I fully expect Xavier Dolan‘s Mommy to be announced on August 6th so you can go ahead and add that one to my “Must Sees” list below, but as of right now my list of films I consider absolute “musts” sits at 17 movies with another nine I’ll make top priority after I schedule those and then another nine that will be dependent on my screening schedule because conflicts due arise meaning any of these may be on or off the table… schedule depending.
I’m going to be in Toronto from September 3-10, which means six full screening days, which means seeing 18 films will be pushing it, which also means I’m going to miss a lot of movies I would really like to see… Hell, it might even end up being worth it to skip films with already established release dates — Foxcatcher, The Judge, Wild, The Drop, Mr. Turner, etc. — if it opens the opportunity to see a movie I might not get a chance to see until next year, if ever. Then again, I always have to consider what reviews will get the most reads, which is never an easy decision.
That said, you can see the full list of films announced so far right here and the films I’m currently hoping to see directly below. Any thoughts?
Must Sees
- Foxcatcher (dir. Bennett Miller)
- The Judge (dir. David Dobkin) [OPENING NIGHT FILM]
- Maps to the Stars (dir. David Cronenberg)
- Pawn Sacrifice (dir. Ed Zwick)
- Wild (dir. Jean-Marc Vallée)
- The Drop (dir. Michael R. Roskam)
- The Imitation Game (dir. Morten Tyldum)
- Men, Women and Children (dir. Jason Reitman)
- Mr. Turner (dir. Mike Leigh)
- Nightcrawler (dir. Dan Gilroy)
- Rosewater (dir. (dir. Jon Stewart)
- The Theory of Everything (dir. James Marsh)
- While We’re Young (dir. Noah Baumbach)
- Whiplash (dir. Damien Chazelle)
- Wild Tales (Relatos salvajes) (dir. Damian Szifron)
- The Face of an Angel (dir. Michael Winterbottom)
- Leviathan (dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev)
Also Want to See
- Eden (dir. Mia Hansen-Løve)
- Black and White (dir. Mike Binder)
- The Equalizer (dir. Antoine Fuqua)
- The Riot Club (dir. Lone Scherfig)
- Good Kill (dir. Andrew Niccol)
- The Last Five Years (dir. Richard LaGravenese)
- Manglehorn (dir. David Gordon Green)
- Miss Julie (dir. Liv Ullmann)
- Pasolini (dir. Abel Ferrara)
Schedule Depending
- 99 Homes (dir. Ramin Bahrani)
- Before We Go (dir. Chris Evans)
- The Keeping Room (dir. Daniel Barber)
- Love & Mercy (dir. Bill Pohlad)
- Ned Rifle (dir. Hal Hartley)
- Tusk (dir. Kevin Smith)
- Sunshine Superman (dir. Marah Strauch)
- Tales of the Grim Sleeper (dir. Nick Broomfield)
- The Look of Silence (Senyap) (dir. Joshua Oppenheimer)
Probably Won’t be Able to See
Alan Rickman‘s new film starring Kate Winslet is the closing night film, which suggests I will probably be out of town before it screens. Such is life.
- A Little Chaos (dir. Alan Rickman) [CLOSING NIGHT FILM]
