Peter Howell's CHASING THE BUZZ '09

We're very happy to be invited by Peter Howell, movie critic for the Toronto Star, to be part of his 9th annual Chasing the Buzz poll — a panel of 25 critics/programmers/film-buffs name the 3 films they are most looking forward to.

Here are our top 3 picks:

1. Antichrist: "See the film that won the first anti-award from Cannes' ecumenical jury Thursday night at 9pm, then talk to director Lars von Trier, via video conference from Denmark, Friday morning at 9am."
   
   
   
2. Enter the Void: "Gaspar Noé, the stylish and audacious director of Seul Contre Tous and Irréversible, brings a cinematic trip about a low-level drug dealer and his sister... which garnered very mixed reviews."
   
   
3. The Hole: "Kudos to Colin Geddes for bringing the festival's first 3-D presentation with Joe Dante's new work, shot in Canada using Paradise FX — the same technology used earlier this year in the remake of the Canadian slasher, My Bloody Valentine."
   

Here is the complete list of all 56 of the most anticipated movies of the festival:

1. My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (4 votes)
   
2. Up in the Air (4 votes)
   
   
3. Antichrist (3 votes; our pick)
4. Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (3 votes)
5. Leslie, My Name is Evil (3 votes)
6. The Road (3 votes)
   
   
7. Bright Star (2 votes)
   
8. Hadewijch (2 votes)
9. Life During Wartime (2 votes)
10. A Serious Man (2 votes)
11. Whip It (2 votes)
    
    
12. Agora
13. The Art of the Steal
14. Baarìa
15. BAND
16. Beautiful Kate
17. Bran Nue Dae
18. Broken Embraces
19. Capitalism: A Love Story
20. Chloe
21. Collapse
22. The Disappearance of Alice Creed
23. Enter the Void (our pick)
24. Excited
25. Face
26. The Hole (our pick)
27. How to Fold a Flag
28. Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel
29. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
30. The Informant!
31. The Invention of Lying
32. Last Ride
33. Leaves of Grass
34. Let Each One Go Where They May
35. Mao's Last Dancer
36. The Men Who Stare at Goats
37. Moloch Tropical
38. The Most Dangerous Man in America
39. Mother and Child
40. Mr. Nobody
41. Ondine
42. Police, Adjective
43. Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire
44. Road, Movie
45. Same Same but Different
46. Symbol
47. The Time That Remains
48. To Die Like a Man
49. A Town Called Panic
50. Trash Humpers
51. The Trotsky
52. Turtle: The Incredible Journey
53. Valhalla Rising
54. The Vintner's Luck
55. White Material
56. Women Without Men
    

Cheers!
#TOfilmfest

PS. btw, here are the 25 contributors:

1. Steve Almond, Parabola.ca
2. Gail Anthony, film buff/executive assistant
3. Barry Avrich, filmmaker and ad executive
4. Cameron Bailey, TIFF co-director
5. Christopher Bales, Crunchy Squirrel Goes to Toronto
6. James Berardinelli, ReelViews.net
7. Noah Cowan, Bell Lightbox
8. TOfilmfest.ca — that's us! ;-)
9. Gabrielle Free, CTV
10. Alex Ganetakos, TV writer/producer
11. Andréa Grau, TIFF media coordinator
12. Piers Handling, TIFF director and CEO
13. Charles Johnston, writer, film buff
14. Robert Koehler, Variety /CinemaScope
15. Eric Kohn, IndieWIRE /TheWrap
16. Carla MacDonald, Our Lady of Perpetual Hell
17. Michèle Maheux, TIFF managing director
18. David Poland, MCN
19. B. Ruby Rich, BRubyRich
    
20. James Rocchi, RocchiReport
21. Kristopher Tapley, In Contention
22. Anne Thompson, ThompsonOnHollywood
23. Jeffrey Wells, Hollywood Elsewhere
24. Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today
25. Ray Yick, TIFFReviews

PPS. if you're curious about previous picks, you can also read Peter Howell's TIFF's must-see films from 2008, and TIFF '07: The Buzz from two years ago...