Earlier this year, Rachel Fox of Vancouver’s Rio Theatre received an e-mail from Consumer Protection BC, the agency responsible for regulating various sectors, including classifying film ratings in British Columbia. Once Upon a Time in the West, the Sergio Leone … Continue reading As provinces move out of film classification in the streaming era, why is B.C. doubling down?
CineCycle, the micro-cinema located in a coach house in laneway off Spadina Avenue, is the baby of octogenarian projectionist Martin Heath. Toronto’s many cinemas can be entered in all kinds of ways — by walking through the street-facing facades of … Continue reading One of Toronto’s top indie film venues was facing eviction. Here’s who saved it
The creative team behind “Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould” look back on his genius — and the mark he made on the city. Thirty-two years after its release, a landmark of Canadian cinema has returned. After years of … Continue reading As a landmark film about Glenn Gould returns, it’s time to revisit the iconic musician’s Toronto
When the Cinémathèque Québécoise in Montreal was offered the video archives of Québécois television channel Musique Plus, Nicolas Dulac and his acquisitions team reluctantly turned it down. On offer were tens of thousands of magnetic videocassettes of shows aired from … Continue reading How Canadian film archives are fighting to save nearly forgotten culture
When the Fox Theatre screened Russ Meyer’s 1968 “Vixen” last February, the sexploitation satire — about a voluptuous woman with a unquenchable erotic appetite — played without incident. No complaints from the 31 attendees. No visits from the police. It … Continue reading How a Yonge Street cinema beat the Ontario Censor Board
In December, a rich, colourful 16-millimetre film was projected onto the screen at the University of Toronto’s Innis Town Hall: doors opening at Union Station, yuletide festivities onboard the lively dining car of a VIA train bound to Charlottetown, a … Continue reading Preserving the history of Canadian experimental film, on Blu-ray
As Hot Docs recalibrated its operations, the Toronto Outdoor Picture Show made an urgent call for more public funding, and the Revue Cinema got embroiled in tense lease negotiations, 2024 proved to be a momentous year in the long, storied … Continue reading How independent-movie lovers are recovering from the pandemic
Mike Wood remembers the first time that he walked into a micro-cinema. Raised in the east-end Toronto neighbourhood of Cabbagetown, the cinephile and film programmer first visited Cine-Cycle as a teenager. Operating since 1991 by projectionist and film collector Martin … Continue reading In the shadow of the multiplex, micro-cinemas are booming
An adult conversation about adult films is under way as a new generation is appreciating the films and history of the golden age and a newfound audience has returned to the cinema to watch the films of the era. Continue reading Four decades later, is it time for a reappraisal of porn’s cinematic golden age?
Les salles de spectacle dans plusieurs quartiers torontois ont contribué à la croissance de divers genres musicaux. Les cafés-concerts du quartier Yorkville ont lancé les carrières de Gordon Lightfoot et Joni Mitchell dans les années 1960, mais ce sont les … Continue reading Un nouveau balado raconte l’histoire de la musique alternative à Toronto
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