TIFF Bell Lightbox - Program from Sept 23

PROGRAMMING AT TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX

From September 23 to September 30

In Person: David Cronenberg introduces Videodrome

Thursday, September 23, 2010 – 9:15pm

Friday, September 24, 2010 – 9:30pm

Tickets: Regular: $18.75 / Students/Seniors: $15.00

In Concert: The Passion of Joan of Arc and Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light
Performed by the Toronto Consort and Choir 21 in association with Soundstreams, Conducted by David Fallis

Performed around the world to tremendous acclaim, from the Lincoln Center in New York to the Sydney Opera House, Richard Einhorn’s opera/oratorio Voices of Light draws direct inspiration from Dreyer’s silent masterpiece.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010 – 8:00pm

Wednesday, September 29, 2010 – 8:00pm

Regular: $50.00 / Students/Seniors: $40.00

On screen: Essential 100

TIFF Cinematheque relaunches with screenings of the Essential 100 films, with many restored or rare archival prints. Some of the most famous films from the list play exclusive engagements over the course of the fall, screening multiple times each day.

Regular $12.00/Students $9.50/Seniors $9.50/Children & Youth: $8.50

Start date: Thursday, September 23, 2010

L’ Avventura
Michelangelo Antonioni
The succès de scandale of the 1960 Cannes film festival, Michelangelo Antonioni’s modernist masterpiece tells of the inexplicable disappearance of a wealthy young woman on a rocky island during a pleasure trip.

Citizen Kane
Orson Wells
Orson Welles’ legendary debut feature remains one of the most famous and influential movies ever made, regularly topping polls of the best films of all time.

Start Date: Thursday, September 30, 2010

Breathless

Jean-Luc Godard

Presented in a newly restored print made to celebrate its 50th anniversary, Godard’s jazzy and poetic ode to Hollywood B-films and macho fatalism combines the existentialism of Albert Camus with the style of tough-guy Hollywood heroes.

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

Release date: September 23, 2010
A Film Unfinished
Yael Hersonski
Fascinating and chilling, Yael Hersonski’s A Film Unfinished meticulously scrutinizes a cinematic relic as historically invaluable as it is morally revolting: an uncompleted “documentary” shot by a Nazi film crew in the Warsaw Ghetto in May 1942, two months prior to the first mass deportation to the Treblinka extermination camp.

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The surprise winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes film festival, the latest masterpiece from Thai master Apichatpong Weerasethakul – whose previous feature Syndromes and a Century was voted TIFF Cinematheque’s #1 film of the past decade – is also the final segment of his multi-platform film/installation project Primitive.

Les Amours imaginaires/ Heartbeats
Xavier Dolan

In the follow-up to his acclaimed debut J’ai tué ma mère, Xavier Dolan tells the story of best friends Francis (Dolan) and Marie (Monia Chokri) who find their relationship tested when they fall for the same guy, Nicolas (Niels Schneider), a stunning new arrival to their hipster circle in Montréal.

Release Date: Saturday, September 30, 2010

Trigger

Bruce McDonald

Molly Parker and the late Tracy Wright form a highly dysfunctional yet endearing rock duo reuniting a decade after their band called it quits. Directed by Bruce McDonald (Pontypool, The Tracey Fragments, Hard Core Logo, Highway 61), and written by Daniel MacIvor, the film features Sarah Polley, Don McKellar and Callum Keith Rennie.

CULTURE DAYS – September 24 to September 26

TIFF will host a variety of free screenings, hands-on activities and installations as part of Culture Days, a new Canada-wide movement and annual event promoting arts and cultural participation.

Screenings:

Michel Brault with Chronique d’un été

In partnership with Hot Docs, TIFF presents Michel Brault with Chronique d’un été, an on-stage event with one of the key figures of Québécois cinema, master cinematographer and director Michel Brault. Accompanying the screening of Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin’s Chronique d‘un été (1961), film # 75 on the list, Hot Docs Director of Programming Sean Farnel will interview Brault about his experience as director of photography on this milestone of cinéma vérité.

La Jetée

Chris Marker’s innovative, mind-bending science fiction classic La Jetée (1962), film # 37 on the list, is a rumination on the idea of time in a post-apocalyptic future.

Family screenings

Screenings for the whole family include Charlie Chaplin’s classic comedy City Lights (1931), film # 29 on the list, and Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. (1924), film # 31 on the list, to be presented with live musical accompaniment by Toronto swing-klez band Fern Lindzon Sextet.

Drop-in activities for children and youth:
Participants can colour and craft their own buttons during Buttonography; draw on film stock and then screen their own creations during Drawing on Film; use red and blue coloring pencils to create images that become 3-D in 3-D VISIONS; and cut out and colour pre-designed flip books during Fun with Flip Books.

Essential Cinema – Installations and Commissions:

Free access to the previously announced Essential Cinema exhibition and commissions will also be part of TIFF Bell Lightbox’s offerings during Culture Days. In addition, TIFF Bell Lightbox’s visitors will encounter an interactive projection above the box office called What’s Your Essential Cinema? Featuring a dynamic visualization of kinetic images from each of the Essential 100 films, it will invite visitors to text in their favourite film from the list. The system will take note and compare it to the official film list causing the projected visualization to change as a result of the difference between the visitor’s choice and what is displayed on screen. What’s Your Essential Cinema? is a CFC Media Lab and TIFF Production.