Programming at TIFF Bell Lightbox (Oct 14-28)

PROGRAMMING AT TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX - October 14, 2010 to October 28, 2010

Lots of special guests, first-run films and the TIFF Essential 100 films.

IN PERSON

Jeff Lindsay on Casablanca

Jeff Lindsay, award-winning author, playwright and screenwriter whose best-selling Dexter novels serve as the basis for the hit Showtime series, shifts into a softer mood to discuss Casablanca (1942), film # 8 on the list, one of Hollywood’s greatest romantic classics. Lindsay appears this evening in co-operation with the International Festival of Authors.

Thursday, October 21 at 7:00 p.m.

John Waters on Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

“The Pope of Trash” meets the most shocking film ever made when author, actor, photographer and filmmaker John Waters discusses Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), film # 47 on the list. John Waters appears this evening in co-operation with the International Festival of Authors. 

Saturday, October 23 at 8:30 p.m.

Jacqueline Stewart on Gone With the Wind

Following the screening of David O. Selznick’s Civil War epic, Gone with the Wind (1939), film # 24 on the list, noted film scholar Jacqueline Stewart will discuss African American stardom and Black film culture in the United States prior to World War II. Stewart is Associate Professor of Radio/Television/Film and African American Studies at Northwestern University, where her research focuses on African American film, literature and culture.

Thursday, October 28 at 6:30 p.m.

CONCERTS

Michael Nyman with Man with a Movie Camera / NYman with a Movie Camera

Toronto Premiere

Award-winning composer Michael Nyman will be here for two special musical presentations. On Saturday, October 23, the Michael Nyman Band performs the composer’s original score for Dziga Vertov’s masterpiece of montage, Man with a Movie Camera (1929), film # 9 on the list. For the Sunday matinee on October 24, the band will play alongside Nyman’s painstaking shot-for-shot reconstruction of Vertov’s film, NYman with a Movie Camera, which uses footage from the composer’s personal film archive shot over the past two decades to create a modern-day take on experimental documentary filmmaking. Both shows will include performances of additional works selected from Michael Nyman’s music and film repertoire.

Saturday, October 23 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, October 24 at 1:00 p.m.

ON SCREEN: Essential 100

Thursday October 14
6:30p.m. Sunrise

9:15 p.m. Ranging Bull

Friday, October 15
3:00 p.m. Sunrise

6:30 p.m. Vertigo

Saturday, October 16
12:00 p.m. (noon) The Wizard of Oz

3:00 p.m. Night and Fog

6:30 p.m. The Searchers

Sunday, October 17
12:00 p.m. (noon) Slumdog Millionaire

12:15 p.m. L’Arrivée d’un train á La Ciotat followed by Le Voyage dans la lune

3:00 p.m. Amélie

7:00 p.m. City of God

Tuesday, October 19
1:00 p.m. Bicycle Thieves

Wednesday, October 20
6:30 p.m. Pickpocket

8:45 p.m. Vertigo

Thursday, October 21
3:00 p.m. Through the Olive Trees

9:30 p.m. The Seventh Seal

Friday, October 22
3:00 p.m. 81/2

6:30 p.m. The Battle of Algiers

6:45 p.m. The 400 Blows

9:30 p.m. Viridiana

11:59 p.m. In the Mood for Love

Saturday, October 23
12:30 p.m. Seven Samurai

5:00 p.m. The Earring of Madame de …

7:45 p.m. The 400 Blows

10:30 p.m. Pan’s Labyrinth

Sunday, October 24
12:00 p.m. Children of Paradise

12:30 p.m. The Sorrow and the Pity

Monday, October 25
9:00 p.m. Life is Beautiful

Tuesday, October 26
12:30 p.m. Written on the Wind

3:15 p.m. L’Atalante

6:30 p.m. Through the Olive Trees

9:00 p.m. Pulp Fiction

Thursday, October 28
3:30 p.m. Wings of Desire

ON SCREEN: Exclusive Engagements
Every week, TIFF will launch exclusive engagements, giving audiences multiple opportunities to watch the best of international and Canadian cinema’s past and present on the big screen.

Regular $12.00/Students $9.50/Seniors $9.50

Start Date: Thursday, October 14, 2010

NEW PRINT

Taxi Driver
Martin Scorsese, 1976, USA

Film # 45 on the Essential 100 list

Hallucinatory, mesmerizing and strikingly violent, Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader’s plunge into the twisted psyche of a cab-driving Vietnam vet offers a nightmarish voyage into the seedy underbelly of pre-Giuliani NYC. In perhaps his greatest performance, Robert De Niro brilliantly incarnates the lonely and deeply troubled Travis Bickle, who becomes obsessed with “saving” a pre-teen prostitute (Jodie Foster) from her manipulative, jive-talking pimp (Harvey Keitel).

Start Date: Thursday, October 21, 2010

NEW PRINT

Jules et Jim

François Truffaut, 1962, France

Film # 74 on the Essential 100 list

A radiant love letter to la vie bohème, the film chronicles the years-long friendship between Jules (Oskar Werner), an Austrian etymologist, Jim (Henri Serre), a Parisian writer, and the enchanting, narcissistic and mercurial Catherine (Jeanne Moreau), the woman they both love, whose passion and vivacity both enriches their friendship and drives them towards tragedy. Tracing this ménage à trois from the belle époque through World War I and its aftermath, Truffaut’s third film brought the Nouvelle Vague to worldwide attention and established him as one of the most influential filmmakers of the era.

Start Date: Thursday, October 28, 2010
NEW PRINT

Psycho
Alfred Hitchcock, 1960, USA

Film # 68 on the Essential 100 list

Desperate to fund a new life with her boyfriend, Marion Crane steals $40,000 from her boss and flees cross-country, until she makes the fateful decision to take refuge in the isolated Bates Motel, run by a friendly but nervous young man named Norman and his dominating, unseen mother. When a memorable encounter in a shower suddenly jerks the story in another direction, Marion’s sister, her boyfriend and a snooping private detective become embroiled with the increasingly desperate Norman, propelling the film towards its unforgettable conclusion. This new print features a restored and reconstructed soundtrack.

SPECIAL WEEKENDS
As part of its inaugural fall calendar, TIFF Bell Lightbox will offer a series of special weekend programming.

ESSENTIAL RESTORATIONS: FOUR FILMS FROM THE ACADEMY FILM ARCHIVE

October 16 and 17

TIFF partners with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for a special weekend devoted to the Academy’s invaluable restorations of four cinematic masterpieces, three of which are on the Essential 100 list. The restorations include Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali and F.W. Murnau’s Sunrise. Every screening will be followed by a short presentation and an in-depth discussion with Academy Film Archive Director Michael Pogorzelski. This programme is made possible in collaboration with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.