Special Screenings
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
"The Flesh and The Devil: 4 programmes exploring the notorious, controversial, scandalous films of the 1920s"
PARADISE THEATRE 1006c Bloor St. W
Buy tickets in Advance or at the door (if not sold out)
Saturday February 22, 2025 2pm
Flesh and the Devil 1926
Directed by Clarence Brown
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lars Hanson
Live Accompaniment by Jordan Klapman
Flesh and the Devil is about passion; the brilliance and the darkness, the staggering joy and overwhelming pain it creates and how it simply crowds everything else out.
It’s also about an up-and-coming star whose onscreen eroticism was un-censorable and a matinee idol at his peak recreating onscreen what they felt for each other in private.While the story centers on the friendship between 2 lifelong friends (which veers dangerously close to homoerotic friendship at times), it’s when Garbo, as the ultimate proto femme fatale, arrives on the scene that the film’s heartbeat begins to race. Steering toward the scandalously sacrilegious at times, it takes its passionate eroticism to the fatal limit of what Hollywood could accept in an adulterous relationship.
With the gorgeous cinematography by William Daniels, Flesh and the Devil is a treat for all senses.Bring a date.
Saturday May 24, 2025 2pm
Casanova 1927
New Restoration!
Set in 1760s Venice and starring renowned actor Ivan Mosjoukine as the famous philanderer Giocomo Casanova in a flamboyant spectacle of romance, comedy and intrigue. Casanova enjoys a sumptuous and flirtatious existence until his precarious behaviour alerts his rivals and forces him into a life or death scenario. The hand-coloured stencil Venetian Carnival sequences have been fully restored and are glorious on screen.
This screening will utilize the newly composed and recorded orchestral score by Gunter A Buchwald.
Film courtesy of Flicker Alley
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JUNE 12- TORONTO JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL: BROKEN BARRIERS live music by Mamaliga Klezmer Band
SEPT 29- TORONTO FILM SOCIETY: LEAP YEAR (ONLINE) part of the World Silent Film Day
FEB 5- TORONTO FILM SOCIETY: THIEF OF BAGDAD
FEB 13-TORONTO FILM SOCIETY: SAFETY LAST -CENTENARY SCREENING
SEPT. TORONTO FILM SOCIETY: SUNRISE