As they say, Saturday night’s all right for fighting. Unless you’re a film love and not a fighter, then it’s all right for seeing a movie. Here’s what’s happening today on the Scene in film loving Toronto.
The TIFF Bell Lightbox continues to host Samsara, and Dial M for Murder, and Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel but really kicks out the jams on Designing 007: 50 Years of Bond Style and the James Bond retrospective. You can catch For Your Eyes Only, Dr. No, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, and You Only Live Twice.
The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema is back to regular programming with You’ve Been Trumped, a David and Goliath story chronicling Donald Trump’s attempt to turn Scotland into a golf course, Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten, and an 11:30 pm performance from Toronto Shadow Cast of The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
The Revue Theatre has a full day of screenings starting at noon. You can catch Letters to Santa, Women’s Day, Rose, Fear of Falling, and The Secret.
The Fox Theatre is screening Paranorman 3D at 2:00 pm, Trouble with the Curve at 4:00 pm and 7:00 pm and Lawless at 9:15 pm.
The Royal Cinema is screening Unlucky at 7:00 pm followed up by In Their Skin at 9:30 pm.
Projection Booth East hosts the wonderful Beauty is Embarrassing starts at 3:00 pm, Roller Town at 4:30, and continues the second annual Python-athon with The Life of Brian at 6:00 pm and Monty Python and the Holy Grail at 7:30 pm and then screens both again at 9 & 10:30. Stick around and catch the Serbian Film Series at 9:00. Projection Booth Metro also has Beauty is Embarrassing at 9:30 and Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present at 10:00 pm.
And if you want to catch some horror from Hong Kong, Korea, and Japan hit the University of Toronto’s Cinema Studies Student Union for Three… Extremes with screenings of Dumplings, Cut, and Box. For additional details, visit the CINSSU website.
Image from From Russia with Love.
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