Winter 2001 

• Retrospectives: Bad Company: The Films of Jean Eustache; Passion and Defiance: Silent Divas of Italian Cinema; Scatterbrained Angel: The Films of Jacques Tati; Bergman/Ullman: Master & Muse; Between The Earth And The Stars: Sub-Saharan African Cinema; The British New Wave; Michael Snow Presents; Stan Brakhage in Person; Between the Earth and the Stars: Sub-Saharan African Cinema; American Melodrama: Douglas Sirk x5.
• Toronto Premieres: Michael Snow’s THE LIVING ROOM; Richard Kerr’s PICTURES OF SOUND #1.
• Guests: Michael Snow, Stan Brakhage and Richard Kerr.
• Critical note: "For two decades, the out-of-circulation films of Jean Eustache existed as a holy grail for cinephiles...Most of his output can be seen at a retrospective at Cinematheque Ontario." - Mark Peranson, The Globe and Mail, January 18, 2001.

Spring 2001 

• Retrospectives: Revolution In the Revolution: The Soviet New Wave of The Sixties; Speak Memory: Proust on Film; Dante & The Cinema; The Sacrament of Simplicity: The Films of Ermanno Olmi; Bulgarian Cinema: The Poetics of Everyday Life.
• Toronto Premieres: Raul Ruiz’s TIME REGAINED, Ermanno Olmi’s THE SECRET OF THE OLD WOODS, THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY DRINKER and DOWN THE RIVER.
• Guests: Francis Miquet; Richard Fung; Jerome Hiler; Zev Asher.
• Critical notes: Raul Ruiz's adaptation of the last two books of Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, TIME REGAINED...is the highlight of Cinematheque Ontario's four-film Proust mini-series." - John Harkness, Now Magazine, March 22, 2001. "Practically none of Olmi's work since has been released in North America, which is one excellent reason for indulging in Cinematheque's current retrospective." Geoff Pevere, The Toronto Star, April 13, 2001.

Summer 2001 

• Critical notes: "Toronto fans of Wong's recent work will have a rare opportunity over the next week when all seven of the director's films are shown in Cinematheque Ontario retrospective IN THE MOOD FOR...THE FILMS OF WONG KAR-WAI." - Liam Lacey, The Globe and Mail, June 1, 2001.

Fall 2001 

• Retrospectives: Len Lye: Free Radicals; I Am Self Sufficient: The Singular Vision of Nanni Moretti; Brigitte Helm Spotlight; Godard For Ever: A Jean-Luc Godard. Retrospective I; Made in Québec, The Influence of Jean Pierre Lefebvre; After The Deluge: The Films of Tsai Ming-liang; Cities of Sadness: The Films of Hou Hsiao-hsien; In The Line of Fire: The Films of Amos Gitai; Battles Without Honour and Humanity: The Films of Kinji Fukasaku.
• Toronto Premieres: Jean Marc Larivi re’s SHADOW CHASERS; Amos Gitai’s WADI, GRAND CANYON (2001); Kinji Fukasaku’s BATTLE ROYALE.
• Guests: Amos Gitai; Jean Marc Larivi re.
• Critical note: "The terrain covered by the nearly 30 shorts, features and anthology contributions that comprise "Godard For Ever", Cinematheque Ontario's first instalment of a projected two-season career retrospective of the work of Jean-Luc Godard, is staggeringly vast." - Geoff Pevere, The Toronto Star, October 20, 2001.