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I've decided to come up with not a "revised" list of predictions per se, but instead, an updated list of 20 films that I both expect to announced in two weeks from now and that I'm especially looking forward in covering for this site.

You can always count on Park City at Midnight section to deliver one groundbreaking film. It's hard to predict which one, but I'd go with "concept" over such things as cast, aesthetics or production budget. This theory isn't off the charts when you consider Black Dynamite, The Blair Witch Project and Saw got their starts in this section. Of the 8 selected below, I'm familiar with Rodrigo Cortes's Buried (which reminds me of the torment that the Dutch film The Vanishing caused me) and Vincent Natali's Splice which I believe received its world preem at Sitges.

Bypassing Venice for a world preem at TIFF, Dormael's last pic was in 1996 (Le Huitième jour) and the film before that was 1991's Toto le héros. I'm not sure how much time the filmmaker has been working on this project, but sci-fi/fantasy films are all the rage now and I'm looking forward to clone world that includes a pairing of young, underrated, brilliant actors in Leto and Polley.

While I'm more curious about who'll end up with Todd Solondz's Life During Wartime, Werner Herzog's My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done?, Rick Jacobson's Bitch Slap, Giuseppe Tornatore epic Baaria and the only Cannes title I think that is remaining and is worth buying (Bong Joon-ho's Mother), after scouring the entire program - I came up with a top 10 list of the high profile films should be high priorities for the buyers.

If TIFF were a person, they'd be There Will Be Blood's Daniel Plainview. The festival drains out festivals like Venice and Cannes - major suppliers of quality films, and North American audiences benefit tremendously getting a first op to see the latest from Jaco Van Dormael, Lars von Trier, Claire Denis, Michael Haneke...