Toronto & NY Film Festival 2011 anticipation

NY main slate -- psyched for Panahi and Kaurismaki:

http://www.filmlinc.com/blog/entry/49th-new-york-film-festival-the-main-slate

And Bela Tarr.

Yes, Kaurismaki is a standout for me. Possibly my favorite living filmmaker and at one point recently I was afraid he would never make anything again.

Weird that Pina has taken so long to reach the US, it was playing on regular screens in London when I was there at the beginning of this year.

Otherwise, the rest looks like business as usual, TBH. I don't usually watch "main slate" stuff at festivals

yeah those three look like the highlights. everyone seemed to love Once Upon A Time In Anatolia at cannes, also.

re: pina, yeah there are a few that have popped up elsewhere, here, cf a separation (which is v good, and not un-panahi-esque, not just in being iranian)

i think the american indie thing 'martha ...' whatever is meant to be good but i'm more tolerant of that kind of thing than some.

tidy & readable of the main slate stuff at toronto, btw:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/gallery/2011/aug/17/toronto-film-festival-2011-pictures

i think there's analyses of all of the side-strand stuff on mubi or somewhere

adam, it takes films 2-4 years to 'reach' the US sometimes; I'm waiting for Jerzy Skolimowski's Essential Killing to get a perfunctory theater run so "it counts" for this year.

I don't usually watch "main slate" stuff at festivals

[picture of puppy in american apparel t-short]

Essential Killing is quite good, despite the potential for LOLs

I have been spoiled for the past few years, most of this stuff I usually saw projected at school.

Vincent Gallo w/ his mouth shut is certainly not anything you're apt to see at festivals.

Oh but I saw it at the London Film Festival

so you see, you are

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiff/2011/sorryrabbi

(hi)

hey congrats s1ock! (fun fact: I was in a movie that screened in the Short Cuts competition a few years ago. we didn't win.)

I would go to TIFF this year except I'm already doing Telluride, for the first and probably only time.

Sorry Rabbi is great!

oh snap

some of my friends are in this movie:
http://www.torontointernationalfilmfestival.ca/filmsandschedules/tiff/2011/twentycigarettes

J Benning is back to putting people in his films?

There were people in Ruhr, his last film

thanks adam, i want you to see the real final version!

Well maybe we will show in the same festival sometime, I imagine your chances are far better than mine though!

oh pish-tosh young man.

love that this thread brought s1ocki back

this is a special promotional appearance only.

oh really? my recent appearances on ILX are courtesy of Nestlé Foods - Good Food, Good Life

oooooh, jealous!

s1ocki!!!

Wassup lamp

Will be glad to see the Kaurismaki and Tarr a few months before they come out, I guess, but this is the dullest looking NYFF in years.

Wassup lamp

not much!! will come to your movie tho if i can (congrats btw)

Haha, C0l1n, I swear you said that last year too

cuz it's true every year?

You started this thread

what else is there to do?

masturbate, eat chinese food, reorganize your tax documents from the last ten years, despair

I do those in the lobby of Alice Tully Hall

Do em in Toronto sometime!
Lamp please come to one of my screenings

I like Toronto

Do morbs' things in Toronto too!

SLOCKI COME BACK TO US

full time

Come to TIFF. All will be revealed there. All of your roles in this. This is so much bigger than you can ever imagine.

ok ok ok i will def come out esp if there are multiple screenings

Two iirc

I dont have things in Toronto -- do I?

I heard that The Student is dope.

Re: TIFF, the new Herzog looks atrocious.

oh, also Miss Bala!

http://criterioncast.com/2011/08/08/three-clips-from-werner-herzogs-into-the-abyss-hit/

like seriously? jesus

Ft. James Badge Dale as comic relief!

u are weird, nrq

(and obv anti-Irish)

enh. im anti-ira. also against rookie bollocks like the long conversation from a single angle.

An acquaintance of mine had drinks with Fassbender and apparently he said he hates Irish people. So there you go.

i didn't loathe hunger but yeah, the politics were via paul mccartney.

lol, cineastes really are as horrible as indie fuxxors

but here's hoping you like sophomore bollocks

actually i was a bit surprised how little pushback the politics of hunger got. was there any?

uh oh, someone had some attitude in their cheerios this morning!

i love love love michael fassbender ftr

heh, I just had Cheerios in fact. but the attitude in is my DNA like it's in yr cake. xp

I'm sure Fassbender is an asshole, with an ass like that he better be.

lool

nrq, are we meeting up at the NYFF? that wd be a laff for all.

haha i'd like to: haven't got round to actually booking the trip yet. as you can tell from my minimal ilx presence, im super busy. but i think it's going to happen! in like a month.

