Good news, dear readers, I come bearing good news indeed. Earlier this evening I received no less than the complete list of films screening at MIFF. That’s right, I have it in my lusty little fingers and I’m drooling. I didn’t realise until now how keen I was to receive this. No dates or times yet, but at least we now have the list.I haven’t had time to peruse titles in detail – that will take some time, and I have more information than I can post about right now (I can’t tell you how tired and sleep-deprived I feel). For now, I’ll simply post the films as provided by MIFF and you can check out what’s on for yourself. I’ve had a quick squiz at the MIFF website, and this info is not available there right now (I suppose they’re home watching TV or sleeping, like I should be).
I applied for Press Accreditation at MIFF this year (even though I paid full price for a full MIFF pass). I haven’t received any formal confirmation that accreditation has been approved, but in the last twelve hours or so I have received invites to MIFF previews and access to press materials, so I guess that means I’m in. Thus I can now share this info with you.
You can see from the list below which films have a commercial release planned, though ‘commercial release’ can also for some films mean just DVD release and not theatrical. I’m not ruling anything out, but I generally don’t make a priority of films with a release planned, documentaries and shorts. But there’s always exceptions of course, and there are documentaries and films with a commercial release that I will definitely see (such as David Lynch’s
As an aside, I have pre-ordered
I'm rambling... here’s the list. If you don't understand a section, go to the MIFF website for explanation.
SECTIONS
| AA | | IP | International Panorama |
| AG | Animation Gallery | MM | Magnum in Motion |
| BB | Backbeat | NG | Next Gen |
| D | Docos | NW | Neighbourhood Watch |
| ED | Euro Debuts | SD | Stars of David |
| FMF | Full Moon Fever | SI | Shohei Imamura Retrospective |
| FP | Forbidden Pleasures | WS | World Stories |
| H | Homegrown | * | Films with Distribution |
| HK | Hirokazu Kore-eda Retrospective | | |
ALPHABETICAL FILM LIST
| Film | DIRECTOR | COUNTRY | Sect |
| 4 | Tim Slade | | H |
| 4 Elements | Jiska Rickels | The | D |
| *4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days | Cristian Mungiu | | IP |
| 9 Star Hotel | Ido Haar | | SD |
| A Man Vanishes | Shohei Imamura | | SI |
| *Aachi & Ssipak | Bum Jin Joe | | AG |
| AFR | Morten Hartz Kaplers | | ED |
| After Life | Hirokazu Kore-eda | | HK |
| *After the Wedding | Susanne Bier | | IP |
| Alexandra | Alexander Sokourov | Russia/France | IP |
| Alimentation générale - The General Store | Chantal Briet | | D |
| Animalia | David Scott | | NG |
| Animation (Mirrorball ) | Various | Various | BB |
| Anita O'Day the Life of a Jazz Singer | Robbie Cavolina et al. | | BB |
| Armstrongs - the Movie, The | Fergus O'Brien | | D |
| Aviva My Love | Shemi Zarhin | | SD |
| *Away From Her | Sarah Polley | | IP |
| Azur and Azmar | Michel Ocelot | | NG |
| Ballad of Narayama, The | Shohei Imamura | | SI |
| Beaufort | Joseph Cedar | | SD |
| Beauty in Trouble | Jan Hrebejk | | IP |
| Beauty Knows No Pain | Elliot Erwitt | | MM |
| Behind the Veil | Eve Arnold | | MM |
| *Bella | Gomez Monteverde | Mexico/USA | IP |
