MIFF First in Line

By: Martyn Pedler
Article published: 7th Jul 08
Format: Festival
Mood: Epic

What:
MIFF First in Line

Where:
Check the program from July 11

When:
Uh. Check the program

Howmuch:
Tickets here from July 11

And finally, without rhyme or reason, a wildly non-exhaustive list of some films that made our cinematic spider-sense tingle on first flip through the program.

The eternally-underrated Terrence Davies' first film in eight years, Of Time and The City, is described as "both a love song and a eulogy" to his birthplace of Liverpool. A sensation at Cannes - and the perfect bizarro-twin to My Winnipeg (above) - it's a mediation on memory that will leave new fractures through your heart.

Triangle is a collaboration by three infamous Hong Kong actioneers: Johnnie To, Tsui Hark and Ringo Lam. The plot sounds like it'll just get in the way - ancient treasure, heist gone wrong, whatever - but spotting the signature style of each director is an irresistible fanboy treat.

The films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder are the crack cocaine of cinema: once hooked, there's no turning back. The task of choosing a favourite from this year's Cannes Director's Fortnight series is tricksy indeed, but the gay melodrama Fox and His Friends - starring the totally-gorgeous-but-really-shouldn't-be Fassbinder himself - wins hands down.