The 2006 TIFF Line-Up Is Here!

The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) just announced the complete film line-up for this year’s festival—all 352 of them.  There are plenty of gems throughout the listing, but here are a few that I’m particularly excited about (those in bold are films that I’m really excited about):

• Alatriste
• American Hardcore
• Babel
• The Banquet
• The Book Of Revelation
• Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
• The Bothersome Man
• Cashback
• Dong
• Election 1+2
• Exiled
• The Fall
• The Fountain
• Hana
• The Host
• Hula Girls
• I Am The Other Woman
• Invisible Waves
• Jade Warrior
• King And The Clown
• Lake Of Fire
• Lights In The Dusk
• Office Tigers
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• The Pervert’s Guide To Cinema
• Princess
• Renaissance
• Rescue Dawn
• Seraphim Falls
• Strike
• Takva - A Man’s Fear of God
• Thicker Than Water
• Time
• When The Levees Broke: A Requiem In Four Acts
• The Wind That Shakes The Barley

Many of the films listed above are films that I’ve been waiting to see for almost a year now.  Others are films that I’ve picked solely on the strength of the director, even though I know next to nothing about the film itself (for example, Jia Zhiangke’s Dong).  And others are films that I just have a gut feeling about, even though I could be very wrong.

The list is, of course, far from comprehensive.  I’m sure that other films will edge some of these out when I find out a bit more about them.  But whatever happens, I think it’s safe to say that I will be getting precious little sleep for the week and a half that I’m in Toronto.  And I can’t wait.

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• Aug 22, 2006, 7:10pm