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DIRECTOR'S FORTNIGHT

Pajaros De Verano (Birds Of Passage), dirs: Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra – Opening Film
Amin, dir: Philippe Faucon
Climax, dir: Gaspar Noé
Carmen Y Lola, dir: Arantxa Echevarria
Comprame Un Revolver (Buy Me A Gun), dir: Julio Hernandez Cordon
Les Confins Du Monde, dir: Guillaume Nicloux
El Motoarrebatador (The Snatch Thief), dir: Agustin Toscano
En Liberté, dir: Pierre Salvadori
Joueurs (Treat Me Like Fire), dir: Marie Monge
Leave No Trace, dir: Debra Granik
Los Silencios, dir: Beatriz Seigner
Ming Wang Xing Shi Ke De (The Pluto Moment), dir: Ming Zhang
Mandy, dir: Panos Cosmatos
Mirai, dir: Mamoru Hosoda
Le Monde Est A Toi, dir: Romain Gavras
Petra, dir: Jaime Rosales
Samouni Road, dir: Stefano Savona
Teret (The Load), dir: Ognjen Glavonic
Weldi (Dead Son), dir: Mohamed Ben Attia
Troppa Grazia, dir: Gianni Zanazi – Closing Film


Really want to see Birds of Passage. Noe is always intriguing visually. Curious about Romain Gavras's film. And of course Leave No Trace.

yeah, The Director's Fortnight is year after year an exciting place to discover films.
I'm also quite curious about Nicloux and Salvadori's films, and the new animated film by Mamoru Hosoda who's probably the more talented filmmaker in animation working today, or close to it.

In lieu of the huge standing ovation it received at its premiere , I'd like to come out and admit that I was dead fucking wrong about how BlackKklansman would be received at Cannes. If those Netflixphobes ate it up, it must be something special

Netflix couldn't make a film like BlacKkKlansman. They're too busy pandering to the lowest common denominator.

First wave of the Toronto slate has arrived:

GALAS 2018
Beautiful Boy
Felix van Groeningen
USA
World Premiere

Everybody Knows
Asghar Farhadi
Spain/France/Italy
North American Premiere

First Man
Damien Chazelle
USA
Canadian Premiere

Galveston
Mélanie Laurent
USA
Canadian Premiere

The Hate U Give
George Tillman, Jr
USA
World Premiere

Hidden Man
Jiang Wen
China
International Premiere

High Life
Claire Denis
Germany/France/Poland/United Kingdom
World Premiere

Husband Material
Anurag Kashyap
India
World Premiere

The Kindergarten Teacher
Sara Colangelo
USA
Canadian Premiere

The Land of Steady Habits
Nicole Holofcener
USA
World Premiere

Life Itself
Dan Fogelman
USA
World Premiere

The Public
Emilio Estevez
USA
World Premiere

Red Joan
Sir Trevor Nunn
United Kingdom
World Premiere

Shadow
Zhang Yimou
China
North American Premiere

A Star is Born
Bradley Cooper
USA
North American Premiere

What They Had
Elizabeth Chomko
USA
International Premiere

Widows
Steve McQueen
United Kingdom/USA
World Premiere

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 2018
Mouthpiece (Opening Film)
Patricia Rozema
Canada
World Premiere

Ben is Back
Peter Hedges
USA
World Premiere

Burning
Lee Chang-dong
South Korea
North American Premiere

Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Marielle Heller
USA
International Premiere

Capernaum
Nadine Labaki
Lebanon
North American Premiere

Cold War
Paweł Pawlikowski
Poland/United Kingdom/France
Canadian Premiere

Colette
Wash Westmoreland
United Kingdom
Canadian Premiere

Dogman
Matteo Garrone
Italy/France
Canadian Premiere

The Front Runner
Jason Reitman
USA
International Premiere

Giant Little Ones
Keith Behrman
Canada
World Premiere

Girls of the Sun
Eva Husson
France
International Premiere

Hotel Mumbai
Anthony Maras
Australia
World Premiere

The Hummingbird Project
Kim Nguyen
Canada
World Premiere

If Beale Street Could Talk
Barry Jenkins
USA
World Premiere

Manto
Nandita Das
India
North American Premiere

Maya
Mia Hansen-Løve
France
World Premiere

Monsters and Men
Reinaldo Marcus Green
USA
Canadian Premiere

Non-Fiction
Olivier Assayas
France
Canadian Premiere

The Old Man & The Gun
David Lowery
USA
International Premiere

Papi Chulo
John Butler
Ireland
World Premiere

Roma
Alfonso Cuarón
Mexico/USA
Canadian Premiere

Shoplifters (Closing Film)
Hirokazu Kore-eda
Japan
Canadian Premiere

The Sisters Brothers
Jacques Audiard
USA/France/Romania/Spain
North American Premiere

Sunset
László Nemes
Hungary/France
North American Premiere

Through Black Spruce
Don McKellar
Canada
World Premiere

The Wedding Guest
Michael Winterbottom
United Kingdom
World Premiere

The Weekend
Stella Meghie
USA
World Premiere

Complete TIFF: https://www.tiff.net/tiff/films.html?schedule

The head of the local non-profit here is planning a six-day, 30 movie orgy in hopes of finding some titles for the late 2018/early 2019 lineup.

