Winter 2005

• Retrospectives: Once Upon A Time: Six Films by Sergio Leone; Journeys Into the Night: The Films of F.W. Murnau; Cinévarda: The films of Agn s Varda; Cinema Insurgente!: Mexican Films from the Golden Age to the Present; A Search for Truth Beyond the Real: A Tribute to Jean Rouch; Something Happened: The Films of Roy Andersson.
• Guests: Kristen Adams, Zana Briski, Atom Egoyan, Fabrizio Filippo, Eric Cayla, John Creson, Kalsang Doma, Michael Dowse, Jamie Fellner, Michael Goldbach, Jasmine Herlt, Steven Hoban, Brett Kashmere, Ross Kauffman, Richard Kerr, Jesse Lerner, Shana MacDonald, Linden MacIntyre, Michael McGowan, Don McKellar, Peter Raymont, Velcrow Ripper, Daniel Roby, Adam Rosen, Da chi Saito, Helga Stephenson, Bart Testa, Naomi Uman, Sunny Yi.
• Cinematheque Ontario Lecture Series: Bart Testa’s lecture on Sergio Leone, “Fluorescence in a Predator’s Dusk: Leone’s Operatic Deaths, Desert Places, and Maximal Close-Ups” with screening of ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, a screening and lecture of BORN INTO BROTHELS with Zana Briski.
• Event: Canada’s Top Ten 2004 (screenings of all ten films plus two panel discussions): A MARRIAGE OF MINDS: DIRECTORS AND CINEMATOGRAPHERS and THE GLOBAL MUSE: FILMMAKING AND INSPIRATION). Canada’s Top Ten films of 2004 were CHILDSTAR, ELLES ÉTAIENT CINQ, I, CLAUDIA, IT'S ALL GONE PETE TONG, LA PEAU BLANCHE, RYAN, SAINT RALPH, SCAREDSACRED, SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL: THE JOURNEY OF ROMÉO DALLAIRE, and WHAT REMAINS OF US.
• Event: Human Rights Watch International Film Festival (seven films from the Human Rights Watch Traveling Film Festival, plus a lecture by Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, co-directors of the Academy Award®-winning film BORN INTO BROTHELS.)
• The Independents: Programme 1: Light Play and Corporeal Abstraction; Programme 2: Avant-Garde Classics B Bruce Connor x 5; Programmes 3 and 4: Jesse Lerner and Naomi Uman in Person; Programme 5: Richard Kerr B Taking Inventory; Programme 6: Richard Kerr’s THE LAST DAYS OF CONTRITION and MACHINE IN THE GARDEN (*replacement for cancelled screening of FAR FROM VIETNAM*); Programme 7: Agn s Varda’s MUR MURS; Programme 8: Cine Mexperimental!
• Limited Runs: Peter Watkins’ EDVARD MUNCH (1976), Eric Rohmer’s TRIPLE AGENT (2004), Wong Kar-wai’s DAYS OF BEING WILD (1991), Agn s Varda’s CINÉVARDAPHOTO, Jean-Luc Godard’s MOMENTS CHOISIS DES HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA (2004), NOTRE MUSIQUE (2004), and ÉLOGE DE L’AMOUR (2001).
• Saturday Movie Matinees: GO WEST, HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN, IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE, ATANARJUAT: THE FAST RUNNER, MUHAMMAD ALI THE GREATEST 1964-74, MALCOLM X a.k.a. HIS OWN STORY AS IT REALLY HAPPENED.
• Special Screenings: Ulrike Ottinger’s TAIGA (1992), an eight-and-a-half hour ethnographic project, filmed in northern Mongolia.
• Canadian Premiere: MOMENTS CHOISIS DES HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA, TRIPLE AGENT
• Toronto Premiere: Alison Maclean & Tobias Perse's PERSONS OF INTEREST (2003), Kim Dong-won's REPATRIATION (2003), Eyal Sivan & Michel Kleifi's ROUTE 181: FRAGMENTS OF A JOURNEY IN PALESTINE-ISRAEL (2003), Ditsi Carolino's LIFE ON THE TRACKS (2002), Da chi Sa to's CHIASMUS (2003), John Creson & Adam Rosen's FOG CYCLE (2003), Da chi Sa to's CHASMIC DANCE (2004), Jesse Lerner's T.S.H (2004).
• Critical Notes “Cinematheque Ontario presents impeccably curated programs of world cinema, new and old.” - Air Canada, On Air, February 2005. “Moviegoers who've come down with the February blahs (symptoms include a runny nose and voluntary exposure to Alone In The Dark) can get help for what ails them this week at Cinematheque Ontario, Toronto's foremost dispenser of celluloid chicken soup.” - Adam Nayman, Eye weekly, February 10, 2005.

