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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Screening: Ever Deadly
Ever Deadly invites its viewers to take a peek behind the curtain of the life and work of award-winning singer, artist, author, and activist Tanya Tagaq. Weaving together concert footage and inspiring sequences filmed on location in Nunavut, seamlessly bridging landscapes, stories and songs with pain, anger and triumph—all through the expressions of Tanya Tagaq, one of the most innovative musical performers of our time.
Best known for her powerful throat singing, Tanya uses her platform to speak about issues that matter to her, and the painful story of her family, Inuit, and Canadian history.
This screening is Pay What You Can! We will be donating all proceeds to the Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre. Minimum recommended donation $10.
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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Screening: Blood Lines
Beatrice, a Two-Spirit person, spends her days working at the local corner store in her tight-knit Métis community, trading stories and laughs with her best friend Jaz. When Chani, a newcomer searching for her biological family, arrives in town, Beatrice is instantly drawn to her and becomes determined to help in any way she can.
This screening is Pay What You Can! We will be donating all proceeds to the Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre. Minimum recommended donation $10.
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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation Screening: Clearcut
"Clearcut" is an unforgettable exploration of Indigenous folklore, newly restored in 4K from the original 35mm answer print.
A white lawyer arrives in Northern Ontario to defend Indigenous activists who are blocking a logging company's clearcut of old growth on their land. A pacifist by nature, and perceiving himself as sympathetic to Indigenous concerns, the lawyer finds his values shaken when he is paired with an angry, rogue Indigenous activist named Arthur (Graham Greene, one of Canada's most towering and beloved actors). Arthur insists on kidnapping the head of the logging company in the hopes of teaching him the price of his destruction.
This screening is Pay What You Can! We will be donating all proceeds to the Toronto Council Fire Native Cultural Centre. Minimum recommended donation $10.
Restoration courtesy of Severin Films.
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Battle of the Sexes: Birth
Battle of the Sexes is a series featuring films directed by women about men and films directed by men about women. Through titles like American Psycho, La Captive, Marnie, and Birth, our speakers will interrogate how films reinforce or distort gender roles. The series is hosted by Gabrielle Marceau from In the Mood Magazine.
"Jonathan Glazer's hypnotic and disturbing Birth examines how social expectations clash with our deepest longings.
Ten years after her husband’s death, a woman is preparing to remarry when a young boy shows up in her home, claiming to be her dead husband reincarnated. Soon, she finds herself increasingly willing to believe him and to unravel her life in the process.
Jonathan Glazer uses upper-class decorum and the backdrop of a gorgeously bleak New York winter to create a suffocating examination of a woman's inner world."
Introduced by Namah. Her writing can be found in Little White Lies, Cornelia & C Magazine. The impossibility of desire keeps her up at night.
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Restoration: Bay of Blood
New 4K restoration by Severin Films!
After establishing the giallo genre with "Blood and Black Lace" in 1964, Mario Bava revolutionized the horror landscape again with "A Bay of Blood". Set at a lakeside cabin, this primal scream of a film doesn’t merely hint at what’s to come, rather it bursts onto the scene as the first slasher—fully formed, and without the threadbare hallmarks of the "proto" prefix.
Following the murder of Countess Federica Donati (Isa Miranda), an heiress possessing a beautiful piece of beachfront property, members of her family and the surrounding community engage in a killing spree, each with his own secret agenda. In addition to the string of creative murders, a group of hippies arrives on the premises, engage in promiscuous sex and find themselves dying one by one in this cult classic!
Custom barf bags will be handed out, while supplies last.
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Spectacle: Tokyo Drifter
In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Tetsu’s attempt to go straight is thwarted when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang.
Director Seijun Suzuki’s onslaught of stylized violence and trippy colours is equal parts Russ Meyer, Samuel Fuller, and Nagisa Oshima—an anything-goes, in-your-face rampage. "Tokyo Drifter" is a delirious highlight of the brilliantly excessive Japanese cinema of the sixties.
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Scream Queens: Us
Scream Queens is a tribute to the underestimated women in horror. Those who screamed, ran, fought, and clawed their way into cinematic history, becoming icons in their own right!
Accompanied by her husband, son and daughter, Adelaide Wilson returns to the beachfront home where she grew up as a child. Haunted by a traumatic experience from the past, Adelaide grows increasingly concerned that something bad is going to happen. Her worst fears soon become a reality when four masked strangers descend upon the house, forcing the Wilsons into a fight for survival. When the masks come off, the family is horrified to learn that each attacker takes the appearance of one of them.
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Restoration: Begotten
New Restoration from Kino Lorber!
“One of the most disturbing avant-garde films ever made.” - Natalia Keogan, Paste
"Begotten" has no characters in the ordinary sense. Its final credits name three
principal figures:
God Killing Himself. Mother Earth. Son of Earth — Flesh on Bone.
