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The Cineforum Is Dead! Long Live the Cineforum!

The exterior of the Cineforum as of Monday evening, after the neon light had been switched off. Last Monday, we stopped by the Cineforum on Bathurst to chat with local cinephile, filmmaker, educator, autodidact, and folk hero Reg Hartt about the on-again, off-again status of his infamous screening space. By Saturday, it was closed. Under [...]

Duly Quoted: Reg Hartt

"It’s not like I can’t go somewhere else....But something unique happened here."

Be Still My Hartt

In November, it seemed all but certain that Reg Hartt’s Cineforum would be shut down in the new year, a result of Hartt’s impending eviction from the house on Bathurst Street that he’d hosted Cineforum out of for some eighteen years. But, as with most things Reg Hartt, there’s more to the story: according to [...]

So Long, Cineforum

After eighteen years, thousands upon thousands of film screenings, and thousands times more 8½” x 11″ posters littering the city, Reg Hartt‘s Cineforum is taking its final breath on Bathurst Street. As Hartt explained in a post on the Cineforum’s website yesterday titled “The Last Christmas at the Cineforum,” 463 Bathurst—Hartt’s home, and, since 1992, [...]

Queering the Cineforum

Reg Hartt, everyone’s favourite dude with a movie theatre in his basement, is promoting the new(ish) film version of off-Broadway tittilator Naked Boys Singing by screening a mini Queer Film Festival at the Cineforum over the next few weeks. Each Thursday night for the next four weeks, he’ll screen Naked Boys (which is exactly what [...]