☆ PSA! Our friends at #TIFF are releasing tickets to our @GoetheToronto followers before general public sales begin! Happy festival, with
29 German films & co-productions and another 300 movies to choose from!
☆ All good to go for @GoetheToronto for #TIFF19 @TIFF_Industry centre @hyattonking for next week, thanks to your awesome staff.
☆ Wondering who #TIFF’s new co-head is? Had an easygoing chat with
Joana Vicente when she started @tiff_net in January, as the former film producer was packing to go to @berlinale
☆ Special edition of my (normally) “#Berlinale People” profile, this time “#TIFF + Berlinale” with
Philipp Gilly, the man behind —or rather in front of— the #TIFF19 scheduling board
☆ Very decent German #TIFF19 from an
A-list actor perspective: 2x Nina Hoss, 2x Sandra Hüller, Daniel Brühl, August Diehl… Looking forward to PELICAN BLOOD, THE AUDITION, MY ZOE, A HIDDEN LIFE, SIBYL, ...
☆ Congrats to Nina Hoss, at #TIFF19 with THE AUDITION and PELICAN BLOOD and shooting SHADOWPLAY, on the
Douglas Sirk Prize . @filmfesthamburg. Following in the footsteps of Jodie Foster, Isabelle Huppert, Tilda Swinton, Catherine Deneuve.
☆ Amid the #TIFF19 trend of actor multi bills —Jamie Dornan x3, Scarlett Johansson x2, Claes Bang x2, Adam Driver x2, Annette Bening x2, Laura Dern x2, Antonio Banderas x2, Gael Garcia Bernal x4, Hoss & Hüller x2—, nice to find the inimitable and ever prolific Udo Kier in two completely different roles in THE BAREFOOT EMPEROR and THE PAINTED BIRD.
☆ 2 years ago, I was sitting @tiff_net #Luma Bar having a drink with
Barbara Sukowa. Besides launching into a hilarious What’s In My Bag improv spoof, she was talking about a project about aging lesbian lovers... #TIFF19:
TWO OF US world premiere with Barbara in attendance.
☆ #TIFF19 day 1 recap: grabbed a raw egg instead of a hard-boiled one from the fridge this morning. Not sure whether to make myself a Pisco Sour or go for the hot dog stand at King & John.
☆ #TIFF19 micro-#review:
Malick's A HIDDEN LIFE: A simple life, disrupted—quintessential Malick, but more weighted through historical & present politics. Feels as long as WWII & has to. August Diehl deserves an #Oscar. #Cannes
☆ Rightly anticipated, loved it at #TIFF19. Strong script & powerful performances all around. #EvaGreen #LarsEidinger #SandraHüller @MattDillon... #Proxima
RT: The Film Stage @TheFilmStage: The first look at Eva Green in
Alice Winocour's 'Proxima,' one of our 100 most-anticipated films of 2019
☆ “I thought people were done making fun of Hitler.“ Thank Gott nein. #
JojoRabbit works as an outrageous Hitler satire & a touching coming-of-age story. #TIFF19
☆ #TIFF19
THE PERFECT CANDIDATE could dig deeper but is effective enough in asking how far one will go for convictions & what paths we’ll choose under pressure, with touching daughter-father storyline but alas underexposed characters (& gentle score by Dusseldorf’s @hauschkamusic)
☆ #TIFF19 #
MYZOE: Writer-director-actor #JulieDelpy throws a barrage of ethical fire bombs at the audience. I do not remember a film throwing me this much for a loop, will have to mull over (Five Stars) review for a bit. Brilliant portrayal of pain & loss from Delpy & @RCArmitage.
☆ #TIFF19 #
LIBERTÉ: Albert Serra had the best description of his film. “There’s a lot of sex! Well, there’s
some sex. But not like you would think.” (starring Helmut Berger)
☆ #TIFF19 double takes: #
NinaHoss mothering in THE AUDITION & PELICAN BLOOD.
