10th Anniversary of Peter Howell's CHASING THE BUZZ

Once again, we're very happy to be invited by Peter Howell, Toronto Star movie critic, for his annual Chasing the Buzz poll – celebrating it's 10th anniversary!

A panel of critics, programmers, and movie-buffs, name the 3 films they are most looking forward to.

Peter Howell's "Ten bee-utiful years of great TIFF buzz" will be published as the entertainment section cover-story, for tomorrow's Toronto Star (Saturday Septmeber 4, 2010).

Here are our top 3 picks:

1. Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzog
   “Colin ‘Midnight Madness’ Geddes brought the first 3-D film to the festival last year, and now doc programmer Thom Powers brings us Werner Herzog in 3-D.”
   
   
2. The Sleeping Beauty, Catherine Breillat
   “I debated with French auteur/provocateur Catherine Breillat over Anatomy of Hell in 2004, but anything she brings to the screen remains a must-see.”
   
   
3. Submarine, Richard Ayoade
   “Richard Ayoade, music video director, talented comedy-writer, and very funny actor (‘Moss’ from the U.K.’s Channel4 The IT Crowd) helms his first feature film.”
   
   

Here are the overall top picks, from the entire panel:

1. Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzog (5 votes)
   
   
2. Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky (4 votes)
   
   
3. Inside Job, Charles Ferguson (3 votes)
   Miral, Julian Schnabel (3 votes)
   Trigger, Bruce McDonald (3 votes)
   
   
4. Biutiful, Alejandro González Iñárritu (2 votes)
   Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Alex Gibney (2 votes)
   Incendies, Denis Villeneuve (2 votes)
   The King’s Speech, Tom Hooper (2 votes)
   Never Let Me Go, Mark Romanek (2 votes)
   Score: A Hockey Musical, Michael McGowan (2 votes)
   Three, Tom Tykwer (2 votes)

Pick the best of the fest!
TOfilmfest
#TIFF10

PS.
For a look back at previous picks, see Peter Howell's...

• TIFF '09: Serious buzz
• TIFF's must-see films from '08, and
• TIFF '07: The Buzz

PPS.
Here's a list of the 2010 contributors...

1. Steve Almond, Parabola.ca
2. Gail Anthony, film buff/executive assistant
3. Barry Avrich, filmmaker & ad executive
4. Cameron Bailey, TIFF co-director
5. Jennifer Bell, TIFF vp-communications
6. Noah Cowan, Bell Lightbox
7. TOfilmfest.ca — that's us! ;-)
8. Chaz Ebert, film buff
9. Hanna Fisher, Floating Film Festival
   
10. Gabrielle Free, CTV
11. Alex Ganetakos, TV writer/producer
12. Piers Handling, TIFF CEO & director
    
13. Eric Kohn, IndieWIRE
14. Carla MacDonald, Our Lady of Perpetual Hell
15. Michèle Maheux, TIFF managing director
16. David Poland, MovieCityNews
17. B. Ruby Rich, BRubyRich
    
18. James Rocchi, RocchiReport
19. Anne Thompson, ThompsonOnHollywood
20. Kim Voynar, MovieCityNews
    
21. Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today
22. Ray Yick, TIFFReviews