Toronto 2017 Index
This year’s Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 7 through 17. Here’s an overview of what the critics are saying; links from the titles will take you to roundups of first reviews, interviews, trailers, clips, the works.
Gala Presentations
Dee Rees’s Mudbound
Special Presentations
Fatih Akin’s In the Fade (Reviews from Cannes)
Darren Aronofsky’s mother!
Sean Baker’s The Florida Project (Cannes)
Xavier Beauvois’s The Guardians
Louis C.K.’s I Love You, Daddy
Robin Campillo’s BPM (Beats Per Minute) (Cannes)
George Clooney’s Suburbicon
Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water
Stephen Frears’s Victoria & Abdul
Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird
Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete
Michel Hazanavicius’s Redoubtable (Cannes)
Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Cannes)
Manuel Martín Cuenca’s The Motive
Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Samuel Moaz’s Foxtrot
Ruben Östlund’s The Square (Cannes)
Alexander Payne’s Downsizing
John Woo’s Manhunt
Chloé Zhao’s The Rider (Cannes)
Platform
Barbara Albert’s Mademoiselle Paradis
Kamila Andini’s The Seen and the Unseen
Nabil Ayouch’s Razzia
Clio Barnard’s Dark River
Joan Chemla's If You Saw His Heart
Iram Haq’s What Will People Say
Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin
Lisa Langseth’s Euphoria
Xavier Legrand’s Custody
Michael Pearce’s Beast
Mike White’s Brad’s Status
Masters
Michael Haneke’s Happy End (Cannes)
Hong Sangsoo’s The Day After (Cannes)
Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Third Murder
Lucrecia Martel’s Zama
Paul Schrader’s First Reformed
Agnès Varda and JR’s Faces Places (Cannes)
Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Loveless (Cannes)
Wavelengths
Wang Bing’s Mrs. Fang
Denis Côté’s A Skin So Soft
Bruno Dumont’s Jeannette, the Childhood of Joan of Arc (Cannes)
Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s Caniba
TIFF Docs
Emmanuel Gras’s Makala (Cannes)
Frederick Wiseman’s Ex Libris – The New York Public Library
Contemporary World Cinema
Robin Aubert’s Les Affamés
Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra (Cannes)
Ziad Doueiri’s The Insult
Valeska Grisebach’s Western (Cannes)
Annemarie Jacir’s Duty (Wajib)
Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White
Discovery
Sadaf Foroughi’s Ava
Huang Hsin-Yao’s The Great Buddha+
Hlynur Pálmason’s Winter Brothers
Wayne Wapeemukwa’s Luk'Luk’I
Midnight Madness
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s Let the Corpses Tan
James Franco’s The Disaster Artist
S. Craig Zahler’s Brawl in Cell Block 99
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