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
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
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
In this week’s Sunday Star, I look at the launch of TVOntario‘s online Public Archive, which features 40 years of vintage broadcasting. The content is plentiful: from kids programming like Today’s Special, The Polka Dot Door, the years-ahead-of-its-time sci-fi/comics show Prisoners of Gravity, current affairs programs Realities and Studio 2 and some of the best interviews from the lit-interview show Imprint. If you grew up in Ontario, chances are one of these titles rings a ball. Take a day off work and let it all soak in. Also exciting are the hours of interviews hosted by Elwy Yost in Talking Film … Continue reading Saturday Night at the Movies
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