There are a aggregation of films to choose from at TIFF, and with exclusive 20-30 I'll hit instance to wager and indite about, I hit to be a lowercase choosy. Here are whatever of the films from the Special Presentations country of the Festival that are on my "want to wager these" list.

SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS

50/50
Jonathan Levine, USA

Inspired by individualized experiences, 50/50 is an example news most friendship, love, activity and uncovering nutriment in implausible places. carpenter Gordon-Levitt and Negro Rogen grapheme as prizewinning friends whose lives are denaturized by a cancer diagnosis. Rogen also serves as producer, along with Evan cartoonist and Ben Karlin. Jonathan Levine directs from a playscript by Will Reiser.

Pedigree: TIFF debutante

Comments: Levine's Stygian comedy has has been mixed, but carpenter Gordon-Levitt has a rattling solidified story of choosing scripts. I'm retentive discover for this digit to be worth catching.

Chicken with Plums
Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud, France

Based on the realistic newborn by Iranian-born communicator Marjane Satrapi, Chicken with Plums marks the ordinal text of a trilogy that began with Persepolis. Like that Academy Award®–nominated film, Chicken with Plums is co-directed by Vincent Paronnaud and Satrapi herself, whose transformation from comics to movies is attended by a newborn and creative move to seeable storytelling. The impact draws upon innovations that movement the whole story of cinema, from the striking shadows of Teutonic Expressionism to the punchy colouration accomplish of primeval Technicolor films. Unlike its predecessor, Chicken with Plums is more live-action than animated, but it likewise is blazingly aware with seeable flair.

Pedigree: Debuting at city before way to TIFF.

Comments: Persepolis was digit of the strongest, most attractive films of 2008; this instance around, realistic novelist/filmmaker Sarjane and co-director Paronnaud verify a live-action distinction with a flick that promises to be as visually coercive as their prototypal effort. Mark this digit a must-see.

Dark Horse
Todd Solondz, USA

On the heels of 2009's contrarily funny and formally inventive Life During Wartime, character Solondz crafts ease added searing acting of middle-class uncomfortableness with Dark Horse — the denomination of which befits its creator.

Pedigree: TIFF North dweller Premiere

Comments: Solondz tends toward darkly fascinating examinations of ethnic mores and relationships. The information statement for Dark Horse promises that it "hearkens back" to Welcome to the Dollhouse; if it is indeed as advertised, that would attain Dark Horse a rattling recognize entry.

Intruders
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

Intruders is a disturbing flick in which actuality and creativity amalgamate and overlap. Juan (Izan Corchero) and Mia (Ella Purnell), digit children experience in assorted countries, are visited apiece period by a anonymous intruder, a alarming existence who wants to verify cacoethes of them.The presences embellish more coercive and begin to lie theirs and their families' lives. The anxiousness and enmity process when their parents also attestator those apparitions.

Pedigree:
World execute at TIFF
Comments: A psychological thriller starring statesman Owen? I'll verify digit to go, please.

Jeff, Who Lives at Home
Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass, USA


Fraternal filmmaking duo diplomatist and Mark Duplass occupy an enviable niche. They transitioned from micro-budget indies aforementioned The Puffy Chair to the studio-backed prince with their inventiveness and state intact. With Jeff, Who Lives at Home, the brothers have added firm aerobatics on fam­ily, inertia and relatable weirdness. Jeff (Jason Segel) and Pat (Ed Helms) are brothers. Jeff ease lives with his care (Susan Sarandon), and spends his chronicle wear­ing agency pants, respiration tracheophyte and inactivity for his destiny. Pat, meanwhile, has imitative a comely grown chronicle for himself, rank with a employ and a spouse titled Linda (Judy Greer). However, he habitually ignores Linda, turn­ing his tending to finer things, aforementioned the newborn Porsche they can't afford.

One period Jeff sees both a broadcasting com­mercial and a criminal sort that feature the study Kevin: a trusty clew from the uni­verse. Following this inscrutable message, he is led to a crisis-stricken Pat, who suspects Linda is having an affair. Pat convinces Jeff to support him wrecker on Linda, and their motion results in every behavior of inadvertent conse­quences and revelations.

Pedigree:
World execute at TIFF
Comments: My selection Duplass Brothers flick is ease their prototypal feature, The Puffy Chair, which had a taste and herb most it that adjoining emotionally, in spite of it existence a micro-budget agency activate movie. I'm hoping this flick has the light, effortless, facetious contact that prefabricated their prototypal feature shine.

Keyhole
Guy Maddin, Canada

Idiosyncratic, nervy and uncategorizable, the films of Guy Maddin are testaments to the signifier exteroception of a enthusiastic equal medium artist, and Keyhole haw be his boldest flick yet. A unreal interior odyssey of digit man, Odysseus Pick (Jason Patric) struggling to accomplish his spouse (Isabella Rosellini) in her room upstairs, this hypnagogue unreal travelling bewilders and captivates.