How did it go, slocki?
I didn't even recognize H.B. in the trailer, ha

― fear itself (Ówen P.), Tuesday, September 13, 2011 11:33 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

it went really well! full houses both screenings, good reactions, a little press. it's been a really crazy week, i did this thing called "talent lab" for the first few days, basically small intensive seminars with directors like brian de palma, frederick wiseman, jennifer baichwal, gus van sant... amazing. and yesterday i did THIS:

http://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/124878051/Getty-Images-Entertainment

congrats, sir!

congrats slocks! i liked the trailer! and the talent lab is kind of a big deal afaict.

my friend did it a couple of years ago (i wrote his application for him because he has this paralysis in response to "write about yourself" stuff). i get the impression it's totally changed his career in terms of "access". he's in toronto now -- he had so much fun/learnt so much he finds an excuse to go back every year now.

are you submitting the short elsewhere or doing anything else re: distribution?

way to go, s1ocki

thanks d00ds!

we are playing in halifax next week and then calgary, and we still have some apps out. we are going to apply to sundance, berlin, etc. try and get it out there as much as possible. and then there are a billion jewish film festivals.

as far as distro goes, we are talking with one distributor, though i'm a little uncertain about the whole "short film distribution" biz. we are also showing on bravo next year as they are a major financer.

rad. good luck! come back here and post if you get into berlin.

and yesterday i did THIS:

http://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/124878051/Getty-Images-Entertainment

take this img to the dapper suits thread

aw thanks ;)

i made this for the talent lab thing, it was supposed to be a self-portrait less than 5 mins and shot on a cellphone. now that the program's over i can share it with y'all

http://vimeo.com/29298543

Who's yer tailor s1ocki.

No like seriously, who is your tailor? Are they a Canadian?

lol @ that video

slocki are you able to give any update on that fruit hunters movie?? i have read the book and am psyched

i dont have a tailor! the suit i wore at my pitch i bought for my brother's wedding last year at a fancy canadian store called harry rosen, and the tan suit i bought on sale at brooks bros.

fruit hunters is currently in production. shooting all through october. won't be really see-able for at least, at LEAST another year tho. documentaries imo

i will stay psyched

maintain psychitude plz

btw - joachim trier's OSLO AUGUST 31 - best film i saw at the fest (i didnt see many tho)

'TWIXT was the weirdest

Thought Le Havre was really lovely, maybe Kaurismaki's best since Ariel (tho I've missed a few).

"Work-in-progress" screening Monday eve by a "master filmmaker" -- wonder if he rhymes with Tealberg or Beastwood?

wonder if Ratner has finished all the Post for Tower Heist

ugh, Shame. The deadening emotional life of the serial fucker. Somebody should've told McQueen that "as empty experiences go, it's one of the best."

heard it is this year's Somewhere

I had a pretty visceral personal response to it, but then again I am v. guilt-ridden and kind of a shitty sibling, so YMMV

Mulligan's role was really thankless, the albatross sibling who has to Make Him See the Light.

have seen neither but was really into richard brody's post on sex on screen: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/movies/2011/10/behind-before-above-between-below.html

personal film festival related note: i have never seen any nathaniel dorsky films.

so anyone making it to Hugo?

what like in the back row
of a CHILDRENS MOVIE

what like in the back row
of a CHILDRENS MOVIE

i have never seen any nathaniel dorsky films.

I wouldn't worry, they're not half as good as everyone would have you believe.

ha, okay; was surprised i couldn't even find clips online, the photography looked nice, from stills. was it you who was enthusing about devotional cinema in a thread on here, somewhere? someone was. i started reading some of it online & am going to pick up a copy up soon and put it in my bathroom.

so annoyed i fucked up my hugo joke by double posting. apparently the film was okay.

Yeah I like "Devotional Cinema"

That's not to say I don't like his films, I just find the cult of Dorsky a bit much. I suppose it's not his fault!

rush tix for the Panahi film at 6pm btw