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Canadian Sport Film Festival | ||
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Giving the armchair quarterback a festival to call his own.
At: Lightbox, online.
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Pure Cinematic Oxygen: The Films Of Michael Roemer | @ Lightbox | |
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Characters are caught between self-improvement and
self-destruction in the underseen work of American immigrant director
Michael Roemer.
This week:
Vengeance Is Mine (1984, USA, D: Michael Roemer) 35mm -- Nov 25, 6:15pm |
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Blood In The Snow | @ Isabel Bader | |
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Warm blood for the cold Canadian winter.
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Shorts Not Pants Festival | ||
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Quick takes.
At: Innis Town Hall, online.
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Lost And Beautiful: New Italian Cinema | @ Lightbox | |
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The works of Allesandro Comodin, Michelangelo Frammartino,
Pietro Marello and Alice Rohrwacher revitalize Italian cinema from the
margins.
This week:
Il Buco (2021, Italy/France/Germany, D: Michelangelo Frammartino) -- Nov 24, 6:00pm Martin Eden (2019, Italy/France, D: Pietro Marcello) -- Nov 29, 6:30pm |
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Canadian Labour International Film Festival | ||
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The world of work and those who do it.
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European Union Film Festival | @ online | |
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The member countries of the European Union showcase
continental culture for the benefit of us in the colonies.
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| One-Offs And Short Runs | |||
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E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial
Kids hide a friendly alien in the suburban enclave. |
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Riotsville USA
1960s-era military and police are trained to quell riots in specially built training grounds. |
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Troll 2
A family contends with goblins who plan to devour them in The infamously inept non-sequel, once immortalized in the doc Best Worst Movie. Celebrating 10 years of Bad Movie Night courtesy Exploding Zebra. |
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Isabella
Actresses helping each other prepare for an audition discover they are vying for the same role. Director in attendance! |
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Black Swan
Ballet dancer Natalie Portman begins to lose her mind after being cast in a prestigious role. |
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Becoming Black
A young bi-racial woman grows up with family and community insisting that she's white. Filmmaker in attendance. |
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The Lost Boys
New kids in town discover its vampire-infested secret. |
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The Game
A strange birthday present places a wealthy man's life in constant danger. |
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Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Hell is travelling with other people. At Yonge-Dundas, Eglinton Town Centre and Winston Churchill. |
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Last Flight Home
The director's father looks back upon his remarkable life as he prepares to end his life. |
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13 Going On 30
A 13-year-old girl's wish sends her into the body of her 30-year-old self (Jennifer Garner). |
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Rear Window
A voyeur witnesses murder. With Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly. |
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Fragile Systems: Films and Videos by Christine Lucy Latimer
Latimer's work pushes and embraces the constraints of image-creation technology. |
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All About Lily Chou-Chou
Alienated teens find solace in the lush sounds of the titular pop star. |
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Hyenas
A now-rich woman returns to her impoverished village with promises of salvation that hinge on the death of the lover who abandoned her. Restored! |
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Red Scorpion
Russkie war machine Dolph Lundgren charts his own course. |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show
The venerable cult film and its live shadow cast return to Time Warp again. |
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The Warriors
Come out and play. A colorful street gang is hunted by its equally flamboyant counterparts. |
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A Christmas Story
Little Ralphie would love nothing more than for Santa to bring him a Red Ryder BB gun. |
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Go West
City-slicker Buster goes looking for ranch work. Introduction by Chris Seguin. Live musical accompaniment by William O'Meara. Presented by the Toronto Silent Film Festival. |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
The King of Halloween tries to bring Christmas magic to his realm. |
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I Didn't See You There
The arrival of the circus prompts a disabled filmmaker to consider when and how the differently abled are allowed to be seen and heard by the dominant culture. |
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Rhymes For Young Ghouls
A drug-dealing Mi'q Maq teen is threatened with residential school when she can't pay the Indian agent's requisite bribe. Screening in memory of recently passed director Jeff Barnaby. Also on the bill: Barnaby's 2007 short Colony. |
