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Dec
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2007

It’s List Time Again - Canada’s Top 10 for 2007

Posted by Kurt Halfyard at 6:26pm.

Posted in Random Geek Talk , USA & Canada, Toronto Film Festival 2007, Short Films, Random Awards News.

Put together by the Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG) Canada’s Top 10 was established a few years back as a way to issue press release that yea, Canada has a film industry outside of granting Hollywood studios tax breaks to film in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary and Montreal.  This year almost the complete series of films were on display at TIFF and we managed to catch most of the shorts and features even.  While I would nominate Guy Maddin’s fabulously vitriolic, absurdist, surreal and downright hilarious My Winnipeg to just barely edge out David Cronenberg’s Eastern Promises, your mileage may vary.  Bruce McDonanld’s experimental split-screen Into The Night-type film, The Tracey Fragments, that stars future A-list actress Ellen Page is deserving of your love, especially because it only got the most limited release possible - a few rep cinemas in large Canadian cities (this is however, more than many of the films on the list though).  Also, a huge shout out to Madame Tutli-Putli on the short films list, which is a must see for lovers of existential surrealism and stop motion animation and a film we’ve pumped and stumped for a lot around here. Certainly, the two directors (Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczerbowski) responsible for this gorgeous 17 minute short film (Available for purchase from the National Film Board if you have a Canadian shipping address). With a single film, they have joined the ranks with Jan Svankmajer, Henry Selick and The Brothers Quay in terms of groundbreaking stop-motion work.

Like good little non-confrontational Canucks, the moderators of this list chose not to number or prioritize the films.  The unordered Top 10 lists of both Features and Short Films are after the jump.

Feature Films
* L’Âge des Ténèbres - Denys Arcand
* Amal - Richie Mehta
* Continental, Un Film Sans Fusil - Stéphane Lafleur
* Eastern Promises - David Cronenberg
* Fugitive Pieces - Jeremy Podeswa
* My Winnipeg - Guy Maddin
* A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman - Peter Raymont
* The Tracey Fragments - Bruce McDonald
* Up The Yangtze - Yung Chang
* Young People Fucking - Martin Gero

Short Films
* Code 13 - Mathieu L. Denis
* The Colony - Jeff Barnaby
* Dust Bowl Ha! Ha! - Sébastien Pilote
* Farmer’s Requiem - Ramses Madina
* Les Grands - Chloé Leriche
* I Have Seen the Future - Cam Christiansen
* I Met the Walrus - Josh Raskin
* Madame Tutli-Putli - Chris Lavis, Maciek Szczerbowski
* POOL - Chris Chong Chan Fui
* Terminus - Trevor Cawood

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