lot of different ways to judge importance.
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 23 July 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
and yet, none of them put all of sundance, toronto and new york in the top five. except the wrong ones.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 23 July 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
the announcement a couple of days ago was just kinda glossy premiere stuff; there's a bunch of cool or else sorta 'notable' premieres, like a ~new noah boambach film~, cool euro stuff, &c, but it was mainly a showcase for some kinda oscary erin-brockovich-wave features. strayed. they haven't announced the opening film, yet, & i'm sure the festival will have all of the deep cuts everybody here is interested in. it's just sprinkled with some kate winslet as well.
― schlump, Thursday, 24 July 2014 00:05 (nine years ago) link
ouch: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/toronto-film-festivals-anti-telluride-720646
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 24 July 2014 13:35 (nine years ago) link
Telluride is so much more pleasant and low-key to actually attend than TIFF ever could be, trying to ice them out is unwise imo. I'm not sure the insistence on exclusivity does them many favours.
― Simon H., Thursday, 24 July 2014 14:35 (nine years ago) link
i think they're feeling underappreciated
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 24 July 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
classic canada vibes.
classic canada vibes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QILPJ-vz1Xs
― You are exactly why people root for the apes (Eric H.), Thursday, 24 July 2014 18:10 (nine years ago) link
mmm good vibes
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 24 July 2014 21:11 (nine years ago) link
next round, TO
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-toronto-2014-lineup-round-2
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
roy anderssssssssssssson
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 29 July 2014 15:52 (nine years ago) link
Genre-leaning stuff looks pretty solid now - Strickland, Benson/Moorhead, Du Welz, Sono, Wingard.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 29 July 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
andddddddersssssssssonnnnnnnnnnn+ godard
― schlump, Tuesday, 29 July 2014 23:19 (nine years ago) link
NYFF main slate...
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-nyff-2014-main-slate-lineup
and Toronto IV
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-toronto-2014-lineup-round-4
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 August 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
new denis, new costa @ tiff :D
― schlump, Wednesday, 13 August 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
and TO the last part (?)
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-toronto-2014-lineup-round-5
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
NY Doc Spotlight, incl a Maysles world premiere
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-nyff-2014-documentary-spotlight-lineup
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 August 2014 14:21 (nine years ago) link
Projections, the NYFF section formerly known as Views from the Avant-Garde:
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-nyff-2014-projections-lineup
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 21 August 2014 20:50 (nine years ago) link
Haven't tried to buy a ticket in years--30, maybe. (I've had a few given to me.) But, after overcoming my philosophical objection to paying $24 to see a movie, I figured I'd try for Wiseman's National Gallery this morning. There are 1,069 people ahead of me at the moment, but it seems to move quickly--between an hour and two, I estimate. We'll see if I'm still there.
― clemenza, Sunday, 31 August 2014 14:11 (nine years ago) link
So much for that--745, both weekend screenings sold out.
― clemenza, Sunday, 31 August 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
Only going up for the last three days - no cc so sticking to the rush lines, which I've had excellent luck with.
― Simon H., Sunday, 31 August 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
pick me five NYFF films to order tom'w, nothing opening commercially before December
(ie Godard 3D opens in NY around Halloween, so no rush)
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 September 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
~it begins~
(tiff)
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 4 September 2014 12:59 (nine years ago) link
For NY, I only bought Cronenberg and Ferrara. The Alex Ross Perry is already sold out! Working with star actors, it's a cash cow.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 September 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
i saw:mommymr turnerclouds of sils maria
all good to varying degrees, all pretty long
today im going to see roy andersson and eden and after that i'll have seen all the movies i'm really rabid about
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 5 September 2014 13:31 (nine years ago) link
cool, dude
how much of Spall's grunts are meant to be understood as words?
