{"id":15676,"date":"2017-09-17T22:00:52","date_gmt":"2017-09-18T03:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/?p=15676"},"modified":"2017-10-04T18:58:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T23:58:01","slug":"tiff17-hierarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/tiff17-hierarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"TIFF17 Hierarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Key<\/span><br \/>\n&#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Saw at TIFF Proper (between Sept. 7-17)<\/span><br \/>\n&#8211; <strong>Saw at Cannes or Locarno<\/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<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont)<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 8.0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 2 [B+]<\/span><br \/>\n<em>Call Me by Your Name (Luca Guadagnino)<\/em> \u2013 7.6<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Faces Places (Agn\u00e8s Varda &#038; JR)<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 7.2<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">I Love You, Daddy (Louis C.K.)<\/span> \u2013 7.0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 3 [B]<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Caniba (Lucien Castaing-Taylor &#038; Verena Paravel)<\/span> \u2013 6.9<br \/>\n<strong>BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Robin Campillo)<\/strong> \u2013 6.9<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">First Reformed (Paul Schrader)<\/span> \u2013 6.6<br \/>\n<strong>The Nothing Factory (Pedro Pinho)<\/strong> \u2013 6.5<br \/>\n<strong>3\/4 (Ilian Metev)<\/strong> \u2013 6.3<br \/>\n<strong>The Florida Project (Sean Baker)<\/strong> \u2013 6.3<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>The Rider (Chlo\u00e9 Zhao)<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 6.2<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 4 [B-]<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>The Day After (Hong Sang-soo)<\/strong> \u2013 6.1<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The Guardians (Xavier Beauvois)<\/span> \u2013 6.1<br \/>\n<strong>Western (Valeska Grisebach)<\/strong> \u2013 6.1<br \/>\n<strong>A Skin So Soft (Denis C\u00f4t\u00e9)<\/strong> \u2013 6.1<br \/>\n<strong>The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos)<\/strong> \u2013 6.0<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">F\u00e9licit\u00e9 (Alain Gomis)<\/span> \u2013 6.0<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Brawl in Cell Block 99 (S. Craig Zahler)<\/span> \u2013 5.9<br \/>\nZama (Lucrecia Martel) \u2013 5.8<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Downsizing (Alexander Payne)<\/span> \u2013 5.8<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Ex Libris \u2013 The New York Public Library (Frederick Wiseman)<\/span> \u2013 5.7<br \/>\n<strong>I Am Not a Witch (Rungano Nyoniand)<\/strong> \u2013 5.7<br \/>\n<strong>Happy End (Michael Haneke)<\/strong> \u2013 5.6<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Molly\u2019s Game (Aaron Sorkin)<\/span> \u2013 5.5<br \/>\n<strong>Good Luck (Ben Russell)<\/strong> \u2013 5.4<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig)<\/span> \u2013 5.4<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The Seen and Unseen (Kamila Andini)<\/span> \u2013 5.4<br \/>\n<strong>Redoubtable (Michel Hazanavicius)<\/strong> \u2013 5.4<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 5 [C+]<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Manhunt (John Woo)<\/span> \u2013 5.3<br \/>\n<strong>Le Fort des fous (Narimane Mari)<\/strong> \u2013 5.2<br \/>\n<strong>Makala (Emmanuel Gras)<\/strong> \u2013 5.2<br \/>\n<strong>Mrs. Fang (Wang Bing)<\/strong> \u2013 5.1<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Bodied (Joseph Kahn)<\/span> \u2013 4.7<br \/>\n<strong>Dragonfly Eyes (Xu Bing)<\/strong> \u2013 4.7<br \/>\n<strong>A Ciambra (Jonas Carpignano)<\/strong> \u2013 4.7<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz)<\/span> \u2013 4.7<br \/>\n<strong>Radiance (Naomi Kawase)<\/strong> \u2013 4.6<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Beyond the One (Anna Marziano)<\/span> \u2013 4.6<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 6 [C]<\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Let the Corpses Tan (H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Cattet &#038; Bruno Forzani)<\/strong> \u2013 4.5<br \/>\n<strong>The Square (Ruben \u00d6stlund)<\/strong> \u2013 4.4<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro)<\/span> \u2013 4.3<br \/>\nOccidental (Ne\u00efl Beloufa) \u2013 4.3<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Three Billboards in Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh)<\/span> \u2013 4.2<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Lean On Pete (Andrew Haigh)<\/span> \u2013 4.1<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">On Body and Soul (Ildik\u00f3 Enyedi)<\/span> \u2013 4.0<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Dark River (Clio Barnard)<\/span> \u2013 3.9<br \/>\n<strong>Cocote (Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias)<\/strong> \u2013 3.8<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 7 [C-]<\/span><br \/>\n<em>Thelma (Joachim Trier)<\/em> \u2013 3.6<br \/>\n<strong>Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev)<\/strong> \u2013 3.4<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">mother! (Darren Aronofsky)<\/span> \u2013 3.3<br \/>\n<strong>In the Fade (Fatih Akin)<\/strong> \u2013 3.1<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 8 [D+ and lower]<\/span><br \/>\n&#8211;<\/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;\">Rose Gold (Sara Cwynar)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Onward Lossless Follows (Michael Robinson)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Strangely Ordinary This Devotion (Dani Leventhal &#038; Sheilah Wilson)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Turtles Are Always Home (Rawane Nassif)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Florence (1970, Erkki Kurenniemi)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <strong>Scaffold (Kazik Radwanski)<\/strong><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Pixillation (1976, Anne Charlotte Robertson)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Yeti (Wojciech B\u0105kowski)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; Dislocation Blues (Sky Hopinka)<br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Fantasy Sentences (Dane Komljen)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Palmerston Blvd. (Dan Browne)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Flores (Jorge J\u00e1come)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Wasteland No.1 \u2013 Ardent, Verdant (Jodie Mack)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The Watchmen (Fern Silva)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">From Source to Poem (Rosa Barba)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Division Movement to Vungtau (Benjamin Crotty &#038; Bertrand Dezoteux)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Brown And Clear (Kevin Jerome Everson)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Mr. Yellow Sweatshirt (Pacho Velez &#038; Yoni Brook)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Aliens (Luis L\u00f3pez Carrasco)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">below-above (Andr\u00e9 Lehmann)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Configuration in Black and White (Helga Fanderl)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">some cities (Francesco Gagliardi)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">(100ft) (Minjung Kim)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Ticino (Friedl vom Gr\u00f6ller)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">La Libertad (Laura Huertas Mill\u00e1n)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Fluid Frontiers (Ephraim Asili)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Heart of a Mountain (Parastoo Anoushahpour, Ryan Ferko, Faraz Anoushahpour)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Fire (Lucy Parker)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key &#8211; 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