Last night we pored over the film festival programme book and I came up with a list of 58 festival films that I want to see:

1. 3 Needles
2. A History Of Violence
3. A Little Trip To Heaven
4. American Gun
5. Angel
6. Backstage
7. Bangkok Loco
8. Bee Season
9. Beowulf & Grendel
10. Breakfast On Pluto
11. Brokeback Mountain
12. Bubble
13. Capote
14. Dear Wendy
15. Edison
16. Elizabethtown
17. Everything Is Illuminated
18. Fateless
19. Free Zone
20. Harsh Times
21. Imagine Me And You
22. In Her Shoes
23. L’Enfer
24. Les Saignantes
25. Lie With Me
26. Little Athens
27. Little Fish
28. Manderlay
29. Mary
30. Mrs. Henderson Presents
31. Neverwas
32. No Direction Home
33. North Country
34. One Last Thing
35. Proof
36. Revolver
37. River Queen
38. Romance & Cigarettes
39. Shadowboxer
40. Shopgirl
41. Slow Burn
42. Sorry, Haters
43. Sympathy For Lady Vengeance
44. Thank You For Smoking
45. The Proposition
46. The Quiet
47. The Three Burials Of Melquides Estrada
48. The War Within
49. These Girls
50. Thumbsucker
51. Tideland
52. Transamerica
53. Trust The Man
54. Walk The Line
55. We Feed The World
56. Where The Truth Lies
57. Why We Fight
58. Winter Passing

Many of them I won’t bother marking because they’ll be released to theatres soon, or because they’re galas, or because the schedule just doesn’t allow (I’m away on course for a whole week right in the middle of it!). After running the rest by my wife to get her opinion, I believe we have narrowed our list down to the required ten. We’re only seeing five, of course, but you have to pick 1st and 2nd choices for each. Here’s the tentative list:

1. 1. 3 Needles
2. 1. Sorry, Haters
3. 1. Thank You For Smoking
4. 1. These Girls
5. 1. Winter Passing
6. 2. Harsh Times
7. 2. Imagine Me and You (working title)
8. 2. Lie With Me
9. 2. Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
10. 2. The Quiet

I’ll probably buy a single ticket here or there as well, depending on when I get back from my course, what’s available, etc.