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ontheglobe.com returns to the Revue

Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 4:00 pm, ontheglobe returns to the Revue.  Cultural navigator Andrew Princz hosts another installment of his unique travel-film series presented at venues across Canada which takes audiences to disparate corners of the globe.  He will present his multi-media program titled India: Iconic treasures and one-time empires: An exclusive view of many faces of ancient India. From the famed Golden Triangle of Agra,…

The 2010 Queer West Film Festival

Saturday August 14th at 4:00pm The Revue Cinema is proud to host the 3rd annual Queer West Film Festival.  This year’s theme of Queering Boundaries means going beyond a fixed identity and embracing fluidity. Though situated in the West of Toronto, The festival sees the literal city borders and boundaries as contested and in flux.  Through the medium of film, the Queer West Film Festival is pushing for a more inclusive and complex…

Drop Your Shorts!

The Revue presents the 12th installment of our Drop Your Shorts short film festival on Thursday, July 29 at 7:00PM. Admission is only $2.00! Check out a variety of short films by local (and not-so-local) up and coming and established filmmakers. Comedies, drama, music, animation…anything goes! Our only criteria is that it's short and under 15 minutes. The Revue's Drop Your Shorts short film festival; it's the best 2 bucks you'll…

Naked Frames Returns to the Revue

The Revue is proud to present in conjunction with a shadowy council of artists with a mandate to provide exposure to all things cool, the third instalment of the The Naked Frames Animation and Music Video Series Thursday July 8th at 9:00pm.  Hosted by FaceFace, the talking wall, NF3 promises to be a unique evening of some of the best our local talent has to offer in animation, music videos, and live musical performances. Musical guest Squid…

Canadian Cinema in Revue returns June 29

No doubt you’ve seen other films he’s produced: Hotel Rwanda, Shake Hands with the Devil. You can meet Martin Katz at The Revue on Tuesday, June 29, for another screening in the Canadian Cinema in Revue series. The program showcases Canadian features and short films that should be seen on the big screen. Curator of the program, blogger, critic and filmmaker Alan Bacchus has selected Katz’s 2000 film The Claim, directed by Brit…

Familiar Personalities in a New Setting

Woody Allen pushes characters beyond comfort zone in beautiful Barcelona

If there’s a simple way to sum up Vicky Cristina Barcelona, it’s “Wherever you go, there you are.” That adage applies to Vicky and Cristina, two Americans in Spain. It also applies to Woody Allen, who remains Woody Allen in New York, London or Barcelona.   The characters’ familiarity in Allen’s latest film balances the Spanish city’s foreignness. Vicky and Cristina are younger versions of people…

My, My, Here We Go Again!

Now it’s the film stars’ turn to kick up their heels in Mamma Mia!

Originally published on September 17, 2008 After my daughter and I saw Mamma Mia!, she left the theatre saying, “I’ve got to go home and watch Pride and Prejudice.” She was referring, of course, to the Colin Firth television version. She was deeply disturbed by Firth’s role in Mamma Mia! as Harry, a rather silly but good-hearted English banker, the former dog collar-wearing lover of Donna, the film’s heroine.…

Revue Reviewers Pick 2008's Top 5 Flicks

Animation, a fast-paced doc, superheroes and a family drama top the list

Originally published on January 7, 2009   1. WALL•E (Andrew Stanton)Wall•E is a warm and hopeful tale that reminds us that love is really what makes life worth living. –Zorianna Zurba Exquisite animation; what’s sweeter than a story about wanting to just hold another’s hand? –Midori Miyamoto Another brilliant animated film from the Pixar folks. –Shlomo Schwartzberg   2. MAN ON WIRE…

More Than a Pretty Face

Angelina Jolie deserves a lot more credit for her acting abilities

Originally published on December 24, 2008 It’s a funny thing, but even though Angelina Jolie has already won an Oscar (for Girl, Interrupted) and has fronted such major movies as A Mighty Heart and this year’s Clint Eastwood drama Changeling, all in a relatively short career, she continues to be  underestimated and overlooked. Too many folks prefer to dwell on her tumultuous off-screen life as Mrs. Brad Pitt and, before…

Portrait of a Person, Not a Nation

Oliver Stone’s new film plays psychiatrist to Dubya, skimps on politics

Originally published on December 10, 2008 Over the past eight months, The Revue enjoyed a lecture series by film critic Kevin Courrier, who looked at the link between films, the ideas and ideals they embodied, and the U.S. presidential era in which they were made. Now we have Oliver Stone’s latest film, a biography of George W. Bush, screening at the Revue from Friday, December 12 to Tuesday, December 16. Does W. provide a perspective…

Showtime for New Trailer

Local animator creates 45-second spot to screen before features

Originally published on December 10, 2008 When Jake Bauming hands in his work, he’s used to disappearing. But when the 34-year-old animation artist submitted the 45-second trailer he made to help brand the Revue Cinema, he had to stand up in front of an audience just shy of 200 at the theatre’s December 4 anniversary celebration. “I couldn’t even tell you what I said,” he lamented in an email afterward. He also…

Year One…and Counting

Let’s celebrate with a free screening and a holiday birthday party

Originally published on November 26, 2008   The Revue Cinema has just received a great birthday present. Little more than a year after reopening as a neighbourhood-based, not-for-profit enterprise, we’ve earned the honour of Toronto’s Best Repertory Theatre in Now Magazine’s reader poll. Thank you, Revue friends, for your votes. It’s one more thing to celebrate with a combined one-year anniversary and holiday…

New Film Genre Featured

Watch 40-plus movies made for your mobile on the big screen

Originally published on November 12, 2008 Mobifest, Canada’s third annual made-formobile movie festival, is coming to The Revue, Wednesday, November 19. Created by Duncan Kennedy and supported by industry heavy-hitters like Judy Gladstone (BravoFact), and Jennifer Weiss and Simone Urdl (producers of Away From Her and Redacted), the event has promoted mobile movies since the beginning of  the phenomenon. Expect to see more than 40…