TIFF BELL Lightbox Jul 21 - Aug 4

PROGRAMMING AT TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX

July 21 – August 4, 2011

TIFF CINEMATHEQUE

July 1 to August 7: Raj Kapoor & The Golden Age of Indian Cinema
One of the giants of Indian cinema, actor, director, mogul and legend Raj Kapoor is synonymous with the rise of Bollywood. The highly influential Kapoor is revered throughout India, the former Soviet world, the Middle East and beyond for the films he made during the Golden Age of Indian cinema. Running from July 1 to August 7, TIFF presents the first major Kapoor retrospective in North America in nearly three decades – featuring a number of newly struck 35mm prints – and an exciting new installation from acclaimed filmmaker Srinivas Krishna.

To help contextualize Kapoor’s work, the retrospective also includes key films from the Golden Age era and beyond. 

Films screening between July 21 – August 4 include:

Jagte Raho (Stay Awake) dir. Sombhu Mitra & Amit Maitra
Thursday, July 21 at 6 p.m.
Jagte Raho also plays for free in David Pecaut Square on August 3 as part of TIFF in the Park. 

Aag (Fire) dir. Raj Kapoor

Friday, July 22 at 3 p.m.

Junglee dir. Subodh Mukherjee

Sunday, July 24 at 3:45 p.m.

Meera Nam Joker (My Name Is Joker) dir. Raj Kapoor

Friday, July 29 at 1:30 p.m.

There will be a 15-minute intermission approximately two hours into the film

Satyam Shivam Sundaram (Love Sublime/Love, Truth and Beauty) dir. Raj Kapoor
Sunday, July 31 at 3:45 p.m.

July 14 to July 31: Masks and Faces: The Films of John Cassavetes
Now firmly entrenched in film history as the “father of American independent cinema,” John Cassavetes was in his day one of the most controversial, even reviled figures in American film, regularly lambasted by both the Hollywood establishment and the mainstream press. After attaining considerable success as an actor in studio films, Cassavetes bit the hand that fed him by decrying the falsity of typical Hollywood product and declaring the need for a new, freer cinema to replace it.

Running from July 14 to July 31, the retrospective presents all of Cassavetes’ films as director (with the exception of his disavowed final film Big Trouble) and three of his most memorable performances in films by other directors – Rosemary’s Baby (Polanski, 1968), The Dirty Dozen (Aldrich, 1967), and Mikey and Nicky (May, 1976).

The Killing of a Chinese Bookie

Friday, July 22 at 6:30 p.m.

The Dirty Dozen

Friday, July 22 at 9 p.m.

Minnie and Moskowitz

Sunday, July 24 at 7:30 p.m.

Gloria
Thursday, July 28 at 8:45 p.m.

Opening Night
Friday, July 29 at 9:15 p.m.

Love Streams
Sunday, July 31 at 7:30 p.m.

July 28 to August 28: Days of Glory: Masterworks of Italian Neorealism

This long anticipated series, a month-long “must,” surveys one of the most important movements in postwar international cinema: Italian neorealism. A rich mix of classics and rarities, most of them imported from Italy for this presentation, the series features such giants of Italian cinema as Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Luchino Visconti and Pier Paolo Pasolini, and serves as the ideal sidebar to the concurrent series and exhibition dedicated to Federico Fellini; the maestro’s roots were in neorealism, and he worked on several of the films included in this series.

Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) dir. Vittorio De Sica

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

Paisan (Paisà) dir. Roberto Rossellini
Friday, July 29 at 6:30 p.m.

Umberto D. dir. Vittorio De Sica

Monday, August 1 at 6:30 p.m.

The Overcoat (Il cappotto) dir. Alberto Lattuada

Wednesday, August 3 at 6:30 p.m.

Without Pity (Senza pieta) dir. Alberto Lattuada

Wednesday, August 3 at 8:50 p.m.

Francis, God’s Jester (Francesco, guillare di Dio, a.k.a. The Flowers of St. Francis) dir. Roberto Rossellini
Thursday, August 4 at 6:30 p.m.

Voyage in Italy (Viaggio in Italia) dir. Roberto Rossellini
Thursday, August 4 at 8:30 p.m.

