(Oscar-nominated) Movies
The Illusionist The latest pic by the director of the magical The Triplets Of Belleville has just been nominated for an Oscar for best animated film. See review here.
Incendies Denis Villeneuve’s powerful film about a Canadian family’s ties to war and tragedy in an unknown Middle Eastern country has just been nominated for a best foreign language film Oscar. See it in an exclusive run at the TIFF Bell Lightbox and the Grande – Yonge. See review here.
Stage
Something Wicked Awesome This Way Comes The Second City’s funniest revue in years has been extended until the end of the month. Don’t miss it. See mini review and listing here.
The Dining Room Down n’ Out Productions brings back their terrific production of the A.R. Gurney play about WASP life, performed in the atmospheric Campbell House Museum. See listing here.
Community
Under Rich Earth As Toronto prepares for the 2015 Pan-Am Games, it’s time to focus on the harmful activities of Canuck mining firms in the nations to our south. Come and watch this doc about the resistance of sugarcane farmers in Ecudor to Ascendant Cooper of Canada by Canadian director Malcolm Rogge. Rogge will be available for a Q and A. 7 pm. pwyc. OISE, room 2-150. See here.
Slavery in the Town of York To celebrate Black History Month historian Hillary J Dawson offers a trip through old Toronto’s hidden race relations’ nasties. 7:30 pm. Free. S Walter Stewart Library, 170 Memorial Park, eastyork.org. See listing.
Music
Drumheller The forward-thinking local jazz band play the Tranzac tonight. See listing.
Art
U of T galleries New exhibits have just opened at the downtown campus.
At Justina Barnicke, a show of recent paintings of appropriated text by Vancouver’s Ron Terada is misleadingly, or ironically, named Who I Think I Am. See listing.
Next door, the U of T Art Gallery has an odd pairing: 19th- and 20-century Canadian masterworks from the University College collection and a series of colourful socialist-realist woodblock prints from North Korea. See listing.
