Inital pass through the catalogue of 275 feature films (oi!) has resulted in this painful culling process.  The scheduling process will knock things down to under 40 films, I’m sure.  “1st choices” are my highest priority, but I mark quite a few to fill in empty time slots as “2nd Choices”.

“1st Choices”

Galas
Eastern Promises
Blood Brothers

Masters
The Man From London
Glory to the Filmmaker!

Visions
M
Silent Resident
The Tracey Fragments
Ploy

Vanguard
Control
Paranoid Park
The Exodus
Chrysalis
The Orphanage
My Winnipeg

Special Presentations
Nothing is Private
Lust, Caution
Juno
Nightwatching
No Country For Old Men
Mongol
Mad Detective
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Chacun Son Cinema (Anthology Film)

Sprockets - Children’s Films
The Substitute

Contemporary World Cinema
Son of Rambow
Jar City (Myrin)
The Banishment (Izgnanie)

Discovery
With Your Permission
The Passage

Canada First
They Wait
Walk All Over Me

Short Cuts Canada
Madame Tutli Putli

Midnight Madness
The Mother of Tears
Frontiere(s)
Diary of the Dead
Vexille
Sukiyaki Western Django
A L’interieur

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“2nd Choices”

Galas
The Second Wind
Reservation Road

Visions
Dr. Plonk

Vanguard
Help Me Eros
Mister Lonely
Sad Vacation
Eat, for this is My Body
Ex Drummer

Special Presentations
Silk
The Assassination of Jesse James
The Brave One
Before the Rains
In Bloom
The Take
The Sun Also Rises

Contemporary World Cinema
Normal
Secret Sunshine
The Edge of Heaven
The Stone Angel

Reel to Reel
Encounters at the End of the World
Man of Cinema:  Pierre Rissient

Discovery
The Baby Sitters
Those Three

Midnight Madness
DAINIPPONJIN
The Devil’s Chair
Stuck
Flash Point

Kurt Halfyard - August 28, 2007, 10:02pm

“1st Choices”

Special Presentations
Nightwatching
Chacun Son Cinema (Anthology Film)

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“2nd Choices”

Vanguard
Mister Lonely
Sad Vacation
Ex Drummer

Contemporary World Cinema
Secret Sunshine

some of those second choices I would make first choice and vice versa. But that is only my own taste ofcourse I have only seen the Cannes anthology of this bunch btw and that wasn’t very exciting

This may be evidence of my extremely shallow tastes, but in that list THE ONE THING that got me immediately is “Vexille”.
I want to see that bad. On a big screen with excellent sound.

(fingers crossed for IFFR 2008!!!)

DR. PLONK!!!  Anyone know if they’re doing the whole “roadshow” presentation with live music, etc.?  That would be something to see.

Collin - if that were the case, it would be instantly a “FIRST CHOICE” - TIFF gave Guy Maddin’s “Brand upon the Brain!” the full live orchestra/foley artist, etc. etc. treatment last year and it was a spectacular!spectacular!

I’m just finalizing my schedule right now and cursing at the conflicts.

if you had a choice between “Eastern Promises” and “Lust, Caution”, which would you choose? On the one hand, “Eastern Promises” is more likely to get a wide release. On the other hand, it’s fucking Cronenberg. I’m torn. ARG. Why must this happen EVERY YEAR!?

These are the films I’ve submitted an order form for. I haven’t chosen any films that are getting a Canadian release this year.