Spring 2005

• Retrospectives: FILM NOW: Unknown Pleasures: The World of Jia Zhangke; The Extraordinary Mr. Barnet; Metamorphosis: Cinema of Transformation; Ozu/Hou; Ethereal Beauty: The Films of Lillian Gish; Pierre Perrault and the Poetic Documentary; Take No Prisoners: The Bold Vision of Kira Muratova; Errol Morris.
• Guests: Nora Alleyn, Roberto Ariganello, David Clandfield, Nathaniel Dorsky, Chris Gehman, Tom Gunning, Errol Morris, Gerald Peary, Yolande Simard-Perrault, Barbara Sternberg, Chris Welsby, Jia Zhangke.
• Cinematheque Ontario Lecture Series: Tom Gunning on Lillian Gish with screenings of TRUE HEART SUSIE (1919) and THE LADY AND THE MOUSE (1913), David Clandfield on Pierre Perrault: A Found Poetry in the Service of a Collective Identity@ with screening of LES VOITURES D’EAU (1968), Errol Morris on-stage interview with Gerald Peary.
• The Independents: Metamorphosis: Cinema of Transformation (Programme 1: Metamorphosis Launch B Under the Spell of the Cinematic Muse; Programme 2: Metamorphosis B A Cinema of Essences: Nathaniel Dorsky in Person; Programme 3: Metamorphosis B Classicism and Avant-garde Film; Programme 4: Metamorphosis B Transformation of Cinematic Space; Programme 5: Cinema of Light, Wind, and Sea B Chris Welsby in Person; Programme 6: Cinema of Transformation B Michael Snow’s *CORPUS CALLOSUM (2002).
• Limited Runs: Jia Zhangke’s THE WORLD (2004), Hou Hsiao-hsien’s CAFÉ LUMI RE (2004), Ousmane Semb ne’s MOOLAADÉ (2004.)
• Special Screenings: Jean-Luc Godard’s HISTOIRE(S) DU CINÉMA (1994.)
• Toronto Premiere: Michelangelo Antonioni’s MICHELANGELO EYE TO EYE (2004), Jia Zhangke’s XIAO SHAN GOING HOME, IN PUBLIC, and PICKPOCKET.
• Highlights: The launch of Cinematheque Ontario’s ongoing series, FILM NOW, featuring the most important emerging directors in contemporary cinema; and Cinematheque Ontario’s 15th anniversary.
• Critical Notes: “[MOOLAADE] Makes a powerful statement and at the same time contains humour, charm and astonishing beauty.” - Roger Ebert, National Post, April 15, 2005. “[CAFÉ LUMI RE]'s slightness contains multitudes and it's one of the best films that will play in Toronto all year.” - Adam Nayman, Eye weekly, March 31, 2005

Summer 2005 

• Retrospectives: Greta Garbo: As You Desire Her, The Passion of Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Marie Teno: Chronicler of African Modernity, Fellini, And God Created Women: Ten French Actresses, The Fire Within: Louis Malle, French Cinema Under The Occupation, Ten Japanese Classics: A Tribute to Susan Sontag.
• Guests: Michel Brault, André Loiselle, Jean-Marie Teno.
• Cinematheque Ontario Lecture Series: Jean-Marie Teno’s lecture on his vision for documentary film in Africa with screening of CHIEF! and Michel Brault in conversation with André Loiselle, followed  by a screening of LES ORDRES (1974).
• Limited Runs: Oliver Axe and Susanne Benze’s HITLER’S HIT PARADE (2003), Fernando Eimbcke’s DUCK SEASON (2004), Vincenzo Marra’s VENTO DI TERRA (2004), Federico Fellini’s LA DOLCE VITA (1959), 8 2 (1963), Jean-Luc Godard’s MASCULINE FEMININE (1966), Luis Bunuel’s LOS OLVIDADOS (1950), Bernardo Bertolucci’s THE CONFORMIST (1970), Louis Malle’s ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS (1957), Marcel Carné’s LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS (1945).
• Special Screenings: A rare archival screening of Mauritz Stiller’s GOSTA BERLING’S SAGA PARTS 1 AND 2 (1924), featuring one of the first screen appearances of Greta Garbo.
• Toronto Premiere: Jean-Marie Teno's ALEX'S WEDDING (2002), Jean-Marie Teno's THE COLONIAL MISUNDERSTANDING (2004), Oliver Axer & Susanne Benze's HITLER'S HIT PARADE (2003).
• Critical Note: “A ticket to this month-long line-up would be the perfect gift, almost, for everyone who cannot imagine dying without seeing every last inch of celluloid with Garbo's image on it. Not every scrap is in this show, but there are some rarities that will probably not come this way again...” - John Bentley Mays, The Globe and Mail, Friday May 27, 2005. “A Fellini-esque summer should be properly spent ogling the curvaceous girls on the beaches of Rimini or careering through the streets of Rome on a Vespa that narrowly misses a pontificating Gore Vidal before splashing into the waters of the Trevi fountain. Failing that there’s Cinematheque Ontario’s Fellini retrospective to banish the heat wave mugginess and give Toronto’s summer the sultriness it deserves.” - John Allemang, The Globe and Mail, Friday, July 1, 2005

