There is not a lot happening this holiday weekend, as you’d expect – though since we seem to be edging into a proper spring, that’s just as well. It’s nice out. Have a walk, try that new coffee place, scratch a puppy behind the ears, whatever you need to do.
Alternately, if you missed the 70mm print of Tron at the Lightbox last month, it’s back for two more screenings Friday (April 3) and Saturday (April 4), both at 7 pm. I’ll understand.
Tuesday (April 7) at 6 pm, Cinema Politica takes over the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema for a screening of Waves, Ahmed Nour’s impressionistic documentary about cycles of revolution in his native Egypt.
Focusing on the city of Suez – his birthplace – Nour uses a mixture of live-action and animation to tell the story of its status as a locus of power in the Middle East, and in the revolutionary mythology of Egypt. At just over an hour, it’s a short but powerful work that’s worth experiencing on the big screen.
Deena Abul Fottouh from the Egyptian Canadian Coalition for Democracy will speak at the screening. Admission is pay-what-you-can.
Wednesday (April 8) at 9:15 pm at the Royal, my good friend Adam Nayman will be giving a talk on the films of American genre auteur Larry Fessenden – director of Habit and Wendigo, among others, and a producer of such maverick filmmakers as Kelly Reichardt and Ti West – for the Black Museum lecture series. If you’re at all interested in the landscape of American independent cinema, and the state of scrappy horror filmmaking, you’ll want to be there for that.
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