Movie Blog: Full List Of MSPIFF Titles Announced
As I said a few weeks ago, "there are few things sweeter than the sight of grass peeking through the snow after a long, hard winter season. But the opportunity to see new movies from world-class auteurs and local up-and-comers alike is among those things."
Well, we're now just a few weeks away from the opening of the 2013 Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival, and it still feels pretty much like winter out there. So there will be no reason to feel bad about seeking late-season refuge inside a movie theater ... for weeks.
The Film Society of Minneapolis-St. Paul has just announced the list of approximately 200 feature films in the mix, along with the usual shorts showcases.
A couple weeks ago, I reported that Ken Loach's The Angels' Share would be the opening night selection, and Paolo & Vittorio Taviani's Caesar Must Die was the official mid-fest highlight.
Now, the Film Society announces that In a World, Lake Bell's feature directorial debut, will be the festival's official closing night selection. As the title probably suggests, Bell's movie is about a movie trailer announcer (yep, just like Don LaFontaine and Ben Patrick Johnson). Bell is one of the cast members of Adult Swim's hysterically funny 15-minute sitcom Children's Hospital, so you know I'm looking forward to that one.
Previously reported highlights from this year's fest included:
- French New Wave titan Alain Resnais's You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, one of the best-reviewed movies at last year's Cannes fest
- Francois Ozon's In the House
- Norway's Kon-Tiki, an Oscar nominee this year for best foreign film
- A retrospective screening of Werner Herzog's classic '70s doc The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner
- Serbian director Srdjan Dragojević's controversial gay-rights portrait The Parade
- Rising Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan's Laurence Anyways
That's in addition to spotlight programs about documentaries that blur the line between fact and fiction ("More REEL: Art in the Age of Truthiness"), movies that catalogue the struggles of displaced people ("Songs of Exile"), late night whatzits, Minnesota-made efforts and even selections for the kids.
But, as Lake Bell might say, that's not all. Scroll below to see the full list of films slated for this year's festival.
The festival is set to run from April 11 through April 28, with the bulk of screenings taking place at St. Anthony Main Theater.
Tickets to The Angels' Share and the opening night party will go on sale to members of The Film Society on March 13; the cost will be $40. Non-members will have to wait until April 1 to buy their tickets for $50.
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Title | Director |
100 Bloody Acres | Colin Cairnes |
5 de Mayo | |
7 Boxes | |
80 Million | Waldemar Krzystek |
A Different Mirror | Andrew Melby |
A Family's Journey with Organic Camelina Oil | Lucas Bryce |
A Hijacking | Tobias Lindholm |
About 111 Girls | Nahid Ghobadi |
After Lucia | Michel Franco |
After Tiller | Martha Shane |
Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse | |
All That Matters is Past | |
Allez, Eddy! | Gert Embrechts |
Almost Man, The | Martin Lund |
Alois Nebel | Tomás Lunák |
American Heart | Christ Newberry |
Amor Crónico | Jorge Perugorria |
Angel's Share, The | Ken Loach |
Antiviral | Brandon Cronenberg |
Ape | |
