|
||||||
|
|
|
Retrospectives, Programmes & Festivals | |||
|
Jayu Human Rights Film Festival | @ Hot Docs | |
Taking stock of human rights abuses in North Korea and beyond.
|
|||
|
Filmi | @ Harbourfront | |
South Asian cinema culture.
|
|||
|
Best Of 2019 | @ Hot Docs | |
The cream of the 2019 doc crop, for your edification and
entertainment.
This week:
Miles Davis: Birth Of The Cool (2019, USA, D: Stanley Nelson) -- Dec 7, 9:30pm; Dec 9, 3:30pm Midnight Traveler (2019, UK/Canada/Qatar, D: Hassan Fazili) -- Dec 8, 1:15pm Echo In The Canyon (2018, USA, D: Andrew Slater) -- Dec 10, 4:00pm Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind (2019, Canada, D: Martha Kehoe & Joan Tosoni) -- Dec 11, 4:00pm Amazing Grace (2018, USA, D: Alan Elliott & Sydney Pollack) -- Dec 12, 11:45am Linda Ronstadt: The Sound Of My Voice (2019, USA, D: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman) -- Dec 12, 2:15pm Where's My Roy Cohn? (2019, USA, D: Matt Tyrnauer) -- Dec 12, 4:45pm |
|||
|
In The Realm Of Oshima: The Best of Japanese Master Nagisa Oshima | @ Lightbox | |
A selection of the rebel filmmaker's greatest hits.
This week:
Pleasures Of The Flesh (1965, Japan, D: Nagisa Oshima) -- Dec 7, 4:00pm |
|||
|
News From Home: The Films Of Chantal Akerman | @ Lightbox | |
The late feminist and formalist filmmaker is remembered.
This week:
From The Other Side (2002, Belgium/France/Australia/Finland, D: Chantal Akerman) -- Dec 5, 6:20pm Tomorrow We Move (2004, France/Belgium, D: Chantal Akerman) -- Dec 7, 6:15pm La-Bas (2006, France/Belgium, D: Chantal Akerman) + Saute Ma Ville (1968, France, D: Chantal Akerman) -- Dec 8, 6:45pm Almayer's Folly (2011, Belgium/France, D: Chantal Akerman) -- Dec 11, 6:30pm |
|||
|
Scorsese: A Retrospective | @ Lightbox | |
Scorsese's all-encompassing love of cinema produces
an equally wide-ranging body of work: religious-themed dramas,
literary adaptations and, of course, the gangster films
that made his reputation
This week:
Taxi Driver (1976, USA, D: Martin Scorsese) -- Dec 5, 9:55pm The Age Of Innocence (1993, USA, D: Martin Scorsese) -- Dec 6, 11:00am; Dec 12, 6:15pm Goodfellas (1990, USA, D: Martin Scorsese) -- Dec 6, 3:30pm Raging Bull (1980, USA, D: Martin Scorsese) -- Dec 6, 6:30pm; Dec 7, 12:50pm; Dec 8, 9:10pm; Dec 9, 8:45pm; Dec 10, 8:45pm; Dec 11, 3:20pm; Dec 12, 3:30pm The Hustler (1961, USA, D: Robert Rossen) -- Dec 6, 9:15pm The Color Of Money (1986, USA, D: Martin Scorsese) -- Dec 8, 4:00pm After Hours (1985, USA, D: Martin Scorsese) -- Dec 10, 6:30pm |
|||
One-Offs And Short Runs | |||
|
Sonatine
Tokyo Yakuza hide out at the Okinawa beach following an outbreak of gang warfare. |
||
|
Raise Hell: The Life & Times Of Molly Ivins
Journalist Ivins takes on Texas corruption with force and wit. |
||
|
First Love
A boxer and an addict meet-cute against the backdrop of a gang war. |
||
|
CKY: Landspeed
CKY2K CKY3 Skateboarding and outrageous stunts provide the seeds for future Jackass-es. Plus: live music. |
||
|
If You Love Me (Se Mi Vuoi Bene)
A man's urge to help out causes only disaster ... until it doesn't. |
||
|
The Rebirth Of Mothra
When Ghidora reawakens to unleash devastation, can the planet's protector Mothra be far behind? |
||
|
Ivan Ladislav Galeta: End Art
Galeta finds inspiration in symmetry. |
||
|
Gremlins
Cute little creatures destroy a small town's Christmas when they are fed after midnight. |
||
|
Almost Famous
A teen is given the opportunity to tour with a rising rock band and write about the experience for Rolling Stone. |
||
|
White Christmas
Black Christmas Christmas contrast! Crosby, Kaye and Clooney bring the seasonal cheer; Canada gifts the slasher flick to the world. A Royal Christmas tradition. |
||
|
The Apartment
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Viewer's choice! 1: Office worker Jack Lemmon tries to get in good with the higher-ups by lending them his bachelor pad for rendezvous with their mistresses. 2: The Mystery Inc. gang are threatened by someone recreating villains from their past. |
||
|
Christmas Sucks
The Eplet Triplet Paul Bellini touches back with "Christmas movies for grinches". |
||
|
Apocalypse Now (Final Cut) IMAX
Martin Sheen goes upriver to find the heart of darkness. New 4K restoration and cut! |
||
|
Lost And Found In Late Capitalism
Found-footage videos put the products of capitalism to use in telling of life under its thumb. At the Small World Music Centre (180 Shaw). |
||
|
Manborg
"I am man ... I am borg ... I am Manborg." A cyborg and his misfit commandos take on Count Draculon and the armies of Hell. From Winnipeg cult film collective Astron 6. Plus: live music afterparty with Joe Cash. |
||
|
Silent Night, Bloody Night
Murders ensue after a man inherits an old asylum for the mentally insane. |
||
|
Nightmare
Phantasm Fear x 2. |
||
|
A Christmas Story
Little Ralphie would love nothing more than for Santa to bring him a Red Ryder BB gun. |
||
|
A Christmas Story
Elf Gremlins National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation The Polar Express Community Day! Free Christmas-y movies & cheap concessions raise money for Boys & Girls Clubs of Canada. |
||
|
The Awful Truth
Marriage begets divorce begets the possibility of reconciliation between Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. One of the great screwball comedies. |