| Belle Toujours | Manoel de Oliveira | Portugal/France | IP |
| Bet Collector, The | Jeffrey Jeturian | Phillipines | NW |
| Between Heaven and Earth | Frank van den Engel | The | D |
| Beyond Eyruv | John Mounier | | SD |
| Beyond Our Ken | Luke Walker et al | | H |
| Big Dreamers | Camille Hardman | | H |
| Black Rain | Shohei Imamura | | SI |
| *Black Sheep | Jonathan King | | FMF |
| *Black Snake Moan | Craig Brewer | | IP |
| * | Yang Li | China/Hong Kong | NW |
| Bliss | Sheng Zhimin | | NW |
| Book That Shook the World | Con Anemogiannis | | H |
| Born and Bred | Pablo Trapero | Argentina/Italy/UK | IP |
| Boss of It All, The | Lars Von Trier | | IP |
| Boxing Day | Kriv Stenders | | H |
| Boy on a Galloping Horse, The | Adam Guzinski | | ED |
| Brand Upon the Brain! | Guy Maddin | USA/Canada | FP |
| Breath | Kim Ki-duk | | NW |
| Bubble, The | Eytan Fox | | SD |
| Bug | William Friedkin | | FMF |
| Bunny Chow | John Barker | | AA |
| Buy a Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter. S Thompson on Film | Tom Thurman | | D |
| Cages | O Masset-Depasse | | ED |
| Cats of | Linda Hattendorf | | D |
| Children | Ragnar Bragason | | IP |
| Publicity Video Diaries: Dying For | Chris Steele-Perkins | | MM |
| Comrades in Dreams | Uli Gaulke | | D |
| Con Man Confidential | Alexander Adolph | | D |
| | Thierry Michel | France/Belgium | AA |
| *Control | Anton Corbijn | | BB |
| *Conversations With My Gardener | Jean Becker | | IP |
| Corroboree | Ben Hackworth | | H |
| Crazy Love | Dan Klores | | D |
| Dark Deer | Viesturs Kairiss | Latvia/Austria | IP |
| *Day Watch | T Bekhmamabetov | | IP |
| *Deep Water | Louise Osmond et al | | D |
| Desert Dream | Zhang Lu | | NW |
| *Dirty Carnival, A | Ha Yoo | | NW |
| *Dirty Three | Darcy Maine | | BB |
| Distance | H Kore-eda | | HK |
| Dog Bite Dog | Pou-Soi Cheang | Hong Kong/China | NW |
| Dol: the | Hiner Saleem | Kurdistan/Germany... | IP |
| Dreams of Dust | | France/Canada | AA |
| Dry Season | Mahamat-Saleh Haroun | France/Belgium/ Chad/Austria | AA |
| *Eagle vs Shark | Taika Waititi | | NW |
| Echoes of Home | Stefan Schwietert | | D |
| Eijanaika | Shohei Imamura | | SI |
| Enemies of Happiness | Anja Al Erhayem et al | | D |
| Eve and Marilyn | Eve Arnold | | MM |
| Everything’s Gone Green | Paul Fox | | IP |
| Ex-Drummer | Koen Mortier | Belgium/Neth... | ED |
| *Exit | Peter Lindmark | | IP |
| Exterminating Angels | Jean-Claude Brisseau | | FP |
| Falkenberg Farewell | Jesper Ganslandt | Sweden/Denmark | ED |
| Falling | Barbara Albert | | IP |
| Family Ties | Kim Tae-yong | | NW |
| *Fay Grim | Hal Hartley | | IP |
| *Few Days in September | | Canada/USA | IP |
| *Fido | Andrew Currie | | FMF |
| *Forbidden Lies | Anna Broinowski | | H |
| Forever | Heddy Honigmann | | D |
| Forever Never Anywhere | Antonin Svoboda | | IP |
| Fresh Tracks (Mirrorball) | Various | Various | BB |
| Gardens in Autumn | Otar Iosseliani | | IP |
| Ghosts | Nick Broomfield | | IP |
| Ghosts of Cité Soleil | Hger Leth | Denmark/USA | D |
| *Grace is Gone | James C. Strouse | | IP |
| Great World of Sound, The | Craig Zobel | | IP |
| Gucha – Distand Trumpet | Milic Dusan | Germany/Serbia... | IP |
| Half Moon | Bahman Ghobadi | Iran/Iraq | IP |
| Hana | Hirokazu Kore-eda | | HK |
| Hansel and Gretel | Anne Wild | | NG |
