1984 Toronto International Film Festival
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LocationToronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted byToronto International Film Festival Group
No. of films225 feature films
Festival dateSeptember 6, 1984–September 15, 1984
 Festival poster | |
| Location | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
|---|---|
| Hosted by | Toronto International Film Festival Group |
| No. of films | 225 feature films |
| Festival date | September 6, 1984–September 15, 1984 |
| Language | English |
| Website | tiff |
The 9th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 6 and September 15, 1984.[1][2]
The festival screened 225 feature films and more than half of them were Canadian films.[3] This included the introduction of the dedicated Perspective stream, which remained in place until the 2010s as the festival's primary platform for new Canadian films, as well as Front and Centre, a special retrospective program of historically and artistically significant Canadian films, and Late Night, Great Nights, a late-night program of Canadian genre and cult films resembling the festival's later Midnight Madness program.[4]
In 1984 Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time list was released. It was created by the votes of film critics, professors, fans and festival staff.[3][5]
| Award[6][7] | Film | Director |
|---|---|---|
| People's Choice Award | Places in the Heart | Robert Benton |
| Best Canadian Feature Film | A Woman in Transit | Léa Pool |
| International Critics' Award | Choose Me | Alan Rudolph |
Programme
In addition to the film programs noted below, a special tribute event was held to honour actor Warren Beatty for his career, including a special presentation of his films Bonnie and Clyde and Shampoo.[8]
Gala Presentations
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| All of Me | Carl Reiner | United States | |
| The Bay Boy | Daniel Petrie | Canada | |
| The Brother from Another Planet | John Sayles | United States | |
| Carmen | Francesco Rosi | France, Italy | |
| Full Moon in Paris | Les nuits de la pleine lune | Éric Rohmer | France |
| The Hit | Stephen Frears | United Kingdom | |
| The Holy Innocents | Los santos inocentes | Mario Camus | Spain |
| Paris, Texas | Wim Wenders | West Germany, France | |
| Places in the Heart | Robert Benton | United States | |
| A Soldier's Story | Norman Jewison | United States | |
| Stop Making Sense | Jonathan Demme | United States | |
Contemporary World Cinema
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Another Country | Marek Kanievska | United Kingdom | |
| Banana Cop | Ying lun pi pa | Po-Chih Leong | Hong Kong, United Kingdom |
| Before Dawn | Di 8 dian | Clarence Fok | Hong Kong |
| Bless Their Little Hearts | Billy Woodberry | United States | |
| Blood Simple | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen | United States | |
| Boy Meets Girl | Leos Carax | France | |
| Choose Me | Alan Rudolph | United States | |
| The Company of Wolves | Neil Jordan | United Kingdom | |
| Constance | Bruce Morrison | New Zealand | |
| The Courage of Others | Le Courage des autres | Christian Richard | Burkina Faso, France |
| Diary for My Children | Napló gyermekeimnek | Márta Mészáros | Hungary |
| Embers | Glut | Thomas Koerfer | Switzerland, West Germany |
| A Flash of Green | Victor Nuñez | United States | |
| Flight to Berlin | Chris Petit | West Germany, United Kingdom | |
| Funny Dirty Little War | No habrá más penas ni olvido | Héctor Olivera | Argentina |
| Ghost Dance | Ken McMullen | United Kingdom | |
| Giovanni | Annette Apon | Netherlands | |
| The Gold Diggers | Sally Potter | United Kingdom | |
| The Goodbye People | Herb Gardner | United States | |
| Hotel New York | Jackie Raynal | United States | |
| The Illusionist | De illusionist | Jos Stelling | Netherlands |
| Lothar Lambert Trio: Fraulein Berlin, Paso Doble, Drama in Blonde | Lothar Lambert | West Germany | |
| Love Is the Beginning of All Terror | Der beginn aller schrecken ist die liebe | Helke Sander | West Germany |
| Man Without Memory | Mann ohne Gedächtnis | Kurt Gloor | Switzerland |
