1984 Toronto International Film Festival

1984 Toronto International Film Festival

Festival poster
Location	Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Hosted by	Toronto International Film Festival Group
No. of films	225 feature films
Festival date	September 6, 1984 (1984-09-06)–September 15, 1984 (1984-09-15)
Language	English
Website	tiff.net

The 9th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada between September 6 and September 15, 1984. The festival introduced Perspective Canada programme, devoted to Canadian films.^[1][2] The festival screened 225 feature films and more than half of them were Canadian films.^[3]

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][4]

Awards

Award[5][6]	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

Gala Presentation

• Paris, Texas by Wim Wenders
• Places in the Heart by Robert Benton
• Stranger Than Paradise by Jim Jarmusch
• Blood Simple by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
• Where the Green Ants Dream by Werner Herzog
• Boy Meets Girl by Leos Carax
• Another Country by Marek Kanievska
• Funny Dirty Little War by Héctor Olivera
• Diary for My Children by Márta Mészáros
• The Gold Diggers by Sally Potter
• Wildrose by John Hanson
• Choose Me by Alan Rudolph
• The Company of Wolves by Neil Jordan

Canadian Perspective

• Abortion: Stories From North and South by Gail Singer
• Democracy on Trial: The Morgentaler Affair by Paul Cowan
• Le jour S... by Jean Pierre Lefebvre
• Low Visibility by Patricia Gruben
• Mario by Jean Beaudin
• The Masculine Mystique by Giles Walker and John N. Smith
• Mother's Meat and Freud's Flesh by Demitrios Estdelacropolis
• Next of Kin by Atom Egoyan
• The Obsession of Billy Botski by John Paizs
• The International Style by John Paizs
• Springtime in Greenland by John Paizs
• Revolution by Jean-Marc Larivière
• Sonatine by Micheline Lanctôt
• Unfinished Business by Don Owen
• Walls by Tom Shandel
• A Woman in Transit by Léa Pool
• The Years of Dreams and Revolt by Jean-Claude Labrecque

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.^[7]

• Back to God's Country by David Hartford (1919)
• Lucky Corrigan by Lewis D. Collins (1936)
• Convicted by Leon Barsha (1937)
• Whispering City by Fedor Ozep (1947)
• The Bitter Ash by Larry Kent (1963)
• The Cat in the Bag by Gilles Groulx (1964)
• When Tomorrow Dies by Larry Kent (1965)
• Winter Kept Us Warm by David Secter (1965)
• The Times That Are by Pierre Perrault (1966)
• Don't Let It Kill You by Jean Pierre Lefebvre (1967)
• High by Larry Kent (1967)
• The River Schooners by Pierre Perrault (1968)
• A Married Couple by Allan King (1969)
• The Only Thing You Know by Clarke Mackey (1971)
• Proxyhawks by Jack Darcus (1971)
• The Rowdyman by Peter Carter (1971)
• The Time of the Hunt by Francis Mankiewicz (1972)
• Wedding in White by William Fruet (1972)
• Dream Life by Mireille Dansereau (1972)
• Dirty Money by Denys Arcand (1972)
• Réjeanne Padovani by Denys Arcand (1973)
• The Last Betrothal by Jean Pierre Lefebvre (1973)
• Paperback Hero by Peter Pearson (1973)
• Skip Tracer by Zale Dalen (1977)
• The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died by Jean Pierre Lefebvre (1977)
• Why Shoot the Teacher? by Silvio Narizzano (1977)
• Blue Winter by André Blanchard (1979)
• A Scream from Silence by Anne Claire Poirier (1979)
• Stations by William D. MacGillivray (1983)

Documentaries

• In Heaven There Is No Beer? by Les Blank
• Before Stonewall by Robert Rosenberg, Greta Schiller and John Scagliotti

Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time

Rank	Title	Year	Director
1	Mon oncle Antoine	1971	Claude Jutra
2	Goin' Down the Road	1970	Don Shebib
3	Good Riddance	1980	Francis Mankiewicz
4	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	1974	Ted Kotcheff
5	The Grey Fox	1983	Phillip Borsos
6	Orders	1974	Michel Brault
7	J.A. Martin Photographer	1977	Jean Beaudin
8	Pour la suite du monde	1963	Pierre Perrault
9	Nobody Waved Goodbye	1964	Don Owen
10	The True Nature of Bernadette	1972	Gilles Carle

References

1. "TIFF History". Archived from the original on 2013-10-15. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
2. "Taking a look back at TIFF". Archived from the original on 2013-10-12. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
3. "Toronto film fest spotlights early greats of Canadian cinema". CBC News. Retrieved October 18, 2013.
4. "Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time Archived 2013-07-03 at the Wayback Machine," The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2012, URL accessed October 18, 2013.
5. "TIFF Awards" Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine. tiff.net, October 16, 2013.
6. "TIFF People's Choice prize heralds film industry kudos". CBC News. Retrieved October 16, 2013.
7. Jay Scott, "Mon Oncle Antoine No. 1 with critics". The Globe and Mail, August 2, 1984.

External links

• Official site
• TIFF: A Reel History: 1976 - 2012
• 1984 Toronto International Film Festival at IMDb