Approved for Adoption | Laurent Boileau |
Arcadia | Olivia Silver |
Attack, The | Ziad Doueiri |
Augustine | Alice Winocour |
Baikonur | Veit Helmer |
Be Good | Todd Looby |
Beatocello | Georges Gachot |
Beijing Flickers | Yuan Zhang |
Believers, The | |
Bells of Happiness | Jana Kovalcikova |
Beth Rest | Dan Huiting |
Big in Vietnam | Mati Diop |
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me | Drew DeNicola |
Black Rock | Katie Aselton |
Boats Against the Current | David Anderson |
Body Dialect | Matt Fillmore |
Born This Way | Shaun Kadlec |
Brass Teapot, The | Ramaa Mosley |
Brasslands | Adam Pogoff, Jay Sterrenberg, Bryan Chang |
Breakfast With Curtis | Laura Colella |
Broken | Rufus Norris |
Bwakaw | |
Caesar Must Die | Paolo Taviani |
Cairo 678 | Mohamed Diab |
Canned Dreams | Katja Gauriloff |
Capsule, The | Athina Rachel Tsangari |
Charles Lloyd, Arrows into Infinity | Dorothy Darr |
Children Next Door, The | Doug Block |
Children of Sarajevo | Aida Begic |
Cinderella Moon | Richard Bowen |
Circles | Srdan Golubovic |
Clandestine Childhood | Benjamín Ávila |
Color of the Chameleon, The | Emil Christov |
Crocodiles: All For One | Wolfgang Groos |
Cutie and the Boxer | Zachary Heinzerling |
Deep, The | |
Deflowering of Eva van End, The | Michiel ten Horn |
Disconnect | Henry Alex Rubin |
Discoverers, The | Justin Schwarz |
Door, The | István Szabó |
Dust: The Great Asbestos Trial | Niccolo Bruna |
Dusty's Trail | Andrew Fink |
East, The | Zal Batmanglij |
Eddie The Sleepwalking Cannibal | Boris Rodriguez |
Eden | Megan Griffiths |
Electrick Children | Rebecca Thomas |
Enigma of Frank Ryan, The | Desmond Bell |
Everybody Has a Plan | Ana Piterbarg |
F*ck For Forest | Michal Marczak |
Fabulous Ice Age, The | Keri Pickett |
Fall and Winter | Matt Anderson |
Fantastic World of Juan Orol, The | Sebastián del Amo |
Far | Brian Crewe |
Fifth Season, The | Peter Brosens |
Finnish Blood, Swedish Heart | Mika Ronkainen |
Finnish Cow, The | Gheorghe Preda |
First Comes Love | Nina Davenport |
Five Years | |
Flower Buds | Zdenek Jirasky |
Foreigner, The | Alethea Avramis |
Forever in Hiatus | |
Fort Apache | Addison Mehr |
Four Letter Word | Justin Staggs |
From One Day To The Next | Frank Matter |
Fruit Hunters, The | Yung Chang |
FurCar | Taus Makhacheva |
Get Out of the Car | Thom Andersen |
Ghosts | Justin Staggs |
Girl Meets Bike | |
Gold Fever | J.T. Haines |
Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner, The | Werner Herzog |
Greenwich Village: Music | Laura Archibald |
Hannah Arendt | Margarethe von Trotta |
Hello, Stranger | John Akre |
High Definition | Adam Dunn |
Hunt, The | Thomas Vinterberg |
Hypnotist, The | Lasse Hallström |
I Always Knew | Danny Burke |
I, Anna | Barnaby Southcombe |
Igor & the Cranes' Journey | Evgeny Ruman |
In a World... | |
In the Fog | Sergei Loznitsa |
In the House | François Ozon |
In The Shadow | David Ondricek |
Inch'Allah | Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette |
Inescapable | Ruba Nadda |
Infamous T, The | Melissa Koch |
Informant | Jamie Meltzer |
Ivan's Dream | Roberto Santiago |
Jackpot | |
Jin | Reha Erdem |
Josephine and the Roach | Jonathan Langager |
Justice For My Sister | |
Kauwboy | Boudewijn Koole |
Key of Life | Kenji Uchida |
Kings of Summer, The | Jordan Vogt-Roberts |
Kinshasa Kids | Marc-Henri Wajnberg |
Koch | Neil Barsky |
Kon-Tiki | Joachim Rønning |
Kuma | Umut Dag |
La Camioneta: The Journey of One American School Bus | Mark Kendall |
