TIFF2019 Recap

Key
Saw at TIFF (Sept. 5-15)
Saw at Cannes
– Saw a pre-festival advanced press screening
Saw a screener of some kind

 

Tier 0 [A- / A / A+]
 

Tier 1 [B+]
Liberté (Albert Serra) – 7.7
I Was at Home, But… (Angela Schanelec) – 7.0
Uncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie) – 7.0
 

Tier 2 [B]
About Endlessness (Roy Andersson) – 6.9
Knives Out (Rian Johnson) – 6.7
The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio) – 6.6
Atlantis (Valentyn Vasyanovych) – 6.6
SaF05 (Charlotte Prodger) ~ 6.5
State Funeral (Sergei Loznitsa) – 6.5
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach) – 6.5
Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho & Juliano Dornelles) – 6.4
Those That, at a Distance, Resemble Another (Jessica Sarah Rinland) – 6.4
Parasite (Bong Joon-ho) – 6.4
Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa) – 6.3
A White, White Day (Hlynur Pálmason) – 6.2
Sibyl (Justine Triet) – 6.2
Collective (Alexander Nanau) – 6.2
Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov) – 6.2
 

Tier 3 [B-]
Synonyms (Nadav Lapid) – 6.1
White Lie (Calvin Thomas & Yonah Lewis) – 6.1
First Love (Takashi Miike) – 6.0
Anne at 13,000 Feet. (Kazik Radwanski) – 6.0
Heimat is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise) – 5.9
A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick) – 5.8
Fire Will Come (Oliver Laxe) – 5.8
My Skin, Luminous (Gabino Rodríguez & Nicolas Pereda) – 5.8
To the Ends of the Earth (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – 5.7
The Laundromat (Steven Soderbergh) – 5.7
Varda by Agnès (Agnès Varda) – 5.6
Zombi Child (Bertrand Bonello) – 5.5
Rocks (Sarah Gavron) – 5.5
 

Tier 4 [C+]
Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello) – 5.4
The Vast of Night (Andrew Patterson) – 5.4
Atlantics (Mati Diop) – 5.4
The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão (Karim Aïnouz) – 5.4
Three Summers (Sandra Kogut) – 5.3
The Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu) – 5.3
The Truth (Hirokazu Kore-eda) – 5.3
A Girl Missing (Koji Fukada) – 5.2
143 Sahara Street (Hassen Ferhani) – 5.2
Krabi, 2562 (Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong) – 5.2
My Zoe (Julie Delpy) – 5.1
Seven Years in May (Affonso Uchoa) – 5.1
Dogs Don’t Wear Pants (Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää) – 5.1
Devil Between the Legs (Arturo Ripstein) – 5.1
Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) – 5.1
Cunningham (Alla Kovgan) – 5.0
Saturday Fiction (Lou Ye) – 5.0
Les Misérables (Ladj Ly) – 4.9
It Must Be Heaven (Elia Suleiman) – 4.8
Proxima (Alice Winocour) – 4.8
Ema (Pablo Larraín) – 4.7
The Fever (Maya Da-Rin) – 4.6
 

Tier 5 [C]
The Moneychanger (Federico Veiroj) – 4.5
Deerskin (Quentin Dupieux) – 4.5
The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers) – 4.4
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Celine Sciamma) – 4.4
Frankie (Ira Sachs) – 4.3
Sorry We Missed You (Ken Loach) – 4.3
The Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yinan) – 4.3
Wasp Network (Olivier Assayas) – 4.2
The Twentieth Century (Matthew Rankin) – 4.1
Un Film Dramatique (Eric Baudelaire) – 4.1
Endless Night (Eloy Enciso) – 4.0
Wet Season (Anthony Chen) – 3.9

 

Tier 6 [C-]
Clemency (Chinonye Chukwu) – 3.7
The Climb (Michael Angelo Covino) – 3.0

 

Tier 7 [D+]
Blood Quantum (Jeff Barnaby) – 2.9

 

Shorts [Alphabetical]
Amusement Ride (Tomonari Nishikawa)
Austrian Pavillion (Philipp Fleischmann)
Billy (Zachary Epcar)
The Bite (Pedro Neves Marques)
Black Sun (Maureen Fazendeiro)
Book of Hours (Annie MacDonell)
Cézanne (Luke Fowler)
Circumplector (Gastón Solnicki)
Heavy Metal Detox (Josef Dabernig)
Hrvoji, Look at You From the Tower (Ryan Ferko)
Remembrance: A Portrait Study (Edward Owens)
Second Generation (Miryam Charles)
Slow Volumes (Mike Gibisser)
Sun Rave (Roy Samaha)
This Action Lies (James N. Kienitz Wilkins)
A Topography of Memory (Burak Çevik)
(tourism studies) (Joshua Gen Solondz)
Transcript (Erica Sheu)
2minutes40seconds (Han Ok-hee)
2008 (Blake Williams)
Vever (for Barbara) (Deborah Stratman)
We Still Have to Close Our Eyes (John Torres)
Who is Afraid of Ideology? Part 2 (Marwa Arsanios)