{"id":18048,"date":"2019-09-15T19:02:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T00:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/?p=18048"},"modified":"2019-09-15T19:37:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T00:37:12","slug":"tiff2019-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blakewilliams.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/tiff2019-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"TIFF2019 Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

Key<\/span>
\n– Saw at TIFF (Sept. 5-15)<\/span>
\n– Saw at Cannes<\/strong>
\n– Saw a pre-festival advanced press screening
\n– Saw a screener of some kind<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Tier 0 [A- \/ A \/ A+]<\/span>
\n <\/p>\n

Tier 1 [B+]<\/span>
\nLibert\u00e9 (Albert Serra)<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 7.7
\nI Was at Home, But… (Angela Schanelec)<\/span> \u2013 7.0
\nUncut Gems (Josh & Benny Safdie)<\/span> \u2013 7.0
\n <\/p>\n

Tier 2 [B]<\/span>
\nAbout Endlessness (Roy Andersson)<\/span> \u2013 6.9
\nKnives Out (Rian Johnson)<\/span> \u2013 6.7
\nThe Traitor (Marco Bellocchio)<\/strong> \u2013 6.6
\nAtlantis (Valentyn Vasyanovych)<\/span> \u2013 6.6
\nSaF05 (Charlotte Prodger)<\/span> ~ 6.5
\nState Funeral (Sergei Loznitsa)<\/span> \u2013 6.5
\nMarriage Story (Noah Baumbach)<\/span> \u2013 6.5
\nBacurau (Kleber Mendon\u00e7a Filho & Juliano Dornelles)<\/strong> \u2013 6.4
\nThose That, at a Distance, Resemble Another (Jessica Sarah Rinland)<\/span> \u2013 6.4
\nParasite (Bong Joon-ho)<\/strong> \u2013 6.4
\nVitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)<\/span> \u2013 6.3
\nA White, White Day (Hlynur P\u00e1lmason)<\/strong> \u2013 6.2
\nSibyl (Justine Triet)<\/strong> \u2013 6.2
\nCollective (Alexander Nanau)<\/span> \u2013 6.2
\nBeanpole (Kantemir Balagov)<\/strong> \u2013 6.2
\n <\/p>\n

Tier 3 [B-]<\/span>
\nSynonyms (Nadav Lapid)<\/span> \u2013 6.1
\nWhite Lie (Calvin Thomas & Yonah Lewis)<\/span> \u2013 6.1
\nFirst Love (Takashi Miike)<\/strong> \u2013 6.0
\nAnne at 13,000 Feet. (Kazik Radwanski)<\/span> \u2013 6.0
\nHeimat is a Space in Time (Thomas Heise)<\/span> \u2013 5.9
\nA Hidden Life (Terrence Malick)<\/strong> \u2013 5.8
\nFire Will Come (Oliver Laxe)<\/strong> \u2013 5.8
\nMy Skin, Luminous (Gabino Rodr\u00edguez & Nicolas Pereda)<\/span> \u2013 5.8
\nTo the Ends of the Earth (Kiyoshi Kurosawa)<\/span> \u2013 5.7
\nThe Laundromat (Steven Soderbergh)<\/span> \u2013 5.7
\nVarda by Agn\u00e8s (Agn\u00e8s Varda)<\/em> \u2013 5.6
\nZombi Child (Bertrand Bonello)<\/strong> \u2013 5.5
\nRocks (Sarah Gavron)<\/span> \u2013 5.5
\n <\/p>\n