The entire film is what those names do to each other and to the earth. God Killing Himself tears open his body and dies. Mother Earth rises from what remains and takes his seed into herself. She gives birth to Son of Earth — Flesh on Bone. He is cast into a barren world, seized by the Nomads, tortured, killed, and briefly returned to life by his mother. The Nomads destroy her too. The Robed Figures gather what remains of mother and son, grind their bodies down, and return them to the soil. The ground flowers.
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Book And Film Club: Women Talking
The Book and Film Club presents: Women Talking!
Based on the best-selling novel by Miriam Toews, “Women Talking” follows a group of women in an isolated religious colony as they struggle to reconcile their faith with a series of sexual assaults committed by the colony’s men.
This year, the Book and Film Club will be watching the movie before the book discussion. Film screening will take place on Thursday, October 8th at 7 PM and will include a post-film Q&A with Professor Sara Saljoughi, a writer and scholar focused on cinema from the Global South and feminist filmmaking.
The book discussion will be the week ahead on Friday, October 2, at 7PM at the Kingston Road United Church.
Visit https://www.greatescapebookstore.com/book-film-club for more details. RSVP for the discussion via phone at 416-691-7150 or email at greatescape.bookstore@gmail.com
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You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution...
Martin Short, Eugene Levy, Gilda Radner, Victor Garber, Paul Shaffer, and other entertainment icons got their start in a 1972 Toronto production of the musical Godspell. Featuring interviews with the surviving cast members, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mike Myers, and more, the film recounts a pivotal moment in comedy history, in hilarious, moving, and inspiring detail.
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Detour: The Wailing
The arrival of a mysterious stranger (Chun Woo-hee) in an otherwise quiet village coincides with a rash of vicious murders, causing panic and suspicion amongst the villagers. When the daughter of investigating officer Jong-Goo (Kwak Do-won) falls under the same savage spell, he calls for a shaman (Hwang Jung-min) to assist in finding the culprit...
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Klassic Kidz: ParaNorman
Young Norman Babcock (Kodi Smit-McPhee) has the ability to speak with the dead -- and he often prefers their company to that of the living. Norman receives word from his strange Uncle Prenderghast (John Goodman) that a centuries-old witch's curse on their town is real and about to come true -- and that only Norman can stop it. When zombies rise from their graves, Norman must summon all his courage and compassion and push his paranormal abilities to the limit to save his fellow townspeople.
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Scream Queens: The Shining
Scream Queens is a tribute to the underestimated women in horror. Those who screamed, ran, fought, and clawed their way into cinematic history, becoming icons in their own right!
Academy Award winner Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall star in director Stanley Kubrick's disturbing adaptation of Stephen King's blockbuster horror novel. When writer Jack Torrance (Nicholson)--who has a history of alcoholism and child abuse--takes a job as winter caretaker for a hotel high in the Rocky Mountains, he, his wife (Duvall) and their psychic young son will be isolated until spring. But once the first blizzard closes the road out, the accumulated power of evil deeds committed at the hotel begins to drive Jack mad. Now there may be no escape for his wife and son in this haunting madness, memory and family violence.
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Sing-Along: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Johnny Depp and Tim Burton join forces again in a big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical thriller "Sweeney Todd."
Depp stars in the title role as a man unjustly sent to prison who vows revenge, not only for that cruel punishment, but for the devastating consequences of what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to reopen his barber shop, Sweeney Todd becomes the Demon Barber of Fleet Street who "shaved the heads of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard from again." Joining Depp is Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney's amorous accomplice, who creates diabolical meat pies. The cast also includes Alan Rickman, who portrays the evil Judge Turpin, who sends Sweeney to prison and Timothy Spall as the Judge's wicked associate Beadle Bamford and Sacha Baron Cohen is a rival barber, the flamboyant Signor Adolfo Pirelli.
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Meet Cute: Love & Basketball
Reaching for the same pair of black cashmere gloves? A chance encounter on a train? You never know if love is right around the corner! Introducing our new series "Meet-Cute" highlighting the best in cinema romances.
Monica Wright (Sanaa Lathan) and Quincy McCall (Omar Epps) grew up in the same neighbourhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consuming passion: basketball. As Quincy and Monica struggle to make their relationship work, they follow separate career paths though high school and college basketball and, they hope, into stardom in big-league professional ball.
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Cinema Rex: The Stranger and the Fog
Presented by Cinema Rex Podcast.
From Kiarostami to Abbasi, from Farrokhzad to Amirpour. From pre-revolutionary cinema to modern times. Join Iranian-Canadian filmmakers Kaveh Mohebbi and Faran Moradi (a screenwriter and a director) as they embark on a crash-course on all that Iranian cinema has to offer episode-to-episode one film at a time.
