Below you will find our favorite films of the 41st Toronto International Film Festival, as well as an index of our coverage.
TOP PICKS
FERNANDO F. CROCE
I.
Toni Erdmann, A Quiet Passion, Elle, (re)Assignment, Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids
II.
Voyage of Time, Moonlight, I, Daniel Blake; Austerrlitz, J: Beyond Flamenco
III.
Salt and Fire, Hello Destroyer, Land of the Gods
DANIEL KASMAN
I.
AS WITHOUT SO WITHIN, Certain Women, Nocturama
II.
Cilaos, Yourself and Yours, Incantati, Children of Lir, Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids
III.
Into the Inferno, Untitled, Daguerrotype, Venus Delta, Safari, The Hedonists
IV.
The Dreamed Path, Manchester by the Sea, 350 MYA, Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait, Kékszakállú, Foyer, The Dreamed Ones
V.
Ember, Salt and Fire, (re)Assignment
MICHAEL SICINSKI
I.
Singularity
II.
Aquarius, Austerlitz
III.
025 Red Sunset, Cilaos, Indefinite Pitch, Luna e Santur, Mimosas, Nocturama, Sieranevada
BLAKE WILLIAMS
I.
Nocturama, AS WITHOUT SO WITHIN
II.
The Dreamed Path, Yourself and Yours, Burning mountains that spew flame, Incantati, Ears, Nose and Throat
III.
The Human Surge, I’ll Remember You as You Were, Not as What You’ll Become, La La Land, Safari, Kékszakállú, Mister Universo, Salt and Fire
IV.
Hermia & Helena, (re)Assignment, Venus Delta, Flowers of the Sky, Arrival, Silueta Sangrienta, Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids
CORRESPENDENCES
By Fernando F. Croce and Daniel Kasman
#1 Fernando F. Croce on Ken Loach's I, Daniel Blake, Paul Verhoeven's Elle, Raja Amari's Foreign Body | Read
#2 Daniel Kasman on Bertrand Bonello's Nocturama, Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester by the Sea | Read
#3 Fernando F. Croce on Terrence Malick's Voyage of Time, Tom Ford's Nocturnal Animals, Kevan Funk's Hello Destroyer | Read
#4 Daniel Kasman on Kelly Reichardt's Certain Women, Ruth Beckermann's The Dreamed Ones, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Daguerrotype | Read
#5 Fernando F. Croce on Terence Davies' A Quiet Passion, Walter Hill's (re)Assignment, Werner Herzog's Salt and Fire | Read
#6 Daniel Kasman on Walter Hill's (re)Assignment, Werner Herzog's Salt and Fire, Hong Sang-soo's Yourself and Yours, Angela Schanelec's The Dreamed Path | Read
#7 Fernando F. Croce on Damien Chazelle's La La Land, Carlos Saura's J: Beyond Flamenco, Jonathan Demme's Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids | Read
#8 Daniel Kasman on Jonathan Demme's Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids, Sergei Loznitsa's Austerlitz, Lav Diaz's The Woman Who Left, Khyentse Norbu's Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait | Read
#9 Fernando F. Croce on Sergei Loznitsa's Austerlitz, Barry Jenkins' Moonlight, Oliver Stone's Snowden, Goran Paskaljevic’s Land of the Gods | Read
#10 Daniel Kasman on Manuela De Laborde's AS WITHOUT SO WITHIN, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet's Incantati, Antoinette Zwirchmayr’s Venus Delta, Jia Zhangke's The Hedonists, Cyprien Gaillard's Nightlife, films by Ana Mendieta, new installations by Albert Serra and Sharon Lockhart | Read
MICHAEL SICINSKI
INTERVIEWS
Ultra-Realist Abstraction: Discussing Nocturama with Bertrand Bonello
by Daniel Kasman and Blake Williams
Mythmaker: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Discusses Daguerrotype
by Daniel Kasman
A Film in Fragments: An Interview with Angela Schanelec
by Daniel Kasman
The Process of Dreaming: Olivier Assayas Discusses Personal Shopper
by Daniel Kasman
Pumping It Up: Paul Verhoeven Discusses Elle
by Daniel Kasman