MIFF 2009: The 2nd Peek

Following the announcement of opening and closing night films, MIFF has now revealed a number of other titles being screened across the different streams. As usual, I'm particularly interested in the retrospectives and this year there's one on Anna Karina. But I know jack about nearly every other title, so any tips for or against are welcome.

You can download the PDF from the MIFF website, and these are the titles in each stream:

International Panorama

• Double Take (Johan Grimonprez, 2009, Belgium/Germany/Netherlands)
• 35 Shots of Rum (35 rhums, Claire Denis, 2008, France/Germany)
• An Education (Lone Scherfig, 2009, UK)
• In the Loop (Armando Iannucci, 2009, UK)
• The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (Rebecca Miller, 2009, Germany)

Docos

• The September Issue (R.J. Cutler, 2009, USA)
• The Beaches of Agnès (Les plages d'Agnès, Agnès Varda, 2008, France)
• The Queen and I (Drottningen och jag, Nahid Persson, 2008, Sweden)
• Sergio (Greg Barker, 2009, USA)

Neighbourhood Watch

• Love Exposure (Ai no mukidashi, Sion Sono, 2008, Japan)
• 12 Lotus (Royston Tan, 2008, Singapore)
• United Red Army (Jitsuroku rengô sekigun: Asama sansô e no michi, Kôji Wakamatsu, 2007, Japan)
• Still Walking (Aruitemo aruitemo, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2008, Japan)

Arts and Minds

• Guest of Cindy Sherman (Tom Donahue, Paul Hasegawa-Overacker, 2008, USA)
• Theater of War (John W. Walter, 2008, USA)
• Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine (Marion Cajori, Amei Wallach, 2008, USA)
• Little Joe (Nicole Haeusser, 2009, USA)

Backbeat

• It Might Get Loud (Davis Guggenheim, 2008, USA)
• Celia the Queen (Joe Cardona, Mario de Varona, 2008, USA)
• The Liberty of Norton Folgate (Julien Temple, Luke Creswell, 2009, UK)
• Need That Record (Brendan Toller, 2008, USA)

Anna Karina retrospective

• Alphaville (Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution, Jean-Luc Godard, 1965, France/Italy)
• Anna (Pierre Koralnik, 1967, France)
• Living Together (Vivre ensemble, Anna Karina, 1973, France)
• Victoria (Anna Karina, 2008, Canada?)

NextGen

• Cheeky Girls (Freche Mädchen, Ute Wieland, 2008, Germany)
• It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure !, Philippe Falardeau, 2008, Canada)
• Brendan and the Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey, 2009, France/Belgium/Ireland)
• Coraline (Henry Selick, 2009, USA)

Night Shift

• Martyrs (Pascal Laugier, 2008, France/Canada)
• Eden Lake (James Watkins, 2008, UK)
• Mum & Dad (Steven Sheil, 2008, UK)
• Black Dynamite (Scott Sanders, 2009, USA)

See also: Anna Karina to be a guest of MIFF 2009 (The Age)