From Page To Screen Film Schedule
Programme 1 - July 11th
| MINISTRY OF FEAR (1944) 86 minutes | |||||||
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Released from an asylum into a world gone mad, our hero is swept along the dark pathways of espionage, deception and dangerous romance. Based on the Graham Greene novel, this seldom screened noir classic inspired Hitchcock to new heights. |
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| PHANTOM LADY (1944) 87 minutes | |||||||
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A mysterious woman he met in a bar holds the key that will unlock a murder. But where is she, and why can't anyone remember her except the accused? Noir at its most elusive. From the Cornell Woolrich novel. |
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Guest speaker: Director Don Shebib
Programme 2 - July 18th
| THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES (1940) 89 minutes | |||||||||
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There's no love lost between rival siblings when, grasping for the prize of the family mansion, one is framed for murder. Freely adapted from the gothic book by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the terrific acting by the stars climaxes in an ending dripping with poetic justice. Oscar winner |
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| THE OLD DARK HOUSE (1932) 72 minutes | |||||||
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It was a dark and stormy night when a group seeking shelter happens upon the strange goings on in a gloomy old house. J. B. Priestly's dry, black humour (from his book Benighted) is the ideal backdrop for the outstanding ensemble cast. Clearly one of Universal's unsung classics. |
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Guest Speaker: Film critic Kevin Courrier
Programme 3 - July 25th
| THE HORSE'S MOUTH (1953) 97 minutes | |||||||
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Enter the world of brilliant, eccentric and forever starving artist Gully Jimson as he neurotically quests for the "perfect" wall for his masterpiece. This quirky, British comedy masterpiece squeezes every bit of wit from the Joyce Cary novel. |
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| THE WRONG BOX (1966) 105 minutes | |||||||||||
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Unprincipled cads, cunning cousins and dastardly deeds populate one of the greatest of British comedies. The quickest way to inherit is to kill whoever's in the way. Peter Sellers steals the movie in his hilarious cameo role. Robert Louis Stevenson and stepson Lloyd Osbourne penned the novel. |
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Guest speaker: Risa Shuman, former executive producer of "Saturday Night at the Movies"
| *PLEASE NOTE*: | No screening on Monday, August 1st. |
| Raiding the Vaults at Eastman House in Rochester, NY |
Programme 4 - August 8th
| SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING (1960) 89 minutes | |||||||
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The best of the gritty 1960s British new wave films. Newcomer Finney is brilliant as a non-conforming "angry young man" who forever alters the lives of the women around him. Adapted from the novel by its author, Alan Sillitoe, the film garnered seven awards and is listed in the top 20 best British films of all time. |
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| RACHEL, RACHEL (1968) 107 minutes | |||||||
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Sensitively directed by her husband in his directorial debut, Woodward's portrayal of the emotional awakening of a spinster schoolteacher won international acclaim. Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Actress. Adapted from Margaret Laurence's Canadian classic, A Jest of God. |
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Guest speaker: Larry Anklewicz, programmer Toronto Jewish Film Festival
Programme 5 - August 15th
| THE LOST MOMENT (1947) 89 minutes | |||||||||
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A publisher's ruse in his obsessive quest for the lost love letters of a famous poet releases hidden emotions in a woman's fragile mind. The shifting identities and sexual tensions found in Henry James' The Aspern Papers are fully realized on screen in this gothic love story. |
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| RAFFLES (1930) 72 minutes | |||||||||||
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An elegant Englishman's secret life as a notorious jewel thief ends when he falls in love with a beautiful woman. Nevertheless, he's forced into one last job for an old friend in trouble. Colman sets the standard for all suave thieves to follow. From the E. W. Hornung novel, Raffles, The Amateur Cracksman. |
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Guest speaker: Film critic Shlomo Schwartzberg
Programme 6 - August 22nd
| THE FURIES (1950) 109 minutes | |||||||||
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Feud rides shotgun in the swirling maelstrom of love and hate between a firebrand daughter and her tyrannical father. Toronto born Walter Houston's last performance is mesmerizing. Oscar winning cinematography brings to life the Niven Busch story. |
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| THE VIRGINIAN (1929) 91 minutes | |||||||||
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The loner hero answers to his own moral code when he finds his friend rustling cattle. Fleming and the formidable cast deliver an influential film whose visual scope and mobility belies its early sound origins. From the powerful western novel by Owen Wister. |
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Guest speaker: Film and book critic, Geoff Pevere
Programme 7 - August 29th
| I MARRIED A WITCH (1942) 77 minutes | |||||||
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Accidentally released from centuries of incarceration inside a tree, a beautiful witch seeks revenge against her prosecutor's descendant. But the spell she's supposed to cast on her victim goes awry and now she's under her own love hex! The delightful Thorne Smith novel is irresistibly charming on screen. |
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| THE MAN WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES (1936) 82 minutes | |||||||||
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A timid, mousy shop clerk suddenly gains the power to perform miracles but it keeps backfiring on him in spectacular ways. The book's author, H. G. Wells, also scripted this charming fantasy comedy. |
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Guest speaker: Cam Tolton, University of Toronto Professor of Emeritus Cinema Studies