Eric Veillette

Arts writer & producer | Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, CBC Arts, Severin Films | Writing a book about going to the movies (ECW Press, 2027) | Franco-ontarien

[Eric Veillette @veilletteTO]

Heartbreaking.

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French author of comic book and film Persepolis, dies at 56 https://t.co/PrQZxNV1VN

[Eric Veillette @veilletteTO]

@theyshootactors Stellar stuff.

[Eric Veillette @veilletteTO]

“What the fuck is going on here?!?”

[Josh Lewis @thejoshl]

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.

[Corey Atad @CoreyAtad]

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.

[Genevieve Walker @talkmoviestome0]

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!

[Eric Veillette @veilletteTO]

I will be wearing this enormous & unwieldy Corruption pin.

[Eric Veillette @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.

[Canadian International Pictures @CIPictures]

Watch the trailer for THE OTHER FRENCH NEW WAVE, VOL. 2 here: https://t.co/KaQ8DBgoT8

[Eric Veillette @veilletteTO]

@champydeisel Thank you!

[Eric Veillette @veilletteTO]

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.

[Eric Veillette @veilletteTO]

This is the first of a three part look at the history of Cinecity, Willem Poolman, and Film Canada. https://t.co/XmjBEoeEvj

[Eric Veillette @veilletteTO]

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.

[Brian Lowry @blowryontv]

The last week of box-office analysis is "Nobody knows anything" on steroids.

[Josh Slater-Williams @jslaterwilliams]

Exotica (Atom Egoyan, 1994)

[Eric Veillette @veilletteTO]

Big thanks to Corey for spilling some ink on Corruption’s inclusion in Bleak Week at the Revue

[Corey Atad @CoreyAtad]

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

[🏭🏘🏢Sean Galbraith🗻❄️🥏 @PlannerSean]

One from my archives. Shot on 4x5. And then the cops showed up. :-)

[Eric Veillette @veilletteTO]

No love for the Phantom Rider.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

Internal memo from Marvel comics, 1972, ranking the importance of characters.