ALEXANDRA
ALGÉRIE, HISTOIRES À NE PAS DIRE
AVANT QUE J’OUBLIE
BOY A
BRICK LANE
BUCKING BROADWAY
CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’ (ENDLESS)
CHACUN SON CINÉMA
CHAOS
CONTRE TOUTE ESPÉRANCE
DANS LA VIE
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
ERIK NIETZSCHE THE EARLY YEARS
FOREVER NEVER ANYWHERE
FOUR WOMEN
GEORGE A. ROMERO’S DIARY OF THE DEAD
GLORY TO THE FILMMAKER!
HELP ME EROS
IMPORT EXPORT
ISKA’S JOURNEY
JAR CITY
LA ZONA
LE DEUXIÈME SOUFFLE
LOU REED’S BERLIN
M
MARRIED LIFE
ONE HUNDRED NAILS
PARANOID PARK
SECRET SUNSHINE
SILENT LIGHT
SILENT RESIDENT
SLINGSHOT
SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO
THE BANISHMENT
THE COUNTERFEITERS
THE DEVIL’S CHAIR
THE EDGE OF HEAVEN
THE LAST LEAR
THE MAN FROM LONDON
THE MOSQUITO PROBLEM AND OTHER STORIES
THE POPE’S TOILET
THE SUN ALSO RISES
USELESS
WITH YOUR PERMISSION

nredding - August 30, 2007, 5:57am

These are the films I’ve submitted an order form for. I haven’t chosen any films that are getting a Canadian release this year.

Are you trying to break a record? That’s 44 movies!

Yep, there are a lot of those crazy “50” people that see 5 films a day on average.  It’s insane!

I usually cap out around 40 and even then need 2-3 days to fully recover from it.

I have no idea what you mean.

Went with the mixed bag as usual. Some Artsy-fartsy, some fluff, main stream, indie, even a non-film. first time in a LONG time that we haven’t scheduled a bunch of documentaries, but oh well, yah can’t get em all in.

First choices (in order of how they fit the schedule):
YOUNG PEOPLE F*CKING (poor volunteers having to work the lines for this film, lol)
THE MOTHER OF TEARS
GLORY TO THE FILMMAKER!
THE BRAVE ONE
LE VOYAGE DU BALLON ROUGE
CAPTAIN MIKE ACROSS AMERICA
THE ORPHANAGE
FRONTIÈRE(S)
CHACUN SON CINÉMA
BATTLE IN SEATTLE
JUNO
SILENT RESIDENT
GEORGE A. ROMERO’S DIARY OF THE DEAD
LUST, CAUTION
Religulous: A Conversation with Bill Maher and Larry Charles
JUST BURIED
VEXILLE
NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
CHRYSALIS
ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE
REDACTED
M
STUCK
THE LAST LEAR
INTO THE WILD
Sleuth
BATTLE FOR HADITHA
WALK ALL OVER ME
SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO
CASSANDRA’S DREAM
ENCOUNTERS AT THE END OF THE WORLD
MAD DETECTIVE
THE DEVIL’S CHAIR
PARANOID PARK
BLOOD BROTHERS
SECRET SUNSHINE
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD
FLASH POINT
THE MOSQUITO PROBLEM AND OTHER STORIES
I’M NOT THERE
TERRA
SON OF RAMBOW
WEIRDSVILLE
DAINIPPONJIN
The Exodus
SMILEY FACE
PLOY
NOTHING IS PRIVATE
IT’S A FREE WORLD
À L’INTÉRIEUR

For those doing the TIFF lottery, BOX 66 (of 76) was drawn as the starting point for order purchasing!

Oi.  Sucks to be in Box 44 - say goodbye to the Coens and Cronenberg for sure.

:(

Kurt Halfyard - August 31, 2007, 12:39pm

For those doing the TIFF lottery, BOX 66 (of 76) was drawn as the starting point for order purchasing!

Oi.  Sucks to be in Box 44 - say goodbye to the Coens and Cronenberg for sure.

:(

:( 25 here. “Eastern Promises” is coming out soon anyway, so I opted out of that. I’m worried about “Lust, Caution”, though. Although since they are 9am screenings at the large Ryerson, I shall hopeful.

Shouldn’t be a problem.  9am weekday screenings generally don’t sell out even during the festival!

Anybody get the email with their advance order results yet?

I got my email at 10 am Sunday morning.

I got 40/44.