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VIFF 2012

Written by . Posted on September 28, 2012. Filed under Festivals. Tagged . No comments.

This year I’ll be covering the 31st Vancouver International Film Festival for Filmmaker Magazine, with two blog reports, one halfway through the fest and one on the last day, as well as doing a roundtable wrap-up for the Notebook (which will not appear until a couple weeks after VIFF). I’ll add those links here once they come into existence.

Filmmaker Magazine–

VIFF Critics Notebook #1

VIFF Critics Notebook #2

Notebook–

coming soon

My ten favourite films of the festival (including ones I had already seen at Locarno):

1. Three Sisters, Dir. Wang Bing, Hong Kong

2. Holy Motors, Dir. Leos Carax, France

3. Tabu, Dir. Miguel Gomes, Portugal

4. Leviathan, Dir. Verena Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, UK/USA/France

5. Like Someone in Love, Dir. Abbas Kiarostami, France/Japan

6. In Another Country, Dir. Hong Sangsoo, South Korea

7. When Night Falls, Dir. Ying Liang, China/South Korea

8. Beyond the Hills, Dir. Cristian Mungiu, Romania

9. Night Across the Street, Dir. Raul Ruiz, Chile

10. Walker, Dir. Tsai Ming-Liang, China/Hong Kong

Here’s a link to a list of all the films seen during the festival

2012 Watchlist: July & August

Written by . Posted on September 6, 2012. Filed under Lists. No comments.

JULY

All That Heaven Allows, Dir. Douglas Sirk, 1955, USA * (C/F)

48 Hrs., Dir. Walter Hill, 1982, USA * (H/CF)

An American in Paris, Dir. Vincente Minnelli, 1951, USA * (H/DVD)

Assault on Precinct 13, Dir. John Carpenter, 1976, USA (H/DVD)

Out of the Past, Dir. Jacques Tourneur, 1947, USA (H/DVD)

The Marriage of Maria Braun, Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979, West Germany * (C/F)

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974, West Germany * (C/F)

The Driver, Dir. Walter Hill, 1978, USA/UK (H/CF)

Love is Colder Than Death, Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1969, West Germany (C/F)

The Bridges of Madison County, Dir. Clint Eastwood, 1995, USA * (H/DVD)

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972, West Germany (C/F)

Fox and His Friends, Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975, West Germany (C/F)

Dog Bite Dog, Dir. Soi Cheang, 2006, Hong Kong (H/CF)

Sweetgrass, Dir. Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, 2009, UK/USA (H/CF)

Sabotage, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1936, UK (C/F)

Buried In Light, Dir. Jem Cohen, 1994, USA (H/CF)

The Dark Knight Rises, Dir. Christopher Nolan, 2012, USA (C/D)

L’ange noir, Dir. Jean-Claude Brisseau, 1994, France (H/CF)

Ars Colonia, Dir. Raya Martin, 2011, Philippines/Netherlands (H/CF)

Katalin Varga, Dir. Peter Strickland, 2009, UK/Romania (H/CF)

Accident, Dir. Soi Cheang, 2009, Hong Kong (H/CF)

Boy Meets Girl, Dir. Léos Carax, 1984, France (C/D)

The Sweeney, Dir. Nick Love, 2012, UK (C/D)

NOTE: July was mostly dedicated to previewing submissions to VIFF which shall go unlisted, as well as preparing for Locarno

AUGUST

Die Neue Wohnung (Version SWB), Dir. Hans Richter, 1930, Switzerland (C/F)

Die Neue Wohnung (Version Ateller Richter), Dir. Hans Richter, 1930, Switzerland (C/F)

Mauvais Sang, Dir. Léos Carax, 1986, France (C/F)

Jack and Diane, Dir. Bradley Dust Gray, 2012, USA (C/D)

Mekong Hotel, Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2012, Thailand/UK (C/D)

Danger: Love at Work, Dir. Otto Preminger, 1937, USA (C/F)

Holy Motors, Dir. Léos Carax, 2012, France/Germany (C/D)

Sakda, Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2012, Switzerland (C/D)

The Social Contract, Dir. Frédéric Mermoud, 2012, Switzerland (C/D)

On the Way, Dir. Georges Schwizgebel, 2012, Switzerland (C/D)

Madame W, Dir. Jean-Daniel Schneider, 2012, Switzerland (C/D)

Minuet, Dir. Milagros Mumenthaler, 2012, Switzerland (C/D)

The Taste of Snow, Dir. Nader T. Homayoun, 2012, Iran (C/D)

