My Toronto experience this year was a brisk one, over before it seemingly began, though it was a deeply satisfying one for the most part. More to come on this titles, and the directors, but for now, these are my personal rankings.
My only regret is that I did not see more movies.
Plus ça change.
The list
12 Years a Slave (Steve McQueen)
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang)
Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt)
Gravity (Alfonso Cuarón)
Stranger by the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)
Can a Song Save Your Life? (John Carney)
Prisoners (Denis Villenueve)
Child of God (James Franco)
Our Sunhi (Hong Sang-soo)
Le week-end (Roger Michell)
Omar (Hany Abu-Assad)
Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)
Palo Alto (Gia Coppola)
Fading Gigolo (John Turturro)
The Square (Jehane Noujaim)
La última película (Raya Martin and Mark Peranson)
Joe (David Gordon Green)
Starred Up (David McKenzie)
The Double (Richard Ayoade)
Enough Said (Nicole Holofcener)
Moebius (Kim Ki-duk)
Labor Day (Jason Reitman)
Devil's Knot (Atom Egoyan)
Philomena (Stephen Frears)
Image courtesy of Toronto International Film festival
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