Screening Series
As you anxiously await the Toronto Jewish Film Festival in April, you can attend their Chai Tea and a Movie series, continuing Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 4:00 pm. The screening is held at Cineplex Odeon Sheppard Cinema. This month’s film, Hello I Must Be Going, opened at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, and has been receiving critical acclaim since. Hello I Must Be Going is about a recently divorced and jobless woman who finds herself living with her parents once again, as she begins to fall for her father’s 19-year-old potential business partner. The film stars Melanie Lynsky, Blythe...
Barry Doupé’s latest animated feature-length, The Colours That Combine to Make White Are Important will open Pleasure Dome’s 2013 winter season. The Vancouver-based filmmaker uses a failing Japanese glass factory as an allegory on art and language. Doupé will be attending the 7:30pm screening on Friday January 19, 2013 at CineCycle. Tickets run a mere $8 for general admission and $5 for students/members. Vtape will be hosting a free artist talk session earlier at 1:30pm in their home base, 452-401 Richmond st West. ...
Keanu Reeves is a bit of a head-scratcher. He’s universally considered to be a terrible actor, and yet he’s managed to work his way into some pretty great ““ and iconic ““ films over the course of his career. In celebration of this cinematic conundrum, TIFF is screening a retrospective of his work aptly titled Whoa. The Films of Keanu Reeves starting Friday, January 11, 2013. Screening a wide range of his work, the series includes classic films such as The Matrix, Point Break, Speed and Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, but also rounds out the programme with interesting films...
Projection Booth kicked off the New Year with a vast screening series. Covering a great deal of the first half of the 20th Century, their screening series Film Changes the World looks at the social history of the art form. Starting January 4 and running until the end of the month, the series screens films such as A Star is Born (the film crystallized the idea of the Hollywood style stardom), White Zombie (the beginning of the on-screen zombie), Scarlet Street (Euro classicism in American noir), war-time propaganda, 50s B-movies and drive-in classics, and much more. Passes for the full...
The Royal Cinema, one of the city’s most progressive and interesting venues, is at it again. Along with The Seventh Art, a video magazine about film, The Royal is bringing important directors to the city to discuss their work with a new screening series. The inaugural series happens over two nights, December 12 and 13, 2012 featuring director Whit Stillman and includes films Metropolitan and The Last Days of Disco. The Seventh Art’s Christopher Heron will be in attendance to discuss these films with Stillman and lead a Q&A with the director. Tickets are $15 for each screening, or $20...
This Friday, the Pleasure Dome Artist’s Film Exhibition Group will screen its members works at the enigmatic Cinecycle coffee bar and underground cinema (also: bike repair shop.) The programme, Magic Kingdoms/Vacation Lands will feature videos from Martin Arnold, Pilvi Takala, and Elodie Pong amongst others. The screening begins at 7:00pm with tickets being sold at the door for $8. Cinecycle is located in the old coach house behind 129 Spadina Ave, on the east side of Spadina between Richmond St. W. and Adelaide St. W....
Most of us stopped believing in Santa Claus a long time ago, but it’s nice to feel like a kid again, especially around the holidays. Miracle on 34th Street is the perfect Christmas movie for doing just that. On Sunday, December 9 and Wednesday, December 12, 2012, the original Miracle on 34th Street comes to your local Cineplex theatre. The movie is about an old man claiming to be Santa, then being institutionalized for saying so until a young lawyer argues his case. As part of the Classic Film Series, Christmas comes early with a 2 for 1 admission ($6),...
The final installment of Doc Soup for 2012 rings in with the Canadian Premiere of The House I Live In (2011). Directed by Eugene Jarecky, The House I Live In has gained international regard, earning the Grand Prize Jury for Documentary at the 2012 Sundance International Film Festival. Jarecky boldly presents the impact of America’s longest-enduring war, the ‘War on Drugs’, through the eyes of participants at every level of the battle. From affected households to prisons to policy makers, this documentary sheds light in every direction, allowing audiences to see a complete picture of the widespread impact of this...
November’s Early Monthly Segments features the work of filmmaker Warren Sonbert. Best known for his diary-like story telling and his editing technique, Sonbert’s work develops with his own life transitions. This event runs over three days in seven screenings from November 15 to 17, 2012. Admission is $5.00 or free with a valid University of Toronto, Ryerson, or York University student ID. Taking place at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall, these events provide an excellent forum for cinephiles new and established to watch and then rehash the work of such a unique artist. Check out the EMS website...
On Thursday, November 8, 2012 The Black Museum sets up shop at Projection Booth East to present “The White Zombie and the birth of zombie cinema” with guest instructor Stuart “Feedback” Andrews. Held by many to be the first zombie flick, The White Zombie is a 1932 cult classic starring Bela Lugosi as Murder Legendre, a European owner of a Haitian plantation owner who cuts cost by employing the undead. The Black Museum programme aims to examine if this is indeed the first zombie movie, and to answer the question of what makes a zombie movie a zombie movie anyway?...
Werner Schroeter is one of the most influential filmmakers of New German Cinema, such that directors from Fassbinder to Herzog to Sybeberg have graciously lauded his name. But Schroeter is little known outside of the aficionados of New German Cinema, and Goethe plans to fix this with a month long celebration at TIFF Bell Lightbox. Starting Thursday November 8, 2012 at 6:30, Schroeter’s 1986 opus The Rose King and include the Toronto Premiere of Deux on November 17, 2012 at 7:00pm, and 1972′s The Death of Maria Malibran to be introduced by the General Director of the Canadian Opera Company,...
