TIFF 2013

Still need to make a few more cuts, but my final list will be chosen from the following titles:

The Armstrong Lie - Alex Gibney

Blue is the Warmest Color - Abdellatif Kechiche

Dallas Buyers Club - Jean-Marc Vallee

Devil's Knot - Atom Egoyan

Finding Vivian Maier - John Maloof, Charlie Siskel

Gravity - Alfonso Cuaron

Night Moves - Kelly Reichardt

Prisoners - Denis Villeneuve

Long list:

12 Years a Slave - Steve McQueen

Belle – Amma Asante

Can a Song Save Your Life – John Carney

Child of God – James Franco

Closed Curtain – Jafar Panahi, Kambozia Partovi

Cold Eyes – Cho Ui-seok, Kim Byung-seo

Enough Said – Nicole Holofcener

The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas

Fading Gigolo – John Tuturro

Hateship Loveship – Liza Johnson

Life of Crime – Daniel Schechter

The Mayor - Emiliano Altuna Fistolera, Carlos Federico Rossini, Diego Osorno

The Past – Asghar Farhadi

R100 – Hitoshi Matsumoto

Sarah Prefers to Run – Chloe Robichaud

A Touch of Sin – Jia Zhangke

The Unknown Known – Errol Morris

When Jews Were Funny – Alan Zweig

Why Don’t You Play In Hell? – Sion Sono

The Wind Rises – Hayao Miyazaki

Witching & Bitching – Alex de la Iglesia
You Are Here – Matthew Weiner

TIFF 2012

I probably shouldn't be going this year, but if I do attend, I hope to see the following:

Shorter-list

The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
*Only if I can get a ticket for the Premium Screening

Short-list

Amour (Michael Haneke)
Foxfire: Confessions of a Gang (Laurent Cantet)
Frances Ha (Noah Baumbach)
Middle of Nowhere (Ava DuVernay)
The Place Beyond The Pines (Derek Cianfrance)
Rust and Bone (Jacques Audiard)
Silver Linings Playbook (David O. Russell)
Something in the Air (Olivier Assayas)
To The Wonder (Terrence Malick)

Long-list

Augustine (Alice Winocour)
Blackbird (Jason Buxton)  < --- Patriotic pick
Central Park Five (Ken Burns)
Dangerous Liasons (Hur Jin-ho)
Like Someone In Love (Abbas Kiarostami)

Friend of the blog, Marko Orlic, posted his picks earlier this week; you can peep them right here: Link

There's some crossover on between our lists.