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TIFF Cinematheque continues its long-standing dedication to Japanese cinema with the series Spotlight Japan, consisting of three film series’ that explore more than a half-century remarkable Japanese film history. The first two installments include Tokyo Drifters, which runs from January 19 to April 6, 2013 and Japanese Divas: The Great Actresses of Japanese Cinema’s Golden Age from January 24 to March 31, 2013. Tokyo Drifters: 100 Years of Nikkatsu features films from the late 1950s through early 1970s from Japan’s oldest and perhaps most exciting production houses. In an effort to attract youthful audiences growing increasingly accustomed to American and...
TIFF Bell Lightbox announces the lineup for the winter season of their popular monthly subscription series Books on Film, Food on Film and Science on Film, where audience members can experience their favorite books and movies in interactive, sensory and educational presentations. Books on Film starts February 11, 2013 and runs Mondays at 7:00 pm after that. As an awesome bonus, the first 100 subscribers will receive as an added bonus a complimentary copy of each book featured. Hosted by Eleanor Wachtel of CBC’s Writers and Company this series welcomes such guests as Lisa Cortés on Precious from the book...
The hills are alive with the sound of… other people singing along with Julie Andrews and company? Back by popular demand, TIFF Bell Lightbox is hosting its annual The Sound of Music Sing-a-Long. Watch the 1965 classic in all of its Technicolor glory with a theatre full of people who love it just as much as you do. Follow the bouncing ball and sing until your heart’s content. Not only that, but you’ll receive a complimentary bag of goodies containing props to be used throughout the movie. Dressing up is also encouraged, so start sewing your curtains now people! Screening...
TIFF Bell Lightbox is bringing you the best in holiday entertainment with a revival of an old spaghetti western and two cinema classics. Breakfast at Tiffany’s and The Wizard of Oz are charming their way onto the big screen with the latest in digital technology. See Audrey Hepburn rock that dress and an old woman scream “I’ll get you ““ and your little dog, too!” in crystal clear 4K digital projection. Meanwhile, just in advance of the Quentin Tarantino reimagining, Django the original 1966 film about a lone cowboy who’s got the looks, the smarts and an appetite for vengeance....
Charles Dickens is the most adapted novelist in film history and to celebrate what would’ve been his 200th birthday, TIFF Cinematheque presents a selection of famous and fascinating adaptations of Dickens’ beloved novels for film and television, from the silent era to the modern day. Adrian Wootton, Chief Executive of Film London, curates the event in association with The Charles Dickens Museum.The programme brings many of the best Dickens screen adaptations to film fans including some harder-to-find silent film. Wotton will be on hand for two illustrated lectures exploring the world and works of Charles Dickens. The programme includes films...
The world is (allegedly) going to end on December 21 of this year ““ at least that’s what the Mayans think. We’ll have to see about that. In celebration of what might be our last week on Earth, TIFF Bell Lightbox is bringing us the Countdown to Armageddon series consisting of every good apocalyptic and post- apocalyptic movie they could find. Between Friday, December 14 and Friday, December 21, 2012 you can catch everything from Dr. Stranglove to Logan’s Run to Melancholia to Armageddon (of course). In addition to these big, top-of-mind blockbusters, you can also catch lesser known end-of-the-world...
You’ve been to the exhibit. You’ve seen all of the movies on the big screen. You drank a lot of martinis. What’s left? Going to In Conversation With John Glen at the TIFF Bell Lightbox on Monday, December 10, 2012 at 7:00 pm. John Glen started as an editor and action director on the Bond series before taking over the director’s chair to direct five successive Bond films, including Octopussy, For Your Eyes Only, A View to Kill, The Living Daylights, and License to Kill. If hearing John Glen speak for two hours isn’t enough, you will also be...
Giving white kids in the warring east and west ends of the city a mass indie boner, Jem Cohen’s latest combines footage of Nova Scotian development of the last ten years with the music of Fugazi, Dirty Three, The Quavers, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Thee Silver Mount Zion – all combined into one soundgasmic supergroup a la Audioslave or Velvet Underground without the hyper-masculine elderly to distract from the goings on. And maybe some homegrown coffee, you jive ass turkey. Jem Cohen: We Have an Anchor engages in a form of interdisciplinary art, showing what can be done only...
Art-house filmmaking neo-legend Leos Carax returns with his first feature in thirteen years, Holy Motors. The film stars Denis Lavant as a mysterious figure who changes personae for various “clients” throughout a bizarre Parisian night. Holy Motors was met with a divisive response at Cannes, but for all the eccentric intensity it is certain that Leos Carax is back in full artsy-insanity-mode. It starts screening Friday November 16, 2012 at TIFF Bell Lightbox. ...
After a long, hot summer and the end of the Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF has a very, very busy slate of film awesomeness coming at us for the fall season. From spies to zombies, and Charles Dickens to the best of this year’s commercials, music videos and short films, TIFF has it all. Exhibitions This season’s major exhibition, starting on October 26, 2012 and running until late January, is Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style. Making its North American debut at TIFF Bell Lightbox, it will give visitors a view of the James Bond franchise they’ve never seen...
James Bond will return in…film programmes and exhibitions at TIFF Bell Lightbox, starting in October
Though he has always been an exquisitely handsome and stylish man, James Bond may never look better than he will at TIFF Bell Lightbox. That’s right, everybody’s favourite MI6 agent is coming to Toronto — and in a big way. 50 years after Bond debuted on the big screen, TIFF Bell Lightbox presents the North American premiere of the exhibit Designing 007: Fifty Years of Bond Style and will mark the occasion with three TIFF Cinematheque film programmes and several workshops. This is as exhaustive a look at arguably the greatest action hero brought to life by the cinema, and...
Yes, it’s only a month until TIFF starts, but you need something to look forward to in the meantime. TIFF’s got just the ticket, bringing Toronto some pre-festival fun with the opening of their new exhibition, X-Men Master: Gordon Smith. It starts on Friday, August 17, 2012 and runs until the end of March 2013. This free exhibition celebrates the makeup and special effects wizardry of Ontario’s own Gordon Smith. He’s been working his craft for over 30 years, contributing to films like Dead Ringers, Jacob’s Ladder, Nixon, Natural Born Killers, Born on the Fourth of July and Legends of...
