Toronto Picks and Pans

Inspired by Matt Riviera--who has seen a lot more movies in the last year than I have--here's one last whack at my eight days in Toronto:

Top 10 films at TIFF:
The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Germany)
Little Children (Todd Field, USA)
Stranger than Fiction (Marc Forster)
Borat (Larry Charles, USA)
Catch a Fire (Phillip Noyce)
Away From Her (Sarah Polley, Canada)
The Last King of Scotland (Kevin Macdonald, UK)
Venus (Roger Michell, UK)
The Namesake (Mira Nair, USA)
Infamous (Doug McGrath, USA)

Great Cannes holdovers:
Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, Spain)
Babel (Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Mexico)
Volver (Pedro Almodovar, Spain)
12:08 East of Bucharest (Corneliu Porumboiu)
2:37 (Murali K. Thalluri, Australia)

Also good but not great:
Breaking And Entering (Anthony Minghella, UK)
The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky, USA)
Confetti (Debbie Isitt, UK)
For Your Consideration (Christopher Guest, USA)
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing (Barbara Kopple, Cecilia Peck, USA)
This Filthy World (Jeff Garlin, USA)
Sleeping Dogs Lie (Bobcat Goldthwait, USA)

Disappointments:
Ghosts of the Cite Soleil (Asger Leth, Denmark/USA)
El Cantante (Leon Ichaso, USA)
The Fall (Tarsem, India/UK/USA)
A Good Year (Ridley Scott, UK)
Bonneville (Christopher Rowley, USA)

Here are my picks for:
Best director: Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth)
Best actress: Kate Winslet (Little Children)
Best actor: Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
Best screenplay: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives of Others)
Best movie moment: In Borat, the naked fat guy standing in the hotel elevator coyly covering himself
Best soundtrack: Catch a Fire