Author name: Blake Williams

Key
– Saw at TIFF Proper (between Sept. 4-14)
– Saw at Cannes
– Saw at TIFF pre-festival press screening
– Saw a screener of some kind

Tier 0
Goodbye to Language 3D (Jean-Luc Godard) – 9.9

Tier 1
Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang) – 7.9

Tier 2
Horse Money (Pedro Costa)
 – 7.7
Phoenix (Christian Petzold)
 – 7.6

National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman) – 7.5

Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont)
 – 7.3
Amour fou (Jessica Hausner) – 7.1
Not My Type (Lucas Belvaux) – 7.1

Tier 3
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.9
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson) – 6.8

Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 6.8

Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg) – 6.7
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso) – 6.6
Heaven Knows What (Joshua & Benny Safdie) – 6.6
Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve) – 6.6
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) – 6.4
Tu dors Nicole (Stéphane Lafleur) – 6.3
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas) – 6.2

Tier 4

La Sapienza (Eugène Green) – 6.1
Alleluia (Fabrice Du Welz) – 6.1

Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ossama Mohammed) – 6.1
Tales of the Grim Sleeper (Nick Broomfield) – 6.1

Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) – 6.0
Gett, the Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz)
 – 6.0

Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako) – 6.0

Maidan (Sergei Loznitsa) – 5.9

It Follows (David Robert Mitchell) – 5.9
Episode of the Sea (Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, & the inhabitants of Urk)
 – 5.8

Ned Rifle (Hal Hartley)
 – 5.8
Manglehorn (David Gordon Green)
 – 5.7

While We’re Young (Noah Baumbach)
 – 5.5
Sand Dollars (Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas)
 – 5.5

Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh) – 5.5

Whiplash (Damien Chazelle) – 5.5
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To) – 5.5

The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy) – 5.4
Wild (Jean- Marc Vallée) – 5.4


Tier 5

Pasolini (Abel Ferrara) – 5.3

Wild Tales (Damian Szifron) – 5.3
Breathe (Mélanie Laurent) – 5.3

The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata) – 5.2

1001 Grams (Bent Hamer) – 5.2
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer) – 5.1
Letters to Max (Eric Baudelaire)
 – 5.0
Tokyo Tribe (Sion Sono)
 – 5.0

Two Shots Fired (Martín Rejtman) – 5.0
The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro) – 4.9
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller) – 4.9
From What is Before (Lav Diaz) – 4.9

’71 (Yann Demange)
 – 4.9
A Hard Day (Kim Seong-hun) – 4.9
Run (Philippe Lacôte) – 4.9
Bird People (Pascale Ferran) – 4.8
Los Hongos (Oscar Ruiz Navia) – 4.8
Mommy (Xavier Dolan) – 4.8
Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere (Diep Hoang Nguyen) – 4.7
The Theory of Everything (James Marsh) – 4.7
Far from Men (David Oelhoffen)
 – 4.6

A Girl at My Door (July Jung) – 4.6

Tier 6
Girlhood (Celine Sciamma) – 4.5
Elephant Song (Charles Binamé) – 4.4
Time Out of Mind (Oren Moverman) – 4.2
Red Army (Gabe Polsk) – 4.2
The Search (Michel Hazanavicius) – 4.2
Leviathan (Andrei Zvyagintsev) – 4.0
An Eye for Beauty (Denys Arcand) – 3.8

Tier 7

Still the Water (Naomi Kawase) – 3.6
The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland) – 3.5

Coming Home (Zhang Yimou) – 3.5
The New Girlfriend (François Ozon)
 – 3.2
Fires on the Plain (Shinya Tsukamoto)
 – 3.1
Return to Ithaca (Laurent Cantet)
 – 3.0


Tier 8
Le beau danger (René Frölke) – 2.9
The Cobbler (Thomas McCarthy) – 2.7

September 4
9:45AM – The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata) – 5.2
12:00PM – Gett, the Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz) – 6.0
2:45PM – ’71 (Yann Demange) – 4.9
4:45PM – Mirage (Szabolcs Hajdu) – W/O
8:45PM – +Alleluia (Fabrice Du Welz) – 6.1 [down from 6.9]

September 5
8:30AM – Far from Men (David Oelhoffen) – 4.6
12:00PM – A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson) – 6.8
3:15PM – +Goodbye to Language 3D (Jean-Luc Godard) – 9.9 [same]
6:30PM – Wavelengths 1: Open Forms – KwieKulik Group, Larose, and Rousseau for the (modest) wins.
9:45PM – +Amour fou (Jessica Hausner) – 7.1 [same]

September 6
8:45AM – Magical Girl (Carlos Vermut) – W/O
12:30PM – Phoenix (Christian Petzold) – 7.6
2:30PM – OBRA (Gregorio Graziosi) – W/O
4:30PM – Letters to Max (Eric Baudelaire) – 5.0
7:45PM – Wavelengths 2: Something in the Atmosphere – Too many strong ones to single anything out. Honoured to screen in this program.

September 7
11:30AM – Episode of the Sea (Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, & the inhabitants of Urk) – 5.8
2:00PM – Pasolini (Abel Ferrara) – 5.3
4:45PM – Tales of the Grim Sleeper (Nick Broomfield) – 6.1
7:15PM – Wavelengths 3: Tales Told – All solid, if not much beyond that.

September 8
8:30AM – While We’re Young (Noah Baumbach) – 5.5
6:30PM – Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve) – 6.9
9:45PM – Heaven Knows What (Joshua & Benny Safdie) – 6.6

September 9
8:45AM – Manglehorn (David Gordon Green) – 5.7
4:45PM – The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland) – 3.5
7:00PM – Horse Money (Pedro Costa) – 7.7
9:45PM – Fires on the Plain (Shinya Tsukamoto) – 3.1

September 10
9:30AM – Wild (Jean- Marc Vallée) – 5.4
2:45PM – The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer) – 5.1
9:00PM – Time Out of Mind (Oren Moverman) – 4.2

September 11
2:15PM – Sand Dollars (Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas) – 5.5
5:00PM – The Color of Pomegranates (1968, Sergei Parajanov) – 3.4
6:45PM – Return to Ithaca (Laurent Cantet) – 3.0
9:45PM – +La Sapienza (Eugène Green) – 6.1 [up from 5.6]

September 12
9:30AM – Ned Rifle (Hal Hartley) [SCREENING LIBRARY] – 5.8
4:45PM – The New Girlfriend (François Ozon) – 3.2
7:15PM – +Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang) – 7.9 [up from 7.2]

September 13
9:15AM – Breathe (Mélanie Laurent) – 5.3
11:45AM – +Horse Money (Pedro Costa) – 7.7 [same]
2:30PM – From What is Before (Lav Diaz) – 4.9
9:30PM – +Jauja (Lisandro Alonso) – 6.6 [up from 5.6]

September 14
9:00AM – +Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont) – 7.3 [up from 6.5]
3:30PM – Tokyo Tribe (Sion Sono) – 5.0
6:15PM – Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To) – 5.5
9:30PM – +Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve) – 6.6 [down from 6.9]

Films that would be priorities for me if I hadn’t already seen them:
Goodbye to Language 3D (Jean-Luc Godard) – 9.9
National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman) – 7.5
Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang) – 7.2
Amour fou (Jessica Hausner) – 7.1
Not My Type (Lucas Belvaux) – 7.1
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo) – 6.9
Alleluia (Fabrice Du Welz) – 6.9
Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 6.8

Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg) – 6.7

Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont) – 6.5
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) – 6.4
Tu dors Nicole (Stéphane Lafleur) – 6.3
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas) – 6.2

Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ossama Mohammed) – 6.1

Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) – 6.0

Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako) – 6.0

Maidan (Sergei Loznitsa) – 5.9

It Follows (David Robert Mitchell) – 5.9
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso) – 5.6

La Sapienza (Eugène Green) – 5.6
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh) – 5.5

Whiplash (Damien Chazelle) – 5.5
The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy) – 5.4

Wild Tales (Damian Szifron) – 5.3
1001 Grams (Bent Hamer) – 5.2
Two Shots Fired (Martín Rejtman) – 5.0
The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro) – 4.9
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller) – 4.9
A Hard Day (Kim Seong-hun) – 4.9
Run (Philippe Lacôte) – 4.9
Bird People (Pascale Ferran) – 4.8
Los Hongos (Oscar Ruiz Navia) – 4.8
Mommy (Xavier Dolan) – 4.8
Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere (Diep Hoang Nguyen) – 4.7
The Theory of Everything (James Marsh) – 4.7
A Girl at My Door (July Jung) – 4.6
Girlhood (Celine Sciamma) – 4.5
Elephant Song (Charles Binamé) – 4.4
Red Army (Gabe Polsk) – 4.2
The Search (Michel Hazanavicius) – 4.2
Leviathan (Andrei Zvyagintsev) – 4.0
An Eye for Beauty (Denys Arcand) – 3.8

Still the Water (Naomi Kawase) – 3.6

Coming Home (Zhang Yimou) – 3.5
Le beau danger (René Frölke) – 2.9
The Cobbler (Thomas McCarthy) – 2.7

Key:
16mm, 35mm, 70mm - It'll be screened from a film print. (Probably only applicable to Wavelengths shorts from now on.)
Features (40min. and up) are in bold.
Shorts are in italics.
⚉ - I have seen this film.
★ - I have seen this film and recommend it (6.0 and higher)
✖ - I have seen this film and recommend that you don't (3.9 and lower).
♨ - This film can go to hell.
○ - I am seriously considering making an attempt to see this film.
ஃ - I made this film.
C - This film was made by a Canadian. If it's any good, Torontonians ought to be able to catch up with it soon enough.
FS - This film is available for me to watch on Festival Scope.
® - This film has a Canadian distributor.
® - This film has a US distributor.

Colour coding:
NYFF - Main Selection only.
SUNDANCE - Listen Up Cameron.
BERLINALE - Alfred Bauer or bust.
CANNES - I've seen maybe two of the Jury Prize winners and I really don't like one of them.
LOCARNO - 5 hours and 38 minutes.
VENICE - The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance.
BIGGIES - Films by name directors that I'm actively anticipating, perhaps ill-advisedly. Also, films with raves from the other major festivals (Rotterdam, BAFICI, SxSW, Tribeca, etc.).

(Colors trump each other hierarchically, so e.g. a film that played both Berlin and Cannes will be red, unless e.g. it ends up in the NYFF Main Slate in which case it will become purple.)

Special Presentations (71; last year: 81)
American Heist (Sarik Andreasyan)
Before We Go (Chris Evans)
Beyond the Lights (Gina Prince-Bythewood) ® ®
Breakup Buddies (Ning Hao)
Cake (Daniel Barnz) ®
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas) ® ® ★
The Cobbler (Thomas McCarthy) ® ✖
Coming Home (Zhang Yimou) ® ® ✖
The Dead Lands (Toa Fraser)
Dearest (Peter Ho-Sun Chan)
Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (Johnnie To) ⚉
The Drop (Michael R. Roskam) ® ®
Eden (Mia Hansen-Løve) ★
The Elephant Song (Charles Binamé) C ® ® ⚉
An Eye for Beauty (Denys Arcand) C ® ✖
Far From Men (David Oelhoffen) ⚉
Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) ® ® ★
The Gate (Régis Wargnier)
Gemma Bovery (Anne Fontaine) ®
Gentlemen (Mikael Marcimain)
Gomorrah (Stefano Sollima) ®
Good Kill (Andrew Niccol) ®
The Good Lie (Philippe Falardeau) C ® ®
Hector and the Search for Happiness (Peter Chelsom) ® ®
Human Highway [Director’s Cut] (Bernard Shakey and Dean Stockwell) ®
The Humbling (Barry Levinson) ®
Hungry Hearts (Saverio Costanzo)
The Imitation Game (Morten Tyldum) ® ®
Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (Roger Allers, Gaëtan Brizzi, Paul Brizzi, Joan C. Gratz,Mohammed Saeed Harib, Tomm Moore, Nina Paley, Bill Plympton, Joann Sfar, & Michal Socha)
The Keeping Room (Daniel Barber)
The Last Five Years (Richard LaGravenese)
Learning to Drive (Isabel Coixet)
Love & Mercy (Bill Pohlad)
Madame Bovary (Sophie Barthes)
Maggie (Henry Hobson)
Manglehorn (David Gordon Green) ⚉
Mary Kom (Omung Kumar)
Men, Women and Children (Jason Reitman) ® ®
Miss Julie (Liv Ullmann)
Mommy (Xavier Dolan) C ® ® ⚉
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh) ® ® ⚉
My Old Lady (Israel Horovitz) ® ®
Ned Rifle (Hal Hartley) ⚉
Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy) ® ®
99 Homes (Ramin Bahrani) ®
October Gale (Ruba Nadda) C ®
Pasolini (Abel Ferrara) ⚉
Phoenix (Christian Petzold) ® ★
Preggoland (Jacob Tierney) C ®
Pride (Matthew Warchus) ® ®
The Reach (Jean-Baptiste Leonetti) ®
Red Amnesia (Wang Xiaoshuai)
Return to Ithaca (Laurent Cantet) ⚉
Revenge of the Green Dragons ((Andrew Lau & Andrew Loo) ® ®
Roger Waters The Wall (Sean Evans & Roger Waters)
Rosewater (Jon Stewart) ® ®
The Search (Michel Hazanavicius) ® ⚉
A Second Chance (Susanne Bier)
Shelter (Paul Bettany)
The Sound and the Fury (James Franco)
St. Vincent (Theodore Melfi)
Still Alice (Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland)
The Theory of Everything (James Marsh) ® ® ⚉
Three Hearts (Benoît Jacquot) ® ®
Time Out of Mind (Oren Moverman) ⚉
Top Five (Chris Rock)
Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) ® ® ★
Welcome to Me (Shira Piven) ®
While We’re Young (Noah Baumbach) ⚉
Whiplash (Damien Chazelle) ® ® ⚉
Wild Tales (Damian Szifron) ® ® ⚉

Contemporary World Cinema (58; last year: 59)
Aire Libre (Anahí Berneri)
Amour fou (Jessica Hausner) ® ★
Behavior (Ernesto Daranas)
Bird People (Pascale Ferran) ® ® ⚉
Black Souls (Francesco Munzi)
Breathe (Mélanie Laurent) ® ⚉
Charlie’s Country (Rolf de Heer)
Cut Bank (Matt Shakman)
Cut Snake (Tony Ayres) ®
The Dark Horse (James Napier Robertson)
Don’t Breathe (Nino Kirtadze)
The Farewell Party (Sharon Maymon & Tal Granit)
Felix and Meira (Maxime Giroux) C ®
Frailer (Mijke de Jong)
Gett, The Trial of Viviane Amsalem (Ronit Elkabetz & Shlomi Elkabetz) ® ★
Girlhood (Celine Sciamma) ® ⚉
The Grump (Dome Karukoski)
Heartbeat (Andrea Dorfman) C ®
High Society (Julie Lopes Curval)
Impunity (Jyoti Mistry)
In the Crosswind (Martti Helde)
Itsi Bitsi (Ole Christian Madsen)
Justice (Joel Lamangan)
Kabukicho Love Hotel (Ryuichi Hiroki)
Kill Me Three Times (Kriv Stenders)
Labyrinth of Lies (Giulio Ricciarelli)
Leopardi (Mario Martone)
The Lesson (Kristina Grozeva & Petar Valchanov)
Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont) ® ® ★
Love in the Time of Civil War (Rodrigue Jean) C ®
Lulu (Luis Ortega)
Margarita, with a Straw (Shonali Bose)
Meet Me in Montenegro (Alex Holdridge & Linnea Saasen)
Men Who Save the World (Liew Seng Tat)
Mirage (Szabolcs Hajdu)
Modris (Juris Kursietis)
Not My Type (Lucas Belvaux) ® ★
Out of Nature (Ole Giæver)
The Owners (Adilkhan Yerzhanov) FS
Partners in Crime (Chang Jung-Chi)
The Reaper (Zvonimir Jurić)
Red Rose (Sepideh Farsi)
Sand Dollars (Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas) ⚉
Still the Water (Naomi Kawase) ✖
Tales (Rakhshan Bani-E’temad)
Teen Lust (Blaine Thurier) C ® ®
Tigers (Danis Tanović)
Today (Reza Mirkarimi)
Tokyo Fiancée (Stefan Liberski)
Tour de Force (Christian Zübert) FS
Tu dors Nicole (Stéphane Lafleur) C ® ★
Two Shots Fired (Martín Rejtman) ⚉
The Valley (Ghassan Salhab)
Venice (Kiki Álvarez)
Voice Over (Cristián Jiménez)
Where I Am King (Carlos Siguion-Reyna)
Who Am I – No System is Safe (Baran bo Odar)
Xenia (Panos H. Koutras) ®

Discovery (39; last year: 28)
Adult Beginners (Ross Katz)
Atlantic. (Jan-Willem van Ewijk)
Backcountry (Adam MacDonald) C ®
Bang Bang Baby (Jeffrey St. Jules) C
Big Muddy (Jefferson Moneo) C ®
Corbo (Mathieu Denis) C ®
The Crow’s Egg (M. Manikandan)
Dukhtar (Afia Nathaniel)
Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere (Nguyen Hoang Diep) ⚉
The Great Man (Sarah Leonor)
Guidance (Pat Mills) C
I Am Not Lorena (Isidora Marras)
In Her Place (Albert Shin) C
The Intruder (Shariff Korver)
La Salada (Juan Martín Hsu)
Life in a Fishbowl (Baldvin Zophoníasson)
The Little Death (Josh Lawson)
Los Hongos (Oscar Ruiz Navia) ⚉
Magical Girl (Carlos Vermut)
Mardan (Batin Ghobadi)
May Allah Bless France! (Abd Al Malik)
The Narrow Frame of Midnight (Tala Hadid)
OBRA (Gregorio Graziosi)
Run (Philippe Lacôte) ⚉
Second Coming (Debbie Tucker Green)
Senza nessuna pietà (Michele Alhaique)
’71 (Yann Demange) ⚉
Songs She Wrote About People She Knows (Kris Elgstrand) C
Stories of Our Lives (Anonymous)
Sway (Rooth Tang)
Theeb (Naji Abu Nowar)
The Tribe (Miroslav Slaboshpitsky) ® ⚉
UNLUCKY PLAZA (Ken Kwek)
The Valley Below (Kyle Thomas) C
The Vanished Elephant (Javier Fuentes-León)
Villa Touma (Suha Arraf)
We Were Wolves (Jordan Canning) C
Wet Bum (Lindsay Mackay) C + Red Alert (Barry Avrich)
X + Y (Morgan Matthews)

TIFF Docs (21; last year: 22)
Beats of the Antonov (Hajooj Kuka)
I Am Here (Lixin Fan)
Iraqi Odyssey (Samir)
The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (Mami Sunada)
Merchants of Doubt (Robert Kenner) ® ®
Monsoon (Sturla Gunnarsson) C ®
National Diploma (Dieudo Hamadi)
National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman) ® ★
Natural Resistance (Jonathan Nossiter)
The Price We Pay (Harold Crooks) C ®
Red Army (Gabe Polsk) ® ® ⚉
Roger & Me (1989, Michael Moore)
Seymour: An Introduction (Ethan Hawke)
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ossama Mohammed) ★
Sunshine Superman (Marah Strauch)
Tales of the Grim Sleeper (Nick Broomfield) ★
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer) ⚉
This Is My Land (Tamara Erde)
The Wanted 18 (Amer Shomali & Paul Cowan) C
The Years of Fierro (Santiago Esteinou)
The Yes Men Are Revolting (Laura Nix & The Yes Men)

Gala Presentations (20; last year: 20)
Black and White (Mike Binder)
Boychoir (François Girard) ®
The Connection (Cédric Jimenez) ® ®
The Equalizer (Antoine Fuqua) ® ®
Escobar: Paradise Lost (Andrea Di Stefano) ® ®
The Forger (Philip Martin) ®
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller) ® ® ⚉
Haemoo (Shim Sung-bo)
Infinitely Polar Bear (Maya Forbes) ® ®
The Judge (David Dobkin) ® ®
Laggies (Lynn Shelton) ® ®
A Little Chaos (Alan Rickman)
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg) C ® ® ★
The New Girlfriend (François Ozon) ✖
Pawn Sacrifice (Ed Zwick)
The Riot Club (Lone Scherfig)
Ruth & Alex (Richard Loncraine)
Samba (Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano) ®
This is Where I Leave You (Shawn Levy) C ® ®
Wild (Jean-Marc Vallée) C ® ® ⚉

Wavelengths (19, including shorts programs; last year: 21)
Episode of the Sea (Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, & the inhabitants of Urk) ⚉
Fires on the Plain (Shinya Tsukamoto) ✖
From What is Before (Lav Diaz) ⚉
Heaven Knows What (Joshua & Benny Safdie) ★
Horse Money (Pedro Costa) ★
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso) ® ★
La Sapienza (Eugène Green) ⚉
Le beau danger (René Frölke) ✖
Letters to Max (Eric Baudelaire) ⚉
Maidan (Sergei Loznitsa) ® ⚉
The Princess of France (Matías Piñeiro) ® ⚉
A Single Word (Mariama Sylla & Khady Sylla)
Songs from the North (Soon-mi Yoo) FS ○

Journey to the West with Spectrum Reverse Spectrum
  – Spectrum Reverse Spectrum (Margaret Honda) 70mm ★
  – Journey to the West (Tsai Ming-liang) ★

Pimenta/ de Oliveira/ Abrantes ○
  – The Figures Carved into the Knife by the Sap of the Banana Trees (Joana Pimenta)
  – The Old Man of Belem (Manoel de Oliveira)
  – Taprobana (Gabriel Abrantes)

Wavelengths 1: Open Forms
  – brouillard – passage #14 (Alexandre Larose) 35mm ★
  – Against Landscape (Josh Gen Solondz) ✖
  – Open Form – Game on an Actress’s Face (KwieKulik Group) ★
  – The Dragon is the Frame (Mary Helena Clark) 16mm ⚉
  – Open Form – Street and Tribune in Front of PKiN (KwieKulik Group) ⚉
  – Poetry for Sale (Friedl vom Gröller) 16mm ⚉
  – Under a Changing Sky (Jean-Claude Rousseau) ⚉
  – Panchrome I, II, III (T. Marie) ⚉

Wavelengths 2: Something in the Atmosphere
  – The pimp and his trophies (Antoinette Zwirchmayr) 35mm ★
  – The Innocents (Jean-Paul Kelly) ★
  – Catalogue (Dana Berman Duff) ⚉
  – Relief (Calum Walter) ⚉
  – Red Capriccio (Blake Williams) ஃ
  – Under the Atmosphere (Mike Stoltz) 16mm ★
  – Beep (Kim Kyung-man) ⚉

Wavelengths 3: Tales Told
  – Twelve Tales Told (Johann Lurf) 35mm ⚉
  – San Siro (Yuri Ancarani) ⚉
  – Intransit (Jakrawal Nilthamrong) 35mm ⚉
  – Canopy (Ken Jacobs) ★
  – Detour de Force (Rebecca Baron) ★

Wavelengths 4: Night Noon
  – Lunar Almanac (Malena Szlam) 16mm ★
  – Deep Sleep (Basma Alsharif) ⚉
  – Orizzonti Orizzonti! (Anna Marziano) ⚉
  – The Policeman’s House (Mich’ael Zupraner) ⚉
  – Night Noon (Shambhavi Kaul) ★
  – Sea of Vapors (Sylvia Schedelbauer) ⚉

Masters (14; last year: 11)
The Face of an Angel (Michael Winterbottom)
Foreign Body (Krzysztof Zanussi)
The Golden Era (Ann Hui) ® ®
Goodbye to Language 3D (Jean-Luc Godard) ® ® ★
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo) ★
Leviathan (Andrei Zvyagintsev) ® ® ⚉
Murder in Pacot (Raoul Peck)
1001 Grams (Bent Hamer) ⚉
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson) ★
Revivre (Im Kwon-taek) ○
The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata) ⚉
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako) ® ® ★
Trick or Treaty? (Alanis Obomsawin) C ®
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) ★

Vanguard (12; last year: 16)
Alleluia (Fabrice Du Welz) ® ® ★
The Duke of Burgundy (Peter Strickland) ® ✖
Goodnight Mommy (Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala)
Hyena (Gerard Johnson)
Luna (Dave McKean)
Over Your Dead Body (Takashi Miike)
Shrew’s Nest (Juanfer Andrés & Esteban Roel) ® ®
Spring (Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead)
They Have Escaped (JP Valkeapää)
The Voices (Marjane Satrap)
Waste Land (Pieter Van Hees)
The World of Kanako (Tetsuya Nakashima)

Midnight Madness (10; last year: 10)
Big Game (Jalmari Heleander)
Cub (Jonas Govaerts)
The Editor (Matthew Kennedy & Adam Brooks) C
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (Mark Hartley) ® ®
The Guest (Adam Wingard) ® ®
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell) ® ® ⚉
[REC] 4: Apocalypse (Jaume Balagueró) ® ®
Tokyo Tribe (Sion Sono) ⚉
Tusk (Kevin Smith) ®
What We Do in the Shadows (Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi)

Mavericks (9; last year: 9)
Do I Sound Gay? (David Thorpe)
The 50 Year Argument (Martin Scorsese & David Tedeschi)
Mavericks Conversation With… Denzel Washington and Antoine Fuqua
Mavericks Conversation With… Juliette Binoche
Mavericks Conversation With… Reese Witherspoon
Mavericks Conversation With… Richard Gere
Mavericks Conversation With… Robert Duvall
Mavericks Conversation With… Jon Stewart
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Julie Taymor)

City to City: Seoul (8; last year: 10)
Alive (Park Jung-bum) ○
A Dream of Iron (Kelvin Kyung Kun Park) FS
A Girl at My Door (July Jung) ⚉
A Hard Day (Kim Seong-hun) ⚉
Cart (Boo Ji-Young)
Confession (Lee Do-yun)
Gyeongju (Zhang Lu) FS
Scarlet Innocence (Yim Pil-sung)

TIFF Cinematheque (8; last year: 7)
The Color of Pomegranates (Sergei Parajanov) ✖
Crime Wave (1985, John Paizs) C ○
Cruel Story of Youth (Nagisa Ôshima) ○
Dragon Inn (King Hu) ○
The Goddess (Wu Yonggang) ⚉
In Comparison (Harun Farocki) ★
My Darling Clementine (John Ford) ○
Speaking Parts (1989, Atom Egoyan) C ○

Future Projections (5; last year: 9)
Anna and the Tower (Lynne Marsh)
BMX Channel + Midnight Traceur (Shaun Gladwell)
Nature of the Self (Laurent Montaron)
Provenance (Amie Siegel) ○
Some Graphic Sex, Heavy Drinking, Bloody Violence, and Dirty Language: Seven One-Minute Feature-Like Films About Seoul (Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries)

TIFF Kids (4; last year: 5)
Labyrinthus (Douglas Boswell)
Paper Planes (Robert Connolly)
Secrets of War (Dennis Bots)
Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore)

Short Cuts Canada
Go to the festival website if you want to know what’s playing in this section.

Short Cuts International
Ditto.

Tier 0 (A / A+)
Goodbye to Language (Jean-Luc Godard) – 9.9

Tier 1 (A-)
–

Tier 2 (B+)
National Gallery (Frederick Wiseman) – 7.5
Amour fou (Jessica Hausner) – 7.1

Tier 3 (B)
Alleluia (Fabrice Du Welz) – 6.9
Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 6.8
Welcome to New York (Abel Ferrara) – 6.6
Li’l Quinquin (Bruno Dumont) – 6.5
The Kindergarten Teacher (Nadav Lapid) – 6.5
Winter Sleep (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) – 6.4
Saint Laurent (Bertrand Bonello) – 6.3
Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas) – 6.2
In the Name of My Daughter (André Téchiné) – 6.2
The Wonders (Alice Rohrwacher) – 6.2

Tier 4 (B-)
Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ossama Mohammed) – 6.1
Eat Your Bones (Jean-Charles Hue) – 6.1
Force Majeure (Ruben Östlund) – 6.0
Timbuktu (Abderrahmane Sissako) – 6.0
Maïdan (Sergei Loznitsa) – 5.9
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell) – 5.9
The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones) – 5.8
Jauja (Lisandro Alonso) – 5.6
Mr. Turner (Mike Leigh) – 5.5
Queen and Country (John Boorman) – 5.5
The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy) – 5.4

Tier 5 (C+)
The Blue Room (Mathieu Amalric) – 5.3
Wild Tales (Damián Szifron) – 5.3
Misunderstood (Asia Argento) – 5.3
The Salvation (Kristian Levring) – 5.2
Jimmy’s Hall (Ken Loach) – 5.1
Party Girl (Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, & Samuel Theis) – 5.1
Mercuriales (Virgil Vernier) – 5.0
Foxcatcher (Bennett Miller) – 4.9
Run (Philippe Lacôte) – 4.9
Bird People (Pascale Ferran) – 4.8
Mommy (Xavier Dolan) – 4.8
Beautiful Youth (Jaime Rosales) – 4.8
The Captive (Atom Egoyan) – 4.7
A Girl at My Door (July Jung) – 4.6

Tier 6 (C)
Girlhood (Celine Sciamma) – 4.5
Snow in Paradise (Andrew Hulme) – 4.4
Darker Than Midnight (Sebastiano Riso) – 4.3
The Salt of the Earth (Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado) – 4.3
The Search (Michel Hazanavicius) – 4.2
Red Army (Polsky Gabe) – 4.2
When Animals Dream (Jonas Alexander Arnby) – 4.1
Maps to the Stars (David Cronenberg) – 4.0
Leviathan (Andrei Zvyagintsev) – 4.0
Lost River (Ryan Gosling) – 3.9

Tier 7 (C-)
Still the Water (Naomi Kawase) – 3.6
Hippocrates (Thomas Lilti) – 3.6
Coming Home (Zhang Yimou) – 3.5
White God (Kornél Mundruczó) – 3.2
The Girl and the River (Aurélia Georges) – 3.0

Tier 8 (D+)
Grace of Monaco (Olivier Dahan) – 2.9

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“Like a tiny drop of dew, or a bubble floating in a stream,
Like a flash of lightning in a summer cloud,
Or a flickering lamp, an illusion, a phantom, or a dream.
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Past Logs

2013 Film Log
2012 Film Log
2011 Film Log
2010 Film Log
2009 Film Log
2007 Film Log

 

*8mm/16mm/35mm/70mm denotes that what I saw was a film print.
*DP denotes that what I saw was a Digital Projection in a theatre, either because the film doesn’t exist on celluloid, or the theatre where I saw it is run by incompetent penny pinchers [or – more likely now – that’s the only “print” the studio was willing to send out].
*3D denotes that I saw it in 3D, obvi.
*All others were either from DVDs, downloads, or television.
*Only films that are at least 40 minutes long (the Academy’s minimum for a feature film) are logged.
*A grade of “Inc.” denotes that I don’t think that this screening was an accurate enough presentation of the film for me to make a value judgment, either because their weren’t English subtitles for a foreign language film, or the projector broke/sound cut out/the print burned, or an ass in the theatre distracted me with too much talking/popcorn eating, or, like the incident with 2001: A Space Odyssey at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, MA, the reels are shown out of order.
*Regarding W/Os, I almost always finish what I start, and what I don’t, I don’t log.
*A ‘+’ at the beginning of a line means that I had seen this film before.

 

And that translates to:

A+	9.4 - 10.0	[Top 10 of All Time contender]
A	8.6 - 9.3	[Masterpiece]
A-	7.8 - 8.5	[Great; Near-masterpiece]
B+	7.0 - 7.7	[Near-great; Contender for Top 10 of its year]
B	6.2 - 6.9	[Has a special something]
B-	5.4 - 6.1	[Solid]
C+	4.6 - 5.3	[Decent, but flawed]
C	3.8 - 4.5	[Forgettable; Mediocre]
C-	3.0 - 3.7	[What a failure]
D+	2.2 - 2.9	[What-a-failure with cheese]
D	1.4 - 2.1	[Grating]
D-	0.6 - 1.3	[Offensively horrific; Horrifically offensive]
F	0.0 - 0.5	[Worst of All Time consideration]

 

January

American Hustle (2013, David O. Russell) DP – 4.8

Enough Said (2013, Nicole Holofcener) – 6.3

+City Lights (1931, Charles Chaplin) – 6.9 [down from ~8.5]

The Conjuring (2013, James Wan) – 4.0

Ossessione (1943, Luchino Visconti) – 5.1

+Contempt (1963, Jean-Luc Godard) DP – 6.6 [same]

Cocksucker Blues (1972, Robert Frank) DP – 6.9

Candyman (1992, Bernard Rose) – 3.4

+Inside Llewyn Davis (2013, Joel & Ethan Coen) DP – 6.5 [same]

The Minister (2011, Pierre Schöller) – 4.9

White Reindeer (2013, Zach Clark) – 4.8

The Rocket (2013, Kim Mordaunt) – 3.8

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013, David Lowery) – 4.5

Pépé le Moko (1937, Julien Duvivier) – 5.4

Old Dog (2011, Pema Tseden) – 5.4

About Time (2013, Richard Curtis) – 4.9

Paradise: Faith (2012, Ulrich Seidl) – 6.0

Paradise: Hope (2013, Ulrich Seidl) – 5.5

First Cousin Once Removed (2012, Alan Berliner) – 6.1

The Dallas Buyers Club (2013, Jean-Marc Vallée) – 5.2

eXistenZ (1999, David Cronenberg) 35mm – 6.7

Scanners (1981, David Cronenberg) 35mm – 5.3

Sheep (2013, Gilles Deroo & Marianne Pistone) – 7.1

Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (2013, Gabe Klinger) – 6.3

+Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach) – 7.4 [up from 7.0]

The Bandit (1946, Alberto Lattuada) – 4.7

Frankenstein (1931, James Whale) 16mm – 5.8

The Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale) 16mm – 7.0

+Friday Night (2002, Claire Denis) – 6.4 [same]

Le Petit soldat (1963, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.6

Business is Business (1971, Paul Verhoeven) 35mm – Inc. [awful English dub]

+A Woman is a Woman (1961, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.1 [down from ~7.5]

Story of a Love Affair (1950, Michelangelo Antonioni) – 4.3

+The Counselor [Unrated Extended Cut] (2013, Ridley Scott) – 6.9 [Theatrical Cut: 6.4]

Sentimental Education (2013, Júlio Bressane) – 6.7

The Carabineers (1963, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 4.7

Charlie Victor Romeo (2013, Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels, & Karlyn Michelson) – 5.3

Katie Tippel (1975, Paul Verhoeven) 35mm – 4.9

 

February

Band of Outsiders (1964, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.7

Body and Soul (1925, Oscar Micheaux) 35mm – 5.4

Funny Ha Ha (2002, Andrew Bujalski) 35mm – 6.2

Mr. Arkadin [Comprehensive Version] (1955, Orson Welles) – 4.5

Mutual Appreciation (2005, Andrew Bujalski) 35mm – 4.8

+The Counselor [Unrated Extended Cut] (2013, Ridley Scott) – 6.9 [same]

Masculin Féminin (1966, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.0

+Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927, Walter Ruttmann) – 5.7 [up from 5.2]

Made in U.S.A. (1966, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 4.9

+The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999, Anthony Minghella) – 5.9 [~same]

Far from Vietnam (1967, Alain Resnais, William Klein, Joris Ivens, Agnès Varda, Claude Lelouch, Jean-Luc Godard, & Chris Marker) DP – 7.2

+In the City of Sylvia (2007, José Luis Guerín) – 8.7 [~same]

Purple Noon (1960, René Clément) – 6.1

We Are the Best! (2013, Lukas Moodysson) – 5.8

La Chinoise (1967, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.0

Six in Paris (1965, Jean Douchet, Jean Rouch, Jean-Daniel Pollet, Eric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, & Claude Chabrol) – 5.9

+M (1931, Fritz Lang) – 7.8 [same]

+Birth (2004, Jonathan Glazer) – 7.1 [down from 7.5]

Sexy Beast (2000, Jonathan Glazer) – 5.1

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, Wes Anderson) DP – 7.3

Age of Panic (2013, Justine Triet) – 5.5

The Lady from Shanghai (1947, Orson Welles) DP – 6.1

+Only Lovers Left Alive (2013, Jim Jarmusch) – 7.0 [up from 6.4]

The Great Dictator (1940, Charles Chaplin) 35mm – 6.2

The Fourth Man (1983, Paul Verhoeven) 35mm – 5.8

Two Rode Together (1961, John Ford) 35mm – 5.9

45365 (2009, Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross) – 6.5

Destiny (1921, Fritz Lang) 16mm – 5.2

+Upstream Color (2013, Shane Carruth) – 6.9 [same]

The Grim Reaper (1962, Bernardo Bertolucci) – 6.3

Moonfleet (1955, Fritz Lang) 35mm – 5.4

Journey to the West (2014, Tsai Ming-liang) – 7.2

+The Bride of Frankenstein (1935, James Whale) 16mm – Inc. [awful sound on print; still ~7.0]

 

March

+A Prophet (2009, Jacques Audiard) – 4.8 [same]

The Lego Movie (2014, Phil Lord. & Christopher Miller) 3D – 5.4

+Disorder (2009, Huang Weikai) – 7.1 [up from 6.7]

Nymphomaniac: Volume I (2013, Lars von Trier) DP – 5.6

Nymphomaniac: Volume II (2013, Lars von Trier) DP – 7.4 [Rating for the combined film]

Stemple Pass (2012, James Benning) DP – 6.0

+Make Way for Tomorrow (1937, Leo McCarey) – 7.8 [same]

+Bad Education (2004, Pedro Almodóvar) – 5.5 [down from ~7.0]

Life of Riley (2014, Alain Resnais) – 6.2

The Second Game (2014, Corneliu Porumboiu) – 5.3

A Month in Thailand (2012, Paul Negoescu) – 6.6

Showgirls (1995, Paul Verhoeven) 35mm – 5.9

+Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011, Nuri Bilge Ceylan) – 7.7 [same]

The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 4.2

+Dogtooth (2009, Yorgos Lanthimos) – 8.2 [same]

+Disorder (2009, Huang Weikai) – 7.1 [same]

The Decameron (1971, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 6.1

The Canterbury Tales (1972, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 3.3

Arabian Nights (1974, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 4.9

Snowpiercer (2013, Bong Joon-ho) – 6.6

+Ajami (2009, Scandar Copti & Yaron Shani) – 3.8 [~same]

Love Meetings (1964, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 5.3

The Overnighters (2014, Jesse Moss) – 5.7

+Chungking Express (1994, Wong Kar-wai) – 7.0 [~same]

+Journey to the West (2014, Tsai Ming-liang) – 7.2 [same]

Nô (1998, Robert Lepage) 35mm – 5.5

 

April

Kasbah (2000, Mariano Barroso) – 2.9

Noah (2014, Darren Aronofsky) DP – 6.3

The Wind (1928, Victor Sjöström) Toronto Silent, 16mm – 5.8

The Stolen Man (2007, Matías Piñeiro) DP – 5.9

Porcile (1969, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 4.6

Rosalinda (2011, Matías Piñeiro) DP – 6.0

+Viola (2012, Matías Piñeiro) DP – 7.2 [same]

Actress (2014, Robert Greene) – 6.0

Joy of Man’s Desiring (2014, Denis Côté) – 5.6

The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga (2014, Jessica Oreck) – 5.6

Guidelines (2014, Jean-François Caissy) – 5.0

The Possibilities Are Endless (2014, James Hall & Edward Lovelace) – 5.9

The Immortalists (2014, David Alvarado & Jason Sussberg) – 4.7

+Beetlejuice (1988, Tim Burton) – 6.4 [down from ~7.4]

Concerning Violence (2014, Göran Olsson) – 3.9

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini) 35mm – 5.0

The Songs of Rice (2014, Uruphong Raksasad) – 5.3

Sorcerer (1977, William Friedkin) DP – 7.6

A Dirty Story (1977, Jean Eustache) Images, 35mm – 6.8

Acadia Acadia?!? (1971, Michel Brault) DP – 6.7

+Julia (2008, Erick Zonca) – 7.3 [down from ~7.5]

Lucía (1968, Humberto Solás) 35mm – 6.4

+Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (2013, Jodie Mack) – 8.6 [up from 8.3]

Miraculous Tales (2013, Daniel Vernon) – 4.9

Proxy (2013, Zack Parker) – 5.8

Enemy (2013, Denis Villeneuve) – 4.7

Portrait of Jason (1967, Shirley Clarke) Hot Docs, 35mm – 5.5

Happy Valley (2014, Amir Bar-Lev) Hot Docs, DP – 5.6

 

May

Art and Craft (2014, Jennifer Grausman & Sam Cullman) Hot Docs, DP – 5.4

Ida (2013, Pawel Pawlikowski) – 5.2

See No Evil (2014, Jos de Putter) – 5.9

Rich Hill (2014, Andrew Droz Palermo & Tracy Droz Tragos) – 5.8

The Great Escape (1963, John Sturges) DP – 6.2

Je t’aime je t’aime (1968, Alain Resnais) 35mm – 7.5

+A Month in Thailand (2012, Paul Negoescu) DP – 7.2 [up from 6.6]

M (1951, Joseph Losey) 35mm – 5.1

Too Much Johnson (1938, Orson Welles) 35mm – 6.9

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942, Orson Welles) 35mm – 7.8

Grace of Monaco (2014, Olivier Dahan) Cannes, DP – 2.9

Timbuktu (2014, Abderrahmane Sissako) Cannes, DP – 6.0

Mr. Turner (2014, Mike Leigh) Cannes, DP – 5.5

Party Girl (2014, Marie Amachoukeli, Claire Burger, & Samuel Theis) Cannes, DP – 5.1

Darker Than Midnight (2014, Sebastiano Riso) Cannes, DP – 4.3

Girlhood (2014, Celine Sciamma) Cannes, DP – 4.5

The Captive (2014, Atom Egoyan) Cannes, DP – 4.7

The Blue Room (2014, Mathieu Amalric) Cannes, DP – 5.3

Winter Sleep (2014, Nuri Bilge Ceylan) Cannes, DP – 6.4

Wild Tales (2014, Damián Szifron) Cannes, DP – 5.3

Amour fou (2014, Jessica Hausner) Cannes, DP – 7.1

Saint Laurent (2014, Bertrand Bonello) Cannes, DP – 6.3

National Gallery (2014, Frederick Wiseman) Cannes, DP – 7.5

Welcome to New York (2014, Abel Ferrara) Cannes Marché du Film, DP – 6.6

It Follows (2014, David Robert Mitchell) Cannes, DP – 5.9

Force Majeure (2014, Ruben Östlund) Cannes, DP – 6.0

Beautiful Youth (2014, Jaime Rosales) Cannes, DP – 4.8

Jauja (2014, Lisandro Alonso) Cannes, DP – 5.6

Maps to the Stars (2014, David Cronenberg) Cannes, DP – 4.0

Eat Your Bones (2014, Jean-Charles Hue) Cannes, DP – 6.1

A Girl at My Door (2014, July Jung) Cannes, DP – 4.6

The Wonders (2014, Alice Rohrwacher) Cannes, DP – 6.2

Bird People (2014, Pascale Ferran) Cannes, DP – 4.8

Still the Water (2014, Naomi Kawase) Cannes, DP – 3.6

When Animals Dream (2014, Jonas Alexander Arnby) Cannes, DP – 4.1

Two Days, One Night (2014, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) Cannes, DP – 6.8

Foxcatcher (2014, Bennett Miller) Cannes, DP – 4.9

The Kindergarten Teacher (2014, Nadav Lapid) Cannes, DP – 6.5

Queen and Country (2014, John Boorman) Cannes, DP – 5.5

The Girl and the River (2014, Aurélia Georges) Cannes, DP – 3.0

Lost River (2014, Ryan Gosling) Cannes, DP – 3.9

The Search (2014, Michel Hazanavicius) Cannes, DP – 4.2

Maïdan (2014, Sergei Loznitsa) Cannes, DP – 5.9

Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard) Cannes, 3D – 9.9

Mommy (2014, Xavier Dolan) Cannes, DP – 4.8

Snow in Paradise (2014, Andrew Hulme) Cannes, DP – 4.4

Jimmy’s Hall (2014, Ken Loach) Cannes, DP – 5.1

Alleluia (2014, Fabrice Du Welz) Cannes, DP – 6.9

+Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard) Cannes, 3D – 9.9 [same]

Leviathan (2014, Andrei Zvyagintsev) Cannes, DP – 4.0

Misunderstood (2014, Asia Argento) Cannes, DP – 5.3

Clouds of Sils Maria (2014, Olivier Assayas) Cannes, DP – 6.4

The Tribe (2014, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy) Cannes, DP – 5.4

Hippocrates (2014, Thomas Lilti) Cannes, DP – 3.6

White God (2014, Kornél Mundruczó) Cannes, DP – 3.2

Li’l Quinquin (2014, Bruno Dumont) Cannes, DP – 6.5

Run (2014, Philippe Lacôte) Cannes, DP – 4.9

The Salvation (2014, Kristian Levring) Cannes, DP – 5.2

Red Army (2014, Polsky Gabe) Cannes, DP – 4.2

The Homesman (2014, Tommy Lee Jones) Cannes, DP – 5.8

+Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard) Cannes, 3D – 9.9 [same]

The Salt of the Earth (2014, Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado) Cannes, DP – 4.3

Coming Home (2014, Zhang Yimou) Cannes, DP – 3.5

In the Name of My Daughter (2014, André Téchiné) Cannes, DP – 6.2

+12 Angry Men (1957, Sidney Lumet) – 8.3 [~same]

Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (2014, Ossama Mohammed) – 6.1

The Lord’s Ride (2010, Jean-Charles Hue) – 5.4

Futuro Beach (2014, Karim Aïnouz) Inside Out, DP – 5.2

Lucky Them (2013, Megan Griffiths) – 5.7

 

June

+Film Socialisme (2010, Jean-Luc Godard) – 6.3 [down from 7.1]

+The Kid with a Bike (2011, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 6.5 [same]

Locke (2013, Steven Knight) DP – 4.5

+Sheep (2013, Gilles Deroo & Marianne Pistone) – 7.1 [same]

Illumination (1973, Krzysztof Zanussi) DP – 5.9

Camouflage (1977, Krzysztof Zanussi) DP – 5.3

Mercuriales (2014, Virgil Vernier) – 5.0

L for Leisure (2014, Lev Kalman & Whitney Horn) – 5.5

+Nashville (1975, Robert Altman) – 9.4 [same]

What Now? Remind Me (2013, Joaquim Pinto) – 5.2

Cremaster 4 (1995, Matthew Barney) 35mm – 4.4

Cremaster 5 (1997, Matthew Barney) 35mm – 5.4

Ashes and Diamonds (1958, Andrzej Wajda) DP – 4.1

Opening Night (1977, John Cassavetes) – 7.0

The Marquise of O (1976, Eric Rohmer) – 8.1

Man of Iron (1981, Andrzej Wajda) DP – 3.3

Coherence (2013, James Ward Byrkit) – 6.4

+The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014, Wes Anderson) – 6.3 [down from 7.3]

+Rosetta (1999, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 6.1 [down from ~7.8]

Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater) NXNE, DP – 7.7

Non-Stop (2014, Jaume Collet-Serra) – 5.0

Rendezvous in Paris (1995, Eric Rohmer) – 6.2

Pauline at the Beach (1983, Eric Rohmer) – 6.8

The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973, Wojciech Has) DP – 3.5

+The Green Ray (1986, Eric Rohmer) – 7.5 [same]

The Last of England (1988, Derek Jarman) 35mm – 5.7

A Summer’s Tale (1996, Eric Rohmer) – 6.4

From the Notebook of… (2000, Robert Beavers) 16mm – 7.3

The Last Day of Summer (1958, Tadeusz Konwicki) DP – 4.9

+Only Lovers Left Alive (2013, Jim Jarmusch) – 7.0 [same]

Exhibition (2013, Joanna Hogg) – 5.3

i hate myself :) (2013, Joanna Arnow) DP – 6.0

Blue (1993, Derek Jarman) 35mm – 5.9

The Aviator’s Wife (1981, Eric Rohmer) – 6.8

It Felt Like Love (2013, Eliza Hittman) – 4.8

The Saragossa Manuscript (1965, Wojciech Has) DP – 3.4

Wittgenstein (1993, Derek Jarman) DP – 5.4

+Syndromes and a Century (2006, Apichatpong Weerasethakul) – 9.6 [same]

 

July

A Good Marriage (1982, Eric Rohmer) – 5.7

Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987, Eric Rohmer) – 6.6

+Pather Panchali (1955, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 5.8 [up from 5.5]

Aparajito (1956, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 5.2

The River (1951, Jean Renoir) 35mm – 5.0

The World of Apu (1959, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 5.9

Days and Nights in the Forest (1970, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 4.8

The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959, Fritz Lang) 35mm – 5.5

The Indian Tomb (1959, Fritz Lang) 35mm – 5.2

Life Itself (2014, Steve James) – 6.1

Gradual Speed (2013, Els Van Riel) Media City, 16mm – 4.6

Rivers of Sand (1974, Robert Gardner) 16mm – 6.0

All That Heaven Allows (1955, Douglas Sirk) – 7.3

Every Night (2001, Eugène Green) – 5.4

The Living World (2003, Eugène Green) – 6.5

+Le Pont des Arts (2004, Eugène Green) – 6.6 [down from 7.6]

Three Daughters [Two Daughters + Monihara] (1961, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 4.6

The Portuguese Nun (2009, Eugène Green) – 5.4

India: Matri Bhumi (1959, Roberto Rossellini) DP – 5.2

+Hard to Be a God (2013, Alexei German) – 6.2 [same]

India Song (1975, Marguerite Duras) 35mm – 7.1

La Sapienza (2014, Eugène Green) – 5.6

You Are Not I (1981, Sara Driver) DP – 6.6

+Clouds of Sils Maria (2014, Olivier Assayas) – 6.2 [down from 6.4]

Lucy (2014, Luc Besson) DP – 6.8

+Spring Breakers (2012, Harmony Korine) – 7.5 [up from 6.9]

Orlando (1992, Sally Potter) 35mm – 5.7

Thief (1981, Michael Mann) – 5.3

They Came Together (2014, David Wain) – 4.1

+The Living World (2003, Eugène Green) – 6.5 [same]

 

August

Barry Lyndon (1975, Stanley Kubrick) 35mm – 6.7

+Boyhood (2014, Richard Linklater) DP – 8.0 [up from 7.7]

MASH (1970, Robert Altman) DP – 5.8

+McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971, Robert Altman) 35mm – 5.1 [down from 6.0]

That Cold Day in the Park (1969, Robert Altman) 35mm – 6.1

+Le Pont des Arts (2004, Eugène Green) – 6.6 [same]

Whiplash (2014, Damien Chazelle) DP – 5.5

The Coward (1965, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 5.9

The Holy Man (1965, Satyajit Ray) 35mm – 4.4

Year of the Horse (1997, Jim Jarmusch) 35mm – 4.7

Don’t Go Breaking My Heart (2011, Johnnie To) – 5.9

Yojimbo (1961, Akira Kurosawa) 35mm – 5.1

The Long Goodbye (1973, Robert Altman) 35mm – 6.9

An Eye for Beauty (2014, Denys Arcand) DP – 3.8

+Maps to the Stars (2014, David Cronenberg) DP – 6.7 [up from 4.0]

Tu dors Nicole (2014, Stéphane Lafleur) DP – 6.3

Thieves Like Us (1974, Robert Altman) 35mm – 6.2

Images (1972, Robert Altman) 35mm – 3.7

California Split (1974, Robert Altman) 35mm – 5.8

Le beau danger (2014, René Frölke) – 2.9

Señoritas (2013, Lina Rodriguez) DP – 5.5

Hill of Freedom (2014, Hong Sang-soo) – 6.9

Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982, Robert Altman) 35mm – 4.8

+Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (2013, Gabe Klinger) DP – 6.0 [down from 6.3]

+American Dreams: Lost and Found (1984, James Benning) 35mm – 6.4 [up from 5.8]

The Princess of France (2014, Matías Piñeiro) – 4.9

Los Hongos (2014, Oscar Ruiz Navia) – 4.8

Elephant Song (2014, Charles Binamé) DP – 4.4

1001 Grams (2014, Bent Hamer) DP – 5.2

+Short Cuts (1993, Robert Altman) 35mm – 8.2 [up from ~6.1]

Two Shots Fired (2014, Martín Rejtman) DP – 5.0

A Hard Day (2014, Kim Seong-hun) DP – 4.9

The Theory of Everything (2014, James Marsh) DP – 4.7

Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere (2014, Diep Hoang Nguyen) DP – 4.7

Not My Type (2014, Lucas Belvaux) DP – 7.1

The Company (2003, Robert Altman) 35mm – 6.5

 

September

Henry Fool (1997, Hal Hartley) – 6.6

The Cobbler (2014, Thomas McCarthy) DP – 2.7

Fay Grim (2006, Hal Hartley) – 5.4

The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013, Isao Takahata) TIFF, DP – 5.2

Gett, the Trial of Viviane Amsalem (2014, Ronit Elkabetz & Shlomi Elkabetz) TIFF, DP – 6.0

’71 (2014, Yann Demange) TIFF, DP – 4.9

+Alleluia (2014, Fabrice Du Welz) TIFF, DP – 6.1 [down from 6.9]

Far from Men (2014, David Oelhoffen) TIFF, DP – 4.6

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014, Roy Andersson) TIFF, DP – 6.8

+Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard) TIFF, 3D – 9.9 [same]

+Amour fou (2014, Jessica Hausner) TIFF, DP – 7.1 [same]

Phoenix (2014, Christian Petzold) TIFF, DP – 7.6

Letters to Max (2014, Eric Baudelaire) TIFF, DP – 5.0

Episode of the Sea (2014, Lonnie van Brummelen, Siebren de Haan, & the inhabitants of Urk) TIFF, DP – 5.8

Pasolini (2014, Abel Ferrara) TIFF, DP – 5.3

Tales of the Grim Sleeper (2014, Nick Broomfield) TIFF, DP – 6.1

While We’re Young (2014, Noah Baumbach) TIFF, DP – 5.5

Eden (2014, Mia Hansen-Løve) TIFF, DP – 6.9

Heaven Knows What (2014, Joshua & Benny Safdie) TIFF, DP – 6.6

Manglehorn (2014, David Gordon Green) TIFF, DP – 5.7

The Duke of Burgundy (2014, Peter Strickland) TIFF, DP – 3.5

Horse Money (2014, Pedro Costa) TIFF, DP – 7.7

Fires on the Plain (2014, Shinya Tsukamoto) TIFF, DP – 3.1

Wild (2014, Jean-Marc Vallée) TIFF, DP – 5.4

The Look of Silence (2014, Joshua Oppenheimer) TIFF, DP – 5.1

Time Out of Mind (2014, Oren Moverman) TIFF, DP – 4.2

Sand Dollars (2014, Laura Amelia Guzmán & Israel Cárdenas) TIFF, DP – 5.5

The Color of Pomegranates (1968, Sergei Parajanov) TIFF, DP – 3.4

Return to Ithaca (2014, Laurent Cantet) TIFF, DP – 3.0

+La Sapienza (2014, Eugène Green) TIFF, DP – 6.1 [up from 5.6]

Ned Rifle (2014, Hal Hartley) TIFF – 5.8

The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On (1987, Kazuo Hara) – 5.3

The New Girlfriend (2014, François Ozon) TIFF, DP – 3.2

+Journey to the West (2014, Tsai Ming-liang) TIFF, DP – 7.9 [up from 7.2]

Breathe (2014, Mélanie Laurent) TIFF, DP – 5.3

+Horse Money (2014, Pedro Costa) TIFF, DP – 7.7 [same]

From What is Before (2014, Lav Diaz) TIFF, DP – 4.9

+Jauja (2014, Lisandro Alonso) TIFF, DP – 6.6 [up from 5.6]

+Li’l Quinquin (2014, Bruno Dumont) TIFF, DP – 7.3 [up from 6.5]

Tokyo Tribe (2014, Sion Sono) TIFF, DP – 5.0

Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014, Johnnie To) TIFF, DP – 5.5

+Eden (2014, Mia Hansen-Løve) TIFF, DP – 6.6 [down from 6.9]

Every Man for Himself (1980, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.6

Listen Up Philip (2014, Alex Ross Perry) DP – 5.8

Love is Strange (2014, Ira Sachs) DP – 6.2

Edge of Tomorrow (2014, Doug Liman) – 6.4

+Stormy Waters (1941, Jean Grémillon) – 6.5 [down from 8.1]

+The Marquise of O (1976, Eric Rohmer) – 8.1 [same]

+Saint Laurent (2014, Bertrand Bonello) NYFF, DP – 6.4 [up from 6.3]

 

October

The Fugitive Kind (1960, Sidney Lumet) 35mm – 5.9

The Man from Laramie (1955, Anthony Mann) NYFF, DP – 5.5

The Clock (1945, Vincente Minnelli) 35mm – 7.2

Iris (2014, Albert Maysles) NYFF, DP – 4.8

People Will Talk (1951, Joseph L. Mankiewicz) NYFF, 35mm – 5.1

Don’t Grieve (1969, Giorgi Danelia) 35mm – 3.6

Gone Girl (2014, David Fincher) DP – 7.0

Ming of Harlem: Twenty One Storeys in the Air (2014, Phillip Warnell) NYFF, DP – 5.8

Inherent Vice (2014, Paul Thomas Anderson) NYFF, DP – 6.2

Sauerbruch Hutton Architects (2013, Harun Farocki) NYFF, DP – 5.5

El Futuro (2013, Luis Lopez Carrasco) NYFF, DP – 5.0

A Film Like Any Other (1968, Jean-Luc Godard) 16mm – 4.3

Obvious Child (2014, Gillian Robespierre) – 6.3

White Bird in a Blizzard (2014, Gregg Araki) – 4.9

+Modern Times (1936, Charles Chaplin) – 6.5 [same]

First Name: Carmen (1983, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.5

The Wrong Man (1956, Alfred Hitchcock) 35mm – 5.9

Hail Mary (1985, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.4

Détective (1985, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.6

Angels of Revolution (2014, Aleksei Fedorchenko) – 5.5

The Lies of the Victors (2014, Christoph Hochhäusler) – 5.9

My Twentieth Century (1989, Ildikó Enyedi) – 5.1

Rancho Notorious (1952, Fritz Lang) 35mm – 5.7

Pravda (1970, Dziga Vertov Group) [Jean-Luc Godard, Paul Burron, & Jean-Henri Roger] DP – 3.6

British Sounds (1970, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Henri Roger) 16mm – 4.9

+Two Days, One Night (2014, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne) – 6.8 [same]

Wind from the East (1970, Dziga Vertov Group) [Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin, & Gérard Martin] 16mm – 2.5

Struggle in Italy (1971, Dziga Vertov Group) [Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin] 16mm – 4.5

The Extra Girl (1923, F. Richard Jones) – 5.8

The Iron Ministry (2014, J.P. Sniadecki) – 5.8

+Goodbye to Language (2014, Jean-Luc Godard) 3D – 9.9 [same]

King Lear (1987, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 7.3

One P.M./One Pennebaker Movie (1971, Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Leacock, & D.A. Pennebaker) DP – 5.6

Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014, Alejandro G. Iñárritu) DP – 5.1

+24 City (2008, Jia Zhang-ke) – 5.7 [~same]

 

November

Blackmail [Silent Version] (1929, Alfred Hitchcock) DP – 6.3

Downhill (1927, Alfred Hitchcock) DP – 4.0

+Welcome to New York (2014, Abel Ferrara) – 7.0 [up from 6.6]

Keep Your Right Up (1987, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.9

Killer’s Kiss (1955, Stanley Kubrick) 35mm – 3.3

Interstellar (2014, Christopher Nolan) 70mm – 5.0

Madame DuBarry (1919, Ernst Lubitsch) 16mm – 4.7

Rouge (1987, Stanley Kwan) – 4.9

CITIZENFOUR (2014, Laura Poitras) DP – 6.0

Criss Cross (1949, Robert Siodmak) 35mm – 5.3

Nouvelle vague (1990, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.1

The Big Sleep (1946, Howard Hawks) 35mm – 7.5

Tout va bien (1972, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin) 35mm – 5.5

Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still (1972, Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin) 16mm – 4.8

Paths of Glory (1957, Stanley Kubrick) DP – 5.6

Hit 2 Pass (2014, Kurt Walker) – 5.6

A Midsummer’s Fantasia (2014, Jang Kun-jae) – 7.2

+Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1988, Todd Haynes) – 7.8 [same]

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero (1991, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 4.4

JLG/JLG – Self-Portrait in December (1994, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.4

The Babadook (2014, Jennifer Kent) – 4.1

+Wavelength (1967, Michael Snow) 16mm – 9.7 [up from 9.3]

Oh, Woe Is Me (1993, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 6.9

Numéro deux (1975, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.9

For Ever Mozart (1996, Jean-Luc Godard) DP – 4.7

Level Five (1997, Chris Marker) – 5.7

Still Alice (2014, Richard Glatzer & Wash Westmoreland) – 5.2

Soft and Hard (1985, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville) DP – 4.6

The Children Play Russian (1993, Jean-Luc Godard) DP – 6.3

2 x 50 Years of French Cinema (1995, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville) DP – 6.7

 

December

+In Praise of Love (2001, Jean-Luc Godard) 35mm – 5.5 [same]

Nightcrawler (2014, Dan Gilroy) – 5.1

Le rapport Darty (1989, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville) DP – 5.2

+Do the Right Thing (1989, Spike Lee) – 8.7 [~same]

Ellie Lumme (2014, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky) – 5.9

+Eyes Wide Shut (1999, Stanley Kubrick) 35mm – 7.9 [down from ~8.5]

The Old Place (2000, Jean-Luc Godard & Anne-Marie Miéville) DP – 6.4

Always for Pleasure (1978, Les Blank) – 6.7

Starred Up (2013, David Mackenzie) – 5.8

+Goodbye to Language [Anaglyph] (2014, Jean-Luc Godard) – 9.9 [same]

+The Inner Scar (1972, Philippe Garrel) – 8.0 [same]

My Darling Clementine (1946, John Ford) – 7.3

+3x3D (2013, Jean-Luc Godard, Peter Greenaway, & Edgar Pêra) 3D – 6.1 [Greenaway: [7]; Pêra: [1]; Godard: [9]] [down from 7.0]

Calvary (2014, John Michael McDonagh) – 3.3

+Gone Girl (2014, David Fincher) – 7.0 [same]

The Interview (2014, Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen) – 5.3

+Under the Skin (2013, Jonathan Glazer) – 6.2 [down from 7.3]

Living Stars (2014, Mariano Cohn & Gastón Duprat) – 4.1

+The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974, Tobe Hooper) – 7.4 [same]

22 Jump Street (2014, Phil Lord & Christopher Miller) – 4.5

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014, Ana Lily Amirpour) – 3.4

Happy Christmas (2014, Joe Swanberg) – 6.0

Dumb and Dumber To (2014, Bobby & Peter Farrelly) – 5.0

Guardians of the Galaxy (2014, James Gunn) – 5.4

Bird People (2014, Pascale Ferran) – 6.7 [up from 4.8]

*Click on the ‘Lists & Logs’ tab to see lists from previous years.

This is a dynamic list, so it’ll be updated each time I see a film which had its world premiere in 2013 that is better than at least one of the films already on the list.

1. The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher)
2. Dusty Stacks of Mom: The Poster Project (Jodie Mack)
3. Computer Chess (Andrew Bujalski)
4. MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez)
5. Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz)
6. Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
7. Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
8. Bastards (Claire Denis)
9. Nymphomaniac: Volume II (Lars von Trier)
10. Sheep (Gilles Deroo & Marianne Pistone)

 

Polls Top 10 (eligible titles appear here)

1. Leviathan (2012, Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Verena Paravel)
2. Computer Chess (2013, Andrew Bujalski)
3. Like Someone In Love (2012, Abbas Kiarostami)
4. Bastards (2013, Claire Denis)
5. Frances Ha (2012, Noah Baumbach)
6. Beyond the Hills (2012, Cristian Mungiu)
7. Viola (2012, Matías Piñeiro)
8. You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet! (2012, Alain Resnais)
9. To the Wonder (2012, Terrence Malick)
10. Nebraska (2013, Alexander Payne)

 

My Top 10 Discoveries During 2013 (only first-time viewings of films made before 2000 are eligible)

1. Boy Meets Girl (1984, Leos Carax)
2. High and Low (1963, Akira Kurosawa)
3. Brief Encounter (1945, David Lean)
4. Zorns Lemma (1970, Hollis Frampton)
5. U.S. Go Home (1994, Claire Denis)
6. Yoyo (1965, Pierre Étaix)
7. Léon Morin, Priest (1961, Jean-Pierre Melville)
8. Slacker (1991, Richard Linklater)
9. Un Coeur en Hiver (1992, Claude Sautet)
10. Z (1969, Costa-Gavras)

 

Other 2013 films I’ve seen

• Nebraska (Alexander Payne) – 7.0
• Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) – 7.0
• The Counselor [Unrated Extended Cut] (Ridley Scott) – 6.9
• Upstream Color (Shane Carruth) – 6.9
• Stop the Pounding Heart (Roberto Minervini) – 6.8
• Charlie Victor Romeo (Robert Berger, Patrick Daniels, & Karlyn Michelson) – 6.8
• A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhang-ke) – 6.8
• The Manor (Shawney Cohen) – 6.8
• Sentimental Education (Júlio Bressane) – 6.7
• River (Bill Ross IV) – 6.7
• A Thousand Suns (Mati Diop) – 6.6
• Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón) – 6.6
• The Dirties (Matt Johnson) – 6.6
• Love is the Perfect Crime (Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu) – 6.6
• Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho) – 6.6
• Jealousy (Philippe Garrel) – 6.6
• Inside Llewyn Davis (Joel & Ethan Coen) – 6.5
• When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Corneliu Porumboiu) – 6.5
• La última película (Raya Martin & Mark Peranson) – 6.5
• Coherence (James Ward Byrkit) – 6.4
• Moebius (Kim Ki-duk) – 6.4
• Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt) – 6.3
• Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater (Gabe Klinger) – 6.3
• Enough Said (Nicole Holofcener) – 6.3
• Behind the Candelabra (Steven Soderbergh) – 6.3
• Blue Jasmine (Woody Allen) – 6.3
• Let the Fire Burn (Jason Osder) – 6.3
• Hard to Be a God (Alexei German) – 6.2
• Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) – 6.2
• These Birds Walk (Omar Mullick & Bassam Tariq) – 6.2
• Blood (Alina Rudnitskaya) – 6.2
• Club Sandwich (Fernando Eimbcke) – 6.2
• Before Midnight (Richard Linklater) – 6.1
• Three Interpretation Exercises (Cristi Puiu) – 6.1
• 3x3D (Peter Greenaway, Jean-Luc Godard, & Edgar Pêra) – 6.1
• Captain Phillips (Paul Greengrass) – 6.1
• William and the Windmill (Ben Nabors) – 6.1
• Tip Top (Serge Bozon) – 6.0
• i hate myself :) (Joanna Arnow) – 6.0
• Camille Claudel 1915 (Bruno Dumont) – 6.0
• I Used to Be Darker (Matt Porterfield) – 6.0
• All is Lost (J.C. Chandor) – 6.0
• Northern Light (Nick Bentgen) – 5.9
• Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi & Kambuzia Partovi) – 5.9
• Our Sunhi (Hong Sang-soo) – 5.9
• Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche) – 5.9
• Caucus (AJ Schnack) – 5.9
• The World’s End (Edgar Wright) – 5.9
• What Now? Remind Me (Joaquim Pinto) – 5.9
• Three Landscapes (Peter Hutton) – 5.9
• Venus In Fur (Roman Polanski) – 5.9
• We Are the Best! (Lukas Moodysson) – 5.8
• Proxy (Zack Parker) – 5.8
• The Naked Room (Nuria Ibáñez) – 5.8
• Starred Up (David Mackenzie) – 5.8
• The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino) – 5.8
• This is the End (Evan Goldberg & Seth Rogen) – 5.8
• The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard) – 5.8
• Her (Spike Jonze) – 5.8
• 12 O’Clock Boys (Lotfy Nathan) – 5.8
• TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away from Keyboard (Simon Klose) – 5.8
• Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat) – 5.7
• Lucky Them (Megan Griffiths) – 5.7
• Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (Declan Lowney) – 5.7
• Side Effects (Steven Soderbergh) – 5.7
• Joe (David Gordon Green) – 5.7
• Nymphomaniac: Volume I (Lars von Trier)– 5.6
• A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (Ben Rivers & Ben Russell) – 5.6
• This is Martin Bonner (Chad Hartigan) – 5.6
• Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda) – 5.6
• American Promise (Joe Brewster & Michèle Stephenson) – 5.6
• R100 (Hitoshi Matsumoto) – 5.6
• Salvation Army (Abdellah Taïa) – 5.6
• Pussy Riot – A Punk Prayer (Maxim Pozdorovkin) – 5.6
• Our Nixon (Penny Lane) – 5.6
• Story of My Death (Albert Serra) – 5.5
• Paradise: Hope (Ulrich Seidl) – 5.5
• Señoritas (Lina Rodriguez) – 5.5
• Age of Panic (Justine Triet) – 5.5
• Love Battles (Jacques Doillon) – 5.5
• Eastern Boys (Robin Campillo) – 5.5
• Gerontophilia (Bruce LaBruce) – 5.5
• Anita (Freida Lee Mock) – 5.5
• After Hours (Basil Da Cunha) – 5.5
• Monsters University (Dan Scanlon) – 5.5
• The Immigrant (James Gray) – 5.4
• October November (Götz Spielmann) – 5.4
• The Spectacular Now (James Ponsoldt) – 5.4
• Blind Detective (Johnnie To) – 5.3
• Exhibition (Joanna Hogg) – 5.3
• The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese) – 5.3
• The Amazing Catfish (Claudia Sainte-Luce) – 5.3
• Bright Days Ahead (Marion Vernoux) – 5.3
• Lacrau (João Vladimiro) – 5.3
• The Congress (Ari Folman) – 5.2
• How to Disappear Completely (Raya Martin) – 5.2
• Doomsdays (Eddie Mullins) – 5.2
• Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski) – 5.2
• Liahona (Talena Sanders) – 5.2
• The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batr) – 5.2
• Stoker (Park Chan-wook) – 5.2
• Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (Denis Côté) – 5.2
• The Summer of Flying Fish (Marcela Said) – 5.2
• Lukas the Strange (John Torres) – 5.2
• Downloaded (Alex Winter) – 5.2
• The Dallas Buyers Club (Jean-Marc Vallée) – 5.2
• Blood Ties (Guillaume Canet) – 5.1
• Valentine Road (Marta Cunningham) – 5.1
• We Always Lie To Strangers (AJ Schnack & David Boone Wilson) – 5.1
• The Kill Team (Dan Krauss) – 5.1
• Shield of Straw (Takashi Miike) – 5.1
• Salvo (Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza) – 5.1
• Bends (Flora Lau) – 5.1
• Young & Beautiful (François Ozon) – 5.0
• Oldboy (Spike Lee) – 5.0
• Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier) – 5.0
• Jodorowsky’s Dune (Frank Pavich) – 5.0
• Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan) – 5.0
• The Oxbow Cure (Yonah Lewis & Calvin Thomas) – 5.0
• Black Box (Stephen Cone) – 5.0
• At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman) – 4.9
• The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann) – 4.9
• Miraculous Tales (Daniel Vernon) – 4.9
• The Rendez-Vous of Déjà-Vu (Antonin Peretjatko) – 4.9
• A Field in England (Ben Wheatley) – 4.9
• Nobody’s Daughter Haewon (Hong Sang-soo) – 4.9
• Chimeras (Mika Mattila) – 4.9
• Borgman (Alex Van Warmerdam) – 4.9
• About Time (Richard Curtis) – 4.9
• Sacro GRA (Gianfranco Rosi) – 4.9
• Michael Kohlhaas (Arnaud des Pallieres) – 4.9
• The Canyons (Paul Schrader) – 4.8
• American Hustle (David O. Russell) – 4.8
• Crystal Fairy (Sebastián Silva) – 4.8
• White Reindeer (Zach Clark) – 4.8
• It Felt Like Love (Eliza Hittman) – 4.8
• On My Way (Emmanuelle Bercot) – 4.8
• Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen) – 4.8
• The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears (Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani) – 4.8
• Gabrielle (Louise Archambault) – 4.8
• Which Way is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington (Sebastian Junger) – 4.8
• Gold (Thomas Arslan) – 4.7
• Enemy (Denis Villeneuve) – 4.7
• A Master Builder (Jonathan Demme) – 4.7
• The Square (Jehane Noujaim) – 4.7
• White House Down (Roland Emmerich) – 4.7
• Heli (Amat Escalante) – 4.7
• Killing Strangers (Nicolás Pereda & Jacob Secher Schulsinger) – 4.7
• The Invisible Woman (Ralph Fiennes) – 4.7
• Blackfish (Gabriela Cowperthwaite) – 4.7
• I’m So Excited (Pedro Almodóvar) – 4.6
• Gradual Speed (Els Van Riel) – 4.6
• We Cause Scenes (Matt Adams) – 4.6
• The Last Black Sea Pirates (Svetoslav Stoyanov) – 4.6
• Me Myself and Mum (Guillaume Gallienne) – 4.6
• A Castle in Italy (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi) – 4.6
• The Island of St. Matthews (Kevin Jerome Everson) – 4.6
• Sarah Prefers to Run (Chloé Robichaud) – 4.6
• Pacific Rim (Guillermo del Toro) – 4.6
• Bà Nội (Khoa Lê) – 4.6
• You and the Night (Yann Gonzalez) – 4.5
• Coast of Death (Lois Patiño) – 4.5
• Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (David Lowery) – 4.5
• 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen) – 4.5
• Locke (Steven Knight) – 4.5
• Short Term 12 (Destin Cretton) – 4.5
• Siddharth (Richie Mehta) – 4.5
• Bambi (Sébastien Lifshitz) – 4.5
• The Bling Ring (Sofia Coppola) – 4.4
• Gloria (Sebastián Lelio) – 4.4
• The Unknown Known (Errol Morris) – 4.4
• Mary Queen of Scots (Thomas Imbach) – 4.4
• Le Week-End (Roger Mitchell) – 4.4
• Grand Central (Rebecca Zlotowski) – 4.4
• Teenage (Matt Wolf) – 4.4
• The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh) – 4.3
• Apaches (Thierry de Peretti) – 4.3
• Only God Forgives (Nicolas Winding Refn) – 4.3
• The Grandmaster (Wong Kar-wai) – 4.3
• The Last Days on Mars (Ruairi Robinson) – 4.3
• Furious 6 (Justin Lin) – 4.2
• Pain & Gain (Michael Bay) – 4.2
• Pays Barbare (Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi) – 4.2
• Touchy Feely (Lynn Shelton) – 4.2
• Burt’s Buzz (Jody Shapiro) – 4.2
• The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki) – 4.1
• Leaf in the Wind (Jean-Marie Teno) – 4.1
• Cold Eyes (Cho Ui-seok and Kim Byung-seo) – 4.1
• Manuscripts Don’t Burn (Mohammad Rasoulof) – 4.0
• Burning Bush (Agnieszka Holland) – 4.0
• The Conjuring (James Wan) – 4.0
• Fruitvale Station (Ryan Coogler) – 4.0
• Child’s Pose (Calin Peter Netzer) – 3.9
• Omar (Hany Abu-Assad) – 3.9
• Stop-Over (Kaveh Bakhtiari) – 3.9
• My Sweet Pepper Land (Hiner Saleem) – 3.9
• Muscle Shoals (Greg ‘Freddy’ Camalier) – 3.9
• The Past (Asghar Farhadi) – 3.8
• Grisgris (Mahamat Saleh Haroun) – 3.8
• The Rocket (Kim Mordaunt) – 3.8
• Star Trek Into Darkness (J.J. Abrams) – 3.8
• Expedition to the End of the World (Daniel Dencik) – 3.8
• The German Doctor (Lucía Puenzo) – 3.7
• World War Z (Marc Forster) – 3.6
• Thou Gild’st the Even (Onur Ünlü) – 3.6
• The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann) – 3.5
• Daredevils (Stephanie Barber) – 3.5
• Felix Austria! (Christine Beebe) – 3.5
• Texas Chainsaw (John Luessenhop) – 3.5
• 15 Reasons to Live (Alan Zweig) – 3.4
• The Dance of Reality (Alejandro Jodorowsky) – 3.4
• Suzanne (Katell Quillévéré) – 3.3
• My Name Is Hmmm… (Agnès Troublé) – 3.3
• The Auction (Sébastien Pilote) – 3.2
• The Lone Ranger (Gore Verbinski) – 3.2
• Oblivion (Joseph Kosinski) – 3.1
• Interior. Leather Bar. (James Franco & Travis Mathews) – 3.1
• Blood Brother (Steve Hoover) – 3.0
• Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (Arnaud Desplechin) – 3.0
• The Art of the Steal (Jonathan Sobol) – 3.0
• Real (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – 2.8
• Jellyfish Eyes (Takashi Murakami) – 2.7
• The Battle of Tabatô (Joao Viana) – 2.2
• Child of God (James Franco) – 1.8
• Nothing Bad Can Happen (Katrin Gebbe) – 0.6

October 3

3PM – PROGRAM 15: Voices perish (coloring the darkening glow)
– Strawberries in the Summertime (Jennifer Reeves, USA, 2013, 15m)
– Luna (Snow) (Leslie Thornton, USA, 2013, 2:21m)
– Onomatopoeic Alphabet (Aura Satz, UK, 2010, 7m)
– Doorway for Nathalie Kalmus (Aura Satz, UK, 2013, 9m)
– Paisaje-Duración Trigal (Duration Landscape Cornfield) (Lois Patiño, Spain, 2010, 2:57m)
– Psalm IV: Valley of the Shadow (Phil Solomon, USA, 2013, 7:31m)
– All or Nothing (Fred Worden, USA, 2013, 8m)
– Half Life (April Simmons, USA, 2013, 6:04m)
– Luna (Heaven) (Leslie Thornton, USA, 2013, 12m)
– Remanence IV (Josh Bonnetta, USA, 2013, 54s)
– Bedtime Story (Esther Shatavsky, USA, 1981, 5.5m)
– Weissfilm (Wilhelm and Brigit Hein, Germany, 1977, 5m)
– Splice 181 to Splice 243 of Spicefilm, 2013, Homage to Brigit and Wilhelm Hein’s Weissfilm, 1977 (Florian Zeyfang, Germany, 2013, 5m)
– Creme 21 (Eve Heller, Austria, 2013, 11m)
– Ten Notes on A Summer Day (Mike Stoltz, USA, 2012, 4.5m)
– The Sea Seeks Its Own Level (Erin Espelie, USA, 2013, 5:04m)

6PM – MAIN SLATE: Jealousy (2013, Philippe Garrel)

9PM – PROGRAM 3: Coast of Death (2013, Lois Patiño)

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

Tier 0
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher) – 8.9

Tier 1
MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez) – 7.8
Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz) – 7.8

Tier 2
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie) – 7.7
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang) – 7.6
Bastards (Claire Denis) – 7.5
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) – 7.3

Tier 3
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhang-ke) – 6.8
Love is the Perfect Crime (Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu) – 6.6
When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Corneliu Porumboiu) – 6.5
La última película (Raya Martin & Mark Peranson) – 6.5
Moebius (Kim Ki-duk) – 6.4
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) – 6.4
Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt) – 6.3
Club Sandwich (Fernando Eimbcke) – 6.2
A Thousand Suns (Mati Diop) – 6.2

Tier 4
Three Interpretation Exercises (Cristi Puiu) – 6.1
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón) – 6.0
Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi & Kamboziya Partovi) – 5.9
Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche) – 5.9
Three Landscapes (Peter Hutton) – 5.9
Our Sunhi (Hong Sang-soo) – 5.9
The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard) – 5.8
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino) – 5.8
Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat) – 5.7
Joe (David Gordon Green) – 5.7
A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (Ben Rivers & Ben Russell) – 5.6
R100 (Hitoshi Matsumoto) – 5.6
Salvation Army (Abdellah Taïa) – 5.6
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda) – 5.6
Story of My Death (Albert Serra) – 5.5
Gerontophilia (Bruce LaBruce) – 5.5
Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (Aleksei Fedorchenko) – 5.4
October November (Götz Spielmann) – 5.4

Tier 5
Blind Detective (Johnnie To) – 5.3
The Amazing Catfish (Claudia Sainte-Luce) – 5.3
Bright Days Ahead (Marion Vernoux) – 5.3
The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra) – 5.2
The Summer of Flying Fish (Marcela Said) – 5.2
Blood Ties (Guillaume Canet) – 5.1
Bends (Flora Lau) – 5.1
Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan) – 5.0
Young & Beautiful (François Ozon) – 5.0
Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier) – 5.0
Jodorowsky’s Dune (Frank Pavich) – 5.0
At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman) – 4.9
A Field in England (Ben Wheatley) – 4.9
Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam) – 4.9
Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen) – 4.8
The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears (Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani) – 4.8
Gabrielle (Louise Archambault) – 4.8
The Square (Jehane Noujaim) – 4.7
The Invisible Woman (Ralph Fiennes) – 4.7
Sarah Prefers to Run (Chloé Robichaud) – 4.6

Tier 6
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen) – 4.5
Siddharth (Richie Mehta) – 4.5
The Unknown Known (Errol Morris) – 4.4
Gloria (Sebastián Lelio) – 4.4
Le Week-End (Roger Mitchell) – 4.4
Mary Queen of Scots (Thomas Imbach) – 4.4
The Missing Image (Rithy Panh) – 4.3
Pays Barbare (Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi) – 4.2
Burt’s Buzz (Jody Shapiro) – 4.2
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki) – 4.1
Cold Eyes (Cho Ui-seok & Kim Byung-seo) – 4.1
Manuscripts Don’t Burn (Mohammad Rasoulof) – 4.0
Burning Bush (Agnieszka Holland) – 4.0
Child’s Pose (Calin Peter Netzer) – 3.9
Omar (Hany Abu-Assad) – 3.9
The Past (Asghar Farhadi) – 3.8

Tier 7
Thou Gild’st the Even (Onur Ünlü) – 3.6
The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann) – 3.5
The Dismantling (Sébastien Pilote) – 3.2
The Art of the Steal (Jonathan Sobol) – 3.0

Tier 8
Real (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – 2.8
The Battle of Tabatô (Joao Viana) – 2.2

Tier 9
Child of God (James Franco) – 1.8

September 5
6:30PM – Blood Ties (Guillaume Canet) – Gray matter. // 5.1
9:30PM – Story of My Death (Albert Serra) – May be my most anticipated of the festival. // 5.5

September 6
11AM – Omar (Hany Abu-Assad) – NYFF, but also decent word from Cannes, and an Un Certain Regard Jury Prize. // 3.9
2PM – Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan) – Now if this one is good, that’s called a “winning streak.” // 5.0
4:45PM – Club Sandwich (Fernando Eimbcke) – Had never heard of this guy but D’Angelo is weirdly excited for this. // 6.2
6:30PM – Wavelengths 1: Variations On…

September 7
9:15AM – Salvation Army (Abdellah Taïa) – Agnès. // 5.6
11:15AM – Love is the Perfect Crime (Arnaud & Jean-Marie Larrieu) – Happy End made my 2009 Top 10. // 6.6
2:15PM – Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón) – Not like I’ll have time to see it in theatres anyway. // 6.0
8:30PM – Wavelengths 2: Now & Then

September 8
1PM – Three Landscapes preceded by Song and Spring – Dorsky and Hutton. Hutton and Dorsky. // 5.9 [grade for the Hutton only]
7PM – Wavelengths 3: Farther Than the Eye Can See
10PM – Child of God (James Franco) – NYFF // 1.8

September 9
7:30PM – Wavelengths 4: Elysium

September 10
2PM – Le Week-End (Roger Mitchell) – NYFF. // 4.4
9:45PM – +Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie) – It’s aged very well. // 7.7 [up from 7.2]

September 11
4:15PM – Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt) – Funny how the // 6.3
7PM – Un Conte de Michel de Montaigne and The King’s Body and Redemption – Might bail after the Straub (have seen the other two).
9PM – Stray Dogs – Master Shots. // 7.6 [up from 7.5]

September 12
9AM – Joe (David Gordon Green) – Is Nicholas Cage wearing a stick-on beard in this movie? // 5.7
11:30AM – Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer) – Birth. // 7.3
2:45PM – The Square (Jehane Noujaim) – NYFF // 4.7
5:45PM – The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki) – NYFF // 4.1
9:30PM – The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears (Helene Cattet & Bruno Forzani) – -ica. // 4.8

September 13
10AM – The Amazing Catfish (Claudia Sainte-Luce) – Godard. // 5.3
11:45AM – Our Sunhi (Hong Sang-soo) – Feels like I’ve already seen it. // 5.9
2:30PM – Moebius (Kim Ki-duk) – My audience had better vomit or I’m not going to be happy. // 6.4
5:15PM – Three Interpretation Exercises (Cristi Puiu) – Rohmer-esque, eh? // 6.1

September 14
9:45AM – Abuse of Weakness (Catherine Breillat) – All signs point to this not being one of her fairy tale movies, so ugh. // 5.7
11:45AM – Real (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) – NYFF. Only seen Tokyo Sonata (unimpressed). // 2.8
2:15PM – October November (Götz Spielmann) – Revanche. // 5.4
9PM – 12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen) – Shame. Please let this be nothing like Shame. // 4.5

September 15
6:30PM – A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (Ben Rivers & Ben Russell) – Gonna be honest. Not looking forward to this at all. // 5.6
9:30PM – When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism (Corneliu Porumboiu) – I’m a Porumboiu fan but this title annoys me. // 6.5

Films that would be priorities for me if I hadn’t already seen them:
The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zürcher) – 8.9
MANAKAMANA (Stephanie Spray & Pacho Velez) – 7.8
Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz) – 7.8
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang) – 7.5
Bastards (Claire Denis) – 7.5
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie) – 7.2
A Touch of Sin (Jia Zhang-ke) – 6.8
La última película (Raya Martin & Mark Peranson) – 6.5
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch) – 6.4
A Thousand Suns (Mati Diop) – 6.2
Closed Curtain (Jafar Panahi & Kamboziya Partovi) – 5.9
Blue is the Warmest Color (Abdellatif Kechiche) – 5.9
The Selfish Giant (Clio Barnard) – 5.8
The Great Beauty (Paolo Sorrentino) – 5.8
The King’s Body (Joao Pedro Rodrigues)
Like Father, Like Son (Hirokazu Kore-eda) – 5.6
R100 (Hitoshi Matsumoto) – 5.6
Gerontophilia (Bruce LaBruce) – 5.5
Celestial Wives of the Meadow Mari (Aleksei Fedorchenko) – 5.4
Blind Detective (Johnnie To) – 5.3
Young & Beautiful (François Ozon) – 5.0
At Berkeley (Frederick Wiseman) – 4.9
A Field in England (Ben Wheatley) – 4.9
Borgman (Alex van Warmerdam) – 4.9
Ilo Ilo (Anthony Chen) – 4.8
The Invisible Woman (Ralph Fiennes) – 4.7
The Unknown Known (Errol Morris) – 4.4
Gloria (Sebastián Lelio) – 4.4
The Missing Image (Rithy Panh) – 4.3
Redemption (Miguel Gomes)
Burning Bush (Agnieszka Holland) – 4.0
The Past (Asghar Farhadi) – 3.8
The Last of the Unjust (Claude Lanzmann) – 3.5

Other TIFF13 films I have already seen:
Bright Days Ahead (Marion Vernoux) – 5.3
The Lunchbox (Ritesh Batra) – 5.2
The Summer of Flying Fish (Marcela Said) – 5.2
Bends (Flora Lau) – 5.1
Blue Ruin (Jeremy Saulnier) – 5.0
Jodorowsky’s Dune (Frank Pavich) – 5.0
Gabrielle (Louise Archambault) – 4.8
Sarah Prefers to Run (Chloé Robichaud) – 4.6
Siddharth (Richie Mehta) – 4.5
Mary Queen of Scots (Thomas Imbach) – 4.4
Pays Barbare (Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi) – 4.2
Burt’s Buzz (Jody Shapiro) – 4.2
Cold Eyes (Cho Ui-seok & Kim Byung-seo) – 4.1
Manuscripts Don’t Burn (Mohammad Rasoulof) – 4.0
Thou Gild’st the Even (Onur Ünlü) – 3.6
The Dismantling (Sébastien Pilote) – 3.2
The Art of the Steal (Jonathan Sobol) – 3.0
The Battle of Tabatô (Joao Viana) – 2.2