JDIFF 2013

johnny_ultimate

That time of the year again! Tickets are on sale on Wednesday at 23:59.

Not much info yet, other than Danny DeVito will be attending and composer Dario Marianelli will be in attendance for a concert in NCH.

What are you hoping for this year? Lots of intriguing films that have been floating around the festival circuit recently - The Place Beyond the Pines by Derek Cianfrance, Stoker from Chan-wook Park etc... will probably by safe enough bets. But they're the ones that will end up on wide release anyway, so will be curious to see what else is lined-up. As ever I'm hoping for a wider range of Asian cinema than 2012 offered, especially with titles like Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster knocking around!

Miguel_Sanchez

I'd quite like to get a look at The Comedy.

johnny_ultimate

Miguel_Sanchez wrote: »

I'd quite like to get a look at The Comedy.

Actually yeah that would be great. Have heard much about that but dunno if it will receive even a limited release here. Any film that attracts such a mix of praise and vitriol must be worth a watch

e_e

Yeah I'm hoping some of Hong Sang-Soo's recent films get a look in. The sequel to Outrage is a possibility too as well as Mekong Hotel, Ace Attorney and Kiarostami's Like Someone In Love. Asian cinema was definitely sorely underrepresented last year.

Fingers crossed for Upstream Color too!

Sad Professor

Hopefully we'll get some of the Sundance films I'm currently reading about - Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Before Midnight, The East, The Spectacular Now, Don Jon's Addiction, Mud, etc - but I'm not holding my breath.

To the Wonder will probably be one of the early films in the schedule, even though it's out a week later.

johnny_ultimate

e_e wrote: »

Yeah I'm hoping some of Hong Sang-Soo's recent films get a look in. The sequel to Outrage is a possibility too as well as Mekong Hotel, Ace Attorney and Kiarostami's Like Someone In Love. Asian cinema was definitely sorely underrepresented last year.

I have heard from a reliable source that there will be at least one Korean film represented, so we're already up one from 2012 :pac:

delbertgrady

This time last year, we'd a similar thread and ten films were mentioned as potential inclusions. In the end, only three ended up in the programme, one by default, as it was one of the Surprise Films. Here's hoping the batting average is better this year. I also hope that they've reduced the number of reissues that have increasingly been used over the last few years to beef up the schedule.

I hope that they have sorted out their website once and for all. It's all very well having a nice new design with a friendly message from Bryan Cranston on the homepage, but that's no good at a quarter to one on launch night when you're stuck in a queue trying to access the programme and buy tickets. Last year was a farce.

It's also going to be interesting now that they've possibly "lost" Cineworld 17 as a screen, since it's been renovated. Cineworld may be reluctant to part with their IMAX screen for a few nights. The festival can obviously used Screen 9, but a lot of the more "mainstream" films would traditionally have been put in the larger screen.

e_e

Maybe they'll start using screen 1 of the IFI again?

JP Liz V1

I think Steven Soderbergh's Side Effects might be another for the festival

Squelchy

So the schedule is up at 7pm tomorrow and the carnage starts at 11.59pm... good luck to all!

I'm hoping for a far better experience than I had last year; delays, cancellations and suffering through Silver Tongues.
Also, I slept through The Raid as I was massively hungover.

e_e

Squelchy wrote: »

Also, I slept through The Raid

This should be a Guinness World Record.

Squelchy

e_e wrote: »

This should be a Guinness World Record.

I mean I didn't make the screening - not that I fell asleep watching it!
:P

Andre80Johnson

As a fan of Documentaries, I'd like to see Stories We Tell by Sarah Polley. Alex Gibney's Mea maxima culpa: Silence in the House of God would also be nice. Going by the last two years attending JDIFF, Werner Herzog has had two docs, he has another one at the moment called Happy People: A year in the Taiga so maybe that could be selected.

johnny_ultimate

At a quick glance of the programme we're looking like three or four of the predictions are featured again.

Tad disappointing overall, but there's at least one BIG guest star that'll be over.

mystic86

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

At a quick glance of the programme we're looking like three or four of the predictions are featured again.

Tad disappointing overall, but there's at least one BIG guest star that'll be over.

Cmon, spill the beans...

johnny_ultimate

mystic86 wrote: »

Cmon, spill the beans...

Let's just say there'll be much ado made about nothing a certain director who will be in attendance.

johnny_ultimate

It's Joss Whedon, by the way, since the news has officially broken Over for Much Ado About Nothing.

Disappointing line-up overall - none of the major Sundance features for example. Of the ones mentioned above Place Beyond the Pines, Stoker (released on March 1st, so a tad pointless), Like Someone in Love and Mea Maxima Cupla are all featured. Kim Ki-duk's Pieta is another one probably worth checking out, and Beyond the Hills is one that I've been looking forward to watching for a while.

Edit: Forgot to mention Robert Towne! Full programme should be online now.

Sad Professor

Quite a few of the more significant films are out within a few weeks of the festival. Stoker as already mentioned, but also Stephen Soderbergh's Side Effects, The Paperboy, Cloud Atlas, Jon Dies at the End, etc.

It's a very underwhelming line-up to say the least.

Squelchy

The "Show All" view is a disgrace.

Also, the schedule is very disappointing, first impression.

Sad Professor

Yeah, if anyone finds a PDF can they post it. The website is a joke as usual.

