Toronto and New York Film Festivals of 2013

First title announcements from TIFF... I guess I forgot that the West Memphis 3 film is Atom Egoyan's.

http://www.indiewire.com/article/toronto-makes-epic-first-announcement-of-titles-egoyan-mcqueen-reitman-reichart-and-august-osage-county-among-highlights

http://www.indiewire.com/article/tiff-list-2013-a-list-of-all-the-announced-films-at-the-toronto-international-film-festival

Lots of likely bullshit as per usual, but I'm stoked for Reichardt, Kekiche, Jarmusch, and the prospect of Nicolas Cage actually acting in the DGG flick.

It would be nice if the Denis Villeneuve movie didn't suck.

more TIFF lineups:

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-toronto-2013-lineup-round-3

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-toronto-2013-lineup-round-2

Pretty worried about that Rumsfeld doc by Morris; he indulged Robert McNamara far too leniently.

Not a parody:

http://www.deadline.com/2013/08/toronto-sets-world-cinema-film-lineup/

A Place In Heaven (Makom be-gan eden) Yossi Madmony, Israel North American Premiere. Jewish religious law permits the trade of a seemingly non-transferrable concept: another person’s place in heaven. This is the story of a highly-decorated retired general who, in a moment of arrogance during his youth, sold his place in heaven to an army cook for a plate of shakshouka.

A Wolf At The Door (O Lobo atrás da Porta) Fernando Coimbra, Brazil World Premiere. A child is kidnapped. At the police station, Sylvia and Bernardo, the victim’s parents, and Rosa, the main suspect and Bernardo’s lover, give contradictory evidence which will take audiences to the gloomiest corners of desires, lies, needs and wickedness in the relationship of these three characters. Starring Leandra Leal and Milhem Cortaz.

An Episode In The Life Of An Iron Picker (Epizoda u životu beraca željeza) Danis Tanović North American Premiere. Bosnia-Herzegovina/France/Slovenia A humble man desperately tries to save his partner’s life when she is callously denied much-needed treatment for a miscarriage. A critical social commentary from the award-winning director of Cirkus Columbia and Academy Award and Golden Globe winner No Man’s Land. Starring Senada Alimanovic, Nazif Mujic, Sandra Mujic, Šemsa Mujic.

and the NYFF main slate revealed:

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-nyff-2013-lineup-round-1

looks really great. new tsai. wish i could be there.

I saw Tsai's Face a couple years ago, which never did get a US release, and it was not good.

James Franco has Faulkner AND Cormac McCarthy adaps coming out? How many of him are there?

hmmm nyff snagging a lot of the cannes competition titles (for better or worse)

they generally do, no? Has anyone seen Wiseman Berkeley doc?

was kinda hoping stuff like llewelyn would end up at tiff, im surprised that it didnt

ha, i liked face well enough. feel like he got pretty far out into just image making & working with his models. it has been awhile, though, & this sounds fairly narrative & focused. film comment mentions he might retire after his next. i'd see a lot of the cannes stuff, here, particularly the lav diaz, everything report of which was effusive.

there's a kent jones q&a on the programming floating around, mentions franco just finished a movie on bukowski, too. kj invokes howl, which was execrable.

and the entire TIFF roster

http://www.indiewire.com/article/tiff-list-2013-a-list-of-all-the-announced-films-at-the-toronto-international-film-festival

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/festival/2013/youcanliveforeverina

I can't click on any url that ends in -ina

When do they usually announce the date/schedule for Views From The Avant-Garde? I'm hopefully going to be there this year!

Probably before the gen public sale, so I'd say in the next week or two.

(also unless I'm taking a trip, u better meet up w/ me buster)

ok then

I'm quite excited to be going as I haven't visited New York since 2000. But also the just the idea of New York, New York people talking about New York, and going to a film festival in New York, seems frankly a little exhausting to me.

I'm sure it will be fine though

thought you meant you were going to tiff for a sec :/

I did think about it...I would be going for the "Wavelengths" if I did. I think it's the week my classes start but if I don't get out to some screenings soon I am gonna start getting antsy.

Maybe I look into it though

three documentary "strands" and revivals at NYFF. Alain Resnais's Providence, have missed out on that for 36 years...

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-nyff-2013-lineup-round-2

on the Main Slate, I think I am going to prioritize Stranger by the Lake because 1) it has no US distrib yet; 2) there will be huffing and walkouts.

Thought Strand snapped that one up immediately.

So you're right... I could swear the listing, which always has the distributor at the end, did not have one yesterday.

Well, it'll be the 4-hour Wiseman doc then, maybe.

(running a film fest during the baseball playoffs = movies are less important than ever)

trip to visit sister in Colorado in October = film fests and baseball are less important than ever

Plus what's obv going to be the year's best movie is coming out on Oct. 4 anyway.

but the de Palma is already out!