| The Manbird | De vogelmens | Casper Verbrugge | Netherlands |
| Memed, My Hawk | Peter Ustinov | United Kingdom, Yugoslavia | |
| Mixed Blood | Paul Morrissey | United States | |
| Naughty Boys | Eric de Kuyper | Belgium, Netherlands | |
| Old Enough | Marisa Silver | United States | |
| On Guard | Susan Lambert | Australia | |
| Orinoko, New World | Orinoko, nuevo mundo | Diego Rísquez | Venezuela |
| Our Story | Notre histoire | Bertrand Blier | France |
| Paris Seen By... 20 Years After | Paris vu par... 20 ans après | Chantal Akerman, Bernard Dubois, Philippe Garrel, Frédéric Mitterrand, Vincent Nordon, Philippe Venault | France |
| Paweogo (The Emigrant) | L'Émigrant | Kollo Sanou | Burkina Faso |
| The Power of Emotion | Die Macht der Gefühle | Alexander Kluge | West Germany |
| The Ruins | Khandhar | Mrinal Sen | India |
| Salome | Laurice Guillen | Philippines | |
| Secret Honor | Robert Altman | United States | |
| Secret Places | Zelda Barron | United Kingdom | |
| The Stilts | Los Zancos | Carlos Saura | Spain |
| Stranger Than Paradise | Jim Jarmusch | United States | |
| Swann in Love | Un amour de Swann / Eine Liebe von Swann | Volker Schlöndorff | France, West Germany |
| The Terence Davies Trilogy: Children, Madonna and Child, Death and Transfiguration | Terence Davies | United Kingdom | |
| Three Crowns of the Sailor | Les trois couronnes du matelot | Raúl Ruiz | France |
| Voro-Nova | Dirk Rijneke, Mildred Van Leeuwaarden | Netherlands | |
| The Voyage | Le Voyage | Michel Andrieu | France |
| White Madness | De Witte Waan | Adriaan Ditvoorst | Netherlands |
| White Trash | Kanakerbraut | Uwe Schrader | West Germany |
| Wildrose | John Hanson | United States | |
Canadian Perspective
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abortion: Stories From North and South | Gail Singer | Canada | |
| Alex Colville: The Splendour of Order | Don Hutchison | ||
| Democracy on Trial: The Morgentaler Affair | Paul Cowan | ||
| The Future Interior | Le futur intérieur | Yolaine Rouleau, Jean Chabot | |
| Hey Babe! | Rafal Zielinski | ||
| The International Style | John Paizs | ||
| Le jour S... | Jean Pierre Lefebvre | ||
| Listen to the City | Ron Mann | ||
| Low Visibility | Patricia Gruben | ||
| Mario | Jean Beaudin | ||
| The Masculine Mystique | Giles Walker, John N. Smith | ||
| Next of Kin | Atom Egoyan | ||
| The Obsession of Billy Botski | John Paizs | ||
| Revolutions, at Last, Forever and Ever | Révolutions, d'ébats amoureux, éperdus, douloureux | Jean-Marc Larivière | |
| Rock & Rule | Clive A. Smith | ||
| Snowscreen | Michael Snow | ||
| Sonatine | Micheline Lanctôt | ||
| Springtime in Greenland | John Paizs | ||
| Unfinished Business | Don Owen | ||
| Walls | Tom Shandel | ||
| A Woman in Transit | La Femme de l'hôtel | Léa Pool | |
| The Years of Dreams and Revolt | Les Années de rêves | Jean-Claude Labrecque | |
Stranger Than Fiction: Documentaries
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Before Stonewall | Robert Rosenberg, Greta Schiller, John Scagliotti | United States | |
| Beyond Sorrow, Beyond Pain | Smärtgränsen | Agneta Elers-Jarleman | Sweden |
| Burroughs | Howard Brookner | United States | |
| Father and Son | Vater und Sohn | Thomas Mitscherlich | West Germany |
| The Good Fight: The Abraham Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War | Noel Buckner, Mary Dore, Sam Sills | United States | |
| The Gospel According to Al Green | Robert Mugge | United States | |
| Hell's Kitchen Chronicle | Maren Erskine, Reed Erskine | United States | |
| I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes, the Man and His Work | Michael Ventura | United States | |
| Improper Conduct | Mauvaise conduite | Néstor Almendros, Orlando Jiménez Leal | France |
| In Heaven There Is No Beer? | Les Blank | United States | |
| Notes from Under the Volcano | Gary Conklin | United States | |
| Orson Welles at the Cinemathèque | Orson Welles à la Cinémathèque française | Pierre-André Boutang, Guy Seligmann | France |
| Patu! | Merata Mita | New Zealand | |
