Below you will find our favorite films of the 40th Toronto International Film Festival, as well as an index of our coverage.
TOP PICKS
FERNANDO F. CROCE
I. The Assassin, Sunset Song, In Jackson Heights, Francofonia, Jafar Panahi’s Taxi, Anomalisa, Right Now, Wrong Then
II. 45 Years, Office, Blood of My Blood, 11 Minutes, Yakuza Apocalypse, The Apostate, How Heavy the Hammer, High-Rise, The Family Fang, Bleak Street, No Home Movie, Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton, In the Shadow of Women
III. The Idol, Spotlight, Eva Doesn’t Sleep, The Clan, Campo Grande, A Copy of My Mind, The Other Side, Hitchcock/Truffaut
DANIEL KASMAN
I. In Jackson Heights, Office, Fireworks (Archives), Engram of Returning
II. SPL 2: A Time for Consequence, Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton, The Event, Something Horizontal, Anamolisa, Navigator, Fallen Objects, Afternoon, Palms, 11 Minutes
III. Neon Bull, The Reminder, Analysis of Emotions and Vexations, Terrestrial, Blood of My Blood, 45 Years, Francofonia, Prima Materia, Murmur of the Hearts, The Apostate, Minotaur, Neither God nor Santa Maria, A Fire In My Brain That Separates Us
CORRESPONDENCES
By Fernando F. Croce and Daniel Kasman
#1 Introduction by Fernando F. Croce
#2 Daniel Kasman on Frederick Wiseman's In Jackson Heights, Andrew Haigh's 45 Years, Sebastian Schipper's Victoria
#3 Fernando F. Croce on Andrew Haigh's 45 Years, Nanni Moretti's My Mother, Pablo Agüero's Eva Doesn’t Sleep
#4 Daniel Kasman on Shambhavi Kaul's Fallen Objects, Ridley Scott's The Martian, Johnnie To's Office, Paul Sharit's 3D Movie, Kerstin Schroedinger's Fugue, Charlotte Pryce's Prima Materia, Benjamin Ramírez Pérez's A Fire In My Brain That Separates Us, Blake Williams' Something Horizontal,
#5 Fernando F. Croce on Takashi Miike's Yakuza Apocalypse, Aleksandr Sokurov's Francofonia, Jerzy Skolimowski's 11 Minutes
#6 Daniel Kasman on Nicolás Pereda's Minotaur, Behrouz Rae's The Reminder, Federico Veiroj's The Apostate, Kazik Radwanski's How Heavy This Hammer
#7 Fernando F. Croce on Terence Davies' Sunset Song, Ben Wheatley's High-Rise, Hany Abu-Assad's The Idol
#8 Daniel Kasman Cheang Soi's SPL 2: A Time for Consequences, Björn Kämmerer’s Navigator, Mary Helena Clark's Palms, Wojciech Bąkowski's Analysis of Emotions and Vexations
#9 Fernando F. Croce on Marco Bellocchio's Blood of My Blood, Duke Johnson & Charlie Kaufman's Anomalisa, Tom McCarthy's Spotlight
#10 Daniel Kasman on Sylvia Chang's Murmur of the Hearts, Arthur Ripstein's Bleak Street, Samuel M. Delgado and Helena Girón's Neither God Nor Santa Maria, Daïchi Saïto's Engram of Returning
#11 Fernando F. Croce on Guy Maddin, Evan and Galen Johnson's Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton, Jason Bateman's The Family Fang, Pablo Trapero's The Clan and more
#12 Daniel Kasman on Tsai Ming-liang's Afternoon, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Fireworks (Archives), Guy Maddin, Evan and Galen Johnson's Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton, Sergei Loznitsa's The Event
#13 Daniel Kamsan on Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman's Anamolisa, Gabriel Mascaro's Neon Bull
MICHAEL SICINSKI
Wavelengths, Part One: The Short Films
Wavelengths, Part Two: The Features
INTERVIEWS
From Zen to Chaos: An Interview with Jerzy Skolimowski
by Daniel Kasman
The Capacity to Hope: Terence Davies Discusses Sunset Song
by Amir Ganjavie