday, September 16, 2011

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)

4 comments:

  1. Great work, brother! I’m looking forward to seeing some of these at the London Film Festival, DARK HORSE and ELENA especially. And loved A SEPARATION as you know.

    THE DEEP BLUE SEA is out here at the end of November. Both excited and slightly anxious about it, loving the play so much … How’s about a nice long review, eh? ;)

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  2. WIll do! But first, I need to watch it again :-) Hopefully it will happen sooner than later!

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  3. Adored ELENA, and liked DARK HORSE a great deal. Next up: THE FUTURE. ;)

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  4. Missed THE FUTURE myslef, hope you'll like it, heard good things about it! :-)

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