| Robert Frank: The Image of Poetry | Robert Frank: l'immagine della poesia | Giampiero Tartagni | Switzerland |
| Room 666 | Chambre 666 | Wim Wenders | France, West Germany |
| Shadows from Light | Stephen Dwoskin | United Kingdom | |
| Sprout Wings and Fly | Les Blank | United States | |
| Style Wars | Tony Silver | United States | |
| Ten Days in Calcutta | 10 Tage in Calcutta | Reinhard Hauff | West Germany |
| The Times of Harvey Milk | Rob Epstein | United States | |
| Twenty Years of African Cinema | Caméra d'Afrique | Férid Boughedir | Tunisia |
| Vietnam: The Secret Agent | Jacki Ochs | United States | |
| War Lab | Kriegslabor | Monica Maurer | West Germany |
Two-Way Streets
Formerly known as Culture Under Pressure, this program features films about social and political interaction between different cultures.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Another Time, Another Place | Michael Radford | United Kingdom | |
| Argie | Jorge Blanco | Argentina, France | |
| Dog Race | Hunderennen | Bernard Safarik | Switzerland |
| The Estonians: For the Record | Tiina Soomet | Canada | |
| Incident at Restigouche | Alanis Obomsawin | Canada | |
| The Princes | Les Princes | Tony Gatlif | France |
| A Season in Hakkari | Hakkâri'de Bir Mevsim | Erden Kıral | Turkey |
| Silver City | Sophia Turkiewicz | Australia | |
| Skyline | La línea del cielo | Fernando Colomo | Spain |
| Spadina | David Troster | Canada | |
| The Taking of Samiland | Mo Sámi váldet | Skule Eriksen, Kåre Tannvik | Norway |
| Where the Green Ants Dream | Wo die grünen Ameisen träumen | Werner Herzog | West Germany |
Front & Centre
Front & Centre was a special one-off program, which screened culturally and artistically important films from throughout the entire history of Canadian cinema.[9]
Eyes Write
Programmed in collaboration with the Harbourfront Centre, Eyes Write featured a selection of film adaptations of Canadian and international literature.[10]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Ted Kotcheff | Canada | |
| Back to Beulah | Eric Till | Canada | |
| The Blood of Others | Le Sang des autres | Claude Chabrol | France, Canada, United States |
| The Crime of Ovide Plouffe | Le Crime d'Ovide Plouffe | Denys Arcand | Canada |
| Gentle Sinners | Eric Till | Canada | |
| Now That April's Here | William Davidson | Canada | |
| Snowbird | Peter Pearson | Canada | |
| The Wars | Robin Phillips | Canada | |
Border Crossings
Films which represent some form of collaboration between the Canadian and international film industries, such as international actors and filmmakers working in Canada, or Canadians working on international films.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Act of the Heart | Paul Almond | Canada | |
| Adrift | Touha zvaná Anada | Ján Kadár | Czechoslovakia |
| The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz | Ted Kotcheff | Canada | |
| Coma | Michael Crichton | United States | |
| A Dangerous Age | Sidney J. Furie | Canada | |
| Dreamspeaker | Claude Jutra | Canada | |
| Eye of the Needle | Richard Marquand | United Kingdom | |
| Get Out Your Handkerchiefs | Préparez vos mouchoirs | Bertrand Blier | France |
| Ghostbusters | Ivan Reitman | Canada | |
| Isabel | Paul Almond | Canada | |
| The Leather Boys | Sidney J. Furie | United Kingdom | |
| Lies My Father Told Me | Ján Kadár | Canada | |
| Meatballs | Ivan Reitman | Canada | |
| Mon oncle Antoine | Claude Jutra | Canada | |
| Normande | La Tête de Normande St-Onge | Gilles Carle | Canada |
| Outback | Ted Kotcheff | Australia | |
| Payday | Daryl Duke | United States | |
| The Silent Partner | Daryl Duke | Canada | |
Experiments: The Photographic Image
A program of experimental and avant-garde films.[9] The following program is not necessarily complete, as media only reported a selection of films rather than the complete program,[11] and may still include further films listed in the unconfirmed section below. A few relatively mainstream feature films were included in this program, to highlight the evolution of a director, such as Phillip Borsos or Joyce Wieland, who had made both experimental and conventional films over the course of their career.
