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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
NEW PRINT! Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, achieved his greatest critical and popular success with his remake of Douglas Sirk's Rock Hudson-Jane Wyman melodrama All That Heaven Allows. Focusing on a late-middle-aged charwoman (Brigitte Mira) who incurs the wrath of family and friends by falling in love with an Arab mechanic (El Hedi ben Salem) half...

City Lights
NEW PRINT! From its famous opening where the Little Tramp is discovered asleep in the lap of a newly erected statue, City Lights is essential Chaplin. Chronicling the Tramp's unrequited romance with a blind flower seller and his attempts to raise money for an operation to restore her sight, Chaplin pointedly contrasts the lifestyles of the urban rich and poor, cementing the trend of soci...

Teen Getaway
Playing with the concepts of all-consuming romance and that teens never change, this elegant film brings the summer-romance to a surprising halt while making us long for it.

Films From Around The World Round Out Discovery At TIFF08
Toronto – Nineteen feature films from 18 countries complete the Discovery lineup for this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, running September 4 through 13, 2008. “Discovery is the place at TIFF to find this year’s most exciting debuts in cinema,” says Co- Director Cameron Bailey. “This is your one-stop shop for new filmmaking talent.” All 26 fea...

Canadian Films And Documentaries Announced To Screen In Vanguard, Real To Reel, Contemporary World Cinema, Masters And Sprockets Family Zone
Toronto – The 34th Toronto International Film Festival announces 13 Canadian features screening in five different programmes, offering opportunities for audiences to experience vibrant and engaging films from across the country. Ticket packages for the Festival are now available for purchase by cash, debit or Visa†. Purchase online at tiff.net/thefestival, by phone at 416-968-FILM or...

Hospitality Partners
Platinum Partners Liberty Entertainment Group Liberty Grand Entertainment Complex 25 British Columbia Rd., Exhibition Place 416-542-3789 As one of Toronto’s few traditional ballrooms, the Liberty Grand is the perfect location for groups of one hundred and fifty to three thousand people. Originally constructed in 1926, this one hundred thousand square foot complex gracefully blends t...

Amélie
An international sensation on its release, French visionary Jean-Pierre Jeunet's sumptuous Amélie launched Audrey Tautou to stardom as the winsome young heroine whose rich fantasy life renders Paris a playground of the imagination. While working as a waitress in a Montmartre café and cheerfully spurning relationships after a few unsuccessful ventures, Amélie's chance discovery and return of a nei...

Beginners
Five years after Thumbsucker, director Mike Mills returns to the Festival with another winning indie dramedy that balances humour, sorrow and romance with aplomb. Beginners deftly juggles two chronologies to tell the heartwarming story of two major points in the life of Oliver (Ewan McGregor), a talented illustrator. One timeline follows the slow-burning deterioration of Oliver’s father (Christop...

Gigante
When Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll unveiled their first feature, 25 Watts, in 2001, critics and audiences began to take notice of Uruguay's small film industry. That interest heightened in 2004 with their groundbreakingWhisky. Since then, a stream of new voices has emerged, many of them having worked on Rebella and Stoll's two features. On both the cast and crew lists of 25 Wattsand Whisky...

Casablanca
"Casablanca is not just one film [but] many films, an anthology," said Umberto Eco; "[Where] two clichés make us laugh[,] a hundred clichés move us... When all the archetypes burst in shamelessly, we reach Homeric depths." The definitive film of Golden Age Hollywood, Casablanca is one of those rare films that exists beyond criticism. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman strike unforgettable sparks ...

Children of Paradise
Often referred to as France's Gone With the Wind, Marcel Carné's lavish historical romance was made under the Nazi occupation, where the years-long production process reportedly served as a haven for Resistance members. Set in the early nineteenth century along Paris' infamous Boulevard du Crime—the nexus of both the city's criminal underworld and its theatre scene—the film tells a fictionalized ...

City Lights
NEW PRINT! A Chaplin masterpiece, City Lights is a hilarious and moving story about the Little Tramp's unrequited romance with a blind flower seller, and his attempts to raise money for an operation to restore her sight. Combining classic comedy sequences (particularly the Tramp’s wild boxing match!) with poignant emotion, City Lights is essential Charlie Chaplin.

Mysteries of Lisbon
In what many assumed would be his last film (before surgery for liver cancer saved his life), Raoul Ruiz has directed a masterful adaptation of a famous nineteenth-century novel by Portuguese author Camilo Castelo Branco. Mysteries of Lisbon is an elegant, exquisitely produced jewel of a film that sees Ruiz finding a renewed confidence and voice. This is a large, sprawling and vigorous tale that ...

Gone With the Wind
Swashbuckling producer David O. Selznick's epic screen version of Margaret Mitchell's best-selling novel was the original blockbuster, the highest-grossing film of all time at the domestic box office when adjusted for inflation. Vivien Leigh, selected after a much-publicized two-year search, won an Academy Award® and earned a permanent place in film history as fiery Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara...

Johnny Guitar
ARCHIVAL PRINT! Bursting with bold, intoxicating comic-book colours, Nicholas Ray's "baroque western" follows the title hero (Sterling Hayden), a former gunslinger trying to put his bloody past behind him, as he reunites with his ex-lover Vienna (Joan Crawford), a tough-minded entrepreneur who is no slouch with a pistol herself. When a bank robbery brings the simmering tension between Vi...

Lawrence of Arabia