Tier 4 [C+]<\/span>
\nMartin Eden (Pietro Marcello)<\/span> \u2013 5.4
\nThe Vast of Night (Andrew Patterson)<\/span> \u2013 5.4
\nAtlantics (Mati Diop)<\/strong> \u2013 5.4
\nThe Invisible Life of Eur\u00eddice Gusm\u00e3o (Karim A\u00efnouz)<\/strong> \u2013 5.4
\nThree Summers (Sandra Kogut)<\/span> \u2013 5.3
\nThe Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu)<\/strong> \u2013 5.3
\nThe Truth (Hirokazu Kore-eda)<\/span> \u2013 5.3
\nA Girl Missing (Koji Fukada)<\/span> \u2013 5.2
\n143 Sahara Street (Hassen Ferhani)<\/em> \u2013 5.2
\nKrabi, 2562 (Ben Rivers & Anocha Suwichakornpong)<\/em> \u2013 5.2
\nMy Zoe (Julie Delpy)<\/span> \u2013 5.1
\nSeven Years in May (Affonso Uchoa)<\/span> \u2013 5.1
\nDogs Don\u2019t Wear Pants (Jukka-Pekka Valkeap\u00e4\u00e4)<\/strong> \u2013 5.1
\nDevil Between the Legs (Arturo Ripstein)<\/span> \u2013 5.1
\nPain and Glory (Pedro Almod\u00f3var)<\/strong> \u2013 5.1
\nCunningham (Alla Kovgan)<\/span> \u2013 5.0
\nSaturday Fiction (Lou Ye)<\/span> \u2013 5.0
\nLes Mis\u00e9rables (Ladj Ly)<\/strong> \u2013 4.9
\nIt Must Be Heaven (Elia Suleiman)<\/strong> \u2013 4.8
\nProxima (Alice Winocour)<\/span> \u2013 4.8
\nEma (Pablo Larra\u00edn)<\/span> \u2013 4.7
\nThe Fever (Maya Da-Rin)<\/em> \u2013 4.6
\n <\/p>\n

Tier 5 [C]<\/span>
\nThe Moneychanger (Federico Veiroj)<\/span> \u2013 4.5
\nDeerskin (Quentin Dupieux)<\/strong> \u2013 4.5
\nThe Lighthouse (Robert Eggers)<\/strong> \u2013 4.4
\nPortrait of a Lady on Fire (Celine Sciamma)<\/strong> \u2013 4.4
\nFrankie (Ira Sachs)<\/strong> \u2013 4.3
\nSorry We Missed You (Ken Loach)<\/strong> \u2013 4.3
\nThe Wild Goose Lake (Diao Yinan)<\/strong> \u2013 4.3
\nWasp Network (Olivier Assayas)<\/span> \u2013 4.2
\nThe Twentieth Century (Matthew Rankin)<\/em> \u2013 4.1
\nUn Film Dramatique (Eric Baudelaire)<\/em> \u2013 4.1
\nEndless Night (Eloy Enciso)<\/span> \u2013 4.0
\nWet Season (Anthony Chen)<\/span> \u2013 3.9<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Tier 6 [C-]<\/span>
\nClemency (Chinonye Chukwu)<\/span> \u2013 3.7
\nThe Climb (Michael Angelo Covino) \u2013 3.0<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Tier 7 [D+]<\/span>
\nBlood Quantum (Jeff Barnaby)<\/span> \u2013 2.9<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Shorts [Alphabetical]<\/span>
\n\u2013 Amusement Ride (Tomonari Nishikawa)<\/span>
\n\u2013 Austrian Pavillion (Philipp Fleischmann)<\/span>
\n\u2013 Billy (Zachary Epcar)<\/span>
\n\u2013 The Bite (Pedro Neves Marques)<\/span>
\n\u2013 Black Sun (Maureen Fazendeiro)<\/span>
\n\u2013 Book of Hours (Annie MacDonell)<\/span>
\n\u2013 C\u00e9zanne (Luke Fowler)<\/span>
\n\u2013 Circumplector (Gast\u00f3n Solnicki)<\/span>
\n\u2013 Heavy Metal Detox (Josef Dabernig)<\/span>
\n\u2013 Hrvoji, Look at You From the Tower (Ryan Ferko)<\/span>
\n\u2013 Remembrance: A Portrait Study (Edward Owens)<\/span>
\n\u2013 Second Generation (Miryam Charles)<\/span>
\n\u2013 Slow Volumes (Mike Gibisser)<\/span>
\n\u2013 Sun Rave (Roy Samaha)<\/span>
\n\u2013 This Action Lies (James N. Kienitz Wilkins)<\/span>
\n\u2013 A Topography of Memory (Burak \u00c7evik)<\/span>
\n\u2013 (tourism studies) (Joshua Gen Solondz)<\/span>
\n\u2013 Transcript (Erica Sheu)<\/span>
\n\u2013 2minutes40seconds (Han Ok-hee)<\/span>
\n\u2013 2008 (Blake Williams)<\/span>
\n\u2013 Vever (for Barbara) (Deborah Stratman)<\/span>
\n\u2013 We Still Have to Close Our Eyes (John Torres)<\/span>
\n\u2013 Who is Afraid of Ideology? Part 2 (Marwa Arsanios)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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