☆ You know what’s nice about my work? When Nina Hoss comes to #TIFF19 and fondly remembers (and keeps going on about) our @GoetheToronto co-presentation of her “Emilia Galotti” at @stratfest 11 years ago.
☆ Catch
I WAS AT HOME BUT at #TIFF19 before the next Schanelec hits you:
>>> Berlin Silver Bear Winner Angela Schanelec Preps Latest Feature (EXCLUSIVE)
☆ Lots of buzz around this (3D) title, standing up nicely to the inevitable PINA comparisons...
RT: Women and Hollywood @WomenaHollywood
TIFF 2019 Women Directors: Meet
Alla Kovgan – “Cunningham”
☆ #TIFF19 #
PARASITE: I liked how 6 people (out of 800 P&I) laughed at the non-subtitled German sentence at the end.
☆ Funny. An hour ago we showed the doc
WHY ARE WE CREATIVE, wherein Wayne Wang credits/blames his constipated grandmother for his success. And here I am watching his
COMING HOME AGAIN @TIFF
☆ Read local during #TIFF19! #ff some fine #Toronto #filmtwitter platforms @CinemaScopeMag @POVmagazine @ThatShelf @SeventhRow @MUFFSociety @gutsmagazine @CIUT895FM @CulturalMining @HeidyMo @intheseats ... #CdnFilm
☆ #TIFF19 #
ADayInTheLifeOfNoahPiugattuk: An Arctic tragicomedy of colonial errors. #ZachariasKunuk
☆ #TIFF19 volunteer must have just come off a .@mmadnesstiff shift this morning: “Line-up for GUEST OF HORROR over here!” Hopefully not a predictor of Atom Egoyan’s
GUEST OF HONOUR.
☆ #TIFF19 #
HowToBuildAGirl: If you were young in the 1990s in the Western hemisphere and you have half a heart, you will enjoy this. #BeanieFeldsteinRules
☆ #TIFF19 #
ROCKS is everything that’s right with #UKfilm: Relevant, current story. Socio-political punch. Diversity without niche-ing. Authentic characters & language. Fearless actors. Powerful women. Existential humanity.(& great soundtrack) #SarahGavron #womendirect #womeninfilm
☆ “Delightful” & “charming” will be unavoidable descriptors in all reviews for #
ThePersonalHistoryofDavidCopperfield #TIFF19 (and Hugh “Black Adder” Laurie is back)
☆ No DOLOR, just GLORIA: #AntonioBanderas gets better with every film. Y #Almodóvar es el rey. One of the most real Q&As (@cinesanchez) I’ve ever seen (& we learned in the film what Pedro thinks of them). #
painandglory
☆ BREAKING: #
Hustlers too hot for #Toronto (...#TIFF19 screening cancelled because of broken AC at IMAX...)
☆ And
great films they are: David Copperfield is a star-powered romp; Jojo Rabbit the sarcastic political middle finger we all needed; The Painted Bird the necessary serious opposite; The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao a hypnotizingly lush female intergenerational epic..#TIFF19
RT: Writer Loves Movies @NatalieStendall
Tickets for the @BFI London Film Festival are on general sale! There’s so much on offer for #bookstagram & #BookTwitter this year so I put together a handy guide to
10 must see film adaptations screening at the festival and their source novels #LFF2019
♕ Personal #TIFF19 Top 10: A Hidden Life. #Parasite. #Rocks. How to Build a Girl. #JojoRabbit. #Proxima. #MarriageStory. The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao. #MyZoe. #Hala (keeping Anne at 13,000 ft, Waves, Knives Out & Uncut Gems ... for later).
☆ Shout-out to #
Berlinale programmers who came to #TIFF19 this year, uplifting to see that kind of (mutual) interest, respect, and appreciation. @CarloChatrian, @mrissenbeek, Mark Peranson, Anna Hoffmann, Cristina Nord, Michael Stütz, Sebastian Markt, Joan Aguilar... See you in Feb!
by
Jutta Brendemühl
image: Proxima promo still
