Coming soon to the box office.

November 27, 2023 12:38 PM

Good (non-Hollywood-ish) movies coming down the pipe. Vulture magazine lists over a dozen top movies from the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals.
posted by storybored (16 comments total)

Going to add most of these to my list of want-to-sees. Poor Things already at the top of my list, it looks gloriously unhinged. The Green Border looks great but too gut-wrenching for me.

The Holdovers wasn't listed here, which I saw last week and thought was an excellent and tremendously human movie.
posted by mcstayinskool at 1:10 PM on November 27, 2023 [2 favorites]

I have two festival movies from the past couple of years that still don't have distributors: The People's Joker, a trans-focussed Joker story, and It's Only Life After All, a documentary about the career of Indigo Girls.

This list is from a few months ago and a much of these movies are already out either in theaters or streaming already.
posted by hippybear at 1:37 PM on November 27, 2023 [3 favorites]

Yes, do check IMDb as some of these are already out in cinemas or on streaming.

As well as Poor Things, I’m looking forward to Origin.

Archive link.
posted by ellieBOA at 1:59 PM on November 27, 2023

Netflix has a huge amount of foreign films available if that tickles your fancy...
posted by Czjewel at 2:09 PM on November 27, 2023 [1 favorite]

This wasn't at TIFF but at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, but River is a movie I won't shut up about, it's about a Japanese inn full of delightful characters stuck in a two minute time loop, and it's extremely satisfying and so, so, soooo fucking funny watching them try to figure it out in real time. Easily my favorite movie I've seen this year
posted by weewooweewoo at 2:14 PM on November 27, 2023 [3 favorites]

Ooh, by the people who made Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes? Thank you for the heads-up, I'll have to see River too now.
posted by bigendian at 2:49 PM on November 27, 2023 [3 favorites]

Across 1913 Paris, 2014 Los Angeles, and 2044 Paris, Gabrielle is haunted by recurring imagery — pigeons, fortune tellers, dolls, Madame Butterfly — as well as a deep sense of impending doom, the vague idea that something awful is going to happen to her

I'm reminded of Bodies, which Netflix recently released. Along with David Mitchell's novels. Is this kind of multi-timeline framing on the rise?
posted by doctornemo at 5:25 PM on November 27, 2023

Netflix has a huge amount of foreign films available if that tickles your fancy...

Agreed. I also nominate Criterion.
posted by doctornemo at 5:26 PM on November 27, 2023 [4 favorites]

Archive link seems to go back to the top?

Let us remind our posters to try to provide easy links if possible.
posted by ovvl at 8:19 PM on November 27, 2023

Every link is blocked for non-subscribers.
posted by ITravelMontana at 8:51 PM on November 27, 2023

Gabrielle is haunted by recurring imagery — pigeons

I'm sorry Gabrielle, you have John Woo Syndrome. There is no cure.
posted by biffa at 1:35 AM on November 28, 2023 [3 favorites]

River only had a limited run in Japanese theaters but the blu-ray is coming out in Japan on December 20th.
posted by LostInUbe at 2:21 AM on November 28, 2023

Archive link seems to go back to the top?

My bad, pasted the wrong link.
posted by ellieBOA at 2:57 AM on November 28, 2023 [1 favorite]

Jonathan Glazer's The Zone of Interest only gets mentioned in passing here, but I am unspeakably excited for that movie, as Under the Skin was one of my faves of the last decade.
posted by mykescipark at 5:43 AM on November 28, 2023 [1 favorite]

My bad, pasted the wrong link.

Merci. Swell article, looking forward to these films.
posted by ovvl at 5:06 PM on November 28, 2023 [1 favorite]

Yes, do check IMDb as some of these are already out in cinemas or on streaming.

Isn't Just Watch where the cool kids go to find the availability of various video media these days?
posted by hippybear at 4:06 PM on November 29, 2023