TIFF has revealed it’s list of Canada’s Top 10 Films and you guessed it – Maps to the Stars is one of them. According to MetroNews:
“Xavier Dolan’s acclaimed drama “Mommy,†David Cronenberg’s Hollywood satire “Maps to the Stars†and Sturla Gunnarsson’s epic India-shot documentary “Monsoon†are among the flicks that will screen during TIFF’s annual Canada’s Top 10 Film Festival.
“Now it’s our chance to get together and celebrate our best. Thirty impressive new films, plus one-of-a-kind onstage conversations add up to a great way to warm up the winter.â€
The 10-day festival — which features screenings, Q&A’s with filmmakers and special events — runs from Jan. 2 to 11 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto before making stops in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg and Montreal.
For the first time, audiences will be able to vote to crown the Canada’s Top 10 Film Festival People’s Choice Winner.”
To read more about TIFF click on link. Also here is TIFF’s media announcement
And Maps has made it’s way to a few other Top 10 Lists (which I will add to as and when they emerge):
“ At the top of the list is David Cronenberg‘s Maps to the Stars, which he says, is “hilariously funny and, dare I say it, yes, pernicious. I love this film more than I love my own mustache.—
Cahiers Du Cinema Top 10 Films of 2014
Comes in at no. 4 – see list below
“1. Bruno Dumont‘s Li’l Quinquin.
2. Jean-Luc Godard‘s Goodbye to Language.
3. Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin.
4. David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars.
5. Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises.
6. Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac.
7. Xavier Dolan‘s Mommy.
8. Ira Sachs‘s Love Is Strange.
9. Alain Cavalier‘s Le Paradis.
10. Hong Sang-soo‘s Our Sunhi.”
SUPER MARIA!!! THX!
C’mon Canadians! You can’t go past the legend that is David Cronenberg – vote MTTS!
Well done Canada