A sure-fire cinch for #2.

you're not going to make me look if Cabin in the Woods 2 is coming out.

C'mon, this is easy. Name the one director who currently does long, gliding, single-shot setpieces better than BDP these days.

oh, Children of Space?

Children of Heaven

i am maybe going to be at toronto

FT

closed curtain, wow

does anybody rep for any films i mightn't have heard of?

Yeah, Closed Curtain is amazing.

I wondered why I never got any info on the member presale for NYFF... well, it's because I forgot to renew my Film Society membership at the end of June, and they emailed me no reminders. I renewed this morning but the time to get a presale link has passed. Great work, guys!

(Nothing I want to see sells out anyway except for Llewyn Davis this year, so I guess I'll likely have to wait til December like everyone else.)

(also I kept going to FSLC screenings throughout the summer, but they never look at the card. Neither did I til a week ago.)

NYFF Avant Garde

http://www.filmlinc.com/press/entry/fslc-announces-complete-lineup-for-the-17th-edition-of-views-from-the-avant

just arrived in TO, who's here and watching movies

whatchseein, slocks.

as a regional psa, the kerchiche film opens in montreal next month, in case it frees you up for other stuff

saw it at cannes but thanks!

tomorrow i will prob see ultima pellicula and the past, and maybe aint misbehavin (marcel ophuls self-portrait film) or intruders

friday: jodorowsky's dune and touch of sin or police officer's wife, then maybe prisoners (one of two denis Vs)

saturday re-issue of joli mai by chris marker!!

i didn't see any of those movies today, i saw les salauds (made me feel really bad) and stranger by the beach (which was really good)

my TIFF starts tomorrow with Triptych

ah those two sound great, s1ocki. I was provisionally planning on being at this & drew up a timetable with them & the tsai & panahi & the dorsky & night moves

OK I'm trying to book for Views weekend and maybe I will try to see some other stuff then too. Anybody know of a reasonable hotel within easyish distance? Is there a particular part of Brookyln that I could look at for getting in to festival stuff easier? (I've never been to Brooklyn and it's been 14 years since I was in New York)

Not especially... I guess somewhere around where all the 'Atlantic-Pacific' trains converge near the Barclays Center. No ideas on price tho.

btw the NYFF public sale for the Main Slate starts tomw, nearly all the Big Films are "sold out."

What time tomorrow? You and your Big Films

jia zhangke film (touch of sin) was amazing, will be surprised if its not my best of fest

noon

dude, the Wiseman doc about Berkeley is sold out!

also the tix are up to $20 now, so I'm not stoked to see anything that's coming out by Christmas

http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2013/pages/nyff51-schedule

I highly doubt this will be your only chance to see "At Berkeley."

I spent 4 years living in Berkeley, I can certainly wait.

at berkeley has distro iirc

psyched a touch of sin is good, i felt like it coulda gone either way

adam i know a couple of people who've stayed in the super 8 about 10 blocks south atlantic ave terminal in brooklyn (i.e. express 2 to 59 st, so maybe 45 mins door to door to the lincoln center). they said it was ok. the holiday inn is closer to atlantic ave, but i don't know anyone who's stayed there, but it's a chain in what looks like a brand new building so it can't be that bad i suppose?

i kept ignoring the email reminders to book prerelease members tickets so i am going to the first screening of alan partridge and that is all : (

Thanks caek.

I got Stray Dogs tickets but I will (hopefully) mostly be at Views. Tickets are mad expensive and that website is just horrific.

WE ARE THE BEST! was the best

I was in NYFF online "queue" for a half-hour, then fucked it

nobody cares about TIFF in this thread huh

Not if we're not there, especially! Le Joli Mai opens in NY on Friday, tho.

so bummed i didnt get into that—it was a "combined" press&industry and public screening, which meant i had to get an actual ticket, but nobody told me that. well, maybe i'll catch it in NY.

anyway, is the jia playing nyff? go see that.

Does anyone apart from Oscar-pundits care about Toronto? Outside of Toronto, I mean. I wish I was in Toronto right now, btw, so many films I would love to see.

le joli mai that's a good movie

15 years of Toronto and I went to see exactly two TIFF films. Too many line-ups and disappointments. And those awful self-congratulatory articles, the worst thing about Toronto! its constant need for validation. I did Inside Out, Hot Docs and Splice This every year! And I like that TIFF employed/employs so many friends.

Reading reports from TIFF > being at TIFF. You are doing God's work

If you work a regular daytime job, you can only go to nighttime screenings, and that's when the zoo is. Truthfully, I feel about film festivals the way some people feel about awards and halls of fame--just don't care. Anything I want to see will get a screening here eventually.

should be seeing Night Moves and The Double in a bit.

