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Posted: **Tue Aug 06, 2024 1:49 am**

domino harvey wrote: Tue Aug 06, 2024 1:13 amTo me their big hardback omnibus books are too cumbersome to actually read

I'm surprised. I've never had a problem with them myself. The dimensions are around the size of a penguin paperback, and the thinner paper means they're never too thick. I find them easier to handle than most 500+ page hardbacks.

Posted: **Tue Aug 06, 2024 1:52 am**

To be fair all the ones I’ve had were like 1000 pages. The thin paper makes me anxious I’ll rip a page out too. They’re just not for me, though I wish they were because they’re a better deal than buying individual paperbacks

Posted: **Tue Aug 06, 2024 2:07 am**

One of the reasons I keep going back to their American Poetry volumes is how much more compact and easy to handle they are than pretty much any other poetry anthologies of a similar scope. And there's a lot to be said for being able to have, say, all of Hawthorne's novels or the complete tales of Poe in one portable volume.

It's my collected Shakespeare volumes that give me the most irritation. There's no comfortable way to read those outside of buying a lectern.

Posted: **Tue Aug 06, 2024 6:06 am**

Mr Sausage wrote: Sun Aug 04, 2024 11:25 pm Cockfighter (Monte Hellman): A screening of a restored print for its 50th anniversary (indeed screened on the exact day of its premiere, 50 years later). Kier-La Janisse was on hand to introduce it, and her passion for this weird movie made me wish I liked it more.

Her book on the film (from a 2018 Indiegogo campaign) just showed up the other day and at least physically it's a lovely piece of work. (I've yet to read it, or see the film for that matter.) Once she's done touring, remaining copies will be on sale here.

Posted: **Tue Aug 06, 2024 1:12 pm**

brundlefly wrote:
Mr Sausage wrote: Sun Aug 04, 2024 11:25 pm Cockfighter (Monte Hellman): A screening of a restored print for its 50th anniversary (indeed screened on the exact day of its premiere, 50 years later). Kier-La Janisse was on hand to introduce it, and her passion for this weird movie made me wish I liked it more.
Her book on the film (from a 2018 Indiegogo campaign) just showed up the other day and at least physically it's a lovely piece of work. (I've yet to read it, or see the film for that matter.) Once she's done touring, remaining copies will be on sale here.

Yeah, she was selling copies of it at the screening, and it looked terrific when I flipped through it, a must for any fans. Would’ve bought it myself if I’d liked the film more. Was hoping to get a copy of House of Psychotic Women instead, but the few copies available were snatched up before I could get one. Still kicking myself for missing it, especially when I later saw how much it retails for.

Posted: **Thu Aug 08, 2024 6:40 pm**

New phantom pages have popped up on the TIFF website for The Room Next Door, Queer, Babygirl, The Brutalist, On Swift Horses, and Dahomey. Cameron Bailey also said that at least 2 films will be screened on film prints, one of which is I'm assuming The Brutalist.

Posted: **Thu Aug 08, 2024 6:51 pm**

TIFF also has a documentary about Adam Kinzinger from the director of Hot Tub Time Machine, who he let tell his story "because Kinzinger is a big fan of Hot Tub Time Machine"!

Posted: **Fri Aug 09, 2024 2:55 pm**

Latest TIFF announcements:

Wavelength Features:

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Collective Monologue [Monólogo colectivo] Jessica Sarah Rinland | Argentina/United Kingdom
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exergue - on documenta 14 Dimitris Athiridis | Greece
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Grand Tour Miguel Gomes | Portugal/Italy/France/Germany/Japan/China
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Lázaro at Night [Lázaro de noche] Nicolás Pereda | Canada/Mexico
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Pepe Nelson Carlo de los Santos Arias | Dominican Republic/Germany/France/Namibia
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Perfumed with Mint [Moattar binanaa] Muhammed Hamdy | Egypt/France/Tunisia/Qatar
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The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich | USA
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The Damned Roberto Minervini | Italy/USA/Belgium North American Premiere
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Viêt and Nam Trương Minh Quý | Philippines/Singapore/France/Netherlands/Italy/Germany/Vietnam
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Youth (Hard Times) [Qing Chun (Ku)] Wang Bing | France/Luxembourg/Netherlands
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Youth (Homecoming) [Qing Chun (Gui)] Wang Bing | France/Luxembourg/Netherlands
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Luminaries

