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This week at TIFF Bell Lightbox discover the next big filmmaker with the Student Film showcase or enjoy the antics of a hormone crazed Norwegian teenager in new release, Turn Me On, Goddammt! Events The Student Film Showcase, now in its 9th year, gives you a peek at the next big filmmakers with a carefully selected lineup of the best student films from across Canada. A variety of genres including drama, documentary, animation and experimental are represented in the following films: The Great Maldini, Swift, Sax, Open Invitation, Eraserman, In Here, Life Doesn’t Frighten Me, Tam and Lingo. Schools represented...
Coming this summer to TIFF on June 21, 2012 is a celebration of First Peoples films. Cinema: 1500 Nations, One Tradition is a film retrospective that will explore the history of indigenous films from around the world. The schedule includes 28 features and over 30 shorts from Canada, the US, New Zealand, Australia, Samoa and the Philippines. Home on Native Land, a free major gallery exhibition of new media work by First Peoples artists, will open in conjunction with the film series and includes exciting new work from such notable artists as Kent Monkman....
Two legends are coming to TIFF Bell Lightbox this week: director Guillermo del Toro and actress Kathleen Turner! Film Programmes Beginning Monday, May 7 Guillermo del Toro will present and discuss his favourite Alfred Hitchcock films in Hitchcock Master Classes with Guillermo del Toro. Four different Hitchcock classics will be presented over four nights with Notorious and Frenzy playing this week: In Notorious a secret agent uses the daughter of a convicted Nazi spy to help him infiltrate a spy ring. It’s suspense and a love triangle in this classic starring Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman. Screens Monday, May 7...
This week at TIFF Bell Lightbox, kids have taken over with the TIFF Kids International Film Festival and the digiPlaySpace. This fabulous event for children is only running until April 22 so this is your last week to experience it. In new releases, the new documentary West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson opens. Exhibition digiPlaySpace 2012 is Toronto’s first digital playspace for kids and will be running until April 22 as part of the TIFF Kids International Film Festival 2012. Featuring the FunkyForest installation by artists Theodore Watson and Emily Gobeille, Roomracers by Lieven van Velthoven, Mini-Makers Zone, TIFF Kids Appcade, Adventures...
Geeks have known for decades that comic books and video games go hand in hand so it was just a matter of time before the rest of the world caught up. Inspired by the artxgame projects in Los Angeles and San Francisco, TIFF Nexus has teamed up with Miguel Sternberg of the Hand Eye Society to present TIFF Nexus’ Comics vs Games....
This week at TIFF Bell Lightbox see what happens to Nicolas Cage after a romantic encounter with a vampire in Vampire’s Kiss, catch the Studio Ghibli retrospective before it ends, discover the pioneering cinema of Toronto director John Greyson, enter a post-apocalyptic future where humans are manufactured in Golem, explore the profound affect gaming culture has had on advertising and media in Packaged Goods: Gaming the System, and don’t miss talks with master pastry chef Jacquay Pfeiffer and author Will Aitken. Film Programmes Not much time left to see the Studio Ghibli retrospective which runs until April 13. This week TIFF...
Many people would be weary to watch another French silent movie after the success of The Artist. It would be easy to close the book on modern silent films and let that movie be the last good example of the genre. I am here to let all those naysayers know that there are still great, whimsical dialogue-free movies being made, and one of them is Holidays by the Sea. Holidays By The Sea is a French production directed by Pascal Rabaté and starring Maria De Medeiros (Pulp Fiction) and Dominique Pinon (Delicatessen). It is a direct homage to Jacques Tatis’...
This week at TIFF Bell Lightbox explore the pioneering cinema of Toronto director John Greyson, catch a free exhibition on Canadian costume design before it leaves, celebrate Canadian music on film with the 2012 JUNO Music DVD nominees, get a sneak preview of Reel Talk, and much more. Special Events The Junos at TIFF: Canadian Music on Film is a showcase of the 2012 JUNO nominees for Best Music DVD of the Year. Clips from the nominated films will be shown and there will be discussions with the directors and artists who made them. A portion of proceeds from each...
TIFF has partnered with Vtape and the Art Gallery of Ontario to present a unique multi-venue retrospective of the work of Toronto director John Greyson. The retrospective, entitled “Impatient,” runs from March 30 to April 5 and celebrates the release of a new DVD box set and book about Greyson’s pioneering work....
This week at TIFF Bell Lightbox is a busy one with a seemingly endless variety of things to see and do. Get spirited away by the magic of Studio Ghibli, attend a late night screening of Adaptation starring Nicholas Cage, discover the sci-fi films of the Soviet Era, or attend a talk with Elizabeth Loftus on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind....
