Venice, Telluride and Toronto 08. Indexes.

So here's how things shook out around here during the summer-turns-to-autumn rush.

Venice:

• 35 Shots of Rum.
• Achilles and the Tortoise.
• Burn After Reading.
• The Burning Plain.
• Goodbye Solo.
• The Hurt Locker.
• Inju, the Beast in the Shadow.
• Jerichow.
• A Perfect Day.
• Plastic City.
• Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea.
• Rachel Getting Married.
• Shirin.
• Vegas: Based on a True Story.
• Vinyan.
• The Wrestler.

Roundups: 8/28, 8/31 and 9/3.

Ronald Bergan sent an early dispatch and then wrapped his festival; then there were the Lions and wrap-up of sorts: "Venice vs Toronto."

Telluride: Most coverage of the coverage of Telluride is collected in this entry, but a few films did score entries of their own: Flame & Citron, Prodigal Sons and Slumdog Millionaire.

Toronto:

Contemporary World Cinema:

• Acné.
• Dernier Maquis.
• El Greco.
• Goodbye Solo.
• Jerichow.
• Laila's Birthday.
• Lost Song.
• O'Horten.
• Summer Hours.
• Treeless Mountain.
• Wendy and Lucy.

Discovery:

Zift.

Gala Presentations:

• The Duchess.
• Nothing But the Truth.
• Rachel Getting Married.

Masters:

• Adam Resurrected.
• Les Plages d'Agnès.

Mavericks:

• A Time to Stir.

Real to Reel:

• 7915 KM.
• The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World.
• Killing Kasztner.
• Witch Hunt.

Special Presentations:

• 35 Shots of Rum.
• Aide-toi le ciel t'aidera.
• The Brothers Bloom.
• Che.
• A Christmas Tale.
• Il Divo.
• Genova.
• The Hurt Locker.
• Last Stop 174.
• Me and Orson Welles.
• Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist.
• RocknRolla.
• Slumdog Millionaire.
• Still Walking.
• The Wrestler.
• Zack and Miri Make a Porno.

Vanguard:

• Pontypool.

Visions:

• 24 City.
• Liverpool.
• Vinyan.

For openers, there was a guide on 9/4 to hubs of coverage.

Dispatches came in from Sean Axmaker (3 and 6), David D'Arcy (1, 5, 7 and 8) and Michael Sicinski (Wavelengths preview, 2, 4 and 9).

Many, many notes on many, many more films are gathered here.

Another entry's been "Wrapping Toronto."

Posted by dwhudson at September 21, 2008 1:42 PM