Classics Programme 2024:

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Addition Marcelle Lunam | Australia
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A Missing Part Guillaume Senez | Belgium/France
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An Unfinished Film Lou Ye | Singapore/Germany
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Anywhere Anytime Milad Tangshir | Italy
International Premiere
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April Dea Kulumbegashvili | Italy/France/Georgia
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Beloved Tropic Ana Endara | Panama/Colombia
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Bound in Heaven Huo Xin | China
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By the Stream Hong Sangsoo | South Korea
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Cloud Kiyoshi Kurosawa | Japan
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Crocodile Tears Tumpal Tampubolon | Indonesia/France/Singapore/Germany
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Don’t Cry, Butterfly Dương Diệu Linh | Vietnam/Singapore/Philippines/Indonesia
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Edge of Night Türker Süer | Germany
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Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara Erin Lee Carr | USA
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Flow Gints Zilbalodis | Latvia/France/Belgium
Canadian Premiere

Front Row Merzak Allouache | Algeria/Saudi Arabia/France
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Happyend Neo Sora | Japan/USA
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Happy Holidays Scandar Copti | Palestine/Germany/France/Italy/Qatar
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Jane Austen Wrecked My Life Laura Piani | France
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Julie Keeps Quiet Leonardo van Dijl | Belgium/Sweden
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Ka Whawhai Tonu - Struggle Without End Michael Jonathan | New Zealand
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Kill the Jockey Luis Ortega | Argentina/Mexico/Spain/Denmark/USA
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Little Jaffna Lawrence Valin | France
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Los Tortuga Belén Funes | Spain/Chile
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Matt and Mara Kazik Radwanski | Canada
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Measures for a Funeral Sofia Bohdanowicz | Canada
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My Sunshine Hiroshi Okuyama | Japan/France
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Pimpinero: Blood and Oil Andrés Baiz | Colombia
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Presence Steven Soderbergh | USA
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Santosh Sandhya Suri | United Kingdom
Canadian Premiere
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Seven Days Ali Samadi Ahadi | Germany
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Souleymane’s Story Boris Lojkine | France
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Sunshine Antoinette Jadaone | Philippines
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Sweet Angel Baby Melanie Oates | Canada
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The Legend of the Vagabond Queen of Lagos Agbajowo Collective: James Tayler, Ogungbamila Temitope, Okechukwu Samuel, Mathew Cerf, Tina Edukpo, Bisola Akinmuyiwa, A.S. Elijah | Nigeria/Germany/South Africa/USA
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The Mother and the Bear Johnny Ma | Canada/Chile
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The Mountain Rachel House | New Zealand
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The Seed of the Sacred Fig Mohammad Rasoulof | Iran/France/Germany
Canadian Premiere