| Hardcore Chambermusic | Peter Liechti | | D |
| *Heartbreak hoTel | Colin Nutley | | IP |
| Hebrew Lesson, A | David Ofek et al | | SD |
| His Big White Self | Nick Broomfield | | D |
| Honor de Cavalleria | Albert Serra | | ED |
| Hope | Steve Thomas | | H |
| Hot house | Shimon Dotan | | SD |
| Hottest State, The | Ethan Hawke | | IP |
| How is Your Fish Today? | Xiaolu Guo | UK/China | NW |
| I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone | Tsai Ming-Liang | Taiwan/France... | NW |
| *I Served the King of | Jiri Menzel | Czech Republic/Slovakian Republic | IP |
| Ils | David Moreau et al | | FMF |
| In Memory of Myself | Saverio Costa NZO | | IP |
| In the Company of Actors | Ian Darling | | H |
| *Indigenes | Rachid Bouchareb | France/Morocco... | WS |
| * | David Lynch | | IP |
| Intentions of Murder (aka Unholy desire) | Shohei Imamura | | SI |
| Interview | Steve Buscemi | | IP |
| Irina palm | Sam Garbarski | | IP |
| Island of lost souls | Nikolaj Arcel | | NG |
| Island, The | Pavel Lounguine | | IP |
| It Happened Just Before | Anja Salomonowitz | | D |
| Jellyfish | Etgar Keret et al | | SD |
| *Joe Strummer: the Future is Unwritten | | Ireland/UK | BB |
| *Joshua | George Ratliff | | FMF |
| Journals of Knud Rhmussen | Zacharias Kunuk | Canada/Denmark/... | WS |
| Kalaupapa Heaven | Paul Cox | | H |
| Khadak | Peter Brosens et al | | WS |
| Kidz in da Hood | Ylva Gustavsson et al | | NG |
| Knowledge is the Beginning | Paul Smaczny | | SD |
| La Boucane (the Smoking House) | Jean Gaumy | | MM |
| *Lady Chatterley | Pascale Ferran | Belgium/France/UK | IP |
| | Tony Kaye | | D |
| Last Winter, The | Larry Fessenden | USA/Iceland | FMF |
| Lights in the Dusk | Aki Kaurismaki | | IP |
| Little Red Flowers | Zhang Yuan | | NG |
| | Paul Andrew Williams | | ED |
| Lost in | Yu Li | | D |
| Lost World of | Emma Hindley | | D |
| Maborosi | Hirokazu Kore-eda | | HK |
| Made in | Jérôme Laperrousaz | France/USA | BB |
| Magnum story 1, 2, 3 | Patricia Wheatley, Rosemary Bowen‑Jones | | MM |
| Making of | Nouri Bouzid | | AA |
| Man Who Souled the World, The | Mike Hill | | D |
| Manufactuing Dissent: Michael Moore and the Media | Rick Caine, Debbie Melynk | | D |
| Men at Work | Mani Haghighi | | IP |
| *Mighty Heart, A | Michael Winterbottom | UK/USA | IP |
| Misery Loves Company: The Life and Death of Bruce Gilden | Gideon Gold | | MM |
| Monastery, The | Pernille Rose Grønkjaer | | D |
| Monkey Grip, The | Ken Cameron | | H |
| My Father, My Lord | David Volach | | SD |
| My Friend and his Wife | Shin Dong-il | | NG |
| *My Kid Could Paint That | Amir Bar-Lev | | D |
| My Name is Albert Ayler | Kasper Colin | | BB |
| My Son | Martial Fougeron | | IP |
| *Night | | | H |
| Night of the Sunflowers, The | Jorge Sánchez‑Cabezudo | Spain/France/Poland | ED |
| Night of Truth, The | Fanta Régina Nacro | Burkino Faso | AA |
| No Exit | Dror Sabo | | SD |
| *Nobody Knows | Hirokazu Kore-eda | | HK |
| | Raul dela Fuente et al | | WS |
| Old Weird | Rani Singh | | BB |
| Smith’s Anthology of American Folk Music on the Rowanlea Trawler | Jean Gaumy | | MM |
| Once | John Carney | | IP |
| Opera Jawa | Garin Nugroho | | NW |
| Other Side, The (El otro lado) | Alex Webb | | MM |
| *Out of the Blue | Robert Sarkies | NZ | NW |
| *Paprika | Satoshi Kon | | AG |
| Paraguayan Hammock | Paz Encina | | WS |
