Shit Year: My TIFF 2015 Schedule

September 10
9:45AM – Hitchcock/Truffaut (Kent Jones) – 4.6
11:30AM – Ixcanul (Jayro Bustamante)W/O
12:30PM – +One Floor Below (Radu Muntean) – 6.5 [same]
2:45PM – In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman) – 6.3
6:30PM – The Pearl Button (Patricio Guzmán) – 5.7
8:30PM – Fallen Objects opening reception

September 11
8:45AM – The Chickening (Davy Force & Nick DenBoer) + Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier) – 5.4
11:00AM – The Martian (Ridley Scott) – 4.9
4:45PM – Office (Johnnie To) – 6.9
7:00PM – Wavelengths 1: Fire in the Brain
  + 3D Movie (1975, Paul Sharits)
  – Fugue (Kerstin Schrödinger)
  – Prima Materia (Charlotte Pryce)
  – The Fire in My Brain That Separates Us (Benjamin Ramírez Pérez)
  + Something Horizontal (Blake Williams)
  – The Exquisite Corpus (Peter Tscherkassky)

September 12
8:45AM – 11 Minutes (Jerzy Skolimowski) – 3.5
11:30AM – Evolution (Lucile Hadžihalilovic) – 4.8
2:00PM – Apichatpong Weerasethakul in conversation with Dennis Lim
4:45PM – Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) (Eva Husson) – 4.6
7:45PM – Wavelengths 2: YOLO
  – A Distant Episode (Ben Rivers)
  – An Old Dog’s Diary (Shai Heredia & Shumona Goel)
  – The Reminder (Behrouz Rae)
  – Solo for Rich Man (Beatrice Gibson)
  – YOLO (Ben Russell)
  – Analysis of Emotions and Vexations (Wojciech Bąkowski)
  + Bunte Kuh (Ryan Ferko, Parastoo Anoushahpour, & Faraz Anoushahpour)

September 13
10:00AM – Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman) – 7.2
12:00PM – Sunset Song (Terence Davies) – 5.3
3:00PM – Maggie’s Plan (Rebecca Miller) – 5.4
5:00PM – From Afar (Desde Allá) (Lorenzo Vigas) – 4.5
7:30PM – Wavelengths 3: Light Space Modulator
  – Navigator (Björn Kämmerer)
  – Théodolitique (David K. Ross)
  – Office Space Modulation (Terrarea [aka Janis Demkiw, Emily Hogg, & Olia Mishchenko])
  – Palms (Mary Helena Clark)
  – Occidente (Ana Vaz)
  – Terrestrial (Calum Walter)
  – Tarlabaşı (Cynthia Madansky)
9:45PM – Faux Départ (False Start) (Yto Barrada) + Sector IX B (Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc) – 5.7

September 14
11:30AM – High-Rise (Ben Wheatley) – 5.9
1:45PM – Bleak Street (Arturo Ripstein) – 6.2
4:15PM – Incident Light (Ariel Rotter) – 4.1
7:15PM – Wavelengths 4: Psychic Driving
  + Actua 1 (1968, Philippe Garrel)
  – Time for Outrage! (Friedl vom Gröller)
  – Untitled (Behrouz Rae)
  – Many Thousands Gone (Ephraim Asili)
  – Neither God nor Santa Maria (Samuel M. Delgado & Helena Girón)
  – Psychic Driving (William E. Jones)
  – UNcirCling (John Creson & Adam Rosen)
  – Engram of Returning (Daïchi Saïto)

September 15
9:00AM – The Apostate (Federico Veiroj) – 6.0
11:15AM – +Office (Johnnie To) – 6.7 [down from 6.9]
2:00PM – Parisienne (Danielle Arbid)W/O
3:45PM – Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson)
7:00PM – Blood of My Blood (Marco Bellocchio) – 7.5

September 16
11:30AM – Demolition (Jean-Marc Vallée) – 6.3
2:15PM – Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous (Christopher Doyle) – 5.1
4:45PM – The Event (Sergei Loznitsa) – 5.5
10:15PM – Francofonia (Alexander Sokurov) – 4.6

September 17
4:45PM – Afternoon (Tsai Ming-liang) – 6.2
9:30PM – Frenzy (Emin Alper)W/O

September 18
9:00AM – Campo Grande (Sandra Kogut) – 5.5
3:15PM – Sky (Fabienne Berthau)W/O
6:00PM – The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (Ben Rivers) – 6.1
8:15PM – The Club (Pablo Larraín) – 4.5

September 19
9:45AM – Story of Judas (Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche) – 5.9
12:00PM – Our Brand is Crisis (David Gordon Green) – 4.0
3:00PM – Yakuza Apocalypse (Takashi Miike) – 5.6

September 20
10:00AM – +The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu) – 7.2 [same]
12:30PM – The Wait (Piero Messina) – 5.2
2:45PM – Les Cowboys (Thomas Bidegain) – 5.3
6:00PM – Where to Invade Next (Michael Moore) – 4.9
10:00PM – Neon Bull (Gabriel Mascaro) – 6.4


Films that would be priorities for me if I hadn’t already seen them:
The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson) – 8.2
Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) – 7.6
Arabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One (Miguel Gomes) – 7.5
Arabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (Miguel Gomes) – 7.3
The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu) – 7.2
Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One (Miguel Gomes) – 6.9
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.6
Love (Gaspar Noé) – 6.6
James White (Josh Mond) – 6.5
One Floor Below (Radu Muntean) – 6.5
Lost and Beautiful (Pietro Marcello) – 6.5
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien) – 6.4
Disorder (Alice Winocour) – 6.4
The Other Side (Roberto Minervini) – 6.3
In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel) – 6.2
Louder than Bombs (Joachim Trier) – 6.1
88:88 (Isiah Medina) – 6.0
Invention (Mark Lewis) – 5.9
Son of Saul (László Nemes) – 5.8
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos) – 5.7
The Witch (Robert Eggers) – 5.7
Mountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke) – 5.6
45 Years (Andrew Haigh) – 5.6
How Heavy This Hammer (Kazik Radwanski) – 5.6
Chevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari) – 5.5
Sleeping Giant (Andrew Cividino) – 5.4
No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman) – 5.3
Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven) – 5.0
My Mother (Nanni Moretti) – 5.0
Taxi (Jafar Panahi) – 4.9
Dheepan (Jacques Audiard) – 4.9
Santa Teresa & Other Stories (Nelson De Los Santos Arias) – 4.7
Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Kore-eda) – 4.6
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve) – 4.5
Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson) – 4.5
Youth (Paolo Sorrentino) – 4.4
Journey to the Shore (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – 4.3
Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra) – 3.9
Brooklyn (John Crowley) – 3.8