The Swedish Torpedo Frida Kempff | Sweden
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The Village Next to Paradise Mo Harawe | France/Austria/Germany/Somalia
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To a Land Unknown Mahdi Fleifel | United Kingdom/France/Germany/Netherlands/Greece/Qatar /Saudi Arabia/Palestine
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Under the Volcano Damian Kocur | Poland
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Universal Language Matthew Rankin | Canada
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When the Light Breaks Rúnar Rúnarsson | Iceland/Netherlands/Croatia/France
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A Sisters’ Tale Leila Amini | Switzerland/France/Iran
International Premiere
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Blue Road - The Edna O’Brien Story Sinéad O’Shea | Ireland/United Kingdom
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Ernest Cole: Lost and Found Raoul Peck | France
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From Ground Zero Wissam Moussa, Nidal Damo, Ahmed Hassouna, Alaa Ayoub, Karim Satoum, Bashar Al Babisi, Khamis Masharawi, Nida’A Abu Hasna, Tamer Nijim, Ahmed Al Danaf, Rima Mahmoud, Muhammad Al Sharif, Basil El Maqousi, Mustafa Al Nabih, Rabab Khamis, Mustafa Kulab, Alaa Damo, Hana Eleiwa, Mahdi Kreirah, Aws Al Banna, Islam Al Zeriei, Etimad Washah | Palestine/France/Qatar/Jordan
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Living Together Halima Elkhatabi | Canada
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Men of War Jen Gatien, Billy Corben | USA/Canada
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Mistress Dispeller Elizabeth Lo | China/USA
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No Other Land Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor | Palestine/Norway
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Patrice: The Movie Ted Passon | USA
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Russians at War Anastasia Trofimova | Canada/France
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So Surreal: Behind the Masks Neil Diamond, Joanne Robertson | Canada
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Space Cowboy Marah Strauch, Bryce Leavitt | USA
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Sudan, remember us Hind Meddeb | France/Tunisia/Qatar
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Tata Lina Vdovîi, Radu Ciorniciuc | Romania/Germany/Netherlands
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Temporary Shelter Anastasiia Bortuali | Iceland
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The Freedom of Fierro Santiago Esteinou | Mexico/Canada/Greece
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The Last of the Sea Women Sue Kim | USA
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The Last Republican Steve Pink | USA
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Vice is Broke Eddie Huang | USA
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Wishing on a Star Peter Kerekes | Italy/Slovakia/Czech Republic/Austria/Croatia
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Your Tomorrow Ali Weinstein | Canada
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Primetime:

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Disclaimer Alfonso Cuarón | United Kingdom
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Faithless Tomas Alfredson, Sara Johnsen | Sweden
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Families Like Ours Thomas Vinterberg | Denmark/France/Sweden/Czech Republic/Belgium/Norway/Germany
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M. Son of the Century Joe Wright | Italy/France
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The Knowing Courtney Montour, Tanya Talaga | Canada
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The Listeners Janicza Bravo, Jordan Tannahill | United Kingdom
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The Tragically Hip: No Dress Rehearsal Mike Downie | Canada
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Thou Shalt Not Steal Dylan River | Australia
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Posted: **Fri Aug 09, 2024 7:58 pm**

domino harvey wrote: Tue Aug 06, 2024 1:52 am To be fair all the ones I’ve had were like 1000 pages. The thin paper makes me anxious I’ll rip a page out too. They’re just not for me.

Actual picture of domino harvey:

Posted: **Sat Aug 17, 2024 7:17 pm**

No idea how it works for other film festivals but this year's iteration of TIFF will have reserved seating for all the screenings. This has never been the case the last 2 times I've gone, so I'm disappointed that they decided to go down that route.

Posted: **Thu Aug 29, 2024 3:49 pm**

Telluride 2024 Lineup:

• ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (d. Payal Kapadia, France-India-Netherlands-Luxembourg, 2024)
• ANORA (d. Sean Baker, U.S., 2024)
• APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS (d. Petra Costa, Brazil-U.S.-Denmark, 2024)
• BETTER MAN (d. Michael Gracey, Australia, 2024)
• BIRD (d. Andrea Arnold, U.K., 2024)
• BLINK (d. Daniel Roher, Edmund Stenson, U.S.-Canada, 2024)
• CARVILLE: WINNING IS EVERYTHING, STUPID! (d. Matt Tyrnauer, U.S., 2024)
• CONCLAVE (d. Edward Berger, U.K., 2024)
• DISCLAIMER (d. Alfonso Cuarón, U.K.-U.S., 2024)
• DON’T LET’S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT (d. Embeth Davidtz, South Africa, 2024)
• EMILIA PÉREZ (d. Jacques Audiard, France, 2024)
• IN WAVES AND WAR (d. Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, U.S., 2024)
• JEAN COCTEAU (d. Lisa Immordino Vreeland, U.S., 2024)
• LEONARDO DA VINCI (d. Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon, U.S., 2024)
• MARIA (d. Pablo Larraín, Germany-Italy-U.S.-Hungary-France-Greece, 2024)
• MARTHA (d. R.J. Cutler, U.S., 2024)
• MEMOIR OF A SNAIL (d. Adam Elliot, Australia, 2024)
• MISERICORDIA (d. Alain Guiraudie, France-Spain-Portugal, 2024)
• NICKEL BOYS (d. RaMell Ross, U.S., 2024)
• NO OTHER LAND (d. Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor, Palestine-Norway, 2024)
• ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO (d. Kevin Macdonald, U.K., 2024)
• PIECE BY PIECE (d. Morgan Neville, U.S., 2024)
• SANTOSH (d. Sandhya Suri, U.K.-Germany-France, 2024)
• SATURDAY NIGHT (d. Jason Reitman, U.S., 2024)
• SEPARATED (d. Errol Morris, U.S., 2024)
• SEPTEMBER 5 (d. Tim Fehlbaum, Germany, 2024)
• SOCIAL STUDIES (d. Lauren Greenfield, U.S., 2024)
• THE END (d. Joshua Oppenheimer, Ireland-Germany-Italy-Sweden-Denmark-U.K., 2024)
• THE FRIEND (d. David Siegel, Scott McGehee, U.S., 2024)
• THE OUTRUN (d. Nora Fingscheidt, U.K.-Germany, 2024)
• THE PIANO LESSON (d. Malcolm Washington, U.S., 2024)
• THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (d. Mohammad Rasoulof, Germany-France-Iran, 2024)
• THE WHITE HOUSE EFFECT (d. Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk, Pedro Kos, U.S., 2024)
• WILL & HARPER (d. Josh Greenbaum, U.S., 2024)
• ZURAWSKI V TEXAS (d. Maisie Crow, Abbie Perrault, U.S., 2024)

Posted: **Thu Aug 29, 2024 8:38 pm**

yoloswegmaster wrote: Sat Aug 17, 2024 7:17 pm No idea how it works for other film festivals but this year's iteration of TIFF will have reserved seating for all the screenings. This has never been the case the last 2 times I've gone, so I'm disappointed that they decided to go down that route.

NYFF is like this, but only for the big screenings at Alice Tully Hall. Screenings at the other theaters at Lincoln Center are still everyone-for-themselves.

Posted: **Thu Aug 29, 2024 8:45 pm**

Hasn’t Denzel Washington and his family done enough damage to August Wilson’s work?

Posted: **Thu Aug 29, 2024 9:46 pm**

hearthesilence wrote: Thu Aug 29, 2024 8:38 pm
yoloswegmaster wrote: Sat Aug 17, 2024 7:17 pm No idea how it works for other film festivals but this year's iteration of TIFF will have reserved seating for all the screenings. This has never been the case the last 2 times I've gone, so I'm disappointed that they decided to go down that route.
NYFF is like this, but only for the big screenings at Alice Tully Hall. Screenings at the other theaters at Lincoln Center are still everyone-for-themselves.

They only did reserved seating at TIFF for the venues that aren't normally designed to screen films in past years but now they've included the 2 main venues that are actually movie theaters. Which is very frustrating since this means that the rich people who spend $$$ on the memberships get to have better seating since they get first dibs on tickets, while the rest of us regular joes get the scraps. It makes it hard for me to take the motto of this being the "people's festival" seriously.

Posted: **Wed Sep 04, 2024 9:53 am**

Wonderful masterclass by Peter Weir in Venice

Posted: **Sat Sep 07, 2024 6:26 pm**

Venice awards:

Golden Lion: Pedro Almodóvar, The Room Next Door
Grand Jury Prize: Maura Delpero, Vermiglio
Special Jury Prize: Dea Kulumbegashvili, April
Director: Brady Corbet, The Brutalist
Actress: Nicole Kidman, Babygirl
Actor: Vincent Lindon, The Quiet Son
Screenplay: Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega, I’m Still Here
Marcello Mastroianni: Paul Kircher, Their Children After Them

Posted: **Mon Sep 09, 2024 5:33 pm**

Some notable films have premiered the last couple of days at Venice/TIFF:

Hard Truths has been getting very strong notices, especially for Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Interestingly Mike Leigh confirms that Cannes/Venice/Telluride all declined to screen it. It makes no sense why Thierry Fremaux has been declining the past couple films that Leigh has directed but will add every Nanni Moretti film to competition.