Set around the northern coast of Iran, The Stranger and the Fog begins with a boat drifting onto the shore of a small village. The beautiful Rana (Parvaneh Massoumi) hopes the stray vessel has brought back her husband, who disappeared a year ago out on the sea. But the only passenger is Ayat (Khosrow Shojazadeh), a wounded stranger with no memory of how he ended up in this land. After gradually proving himself as a member of the community, Ayat upsets the locals by marrying Rana, and then grows increasingly paranoid about intermittently glimpsed figures that vow to avenge his misdeeds from a forgotten past.
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Scream Queens: Possession
Scream Queens is a tribute to the underestimated women in horror. Those who screamed, ran, fought, and clawed their way into cinematic history, becoming icons in their own right!
Polish director Andrej Zulawski's 1981 'Possession' remains one of the most demented movies of all time, constantly careening from mad creature-feature horror movie to Bergman-esque marital breakdown and back again. This psychological horror drama film stars Isabelle Adjani and Sam Neill and was an international co-production between France and West Germany.
Trying to classify Possession, critics drew parallels with Roman Polanski's Repulsion and David Cronenberg's The Brood. The genre of the film is still matter of controversy. Shortly after its release, the film was banned from distribution in the United Kingdom.
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Restoration: Kwaidan
After more than a decade of sober political dramas and socially minded period pieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn’s collections of Japanese folklore, are existentially frightening and meticulously crafted.
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Faust w/ Live Music by Invincible Czars
Those amazing, intrepid, touring sound-trackers are back in town, live on stage with 2 silent era horror classics!
An elderly alchemist named Faust (Gösta Ekman) makes a pact with the demon Mephisto (Emil Jannings) to gain the power to protect his village from plague. Faust soon succumbs to temptation and asks Mephisto to restore his youth and help him acquire all the hedonistic pleasures that earth can offer. Eventually, his love affair with a young woman named Gretchen (Camilla Horn) leads to tragic and devastating consequences for them both.
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Nosferatu w/ Live Music by Invincible Czars
Those amazing, intrepid, touring sound-trackers are back in town, live on stage with 2 silent era horror classics!
Don’t miss this special screening of the silent horror classic Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror featuring an original live score combining rock and orchestral music, created and performed by the acclaimed Austin, Texas music ensemble The Invincible Czars!
The original Nosferatu (1922) follows a young real estate agent, Thomas Hutter, who travels to Transylvania to meet with the mysterious Count Orlok. Hutter becomes increasingly suspicious of Orlok's strange behavior and eventually discovers he is a vampire. Orlok then travels to Hutter's town, causing death and destruction. The Invincible Czars add haunting music that adds depth and intensity to this already renowned film.
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Wicker
"Wicker" takes basket weaving to a whole new level.
“Wicker” is simultaneously a sweet, gently moving love story and audacious comedic fable about sex, marriage, and the absurdities of social convention. Directed and adapted by Alex Huston Fischer and Eleanor Wilson from the short story "The Wicker Husband" by Ursula Wills-Jones.
On the outskirts of a village by the sea, lives a Fisherwoman (Olivia Colman); smelly, single and perpetually ridiculed. One day, fed up with her stuffy, small-minded neighbours, she commissions herself a husband to be made from wicker (embodied by Alexander Skarsgård). In an otherwise conservative town, this unconventional romance sparks outrage, jealousy and chaos.
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Fjord
Mihai (Sebastian Stan) and Lisbet (Renate Reinsve) Gheorghiu, a Romanian-Norwegian Pentecostal couple, move with their five children from Romania to Norway after Mihai’s parents die, seeking closeness to Lisbet’s family, who share their faith. Settling in an isolated coastal village, they form a bond with their neighbours, the Halbergs. When adolescent Elia Gheorghiu shows up at school with some bruises on her body, the community asks itself if the traditional education that the Gheorghiu children get from their parents might have something to do with it.
Winner of the prestigious Palme d'Or at Cannes, "Fjord" is an intricate, gripping courtroom drama driven by a profound moral dilemma, where private lives are laid bare for public scrutiny. Romania's entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 99th Academy Awards.
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SOLD OUT - The Rocky Horror Picture Show w/Shadowcast!
Join Excited Mental State: Toronto's Only Rocky Horror Shadowcast who are just shivering with antici....PATION at making this the best Rocky Horror night of your life!
Dress up in your best Rocky Horror-inspired outfits and get ready to "Time Warp" to the eerie castle of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry) along with sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon) who find themselves stuck with a flat tire during a storm and nowhere else to go.
As Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf) and a creepy butler (Richard O’Brien), their innocence is slowly surrendered to the hedonistic world they've entered. The night gives way to a series of elaborate dances and rock songs culminating in the unveiling of Frank-N-Furter's latest creation: a muscular man named “Rocky.”
Whether this is your first or 500th viewing, we guarantee that this will be a strange and wonderful journey you won't want to miss!
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Scream Queens: The Fog
Scream Queens is a tribute to the underestimated women in horror. Those who screamed, ran, fought, and clawed their way into cinematic history, becoming icons in their own right!
In a tiny California coastal town, strange things begin to occur as they prepare to commemorate their centenary: inanimate objects spring eerily to life; the local minister stumbles upon a dark secret about the town’s founding; a radio announcer (Adrienne Barbeau) witnesses a mystical fire; and a hitchhiker (Jamie Lee Curtis) discovers the mutilated corpse of a fisherman. Then a mysterious iridescent fog descends upon the village, and more people start to die.
Misty weather has never been so scary…or looked so beautiful on a big screen, thanks to this brand new 4K restoration!
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Scream Queens: Nadja
Scream Queens is a tribute to the underestimated women in horror. Those who screamed, ran, fought, and clawed their way into cinematic history, becoming icons in their own right!
Merging elements from "Dracula's Daughter" (1936) with André Breton’s surrealist novel "Nadja" (1928), and fusing shimmering black-and-white 35mm with hallucinatory Pixelvision video, Michael Almereyda’s ("Tesla", "Experimenter", "Hamlet") acclaimed cult film centers on New York-based vampire Nadja (Elina Löwensohn) as she draws close to her twin brother Edgar (Jared Harris) following their father’s death at the hands of Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Fonda). Edgar’s private nurse (Suzy Amis), Van Helsing’s nephew Jim (Martin Donovan), and Jim’s wife (Galaxy Craze) are entangled in the story as the vampire killer pursues “the fiend” from Manhattan to Transylvania.
Executive produced by David Lynch and presented in a new 4K restoration of the director’s cut!
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Unsubculture presents: Samsara
Join Unsubculture for an evening of film, atmosphere, and exploration. We will be screening the enigmatic film Samsara, a visual odyssey that spans 5 years in the making, and 25 countries across the globe. From the same creative team that produced Baraka, with Mark Magidson producing, and Ron Fricke directing, Samsara takes us into a deep meditation of the human condition. With stunning visuals, a haunting soundtrack, Samsara is a true cinematic experience.
The night begins with a live ambient music performance, creating an immersive sonic environment before the screening. Rooted in Unsubculture’s interests in film, art, fashion, and cultural criticism, this event invites audiences to experience Samsara not just as a film, but as a starting point for reflection on image, culture, spirituality, and modernity.
Please note: This event is a rental. If you have any questions, please contact the event organizers directly at unsubcult@gmail.com
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The Room w/ Greg Sestero
"Oh hi, Mark!"
Don't miss this special screening of The Room with LIVE appearance by NYT bestselling author/Room costar/Mark himself, Greg Sestero!
For the last two decades, midnight crowds have flocked to screenings of this "so amazingly bad it's [spooning] great" movie written, directed, and starring the infamous Tommy Wiseau.
The story follows Johnny (Wiseau), a successful banker who lives happily in a San Francisco townhouse with his fiancée, Lisa. One day, inexplicably, she gets bored of him and decides to seduce Johnny's best friend, Mark. From there, nothing will be the same again. From there, sheer insanity ensues.
The evening will include a Q&A with Greg Sestero! What a night!
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Warren Miller's DAYS OFF
This fall, drop in on Warren Miller’s 77th film, Days Off. Follow host Katie Burrell as the world’s best athletes show you what they do on their days off—no agenda, no competition, just pure, unscripted joy.
Embark on a global journey from heli-drops in Alaska and high-alpine mountaineering in Chamonix to the legendary powder of Hokkaido, Japan. Take a ride down Banff’s infamous skijoring course, hit the slopes of Deer Valley, and charge Canada’s finest in Revelstoke, Whistler, and Pemberton. Days Off captures the raw, unfiltered heart of mountain culture—a pure celebration of skiing for skiing’s sake and the joy of making time for what matters most.
Winter’s greatest tradition is back!
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Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
Director Josef Kubota Wladyka delivers a beautiful and heartfelt homage to his mother, portraying a woman who dances through her grief. With vivid colors, standout dance choreography, and a delightfuly charming performance from Rinko Kikuchi ("Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter"), "Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!" might just inspire you to dance through the credits.
Haru and Luis thrive on competing in Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but when tragedy strikes, Haru withdraws into isolation. When friends encourage her to return to the studio, she develops an infatuation with the new instructor. She must confront what comes next as sparks fly.
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