tiff09: My Russian Film List + FREE programming!

Screenshot: tiff. toronto international film festival: september 10 - 19, 2009
Credit: tiff.net

Being a bit under time pressure at this busiest season of the year: jaf, tuf, ctf, vff, bcf, bmf, it is difficult to find time for the tiff.

Here is My Film List of the movies, projections, and events (compare with last year):

Antichrist
Lars von Trier
Denmark/Germany/France/Sweden/Italy/Poland
[dedicated to Andrei Tarkovsky]

My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
Werner Herzog
USA/Germany

Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
Werner Herzog
USA

The Sunshine Boy (Sólskinsdrengurinn)
Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Iceland

The Good Heart
Dagur Kári
Iceland/France/Denmark/Germany

Kelin
Ermek Tursunov
Kazakhstan
[No dialogue]

Melody for a Street Organ (Melodiya Dlya Sharmanki)
Kira Muratova
Ukraine

Help Gone Mad (Sumashedshaya Pomosh)
Boris Khlebnikov
Russia

Hipsters (Stilyagi)
Valery Todorovsky
Russia
+ In celebration of Hipsters, the Festival presents free swing lessons and a live performance by Aelita with the Galaxy All-Star Orchestra on Tuesday, September 15, in Yonge-Dundas Square
7:00 p.m. - Hipsters Spotlight: swing-dance lessons followed by a concert at 9 p.m. featuring Aelita with the Galaxy All-Star Orchestra in honour of the Russian musical screening as part of the Festival’s Vanguard programme


Wavelengths 5: Une Catastrophe
Une Catastrophe
Jean-Luc Godard
Switzerland/Italy

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
Michèle Hozer, Peter Raymont
Canada

Creation
Jon Amiel
United Kingdom

Kamui (Kamui Gaiden)
Yoichi Sai
Japan

Moloch Tropical
Raoul Peck
France/Haiti

L' Affaire Farewell (Farewell)
Christian Carion
France

Irène
Alain Cavalier
France

Frederick Wiseman Presents La Danse – Le Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris (La Danse – The Paris Opera Ballet)
Frederick Wiseman
France/USA

Mao's Last Dancer
Bruce Beresford
Australia
+ Wednesday, Sept. 16 9:00PM - The National Ballet of Canada’s preview presentation of the latest production from Aszure Barton in celebration of the Festival’s screening of Mao’s Last Dancer

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Jan Kounen
France


+ Future Projections is a far-reaching programme of installations, interactive film projects and other film-related art work presented outside of the cinema space and throughout the city of Toronto.

+ Free outdoor programming on the Young-Dundas Square (YDS)

+ Friday, Sept. 18 6:00PM - TIFF Live In Concert Film Series: world premiere of American Masters featuring Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound, followed by an appearance and short concert by Joan Baez herself

Plus, check out for Cameron Bailey's daily highlights about Festival films you may not have heard about.

links:
girish's TIFF 2009 Films
TIFF08: My Russian Film List

"Medicine For Melancholy" Photo Contest: Get a Chance to Win $1,000 and More

Screenshot: Brickfish Social Media: "Medicine For Melancholy" Photo Project
Credit: brickfish.com

"Medicine For Melancholy" Photo Project

All it takes to enter is a camera and the city you live in. I hope it will be a lot entries from Canada, Ontario, Toronto, the Art Junction District! Check out the details here:

http://www.brickfish.com/Entertainment/MedicineforMelancholy?tab=overview

12/30/2008 - 2/24/2009
252 Entries Submitted (for January 16, 2009)

Watch the Medicine for Melancholy trailer to get a sense of the film's strong performances & location then submit a photo of the city you call home for a chance at $1,000 and more.

links:
Medicine for Melancholy
TIFF08: My Russian Film List: Smaller, Thinner and Lighter

TIFF08: My Russian Film List: Smaller, Thinner and Lighter

tiff08: smaller, thinner and lighter
2008 @ artjunction.blogspot.com

tiff08: smaller, thinner and lighter

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is a cinema fête of filmmakers and moviegoers, motion pictures and stars, cars and bars, cell phones and ipods, etcetera; so it's something for everyone.

I have 8 movies in My Film List (compare with last year):

The Ghost
Domovoy, triller
director: Karen Oganesyan
country: Russia
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Contemporary World Cinema


Country Wedding
Sveitabrúðkaup
director: Valdís Óskarsdóttir, directorial debut
country: Iceland
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Contemporary World Cinema


White Night Wedding
Brúðguminn, "...updates and modernizes Anton Chekhov's "Ivanov" and transplants it to Flatey, a remote island off Iceland's north shore."
director: Baltasar Kormákur
country: Iceland
year: 2008
tiff's program: Contemporary World Cinema

Tulpan
Dreaming of a nomadic wedding in the Hunger Steppe
director: Sergey Dvortsevoy
country: Germany / Switzerland / Kazakhstan / Russia / Poland
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Discovery


