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His desire sprouted eyes

April 16, 2012 //
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It was wanderlust, pure and simple, yet it had come upon him like a seizure and grown into a passion—no, more, an hallucination. His desire sprouted eyes, his imagination, as yet unstilled from its morning labors, conjured forth the earth’s manifold wonders and horrors in his attempt to visualize them: he saw.

THOMAS MANN, Death in Venice trans. Michael Henry Heim with an introduction by Michael Cunningham [HarperCollins].

WILL AITKEN on Luchino Visconti’s adaptation of the classic at TIFF’s Books on Film series, tonight.

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Entrance

February 26, 2012 //
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Film Reference Library, 4th floor • TIFF
Photo: KIRBY

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More beautiful still

January 23, 2012 //
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“The rims of his eyelids were burning. A blow received straightens a man up and makes the body move forward, to return that blow, or a punch-to jump, to get a hard-on, to dance: to be alive. But a blow received may also cause you to bend over, to shake, to fall down, to die. When we see life, we call it beautiful. When we see death, we call it ugly. But it is more beautiful still to see oneself living at great speed, right up to the moment of death. Detectives, poets, domestic servants and priests rely on abjection. From it, they draw their power. It circulates in their veins. It nourishes them.”

Jean GENET Querelle

QUERELLE • PHOTOGRAPHED by ROGER FRITZ
through 25 FEBRUARY • VeneKlasen Werner • BERLIN

see also: Brad Davis

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“Why do foreign films have to be so foreign?”

November 6, 2011 //
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“I like action-adventure films too. I also like movies that tell a story, but is the American way the only way of telling stories?”

The issue here is not “film theory,” but cultural diversity and openness. Diversity guarantees our cultural survival. When the world is fragmenting into groups of intolerance, ignorance and hatred, film is a powerful tool to knowledge and understanding.

MARTIN SCORSESE to The New York Times, 19 November 1993
Pictured: Still from Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria

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Trying to make sense of the senseless*

November 1, 2011 //
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“Who do I want notified in case of emergency?”

The fear is not for what is lost. The fear is for what is still to be lost. You may see nothing still to be lost. Yet there is no day in her life on which I do not see her.

JOAN DIDION reads from Blue Nights (in bookstores now)
Read an excerpt
See/hear JOAN DIDION at IFOA November 8th / $10

*see also: In Loss, a Mother Explores Dark Questions and Bright Memories

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Film immersion

September 17, 2011 //
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“cinema is the wind in the trees”
D. W. Griffith

MARK COUSINS’ brilliant/thrilling 15-hour immersion course on the evolving language of film and the historic influences of world cinema, The Story of Film: An Odyssey, receives an encore marathon screening today and Sunday at TIFF beginning at 9:15AM—FREE. Essential viewing.

see also: Hear director Mark Cousins’ Q&A at the TIFF screenings here

Photo: KIRBY

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No rush

September 12, 2011 //
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Photo: KIRBY

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It’s true

September 8, 2011 //
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“There’s no place like TIFF.”

I have the most fabulous library job in the world as Library Technician for the Film Reference Library, 4th floor at TIFF|Bell Lightbox. And at no time has this been more evident than approaching today, Day One, of the Festival. The Festival spins it’s own unique centrifugal force, magnetizing world to city—a ten-day total immersion in the language, history, and marvel of cinema—a magical, at times maniacal, merging of film, film stars, and filmmakers.

FRL is the hub of film studies, research, and resources at TIFF, a treasure for film scholars and enthusiasts. Our extensive reference collections/services on all aspects of film and film-making (books/periodicals/film files/movies), enjoy free public access on the premises (see policies).

And, during TIFF, you may even find a moment of repose.

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“original, informative, entertaining and free — it’s better than spectacular.”

OTHERWORLDLY: The Art of Canadian Costume Design
at the CIBC Canadian Film Gallery, 4th Floor, TIFF|Bell Lightbox

PICTURED: A movie still from MARK COUSINS’ 15-hour documentary, The Story of Film: An Odyssey, episodes screening all-week long, beginning September 12th, FREE @ TIFF.

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Rapturous

June 16, 2011 //
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“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
When the morning stars sang together,
And all the sons of God shouted for joy?”*

This is a whole lot of movie. Incessant, unceasing prayers. A flood. For Malick-lovers (I’m a devotee), cinephiles—the demands/rewards are mountainous. And this is the film the facilities at TIFF|BellLightbox were built for. Rapturous.

THE TREE OF LIFE. Written and Directed by TERRENCE MALICK @ TIFF|BellLightbox

see also: New Worlds: The Films of Terrence Malick

And visit the Film Reference Library.

Pictured: All stills from TERRENCE MALICK’S THE TREE OF LIFE

*Job 38:4,7

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Filmic memory

April 26, 2011 //
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Does film make it possible for you to remember in “real time and motion” something you never saw?

Pictured above: LIV ULLMANN (in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona) from the brilliant tumblr blog, If we don’t, remember me.

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The art of adaptation

January 8, 2011 //
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TIFF Bell Lightbox introduces “Books On Film Club”, a series of screenings and conversations about the art of adaptation, hosted by CBC’s Eleanor Wachtel.

Monday, February 7, 7:00 pm
Susan Orlean’s Orchid Thief and Charlie Kaufman’s Adaptation
With Linda Hutcheon

Monday, February 28, 7:00 pm
Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park and Patricia Rozema’s Mansfield Park
With Patricia Rozema

Monday, April 4, 7:00 pm
Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita and Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita
With David Thomson, author of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film

Monday, May 9, 7:00 pm
Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient and Anthony Minghella’s The English Patient
With Michael Ondaatje

Monday, June 13, 7:00 pm
James M. Cain’s Double Indemnity and Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity
Guest to be announced.

Monday, June 27, 7:00 pm
Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Blake Edwards’ Breakfast at Tiffany’s
With Judith Thurman, columnist for The New Yorker

Books On Film Club is available ONLY as a subscription to the complete series.

Presented in association with Random House of Canada.

The first 100 subscriptions for the series will receive a complimentary copy of each book featured thanks to Random House of Canada.

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