Friday, August 28, 2009

TIFF '09 Schedule

Hey all. An update on the movie: I'm a few days away from being wrapped. It's alternately been exhausting, exciting, and maddening, but nothing matters per se until I'm in front of an editing program, putting together the pieces.

That said, my first stop after the shoot will be, as usual, this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Who knows how many of these screenings I'll land, but this is the ticket order I sent:

Thu 10

L'enfer de Henri-Georges Clouzot (Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea)
Broken Embraces (Pedro Almodovar)

Fri 11

Like You Know It All (Hong Sang-soo)
Face (Tsai Ming-liang)
La Pivellina
(Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel)
Hadewijch (Bruno Dumont)
Dogtooth (Yorgos Lanthimos)

Sat 12

Antichrist (Lars von Trier)
Melody for a Street Organ (Kira Muratova)
Irene (Alain Cavalier)
The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke)
Kelin (Ermek Tursunov)
Enter the Void (Gaspar Noe)

Sun 13

[La Pere de mes enfants (Mia Hansen-Løve)]
The Men Who Stare at Goats (Grant Heslov)
At the End of Daybreak (Ho Yuhang)
Independencia (Raya Martin)
Should I Really Do It? (Ismail Necmi)
Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu)

Mon 14

A Serious Man (Joel and Ethan Coen)
Survival of the Dead (George A. Romero)
Karaoke (
Chris Chong Chan Fui)
Mall Girls (
Katarzyna Roslaniec)
The Front Line (
Renato De Maria)

Tue 15

Wild Grass (Alain Resnais)
Soul Kitchen (Fatih Akin)
Lebanon (
Samuel Maoz)
Between Two Worlds (Vimukthi Jayasundara)
Tales From the Golden Age (Cristian Mungiu et al.)

Wed 16

Partir (Catherine Corsini) [Plan to swap for Leslie My Lame Is Evil (Reginald Harkema)]
Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story (Yousry Nasrallah)
Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz)
Every Day Is a Holiday (Dima El-Horr)
A Brand New Life (
Ounie Lecomte)

Thu 17

Ajami (
Scandar Copti and Yaron Shani)
Jaffa (Keren Yedaya)
La Donation (Bernard Emond)
The Search (Wan Ma Cai Dan)
The Happiest Girl in the World (Radu Jude)

Fri 18

Vincere (Marco Bellocchio)
Men on the Bridge (
Asli Özge)
Huacho (
Alejandro Fernández Almendras)
I Killed My Mother (Xavier Dolan)
Spring Fever (Lou Ye)
Nymph (Pen-Ek Ratanaruang)

Sat 19

Adrift (
Bui Thac Chuyen)
White Material (Claire Denis)
Eyes Wide Open (
Haim Tabakman)
Mother (Bong Joon-ho)
Happy End (
Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu)