{"id":11845,"date":"2015-09-20T23:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T04:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/?p=11845"},"modified":"2016-02-21T19:31:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-22T00:31:52","slug":"11845","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/11845\/","title":{"rendered":"TIFF15 Hierarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Key<\/span>
\n– Saw at TIFF Proper (between Sept. 10-20)<\/span>
\n– Saw at Cannes or Sundance<\/strong>
\n– Saw at a TIFF pre-festival press screening<\/em>
\n– Saw a screener of some kind
\n
\n<\/br><\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

Tier 0<\/span>
\n–<\/p>\n

Tier 1<\/span>
\nThe Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin & Evan Johnson)<\/strong> \u2013 8.2<\/p>\n

Tier 2<\/span>
\nCemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 7.6
\nBlood of My Blood (Marco Bellocchio)<\/span> \u2013 7.5
\nArabian Nights: Volume 2, The Desolate One (Miguel Gomes)<\/strong> \u2013 7.5
\nArabian Nights: Volume 1, The Restless One (Miguel Gomes)<\/strong> \u2013 7.3
\nThe Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu)<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 7.2
\nAnomalisa (Charlie Kaufman)<\/span> \u2013 7.2<\/p>\n

Tier 3<\/span>
\nArabian Nights: Volume 3, The Enchanted One (Miguel Gomes)<\/strong> \u2013 6.9
\nOffice (Johnnie To)<\/span> \u2013 6.7
\nRight Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sang-soo) \u2013 6.6
\nLove (Gaspar No\u00e9)<\/strong> \u2013 6.6
\nOne Floor Below (Radu Muntean)<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 6.5
\nLost and Beautiful (Pietro Marcello) \u2013 6.5
\nJames White (Josh Mond)<\/strong> \u2013 6.5
\nNeon Bull (Gabriel Mascaro)<\/span> \u2013 6.4
\nDisorder (Alice Winocour)<\/strong> \u2013 6.4
\nThe Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien)<\/strong> \u2013 6.4
\nThe Other Side (Roberto Minervini)<\/strong> \u2013 6.3
\nDemolition (Jean-Marc Vall\u00e9e)<\/span> \u2013 6.3
\nIn Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman)<\/span> \u2013 6.3
\nAfternoon (Tsai Ming-liang)<\/span> \u2013 6.2
\nIn the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel)<\/strong> \u2013 6.2
\nBleak Street (Arturo Ripstein)<\/span> \u2013 6.2<\/p>\n

Tier 4<\/span>
\nLouder than Bombs (Joachim Trier)<\/strong> \u2013 6.1
\nThe Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (Ben Rivers)<\/span> \u2013 6.1
\nThe Apostate (Federico Veiroj)<\/span> \u2013 6.0
\n88:88 (Isiah Medina) \u2013 6.0
\nHigh-Rise (Ben Wheatley)<\/span> \u2013 5.9
\nInvention (Mark Lewis) \u2013 5.9
\nStory of Judas (Rabah Ameur-Za\u00efmeche)<\/span> \u2013 5.9
\nSon of Saul (L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Nemes)<\/strong> \u2013 5.8
\nSector IX B (Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc)<\/span> \u2013 5.7
\nThe Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos)<\/strong> \u2013 5.7
\nThe Pearl Button (Patricio Guzm\u00e1n)<\/span> \u2013 5.7
\nThe Witch (Robert Eggers)<\/strong> \u2013 5.7
\nMountains May Depart (Jia Zhangke)<\/strong> \u2013 5.6
\n45 Years (Andrew Haigh)<\/em> \u2013 5.6
\nHow Heavy This Hammer (Kazik Radwanski) \u2013 5.6
\nYakuza Apocalypse (Takashi Miike)<\/span> \u2013 5.6
\nChevalier (Athina Rachel Tsangari)<\/em> \u2013 5.5
\nCampo Grande (Sandra Kogut)<\/span> \u2013 5.5
\nThe Event (Sergei Loznitsa)<\/span> \u2013 5.5
\nGreen Room (Jeremy Saulnier)<\/span> \u2013 5.4
\nSleeping Giant (Andrew Cividino)<\/strong> \u2013 5.4
\nMaggie\u2019s Plan (Rebecca Miller)<\/span> \u2013 5.4<\/p>\n