EXHIBITIONS

June 10 to August 14: My Name is Raj

My Name is Raj, TIFF’s first co-commission with Luminato, celebrates Indian Film Pioneer Raj Kapoor.  Drawing on Kapoor’s tendency to play himself in his films, the participatory installation by filmmaker and artist Srinivas Krishna puts viewers in the action, using some of Kapoor’s iconic scenes, a photo studio, and a loop of film clips. A photo wall of these portraits leads the viewer to a loop of clips from Kapoor’s films in which Krishna manipulates the actor-director’s image, even taking his place on screen. Viewers then enter a photo studio where their portraits are taken in the guise of Kapoor’s characters and inserted into his cinematic worlds on monitors—a fantasizing reinvention of identity that takes us to the heart of Kapoor’s art and its hold on Indian audiences. The installation will run in the atrium of the TIFF Bell Lightbox from June 10 to August 14, also coinciding with TIFF’s Raj Kapoor: the Golden Age of Indian Cinema retrospective July 1 to August 7.

June 30 to September 18: Fellini: Spectacular Obsessions
Fellini: Spectacular Obsessions presents the career of one of cinema’s greatest directors, Federico Fellini, through the maestro’s obsessions, sources of inspiration and the raw material of his creative process. The exhibition traces how the decadence, glamour, outrageousness and frenzy that swirled around Rome and Italy in the 1960s served as a laboratory for his cinema.  Organized by themes, each highlighting Fellini’s powerful impact on our contemporary culture, the exhibition pays special attention to the symbiotic relationship between the paparazzi, a term that he coined while filming La Dolce Vita (1960), and the celebrities and scandals of the time, through a series of intersecting rooms featuring rare and archival photographs and tabloids. Some of the notorious scandals featured in the exhibition include the infamous evening at the fashionable nightclub the Rugantino where a Turkish actress decided to outdo the famous Swedish model Anita Ekberg by launching into a provocative striptease that became a tabloid front-page sensation.

Another important section looks closely at La Dolce Vita’s famous Trevi Fountain scene, in which Marcello Mastroianni’s and Anita Ekberg’s lips almost—but not quite—meet for a kiss. Fellini’s many other obsessions inhabit the exhibition, including his fascination with rock and roll and the circus; images of women of a variety of shapes and forms, including Anita Ekberg’s dozens of magazines covers from Playboy to Life Magazine; his dream-world, represented by excerpts from his drawing-journal, The Book of Dreams; and his interest in caricatures and grotesques reflected in photos and letters sent to him by interesting-looking unknowns vying to be in his films.

The Annex Gallery features a companion exhibition called Gli Anni Della Dolce Vita (The Dolce Vita Years), which was originally organized to celebrate the film’s 50th anniversary at the Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin last year. This exhibit-within-the-exhibition, which is co-hosted by Toronto’s Columbus Centre, features photography from Arturo Zavattini, Fellini’s camera operator, and from Marcello Geppetti, among the original paparazzi and now considered an unsung master of photography, due to the accomplished compositions and artistic sensitivity of his work. Driven by his attention to detail and tireless dedication to relentlessly hunt down European and American stars, Geppetti was best known for his scandalous photograph of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton kissing in Ischia while on break from filming Cleopatra (1963)—the image that would reveal Taylor’s infidelity to the world. Other highlights include timeless photographs of John Wayne, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren and The Beatles.

NEW RELEASES

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. Schedules and tickets available online every Wednesday. See tiff.net or check local listings for show times.

Release date: Friday, July 22

Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson

Trish Dolman, 2011, Canada

A hit at this year’s Hot Docs, Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson is an intimate and revealing documentary about the legendary Canadian environmentalist. As one of the chief architects of Greenpeace, Watson has long been on the forefront of environmental activism, famously pushing the organization to adopt a more radical stance by physically involving himself in protests, whether perched atop a whale or confiscating the clubs of seal hunters. His controversial departure from Greenpeace led to his founding of the Sea Shepherd Society, which aggressively pursues ships hunting whales illegally. Blending revealing and intimate interviews with shocking frontline footage, director Trish Dolman has crafted a compelling portrait of modern activism.

Special PresentationS and Film Series

June 11 to August 20: Family Classics

TIFF’s new, ongoing series of Family Classics Saturday matinees kicks presents films from the Disney vault. From charming musical fantasies to grand adventures on the high seas and powerful sagas of the wilderness, these enchanting films continue to delight audiences of all ages.

The Incredible Journey dir. Fletcher Markle
Saturday, July 23 at 2 p.m.

Spy Kids dir. Robert Rodroguez
Saturday, July 30 at 2 p.m.

June 11 to August 20: The Best of Midnight Madness
Our new, recurring series of late-night cult movies kicks off with a selection of audience favourites from the first 20 years of the Festival’s Midnight Madness programme. Brain-eating slugs, cowboy mummies, S&M assassins and rock ‘n’ roll zombies – why bother spending your summer outside?

Wild Zero dir. Tetsuro Takeuchi
Saturday, July 23 at 11 p.m.

