Since my cinephilia has been slowing down as of late, TIFF functions this year as a catch-up session for me. I figure so long as I'm able, I should document it, so here's a hopefully soon-to-be-chock-full-of-writing blog. Out of films announced so far, here's what I'm interested in--way more than I'll actually be able to see--listed by priority:
Les Amours d’Astree et Celadon
Silent Light
Import/Export
Une Vieille Maitresse
I’m Not There
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
The Mourning Forest
The Banishment
Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge
Diary of the Dead
Married Life
Forever Never Anywhere
Wolfsbergen
Naissance Des Pieuvres
Les Bons Debarras
The Edge of Heaven
Paranoid Park
Ne Touchez Pas La Hache
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Alexandra
Those Three
Corroboree
Contre Toute Esperance
The Sun Also Rises
The Last Lear
Poor Boy’s Game
The Band’s Visit
Help Me Eros
Atonement
Encarnacion
Me
Sous les Toits de Paris
Jellyfish
Before I Forget
I Am From Titov Veles
A Stray Girlfriend
To Love Someone
Starting Out in the Evening
Happiness
Mutum
Dans la ville de Sylvia
You, the Living
Ploy
And Along Came Tourists
The Savages
Cleaner
Iska’s Journey
Munyurangabo
Secret Sunshine
No Country for Old Men
Les Chansons d’Amour
Glory to the Filmmaker!
Redacted
Sad Vacation
Encounters at the End of the World
L’Amour Cache
Smiley Face
La fille coupee en deux
Useless
13 comments:
I can't believe Van Sant is way down at #23.
On second thought, I'm obviously more excited about PP than friggin' Sokurov, so I bumped it up a few notches.
Bottom line, though, is it'll still almost definitely be on the schedule.
I can't believe Van Sant is still after Akin.
I can't believe it's not butter, but I will still see the Van Sant save a scheduling catastrophe and/or the apocalypse.
I've been trying to finish California Dreamin’ on DVD for months. I can't imagine you'd dig it at all.
Also, why so low on the Nolot? You gave Porn Theater (an entirely appropriate) 61 and the buzz is strong...
At this point my memory of Porn Theater is almost completely faded, though I may give Nolot the benefit of the doubt assuming the new one is among the less likely titles here to get a distributor.
I certainly have some skepticism towards California Dreamin', but I liked what I could discern of the visual sense in the (shabbily edited) trailer.
If you think the trailer is shabbily edited, wait until you see the film itself!
I actually take back some of what I said about California Dreamin'. After its first hour, it turns into a far more complex movie... I wouldn't say I adored it, but I fully understand why it has its admirers.
Time to bump it back up a few notches, perhaps. How does it compare with e.g. 12:08? I noticed one of the main guys from that was in it...
Ouch, I just realized editing was finished after Nemescu died. No wonder it seems shabby! I wonder how his input would've changed it.
It's not very much 12:08 at all from a formal perspective. There are some fine visual moments, but the style here is more realistic, for sure. Its script is not as audacious either, although it still has many of the hallmarks of the new Romanian films (e.g. a cynical outlook toward the country's complicated past)
The editing becomes less of a problem as the thing goes on, although maybe I just started settling for less at a certain point.
Never mind on CALIFORNIA DREAMIN'; it plays this series so soon after the fest that I'd be a fool to bother. (Plus, STUFF AND DOUGH. Plus, shorts by Porumboiu and Nemescu. Score.)
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