Drop the Kids Off, Dir. Bettina Oberli & Antoine Jaccoud, 2012, Switzerland (C/D)

Pieta, Dir. Bruce Baillie, 1998, Austria/USA (C/D)

Fire & Rain, Dir. James Benning, 2009, Austria (C/D)

SB, Dir. Stan Brakhage, 2002, USA/Austria (C/D)

My Last Minute, Dir. Léos Carax, 2006, Austria/France * (C/D)

A Tale of Two Cities, Dir. Jem Cohen, 2007, USA/Austria (C/D)

Une Catastrophe, Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 2008, France/Austria/Italy * (C/D)

Incendiary Cinema, Dir. Ken Jacobs, 2005, USA/Austria (C/D)

The 3 Rs, Dir. David Lynch, 2011, USA/Austria * (C/D)

Empire, Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010, Thailand/Austria * (C/D)

Kino, Dir. Chris Marker, 2011, France * (C/D)

Berberian Sound Studio, Dir. Peter Strickland, 2012, UK/Germany/Australia (C/D)

Bachelorette, Dir. Leslye Headland, 2012, USA (C/D)

Sightseers, Dir. Ben Wheatley, 2012, UK (C/D)

Starlet, Dir. Sean Baker, 2012, USA (C/D)

Ina Litovski, Dir. Anais Barbeau-Lavalette & André Turpin, 2012, Canada (C/D)

The Great Cinema Party, Dir. Raya Martin, 2012, South Korea/Philipines (C/D)

Light in the Yellow Breathing Space, Dir. Vimukthi Jayasundara, 2012, South Korea (C/D)

Room 237, Dir. Rodney Ascher, 2012, USA (C/D)

Tectonics, Dir. Peter Bo Rappmund, 2012, USA (C/D)

The End of Time, Dir. Peter Mettler, 2012, Switzerland/Canada (C/D)

Somebody Up There Likes Me, Dir. Bob Byington, 2012, USA (C/D)

The Creation as We Saw It, Dir. Ben Rivers, 2012, UK (C/D)

When Night Falls, Dir. Ying Liang, 2012, South Korea/China (C/D)

Memories Look at Me, Dir. Fang Song, 2012, China (C/D)

No, Dir. Pablo Larrain, 2012, Chile (C/D)

The Girl From Nowhere, Dir. Jean-Claude Brisseau, 2012, France (C/D)

Leviathan, Dir. Lucien Castaing-Taylor & Véréna Paravel, 2012, UK/USA/France (C/D)

Neighboring Sounds, Dir. Kleber Mendonca Filho, 2012, Brazi (C/F)

Impolex, Dir. Alex Ross Perry, 2009, USA (C/F)

Motorway, Dir. Soi Cheang, 2012, Hong Kong (C/D)

Museum Hours, Dir. Jem Cohen, 2012, Austria/USA (C/D)

PTU, Dir. Johnnie To, 2003, Hong Kong (C/F)

Tower, Dir. Kazik Radwanski, 2012, Canada (C/D)

The Black Balloon, Dir. Ben & Joshua Safdie, 2012, USA (C/D)

Angel Face, Dir. Otto Preminger, 1952, USA (C/F)

Bonjour Tristesse, Dir. Otto Preminger, 1958, USA (C/F)

People’s Park, Dir. Libbie D. Cohn & J.P. Sniadecki, 2012, USA/China (C/D)

Goon, Dir. Michael Dowse, 2011, Canada/USA (Airplane)

Lost in America, Dir. Albert Brooks, 1985, USA (H/CF)

Triad Election, Dir. Johnnie To, 2006, Hong Kong (H/CF)

The Hunger, Dir. Tony Scott, 1983, UK (H/DVD)

Unstoppable, Dir. Tony Scott, 2010, USA * (H/DVD)

Killer Joe, Dir. William Freidkin, 2011, USA (C/D)

The Birds, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1963, USA (C/F)

Jaws, Dir. Steven Spielberg, 1975, USA (C/F)

Camp 14 – Total Control Zone, Dir. Marc Wiese, 2012, South Korea/Germany (H/CF)

Wagon Master, Dir. John Ford, 1950, USA (H/CF)

Defending Your Life, Dir. Albert Brooks, 1991, USA (H/DVD)

True Romance, Dir. Tony Scott, 1993, USA (H/DVD)

Dreams For Sale, Dir. Miwa Nishikawa, 2012, Japan (H/DVD)

The Fan, Dir. Tony Scott, 1996, USA * (H/CF)