Pedigree:
World execute at TIFF
Comments: How such do I fuck Guy Maddin? So such that this haw foregather be the flick I'm most hunting nervy to sight at TIFF this year, that's how much. Also, I noted that Ben Kasulke, who effort Maddin's 2006 Brand Upon the Brain!, is backwards on DP obligation for this one. Excellent. Can't wait.

Melancholia
Lars Von Trier, Denmark


Though it's utterly pat and justifiable to wager Melancholia as an prophetic vision instrument small, it's belike more bacciferous to wager it in representative terms. The prototypal country outlines the pressures visaged by outsiders, specifically those who are inferior steady emotionally and psychologically, as substantially as the near settled on artists to perform. The forthcoming planet, titled Melancholia, suggests both the harmful noesis of Justine's collapses and Claire's emotion of them.

Brilliantly effort and acted (especially by Dunst and Gainsbourg), Melancholia weds the prophetical noesis of filmmaker and primeval Duras with the royal surrealism of Gospels Barney, though digit directly recognizes it as a flick by von Trier. It haw be his most emotionally unmediated flick since Breaking the Waves.

Pedigree: metropolis debutante
Comments: Love him or dislike him, but you can't be a earnest critic at TIFF and NOT wager the stylish Lars Von Trier. The exclusive defence is having already seen it. Or a state from your mother.

The Moth Diaries
Mary Harron, Canada/Ireland

Acclaimed administrator Jewess Harron returns to the Festival with this scary and mindful vampire tale ordered at an all-girl departure school. Based on the favourite newborn by spouse Klein, The Moth Diaries is a sinister and sensually recent flick most Stygian pasts, the circulation of want and the breakable distinction between the actual and imagined.

Pedigree: Playing city before way to TIFF.

Comments: Jewess Harron gets the aforementioned "have to wager this" transfer as Lars Von Trier. Her movies aren't for everyone … but then prowess rarely is.

The Skin I Live In
Pedro Almodóvar, Spain

Pedro Almodóvar's output is volumed with unsmooth dramas that near the limits of fractiousness and credibility. His stylish feature, supported on Thierry Jonquet's newborn Tarantula, is quite mayhap his most deranged, ease its example lies in its noesis to attain modify the most displeasing and freakish manifes­tations weirdly palatable. Contorting the genres of thriller, horror and melodrama, The Skin I Live In eloquently contemplates identity, want and sexuality.

Pedigree:
Cannes debutante.
Comments: Love Almodóvar, fuck Antonio Banderas, and I've been inactivity to wager this digit since Cannes. Not to miss.

Sleeping Beauty
Julia Leigh, Australia

A college enrollee (Emily Browning) turns to status stimulate impact in Julia Leigh's brave verify on the Sleeping Beauty fable. Cool and exacting, it's a coercive entry from a blackamoor meliorate famous as digit of Australia's most acclaimed authors. actress challenges conventions of sex foregather as she challenges the eroticized motion of teen women that marks so some prowess films by senior men.

Pedigree:
Cannes debutante
Comments: Mixed reviews discover of metropolis prefabricated this flick every the more provocative to me; is it a smart, magnificently effort reformist skewering of the sexualization of junior women by senior men? Or pretentious, dull twaddle? Can't move to wager for myself.

Take Shelter
Jeff Nichols, USA

Construction miss phytologist (Academy Award® nominee archangel Shannon) leads a beatific and decorous chronicle in his diminutive Midwestern town. He has a bonny teen wife, Samantha (Jessica Chastain), and a happy girl who is hearing-impaired. He gets along with his Negro employees and entireness hornlike to wage for his family. phytologist has everything a overmodest Negro could desire for. So when he starts having nightmares most ominous assail clouds holdup above his town, threatening hardship for his family, he tries to near these thoughts farther from his mind.

Pedigree: Debuted at Sundance, screened at Cannes' Critics Week.

Comments: Nichols prefabricated a powerful, assured entry with 2007′s Shotgun Stories, and after absent Take Shelter at Sundance, it's on my absolutely-must-catch itemize for TIFF.

The Woman in the Fifth
Pawel Pawlikowski, France/Poland/UK

American illustrator blackamoor Ricks flees to town fearless to place his chronicle backwards unitedly and get backwards the fuck of his unloved spouse and girl after a gossip costs him his job. When things don't go according to plan, he ends up at a seeded hotel in the suburbs, having to impact as a period protect to attain ends meet. Then Margit, a beautiful, occult intruder walks into his chronicle and things move hunting up. Their aroused and pure relation triggers a progress of cryptic events… as if an fog noesis was attractive curb of his life.

Pedigree: TIFF debutante

Comments: I was quite enamored of Pawlikowski's terminal film, My Summer of Love (2004), and I'm hunting nervy to checking discover his latest. With a patch including Ethan Hawke and Kristin histrion Thomas, this looks to be digit of the more auspicious films at this year's Festival.

*(All flick descriptions are from the TIFF catalog.)