Col Needham's Top 10 Toronto Picks for 2015
I am the Founder and CEO of IMDb and these are the 10 movies which I am most looking forward to seeing at the Toronto International Film Festival which I attend from start to finish every year. The list is in alphabetic order as it hard enough to pick only 10, let alone rank them!
Note that these are movies which I have not seen before. Recommendations from films which I have seen at other festivals are Brooklyn, The Lobster and Sicario.
The scope of the festival and the complete quality makes it difficult to select 10 and these are all taken from my longer TIFF Interest List which currently stands at over 100 movies and the festival is only 10 days long!
Note that these are movies which I have not seen before. Recommendations from films which I have seen at other festivals are Brooklyn, The Lobster and Sicario.
The scope of the festival and the complete quality makes it difficult to select 10 and these are all taken from my longer TIFF Interest List which currently stands at over 100 movies and the festival is only 10 days long!
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1.
The Danish Girl
(2015)
A fictitious love story loosely inspired by the lives of Danish artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda's marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili's groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer. (119 mins.)
Director: Tom Hooper
2.
Demolition
(2015)
A successful investment banker struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash. With the help of a customer service rep and her young son, he starts to rebuild, beginning with the demolition of the life he once knew. (101 mins.)
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
3.
Equals
(2015)
In an emotionless utopia, two people fall in love when they regain their feelings from a mysterious disease, causing tensions between them and their society. (101 mins.)
Director: Drake Doremus
4.
Freeheld
(2015)
New Jersey police lieutenant, Laurel Hester, and her registered domestic partner, Stacie Andree, both battle to secure Hester's pension benefits when she is diagnosed with terminal cancer. (103 mins.)
Director: Peter Sollett
5.
High-Rise
(2015)
Life for the residents of a tower block begins to run out of control. (119 mins.)
Director: Ben Wheatley
6.
Hitchcock/Truffaut
(2015 Documentary)
Filmmakers discuss how Francois Truffaut's 1966 book "Cinema According to Hitchcock" influenced their work. (79 mins.)
Director: Kent Jones
7.
The Martian
(2015)
An astronaut becomes stranded on Mars after his team assume him dead, and must rely on his ingenuity to find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. (144 mins.)
Director: Ridley Scott
8.
Son of Saul
(2015)
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival upon trying to salvage from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son. (107 mins.)
Director: Nemes László
9.
Truth
(2015)
Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers. (125 mins.)
Director: James Vanderbilt
10.
Victoria
(2015)
A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret. (138 mins.)
Director: Sebastian Schipper