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 September 2014 13:32 (nine years ago) link
oh man, he growls like a dog for half the movie, it's kind of amazing
― socki (s1ocki), Friday, 5 September 2014 14:05 (nine years ago) link
there is also an amazing conversation about fruit growing in various climates featuring an extremely goofy john ruskin
haha
I need to get back up to TIFF, maybe next year.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Friday, 5 September 2014 14:38 (nine years ago) link
Technically off-topic, Lisa Cholodenko's four-hour movie (to be HBO miniseries) Olivia Kitteridge premiered. FT review:
High quality global journalism requires investment. Please share this article with others using the link below, do not cut & paste the article. See our Ts&Cs and Copyright Policy for more detail. Email ftsa✧✧✧.supp✧✧✧@f✧.c✧✧ to buy additional rights. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/6b66f1f4-3423-11e4-8832-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz3CYAqs4LTOlive Kitteridge is four hours of Pulitzer Prize book adaptation directed by Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right) from Elizabeth Strout’s novel of agony, ecstasy and just-chugging-along in a Maine family of three. Tragedy; comedy; small-town pastorale. I usually hate literature on telly but this page-to-screen conversion is a winner: domestic and socio-civic miniaturism as sharp as a gemstone and as brightly burning as Bergman.Frances McDormand plays the hapless heroine: a snappish, intolerant, long-suffering wife and mother-of-one. Emma Bovary; Hedda Gabler; mix the two together, then add the wear and tear of coastal years in a story covering decades. Nothing is ordinary here, even in a sea of New England ordinariness: not even Richard Jenkins as a pained pharmacist and mouse of a spouse who bites back when bitten once too often in a brilliant scene of horror in a hospital hostage incident.It looks stunning, with a sheeny realism gorgeous and nightmarish like a master copyist’s Edward Hopper. Hardly surprising: the cinematographer is David Lynch’s Frederick Elmes. McDormand herself is amazing. You really do need to go to Bergman – to the Liv Ullmanns or Ingrid Thulins of Ingmarworld – for a comparison.
Olive Kitteridge is four hours of Pulitzer Prize book adaptation directed by Lisa Cholodenko (The Kids Are All Right) from Elizabeth Strout’s novel of agony, ecstasy and just-chugging-along in a Maine family of three. Tragedy; comedy; small-town pastorale. I usually hate literature on telly but this page-to-screen conversion is a winner: domestic and socio-civic miniaturism as sharp as a gemstone and as brightly burning as Bergman.
Frances McDormand plays the hapless heroine: a snappish, intolerant, long-suffering wife and mother-of-one. Emma Bovary; Hedda Gabler; mix the two together, then add the wear and tear of coastal years in a story covering decades. Nothing is ordinary here, even in a sea of New England ordinariness: not even Richard Jenkins as a pained pharmacist and mouse of a spouse who bites back when bitten once too often in a brilliant scene of horror in a hospital hostage incident.
It looks stunning, with a sheeny realism gorgeous and nightmarish like a master copyist’s Edward Hopper. Hardly surprising: the cinematographer is David Lynch’s Frederick Elmes. McDormand herself is amazing. You really do need to go to Bergman – to the Liv Ullmanns or Ingrid Thulins of Ingmarworld – for a comparison.
― the one where, as balls alludes (Eazy), Saturday, 6 September 2014 15:35 (nine years ago) link
Roy Andersson won top Venice prize btw
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-venice-2014-golden-lion
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 6 September 2014 18:08 (nine years ago) link
Yeah! And The Look of Silence (which is a Danish-Norwegian co-production) won Grand Jury Prize. Great day for Scandinavian cinema. Quite oustanding year for Scandinavian cinema, actually.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 6 September 2014 18:26 (nine years ago) link
nice about roy andersson, though i don't think this is his best
still, some really wonderful stuff in it.
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 6 September 2014 21:39 (nine years ago) link
kinda loved eden despite its obv flaws
and im seeing the hong sang-soo tonight, excited
― socki (s1ocki), Saturday, 6 September 2014 21:40 (nine years ago) link
it is weird anticipating eden as a movie about french garage music because you forget it is gonna just be 1000% ... a mia hansen-love movie. i wish she'd figured it out visually a lil more - like has that thing about digital not being very good for rendering darkness ever been truer - because her lo-key naturalism didn't fit, sometimes, but the confident parts were really moving. also, wow, pauline ettiene, swoon.
― schlump, Sunday, 7 September 2014 00:40 (nine years ago) link
I got Pasolini & Turner. Others I wanted to see (inherent vice, godard) were already sold out.
What day are you doing Cronenberg, dr. M?