Buried Treasures
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amanita Pestilens | René Bonnière | Canada | |
| Bar Salon | André Forcier | ||
| Between Friends | Donald Shebib | ||
| Between Salt and Sweet Water | Entre la mer et l'eau douce | Michel Brault | |
| Eliza's Horoscope | Gordon Sheppard | ||
| La fiction nucléaire | Jean Chabot | ||
| Red | Gilles Carle | ||
| The Skiff of Renald and Thomas | Le canot à Renald à Thomas | Bernard Gosselin | |
| Sweet Substitute | Larry Kent | ||
| The Vultures | Les Vautours | Jean-Claude Labrecque | |
| We Are Far from the Sun | On est loin du soleil | Jacques Leduc | |
Late Nights, Great Nights
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr. Frankenstein on Campus | Gilbert W. Taylor | Canada | |
| Fantastica | Gilles Carle | Canada | |
| Mother's Meat and Freud's Flesh | Demitrios Estdelacropolis | Canada | |
| Outrageous! | Richard Benner | Canada | |
| Starship Invasions | Ed Hunt | Canada | |
| Sweet Movie | Dušan Makavejev | France, Canada, West Germany | |
Unconfirmed program
Titles listed by the Toronto International Film Festival in its 1984 retrospective list on Letterboxd,[12] but not reflected in available media reportage to verify which program they screened in. Most are short films, which may have screened in Experiments or alongside a feature film in one of the main programs, although a few of them are feature films.
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 69 | Robert Breer | United States | |
| 98.3 KHz (Bridge at Electrical Storm) | Al Razutis | United States | |
| Acting Out | Ralph Rosenblum, Carl Gurevich | United States | |
| Allures | Jordan Belson | United States | |
| Animals in Motion | John Straiton | Canada | |
| Las Aradas | Janis Lundman | Canada | |
| Blazes | Robert Breer | United States | |
| Buffalo Police on Parade | James H. White | United States | |
| The Cage | Sidney Peterson | United States | |
| Canal | Richard Kerr | Canada | |
| Castro Street | Bruce Baillie | United States | |
| Charade | Jon Minnis | Canada | |
| Le Ciel saisi | Henri Herré | France | |
| City of Gold | Wolf Koenig, Colin Low | Canada | |
| Composition in Blue | Komposition in Blau | Oskar Fischinger | West Germany |
| Corral | Colin Low | Canada | |
| Diminished | Richard Martin | Canada | |
| Everything Everywhere Again Alive | Keith Lock | Canada | |
| Fireworks | Kenneth Anger | United States | |
| The Flicker | Tony Conrad | United States | |
| The Fox and the Crow | Le Corbeau et le renard | Michèle Pauzé, Yves Leduc, Francine Desbiens, Pierre Hébert | Canada |
| Grey Owl's Little Brother | Gordon Sparling | Canada | |
| Home for Christmas | Rick Hancox | Canada | |
| Home Sweet Home | Nettie Peña | United States | |
| Idiot's Delight | Clarence Brown | United States | |
| Je sais que j’ai tort, mais demandez à mes copains ils disent la même chose | Pierre Oscar Lévy | France | |
| Joshua in a Box | John C. Lange | United States | |
| Joyful Mystery | Misteryo sa Tuwa | Abbo dela Cruz | Philippines |
| The Loon's Necklace | F.R. Crawley | Canada | |
| Love Streams | John Cassavetes | United States | |
| Marilyn Times Five | Bruce Conner | United States | |
| McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Robert Altman | United States | |
| Meshes of the Afternoon | Maya Deren, Alexandr Hackenschmied | United States | |
| Mickey One | Arthur Penn | United States | |
| Mirage | Chris Gallagher | Canada | |
| Mother's Day | James Broughton | United States | |
| New Jersey Nights | Veronika Soul | United States | |
| Next to Me | Rick Hancox | Canada | |
| No Rest for Billy Brakko | Pas de repos pour Billy Brakko | Jean-Pierre Jeunet | France |
| Notes for a Film About Donna and Gail | Don Owen | Canada | |
| Opus 40 | Barbara Sternberg | Canada | |
| Portrait | Portret | Stanisław Lenartowicz | Poland |
| Postcards | Henri Plaat | Netherlands | |
| Rapture | La fleur de l'âge | John Guillermin | |
| Red Tape: Collected Works | Bill Viola | United States | |
| Rhapsody in Two Languages | Gordon Sparling | Canada | |
| The Road Ended at the Beach | Philip Hoffman | Canada | |
| Roundhay Garden Scene | Louis Le Prince | United Kingdom | |
| Seven Days | Chris Welsby | Canada | |
| Sifted Evidence | Patricia Gruben | United States | |
| The Story | Homer Groening | United States | |
| Trapline | Ellie Epp | Canada | |
| Wildwood Flower | A. K. Dewdney | Canada | |
| Winter Last July | Richard Martin | Canada | |
| Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory | La Sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon | Louis Lumière | France |