Fall 2005 

• Retrospectives: Movie Crazy: Harold Lloyd, FILM NOW: Blissfully Yours: The Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Sudden Rain: The Films of Japanese Master Mikio Naruse, The James Dean Trilogy, Tales From The Underground: British Silent Cinema, Isabelle Huppert: Risk and Revelation.
• Guests: Don Owen, George Toles, Catherine Russell, Christoph Giradet.
• Cinematheque Ontario Lecture Series: George Toles lecture on “Eloquent Objects and Mesmerising Commodities in William Wyler’s THE HEIRESS” with screening of THE HEIRESS (1949), Catherine Russell’s lecture on Mikio Naruse “The Auteur as Salaryman” with screening of YEARNING (1964), Robin Spry Tribute with Don Owen with a screening of Spry’s PROLOGUE (1970).
• The Independents: Programme 1: The Cinematic Window; Programme 2: Works by Christoph Giradet and Matthias Müller; Programme 3: Margaret Tait: Film Poems; Programme 4: Margaret Tait: Islands; Programme 5: Time Travel; Programme 6: James Benning - Circling The Image; Programme 7: James Benning’s 13 Lakes
• Limited Runs: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s TROPICAL MALADY (2004) Mikhail Kalatozov’s I AM CUBA (1964), Marguerite Duras’s INDIA SONG (1974), Robert Bresson’s PICKPOCKET (1959).
• Saturday Movie Matinees: Harold Lloyd’s SAFETY LAST (1923), MOVIE CRAZY (1932), Frank Capra’s ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944), Michael Powell’s THE RED SHOES (1948), Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman’s THE GENERAL (1926), Max Fleischer’s BETTY BOOP AND SING ALONG FILMS (1930-34), Ingmar Bergman’s THE MAGIC FLUTE (1975).
• Special Screenings: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s IN A YEAR OF 13 MOONS (1978) in a print from the Toronto International Film Festival Group’s Film Archive - a special screening to commemorate the 15th Anniversary of Cinematheque Ontario, Marcel Ophuls 3 2 hour documentary THE TROUBLES WE’VE SEEN: A HISTORY OF JOURNALISM IN WARTIME (1994), Derek Jarman’s Super 8 and 16 mm films.
• Toronto Premiere: James Benning’s 13 LAKES (2004) Bill Morrison’s OUTERBOROUGH (2005), Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s GHOST OF ASIA (2005), Reinhard Wulf’s JAMES BENNING- CIRCLING THE IMAGE (2005), Olivier Dahan’s LA VIE PROMESSE (2002), Christian Vincent’s LA SÉPARATION (1994), Patricia Mazuy’s SAINT-CYR (2000).
• Critical Note: “The late Mikio Naruse's reputation seems to exist in a constant state of being ripe for rediscovery. That was the case 20 years ago, when the last major retrospective of his work toured North America. Perhaps the current retrospective organized by Cinematheque Ontario, entitled Sudden Rain: The Films of Japanese Master Mikio Naruse, will finally solidify his place alongside the more widely recognized masters of classic Japanese cinema, Yasuhiro Ozu, Kenji Mizoguchi and Akira Kurosawa.” - Liam Lacey, The Globe and Mail, October 28, 2005