{"id":4332,"date":"2012-02-19T01:18:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T06:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2012-02-19T01:18:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T06:18:49","slug":"festivals-a-go-go-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=4332","title":{"rendered":"Festivals-a-Go-Go"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A swingin' week if there ever was one!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Running Wed. February 22 thru Sun. Feb. 26 is the Reel Artists Film Festival, with documentaries and assorted shorts practitioners in painting, photography, and other visuals arts. From a quick gleaning of the roster, most of the docs are about the artists, and several films come from Germany. A full listing of the intriguing programme is at the organization\u2019s website<\/a>, and the films are being screened at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.<\/p>\n

Speaking of the TBL, the Cinematheque, still ongoing is The Poetry of Precision: The Films of Robert Bresson<\/a>, Hollywood Classics: The Cinema is Nicholas Ray Part II<\/a>, and Late Night \u2013 Bangkok Dangerous: The Cinema of Nicolas Cage<\/a>, of which the last is apparently bringing in \u2018ebulliant\u2019 and emotionally intoxicated crowds hungry for things Cagey, big and loud.<\/p>\n

Saturday’s 10pm presentation is Con Air <\/strong>(1997), a big dumb stupid violent loud action film that really should be seen on the big screen to appreciate the insanity of this obscenely well-cast action monster from Jerry Bruckheimer, and director Simon West (auteur of the never-to-be-appreciated When a Stranger Calls<\/a><\/strong> remake. Blacch!).<\/p>\n

At the NFB Mediatheque Toronto<\/a> is a 60 year display tribute to the National Ballet of Canada, which runs Feb. 21 \u2013 29, with film screenings and Q&A sessions, including Victoria Tennant\u2019s Celia Franca: Tour de Force & Ballet Adagio & Pas de Deux<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Cineplex’s Front Row Centre Events<\/a>, which seems to regularly offer HD screenings of classic films and HD feeds of opera and Shakespearean plays is presenting Cinema Kabuki at selected Toronto & Vancouver venues – in T.O. it’s the Scotiabank Theatre. Screenings are Wed. Feb. 22 and Thurs. Feb. 23.<\/p>\n

Lastly, The Bloor Cinema is slated to (finally!) reopen in March, starting with free screenings of Waste<\/strong> Land<\/strong> <\/strong>March 12 & 13. Being Elmo: A Puppeteer\u2019s Journey<\/strong> and Corman\u2019s World: The Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel<\/strong> (also due on DVD via Anchor Bay March 27) begin March 16, the day scheduled programming is to begin since the theatre was closed & renovated by its new owners, the HotDocs organization \/ Blue Ice Group. A National Post piece<\/a> has some additional info.<\/p>\n

Oh, and if you happen to be in L.A. this weekend, the Los Angeles Italia Film Festival<\/a> runs from Feb. 19 \u2013 25, featuring movies directed by Sergio Corbucci, Dario Argento (including a 25 mins. preview of Dracula 3D<\/strong>), and more. Wouldn’t it be great if the festival was transplanted to Hogtown?<\/p>\n

And in San Francisco, Abel Gance\u2019s Napoleon<\/strong> (1927) will have a limited engagement (March 24, 25, 31, and April 1) at the Paramount Theatre, Oakland<\/a>. Tickets range from $53 \u2013 135 smackaroons, and Carl Davis will conduct the score Francis Ford Coppola has forbidden the rest of the world to hear for the 5.5 hour restoration Kevin Brownlow undertook years ago and was also unable to show in North America.<\/p>\n

Turns out this is the only <\/em>U.S. venue of this rare screening, largely due to technical and grating rights issues [namely Coppola preferring his dad\u2019s music score]. No Canadian dates yet, but we do have the TBL, and Roy Thompson Hall. The last time the film was shown in Toronto was 1981. I was 13, and didn\u2019t see it. I don\u2019t wish to wait another THIRTY-ONE YEARS because by then I\u2019ll be really, really <\/em>old.<\/p>\n

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Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor
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Classic films & Cageian extremes continue at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, ballet tiptoes to the NFB Mediatheque, authentic Japanese kabuki is broadcast in HD at Cineplex’s Front Row Centre Events, the Bloor Cinema is set to reopen in March, and Abel Gance’s Napoleon returns to the big screen in a 4-day engagement because Francis Coppola saw the widsom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[1105,214,1106,887,1107,1108,1109,1110,1084,658],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-17S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}