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Giggleshorts | ||
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Levity meets brevity.
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The Great Digital Film Festival | @ Scotiabank | |
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Hollywood film classics screen digitally.
The full schedule can be found here.
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Music, Magic, Clash: New Voices In The African Diaspora | @ Lightbox | |
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TIFF celebrates Black History Month by presenting the work of
young, upcoming filmmakers from the African diaspora.
This week:
Better Mus' Come (2010, Jamaica, D: Storm Saulter) -- Feb 4, 2:00pm; Feb 5, 3:45pm |
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The Way Home: The Films Of Turkish Master Yilmaz Guney | @ Lightbox | |
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Onscreen tough, offscreen dissident, imprisoned
director -- the many faces of Turkey's Yilmaz Guney.
This week:
Elegy (1971, Turkey, D: Yilmaz Guney) -- Feb 2, 6:30pm Bride Of The Earth (1968, Turkey, D: Yilmaz Guney) -- Feb 3, 6:30pm The Hungry Wolves (1969, Turkey, D: Yilmaz Guney) -- Feb 4, 7:00pm The Friend (1974, Turkey, D: Yilmaz Guney) -- Feb 5, 6:30pm |
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Cinéfranco: Youth Program | @ Lightbox | |
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Preceding each year's round-up of
recent French-language cinema, Cinefranco reaches out to
the city's youth with weekday school group screenings (also
open to the general public).
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The Poetry Of Precision: The Films Of Robert Bresson | @ Lightbox | |
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Bresson finds transcendence in the sparse and specific.
This week:
A Man Escaped (1956, France, D: Robert Bresson) with Bart Testa -- Feb 9, 6:30pm Pickpocket (1959, France, D: Robert Bresson) -- Feb 10, 6:30pm Mouchette (1967, France, D: Robert Bresson) -- Feb 11, 7:00pm Diary Of A Country Priest (1950, France, D: Robert Bresson) -- Feb 12, 4:00pm A Man Escaped (1956, France, D: Robert Bresson) -- Feb 12, 7:00pm |
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The Cinema Is Nicholas Ray | @ Lightbox | |
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TIFF Cinematheque turns its weekly helping of
Hollywood Classics into a full-scale Nicholas Ray retrospective on the occasion
of the director's centenary.
This week:
Johnny Guitar (1954, USA, D: Nicholas Ray) -- Feb 5, 1:00pm The True Story Of Jesse James (1957, USA, D: Nicholas Ray) -- Feb 12, 1:00pm |
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Attack The Bloc: Cold War Science Fiction From Behind The Iron Curtain | @ Lightbox | |
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Commie pulp meets Eastern European metaphysics.
This week:
Solaris (1972, Russia, D: Andrei Tarkovsky) -- Feb 2, 8:45pm Who Wants To Kill Jessie? (1966, Czechoslovakia, D: Vaclav Vorlicek) -- Feb 3, 9:00pm In The Dust Of The Stars (1976, East Germany, D: Gottfried Kolditz) -- Feb 10, 9:00pm Stalker (1979, Russia, D: Andrei Tarkovsky) -- Feb 11, 3:00pm |
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Exotica
Bruce Greenwood tries to find consolation for his loneliness in very arty strip club. Screening on the occasion of director Egoyan's turn to live theatre. |
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Moon Point
A directionless twentysomething gets it into his head to drag an old schooldays crush to his cousin's wedding. |
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Martha Qui Vient Du Froid
Inuit families are displaced into the Far North. No subs. |
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The Diving Bell And The Butterfly
Magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby can only communicate with his left eye after a stroke leaves him nearly completely paralyzed. |
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Village Of The Giants
Teens grow tall, take over. |
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The Black Stallion
A young shipwreck surivor grooms a wild stallion to be a champion racer. |
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Kung Fu Zombie
Death Machines Martial arts + zombies = ??? |
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The Rock
Cage and Connery vs. turncoat marines ... in Alcatraz. |
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Felicia's Journey
Read Trevor, watch and discuss with Egoyan. |
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Babette's Feast
Chef Scott Conant (founder of Scarpetta) presents the Danish Oscar-winner about food and faith. |
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Speakers For The Dead
Decendants of black Loyalists return to Priceville, Ontario to restore the cemetery where their ancestors lie. Screening with Martine Chartrand's animated visual history Black Soul. |
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Calvet
A onetime violent criminal who is now a successful artist sets out on a voyage of redemption. |
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Reel Paddling Film Festival
Cinema heads upstream. |
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Still A Brother
Go inside the African American middle class. |
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All Dogs Go To Heaven
A dead gangster dog returns to earth to settle some scores only to have his heart melted by an orphan girl. |
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Hop
A Pygmy without documentation fights the Belgian government in the search for his father. Screening with sports profile short Harry Jerome: L'homme Le Plus Rapide Au Monde. Presented by Cinefranco in honour of Black History Month. |
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Venus Noire
A Black maid follows her master to Europe hoping for fortune only to be humiliated as a sideshow attraction. Screening with mythic African-set short Hungu. Presented by Cinefranco in honour of Black History Month. |
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Wild At Heart
Cage makes Dern "hotter than Georgia asphalt" in Lynch's celebration of youth, romance and rebellion. |
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Stepping Between Projections
James Diamond speaks and presents his video work about corporeal experiences. Co-presented with the Rhubarb festival. The venue is Buddies In Bad Times (12 Alexander St). |
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