| Philip Jones | Richard Traylor-Smith | | MM |
| Pictures From a Revolution | Susan Meiselas | | MM |
| Playing the Victim | Kirill Serebrennikov | | IP |
| Pornographers, The | Shohei Imamura | | SI |
| Prater | Ulrike Ottinger | Austria/Germany | D |
| Primo Levi’s Journey | Davide Ferrario | | D |
| *Promised | Leonard Rebel Helmrich | The | D |
| | Gary Burns, Jim Brown | | D |
| Rebllion, the Litvinkenko Case | Andrei Nekrasov | | D |
| *Red Road | Andrea Arnold | UK/Denmark | ED |
| *Reprise | Joachim Trier | | ED |
| *Rescue Dawn | Werner Herzog | | IP |
| Return to Goree | Pierre-Yves Borgeaud | | AA |
| Robert Capa: in Love and WAR | Anne Makepeace | | MM |
| Rock’n’roll Outlaw | Lucille Desoto Clements | | BB |
| Run Rabbit Run | Bob Ellis | | H |
| Russian Prison: a Separate Life | Gueorgui Pinkhassov | | MM |
| Scott Walker – 30th Century Man | Stephen Kijak | UK/USA | BB |
| Searching for Sandeep | Poppy Stockell | | H |
| *September | Peter Carstairs | | H |
| Seven Easy Pieces by Marina Abramovic | Babette Mangolte | | D |
| *Severance | Christopher Smith | | FMF |
| Shame | Mohammed Naqvi | Pakistan/USA | D |
| Shotgun Stories | Jeff Nichols | | IP |
| *Sicko | Michael Moore | | D |
| *Signal, The | David Bruckner et al | | FMF |
| *Snoop Doggs Hood of Horror | Stacy Title | | FMF |
| Snow Angels | David Gordon Green | | IP |
| Someone to Run with | Oded Davidoff | | SD |
| *Stephanie Daley | Hilary Brougher | | IP |
| Still Life | Jia Zhang-Ke | Hong Kong/China | NW |
| *Strange Culture | Lynn Hershman Leeson | | D |
| Submarine (Sous-marin) | Jean Gaumy | | MM |
| *Syndromes and a Century | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand/France/Austria | NW |
| Tasmanian Devil: the Fast and Furious Life of Errol Flynn | Simon Nasht | | H |
| *Teeth | Mitchell Lichenstein | | FP |
| *Tekkonkinkreet | Michael Arias | | NG |
| Think of | Martin Parr | | MM |
| *This is | Shane Meadows | | IP |
| Times and Winds | Reha Erdem | | IP |
| Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of | Oscar Redding | | H |
| Train, The | Donovan Wylie | | MM |
| Triple Dare | Christina Rosendahl | | NG |
| Two Faces of | René Burri | | MM |
| U | Gregoire Solotareff | | NG |
| Ugly Duckling and Me, The | Michael Hegner | | NG |
| Ulzhan | Volker Schlondorff | Kazakstan/France | IP |
| Untouchable, The | Benoit Jacquot | | IP |
| Vengeance is Mine | Shohei Imamura | | SI |
| Vhs-kahloucha | Nejib Belkadhi | | AA |
| *Vitus | Fredi Murer | | NG |
| Viva | Anna Biller | | FP |
| Voices of Bam | Aliona van der Horst... | The | D |
| Waimate Conspiracy | Stefen Lewis | | WS |
| Waiting For Happiness | Abderrahmane Sissako | | AA |
| *Walk into the Sea: Danny Williams and the Warhol Factory, A | Esther B. Robinson | | D |
| Wasted, The | Nurit Kedar | | SD |
| We Are Together | Paul Taylor | | AA |
| Welcome to Nolly Wood | Jamie Meltzer | USA/Nigeria | AA |
| Witnesses, The | André Téchiné | | IP |
| Wolfs | Nanouk Leopold | Netherlands/Belgium | IP |
| Woman on the Beach | Hong Sang-soo | | NW |
| *Words from the City | Natasha Gadd/ Rhys Graham | | BB |
| *Workshop, The | Jamie Morgan | | FP |
| Wrestling with Angels -Playwright Tony Kushner | Freida Mock | | D |
| Yamamura Retrospective Programme | Koji Yamamura | | AG |
| Year of the Dog | Mike White | | IP |
