| Cinematheque Ontario opened its doors in June of 1990 when the Toronto International Film Festival Group took over management of the revered Ontario Film Institute, founded by film scholar and author Gerald Pratley in 1969. Cinematheque Ontario premiered with the first-ever Canadian retrospective focusing on fabled Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini. A division of the Toronto International Film Festival Group, Cinematheque Ontario now screens more than 400 films from October to August each year. Since its inception, Cinematheque Ontario has screened more than 4,500 films for enthusiastic and sophisticated Toronto-area audiences, presenting a wide variety of programmes - from director retrospectives, actor tributes, national cinema spotlights, thematic series to exclusive limited runs.
Despite its relatively short history, Cinematheque Ontario has initiated and organized a number of key travelling retrospectives, including series on Kenji Mizoguchi, Shohei Imamura, Robert Bresson,Joyce Wieland and Kon Ichikawa. [link to their respective pubs pages] Each of these programmes has been accompanied by a publication. (A tour was not attached to our Jack Chambers monograph.) Several of these films are available on videotape or DVD at the Film Reference Library. [link to FRL website in a new browser window. June - July 1990 - Retrospectives: Pier Paolo Pasolini; Tribute to Kinuyo Tanaka.
- Location: Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Fall 1990 - Retrospectives: Akira Kurosawa; Ingrid Bergman: The Early Years; Anna Magnani; Sergei Paradjanov Tribute; The Classics: Twenty-One Years of the OFI; Recent Films from Ontario; Andy Warhol.
- Toronto Premieres: Akira Kurosawa's THE QUIET DUEL; Chris Marker's A.K.
- Location: Backstage Cinema, Toronto.
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