{"id":14122,"date":"2016-09-14T11:02:38","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T16:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/?p=14122"},"modified":"2016-09-19T10:47:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T15:47:11","slug":"tiff16-hierarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/2016\/09\/tiff16-hierarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"TIFF16 Hierarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Key<\/span><br \/>\n&#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Saw at TIFF Proper (between Sept. 8-18)<\/span><br \/>\n&#8211; <strong>Saw at Cannes, Berlinale, or Sundance<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; <em>Saw at a TIFF pre-festival press screening<\/em><br \/>\n&#8211; Saw a screener of some kind<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<\/br><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 0 [A\/A+]<\/span><br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 1 [A-]<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade)<\/strong> \u2013 8.4<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Nocturama (Bertrand Bonello)<\/span> \u2013 8.2<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 2 [B+]<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt)<\/strong> \u2013 7.4<br \/>\n<strong>Elle (Paul Verhoeven)<\/strong> \u2013 7.3<br \/>\nThe Dreamed Path (Angela Schanelec) \u2013 7.1<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Yourself and Yours (Hong Sang-soo)<\/span> &#8211; 7.1<br \/>\n<strong>Paterson (Jim Jarmusch)<\/strong> \u2013 7.1<br \/>\n<strong>The Death of Louis XIV (Albert Serra)<\/strong> \u2013 7.0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 3 [B]<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies)<\/strong> \u2013 6.9<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The Human Surge (Eduardo Williams)<\/span> \u2013 6.9<br \/>\n<em><strong>Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas)<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 6.6<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">La La Land (Damien Chazelle)<\/span> &#8211; 6.6<br \/>\n<strong>Aquarius (Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho)<\/strong> \u2013 6.5<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Manchester by the Sea (Kenneth Lonergan)<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 6.5<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Safari (Ulrich Seidl)<\/span> &#8211; 6.5<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">K\u00e9kszak\u00e1ll\u00fa (Gast\u00f3n Solnicki)<\/span> &#8211; 6.4<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Mister Universo (Tizza Covi &#038; Rainer Frimmel)<\/span> &#8211; 6.4<br \/>\n<strong>The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi)<\/strong> \u2013 6.4<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Salt and Fire (Werner Herzog)<\/span> &#8211; 6.2<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 4 [B-]<\/span><br \/>\nHermia &#038; Helena (Mat\u00edas Pi\u00f1eiro) \u2013 6.1<br \/>\n<strong>Things to Come (Mia Hansen-L\u00f8ve)<\/strong> \u2013 6.0<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Arrival (Denis Villeneuve)<\/span> &#8211; 6.0<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">(re)ASSIGNMENT (Walter Hill)<\/span> &#8211; 6.0<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids (Jonathan Demme)<\/span> &#8211; 6.0<br \/>\n<strong>Christine (Antonio Campos)<\/strong> \u2013 6.0<br \/>\n<strong>Mimosas (Oliver Laxe)<\/strong> \u2013 5.9<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The Rehearsal (Alison Maclean)<\/span> &#8211; 5.9<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">A Decent Woman (Lukas Valenta Rinner)<\/span> &#8211; 5.8<br \/>\nWerewolf (Ashley McKenzie) &#8211; 5.8<br \/>\n<strong>Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi)<\/strong> \u2013 5.8<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">I Had Nowhere to Go (Douglas Gordon)<\/span> &#8211; 5.8<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Raw (Julia Ducournau)<\/span> &#8211; 5.7<br \/>\n<strong>The Unknown Girl (Jean-Pierre &#038; Luc Dardenne)<\/strong> \u2013 5.7<br \/>\n<strong>Dog Eat Dog (Paul Schrader)<\/strong> \u2013 5.7<br \/>\n<strong>Harmonium (K\u00f4ji Fukada)<\/strong> \u2013 5.6<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Daguerrotype (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)<\/span> &#8211; 5.5<br \/>\n<strong>I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach)<\/strong> \u2013 5.5<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (Dash Shaw)<\/span> &#8211; 5.5<br \/>\nAusterlitz (Sergei Loznitsa) &#8211; 5.4<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 5 [C+]<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Searchers (Zacharias Kunuk)<\/span> &#8211; 5.3<br \/>\n<strong>Sweet Dreams (Marco Bellocchio)<\/strong> \u2013 5.3<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez (Wim Wenders)<\/span> &#8211; 5.2<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The Ornithologist (Jo\u00e3o Pedro Rodrigues)<\/span> &#8211; 5.1<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Jackie (Pable Larra\u00edn)<\/span> &#8211; 5.1<br \/>\n<strong>Graduation (Christian Mungiu)<\/strong> \u2013 5.1<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford)<\/span> &#8211; 5.0<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The Untamed (Amat Escalante)<\/span> &#8211; 5.0<br \/>\n<strong>Sieranevada (Cristi Puiu)<\/strong> \u2013 4.9<br \/>\n<em>Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)<\/em> &#8211; 4.9<br \/>\nBy the Time it Gets Dark (Anocha Suwichakornpong) \u2013 4.9<br \/>\n<strong>Ta\u2019ang (Wang Bing)<\/strong> \u2013 4.8<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (Steve James)<\/span> &#8211; 4.8<br \/>\n<strong>The Handmaiden (Park Chan-wook)<\/strong> \u2013 4.8<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">My Life as a Courgette (Claude Barras)<\/span> &#8211; 4.7<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Free Fire (Ben Wheatley)<\/span> &#8211; 4.6<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman\u2019s Portrait Photography (Errol Morris)<\/span> &#8211; 4.6<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 6 [C]<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Ember (Zeki Demirkubuz)<\/span> &#8211; 4.5<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Neruda (Pablo Larra\u00edn)<\/span> &#8211; 4.4<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Una (Benedict Andrews)<\/span> &#8211; 4.3<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience (Terrence Malick)<\/span> &#8211; 4.2<br \/>\n<strong>The Dreamed Ones (Ruth Beckermann)<\/strong> \u2013 4.1<br \/>\n<strong>American Honey (Andrea Arnold)<\/strong> \u2013 4.1<br \/>\nThe Woman Who Left (Lav Diaz) \u2013 4.1<br \/>\n<strong>Loving (Jeff Nichols)<\/strong> \u2013 3.9<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 7 [C-]<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo)<\/span> &#8211; 3.5<br \/>\n<strong>Ma\u2019 Rosa (Brillante Mendoza)<\/strong> \u2013 3.4<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Voyage of Time: Life\u2019s Journey (Terrence Malick)<\/span> &#8211; 3.3<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The Bad Batch (Ana Lily Amirpour)<\/span> &#8211; 3.2<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 8 [D+]<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>It\u2019s Only the End of the World (Xavier Dolan)<\/strong> \u2013 2.9<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Message from the King (Fabrice du Welz)<\/span> &#8211; 2.3<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 9 [D]<\/span><br \/>\n&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 10 [D-]<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Katie Says Goodbye (Wayne Roberts)<\/span> &#8211; 1.0<\/p>\n<div>\n<br \/>\n<\/br>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Shorts [more or less ranked]<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">AS WITHOUT SO WITHIN (Manuela De Laborde)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Burning mountains that spew flame (Helena Gir\u00f3n &#038; Samuel M. Delgado)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Incantati (Dani\u00e8le Huillet &#038; Jean-Marie Straub)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Ears, Nose and Throat (Kevin Jerome Everson)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">I\u2019ll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You\u2019ll Become (Sky Hopinka)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; The Hedonists (Jia Zhang-ke)<br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Venus Delta (Antoinette Zwirchmayr)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Flowers of the Sky (Janie Geiser)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Silueta Sangrienta (Ana Mendieta)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Untitled (Bj\u00f6rn K\u00e4mmerer)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Cilaos (Camilo Restrepo)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Anima, Silueta de Cohetes (Firework Piece) (Ana Mendieta)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Indefinite Pitch (James N. 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