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European Union Film Festival | @ Spadina Theatre | |
The member countries of the European Union showcase
continental culture for the benefit of us in the colonies.
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Magnificent 70mm | @ Lightbox | |
Go big or go home.
This week:
Boogie Nights (1997, USA, D: Paul Thomas Anderson) new 70mm print -- Dec 1, 6:15pm; Dec 7, 6:30pm; Dec 10, 6:30pm 2001: a Space Odyssey (1968, UK/USA, D: Stanley Kubrick) 70mm -- Dec 2, 6:30pm; Dec 8, 6:30pm |
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The Lubitsch Touch | @ Lightbox | |
Lubitsch brings European sophistication and humour
(with no shortage of innuendo) to golden age Hollywood.
This week:
Ninotchka (1939, USA, D: Ernst Lubitsch) -- Dec 2, 3:00pm; Dec 10, 3:00pm To Be Or Not To Be (1942, USA, D: Ernst Lubitsch) 35mm -- Dec 3, 3:00pm The Love Parade (1929, USA, D: Ernst Lubitsch) 35mm -- Dec 3, 6:30pm |
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Jayu Human Rights Film Festival | @ Hot Docs | |
Taking stock of human rights abuses in North Korea and beyond.
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Toronto Shorts International Film Festival | @ Innis Town Hall | |
Short-form cinema.
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Filmi | @ Harbourfront | |
South Asian cinema culture.
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One-Offs And Short Runs | |||
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Disturbing Behaviour
Rebel Pacific Northwest teens are targeted for conformist brainwashing. |
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Hard-Nosed (A Muso Duro)
Dr. Antonio Maglio pushes for the social integration of disabled people, leading to the founding of the Paralympic Games. A panel discussion preceds the film. Presented by ICFF. |
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Shrek (Interactive)
A flatulent Scots ogre falls for the princess he agreed to rescue. An interactive experience, complete with prompts and props. |
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Going In
Estranged party buddies return to the scene following a kidnapping. Director/writer/star Rissi in attendance. |
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The Adults
A fraught relationship between siblings turns a short visit back home into an extended reunion. Actress Hannah Gross will be in attendance. |
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Oldboy
A flawed man seeks vengeance after being mysteriously imprisoned for 20 years. The second installment in Park's vengeance trilogy. |
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How The Grinch Stole Christmas
Jim Carrey brings the manic to Seuss' classic. At Carlton, Elgin Mills and Promenade. |
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The Holiday
Ladies swap houses (and countries) for Christmas in the hopes of kickstarting romance. |
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Batman Returns
"It's the so-called 'normal' guys who always let you down. Sickos never scare me. Least they're committed." The big man bat takes on The Penguin at Christmas time. |
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The Curse
A curse affects a newly married couple's reality tv series. The latest from Nathan Fielder. Episodes 4-5 will be screening today, with more to come over the next month or so. |
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Everyone I Know Is Sick
Social links between disability and AIDS are explored over the course of five commissioned videos from around the world. Screening to mark the Day Without Art. |
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299 Queen Street West
Canada's scrappy music video channel MuchMusic reconfigures music culture from Toronto's Queen West strip. VJs in attendance! |
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Tampopo
A couple of truck drivers help a widow make better ramen. Please bring a non-perishable food donation for Parkdale Community Food Bank. |
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Spirited
Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds and Octavia Spencer give Dickens' classic Christmas tale a musical, comedic spin. Showtimes: |
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Silent Night Deadly Night
'Tis the season for cold-blooded murder. A troubled teen becomes a Santa-garbed killer. |
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The Brain
A high school student with a flair for pranks fights a self-help television host who is brainwashing the populace with help from an alien entity. At Christmas. |
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The Thing
"If I was an imitation, a perfect imitation, how would you know it was really me?" Tough guy chopper pilot Kurt Russell and the crew of an Antarctic research station face a deadly alien mimic. |
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Elf
An adopted elf leaves the North Pole in search of his true family. With Will Ferrell and Zooey Deschanel. At Yonge-Dundas, Eglinton Town Centre, Vaughan and Winston Churchill. |
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Saturday Morning Cereal Cartoon Party
Sugar in the bowl, televisual sugar on the screen. 3 hours of favourites and obscurities, vintage commercials and PSAs. Plus: cereal! |
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The Polar Express
A boy meets Santa Claus as primitive motion capture technology provides season-inappropriate creepy vibes. |
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Unholy
A woman raising awareness of the genocidal war taking place in her homeland destabiizes further when she discovers her husband's secret. |
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Turning Heads Vol II
Real stories "reclaim makeup as a genderless tool of self-expression". |
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Behind The Lines
Syrian cartoonist Amany Ali-Ali, living in a city threatened by both religious extremism and war, uses her art to critique both. Subject in attendance along with her work. Presented by the Syrian Film Festival. |
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Toronto Based Shorts
Made locally, screened locally. |