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Liar Liar
Pathological liar Jim Carrey must tell the truth for one whole day. |
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Backstreet Boys: Show 'Em What You're Made Of
'90s phenomenons look back 20 years later as they prepare to record a new record. Plus: pre-show cocktails and DJ. |
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Lady Terminator
South Asia gender-flips and folklore-skews its namesake's unstoppable killing machine.. "A true classic in the pantheon of WTF cinema." |
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House
Seven schoolgirls fall victim to an evil house in Obayashi's hallucinatory, psychedelic, absolutely bugfuck horror singularity. Also on the program: Owen Land's short On The Marriage Broker Joke as Cited by Sigmund Freud in Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious or Can the Avant-Garde Artist Be Wholed?. |
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The Room
The infamy. Bring spoons! |
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The Queen
Helen Mirren IS Her Majesty. Plus: tea and scones! |
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The 48 Hour Film Project: Best Of Screening
Two days to make a movie, a couple of hours to showcase the best. |
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Underground
A love triangle plays out on the trains running through the London Underground. |
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The Palm Beach Story
Joel McCrea pursues his ex, who has decided that a quickie divorce and a speedy marriage will enable her to fund his dreams. |
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Risky Business
Chicago romance I. Tom Cruise turns his parents' vacation into a business opportunity. |
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A House Made Of Splinters
Social workers care for kids near the frontline of the war in Ukraine. |
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City Slickers
Old friends soothe their mid-life crises by playing cowboy. |
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Desert Hearts
A professor waiting for a quickie divorce falls for a Nevada casino worker. A lesbian romance classic. Restored! |
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Love Jones
Chicago romance II. Talented young African Americans navigate the murky waters of love and sex. |
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Paris, Texas
Drifter Harry Dean Stanton attempts to re-integrate himself into society and reconnect with his family. |
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Gridlock'd
Tupac Shakur and Tim Roth run into all manner of obstacles when they try to kick their drug habit. |
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Navalny
Russian political reformer Alexei Navalny attempts to get to the bottom of his attempted assassination by poison. |
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Grethe Meyer: The Queen Of Danish Design
Danish ceramic designer Grethe Meyer's independence and knack for analysis leads her to create work that continues to live today. Presented by The Canadian Society for Decorative Arts. |
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My Best Friend's Wedding
Chicago romance III. A woman tries to put a stop to her best friend's wedding when she realizes she's in love with him. |
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Conan The Barbarian
"Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women." Schwarzenegger brings Robert E. Howard's Crom-worshipping barbarian to over-muscled life. Plus: a live performance by barbarian band Thunder Glove. |
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Sambizanga
A woman searches her country's jails for her missing freedom fighter husband. |
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High Fidelity
Chicago romance IV. Record store owner John Cusack deals with his troubled store and the end of his current relationship. |
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Eternal Spring
Falun Gong practitioners resist oppression by the Chinese government. Winner of the audience award at Hot Docs 2022 and Canada's selection for Oscar submission. |
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Moneyball
Billy Beane leades his Oakland A's to baseball success through the power of statistics. Introduced by pop culture critic Elamin Abdelmahmoud and CBC's Tom Power. |
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Solomon King
An ex-CIA agent goes on a vengeance quest fueled by funk and fashion. Restored and resurrected! |
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Descendant
Descendants of the last slave ship to arrive in Alabama wrestle with family histories and news of the discovery of the ship's ruins. |
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Buddies
A gay man takes on the role of visiting buddy to another dying of AIDS. Restored! Intro by John Greyson. |
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B*A*P*S
A pair of Southern girls become L.A.-living Black American Princesses. 35mm! |
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Little Women
The March sisters (embodied in this adaptation by Winona Ryder, Trini Alvarado, Samantha Mathis, Kirsten Dunst and Claire Danes) discover life's joys, disappointments and opportunities as they grow from girls into women. |
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Harvest Time
Follow Neil Young from his California barn to London and to Nashville as he crafts and performs the songs that would appear on his immortal album Harvest. |
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All That Breathes
New Delhi brothers care for wounded birds as unrest escalates around them. |
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Christmas Evil
Psycho Santa gives the naughty more than just coal. |
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