||
|
The Tokyo Night Is Always The Densest Shade Of Blue
Three Stories Of Love Her Love Boils Bathwater Tales of modern love, Japanese-style. 1: a nurse moonlighting at a bar meets an anxious construction worker. 2: three people from different walks of life grapple with change. 3: a single mom with a terminal illness resets family fortunes before time runs out. |
||
|
Solaris
Scientists manning a planetary outpost contend with materialized thoughts and memories. A high-art, sci-fi classic. |
||
|
The Stunt Man
A Vietnam vet on the run finds refuge as a stunt man on the set of a war epic. |
||
|
Code 8
A man marginalized by his special powers turns to the criminal underworld to make a living. |
||
|
The Long Kiss Goodnight
A suburban Mom joins forces with a private detective to evade killers from her former life as a secret agent. Plus: drinking games! |
||
|
Promare
Firefighting mechas fight fire-lighting mutants. Screening both subbed and dubbed. |
||
|
The Land Before Time
Cute little dinosaurs try to outrun both a T-Rex and the coming ice age. |
||
|
Trouble In Paradise
Cinema Paradiso Phantom Of The Paradise Stranger Than Paradise Paradise Day! Four films inspired by the notion embodied by the cinema's name. 1: a thief, a pickpocket and an heiress form an unlikely threesome. 2: a boy in a small village falls hard for cinema. 3: De Palma crosses Phantom Of The Opera with Faust. 4: a New York hipster takes a road trip to Florida with his friend and visiting Hungarian cousin. |
||
|
Golda
The story of the pioneering female prime minister of Israel is told. |
||
|
Metropolitan
They Shall Have Music Music! Opera stars strike out on their own; a runaway puts a violinist on the job of saving a music school for poor kids. |
||
|
The Pyx
An investigation into the murder of a prostitute uncovers evidence of a satanic cult. Plus: producer Julian (The Mask, The Bloody Brood) Roffman's son Peter will be present to introduce a filmed interview with his father. |
||
|
Amazing Grace
Aretha Franklin wows a Watts church circa 1972. |
||
|
This Means War
Horrible Bosses 2 Chris-mas Pine-fest! |
||
|
The Star Wars Holiday Special
Christmas, Wookie-style. |
||
|
School Daze
Students at a historically black college clash over a protest. With Laurence Fishburne and Giancarlo Esposito. |
||
|
Bend It Like Beckham
The daughter of Sikh immigrants runs up against her parents' traditonalism when all she wants to do is play a little footie. Director Gurinder Chadha in attendance! |
||
|
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Chevy Chase and company indulge in a little holiday mayhem. At Cineplex VIP locations only. |
||
|
Punch Drunk Love
Adam Sandler struggles with anxiety, rage and romance (not to mention a bright blue suit). 35mm! |
||
|
Freaked
A chemical company's spokesman finds out for himself the freaky side efects of his employer's poisons. Plus: live comedy! |
||
|
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
On screen: Chevy Chase's holiday mayhem. On stage: Dwayne Gretsky performs! Free tickets are available beginning at 5:30pm. |
||
|
Stage Door
Young actresses hustle for their big break in New York showbiz. With Kathrine Hepburn, Ginger Rogers and Lucille Ball! |
||
|
Tokyo Godfathers
A trio of people living on the street search for an abandoned baby's parents on Christmas Eve. |
||
|
In Conversation With... Andre Aciman
The author of Call Me By Your Name discusses the novel's sequel. Plus: classical pianist Darren Creech plays selections from the Call Me By Your Name Soundtrack. A book signing follows the event. |
||
|
The Elephant Man
Sideshow attraction John Merrick becomes a Victorian celebrity. |
||
|
Lost In The Pacific
Wealthy passengers are marooned by an air crash. |
||
|
Days Of Heaven
A farm worker and his girlfriend scheme to grab of piece of a dying landowner's fortune. |
||
|
Love, Actually
The DFF crew take on Curtis' epic holiday romantic comedy. |
||
|
Kitanaka Sketch
A manga artist struggles with representing her hometown. |
||
|
Holiday Video Chuck
BYOC! The members of Charles Street Video showcase their latest. |
||
|
Marie Antoinette
France's doomed queen revels in decadence. Plus: a presentation on Coppola's visual reference points. |
||
|
Crossroads
The Exploding Digital Inevitable Conner's classic found footage compilation of atomic bomb tests is paired with Lipman's live documentary essay sharing the story of Crossroads' creation. |
||
|
Love Actually
Love, love and more love - at Christmas. With Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Bill Nighy, Emma Thompson, Keira Knightley and Laura Linney. |
||
|
Puppet Killer
You know the drill: students, cabin, killer ... puppet? Presented by Toronto Indie Horror Fest. |
||
|
You've Got Mail
The DFF crew take on Ephron's internet-era update of The Shop Around The Corner. |
||
|
Movements Of A Nearby Mountain
A Nigerian mechanic fixes and exports cars from his workplace in Austria to his homeland. Director in attendance! |
||
|
Strange Brew
"Fleshy-headed mutant, are you friendly?" "No way, eh? Radition has, like, made me an enemy of society!" Hosers Bob & Doug get mixed up in a Hamlet pastiche at a sinister brewery. With Max Von Sydow as the evil Brewmeister! |
||
|