{"id":16943,"date":"2018-09-16T16:12:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T21:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/?p=16943"},"modified":"2018-09-25T16:51:16","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T21:51:16","slug":"tiff2018-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/2018\/09\/tiff2018-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"TIFF2018 Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Key<\/span><br \/>\n&#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Saw at TIFF (Sept. 6-16)<\/span><br \/>\n&#8211; <strong>Saw at Cannes or Jeonju<\/strong><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 \/ A+]<\/span><br \/>\n[insert <strong>The House That Jack Built<\/strong> (8.7) here]<br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 1 [B+]<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Climax (Gaspar No\u00e9)<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 7.7<br \/>\n<strong>Burning\u00a0(Lee Chang-dong)<\/strong> \u2013 7.7<br \/>\n<strong>The Image Book\u00a0(Jean-Luc Godard)<\/strong> \u2013 7.5<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Long Day\u2019s Journey Into Night (Bi Gan)<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 7.3<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">L. COHEN (James Benning)<\/span> \u2013 7.1<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">High Life (Claire Denis)<\/span> \u2013 7.0<br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 2 [B]<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Our Time (Carlos Reygadas)<\/span> \u2013 6.9<br \/>\n<strong>Donbass\u00a0(Sergei Loznitsa)<\/strong> \u2013 6.8<br \/>\n<strong>Asako I &#038; II\u00a0(Ry\u016bsuke Hamaguchi)<\/strong> \u2013 6.6<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The Grand Bizarre\u00a0(Jodie Mack)<\/span> \u2013 6.6<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Green Book (Peter Farrelly)<\/span> \u2013 6.6<br \/>\n<strong>In My Room\u00a0(Ulrich K\u00f6hler)<\/strong> \u2013 6.5<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">La Flor (Mariano Llin\u00e1s)<\/span> \u2013 6.4<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Hotel by the River (Hong Sang-soo)<\/span> \u2013 6.4<br \/>\n<strong>An Elephant Sitting Still\u00a0(Hu Bo)<\/strong> \u2013 6.2<br \/>\n<strong>Ash is Purest White\u00a0(Jia Zhang-ke)<\/strong> \u2013 6.2<br \/>\n<strong>Transit\u00a0(Christian Petzold<\/strong>) \u2013 6.2<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas)<\/span> \u2013 6.2<br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 3 [B-]<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)<\/span> \u2013 6.0<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Jinpa (Pema Tseden)<\/span> \u2013 5.9<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Widows (Steve McQueen)<\/span> \u2013 5.7<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper)<\/span> \u2013 5.6<br \/>\n<strong>The Load\u00a0(Ognjen Glavonic)<\/strong> \u2013 5.6<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Mid90s (Jonah Hill)<\/span> \u2013 5.6<br \/>\n<strong>Shoplifters\u00a0(Hirokazu Kore-eda)<\/strong> \u2013 5.6<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Greta (Neil Jordan)<\/span> \u2013 5.4<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Maya (Mia Hansen-L\u00f8ve)<\/span> \u2013 5.4<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">What You Gonna Do When the World\u2019s on Fire? (Robert Minervini)<\/span> \u2013 5.4<br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 4 [C+]<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Belmonte (Federico Veiroj)<\/span> \u2013 5.3<br \/>\n<strong>3 Faces\u00a0(Jafar Panahi)<\/strong> \u2013 5.2<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">ROMA (Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n)<\/span> \u2013 5.2<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">A Faithful Man (Louis Garrel)<\/span> \u2013 5.1<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)<\/span> \u2013 5.1<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">First Man (Damien Chazelle)<\/span> \u2013 5.0<br \/>\n<strong>The Wild Pear Tree\u00a0(Nuri Bilge Ceylan)<\/strong> \u2013 5.0<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">In Fabric (Peter Strickland)<\/span> \u2013 4.9<br \/>\n<strong>Cold War\u00a0(Pawel Pawlikowski)<\/strong> \u2013 4.9<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Meeting Gorbachev (Werner Herzog &#038; Andr\u00e9 Singer)<\/span> \u2013 4.9<br \/>\n<strong>Border\u00a0(Ali Abbasi)<\/strong> \u2013 4.9<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Destroyer (Karyn Kusama)<\/span> \u2013 4.8<br \/>\n<strong>Diamantino\u00a0(Gabriel Abrantes &#038; Daniel Schmidt)<\/strong> \u2013 4.7<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Her Smell (Alex Ross Perry)<\/span> \u2013 4.7<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Vox Lux (Brady Corbet)<\/span> \u2013 4.7<br \/>\n<strong>Dogman\u00a0(Matteo Garrone)<\/strong> \u2013 4.7<br \/>\nToo Late to Die Young\u00a0(Dominga Sotomayor) \u2013 4.6<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The River (Emir Baigazin)<\/span> \u2013 4.6<br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 5 [C]<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The Trial (Sergei Loznitsa)<\/span> \u2013 4.5<br \/>\n<strong>Capernaum\u00a0(Nadine Labaki)<\/strong> \u2013 4.5<br \/>\n<strong>Girls of the Sun\u00a0(Eva Husson)<\/strong> \u2013 4.4<br \/>\n<strong>Birds of Passage\u00a0(Cristina Gallego &#038; Ciro Guerra)<\/strong> \u2013 4.1<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The Mountain (Rick Alverson)<\/span> \u2013 4.0<br \/>\n<strong>Everybody Knows\u00a0(Asghar Farhadi)<\/strong> \u2013 4.0<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The Land of Steady Habits (Nicole Holofcener)<\/span> \u2013 3.8<br \/>\n<\/br><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tier 6 [C-]<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Sunset (L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Nemes)<\/span> \u2013 3.7<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (Xavier Dolan)<\/span> \u2013 3.4<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Aniara (Pella Kagerman &#038; Hugo Lilja)<\/span> \u2013 3.2<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Wildlife (Paul Dano)<\/span> \u2013 3.0<\/p>\n<div>\n<br \/>\n<\/br>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fausto\u00a0(Andrea Bussmann) \u2013 TK<\/p>\n<div>\n<br \/>\n<\/br>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Shorts [Alphabetical]<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Ada Kaleh\u00a0(Helena Wittmann)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The Air of the Earth in Your Lungs\u00a0(Ross Meckfessel)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Alice\u00a0(1974, Maria Lassnig)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">ALTIPLANO\u00a0(Malena Szlam)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">ante mis ojos (Lina Rodriguez)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Arena (Bj\u00f6rn K\u00e4mmerer)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Blue\u00a0(Apichatpong Weerasethakul)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle)\u00a0(Nathaniel Dorsky)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Fainting Spells\u00a0(Sky Hopinka)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Fallen Arches\u00a0(Simon Liu)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Girl Pack\u00a0(1981, Lisa Baumgardner)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The Glass Note\u00a0(Mary Helena Clark)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Hoarders Without Boarders\u00a0(Jodie Mack)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">I Hope I\u2019m Loud When I\u2019m Dead\u00a0(Beatrice Gibson)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u00cele d\u2019Ouessant\u00a0(David Dudouit)<\/span><br \/>\n&emsp; 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