Renn

+1. Website is a ****ing mess. As is the actual schedule.

Sad Professor

The best way I've found to navigate the site is to go here:

http://jdiff.ticketsolve.com/shows/2013/2/15

And go through the schedule day by day using the calendar on the right.

Squelchy

Finally, a documentary about Marilyn Monroe!




:rolleyes:

johnny_ultimate

Best I can do at the moment, apologies if they're a tad blurry. Baffling they don't include the PDF, but it is JDIFF, so not baffling I guess.

AnonoBoy

Every year they manage to make the website useless in a new and interesting way.

johnny_ultimate

PDF: http://issuu.com/designtactics/docs/61954_1_jdiff_2013_programme__public_issuu_?mode=window

Midnight is going to be fun :rolleyes:

403 Forbidden

I have a PDF of the programme - https://www.dropbox.com/sh/o9yh5x2pl3mzomc/pBL2Q_jMHg

Technocentral

Squelchy wrote: »

Finally, a documentary about Marilyn Monroe!




:rolleyes:

Actually there was an excellent one on More 4 (or Channel 4) late last year called "Marilyn The Last Sessions" its on in a few parts on Youtube, though you might be being sarcastic.

Squelchy

Technocentral wrote: »

Actually there was an excellent one on More 4 (or Channel 4) late last year called "Marilyn The Last Sessions" its on in a few parts on Youtube, though you might be being sarcastic.

Yeah, I was being sarky, sorry - I find her about 1% as fascinating as I feel like the whole world wants me to.

e_e

Well, here goes the headache. Booking 10 films this time around. :pac:

QikBax

Got 2 Much Ado tickets.

Handy enough

e_e

Users ahead of you: 39

blaa85

I was about to get tickets for Stoker. I thought it was Chan-wook Park's new film, turns out it's something completely different.

e_e

I thought it was, I think they just messed up the synopsis.

Squelchy

jamc wrote: »

Got 2 Much Ado tickets.

Handy enough

Yeah, I just booked that. I'll have another look tomorrow for other stuff that may appeal.

Sad Professor

Stoker is the new Park Chan-wook film. The website just has the wrong synopsis attached to it.

johnny_ultimate

Stoker is out on March 1st wide release anyway so it's only a weeks advance. Lucky because it clashes with Beyond the Hills. Actually several more clashes than I would have liked

Sad Professor

All done for now. Booked 5 films. I'll book more closer to the time. Ordering went fairly smoothly this year I have to say.

mystic86

Got tickets for The place beyond the pines, the good man and cloud atlas.

bed time!

johnny_ultimate

Booked around seventeen films already, more to come. Couldn't tell you what half of them are off the top of my head

Never had the opportunity to really gorge at a festival before. Hopefully the underwhelming lineup hides a gem or two.

Renn

Ah you've the season pass, don't you? I'm struggling to pick 7 from the lineup - and 2 of those are classics I've seen a few times. And one is the Fritz Lang film.

blaa85

Got Much Ado About Nothing tickets. Wonder if he will do a bit of a Q&A? The Raid was great craic last year.

delbertgrady

Cloud Atlas on Saturday 16th. General release on Friday 22nd. :rolleyes:

Decuc500

I'm quite happy with the line-up this year. Any festival that includes new films by François Ozon, Olivier Assayas, Steven Soderbergh, Park Chan-wook, Pablo Trapero, Mathieu Kassovitz, Joss Whedon, Kim Ki-duk and Richard Linklater has got to be good.

There also seem to be a few films I've never heard of that could be interesting.

The choice on offer is the thing. If you're not happy that there's a film on that's getting a release soon after the festival anyway just go to see something else showing at the same time. There's plenty of films being screened that will never get a cinema release here.

I'll miss Cineworld 17 though.

Sleepy

Decuc500 wrote: »

I'm quite happy with the line-up this year. Any festival that includes new films by François Ozon, Olivier Assayas, Steven Soderbergh, Park Chan-wook, Pablo Trapero, Mathieu Kassovitz, Joss Whedon, Kim Ki-duk and Richard Linklater has got to be good.

Am I just blind? Couldn't see Before Midnight on the listing?

Decuc500

Sleepy wrote: »

Am I just blind? Couldn't see Before Midnight on the listing?

It's actually his film Bernie that's being shown, not Before Midnight.

grames_bond

Heartbroken the Joss Whedon screening is sold out! Found out about it too late!!

e_e

People I've heard from are either calling Pieta ott garbage or a masterpiece. Should be interesting to say the least.

As for other Asian films, Helter Skelter looks pretty barmy. Also I have a feeling that Cloud Atlas may be screening in 35MM, since it's in Savoy 2 and every film I've ever seen there was.

Sad Professor

e_e wrote: »

People I've heard from are either calling Pieta ott garbage or a masterpiece. Should be interesting to say the least.

Yeah, I'm currently wrestling with whether to bother with it. While I've loved many of Kim's films, his output is very inconsistent.

As for other Asian films, Helter Skelter looks pretty barmy. Also I have a feeling that Cloud Atlas may be screening in 35MM, since it's in Savoy 2 and every film I've ever seen there was.

According to Twitter, they only have seven 35mm films this year and they are all showing in the Lighthouse.

johnny_ultimate

The King of Pigs, a rare Korean animation, is supposedly very dark and very excellent:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRp6NlkiHeE

Squelchy

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Korean

very dark

Form.