08 septembre 2006

TIFF 2006

  • TIFF 2006 - 31st Toronto International Film Festival
    Sept 7-16 2006 - Official website

Programmes range from Canadian cinema, Documentary, Contemporary World Cinema (partly from Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and Venice), Short films, Avant Garde and a series of lectures with projected films by other filmmakers. Tallying up to 352 films from 61 countries.

I've already seen 23 films (updated) in Paris from this long list. And my recommendations go as follow, roughly by preference order (check numbered links for external reviews, and the hyperlinked titles are my reviews) :

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But there are much more titles I wish I could watch if I was down there in Toronto. This is the top10 I'm really looking forward to (whenever they get distribution in Paris) :

  1. Colossal Youth / Juventude Em Marcha (Pedro Costa) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
  2. Hana (Hirokazu Kore-eda) 1
  3. I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang) www 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
  4. Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) www 1 2 3
  5. Nachtstück (Peter Tscherkassky)
  6. Woman on the Beach (Hong Sang-soo)
  7. Dong (Jia Zhangke) DOC 1 2 3
  8. Roads of Kiarostami / Farsh-e Irani (Abbas Kiarostami)
  9. Red Road (Andrea Arnold) vdo 1 2 3 4
  10. Chronicle of an Escape / Buenos Aires 1977 (Israel Adrián Caetano) www
  11. Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke) 1 2 3 4 5
Then

  • Summer Palace (Lou Ye) vdo 1 2
  • Golden Door (Emanuele Crialese)
  • Manufactured Landscapes (Baichwal) DOC
  • Offside / Hors Jeu (Jafar Panahi) 1 2 3 4
  • The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (Ann Hui)
  • Hamaca Paraguaya (Paz Encina) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
  • Remembering Arthur (Martin Lavut) DOC
  • Very Nice, Very Nice (Arthur Lipsett)
  • The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky)
  • Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu) vdo 1 2 3
  • Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog) 1 2 3
  • Time (Kim Ki-duk)
  • Black Book / Zwartboek (Paul Verhoeven) www 1 2 3 4 5 6
  • Cœurs (Alain Resnais) www 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
  • Belle toujours (Manoel de Oliveira) 1 2 3
  • Day Night Day Night (Julia Loktev) 1 2
  • Jindabyne (Ray Lawrence) 1 2 3 4 5
  • The Violin / El Violin (Francisco Vargas Quevedo) 1 2 3 4 5 6
  • The Bothersome Man / Den Brysomme Mannen (Jens Lien) 1 2 3
  • To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die (Djamshed Usmonov) 1
  • These Girls / El Banate dol (Tahani Rached) DOC 1
  • When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts (Spike Lee) DOC
  • Brand Upon the Brain! (Guy Maddin)
  • Iran: Une Révolution cinématographique (Nader Takmil Homayoun) DOC
  • Psychiatry in Russia (Albert Maysles)
  • Mon Colonel (Herbiet)
  • The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (Sophie Fiennes) DOC 1 2
  • Requiem (Hans Christian Schmidt) 1 2
  • Times and Winds (Reha Erdem) 1 2 3
  • Half Moon (Bahman Ghobadi) www 1 2
  • Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Torro) 1 2
Great pre-festival discussion at Girish in the comments section (155 comments so far!)
Also my 3 top choices get mentionned on the Toronto Star in Peter Howell's article 49 buzzed-about movies (Sept. 2 2006), thanks to Ray at tiffreviews. And the Toronto Star critics selection from 80 films previewed : Fest Quest: What to see


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Online cinephile reports from TIFF :

And hopefully some podcast or YouTube videos from the festival by the inside bloggers...

Resources :

7 commentaires:

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Release dates for France :
Quelques Jours en Septembre 6 SEP 2006
Chacun sa nuit 20 SEP 2006
Grbavica 23 SEP 2006
To Get to Heaven First You Have to Die 4 OCT 2006
Babel 15 NOV 2006
Cœurs 22 NOV 2006
Black Book DEC 2006
Offside 6 DEC 2006
Red Road 6 DEC 2006
The Fountain 27 DEC 2006
Chronicle of an Escape 3 JAN 2007
The Violin 3 JAN 2007
Colossal Youth 17 JAN 2007
Golden Door 24 JAN 2007

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Filmmaker Magazine blog's report on TIFF

and updates from The Evening Class, Framing Device, Long Pause, Girish, Jim Emerson, Dave Kehr in the post above.

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Q&A's at TIFF screenings on YouTube

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Jia Zhang-ke's Still Life, winner at Venice, gets unexpected special screening at TIFF!

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Yes, one of the most acclaimed directors today...
I'll see his documentary, Dong, soon.

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Really? you're lucky! where do you get to see it?

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GreenCine Daily : Conversation and Postscript & Toronto Warp-up.

Michael Sicinski's reviews at TIFF