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Billion Dollar Babies: The True Story of the Cabbage Patch Kids
The Cabbage Patch Kids phenomenon changes the toy industry. |
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Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2
A young man attempts to avenge past abuse and his murderous brother's death by targetting the evil Mother Superior. |
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I Am Eleven
A composite portrait of 11-year-olds from around the world. Director Genevieve Bailey will take part in a Zoom Q&A after the film. Please bring a non-perishable food donation for The Stop. |
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The Age Of Innocence
Daniel Day-Lewis is torn between social convention and personal passion in Scorsese's adaptation of Wharton's novel. Plus: tea and scones! |
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Asterix and Obelix: God Save Britannia
The plucky Gaul and his strong-but-thick best friend aid Britons against invading Romans. |
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Way Out West
Laurel & Hardy get mixed up in a scheme to defraud the rightful inheritor of a gold mine. A delightful comic treat! Also on the bill: L&H short Hog Wild. |
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Home Alone
An accidentally abandoned boy protects his Christmas from a pair of bumbling crooks. |
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Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Plucky Gauls find themselves embroiled in an Egyptian scheme to win a bet with Caesar. Presented by So French. |
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Elegies
Noted Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui surveys the poetry of her home city. |
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A Revolution On Canvas
A painter's daughter investigates the disappearance of over 100 paintings considered treasonous by the Iranian regime. Filmmakers in attendance. |
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Heavy Metal Parking Lot
Judas Priest fans party in their natural habitat. Plus: other Heyn & Krulik docs covering Lancelot Link, porn collecting and Neil Diamond fans. Plus: Dragon Sound perform a set of Judas Priest covers. |
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Introduction To The End Of An Argument
Perpetual Recurrences (An Exrcise In Film Programming) Western media's depiction of Palestinian comes under critique; clips of Palestinian and non-Palestinian films create a visual iconography of struggle. Free, but donations to Medical Aid For Palestinians are encouraged. Venue is somewhere in Kensington Market, revealed with ticket purchase. |
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Gremlins
Cute little creatures destroy a small town's Christmas when they are fed after midnight. |
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The Boy and The Heron
A boy enters a strange fantasy world on the verge of collapse after moving to the country following the death of his mother. Previewing tonight in IMAX at Yonge & Dundas, Eglinton Town Centre and Markham.. |
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Downtown 81
Jean-Michel Basquiat provides a peek into the 1980's New York art scene as he tries to rustle up some rent money. |
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Mountains On Stage
High climbin' cinema. |
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Kokomo City
Black trans sex workers speak of their profession and their community. |
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The Piano
A mute mail-order bride plays a game of sexual extortion with the frontiersman who has claimed her beloved piano. 35mm! Cameron Bailey will lead a post-screening discussion in Varda. |
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The Polar Express
A boy meets Santa Claus as primitive motion capture technology provides season-inappropriate creepy vibes. |
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Driving Mum
A devoted son drives the corpse of his recently deceased mother across Iceland to lay her to rest. Registration required. In person at Lightbox (?) and also streaming online via Zoom. |
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Trailer Trash: Doomsday
The Revue's own trailer editor Nathan Boone presents a selection of apocalyptic movie trailers. Members only! |
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The Abyss
A rescue team looking for a lost sub encounters aquatic aliens. 4K remaster! At Yonge & Dundas, Queensway, Richmond Hill, Scarborough, Vaughan, Winston Churchill and Yorkdale. |
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We Are Little Zombies
Teen orphans deal with their parents' deaths by forming a punk rock band. |
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Between The Rains
A Kenyan boy experiences tribal clashes, danger from predators and the erosion of his culture as climate change affects the traditional rainy season. |
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Yentl
A tomboy hides her gender to undergo religious training. |
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In Broad Daylight
Investigative journalists follow up on a tip about abuse of disabled residents in a care home. At Markham. |
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Phantom Ride
Excerpts from an industrialist's home movies become a journey along the open road. |
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How To Survive A Plague
ACT UP and TAG turn AIDS into something other than an immediate death sentence. Activist Peter Staley will appear virtually to answer questions after the film. |
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Raging Grace
An undocumented Filipina's new job as a care worker is threatened by an unexpected discovery. |
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Tokyo Godfathers
A trio of people living on the street search for an abandoned baby's parents on Christmas Eve. |
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Cup Of Cheer
Christmas movie tropes are tweaked and mocked as a journalist from the city becomes involved with the owner of a smalltown hot cocoa shop. Cast and crew in attendance! |
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