What were my favorites?

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it.

Emily Dickinson

As a mental exercise, I ranked the twenty films I saw at tiff. this week. They sorted themselves out surprisingly easily.

These were awesome, my life would be poorer if I had not seen these, and I would watch all of them again.

1) The Valley Below
2) Revivre
3) Haemoo
4) The Lesson
5) Impunity
6) The Red Rose
7) My Darling Clementine

These were a fine way to spend a couple of hours, they just didn't make me feel like the top of my head was taken off.

8) A Single Word
9) Atlantic.
10) The Goddess
11) The Good Lie
12) The Voices
13) Fire on the Plain

These seemed to be flawed in some way, or were more forgettable.

14) Manglehorn
15) Venice
16) Foreign Body
17) Madame Bovary
18) A Dream of Iron
19) Short Cut
20) Love in the Time of Civil War

The experience of the festival itself was fantastic. Well run. Super friendly people there. Excellent venues. I would do the whole thing over again next year, exactly the same, and I might just do that.

Comments

[haynes-linda@att.net]

Hi Kevin,
I have just spent a pleasant hour, painstakingly
copying and pasting each of your film reviews to my e-mail account, in the hopes of being able to print them out and take them with me to Golden Gate Park, to read this afternoon, but alas,I could not
manage to copy them with out the picture,on the other hand, going through this little exercise has whetted my appetite to read them right here...though that will have to wait till tomorrow as I am now out of time.
Love,
Linda
p.s.
is there a way to print them out from the Tiff Site?

[haynes-linda@att.net]

Hi Kevin,

Here I am, at my desk again, happily nattering away, about your Toronto Film Festival Blog.
well, my dear,it is your own fault that I am so excited that you took the time to sit down and think about it all, and then you wrote it all out, making it both interesting and easy for the rest of us to share your film experiences.

It is especially good, for a number of us, because going to such a film festival would be out of the question because of money and time constraints, and thus to be able to enjoy the feeling of being there, on your shoulder,and perhaps looking out of your eyes, well... it is exhilarating.

and I thank you for starting it off with this list of the Twenty films that you saw, and then ranking them in your very own KEVIN manner.
You are a gem, yes, you are!

Linda