The entire lineup for the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival was released to the public this morning, I’ve updated my spreadsheet here:
Based on this, and some slight deviations, here is a tentative Top 40 of what I’ll try to see:
- Independencia (Martin)
- (WV) Let Each One Go Where He May (Russell)
- (WV) Une Catastrophe (Weerasethakul, Straub, Godard, etc.)
- Like You Know It All (Hong)
- Women Without Men (Neshat)
- Eccentricities of a Blonde-haired Girl (de Oliveira)
- The Wind Journeys (Guerra)
- Irene (Cavalier)
- Hadewijch (Dumont)
- White Material (Denis)
- (WV) In Comparison (Farocki, Alonso)
- Dogtooth (Lanthimos)
- To Die Like A Man (Rodrigues)
- Enter the Void (Noe)
- (WV) Titans (Snow, Dabernig, Lutz, etc.)
- Huacho (Alemendra)
- Petropolis (Mettler)
- The Father of My Children (Hansen-Løve)
- Face (Tsai)
- Mother (Bong)
- Spring Fever (Lou)
- Happy End (Larrieu)
- La Pivellina (Covi & Frimmel)
- Lourdes (Hausner)
- Between Two Worlds (Jayasundara)
- Soul Kitchen (Akin)
- Life During Wartime (Solondz)
- My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (Herzog)
- Les Herbes Folles (Resnais)
- Police, Adjective (Porumboiu)
- The White Ribbon (Haneke)
- Scheherazade Tell Me a Story (Nasrallah) Vision (von Trotta)
- Moloch Tropical (Peck)
- Karaoke (Fui)
- I, Don Giovanni (Saura)
- Trash Humpers (Korine)
- I Am Not Your Friend (Pálfi)
- Hotel Atlantico (Amaral) Carcasses (Côté)
- Ajami (Copti & Shani)
- L’ Enfer de Henri-Georges Clouzot (Bromberg & Medrea)
If I’m overlooking anything significant, please let me know.
Take care.