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Urban Planner: November 23, 2010
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 [email protected].
The life and work of Eadweard Muybridge, the father of modern cinema, is explored through a mix of theatre, dance, and film in Electric Company Theatre’s Studies in Motion. Photo courtesy of Canadian Stage.
Today in Toronto: Mildred’s Temple Kitchen embraces its noir roots, a conversation on music and film, local artists battle it out, and a theatrical tribute to the father of cinema.
FILM: It’s a very special Book Revue this month, as the Revue Cinema teams up with Mildred’s Temple Kitchen to screen the film that inspired the popular Liberty Village restaurant. The 1945 noir film Mildred Piece was adapted from James M. Cain’s Depression-era novel about a disillusioned housewife, and earned Joan Crawford an Oscar for her turn in the titular role. Mildred’s Temple will be catering complementary snacks for the post-screening open discussion on the novel-to-film adaptation process. Revue Cinema (400 Roncesvalles Avenue), 6:45 p.m., $7–$10.
WORDS: The Toronto Public Library’s Local Music Collection will be taking some time to explore the relationship between film and music at Tape Some Noise, an open conversation with some of Toronto’s video artists. The panel will include music video directors Iris Fraser and Colin Medley, as well as documentarian and one of the creators of City Sonic David Oppenheim. Lillian H. Smith Library (239 College Street), 7 p.m., FREE.
ART: Eight local artists will go head-to-head tonight for a five-hundred-dollar winner’s purse at the ninth instalment of popular competitive painting event Art Battle. Two rounds of four competitors each will beget a pair of finalists, who will then go brush-to-brush in a final event showdown. Any paintings that don’t achieve the minimum bid of fifty dollars in the post-round auction will be publicly and mercilessly destroyed, all under the command of hosts Steven and Chris. The Great Hall (1087 Queen Street West), 7:30 p.m., $15.
THEATRE: Nineteenth-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge is generally considered the father of modern cinema. His efforts to catalogue the full range of human and animal movement through sequential photographs gave us the first moving pictures, though his life was troubled by ghosts and tragedy. Vancouver’s Electric Company Theatre have used a dynamic blend of theatre, dance, and projected images to tell Muybridge’s story of obsession and innovation in Studies in Motion. Written by Governor General Award–winning dramatist Kevin Kerr, the project has been hailed as a spectacle not to be missed all along its eastbound tour. Bluma Appel Theatre (27 Front Street East), 8 p.m., $20–$69.