I would love to go to TIFF every year, if I had the money and energy. No problem seeing 35+ films in 2003. You can bend your schedule whichever way you like, and see not a single solitary Oscar hopeful.

Defense from someone who was upset at that "12 Years a Slave is going to win" click-bait:

http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/off-the-carpet-reindeer-games

Oscar buzz equals box office, and at the end of the day, if you want quality movies, you should want them to have Oscar buzz. It's one of the only ways quality films meant for an adult audience can find that audience in this day and age, with brands and blockbusters weighing down advertising budgets.

Well, it's not that there are only oscar-bait at toronto, it's that the only films that are exclusive to toronto are oscar bait. Like, I've read about most of the films I'm interested in because they premiered at cannes or locarno, so I don't really care.

Or maybe I'm just annoyed because the response to my favorite film of the year - Closed Curtain - has been so dumb. People saying that it's about the same thing as This Is Not a Film, and not talking about the big differences between the two films and how they complement each other perfectly.

it's that the only films that are exclusive to toronto are oscar bait.

This'd be a tough trick with 300+ films, no? Plus how many other international fests do you catch in a year?

Only copenhagen pix and dox. And yeah, I would love to be at toronto, no doubt. But it's boring reading about, since I've either read about the films before, or they are oscar bait. The films that is written about, at least.

I liked Night Moves a lot; post-screening audience grumbling a bonus.

Anything I want to see will get a screening here eventually.

― clemenza, Monday, September 9, 2013 9:13 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark

what abotu movies you didnt know you wanted to see

I hope such films find their way into general circulation, and something gets me to notice them somehow--just like any other film I've never heard of that for one reason or another catches my attention throughout the year.

Anyway, it's all academic anyway because of the realities of my job.

it's LITERALLY academic (you're a teacher right)

anyway, tell me another film festival with the breadth and depth of tiff's programming, in an accessible and easy-to-use city? i mean im a bit biased cuz i've been going for 7 years at this point, but like, way more and more varied films than sundance, not a market zoo in a tiny town like cannes (which also has quite few programs in official competition), and if im not wrong about 10x as many movies (fwiw) than NYFF?

shorter version: lots of good movies, for the most part decently selected, most if not all NA or world premieres, thats why people care

I do wish it wasn't so incredibly expensive, and getting pricier every year, esp. with 2500 volunteers and so much corporate dough.

Very much liked Oculus; not perfect, kinda flubs the ending, but it has a pleasing Stephen King quality.

Loved Stranger by the Lake; chuckled at lead actor's request that viewers not "focus on the details."

stranger by the lake was good.

loved a field in england.

You catching anything else, s1ock? Gonna try to catch Manuscripts Don't Burn and the Moodyson, already have a ticket for Disappeaance of Eleanor Rigby.

hear good things about rigby. the moodysson owns. gonna see night moves today, and maybe stray dogs. tomorrow i have under the skin, break loose, the husband and starred up pencilled in.

Are people texting and emailing at all yr screenings? (hot story)

Oh Wellsy

i didnt notice much, but i also saw wells shades-tippin' outside the kelly reichardt (which was great until about 10 minutes before the end)

My friends are all freaking out over Under the Skin, sadly I won't get to it.

I had no issue w/ the end of Night Moves but I think I get where yr coming from.

we can talk about it on another thread but it just felt like they just found the most uninteresting, un-reichardtian way to resolve the situation

so that displays the same dearth of imagination as using the title of a splendid Arthur Penn film.

My friend e-mailed with a chance to see the Wiseman film. I love film festivals!

I'm gonna be in transit from a fucking doctor appointment when these go on sale tomw morning, so if anyone wants to get an extra Llewyn ticket for me i'll be yr best friend

http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2013/blog/more-added-screenings-and-a-nyff-app

I got my Views badge! Excited now.

Read that as "I got my biews vadge."

alan partridge is apparently not out here until next january. looks like there are still tickets for the screenings on sat september 28 at 3.30 and monday october 10 at 9pm, so i'm going. anyone want to come with?

my take on TIFF: http://markslutsky.com/post/61406149250/tiff-2013-thoughts-reflections-and-considerations

ha!

Eleanor Rigby was awful, easily the worst thing I saw here. But at least it was really long.

despite the best efforts of NYFF to make it impossible, i got a ticket for The Immigrant.

jealous

morbs, if i wanted to get a ticket for a touch of sin despite it being sold out on the site, what would be the best way to do so? go stand in line for an hour before the screening, as the website suggests?

TOUCH OF SIN opens at IFC on 10/4. And Jia is doing a conversation at The Asia Society on 9/30 that's sure to be better than the festival q&a.

its so good

The mysterious C0LIN w/ the info!

