Monday, November 17, 2008

upcoming screeing at cinematheque ontario

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Toronto Premiere!
New 35mm restored print!

The Exiles
Director: Kent Mackenzie
November 18, 2008, at 7:00pm
November 19, 2008, at 8:45pm

"Enthralling and breathtakingly gorgeous"
-The New Yorker

Hailed as "miraculous" by the New Yorker, The Exiles is a lacerating portrait of the isolation and hardship endured by the Native American community living in the Bunker Hill area of Los Angeles, a once-prominent neighbourhood reduced, by 1960, to decrepitude and poverty. More...

Co-presentation with the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.

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Free Screening!*

Patrick Rumble presents Paolo Gioli
November 19, 2008, at 7:00pm
Paolo Gioli is surely one of the most significant experimental filmmakers Italy has ever produced. All the films in this programme offer meditations on technical innovations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art, photography and cinema - and on related issues of visual perception. More...

*This free programme is curated and presented in person by Patrick Rumble.

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Allan King introduces
A Married Couple
Director: Allan King
November 24, 2008, at 7:00pm

One of Allan King's finest early works and a cornerstone of the cinéma-vérité movement.

Antoinette and Billy Edwards are a middle-class couple whose marriage is experiencing tough times. A Married Couple captures every awkward and unsettling moment as they bicker over money and ultimately power. More...

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Don Owen introduces
The Ernie Game
Director: Don Owen
November 30, 2008, at 6:00pm

Best director and best film.
- Genie Awards, October 4, 1968

Ernie Turner attempts to survive in a world where he's perceived as a nuisance by everyone. Newly released from an asylum, Ernie grows increasingly alienated as his fragile mental state declines. More...


For complete schedule, visit cinemathequeontario.ca . Order your tickets online or call 416-968-FILM.
All screenings take place at AGO's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street West, McCaul Street entrance.

Cinematheque Ontario is supported by Bell, RBC, the Ontario Media Development Corporation and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Visa† is the only credit card accepted by Cinematheque Ontario.


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