Toronto: Top Picks & Coverage Roundup

Below you will find an index of our coverage from the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) in 2018, as well as our favorite films.

TOP PICKS

DANIEL KASMAN

Features:

1. What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (Roberto Minervini)

2. High Life (Claire Denis)

3. Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman)

4. Green Book (Peter Farrelly)

5. aKasha (hajooj kuka)

6. Rojo (Benjamin Naishtat)

7. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón)

8. Belmonte (Federico Veiroj)

9. If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins)

10. Hidden Man (Jiang Wen)

Shorts:

1. Blue (Apichatpong Weerasethakul)

2. Arena (Björn Kämmerer)

3. Polly One (Kevin Jerome Everson)

4. Colophon (Nathaniel Dorsky)

5. Please step out of the frame. (Karissa Hahn)

6. Wall Unwalled (Lawrence Abu Hamdan)

7. Ada Kaleh (Helena Wittmann)

8. ALITPLANO (Malena Szlam)

9. Norman Norman (Sophy Romvari)

10. Hoarders without Borders, 1.0 (Jodie Mack)

KELLEY DONG

1. "I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians" (Radu Jude)

2. High Life (Claire Denis)

3. Our Time (Carlos Reygadas)

4. Our Body (Han Ka-Ram)

5. A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper)

6. The Black Book (Valeria Sarmiento)

7. Shadow (Zhang Yimou)

8. Asako I & II (Ryusuke Hamaguchi)

9. Words, Planets (Laida Lertxundi)

10. Too Late to Die Young (Dominga Sotomayor)

MICHAEL SICINSKI

1. Colophon (for the Arboretum Cycle) (Nathaniel Dorsky)

2. The Grand Bizarre (Jodie Mack)

3. The Image Book (Jean-Luc Godard)

4. A Return (James Edmond)

5. Fainting Spells (Sky Hopinka)

6. Walled Unwalled (Lawrence Abu Hamdan)

7. In My Room (Ulrich Köhler)

8. What You Gonna Do When the World's On Fire? (Roberto Minervini)

9. Hoarders Without Borders (Jodie Mack)

10. An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)

DAN SALITT

1. Styx (Wolfgang Fischer)

2. Belmonte (Federico Veiroj)

3. Our Time (Carlos Reygadas)

4. In My Room (Ulrich Köhler)

5. The Chambermaid (Lila Avilés)

6. The Crossing (Bai Xue)

7. The Fireflies Are Gone (Sébastien Pilote)

8. Folklore: Pob (Pen-ek Ratanaruang)

9. Maya (Mia Hanson-Løve)

10. Bulbul Can Sing (Rima Das)

11. The Load (Ognjen Glavonić)

CORRESPONDENCES

#1 Daniel Kasman introduces TIFF's "remarkably strong and varied selection" | Read

#2 Kelley Dong on Loro (Paolo Sorrentino) and MOUTHPIECE (Patricia Rozema) | Read

#3 Daniel Kasman on The Legend of the Demon Cat (Chen Kaige), Polly One (Kevin Jerome Everson), and Hidden Man (Jiang Wen) | Read

#4 Kelley Dong on A Star is Born (Bradley Cooper) | Read

#5 Daniel Kasman on Monrovia, Indiana (Frederick Wiseman), Blue (Apichatpong Weerasethakul), and Arena (Björn Kämmerer) | Read

#6 Kelley Dong on If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins) and High Life (Claire Denis) | Read

#7 Daniel Kasman on Killing (Shin'ya Tsukamoto) and Widows (Steve McQueen) | Read

#8 Kelley Dong on The Quietude (Pablo Trapero) and Our Body (Han Ka-Ram) | Read

#9 Daniel Kasman on Maya (Mia Hanson-Løve), aKasha (hajooj kuka), and Please step out of the frame. (Karissa Hahn) | Read

#10 Kelley Dong on Where Hands Touch (Amma Asante) and Shadow (Zhang Yimou) | Read

#11 Daniel Kasman on Roma (Alfonso Cuarón) and What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (Roberto Minervini) | Read

COVERAGE

Wavelengths Preview — "We Do Not Care if We Go Down in History as Contrarians"

by Michael Sicinski

Federico Veiroj Tenderly Destroys Expectations in Belmonte

by Dan Salitt

Hong Sang-soo Gets More Serious with Hotel by the River

by Dan Salitt

Three Under the Radar Films at TIFF (El Angel, The Fireflies Are Gone, Angelo)

by Dan Salitt

Three TIFF Highlights (Peterloo, Styx, The Crossing)

by Dan Salitt

INTERVIEWS

Bastions of Love: A Conversation with Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel

by Kurt Walker

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