September 5
6:30PM – Blood Ties (Guillaume Canet) – Gray matter. // 5.1
9:30PM – Story of My Death (Albert Serra) – May be my most anticipated of the festival. // 5.5
September 6
11AM – Omar (Hany Abu-Assad) – NYFF, but also decent word from Cannes, and an Un Certain Regard Jury Prize. // 3.9
2PM – Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan) – Now if this one is good, that’s called a “winning streak.” // 5.0
4:45PM – Club Sandwich (Fernando Eimbcke) – Had never heard of this guy but D’Angelo is weirdly excited for this. // 6.2
6:30PM – Wavelengths 1: Variations On…
September 7
9:15AM – Salvation Army (Abdellah Taïa) – Agnès. // 5.6
11:15AM – Love is the Perfect Crime (Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu) – Happy End made my 2009 Top 10. // 6.6
2:15PM – Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón) – Not like I’ll have time to see it in theatres anyway. // 6.0
8:30PM – Wavelengths 2: Now & Then
September 8
1PM – Three Landscapes preceded by Song and Spring – Dorsky and Hutton. Hutton and Dorsky. // 5.9 [grade for the Hutton only]
7PM – Wavelengths 3: Farther Than the Eye Can See
10PM – Child of God (James Franco) – NYFF // 1.8
September 9
7:30PM – Wavelengths 4: Elysium
September 10
2PM – Le Week-End (Roger Mitchell) – NYFF. // 4.4
9:45PM – +Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie) – It’s aged very well. // 7.7 [up from 7.2]
September 11
4:15PM – Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt) – Funny how the // 6.3
7PM – Un Conte de Michel de Montaigne and The King’s Body and Redemption – Might bail after the Straub (have seen the other two).
9PM – Stray Dogs – Master Shots. // 7.6 [up from 7.5]
September 12
9AM – Joe (David Gordon Green) – Is Nicholas Cage wearing a stick-on beard in this movie? // 5.7
11:30AM – Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) – Birth. // 7.3
2:45PM – The Square (Jehane Noujaim) – NYFF // 4.7
5:45PM – The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki) – NYFF // 4.1
9:30PM – The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears (Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani) – -ica. // 4.8
September 13
10AM – The Amazing Catfish (Claudia Sainte-Luce) – Godard. // 5.3
11:45AM – Our Sunhi (Hong Sang-soo) – Feels like I’ve already seen it. // 5.9
2:30PM – Moebius (Kim Ki-duk) – My audience had better vomit or I’m not going to be happy. // 6.4
5:15PM – Three Interpretation Exercises (Cristi Puiu) – Rohmer-esque, eh? // 6.1
September 14
9:45AM – Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat) – All signs point to this not being one of her fairy tale movies, so ugh. // 5.7
11:45AM – Real (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – NYFF. Only seen Tokyo Sonata (unimpressed). // 2.8
2:15PM – October November (Götz Spielmann) – Revanche. // 5.4
9PM – 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen) – Shame. Please let this be nothing like Shame. // 4.5
September 15
6:30PM – A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (Ben Rivers & Ben Russell) – Gonna be honest. Not looking forward to this at all. // 5.6
9:30PM – When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Corneliu Porumboiu) – I’m a Porumboiu fan but this title annoys me. // 6.5
Films that would be priorities for me if I hadn’t already seen them:
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher) – 8.9
MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez) – 7.8
Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz) – 7.8
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang) – 7.5
Bastards (Claire Denis) – 7.5
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie) – 7.2
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhang-ke) – 6.8
La última película (Raya Martin & Mark Peranson) – 6.5
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) – 6.4
A Thousand Suns (Mati Diop) – 6.2
Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi & Kamboziya Partovi) – 5.9
Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche) – 5.9
The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard) – 5.8
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino) – 5.8
The King’s Body (Joao Pedro Rodrigues)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda) – 5.6
R100 (Hitoshi Matsumoto) – 5.6
Gerontophilia (Bruce LaBruce) – 5.5
Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (Aleksei Fedorchenko) – 5.4
Blind Detective (Johnnie To) – 5.3
Young & Beautiful (François Ozon) – 5.0
At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman) – 4.9
A Field in England (Ben Wheatley) – 4.9
Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam) – 4.9
Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen) – 4.8
The Invisible Woman (Ralph Fiennes) – 4.7
The Unknown Known (Errol Morris) – 4.4
Gloria (Sebastián Lelio) – 4.4
The Missing Image (Rithy Panh) – 4.3
Redemption (Miguel Gomes)
Burning Bush (Agnieszka Holland) – 4.0
The Past (Asghar Farhadi) – 3.8
The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann) – 3.5
Other TIFF13 films I have already seen:
Bright Days Ahead (Marion Vernoux) – 5.3
The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra) – 5.2
The Summer of Flying Fish (Marcela Said) – 5.2
Bends (Flora Lau) – 5.1
Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier) – 5.0
Jodorowsky’s Dune (Frank Pavich) – 5.0
Gabrielle (Louise Archambault) – 4.8
Sarah Prefers to Run (Chloé Robichaud) – 4.6
Siddharth (Richie Mehta) – 4.5
Mary Queen of Scots (Thomas Imbach) – 4.4
Pays Barbare (Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi) – 4.2
Burt’s Buzz (Jody Shapiro) – 4.2
Cold Eyes (Cho Ui-seok & Kim Byung-seo) – 4.1
Manuscripts Don’t Burn (Mohammad Rasoulof) – 4.0
Thou Gild’st the Even (Onur Ünlü) – 3.6
The Dismantling (Sébastien Pilote) – 3.2
The Art of the Steal (Jonathan Sobol) – 3.0
The Battle of Tabatô (Joao Viana) – 2.2