― Virginia Plain, Monday, 8 September 2014 18:53 (nine years ago) link
Sunday 28th matinee
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 8 September 2014 18:56 (nine years ago) link
anyone seen this? surprising given Ichikawa film's greatness
http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-toronto-2014-shinya-tsukamotos-fires-on-the-plain
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 13 September 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
http://blogs.indiewire.com/bent/the-problem-with-the-imitation-game-20140915
Yesterday the Toronto Film Festival announced that Morten Tyldum's "The Imitation Game" won their annual People's Choice Award, and a predictable trajectory begins: Toronto will very likely get to brag that for the third year in a row (and sixth time in seven years) their audiences chose an eventual best picture Oscar nominee. It's a very safe choice to continue that tradition -- and also a very safe movie in general. Particularly compared to last year's TIFF People's Choice Award winner, which like "The Imitation Game," was a biopic of an extraordinary man who was brutally persecuted: "12 Years a Slave." Except unlike "The Imitation Game," "12 Years a Slave" was actually a brutal film to watch, and one that largely did justice to the horrors faced by its persecuted protagonist.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Monday, 15 September 2014 17:10 (nine years ago) link
I'm already mixing up the Turing and Hawking biopics.
(maybe bcz i find Cumberbatch and Redmayne equivalently dreary)
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 September 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
No way ... one has an odd upsidedown squash-shaped head and the other one has succulent trout-lips for days.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Monday, 15 September 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
too androgynous a trout.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 15 September 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
Any port in a stream.
― a guy named Christian White who represents the typical white Christian (Eric H.), Monday, 15 September 2014 19:53 (nine years ago) link
Laura Poitras to premiere her Snowden doc at NYFF (Opens NY/LA late Oct)
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2014/blog/laura-poitras-citizenfour-edward-snowden-nsa-nyff-world-premiere
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 16 September 2014 23:41 (nine years ago) link
Cumby has also played Hawking in a TV movie apparently
― Simon H., Wednesday, 17 September 2014 16:05 (nine years ago) link
some tix were just released, got em for Mr. Turner!
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 September 2014 20:55 (nine years ago) link
nice its a goody
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 18 September 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
The new Film Comment has a lovely one-page interview with Spall; I didn't know he'd had leukemia in the late '90s.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 September 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
an anticipated "2015 release" is the surprise screening, any guesses?
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2014/films/nyff52-surprise-screening
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 September 2014 16:28 (nine years ago) link
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 22 September 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
smartguy
"festival favorite"
Hou martial arts film?
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Monday, 22 September 2014 19:52 (nine years ago) link
wow, imagine. it wasn't terribly long since production wrapped, afaict; it would be a real get.
― schlump, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
Oh, shit, if that is it, that would be incredible! But it could also be new Malick.
― Frederik B, Monday, 22 September 2014 21:52 (nine years ago) link
ach. these all feel to cannes-y, to me; isn't it more likely to be some small glossy state-funded european thing that'll be on VOD in march? i don't know who the nyff favs are.
― schlump, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link
apparently it's Noah Baumbach‘s While We’re Young
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
it was always weird that that movie wasn't playing at NYFF considering where the climax takes place
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
too obvious?
anyway i must bypass in favor of Hou-produced A Borrowed Life out in Queens, which has scarcely ever shown.
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 19:25 (nine years ago) link
NYFF added encore screenings for Sunday (today it was Inherent Vice which quickly sold out); that's when I'm seeing the Hong Sang-soo. Otherwise unexpectedly impressed by Ferrara, pleased with Leigh, meh on Cronenberg.
also this Rod Serling-JL Makiewicz thing is free tomorrow, have always wanted to see:
http://www.filmlinc.com/nyff2014/films/a-carol-for-another-christmas
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 9 October 2014 18:37 (nine years ago) link
the Hong is p splendid, maybe his best since Tale of Cinema
― this horrible, rotten slog to rigor mortis (Dr Morbius), Monday, 13 October 2014 05:34 (nine years ago) link
haven't seen tale of cinema but hill of freedom is wonderful!, yeah, just a delight. have a bunch to write about its structural tricksiness that i will try to bleat at you here tomorrow.
― schlump, Monday, 13 October 2014 06:09 (nine years ago) link
i loved it too
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 13 October 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link