CIFF ’09 starts tomorrow (full festival info here), and while it is as always not so cool as the bigger fests in Europe and Toronto, there’s more to be excited about, in my vaguely-educated opinion, than there was last year.
So everyone can follow along at home, here’s the list of everything I’ll be going to this year, barring the unavoidable last-minute cancellations:
10/9
Bellamy (Claude Chabrol, France)
The Eclipse (Conor McPherson, Ireland)
The House of the Devil (Ti West, USA)
10/10
Looking for Eric (Ken Loach, UK/France)
Vincere (Marco Belloccio, Italy/France)
10/11
Cropsey (Barbara Brancaccio/Joshua Zeman, USA)
A Frozen Flower (Yoo Ha, South Korea)
Mother (Bong Joon-Ho, South Korea)
10/12
About Elly (Ashgar Farhadi, Iran)
Cooking History (Peter Kérekes, Austria/Slovakia)
10/13
Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl (Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal/Spain)
10/14
Face (Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan/France)
Mammoth (Lukas Moodysson, Sweden/Denmark)
Ricky (François Ozon, France/Italy)
10/16
Backyard (Carlos Carrera, Mexico)
Nymph (Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Thailand)
Who’s Afraid of the Wolf (Maria Procházková)
10/17
Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu, Romania)
The Revenant (Kerry Prior, USA)
Spy(ies) (Nicolas Saada, France/UK)
10/18
Red Riding: 1974 (Julian Jarrold, UK)
Red Riding: 1980 ( James Marsh, UK)
Red Riding: 1983 (Anand Tucker, UK)
10/19
Air Doll (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan)
Animated shorts