Medicine for Melancholy
"A Medicine for Melancholy was originally a collection of science fiction short stories by Ray Bradbury. The colossal differences and quaint similarities between our two tales can be explored..."
- strikeanywherefilms.com
director: Barry Jenkins
country: USA
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Discovery
tiff tags: First Time Feature, Romance, Identity
The screening was preceded by the short:
Jesus and the Giant
director: Akin Omotoso
country: South Africa
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Discovery

New York, I Love You
Brighton Beach, Brodsky, Dostoevsky, Tchaikovsky are essential parts of this NYC's love stories.
"NEW YORK is a dozen foreign cities, so far as its alien population is concerned. It is already known as one of the largest German, the largest Italian, the largest Russian, cities in the world."
- NYT, June 7, 1908
director: Fatih Akin, Yvan Attal, Randy Balsmeyer, Allen Hughes, Shunji Iwai, Scarlett Johansson, Shekhar Kapur, Joshua Marston, Mira Nair, Natalie Portman, Brett Ratner, Jiang Wen, Andrey Zvyagintsev
country: USA
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Special Presentations


The Sky Crawlers
“You can change the side of the road that you walk down every day. Even if the road is the same, you can still see new things. Isn't that enough to live for?”
– Yuichi Kannami in The Sky Crawlers
director: Mamoru Oshii
country: Japan
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Visions
tiff's tags: Animation, Literary Adaptation, Science Fiction

Native Dancer
Baksy
Co-written and produced by the great Russian director Sergei Bodrov.
director: Guka Omarova
country: Kazakhstan/Russia/France/ Germany
year: 2008
tiff's programme: Contemporary World Cinema


tiff07 blogs:
Girish Shambu's Blog TIFF 2008 Film-List
MySpace Daniel Clark's Blog: Toronto Film Festival
prospere-magazine.com: Interview with a TIFF Volunteer
artjunction's tiff posts
TIFF07: My Russian Film List
TIFF06: My Russian Film List
TIFF05: From TIFF to MIFF using SWA

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TIFF07: My Russian Film List

Crystal Night - Movie Night
Toronto International Film Festival
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

The Banishment
Izgnanie
Andrey Zvyagintsev
Contemporary World Cinema
TIFF Tags: Families, Russia

Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case
Bunt. Delo Litvinenko
Andrei Nekrasov
Real To Reel
TIFF Tags: Documentary/Non-fiction, Politics, Russia

Chacun son cinéma
To Each His Own Cinema
Theo Angelopoulos, Olivier Assayas, Bille August, Jane Campion, Youssef Chahine, Chen Kaige, David Cronenberg, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, Manoel de Oliveira, Raymond Depardon, Atom Egoyan, Amos Gitai, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Alejandro González Iñárritu, , Aki Kaurismäki, Abbas Kiarostami, Takeshi Kitano, Andrei Konchalovsky, Claude Lelouch, Ken Loach, David Lynch, Nanni Moretti, Roman Polanski, Raúl Ruiz, Walter Salles, Elia Suleiman, Tsai Ming-liang, Gus Van Sant, Lars von Trier, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar-wai , Zhang Yimou
Special Presentations
TIFF Tags: Cinema/Movies/Television, Drama, French/Quebec, Short Film

Mongol
Sergei Bodrov
Special Presentations
Country: Germany/Kazakhstan/Russia/Mongolia
Language: Mongolian
Special Presentations
TIFF Tags:

Into the Wild
Sean Penn
Special Presentations
TIFF Tags: Coming of Age, Environment, Identity, Literary Adaptations/Interest

No Country for Old Men
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
Special Presentations
TIFF Tags: Crime/Thriller, Death/Dying/Illness, Violence

In Bloom
Vadim Perelman
Special Presentations
TIFF Tags: Death/Dying/Illness, Friendship, Identity, Mental Health, Violence

Import Export
Ulrich Seidl
Country: Austria
Language: German, Russian, Slovak
Visions
TIFF Tags: Austria, Families, Immigration

WHY DEMOCRACY?
Nick Fraser
Doc Talks
TIFF Tags:

Alexandra
Alexander Sokurov
Country: Russia
Language: Russian
Masters
TIFF Tags: Families, Russia

Ulzhan
Volker Schlöndorff
Country: Germany/France/Kazakhstan
Masters
TIFF Tags: Death/Dying/Illness, French/Quebec, German, Immigration, Kazakhstan, Religion/Spiritual/Afterlife, Romance, War

Lou Reed's Berlin
Julian Schnabel
Real To Reel
TIFF Tags: Documentary/Non-fiction, Music

The Mourning Forest
Mogari No Mori
Naomi Kawase
Country: France/Japan
Contemporary World Cinema
TIFF Tags:

RELIGULOUS: A Conversation with Bill Maher and Larry Charles
Mavericks
TIFF Tags:

Encounters at the End of the World
Werner Herzog
Real To Reel
TIFF Tags: Documentary/Non-fiction, Environment

tiff07 blogs:

TIFF Tasks: Globe and Mail blogger Jen Gerson
Girish Shambu's Blog TIFF07
1stthursday: Darren Hughes' First-Timer's Guide to TIFF

links:

TIFF05: Pics From The Back End
TIFF06: My Russian Film List

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