Winter 2003 

• Retrospectives: The Book of Miéville: Films by Anne-Marie Miéville; Kurosawa Returns; Promised Lands: The Films of Andrzej Wajda; Larry Kent: Sex, Censorship, and Celluloid; The Cinema is Nicholas Ray; Bad Nights: Cinematic Maverick Gus Van Sant; Italian Outcast: Rediscovering the Films of Elio Petri.
• Event: Canada's Top Ten 2002.
• Guests: Keith Behrman, David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Rebecca Jenkins, Larry Kent, Bruce McDonald, Don McKellar, Pat O'Neill, Callum Keith Rennie, Ronald Saunders, Susan Shipton, Wiebke von Carolsfeld.
• Limited Runs: Fritz Lang's METROPOLIS; Akira Kurosawa's IKIRU; Alexander Sokurov's RUSSIAN ARK; Hou Hsiao-hsien's MILLENNIUM MAMBO; Tsai Ming-liang's WHAT TIME IS IT THERE?
• World Premiere: R. Bruce Elder's EROS AND WONDER.
• Canadian Premiere: Pat O'Neill's THE DECAY OF FICTION.
• Toronto Premiere: Nicholas Ray's WE CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN; Tsai Ming-liang's THE SKYWALK IS GONE.
• Critical note: "The retrospective of the work of Larry Kent being presented by the Cinematheque Ontario ... acts as a sometimes startling reminder of a typically unremembered fact of Canadian movie history: If there was a soul to Canadian filmmaking during the 1960s, it was not to be found in production offices, studios or even publicly supported agencies or institutions. It was on campus." - Geoff Pevere, The Toronto Star, January 31, 2003

Spring 2003 

• Retrospectives: Days and Nights in the Forest: The Films of Satyajit Ray; Guy Maddin's Enchanted Delirium: A Retrospective and Carte Blanche; Destroying Utopia: Films by Vera Chytilová; New Films from Hungary: A Return to Form; "Why Not?" Radical Shpontanuity in the Films of Leo McCarey.
• Guests: Geoff Bowie, Guy Maddin, Jonas Mekas.
• Limited Runs: Frederick Wiseman's LA DERNI RE LETTRE; John Junkerman's POWER AND TERROR: NOAM CHOMSKY IN OUR TIMES; Eugene Jarecki's THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER; Abbas Kiarostami's TEN.
• Toronto Premiere: Mary Greto's DISTENCES; Vivian Ostrovsky's NIKITA KINO; Zoltán Kamondi's TEMPTATIONS; Péter Forgács' A BIBÓ READER; Ibolya Fekete's CHICO; John Junkerman's POWER AND TERROR: NOAM CHOMSKY IN OUR TIMES.
• Critical note: "Maddin has been working his own scratchy, 78 rpm groove for nearly two decades, it's only in the past couple of years - with the heartstopping short, HEART OF THE WORLD, the award-winning TV production DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY, the traveling installation, "Guy Maddin: Cowards Bend The Knee", the Cinematheque Ontario retrospective, "Enchanted Delirium", and a forthcoming feature, penned by Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro, called THE SADDEST MUSIC IN THE WORLD - that the 46 year-old Manitoban of Icelandic-Scottish stock is being recognized for the tarnished and slightly dented national treasure that he is." - Geoff Pevere, The Toronto Star, March 21, 2003.

Summer (June-July) 2003 

• Retrospectives: Marlene Dietrich: I Kiss Your Hand, Madame; Heroic Grace: The Chinese Martial Arts Film; Man With a Past: The Films of Aki Kaurismäki; Flesh and Soul: The Films of Carl-Theodor Dreyer; Diabolical: The Films of Henri-Georges Clouzot.
• A Summer of Essentials: the 50th Anniversary of CinemaScope; The Greatest Foreign Classics.
• Limited Runs: Sergio Leone's THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY; Luchino Visconti's THE LEOPARD.
• Critical note: "Over the past twenty years, one of the finest - and I must admit, strangest-bodies of work in world cinema has been created by an extraordinary Finnish director, Aki Kaurismäki. Possessed of a dry wit that rivals Finland's fabled vodka, Kaurismäki's films have a poetic cadence that matches his name." - Marc Glassman, Classical 96.3 FM, June 12, 2003.

Fall 2003 

• Retrospectives: Imitations of Life: The Films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder; Fassbinder's Favourites (Close to Heaven: 25 Great Classics); A Week of Wonders: Czech Horror and Fantasy on Film; Duty, Deviance, and Desire: The Films of Germaine Dulac; Films from Along the Silk Road: Central Asian Cinema; Levels of Truth: The Films of Heddy Honigmann; Before the Barbarians: The Films of Denys Arcand; How to be Eccentric: The Films of Richard Massingham.
• Guests: Robert Gitt, Alfred Guzzetti, Irina Leimbacher, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Hannes Schüpbach, Steven Jay Schneider.
• Cinematheque Ontario Lecture Series: An Evening with Jonathan Rosenbaum; Trajectories and Transformations: Germaine Dulac Lecture and Screening, presented by Irina Leimbacher; Charles Laughton Directs THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER: a presentation of outtakes from the film by Robert Gitt.
• The Independents: Hannes Schüpbach in Person!; Alfred Guzzetti in Person!; soundtracks - SEE HEAR! - a film component; Robert Kramer's A STARTING PLACE; The Straub Trilogy.
• Limited Runs: Petri's INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION, F.W. Murnau's SUNRISE.
• Special Screening: Mann's THE NAKED SPUR, Brown's FLESH AND THE DEVIL and A WOMAN OF AFFAIRS, F.W. Murnau's FAUST.
• Saturday Movie Matinees: CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG, THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, DRACULA: PAGES FROM A VIRGIN'S DIARY, CHARLOTTE'S WEB, SEVEN CHANCES, BALLOONATIC, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, ROMEO AND JULIET.
• Critical Note: "Cinematheque Ontario begins a two-month Fassbinder retrospective this weekend in Toronto with a series of arresting doublebills, that place the best films of the late German director alongside many great Hollywood and European movies that influenced his work. . . . With luck, the 10-week series will return Rainer Werner Fassbinder, whose influence has grown while his films have fallen out of circulation, to the prominence he enjoyed when he visited Canada (very much in the flesh) 22 summers ago." - Stephen Cole, The Globe & Mail, October 18, 2003