The Philadelphia Film Festival is coming up

And I will not be going. But, unfortunately (or fortunately?) there are actually quite a bunch of films I want to see.

• Sleeping Beauty and House of Intolerance, the “disturbing cold erotic brothel” titles of Cannes this year
• The Artist – a silent film made in 2011?
• A Dangerous Method – David Cronenberg’s new movie with Keira Knightley and Viggo Mortensen… strange.
• The day he arrives – I still kind of want to see it
• Le Havre – Aki Kaurismäki’s new movie, recommended by 314
• Like Crazy – the opening night film, some… love story I guess? I have a thing for opening night movies XD
• Melancholia – of course
• My week with Marilyn – it has Michelle Williams as Marilyn Monroe, somehow that was enough to intrigue me
• Perfect Sense – I have no idea who David Mackenzie is, but this movie has Eva Green in it and is supposed to be a romantic apocalyptic sci-fi thriller
• Pina – of course
• Puss in Boots – About the kitty from “Shrek”, I have to admit that I actually love the “Shrek” franchise, so this is a must
• Underwater Love – the weirdness of the film (it’s also supposed to be a musical?) cannot describe the degree of interest I have in it
• Turn me on, damnit – Somehow I have imaginations of “Fucking Amal” here, and the movie is extremely short, perhaps too short?
• Le gamin au vélo – by the Dardenne brothers

They also show “Barton Fink”, “Battle Royale”, Lars von Trier’s “Europa”, “Naked Lunch”, “The Silence of the Lambs” and other classics. All in all, this (very short) film fest seems to be very focused on American movies, being much much more minor than even, say, the Filmfest in Munich, but surprisingly enough, it’s quite on par if not larger than the New York Film Festival, which shows almost the same movies. The NYFF shows a few other classics, namely some sort of mini-Ghibli special with “Castle in the Sky” and “Spirited Away”, Charlie Chaplin’s “Gold Rush”, “Ben-Hur”, “The Royal Tenenbaums”, but in terms of recent films, it only has one interesting addition to the Philadelphia showings, namely “The Loneliest Planet”, a movie with Gael Garcia Bernal. It is no big surprise that a movie is 20 USD whereas in Philly you get in for 12 huh?