TIFF 2010 Hierarchy

Best
Cave of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog)

Standouts
You Are Here (Daniel Cockburn)
Silent Souls (Aleksei Fedorchenko)
Leap Year (Michael Rowe)
Film Socialism [no subtitles] (Jean-Luc Godard)
Ruhr (James Benning)
Attenberg (Athina Rachel Tsangari)

Quite Good
The Trip (Michael Winterbottom)
The Four Times (Michelangelo Frammartino)
Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
Promises Written in Water (Vincent Gallo)
Guest (José Luis Guerín)
The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat)

Good
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (Sophie Fiennes)
Kaboom (Gregg Araki)
Brownian Movement (Nanouk Leopold)
A Useful Life (Federico Veiroj)
Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Andrei Ujica)
Oki’s Movie (Hong Sang-soo)
Sensation (Tom Hall)
Outbound (Bogdan George Apetri)
Mysteries of Lisbon (Raul Ruiz)

More Interesting Than Watchable
The Ditch (Wang Bing)

Decent
Norwegian Wood (Tran Anh Hung)
Tears of Gaza (Vibeke Løkkeberg)
Summer of Goliath (Nicolás Pereda)
! Women Art Revolution – A Secret History (Lynn Hershman-Leeson)
The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet)
Anything You Want (Achero Mañas)
Route 132 (Louis Bélanger)

Problems
Erotic Man (Jørgen Leth)
Cirkus Columbia (Danis Tanovic)
Mamma Gógó (Fridrik Thor Fridriksson)
Home For Christmas (Bent Hamer)
The Last Circus (Alex de la Iglesia)
Cold Fish (Sion Sono)
What I Most Want (Delfina Castagnino)

Big Problems
Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (Andrew Lau)
ANPO (Linda Hoaglund)

Awful
Dirty Girl (Abe Sylvia)

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5 That I’m Most Interested in Re-Visiting
Meek’s Cutoff (Kelly Reichardt)
Promises Written in Water (Vincent Gallo)
Film Socialism (Jean-Luc Godard) – seen it w/Navajo & subless; 3rd time (w/English subs) ought to be charm
Oki’s Movie (Hong Sang-soo)
The Sleeping Beauty (Catherine Breillat)