As I described it to one of my colleagues over lunch when she saw me trying to block out by 50 first picks in the TIFF schedule, "It's like playing high-speed chess ten moves ahead against five different opponents." So I don't know how that's going to work out. But in the meantime, here are my "musts," mere hours before I'll barf them all over blogTO:

• Time - Kim Ki-Duk returns!
• Borat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - Fucking Borat, clearly
• Pan's Labyrinth - Everyone's calling it the best thing ever
• Princess - Fucked up animé about the porn underworld, nuff said
• Rescue Dawn - the Year of the Herzog continues
• Taxidermia - Man ejaculates fire
• Ten Canoes - I love canoes
• U - I love peculiarly sexual childrens' movies
• Sheitan - fucking sold
• London to Brighton - woman and girl on the run from the mob
• Deliver Us From Evil - documentary about a pedophilic priest... made with the priest's involvement
• Chacun sa nuit - oh baby
• Shortbus - how can you not, after all the shit it's kicked up?

OK that ended up being the "musts" plus the top half of the A's. But now you know.