{"id":1174,"date":"2007-12-11T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/12\/tiff-organizers-pick-canadas-top-ten-of-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-12-11T20:50:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T20:50:00","slug":"tiff-organizers-pick-canadas-top-ten-of-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2007\/12\/tiff-organizers-pick-canadas-top-ten-of-2007.html","title":{"rendered":"TIFF organizers pick Canada&#8217;s Top Ten of 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1117977530.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Variety<\/a><\/i> reports that the Toronto International Film Festival\u2019s organizers have released their picks for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topten.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Canada\u2019s Top Ten of 2007<\/a> \u2014 and I have seen only about three-quarters of one of them.  Yikes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here is the list; the one I have sort-of seen is in <b>bold<\/b>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Amal<\/i> (dir. Richie Mehta)<br><i>Continental, a Film Without Guns<\/i> (dir. Stephane LaFleur)<br><i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/arcands-newest-film-part-of-trilogy.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Days of Darkness<\/a><\/i> (dir. Denys Arcand)<br><b><i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/cronenberg-on-atheism-and-explicit.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Eastern Promises<\/a><\/i><\/b> (dir. David Cronenberg)<br><i>Fugitive Pieces<\/i> (dir. Jeremy Podeswa)<br><i>My Winnipeg<\/i> (dir. Guy Maddin)<br><i>A Promise to the Dead: The Exile Journey of Ariel Dorfman<\/i> (dir. Peter Raymont)<br><i>The Tracey Fragments<\/i> (dir. Bruce McDonald)<br><i>Up the Yangtze<\/i> (dir. Yung Chang)<br><i>Young People Fucking<\/i> (dir. Martin Gero)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\">All ten films will be shown at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemathequeontario.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cinematheque Ontario<\/a> in Toronto January 25 \u2013 February 5, and presumably elsewhere as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Click the years for my posts on the <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/tiff-organizers-pick-canadas-top-ten.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2006<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/bc-christian-news-march-2006.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2005<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2005\/08\/scaredsacred.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">2004<\/a> lists.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Variety reports that the Toronto International Film Festival\u2019s organizers have released their picks for Canada\u2019s Top Ten of 2007 \u2014 and I have seen only about three-quarters of one of them. 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