Winter 2002 

• Retrospectives: Perfect Harmony: Opera As Cinema; Godard For Ever (II): A Jean-Luc Godard Retrospective; The Mercurial Persona of Melina Mercouri; Requiem: The Visionary Films of Russian Master Alexander Sokurov; Ousmane Semb ne: Pioneer of African Cinema.
• Toronto Premieres: Jean-Luc Godard’s THE CHILDREN PLAY RUSSIA, 2 x 50 YEARS OF FRENCH CINEMA, ORIGINS OF THE 21ST CENTURY, THE OLD PLACE; Alexander Sokurov’s A HUMBLE LIFE, DIMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH: THE VIOLA SONATA, A SIMPLE ELEGY, TAURUS, DOLCE, ELEGY OF A VOYAGE, SPIRITUAL VOICES, CONFESSION, Ousmane Semb ne’s BLACK GIRL, FAAT-KINE.
• Guests: Elida Schogt and deco dawson.
• Critical note: "With 48 different feature-length works, Godard for Ever is the most comprehensive survey of the Swiss-born filmmaker's career ever mounted in North America." - Jason Anderson, eye Magazine, January 17, 2002.

Spring 2002  

• Retrospectives: Films of a Wayfarer: Swedish Master Mauritz Stiller; Composing An American Epic: The Films of Frederick Wiseman; Peter Kubelka: On the Essence of Cinema; Matters of Life and Death: The Films of Michael Powell; Fantastika!: The Films of Alexander Ptushko; Journey Between Two Worlds: The Films of John Paskievich; The New Czech Miracle; Knowing We Are Dreaming: The Films of Julio Medem; Carried By The Wind: Films by Abbas Kiarostami.
• Toronto Premieres: Abbas Kiarostami’s ABC AFRICA; co-presentation with the Jewish Film Festival of Claude Lanzmann’s SOBIBOR OCTOBER 14, 1943, 4P.M.;
• North American Premiere: Michael Snow’s CORPUS CALLOSUM.
• Guests: Abbas Kiarostami, Michael Snow, Peter Kubelka, Ali Kazimi, Peter Tscherkassky, Frederick Wiseman.
• Critical note: "There are two objects on display at Cinematheque Ontario's retrospective of the films of Michael Powell...There is the physical restoration of the films themselves, many of which are being screened as new 35mm prints, and there is the amazing cultural restoration of the career of the man who made them." - Geoff Pevere, The Toronto Star, March 29, 2002.

Summer (June-July) 2002 

• Retrospectives: Jia Zhangke's PLATFORM; Andrzej Munk; Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi; Hong Kong Cinema Since 1997; Jonas Mekas' AS I WAS MOVING AHEAD OCCASIONALLY I SAW BRIEF GLIMPSES OF BEAUTY; Joris Ivens; Budd Boetticher; Alexander Mackendrick's SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS; Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT.
• Summer At Cinematheque: 4 Films by Vittorio De Sica; Jacques Demy; Luis Bu uel; Eric Rohmer; Luchino Visconti; Yasujiro Ozu.
• Critical note: "Welcome to Summer at the Cinematheque, the most popular program of Cinematheque Ontario, the film lover's paradise far from the maddening multiplex." - Peter Howell, The Toronto Star, June 28, 2002.

Fall 2002  

• Retrospectives: Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune; The Poetry of Apocalypse: The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky; František Vlácil: The Czech Master of Pure Film; Landscapes of the Soul: The Films of Alexander Dovzhenko; New Arab Video: in/tangible cartographies; Remembrance of Things to Come: Works by Chris Marker.
• Carte Blanche: Robert Daudelin.
• Guests: Robert Daudelin, Catherine Martin, Jayce Salloum.
• Limited Runs: Wang Chao's THE ORPHAN OF ANYANG; Chris Marker's SANS SOLEIL.
• Toronto Premiere: Robert Kramer's CITIES ON THE PLAIN; Chris Marker's REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS TO COME.
• Critical note: "In Britain they call them film societies, but in Canada we call them Cinematheques. The name is a bit intimidating, but that hasn't stopped the cinematheques in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver from becoming a second home for people who love classic film. And this brings joy to the heart of Robert Daudelin, who, over 30 years, built Montreal's Cinémath que québécoise into a $3.5-million annual operation that runs classic film programs, and plays host to scholars from around the world. He's such a linchpin in the film community that when he announced his retirement earlier this year, the Cinematheque Ontario in Toronto decided to mount a retrospective in his honour." - Ray Conlogue, The Globe and Mail, November 13, 2002.