Winter 2000 

• Retrospectives: Best of the Nineties: An Alternative View; Abstract Cinema: A Century of Lightplay; Pietro Germi; Jirí Menzel; Arthur Lipsett: Filmmaker in Free Fall; Craig Baldwin's SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM; Djibril Diop Mambéty; Ken Jacobs' Nervous System Performances; CALENDAR; Philip Hoffman's Film Farm Films; Experimental Film & Video in Argentina; Fourth Annual Student Showcase; PERFUMED NIGHTMARE; LET IT COME DOWN: THE LIFE OF PAUL BOWLES; Buster Keaton; Norman McLaren; Roy Rowland's THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T; Frank Tashlin's THE GIRL CAN'T HELP IT.
• Toronto Premieres: Ken Jacobs' THE GEORGETOWN LOOP and ONTIC ANTICS STARRING LAUREL AND HARDY; Jean-Marie Straub and Dani le Huillet's SICILIA!; Craig Baldwin's SPECTRES OF THE SPECTRUM; Rose Lowder's BOUQUETS 1 - 10; Nathaniel Dorsky's VARIATIONS; Peter Tscherkassky's OUTER SPACE; Phil Solomon's TWILIGHT PSALM II: WALKING DISTANCE; Fred Worden's ONE; Jirí Menzel's THE LIFE AND EXTRAORDINARY ADVENTURES OF PRIVATE IVAN CHONKIN.
• Guests: Ken Jacobs; Atom Egoyan; Craig Baldwin; Stan Brakhage; Jennifer Baichwal; Terence Macartney-Filgate; Kevin Courrier; Ruben Guzman and Narcisa Hirsch; Robert A. Haller; Ambrose Roche.
• Highlights: Senior Programmer James Quandt is awarded a special citation for his work on the Robert Bresson tour by the National Society of Film Critics, and for the exemplary standard he has set in writing for Cinematheque Ontario's Programme Guide.
• Critical note: "Merely by their existence [the films in the BEST OF THE NINETIES programme] challenge the assumptions of multinational entertainment: they celebrate prickly artistry over homogenous craft, cultural specificity over bland universalism, engagement over amusement, politics over popcorn." - Geoff Pevere, The Toronto Star, January 21, 2000.

Spring 2000 

• Retrospectives: Johan van der Keuken; Shanghai on Film; Orson Welles; Alexei Babanov; Michael Powell's PEEPING TOM; CNC Tribute; John Ford; Michael Haneke; Charlotte Solomon: Personal Histories; Louise Brooks; Cinéma vérité; Wojciech J. Has's THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT.
• Guests: Johan van der Keuken; James Tenney; Gary and Jillian Graver; Ulrike Ottinger.
• Toronto Premieres: Johan van der Keuken's AMSTERDAM GLOBAL VILLAGE; Alexei Babanov's OF FREAKS AND MEN; Richard Dindo's CHARLOTTE: LIFE OR THEATRE?; Christine Fischer?Defoy, Caroline Goldie, and Daniela Schmidt's PAULA PAULINKA; Claude Lanzmann's A VISITOR FROM THE LIVING.
• Critical notes: "Cinematheque Ontario's [Orson Welles] retrospective makes clear that in the cinematic war he started, [Welles'] victory * if belated * is both triumphant and complete." - Don Irvine, The Globe and Mail, March 17, 2000. "As PRISONERS OF THE DESERT, the Cinematheque Ontario retrospective of Ford's movies starting tomorrow makes absolutely clear for those who care to see, this genuine giant of the Hollywood cinema was anything but settled in his ideas about the west...But [the films] are all worth a look, and particularly in context with one another." - Geoff Pevere, The Toronto Star, March 31, 2000.

Summer (June - July) 2000 

• Retrospectives: Alfred Hitchcock; Sharon Lockhart (part of Contact 2000); Michael Ondaatje presents John Boorman's POINT BLANK; Hou Hsiao-Hsien.
• A Summer of Essentials: 36 Classics of World Cinema; Alain Resnais.
• Critical note: "For everyone who has always wanted a crash course on famous foreign films, this is your chance. Throughout July, Cinematheque Ontario is offering a full array, from THE BICYCLE THIEF to PERSONA, from LA DOLCE VITA to PICKPOCKET." - Liam Lacey, The Globe and Mail, June 30, 2000.

Fall 2000 

• Retrospectives: Stanley Kubrick; Jean Painlevé & Co.; William Kentridge; Ottawa International Animation Festival; Ernst Lubitsch; Claire Denis; Paul Almond; Valerio Zurlini; Highlights from Charles Street Video; Federico Fellini's FELLINI SATYRICON; Andrzej Wajda's MAN OF IRON; Orson Welles' THE TRIAL; Marcel Ophuls' THE SORROW AND THE PITY; Juraj Jakubisko.
• Guests: Paul Almond; Ernie Gehr; Birgitte Berg; Shanti Thakur; Nathaniel Dorsky; Gerald Pratley.
• Toronto Premieres: Shanti Thakur's SEVEN HOURS TO BURN; Nathaniel Dorsky's ARBOR VITAE; Bruce Elder's CRACK, BRUTAL GRIEF; Andrzej Wajda's MAN OF IRON.
• Critical notes: "It's difficult to say what's more appealing about the Cinematheque's Lubitsch retrospective, the opportunity to revisit classic comedies like THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER, NINOTCHKA, and TROUBLE IN PARADISE, or the chance to see an assortment of the director's rare silent films, some of which haven't screened in North America for years." - John Harkness, Now Magazine, October 26, 2000. "Claire Denis' astonishingly poetic, postcolonialist reverie BEAU TRAVAIL is finally getting the wider exposure it so richly deserves...the film is part of a retrospective of the French director's work starting tonight at Toronto's Cinematheque Ontario." - Mark Peranson, The Globe and Mail, November 5, 2000.