Key
– Saw at TIFF Proper (between Sept. 10-20)
– Saw at Cannes or Sundance
– Saw at a TIFF pre-festival press screening
– Saw a screener of some kind
Tier 0
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Tier 1
The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson) – 8.2
Tier 2
Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) – 7.6
Blood of My Blood (Marco Bellocchio) – 7.5
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
Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman) – 7.2
Tier 3
Arabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One (Miguel Gomes) – 6.9
Office (Johnnie To) – 6.7
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.6
Love (Gaspar Noé) – 6.6
One Floor Below (Radu Muntean) – 6.5
Lost and Beautiful (Pietro Marcello) – 6.5
James White (Josh Mond) – 6.5
Neon Bull (Gabriel Mascaro) – 6.4
Disorder (Alice Winocour) – 6.4
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien) – 6.4
The Other Side (Roberto Minervini) – 6.3
Demolition (Jean-Marc Vallée) – 6.3
In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman) – 6.3
Afternoon (Tsai Ming-liang) – 6.2
In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel) – 6.2
Bleak Street (Arturo Ripstein) – 6.2
Tier 4
Louder than Bombs (Joachim Trier) – 6.1
The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (Ben Rivers) – 6.1
The Apostate (Federico Veiroj) – 6.0
88:88 (Isiah Medina) – 6.0
High-Rise (Ben Wheatley) – 5.9
Invention (Mark Lewis) – 5.9
Story of Judas (Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche) – 5.9
Son of Saul (László Nemes) – 5.8
Sector IX B (Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc) – 5.7
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos) – 5.7
The Pearl Button (Patricio Guzmán) – 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
Yakuza Apocalypse (Takashi Miike) – 5.6
Chevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari) – 5.5
Campo Grande (Sandra Kogut) – 5.5
The Event (Sergei Loznitsa) – 5.5
Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier) – 5.4
Sleeping Giant (Andrew Cividino) – 5.4
Maggie’s Plan (Rebecca Miller) – 5.4
Tier 5
No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman) – 5.3
Les Cowboys (Thomas Bidegain) – 5.3
Sunset Song (Terence Davies) – 5.3
The Wait (Piero Messina) – 5.2
Hong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous (Christopher Doyle) – 5.1
Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven) – 5.0
My Mother (Nanni Moretti) – 5.0
The Martian (Ridley Scott) – 4.9
Taxi (Jafar Panahi) – 4.9
Where to Invade Next (Michael Moore) – 4.9
Dheepan (Jacques Audiard) – 4.9
Evolution (Lucile Hadžihalilovic) – 4.8
Santa Teresa & Other Stories (Nelson De Los Santos Arias) – 4.7
Hitchcock/Truffaut (Kent Jones) – 4.6
Bang Gang (A Modern Love Story) (Eva Husson) – 4.6
Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Kore-eda) – 4.6
Francofonia (Alexander Sokurov) – 4.6
Tier 6
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve) – 4.5
The Club (Pablo Larraín) – 4.5
Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson) – 4.5
From Afar (Lorenzo Vigas) – 4.5
Youth (Paolo Sorrentino) – 4.4
Journey to the Shore (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – 4.3
Incident Light (Ariel Rotter) – 4.1
Our Brand is Crisis (David Gordon Green) – 4.0
Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra) – 3.9
Brooklyn (John Crowley) – 3.8
Tier 7
11 Minutes (Jerzy Skolimowski) – 3.5
Shorts (these may or may not be ordered from favourite to least favourite [or vice versa])
3D Movie (1975, Paul Sharits)
Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson)
Terrestrial (Calum Walter)
Palms (Mary Helena Clark)
Actua 1 (1968, Philippe Garrel)
Time for Outrage! (Friedl vom Gröller)
Neither God nor Santa Maria (Samuel M. Delgado & Helena Girón)
Engram of Returning (Daïchi Saïto)
The Reminder (Behrouz Rae)
Solo for Rich Man (Beatrice Gibson)
Fugue (Kerstin Schrödinger)
Bunte Kuh (Ryan Ferko, Parastoo Anoushahpour, & Faraz Anoushahpour)
Faux Départ (False Start) (Yto Barrada)
Tarlabaşı (Cynthia Madansky)
Analysis of Emotions and Vexations (Wojciech Bąkowski)
Occidente (Ana Vaz)
Navigator (Björn Kämmerer)
Prima Materia (Charlotte Pryce)
YOLO (Ben Russell)
Many Thousands Gone (Ephraim Asili)
Untitled (Behrouz Rae)
Théodolitique (David K. Ross)
The Exquisite Corpus (Peter Tscherkassky)
A Distant Episode (Ben Rivers)
UNcirCling (John Creson & Adam Rosen)
Bird Heart (Halfdan Olav Ullmann Tøndel)
Psychic Driving (William E. Jones)
The Fire in My Brain That Separates Us (Benjamin Ramírez Pérez)
Office Space Modulation (Terrarea [aka Janis Demkiw, Emily Hogg, & Olia Mishchenko])
An Old Dog’s Diary (Shai Heredia & Shumona Goel)
BAM (Howie Shia)
A Few Seconds (Nora El Hourch)
The Magnetic The Magnetic Nature (Mateo Bendesky)
4 Quarters (Ashley McKenzie)
Rate Me (Fyzal Boulifa)
The Man Who Shot Hollywood (Barry Avrich)
The Chickening (Davy Force & Nick DenBoer)
*Something Horizontal (Blake Williams)