Takeshi Kitano's Broken Rage has also been getting very positive reviews and is considered to be a strong crowd pleaser. Shame that TIFF decided to not add this as a part of their Midnight Madness screenings, as it sounds like it would have been a major hit with that audience.

Angelina Jolie's Without Blood, however, has been getting negative reviews and apparently a lot of people walked out of the premiere last night.

Posted: **Wed Sep 11, 2024 1:21 am**

Honestly, if I'm Fremaux in 2018, I'd reject Peterloo from competition, too. (Not Vera Drake in 2004, of course.) Cannes is finicky, of course, but both Venice and Telluride declining is a bit insulting. I honestly don't know what exciting world premiere Toronto debuted or is to debut this year if not for Mike Leigh.

Almodóvar's newest seems a worthy winner of Venice based on reaction. (Of course, many think he's overdue, but I run mostly cold on him.) Corbet would have won regardless based on the reactions to his film and its recent pick-up by A24. I love to see such ambition from a relatively young individual rewarded, and it seems that after a flat Cannes and Berlin that the year might be revived yet from unlikely individuals like Corbet and RaMell Ross.

Her last film was one of the more grating films of this decade, so it's nice that A24 let Halina Reijn direct her own script. I also saw a solid amount of praise for Dag Johan Haugerud's second entry into his trilogy. Perhaps Janus/Sideshow will pick that up, but now I remember that the first entry was taken by Strand. Maybe they (or MUBI) will go for the Romanian film that won Orizzonti.

Posted: **Sat Sep 14, 2024 12:10 am**

Posted: **Sun Sep 15, 2024 3:02 pm**

TIFF People's Choice Awards:

Winner: The Life of Chuck (Mike Flanagan)
First Runner-up: Emilia Pérez (Jacques Audiard)
Second Runner-up: Anora (Sean Baker)

Posted: **Sun Sep 15, 2024 3:12 pm**

The winners aren't much of a surprise considering how they kept adding additional screenings for each film.

Posted: **Sun Sep 15, 2024 9:33 pm**

The Flanagan film came out of nowhere and absolutely no one was talking about it or expecting it to win until it screened, and even then it winning was a shock. The other two were very expected

It sounds very much of a piece with the Darabont King movies, sentimental favorites that your parents will like

Posted: **Tue Oct 15, 2024 1:26 pm**

IFF Boston lineup

ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT
BIRD
THE BRUTALIST (70mm)
EEPHUS (Director Carson Lund is scheduled to attend)
FLOW
GAUCHO GAUCHO
HARD TRUTHS
IT’S NOT ME
NICKEL BOYS
NIGHTBITCH
ON BECOMING A GUINEA FOWL
A REAL PAIN

Posted: **Thu Oct 17, 2024 3:55 pm**

IFF Boston tix are now on sale, and they added showings of Devo and The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Posted: **Mon Oct 28, 2024 11:20 pm**

Was not aware of this until ten minutes ago, but apparently the Poland-based American Film Festival allows you to rent a bunch of titles digitally if you use a VPN set to Poland and can configure the payment properly. I post it here because among the titles that will be up for rental starting November 5 is Paul Schrader's Oh, Canada, which will get only a very small theatrical release in most of the English-speaking world. Apparently they've been doing this for a while, and I'm curious if this festival may inadvertently be the source for a lot of stuff on backchannels. The runtimes appear short by a bit for most(?) of the movies, but I'm not sure if that's somehow PAL speedup. If you hit the auto google translate, it's funny to see how some of the titles are rendered in Polish

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