The new Tsai ming-Liang is getting some raves and there are still tix, but I'd have to miss a night of the NL playoffs...

just bring a lil radio nobody'll mind

25 bucks, holy crap

index of links

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-nyff-2013-index

anyone seen/seeing at berkeley?

The new Tsai ming-Liang is getting some raves

I have tickets for this - can't wait, I think he's great.

Maybe I can see Touch Of Sin too?

well ToS opens in reg theaters here in 8 days as C0lin said.

You'll be at Views, Adam?

25 bucks, holy crap

Rush tickets are $15 at Alice Tully Hall and $7 at the Walter Reade Theater & the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center.

http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2013/pages/nyff-ticket-availability

free talks line up looks p good also

except it's not obvious to me what the 'default' location is! and most interviews leave me cold.

maybe bring a jacket next time?

http://now-here-this.timeout.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/alan-partridge.jpg

lol

Kent Jones interview... I am curious about the ten immigration reform doc package, but don't know if I will get to any.

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/26/an-interview-with-kent-jones-of-the-new-york-film-festival

rush ticket procedure this afternoon for partridge pretty painless.

the standby line for touch of sin had formed when i was on my way out. looked nuts.

what is the difference between standby and rush btw? standby is a sold out screening and they sell the unnoccupied seats reserved for badgeholders, right?

I don't know what the difference is. Weeks ago they had something on the site about standby tix being sold online every day at 10am, but that seems to have been taken down.

I saw Stranger by the Lake last night, liked it very much, esp as it will be hated by some of the doctrinaire Mainstream Cheerleader Gays for "self-loathing." Only heard the footfalls of maybe 3 or 4 walkouts; either lots of the oldest regulars have died or they left this film out of the subscription packages. (Very queer 30-to-55yo crowd; when Dennis Lim said at the start, "As you've heard, this film contains graphic sex scenes," there were "woohoo" shouts.)

If I can love Cruising, I'm sure I can love Stranger by the Lake.

there's no music or dancing, tho

You'll be at Views, Adam?

Yes, you too? I am trying to navigate the schedule, but it's totally overwhelming.

stranger by the lake is great

Free talk with Louis Garrel tnite at 7, swooooooon. Only passing up bcz there will probably be security between the two of us.

i missed the jia zhangke talk but it's available here http://www.chinafile.com/chinafile-presents-jia-zhangke-touch-sin

did you see the movie?

not yet

you can see him at IFC Center if ya jump:

Director Jia Zhang-ke in person Fri Oct 4 for Q&A after 7:00 show, intro only at 9:35!

http://www.ifccenter.com/#day_fri

NYFF Live: Louis Garrel (CANCELLED)

obv he was lurking here

Dargis & Scott on Views:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/movies/views-from-the-avant-garde-at-the-new-york-film-festival.html

so the Tsai, yeah... not a good film to see 14 hours after you got up on a strenuous workday. It's got great scenes but I'm not sure it rises to the level of masterpiece.

It has a leaky roof, of course.

Gray & Joaquin at my Sunday screening of The Immigrant

the kelly reichardt (which was great until about 10 minutes before the end)
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, September 12, 2013 5:24 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Saw this last night at the London Film Festival (which doesn't have a thread, so I'm crashing here); yeesh - seriously. Such a drag it turns there.

yeah

until then it's pretty terrific

stranger by the lake is great

― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, October 1, 2013 10:50 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^

can't quite complete my like !!! directing XXX madlib but it's like somebody economical & menacing who isn't michael haneke directing blissfully yours. so good.

has anyone seen others by guiraudie?

no. They'll be showing his earlier stuff here in the winter when SbtL opens.

some NYFF video (FSLC webbies can't spell Scorsese):

http://www.filmlinc.com/daily/entry/nyff51-video-scorcese-swinton-and-nebraska

For me, the Lightbox's best schedule since they opened:

http://tiff.net/films/series#all

They've got Part 1 of Godard, Godard's American influences, Stephen King adaptations, Robert Frank, Oscar Micheaux (I want to see the one Hoberman voted for in Sight and Sound), Paul Verhoven, Pasolini, other stuff I can't remember. I'll probably even see Showgirls.

They sent me screeners of the early Dutch Verhoeven flicks, thus I am a happy man.

im coming in for showgirls

you would!

(not trying to start another Showgirls fite)

the book and presentation are by one of my best buds so i'm coming to support him

and because i think it'll be hella fun to see it on the big screen. watching it recently i was really in awe of the cinematography—it's BEAUTIFULLY shot and lit, mirrors upon mirrors in every frame, incredible colours everywhere

yes, a polished tourde.

Those are by far the best kind of tourdes!

much polished tourde force