Ichi the Killer dir. Takashi Miike
Saturday, July 30 at 11 p.m.

June 12 to August 30: Hollywood Classics: Montgomery Clift

TIFF Cinematheque‘s year-round series continues from June 12 to August 30 with a summer-long retrospective on Montgomery Clift, the tormented, vulnerable and unique star of 1950s American cinema.

From Here to Eternity dir. Fred Zinnemann
Sunday, July 24 at 1 p.m.
Tuesday, July 26 at 6:30 p.m.

A Place in the Sun dir. George Stevens
Sunday, July 31 at 1 p.m.

Tuesday, August 2 at 6:30 p.m.

June 30 to August 26: Fellini / Felliniesque: “Dream” Double Bills

Curated by Noah Cowan, it features contributions from filmmakers, critics and programmers who have each chosen a double bill that pairs a Fellini film with another film that is inspired by, rhymes with or contrasts with the Maestro’s unique vision. Some of the fascinating duos include Fellini’s La Strada (1954) with Jane Campion’s An Angel at My Table (1990), paired by American author and filmmaker Miranda July; Fellini’s La Strada (1954) with Charles Chaplin’s Limelight (1952), paired by renowned actress, author and filmmaker Isabella Rossellini; Fellini’s 8½ (1963) with Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), paired by celebrated Armenian-Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan; and Fellini’s Roma (1972) with Terry Gilliam’s Brazil (1985), paired by Palme d’Or winner Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

The double bill of Fellini’s Toby Dammit and Dario Argento’s Suspiria to take place on Saturday, July 2 at 5:30 p.m. will be introduced by internationally renowned filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Devil’s Backbone).

Films screening between July 21 – August 4 include:

Fellini’s Casanova
Saturday, July 23 at 4:15 p.m.

Shampoo dir. Hal Ashby
Wednesday, July 23 at 7:15 p.m.

La Strada

Saturday, July 30 at 4:15 p.m.

An Angel at My Table
Saturday, July 30 at 7 p.m.

July 6 to August 31: TIFF in the Park Classic Musicals
Every Wednesday at sunset beginning in July, TIFF and the Toronto Entertainment District BIA present FREE outdoor screenings of classic screen musicals at David Pecaut Square (formerly Metro Square, next to Roy Thomson Hall). In addition to such family favourites as The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins and The Wizard of Oz, we are also proud to offer a peek at TIFF Bell Lightbox’s epic Raj Kapoor retrospective with a screening of his classic film Jagte Raho. Screenings start at 9 p.m. in July and 8:30 p.m. in August.

July 27: The Sound of Music
Julie Andrews’ irrepressible singing nun brings love and laughter to the home of a stern widower and his seven children.

August 3: Jagte Raho
A Chaplinesque tramp gets more than he bargained for when he wanders into a luxury apartment building in search of a glass of water.

July 21: Packaged Goods
3-D is in the midst of a renaissance, with Hollywood banking on the trend and consumer electronics bringing the format into the home. The second installment of Packaged Goods looks at works that have experimented with the 3-D format in creative ways. Special guests include director Arev Manoukian of Spy Films, who will discuss the 3-D filmmaking process and how his short film Nuit Blanche became a global 3-D spot, and James Stewart of Geneva Film. Complete program details are available at tiff.net.

July 28 to August 12: Summer in 70mm

After our popular 2010 holiday season of three classics—Jacques Tati’s Playtime, David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia and Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey—screened in 70mm, we present another season of widescreen spectacles (including a return engagement of Lean’s great desert adventure), each screening daily for week-long engagements. 

West Side Story dir. Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins
Opens Thursday, July 28.

Lawrence of Arabia dir. David Lean
Opens Thursday, August 4.

LEARNING AND WORKSHOPS

Summer Camps at TIFF Bell Lightbox
Don’t just watch movies, start making them! Sign up for one of our fun-filled two-week camps to learn what goes on behind the scenes, and then become a part of the process yourself! Supported by The Slaight Family Learning Fund.

You Ain’t Scene Nothing Yet
A great camp for those interested in what goes on behind the camera. The first week will focus on the skills of screenwriting, shooting and editing, while in the second week campers will work with the young actors and actresses from Harbourfront Centre’s Hollywood North: Acting for the Camera camp to make the films they’ve scripted. The final films will premiere for friends and family at TIFF Bell Lightbox.

July 18-29 (ages 12-16)

Animation + Awesome
Participants will have the chance to explore various styles of animated filmmaking, producing several short pieces both individually and in groups. This camp also includes field trips, film screenings and special guests!

July 18-July 29 (ages 10-12)
August 8 – August 19 (ages 13-15)