Cinema Track: 2,000 Plus

On March 1, 2010, I wrote about a little rundown about my film watching tracking, having watched a 1,000 films since May 15, 2008. As of September 12, 2011, I have now eclipsed 2,000. As I am always curious to see where my cinematic interests lean, I have made a list of director's films that make my list 5 times or more in these 2,000 titles.



13 Titles:
Alfred Hitchcock

11 Titles:
Woody Allen

10 Titles:
Fritz Lang

9 Titles:
Rainer Werner Fassbiner

8 Titles:
Nagisa Oshima
John Carpenter

7 Titles:
Steven Spielberg
Tyler Perry
George Cukor
Stanley Kubrick
Robert Siodmak

6 Titles:
Catherine Breillat
Dario Argento
Paul Verhoeven
Jean-Luc Godard
Ridley Scott
Werner Herzog
Robert Wise
Spike Lee
Coen Bros
Claude Chabrol
Pedro Almodovar

5 Titles:
Claire Denis
Otto Preminger
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Nicolas Roeg
Alex de la Iglesia
Roman Polanski
Nicolas Winding Refn
Curtis Harrington
Francois Ozon
Brian De Palma
Victor Salva
Wes Craven
Lars Von Trier
Robert Altman
Rodrigo Garcia

Toronto Film Festival: 2011 - The Rundown

With a total of 48 films viewed, TIFF 2011 will be hard to beat, quantity wise. As far as quality goes, I had the chance to see some great new films, some about to be released and others that may take a while to get distribution. My eyeballs feel burned, and this year I will not be reviewing everything I watched. However, I did review a great deal of these for ioncinema.com. Reviews that have posted are hyperlinked. Also, I had the opporunity to interview director Todd Solondz concerning his new film, Dark Horse, as well as directors Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury for their latest, Livid. I hope to have links available as they post to ioncinema. Without further ado, here is my rundown of TIFF 2011:

BEST OF FEST:
1. Beloved (Les Bien-Aimes) Dir. Chrisophe Honore - France
2. ALPS - Dir. Yorgos Lanthimos - Greece
3. Killer Joe - Dir. William Friedkin - US (review available)
4. Kill List - Dir. Ben Wheatley - UK (review available)
5. We Need To Talk About Kevin - Dir. Lynne Ramsay - US/UK
6. The Kid With A Bike - Dir(s). Jean & Luc Dardenne - Belgium
7. Pariah - Dir. Dee Rees - US
8. Once Upon A Time in Anatolia - Dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Turkey
9. Michael - Dir. Markus Schleinzer - Austria
10. My Worst Nightmare - Dir. Anne Fontaine - France (review available)

Rest of the Best:
11. The Skin I Live In - Dir. Pedro Almodovar - Spain
12. Three Lives (Drieleben) - Dir(s). Christian Petzold; Domink Graf; Christoph Hochhausler - Germany
13. House of Tolerance - Dir. Bertrand Bonello - France
14. Oslo, August 31st - Dir. Joachim Trier - Denmark
15. Smuggler - Dir. Katsuhito Ishii - Japan
16. That Summer - Dir. Philippe Garrel - France
17. The Deep Blue Sea - Dir. Terence Davies - UK
18. Livid - Dir(s). Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury - France (review available)
19. Among Us - Dir. Marco Van Geffen - Netherlands
20. Rampart - Dir. Oren Moverman - US
21. Outside Satan - Dir. Bruno Dumont - France
22. You're Next - Dir. Adam Wingard - US (review available)
23. The Patron Saints - Dir(s). Brian M. Cassidy & Melanie Shatzky - Canada (review available)
24. Carre Blanc - Dir. Jean-Baptiste Leonetti - France (review available)

25. Dark Horse - Dir. Todd Solondz - US (review available)
26. A Dangerous Method - Dir. David Cronenberg - Canada/Germany
27. Snowtown - Dir. Justin Kurzel - Australia

Additional Films Of Interest:
1. Generation P - Dir. Victor Ginzburg - Russia
2. The Loneliest Plant - Dir. Julia Loktev - US/Germany
3. Alois Nebel - Dir. Tomas Lunak - Czech Republic (review available)
4. Headshot - Dir. Pen-Ek Ratanaruang - Thailand
5. Extraterrestrial - Dir. Nacho Vigalando - Spain (review available)
6. Keyhole - Dir. Guy Maddin - Canada
7. Leave It On the Floor - Dir. Sheldon Larry - Canada (review available)
8. The Hunter - Dir. Daniel Nettheim - Australia (review available)

Disappointing:
1. The Woman In the Fifth - Dir. Pawel Pawlikowski - UK/France
2. Albert Nobbs - Dir. Rodrigo Garcia - UK/Ireland (review available)
3. The Moth Diaries - Dir. Mary Harron - Canada/Ireland (review available)
4. Violet & Daisy - Dir. Geoffrey Fletcher - US
5. Twixt - Dir. Francis Ford Coppola - US (review available)
6. Intruders - Dir. Juan Carlos Fresnadillo - Spain (review available)
7. Bunohan - Dir. Dain Said - Malaysia (review available)
8. Romeo Eleven - Dir. Ivan Grbovic - Canada (review available)

And the Merde cinema:
1. Killer Elite - Dir. Gary McKendry - US (review available)
2. Lost In Paradise - Dir. Ngoc Dang Vu - Vietnam (review available)

Titles Previously Viewed Before TIFF:
1. Melanchola - Dir. Lars Von Trier - Denmark
2. Tyrannosaur - Di. Paddy Considine - UK

Out of the Past: The Week In Film 8/26/11-9/1/11

Of Interest:
My Darling of the Mountains (2008) Dir. Katsuhito Ishii - Japan

Guilty Pleasure Cinema:
Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996) Dir. Paris Barclay - US
Lisztomania (1975) Dir. Ken Russell - UK
The Legend of Lylah Clare (1968) Dir. Robert Aldrich - US


Essential Cinema:
From the Life of the Marionettes (1980) Dir. Ingmar Bergman - West Germany/Sweden
Shotgun Stories (2007) Dir. Jeff Nichols - US
A Fistful of Dollars (1964) Dir. Sergio Leone - Spain/Italy/West Germany
For A Few Dollars More (1965) Dir. Sergio Leone - Spain/Italy/West Germany
Brewster McCloud (1970) Dir. Robert Altman - US


Theatrical Screenings:
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010) Dir. Troy Nixey - US 5/10
The Double (2011) Dir. Michael Brandt - US 3/10