For those of you that have asked, here’s a preliminary list of what I plan on seeing at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. Nothing confirmed, of course.
- Everlasting Moments
- The Paranoids
- Il Divo
- Edison & Leo
- Slumdog Millionaire
- Mothers & Daughters
- $9.99
- Firaaq
- Medicine for Melancholy
- Ashes of Time Redux
- Deadgirl
- Hooked
- Passchendaele
- Year Ago in Winter
- Nuit de Chien
- 33 Scenes From Life
- Still Walking
- Acne
- The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
- 24 City
- Fifty Dead Men Walking
- The Ghost
- Tears for Sale
- Zift
- Me and Orson Welles
- Gigantic
- Barrage Contre le Pacifique
It’s a short list this year because I’m working during the festival. I’ve also tried to avoid any films that will be opening in Canada anytime soon and have tried to focus on foreign films that will probably never be screened again on this side of the world.
Oh, and of course, that list doesn’t include any short films. I do plan on catching at least 30 short films as well.
What’s on your TIFF list?
Let me know what you plan on seeing, and if you have any thoughts on the films I plan on seeing. I’m off to Algonquin Park to go camping for the weekend. Ciao!
I’m on the wrong coast for the TIFF, but I did want to point to Derek’s post about “Edison & Leo”:
http://www.penmachine.com/2008/08/edison-and-leo-hits-screen
It’s apparently “the first feature-length stop-motion animated movie ever made in Canada.”
I’ll be at Tears for Sale (first choice: Monday Sep8, second: Wed. Sep10).
Thanks for the link to the Edison & Leo post Darren. I’m definitely looking forward to it!
Andrew, sadly, I’ll be at the press screenings and not the public screenings, but let me know what you think of it!
Machine With Wishbone by my friend Randall Okita. It’s only 8 minutes you won’t regret!
That’s on my list of shorts Sherren! On top of the 26 films mentioned above, I’ll be checking out about 30 shorts too.