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Saturday, January 15, THE ANARCHIST FILM FESTIVAL
7pm: FRANKENSTEIN (1910) Thomas Edison.
7:15: KID DRACULA. F. W. Murnau’s 1922 silent film version of DRACULA, NOSFERATU set to the music of RADIOHEAD’s KID A and OK COMPUTER.
9pm: WHAT I LEARNED FROM LSD (2010) A Film Talk By Reg Hartt.
Sunday, January 16, THE ANARCHIST FILM FESTIVAL
7pm:  ANDY WARHOL THE COMPLETE PICTURE (2002) Directed by Chris Rodley. Narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt. “They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”- ANDY WARHOL.  The definitive account of the life and work of the most enigmatic and influential artist of the late twentieth century.
9pm: KISS (1963) Andy Warhol. KISS was created as a protest against the motion picture code of censors decree that on screen kisses last no longer than three seconds.  BLOWJOB (1964) Andy Warhol. While it was illegal in 1964 to show an actual blow job on film Warhol rose above the law by filming the face of a young man getting his cock sucked. Bonus: Forbidden Cinema # 1: UN CHANTE D’AMOUR (1950) Jean Genet. The only film directed by Jean Genet. For years those who showed this film knew that to do so could mean arrest and serving time in prison. It is not the role of the artist to be a good citizen. It is the role of the artist always to be an outlaw.
Monday, January 17, THE ANARCHIST FILM FESTIVAL
7pm:  ANDY WARHOL THE COMPLETE PICTURE (2002) Directed by Chris Rodley. Narrated by Julian Rhind-Tutt. “They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”- ANDY WARHOL.  The definitive account of the life and work of the most enigmatic and influential artist of the late twentieth century.
9pm: KISS (1963) Andy Warhol. KISS was created as a protest against the motion picture code of censors decree that on screen kisses last no longer than three seconds.  BLOWJOB (1964) Andy Warhol. While it was illegal in 1964 to show an actual blow job on film Warhol rose above the law by filming the face of a young man getting his cock sucked. Bonus: Forbidden Cinema # 1: UN CHANTE D’AMOUR (1950) Jean Genet. The only film directed by Jean Genet. For years those who showed this film knew that to do so could mean arrest and serving time in prison. It is not the role of the artist to be a good citizen. It is the role of the artist always to be an outlaw.
Tuesday, January 18, THE ANARCHIST FILM FESTIVAL
7pm: THE HISTORY OF STEREOSCOPIC CINEMA FROM THE LUMIERE BROTHERS TO NOW. An ongoing series that includes both classic 3D Motion Pictures projected on a huge screen and seen with the most up to date technology (wireless shutter glasses) and new films shot by Reg Hartt using the 3DInlife X3 and X5 DV Player and camera as well as the new high def 3DInlife SDC 820 Camera. You can view this program as pure fun or as a chance to study stereoscopic film making at a depth you can not do anywhere else in this world. “Very cool.”—Ray Zone. Three hour program.
Wednesday, January 19, THE ANARCHIST FILM FESTIVAL
7pm: MAKING A LIVING (1914) Directed By Henry Lehrman. Charlie Chaplin’s first film.
7:15: OUR HOSPITALITY (1923) Buster Keaton.
8:30: THE MAN WHO LAUGHS (1928) Paul Leni’s film of Victor Hugo’s great story is a real treat. Conrad Veidt plays Gwynplaine, the man with a permanent grin carved on his face. Beautifully filmed in the full German Expressionist manner. This character served as Bob Kane’s inspiration for The Joker in THE BATMAN.
Thursday, January 20, THE ANARCHIST FILM FESTIVAL
7pm: The Great McGinty (1940) Director, Screenwriter: Preston Sturges. Actors: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, Allyn Joslyn, William Demarest. The moral of Preston Sturges’ first directorial effort The Great McGinty seems to be: If you’re a crook, stay a crook, because honesty will get ya every time. Sick to death of watching other directors mangle his screenplays, Preston Sturges sold this rollicking political satire to Paramount only on the condition that he be allowed to direct (for the princely sum of $10). Paramount hedged its bets by giving Sturges a slim budget and inexpensive stars; as a result, the film made back its cost several times over, and Preston Sturges’ directorial career was off and running.
9pm: BRAZIL (1985) Terry Gilliam. The Director’s cut. “Nuff said. Be here.
Saturday, January 23: THE ANARCHIST FILM FESTIVAL.
7pm: THE SEX & VIOLENCE CARTOON FESTIVAL. Once upon a time cartoons were wicked. Then the censors got into the act. “Mickey Mouse, the artistic, offspring of Walt Disney, has fallen afoul of the censors in a big way, largely because of his amazing success. Papas and mamas, especially mama, have spoken vigorously to censor boards and elsewhere about what a devilish, naughty little mouse Mickey turned out to be. Now we find that Mickey is not to drink, smoke or tease the stock in the barnyard. Mickey has been spanked. It is the old, old story. If nobody knows you, you can do anything, and if everybody knows you, you can’t do anything–except what every one approves, which is very little of anything.”– Terry Ramsaye in THE MOTION PICTURE HERALD, Feb. 29, 1932,
9pm: WHAT I LEARNED FROM LSD (2010) A Film By Reg Hartt.
Sunday, January 24, THE ANARCHIST FILM FESTIVAL
7pm: D. W. Griffith’s ORPHANS OF THE STORM (1921) Lillian and Dorothy Gish face losing their heads during the French Revolution.  Settle back and enjoy the ride ‘cause this is great film making at its best.
Screenings Are At 463 Bathurst Street in Toronto, just south of College and across the road from The Beer Store.