If I were in high finance and had a valid passport (I haven't left the States since a Mexico visit a decade ago), my picks (which add up to 30).

9/6: Monsters and Men: 9:00 pm
The Predator: 11:59 pm

9/7: The Fall of the American Empire: 9:45 am
Sharkwater Extinction: 2:00 pm
Capernaum: 4:30 pm

9/8: Beautiful Boy: 10:45 am
Can You Ever Forgive Me?: 2:15 pm
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner: 8:15 pm
Halloween (2018): 11:59 pm

9/9: The Sisters Brothers: 10:00 am
The Public: 2:30 pm
If Beale Street Could Talk: 6:00 pm
Climax: 11:59 pm

9/10: Peterloo: 2:00 pm
Maria by Callas: 6:45 pm
Birds of Passage: 9:45 pm

9/11: Long Day's Journey Into Night: 3:45 pm
Green Book: 8:00 pm

9/12: Colette: 12:00 pm
Persona: 5:15 pm
What They Had: 8:00 pm

9/13: The Joy Luck Club: 4:15 pm
The Kindergarten Teacher: 9:30 pm

9/14: Searching for Ingmar Bergman: 12:45 pm
The Passion of Joan of Arc: 6:15 pm
Shoplifters: 9:00 pm

9/15: Everybody Knows: 5:00 pm
Destroyer: 9:45 pm

9/16: Monrovia, Indiana: 12:15 pm
Galveston: 8:45 pm

Meanwhile, I thought I read Dragged Across Concrete was going to be screened. This would seem like a good title for the Midnight series.

A movie I worked on, Float Like A Butterfly, is premiering in Toronto! Pity I won't be there.

Dragged Across Concrete is premiering at Venice on September 3rd. I heard some baseless speculation that it was also going to screen at Fantastic Fest, but it wasn't apart of the second wave announcement earlier this week.

I'd love to go to Toronto some day. Their lineups are always very diverse and I've heard nothing but good things about the city.

The Vancouver festival is shaping up and so far I'm not blown away by the lineup. Under The Sliver Lake, The House That Jack Built, Climax, and Shoplifters are about the only ones I've heard of, and there seems to be a distinct lack of genre fare compared to previous years. They haven't announced the Gala Presentations yet, so hopefully there'll be a few more buzz-worthy titles to come. https://viff.org/Online/program-updates

And as a Canadian who lives outside of Toronto, it's my sworn duty to point out that Toronto sucks.

JohnErle wrote:The Vancouver festival is shaping up and so far I'm not blown away by the lineup. Under The Sliver Lake, The House That Jack Built, Climax, and Shoplifters are about the only ones I've heard of, and there seems to be a distinct lack of genre fare compared to previous years. They haven't announced the Gala Presentations yet, so hopefully there'll be a few more buzz-worthy titles to come. https://viff.org/Online/program-updates

Burning and Shoplifters are two films playing in VIFF that are top of my Must-See list

JohnErle wrote:The Vancouver festival is shaping up and so far I'm not blown away by the lineup. Under The Sliver Lake, The House That Jack Built, Climax, and Shoplifters are about the only ones I've heard of, and there seems to be a distinct lack of genre fare compared to previous years. They haven't announced the Gala Presentations yet, so hopefully there'll be a few more buzz-worthy titles to come. https://viff.org/Online/program-updates

John, I can only recommend you buy yourself a ticket for MICROHABITAT which plays at VIFF.
It's one of the very best films I've seen this year, one I will screen at my festival in Paris this year, it's a true highlight this year. Don't miss it !!

I'll add those to the list of possibilities.

Green Book wins the People's Choice Awards in TIFF. I did not see that coming, as it looks kinda rote and saccharine. Could be a big hit, though

Runners up were Roma and If Beale Street Could Talk.

Mortensen wants that Oscar and he might get it now. Also a good waiver wire pickup for me.

I was sure Roma would win it but I wonder if the Netflix factor hurt it.

Good call on Green Book, Boosch.

In other news, the film I worked on, Float Like A Butterfly, also picked up the Discovery Award, which was unexpected!