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This year’s film festival is all about Vincent Cassel.

I missed this in Cannes and I’m really curious about wunderkind Xavier Dolan since I missed J’ai tué ma mère. My Canadian pick this year.

Japanese true crime story about a tropical fish dealer responsible for over forty murders directed by Sion Sono. Yes.

This movie sounds awesome. Sam Riley from Control is an up and coming thug in 60s UK who starts dating a witness to one of his crimes.

New film by Tom Tykwer. Anything he does is a must see.

Japanese revenge movie about a teacher who leaves her job because two of her students killed her daughter.

Cool, offbeat, Canadian film featuring Tracey Wright once again. This is high on the list.

This has one of the best titles of the festival. Intriguing plot about an escaped serial killer and a young woman in rehab.

New film from Julian Schnabel.

Another film with a very tantalizing title. Anything with hard-boiled thriller in the description excites me.

Vincent Gallo plays a “terrorist” captured, tortured and transported to a snowy landscape where he escapes and must survive.

Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Darren Aronofsky. Enough said. Probably my event film of TIFF10.

Serial masturbation leads to business opportunities in this Irish film. All kinds of awesomeness.

The story and cultural resonance of this film make it an intriguing choice. The most successful Chinese movie of all time?

Crumbling architecture in an abandoned town makes it hard to love. New Greek cinema is intriguing, as Dogtooth proved last year.

Gonna be out in theatres, this film is still really intriguing and could very well be best enjoyed at a film festival.

Hot off the success of Polytechnique, Denis Villeneuve is back with a new film about a family’s journey of discovery to the Middle East.

Another Swedish thriller to add to the pile. This one has three intertwined plot lines about various underworld dealings that collide.

Definitely curious about this paranoid Swedish story of an unreliable protagonist hunting a serial killer.

Eva Green is in this science fiction film about a woman who gives birth to the clone of her dead lover. Weird, but could be good.

Clowns battle to the death over a woman in an allegory for the Spanish Civil War. This has to be good.

This looks awesome, although it’ll be in theatres soon enough thanks to Ryan Reynolds. US truck driver in Iraq gets buried alive.

Based on a Murakami book I’ve never read, seems like it could be good.

Jorgen Leth’s autobiographical essay film about the nature of the erotic. Could be completely esoteric or completely awesome, Leth has power

Remake of a Korean classic, this promises to be sexy, if nothing else.

Kelly Reichart’s new period film, families lost on the Oregon Trail encounter a Native American who forces them to reassess everything.

Film noir-style plot set in the Argentinian underworld. Ambulance chaser of sorts seeks redemption with an emergency room doctor.

From the director of No Man’s Land, this film has one of the funniest short descriptions in the festival.

Seems like a really compelling documentary about Dutch soldiers fighting in Afghanistan. Looks visually striking for a doc.

Yves St. Laurent, his lover and their giant art collection. Definitely on the shortlist of docs to see this year.

The combination of scripted drama and documentary makes this a curious film, but intriguing because who doesn’t want to relive first love?

Missed this at Cannes, sounds like another Godard essay film that will either inspire or exasperate.

Herzog in 3D! Documentary on some of the earliest cave drawings, this movie ironically seems focused on the tech required to make it.

A French film about a man who gives up his seemingly perfect life to follow his dream of being a photographer, at the expense of all else.

Mike Leigh and Jim Broadbent. Now that I live in the UK this might give me some insight, but will most likely simply entertain.

Story of survival and redemption in the former Yugoslavia.

The techniques of montage and framing seem core to this “documentary”, stylistically intriguing.

Canadian tale based on the novel by Mordecai Richler, this will no doubt be in theatres soon enough thanks to the cast. Sounds decent

A great cast and an interesting and sad look at the aftermath of a school killing from the parent’s perspective, this film looks promising.

This movie sounds like a lot of fun, set in the 70s, summer jobs, sexual awakening, scandalous crimes, what’s not to look forward to?

This movie has slow burn written all over it. I’m hoping for a compelling twist ending. A story about discomfort with unexpected happiness.

Most likely out in theatres soon, this sounds like a fun little film.

Benoit Jacquot’s film about a feral man who seduces the daughter of a country doctor sounds kinda crazy, but that could be good.

I love detective movies so this could be great, but I’m holding on to my enthusiasm for now.

From the director of Triplettes of Belleville, based on an unproduced script by Jacques Tati, this has great pedigree.

A documentary about the making of B movies, sounds like a lot of fun.

This film looks cool but I might just have to wait until it’s released in theatres.

Bruce McDonald is usually good, but I’m not sure how this film suits me. Features the late Tracey Wright and Molly Parker.

Could be my Midnight Madness pick this year, all star cast, will be out in theatres shortly, I’m sure.

This played at Cannes and a lot of people said it was great. I missed it so I’ll have to try to catch it in Toronto.

Sounds like a lot of fun.

Anything with Steve Coogan in it is good for a laugh.