TIFF!

This Wednesday, I'm off to the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). It'll be my first major festival experience (comes nowhere near Syracuse's attempt at a festival). And I'm pumped. I'll be blogging the whole way through (or developing a backlog and blogging once I return).

Here's the lineup:
DAY 1 (9.06):
Young People Fucking (Martin Gero)--Possible, but uncomfirmed.

DAY 2 (9.07):
You, the Living (Roy Andersson)
The Banishment (Andrey Zvyagintsev)
My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin)

DAY 3 (9.08):
Control (Anton Corbijn)
The Man From London (Bela Tarr)
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (Cristian Mungiu)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (Andrew Dominik)

DAY 4 (9.09):
Lust, Caution (Ang Lee)
Starting Out in the Evening (Andrew Wagner)
Les Chansons D'Amour (Christophe Honore)
Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas)

DAY 5 (9.10):
No Country for Old Men (Joel+Ethan Coen)
Chrysalis (Julien Leclercq)
Juno (Jason Reitman)
Une Vieille Maitresse (Catherine Breillat)

DAY 6 (9.11):
Across the Universe (Julie Taymor)
Sleuth (Kenneth Branagh)
Dr. Plonk (Rolf De Heer)
Paranoid Park (Gus Van Sant)

DAY 7 (9.12):
Cassandra's Dream (Woody Allen)
Run, Fat Boy, Run (David Schwimmer)
Dans La Ville De Sylvia (Jose Luis Guerin)
The Tracey Fragments (Bruce McDonald)

DAY 8 (9.13):
Naissance Des Pieuvres (Celine Sciamma)
Margot at the Wedding (Noah Baumbach)
Lars & The Real Girl (Craig Gillespie)
Poor Boy's Game (Clement Virgo)
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Sidney Lumet)

DAY 9 (9.14):
The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories (Andrey Paounov)
I'm Not There (Todd Haynes)
La Fille Coupee En Deux (Claude Chabrol)
Chacun Son Cinema (Various)

DAY 10 (9.15):
Encounters at the End of the World (Werner Herzog)
me (Rafa Cortes)
Ploy (Pen-ek Ratanaruang)
Sukiyaki Western Django (Takashi Miike)--Also likely, but unconfirmed.

It might be the most exciting thing I've ever done.