La Playa DC | Juan Andrés Arango Garcia |
Là-bas: A Criminal Education | Guido Lombardi |
Last Sentence, The | Jan Troell |
Last Shepherd, The | Marco Bonfanti |
Last Time I Saw Macao, The | João Pedro Rodrigues |
Laurence Anyways | Xavier Dolan |
Leonard | Michelle Brost |
Lessons of Darkness | Werner Herzog |
Leviathan | Lucien Castaing-Taylor |
Life in Pink | |
Life Kills Me | Sebastián Silva |
Little Cloud, The | Renée George |
Living with the Land | Aleshia Mueller |
Lollywood | Todd Looby |
Lonely Boy | Dale Fabrigar |
Low Movie | Philip Harder |
Lucky | Avie Luthra |
Lunarcy! | Simon Ennis |
Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear, The | |
Made in Ash | Iveta Grofova |
Making Light in Terezin | Richard Krevolin |
Mama Illegal | Ed Moschitz |
Man At the Door | |
Marcel, King of the Tervuren | Tom Schroeder |
Me Fueled Killing Spree | Paul von Stoetzel |
Medicine Lake | Horacio Devot |
Men With Arms | Matthew Spevack, Joey Fishman, Gabriel Loeb |
Merry Christmas | |
Midnight's Children | Deepa Mehta |
Miracle Boy | Jake Mahaffy |
Modern Life | Mercies May |
Modest Reception | Mani Haghighi |
Mosuo Sisters, The | Marlo Poras |
Mud | Jeff Nichols |
Multiple Visions (The Crazy Machine) | Emilio Maillé |
Museum Hours | Jem Cohen |
NED ABDUL NEEDS MORE RENTAL SPACE OR: How To Say Goodbye To An Old Friend | Dan S |
New Public, The | Jyllian Gunther |
Nuala: A Life and Death | Patrick Farrelly |
Off Label | Michael Palmieri |
Old Dog | |
Painting, The | Jean-François Laguionie |
Papadopoulos & Sons | Marcus Markou |
Parade | Mercies May |
Parade, The | Srdjan Dragojević |
Persistence of Vision | Kevin Schreck |
Pete and Toshi Get a Camera | |
Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy | Marco Tullio Giordana |
Pieta | Ki-duk Kim |
Pig Tale | Matthew Koshmri |
Pirogue, The | Moussa Touré |
Play Dead | Kevin Russell |
Polluting Paradise | Fatih Akin |
Price of Sand, The | Jim Tittle |
Purge | Antti Jokinen |
Race to the Bottom | Justin Staggs |
Reality | Matteo Garrone |
Reluctant Fundamentalist, The | Mira Nair |
Repentant, The | Merzak Allouache |
Shyamal Uncle Turns Off the Lights | Suman Ghosh |
Solid Gold | Dan Huiting |
Song of the Apprentice, The | Cecilia Cornejo |
Southwest | Eduardo Nunes |
Sparrow | |
Spectres | Sven Augustijnen |
Stan Herd: Down to Earth | |
Stay Home | Caleb Wood |
Stuck | Thaddaeus Scheel |
Student | Darezhan Omirbayev |
Sun Don't Shine | |
These Birds Walk | Omar Mullick |
Three Kids | Jonas D'Adesky |
Tim Hart | Dan Huiting |
Tina Mion: Behind the Studio Door | |
TINY: A Story About Living Small | Christopher Smith |
Too Cold Out There Without You | Amy Gattie |
Towrope, The | William Vega |
Tragedy of Man, The | Marcell Jankovics |
Tutti Giù | Niccolò Castelli |
Twenty Feet From Stardom | Morgan Neville |
Twilight of the Mississippi | Gus Ganley |
Unfinished Song | Paul Andrew Williams |
Union Man, The | Bobby Lewis |
Violeta Went to Heaven | Andrés Wood |
Virgin, the Copts and Me, The | Namir Abdel Messeeh |
Wall, The | Julian Roman Pölsler |
Watchtower | Pelin Esmer |
We Women Warriors | |
Weekend, The | Nina Grosse |
What Maisie Knew | Scott McGehee |
When Day Breaks | Goran Paskaljevic |
White Tiger | Karen Shakhnazarov |
Wickie and the Treasure of the Gods | Christian Ditter |
With Impunity | Dan Berger |
You Ain't Seen Nothin Yet | Alain Resnais |
Yuma | |
Zarafa | Rémi Bezançon |
Zaytoun | Eran Riklis |
Zigzag Kid, The |