Tier 5<\/span>
\nNo Home Movie (Chantal Akerman)<\/span> \u2013 5.3
\nLes Cowboys (Thomas Bidegain)<\/span> \u2013 5.3
\nSunset Song (Terence Davies)<\/span> \u2013 5.3
\nThe Wait (Piero Messina)<\/span> \u2013 5.2
\nHong Kong Trilogy: Preschooled Preoccupied Preposterous (Christopher Doyle)<\/span> \u2013 5.1
\nMustang (Deniz Gamze Erg\u00fcven)<\/strong> \u2013 5.0
\nMy Mother (Nanni Moretti)<\/strong> \u2013 5.0
\nThe Martian (Ridley Scott)<\/span> \u2013 4.9
\nTaxi (Jafar Panahi)<\/strong> \u2013 4.9
\nWhere to Invade Next (Michael Moore)<\/span> \u2013 4.9
\nDheepan (Jacques Audiard)<\/strong> \u2013 4.9
\nEvolution (Lucile Had\u017eihalilovic)<\/span> \u2013 4.8
\nSanta Teresa & Other Stories (Nelson De Los Santos Arias) \u2013 4.7
\nHitchcock\/Truffaut (Kent Jones)<\/span> \u2013 4.6
\nBang Gang (A Modern Love Story) (Eva Husson)<\/span> \u2013 4.6
\nOur Little Sister (Hirokazu Kore-eda)<\/strong> \u2013 4.6
\nFrancofonia (Alexander Sokurov)<\/span> \u2013 4.6<\/p>\n

Tier 6<\/span>
\nSicario (Denis Villeneuve)<\/strong> \u2013 4.5
\nThe Club (Pablo Larra\u00edn)<\/span> \u2013 4.5
\nHeart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson)<\/em> \u2013 4.5
\nFrom Afar (Lorenzo Vigas)<\/span> \u2013 4.5
\nYouth (Paolo Sorrentino)<\/strong> \u2013 4.4
\nJourney to the Shore (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)<\/strong> \u2013 4.3
\nIncident Light (Ariel Rotter)<\/span> \u2013 4.1
\nOur Brand is Crisis (David Gordon Green)<\/span> \u2013 4.0
\nEmbrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra)<\/strong> \u2013 3.9
\nBrooklyn (John Crowley)<\/em> \u2013 3.8<\/p>\n

Tier 7<\/span>
\n11 Minutes (Jerzy Skolimowski)<\/span> \u2013 3.5
\n
\n<\/br><\/p>\n

<\/div>\n

Shorts (these may or may not be ordered from favourite to least favourite [or vice versa])<\/span>
\n3D Movie (1975, Paul Sharits)
\nBring Me the Head of Tim Horton (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, & Galen Johnson)
\nTerrestrial (Calum Walter)
\nPalms (Mary Helena Clark)
\nActua 1 (1968, Philippe Garrel)
\nTime for Outrage! (Friedl vom Gr\u00f6ller)
\nNeither God nor Santa Maria (Samuel M. Delgado & Helena Gir\u00f3n)
\nEngram of Returning (Da\u00efchi Sa\u00efto)
\nThe Reminder (Behrouz Rae)
\nSolo for Rich Man (Beatrice Gibson)
\nFugue (Kerstin Schr\u00f6dinger)
\nBunte Kuh (Ryan Ferko, Parastoo Anoushahpour, & Faraz Anoushahpour)
\nFaux D\u00e9part (False Start) (Yto Barrada)
\nTarlaba\u015f\u0131 (Cynthia Madansky)
\nAnalysis of Emotions and Vexations (Wojciech B\u0105kowski)
\nOccidente (Ana Vaz)
\nNavigator (Bj\u00f6rn K\u00e4mmerer)
\nPrima Materia (Charlotte Pryce)
\nYOLO (Ben Russell)
\nMany Thousands Gone (Ephraim Asili)
\nUntitled (Behrouz Rae)
\nTh\u00e9odolitique (David K. Ross)
\nThe Exquisite Corpus (Peter Tscherkassky)
\nA Distant Episode (Ben Rivers)
\nUNcirCling (John Creson & Adam Rosen)
\nBird Heart (Halfdan Olav Ullmann T\u00f8ndel)
\nPsychic Driving (William E. Jones)
\nThe Fire in My Brain That Separates Us (Benjamin Ram\u00edrez P\u00e9rez)
\nOffice Space Modulation (Terrarea [aka Janis Demkiw, Emily Hogg, & Olia Mishchenko])
\nAn Old Dog\u2019s Diary (Shai Heredia & Shumona Goel)
\nBAM (Howie Shia)
\nA Few Seconds (Nora El Hourch)
\nThe Magnetic The Magnetic Nature (Mateo Bendesky)
\n4 Quarters (Ashley McKenzie)
\nRate Me (Fyzal Boulifa)
\nThe Man Who Shot Hollywood (Barry Avrich)
\nThe Chickening (Davy Force & Nick DenBoer)<\/p>\n

*Something Horizontal (Blake Williams)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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