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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #14. Naomi Kawase’s Genpin
With so many great docu offerings at TIFF this year, this film which hits San Sebastian next, might actually go unnoticed, but the hardcore Kawase fans know the special touch this filmmaker has in the feature narratives, docu and short form.
Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #13. Michelangelo Frammartino’s The Four Times
Hypnotic and mediative, I'm guessing I wasn't the only one who was charmed & seduced by this Cannes' Director's Fortnight gem. With passages in Telluride, NYFF and Toronto in the middle with a year's worth of film festival traveling, whatever remaining territories (including the U.S.) that aren't sold, will be sold. Of the 30 listed items mentioned in the list, this is tops.
Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #12. Benoît Jacquot’s Deep in the Woods
The veteran French filmmaker took a couple on the chin in Locarno Film Fest where critics were more nay than yay on the period film. Might be a good counter-programming choice in your schedule.
Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #11. Tetsuya Nakashima’s Confessions
Featured at the New York Asian Film Festival, this had richter scale type implications back home in Japan. Might be the revenge film of the year.
Viewing Tip: Alex Gibney’s My Trip to al-Qaeda
Among the forty-plus titles I'll be seeing in Toronto we have Alex Gibney's Client 9: The Rise And Fall Of Eliot Spitzer, but if I wanted to see his latest work, I'd check out what the hardest working documentary filmmaker is about to release tonite.
