Arts writer & producer | Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, CBC Arts, Severin Films | Writing a book about going to the movies (ECW Press, 2027) | Franco-ontarien
All of the most elite members of the Toronto film scene are currently seated at the Revue Cinema waiting for the 35mm print of Roger Watkins’ hardcore porn film Corruption (1983) to start.
tonight i’m taking in a double-feature of Watership Down, with recorded intro by Guillermo del Toro, followed by the surreal porno masterpiece Corruption on a newly struck 35mm print. movies are incredible.
Continuing Bleak Week at @RevueCinema tonight with a double feature of Watership Down with a pre-recorded intro by @RealGDT + Corruption on 35mm introduced by @veilletteTO!
The newly-struck print of CORRUPTION has arrived. When this played Toronto in the ‘80s, the censors cut it to shreds. Plays at the @RevueCinema Wednesday night. Bleak Week — Hump Day Special. It’s the repertory cinema event of a lifetime.
Before it was a McDonald’s, this post office on Yonge Street was ground zero for a film revolution. Cinecity screened controversial films, imported the NY underground, launched careers, challenged censors & helped create an audience for Canadian film.
In June, Lorne Michaels & Bob Fothergill organized Cinethon, a weekend-long marathon of experimental film. It's hard to think of a more consequential weekend in Toronto exhibition history. Cronenberg's film Transfer played alongside the Kuchars, Kenneth Anger, Barbara Rubin.
for @TorontoStar, i wrote about The Revue’s first ever Bleak Week, featuring a very Toronto lineup of despairing movies to have a bad* time at
*great https://t.co/WKakC2dd1x