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 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 its 22nd year, the TJFF features Golems, Dybbuks and the Jewish Fantastic. In Roman Polanski’s The Fearless Vampire Killers , a 1967 parody of the popular Hammer horror genre, a young woman attempts to fend off a Jewish vampire by brandishing … Continue reading Toronto Jewish Film Festival puts horror movies in the spotlight
John McHugh owned the Half Beat and Penny Farthing coffee houses in Yorkville in the 1960s. This week, a drink with John McHugh, who owned the Half Beat and Penny Farthing coffee houses in Yorkville in the 1960s. It was … Continue reading A Drink With the founder of the Penny Farthing coffee house
The silent Keystone comedy, Kid Auto Races at Venice, should have been exactly that — a newsreel documenting a soapbox derby race. But as children race along an audience-lined pathway, a curious fellow wearing a bowler hat and baggy pants emerges … Continue reading When Charlie Chaplin comes to town
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