| Yella | Christian Petzold | | IP |
| Yo | Rafa Cortes | | ED |
| | Takayuki Nakamura | | D |
| Your Mommy Kills Animals | Curt Johnson | | D |
| Zoo | Robinson Devor | | FP |
25 comments:
I don't see Mister Lonely on there...what have you done to me Paul??
I see that the list is missing about 40 titles, Trent, so I suppose Mister Lonely is among them. I've emailed the publicist for details. Meanwhile, go easy on the messenger...
While there are certainly some good films which I am dying to see, I find the presence of so many films that will eventually get a theatrical release a disturbing trend. I know it happens every year but this year there seems to be an inordinate amount. There are so many great films we don't get to see here and this is largely due to the presence of so many films that already have local distribution tied up. I think it would be ideal if MIFF excludes films that already have local distribution and thus will eventually be released. Only then will we get a truly great film festival that will be the envy of the international film world.
As an after-thought, I suspect that Dendy Films are scheduling a release date for Inland Empire based on audience feedback at the Sydney Film Festival. It screened just yesterday and the day before. Or maybe they will wait to see the Melbourne response also. I think Sydney would be sufficient, and maybe we'll hear about a release date sometime soon.
The Inland Empire screening I went to (Wednesday night) was sold out, don't know how last night's went. Not a whole lot sticks out to me on that list apart from Syndromes and a Century of course--the film of the century. What other films are missing apart from Mister Lonely though? If there's around 40 then it's not very complete at all, is it.
Trent, 237 out of 278 films is just over 85%. No, it's not complete, but the important thing for me is that I can start researching some of these films and start to narrow down some of the films I want to prioritise. There's still 5 weeks, and I don't think the dates are released until July 13.
So, you saw it - you liked? Or not?
Thanks Paul! Do tickets go on sale on July 15 when the complete list is officially released?
On the MIFF site I've added to my shopping cart thing the 10 ticket package. I so hope to get Inland Empire ticket. I will die of excitement.
KC, the full programme comes with The Age on July 13, and bookings can be made online from that date (and probably at the MIFF office at the Forum Theatre). Congratulations on getting the mini-season pass. I got one last year and found it great value. I needed to take a day off work to take advantage of the 'bonus' off-peak tickets.
Get in early for Inland Empire. I don't care how many sessions they put on - I predict they will all sell out.
Lynch makes soap better than the Mexicans.
Man, these Blogger tables are so hard to edit and get right. I've fixed the dark line, but find it hard to get the column widths any better. I'll find a better way next time.
As posted here earlier, MIFF announced a couple of weeks ago that a number of films were to be screened 'direct from Cannes'. A closer look at that list reveals that not only is Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine) not shown, but same goes with The Man From London (Bela Tarr) and Mourning Forest (Naomi Kawase).
