Urban Planner is Torontoist’s guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every weekday morning, and in a weekend edition Friday afternoons. If you have an event you’d like considered, email all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. My Suicide, a film by David Lee Miller, will be part of the [...]

Still from Martin Koolhoven’s Winter in Wartime courtesy Alma Parvizian. One of the misconceptions about TIFF (née the Toronto International Film Festival) is that it’s just some celebrity gawk-fest that lasts for a couple of weeks every September. Au contraire: TIFF, especially in recent years, has dedicated itself to strengthening local film culture year-round, with [...]

Urban Planner is Torontoist’s daily guide to what’s on in Toronto, published every morning. If you have an event you’d like considered, e-mail all of its details—as well as images, if you’ve got any—to events@torontoist.com. Photo of Spacing‘s September 2008 release party by Yvonne Bambrick, courtesy of Spacing. PARTY: In Spacing magazine’s newest issue, “Grey [...]

It’s a strong week for festivals, as while the ReelWorld Film Festival closes this Sunday with closing night gala Aloo Chaat (6:30 p.m., Scotiabank Theatre), both the Sprockets Film Festival and Toronto Jewish Film Festival open this Saturday. Starting with an opening night gala for the North American premiere of Camera Obscura (9:15 p.m. at [...]

Read our Sprockets preview? Don’t have kids—or don’t care? Well, there’s… Not a great deal we can genuinely recommend instead, but there is some stuff. Obviously, the Images Festival continues, ending this Sunday night with the closing night gala Trading the Future at 7 p.m. Cinematheque Ontario is also running The Latest Wave: New Romanian [...]

Initially our headline here probably makes absolutely no sense, because the Sprockets Film Festival is the Toronto International Film Festival for Children. In general, “movie theatres filled with children” aren’t anywhere you could take refuge from anything (other than possibly peace and quiet) but we’d like to spotlight some of the films that Sprockets is [...]

It’s almost time for the Toronto International Film Festival for Children, Sprockets (it runs this year from April 12th to 18th) and the complete line-up of films has been announced. Once again this year all film journalists will find it impossible to mention the festival without bringing up Mike Myers (after all, it’s was one [...]