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1995 

Winter 1995 

  • Retrospectives: Eric Rohmer; Abbas Kiarostami; Jean-Luc Godard; new Australian filmmakers; Greek cinema; Ulrike Ottinger; Bigas Luna; Examining Hatred; thematic series on Japan as seen by outsiders; Opera in Film; Spirituality in Cinema.
  • Toronto Premieres: Chris Newby's ANCHORESS; Nicolas Philbert's IN THE LAND OF THE DEAF; Carl Brown's BROWNSNOW; Jean-Jacques Beineix's BETTY BLUE (Director's Cut); Carlos Saura's THE DARK NIGHT; Eric Rohmer's LA BOULANG RE DE MONCEAU and LA CARRI RE DE SUZANNE; James Ricketson's BLACKFELLAS; Aleksi Vellis' NIRVANA STREET MURDER; Ray Argall's RETURN HOME; Alan Berliner's INTIMATE STRANGER; Claire Hunt and Kin Longinotto's THE GOOD WIFE OF TOKYO; Stavros Tsiolis's INVINCIBLE LOVERS; Demos Avdeliodis's THE TREE WILL HURT; Bigas Luna's THE TIT AND THE MOON; Yale Strom's THE LAST KLEZMER: LEOPOLD KOZLOWSKI, HIS LIFE AND MUSIC.
  • Canadian Premieres: Lars von Trier's THE KINGDOM; Chris Marker's PRIME TIME IN THE CAMPS.
  • English-Canadian Premiere: Alexander Sokurov's WHISPERING PAGES.
  • English North American Premiere: Jean-Jacques Beineix's OTAKU.
  • Guests: The Village Voice critic J. Hoberman introduces films in the Examining Hatred programme, a series focusing on anti-Semitism; Gariné Torossian; Mike Hoolboom; Colina Phillips.

 

Spring 1995 

  • Retrospectives: Series on Ingmar Bergman; Federico Fellini; Buster Keaton; French masterworks; Allan King; Midi Onodera; Tribute to Phillip Borsos; thematic series on Japanese films in Scope (with Kurosawa; Masumura; Imamura; Suzuki); Asian Heritage Month; Eating in Film; Robert Bresson's LE DIABLE PROBABLEMENT.
  • Toronto Premieres: Karin Lee's MY SWEET PEONY; Yun Lam Li's FRAMES OF AN INSTANT; Yasuzo Masumura's GIANTS AND TOYS; Bergman's CRISIS, IT RAINS ON OUR LOVE, A SHIP BOUND FOR INDIA, PORT OF CALL, KARIN'S FACE and TO JOY.
  • English-Canadian Premieres: Federico Fellini's VOICES OF THE MOON.
  • Canadian Premieres: Ellen Bruno's SATYA: PRAYER FOR THE ENEMY; Sally Ingleton's THE TENTH DANCER.
  • Guests: Barbara Sternberg; Allan King.

 

Summer 1995  

  • Retrospectives: SUMMER IN ITALY II: Films by Bertolucci; De Santis; Olmi; Rossellini; Pasolini; Visconti, et al.

 

Fall 1995 

  • Retrospectives: Japanese Cinema of the Nineties (with Takeshi Kitano; Kazuo Hara; Takashi Ishii); Marcel Ophuls; Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger; New French Cinema; Kiéslowski DECALOGUE; Ermanno Olmi; Abbas Kiarostami's THROUGH THE OLIVE TREES.
  • English-Canadian Premieres: Marquise Lepage's THE LOST GARDEN: THE LIFE AND CINEMA OF ALICE GUY-BLACHÉ; Peter Greenaway's STAIRS 1 GENEVA; Marcel Ophuls' THE TROUBLES WE'VE SEEN: A HISTORY OF JOURNALISM IN WARTIME.
  • Toronto Premieres: Judit Elek's MEMOIRS OF A RIVER; Patricia Mazuy's TRAVOLTA AND ME; Claire Denis' U.S. GO HOME; Olivier Duhan's BROTHERS; Kenchi Iwamoto's KIKUCHI; Takeshi Kitano's VIOLENT COP and BOILING POINT; Kazuo Hara's A DEDICATED LIFE; Yuri Obitani's HAIR OPERA; Yoshimitsu Morita's KITCHEN; Kaizo Hayashi's THE MOST TERRIBLE TIME IN MY LIFE; Toichi Nakata's OSAKA STORY; Tetsuo Shinohara's WORK ON THE GRASS; Yoichi Sai's ALL UNDER THE MOON; Go Riju's ELEPHANT SONG; Masayuki Suo's SUMO DO, SUMO DON'T; Jun Ichikawa's TOKYO KYODAI; Hiroyuki Oki's TARCH TRIP; Hiroyuki Oki's COLOR EYES; Ryosuke Hashiguchi's A TOUCH OF FEVER; Ryuichi Hiroki's 800 TWO LAP RUNNERS; Taku Oshima's KANA-KANA: THE SUMMER THAT NEVER WAS; Makoto Sato's LIVING ON THE RIVER AGANO; Tomoyuki's Furumaya's THIS WINDOW IS OURS.
  • Guests: Marcel Ophuls; Stan Brakhage; Kenchi Iwamoto; Ramiro Puerta; Nancy Hallas.
  • Highlights: Cinematheque Ontario introduces its free weekly forum for independent and experimental film and video, THE INDEPENDENTS.
  • Critical Note: "The Independents, one of the few venues for high quality experimental work in a theatre ... is the real deal" - Ryan Bigge, Broken Pencil (Fall 1999).
 
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