I don't know how much credit I can take for the list being published early, but I did request this of festival director Claire Dobbin at the festival launch. She said she would see about getting some information posted, and within a day I had the list, incomplete as it is. I believe that generally the full list is not available until the programme is released - July 13 for this year.
Perusing various media releases, I have cross-referenced the above list (a slow process) and so far identified the following 12 additional titles. I have more releases to study, but I'm hoping I might find the bulk of the 41 missing titles.
Mister Lonely (Harmony Korine)
Mourning Forest (Naomi Kawase)
The Man From London (Bela Tarr)
An unidentified title by Shohei Imamura
A Sister's Love (Ivan Sen)
Tuya's Marriage (Wang Quan'an)
Time (Hong Sang-soo)
El Topo (Alexandro Jodorwsky)
The Hottest State (Ethan Hawke)
I Am The Other Woman (Margarethe von Trotta)
Savage Grace (Tom Kalin)
You, the Living (Roy Andersson)
So Trent, fear not, Mister Lonely is coming.
Cheers Paul, I really appreciate your commitment and updates. I've never doubted you man but it will just be nice to finally see the lineup on the website and in the program. The MIFF organisers seem to be pretty coy about the whole thing though--do you think they enjoy toying with us? As we've talked about before though I'm sure it's one hell of a task to put together so I mustn't be too critical.
I see that they plan to show Jodorowsky's El Topo, that movie is a fucking trip man, I wonder if they'll show Holy Mountain too? They were both remastered recently. There's still some very good films to see here, including The Man From London, but I'm still only coming down if they show Mister Lonely. I have faith.
Trent, I don't think they don't want to toy with us at all. It's a matter of organisation. They've committed to having the list out publicly on July 13 (though it's released to members and media the night before). Consider the list I posted an interim one. Each strand of the festival has a separate media release, and Mister Lonely is part of the International Panorama. This is the strand that interests me most, and is largest by volume of films.
I take it you've seen El Topo. Did you like it? Is it worth seeing? Why or why not?
El Topo is a story filled with mysticism and allegory. It's a fucked up spaghetti western. It's a spiritual quest. Jodorowsky made it with his cojones. It's worth seeing but it's not my favourite piece of cinema. I'll never forget when I saw it though--it was autumn 2000, I had just moved into a house in East Brunswick and lived near the Movieland on Lygon St. That video store was the greatest that ever was, they had everything you could dream of, it was a period of discovery for me like no other. Anyway I came across VHS copies of both Holy Mountain and El Topo and at that point was very much blown away by the mystical elements to the films, but I have to say that after watching El Topo again recently there is much better cinema out there even though I am very happy I saw it when I did the first time around.
Understood about MIFF. International Panoroma sounds lovely.
OK, fucked up spaghetti western sounds interesting. I'll consider it depending on what else is on and what I'd have to miss to see it. Thanks for the heads up.
I hope you meant to write "Time" by Kim Ki-duk (which I'm dying to see) and not by Hong Sang-soo
I'm afraid, not Goran. Hong Sang-soo's, as posted above.
It's just that imdb doesn't list any movie called Time under Hong's credits, but there is one under Kim's (I really am a bit desperate to see it).
It must be fresh out of the oven (though Alkinos Tsilimidos' Em 4 Jay wasn't listed on IMDB until some time after its release). C'est la vie.
Goran, if it's any consolation, Kim Ki-duk's Breath (2007) is screening.
I'm confused by the listing of "Nobody Knows," directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. That film was given a mainstream release a year or two ago.
Also, it seems a shame we're not getting "My Blueberry Nights," even if the signs about it aren't great.
C, that film is screening as part of a Kore-eda retrospective. I'm also disappointed that MBN is not screening.
Oh oops, guess I missed that. Thanks.
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