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Anticipating TIFF

Sunday, September 02, 2007  

For the first time in four years, I came up on the short end of the TIFF lottery system and, so, will have to do some hustling after I get to Toronto in order to track down three tickets. Because the first four Wavelengths programs were moved this year to the Varsity 7 -- the smallest of the TIFF theaters -- the ticket allotment was dramatically reduced, which left me shut out of the first three screenings. All were among my top 5 or 10 must-see tickets of the fest. Otherwise, I'm amazed by the quality of this year's lineup. And to think that I had to skip films by Alexander Sokurov, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Werner Herzog, Todd Haynes, Guy Maddin, . . .

As in past years, I plan to post capsule reviews throughout the festival.

9/6

  • Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud)

9/7

  • Fengming, a Chinese Memoir (Wang Bing)
  • Le Voyage du ballon rouge (Hou Hsiao-hsien)
  • Mutum (Sandra Kogut)

9/8

  • Mourning Forest (Naomi Kawase)
  • The Man from London (Bela Tarr)
  • Useless (Jia Zhang-ke)

9/9

  • XXY (Lucia Puenzo)
  • Secret Sunshine (Chang-dong Lee)
  • In Memory of Myself (Saverio Costanzo)
  • Wavelengths 4: Quartet (Nicky Hamlyn), Erzhalung (Hannes Schupbach), Gone (Karo Goldt)
  • Wavelengths 5: The Anthem (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), Schindler's House (Heinz Emigholz)

9/10

  • No Country for Old Men (Joel and Ethan Coen)
  • Encarnacion (Anahi Berneri)
  • Elizabeth: The Golden Age (Shekhar Kapur)
  • Wavelengths 6: Pour vos beaux yeux (Henri Storck), Faux Mouvements (Pip Chodorov), Tape Film (Chris Kennedy), ECP 2D: Sun (John Price), Discoveries on the Forest Floor 1-3 (Charlotte Pryce), Papillon (Olivier Fouchard), Ever Circumflicksrent...Page 298 (Bruce McClure)

9/11

  • Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)
  • Contre tout esperance (Bernard Emond)
  • Naissance des pieuvres (Celine Sciamma)

9/12

  • Une vieille maitresse (Catherine Breillat)
  • Redacted (Brian De Palma)
  • Dans le ville de Sylvie (Jose Luis Guerin)
  • Import Export (Ulrich Seidl)

9/13

  • Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)
  • Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)
  • Help Me Eros (Lee Kang-sheng)
  • Wolfsbergen (Nanouk Leopold)
  • L'amour cache (Alessandro Capone)

9/14

  • Dans la vie (Philippe Faucon)
  • Munyurangabo (Lee Isaac Chung)
  • One Hundred Nails (Ermanno Olmi)
  • La citadelle assiegee (Philippe Calderon)
  • Les Bons Debarras (Francis Mankiewicz)

9/15

  • La fille coupee en edux (Claude Chabrol)
  • L'Acadie, L'Acadie?!? (Michel Brault and Pierre Perrault)
  • Ploy (Pen-ek Ratanaruang)
  • Sad Vacation (Aoyama Shinji)


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