The Revue Cinema (400 Roncesvalles Avenue, Toronto, Ontario) and Reel Canada celebrate National Canadian Film Day 150!
Don McKellar’s LAST NIGHT (1998) – 35mm print!
Director Don McKellar will be in attendance and participate in a Q&A with Richard Crouse after the film.
Free Admission!
LAST NIGHT
CAN 1998 95min.
Directed by Don McKellar
Starring Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Sarah Polley, David Cronenberg, Callum Keith Rennie
What to do in Toronto as armageddon looms? A group of very different individuals with different ideas of how to face the end come together as the world is expected to end in six hours at the turn of the century. Don McKellar’s directorial debut is a standout classic of Canadian cinema.
The feature will be preceded by 40 000 000 Miles A Year (1948), a short film sponsored by the TTC, which features rare colour footage of various Toronto landmarks and makes a case for a proper transit and subway system in Toronto.
Recently scanned in 2K.
Doors open at 6:00PM.
Please note that since this Revue Film Society event is free, it is our policy to overbook to ensure capacity. We will begin releasing unclaimed seats to the rush line 10 minutes before the start of the event. In case of a full house, your reservation may not guarantee admission. We recommend you arrive early! đ
Huffington Post editor Joshua Ostroff and actor Shelley Hamilton join Richard and Beverly Thomson and CTV NewsChannelâs âBehind the Headlinesâ panel. This week they weigh in on on an Airbnb Robbery, Elon Musk’s new startup and whether or not it’s wrong to “unfriend” someone on social media in today’s heated political climate.
Welcome to the House of Crouse. First up, “Wilson” star Judy Greer stops by for a quick visit to talk about working with Woody Harrelson and signing the boobs of Archer fans. Then we go long with “Goon: Last of the Enforcers” star Kim Coates. He recites Shakespeare, talks about “Sons of Anarchy” and growing up on the Canadian Prairies. From boobs to Shakespeare, we cover it all, so c’mon in and sit a spell.
A new feature from from ctvnews.ca! The Crouse Review is a quick, hot take on the weekend’s biggest movies! This week Richard looks at “Life,” “Power Rangers” and “CHIPS.”
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Richard and CP24 anchor Jamie Gutfreund have a look at the weekendâs new movies, the gremlin-in-space drama âLifeâ with Jake Gyllenhaal and Rebecca Ferguson, the reboot of âPower Rangers,” âCHIPsâ with Dax Shepard and Michael Pena and Kristen Stewart’s ghostly “Personal Shopper.”
Richard sits in with CTV NewsChannel anchor Marcia MacMillan to have a look at the big weekend movies, the jello-monster-from-space drama âLifeâ with Jake Gyllenhaal and Rebecca Ferguson, the reboot of âPower Rangers,” âCHIPsâ with Dax Shepard and Michael Pena and the spooky “Personal Shopper” starring Kristen Stewart.
Ghostbusting is supposed to make you feel good. If thatâs true, why does Personal Shopperâs Maureen (played by Kristen Stewart) appear so miserable all the time? Perhaps itâs because the spirit she is trying to bust is that of her brother Lewis, a twin who died of a heart attack in a rambling, old Paris house.
In her second film with French director Olivier Assayas, the Twilight star gives a career topping performance, brittle yet calm in the face of mounting terror. There is a detached feel to the performance that recalls the remove Hitchcockâs leading ladies often projected as she navigates through personal tragedy and supernatural mystery.
âKristen is the great actress of her generation,â says Assayas. âI feel very privileged to have this connection with her. It is miraculous to work with a young actress who realizes there is no end to what she can do. You tell her, âYou can fly,â and she doesnât believe it and then she does it.
âI have always loved to work with young actors and actresses. You catch them at a moment when they are transforming and opening up. I think it is always interesting to work with actors when you can give them something. When you work with great actors who have done it all, it is very difficult because you give them something that they have already done better in another movie ten years before. â
âShe is obsessed with breaking anything that could feel like routine,â he says. âShe gives herself this rule of not doing what she would instinctively do. When you do a scene there is an obvious starting place. She never takes it. Thatâs what I love. As a writer I donât want to see what I imagined, I want to see an actor who takes it, who appropriates it and does something else with it. Thatâs when it becomes real and human.â
âUsually I work with actors once, twice and after a while I realize weâve gone all the way. With Kristen I think I could go on and on.â
Personal Shopper is a ghost story, so things take a strange turn when Maureenâs phone lights up with mysterious texts while sheâs on a quick Chunnel trip to London. âR U real? R U alive or dead?â she writes, replying to the Unknown texter. âTell me something you find unsettling,â comes the response, opening the door for Maureen to begin exploring her fears, phobias, digging deeper than she ever has.
âI donât believe in the supernatural but I believe there is more to life than the material world. Science kind of proves it. There is so much going on that we canât see because it is too small or too big or whatever. We have our own relationship with some invisible world. Each of us has his own version of it. You end up living with the departed. Each of us has an inner world which is much more complex than the material world. Itâs much more fascinating in terms of cinema. I donât think it is bizarre to try and connect with that.â