Screening Series
Bloor Hot Doc’s monthly series, Doc Soup, will screen the Toronto Premiere of Putin’s Kiss this Thursday November 8, 2012 at 6:45pm. The film’s subject, Masha Drokova (also known as “the girl who kissed Putin” in a blatant expression of Russian news media creativity) is among the forefront of the Nashi, a Pro-Kremlin, probably anti-Pussy Riot youth movement when her political future is put into question following the beating of Oleg Kashin – an Anti-Putin, probably pro-Pussy Riot journalist. Following this brutal attack, Drokova becomes emancipated from her supporters by publicly demanding greater security for the opposition. Putin’s Kiss offers...
This Friday, Pleasure Dome and artist Shana Moulton will take over Tallulah’s Cabaret at Buddies In Bad Times Theatre. Moulton will present her own low-tech pop sensibilities in a combination of video and performance for her series Whispering Pines. Over the last decade, Moulton has a reputation for finding the surreal in the mundane, with her latest piece finding the magic in home decor, homeopathic medicine, and wellness products with a wry understanding of how we engage these commodities as though they are more than products. The evening starts at 7:00pm, and is sure to be unlike any performance you’re...
To kick off their Chai Tea + a Movie screening series for another year, this Sunday, October 21 the Toronto Jewish Film Festival presents the Toronto premiere of The Rabbi’s Cat. This particularly gorgeous animated feature (take a look at the stills below for a better idea) is an adaptation of the French graphic novel by Joann Sfar, first published in 2002. It depicts 1920s Algiers, where a rabbi and his daughter live by the sea, with a talking cat. They set out on a quest to the heart of Africa with said cat, and a few other friends. You...
Today, at 1:00PM Revue Cinema will have its weekly parent friendly matinee, Movies for Mommies, screening Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano’s comedy The Intouchables. This is a parent friendly screening, meaning adult friendly films in an environment where people will not open a big bag of freak on you for bringing a crying infant as your date – Movies for Mommies was made for that. Movies for Mommies: The Intouchables will screen today at 1:00pm so fire the nanny, grab your kid, and get your tucasi to the Revue Cinema....
The University of Toronto’s Cinema Studies Student Union (CINSSU) is continuing to revisit my childhood publicly with their weekly free screenings at Innis Town Hall. On Friday September 12, 2012 (a.k.a. “This Friday” for those reading this in the present day) CINSSU will screen the first feature length collaboration by Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman, Being John Malkovich, a surprise that was surely spoiled for anyone who read the title of this post. The film, for all of its mind bending bizarre-i-ness, was understandably hard to produce. Being John Malkovich Trailer...
Classic film fans of Toronto, rejoice! In addition to the Sunday Film Buffs matinee series launched by the Toronto Film Society on September 30, 2012, the arbiters of classic taste will be launching the Monday Night Film Buffs screening series on October 15, 2012. The double-bills, screening at the Carlton Cinema at 7:30 pm begin with Wedding Present (1936) and The Rage of Paris (1938). Admission is $15 at the door, or $85 for the entire series (that’s 14 movies). Also, Toronto Film Society members get buy-one-get-one-free tickets at all regular screenings at the Carlton year round. Clip from Wedding...
This weekend The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema will be screening the entire British documentary “Up Series” from Granada Television. Starting in 1964, director Michael Apted started following 14 7-year-old children. Conceived as a sort of social experiment, the children were chosen as from diverse social, class, and economic backgrounds to test the theory that status pre-determines one’s fate in life. Apted then revisited the kids, now firmly middle-agers, every 7 years. The series begins with Seven Up! from 1964, and the last theatrical installment, 49 Up, was released in 2005. Technically speaking, there’s a further episode, 56 Up, that aired...
The Shinsedai Cinema Festival, Toronto’s independent Japanese film showcase, brings back Pink Films 2.0 to the Projection Booth Metro on Friday, October 12, 2012. The screening starts at 9:00 pm and will also feature burlesque performances from Red Herring Burlesque. Pink Films 2.0 launches with Yukio Kitazawa’s sci-fi comedy Deep Contact. Waturu and his special power of ”sexual psychokinesis” is guaranteed to leave audiences howling with laughter. Also screening will be Daisuke Goto’s romantic comedy Blind Love. Blind Hikari mistakes ventriloquist Yoichi for his mentor Daisuke, requiring the pair to deliver the ventriloquism performance of their lives to hold on...
If you’re a fan of short films, you’ll probably be sad to know that the CFC’s A World of Shorts had its final showing in September. Fear not, however – you can still see some awesome short films with the Shorts That Are Not Pants quarterly screening series. And the next on is coming up this Thursday, October 11, 2012 at 7:00 pm. The program will feature the 2012 winner of the Bravo FACT! Award for Best Canadian Short, the strange and wonderful...
Now that the school year is back in session, Innis Town Hall at the University of Toronto is home to a weekly series of free screenings hosted by the Cinema Studies Students Union (CINSSU). Previously, they have showcased works from legendary directors Roman Polanski, Alfred Hitchcock and Stephen Spielberg. This week, it’s Francois Truffaut’s turn. His debut feature as director, The 400 Blows, screens Friday October 5, 2012, at 7:00 pm. The film stars Truffaut favourite Jean-Pierre Leaud as Antoine, a misfit child who is unhappy with life and can’t catch a break. The 1959 film is a poignant study...
The wait is finally over — the new season of Doc Soup begins this week, Wednesday October 3 and Thursday, October 4, 2012! Bloor Hot Docs Cinema plays host to the monthly screening series, which runs October 2012 through April 2013. The film that kicks things off this year is THE SOURCE. The film, released in 2012, catches up with members from The Source Family — a spiritual group (cult?)/rock band/restauranteurs from 1970s Los Angeles. Directors Jodi Wille and Maria Demopoulos will be present at the screening and for a discussion afterwards. Screening times are 6:30 pm and 9:15 pm...
In the early 1990s, a Canadian action series called Tropical Heat introduced viewers to Nick Slaughter, a ponytailed ex-DEA officer turned private investigator played by Rob Stewart of Brampton, Ontario. The show ran between ’91 and ’93 on CBS then disappeared from the collective consciousness of the west. But, unbeknownst to any involved with the show, Tropical Heat was a raging success in Serbia, where Nick Slaughter is a symbol of freedom and democracy… somehow. Slaughter Nick for President follows Rob Stewart’s discovery of his former role’s cultural significance in a distant land, and his journey to learn just how...
