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Revised Schedule! February 2020 to September 2020

Feb 3, 2020

Greetings Friends! 

Here's our latest snapshot of the upcoming episodes (slight modification in May, as found another subtitled Setsuko Hara film!), with our August and September Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto retrospective talks still TBD, as the TIFF Summer program has yet to be revealed. 

Bon Cinema!

February 7, 2020: Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Fox Film Corporation – 1931: BAD GIRL (dir. Frank Borzage) & THE YELLOW TICKET (dir. Raoul Walsh)

February 14, 2020: Valentine’s Day 2020 Special Subject – MOMENT BY MOMENT (1978) & VALLEY GIRL (1983)

February 21, 2020: Acteurist Oeuvre-view - Jennifer Jones – Part 7: BEAT THE DEVIL (1953) & LOVE IS A MANY-SPLENDORED THING (1955)

February 28, 2020: Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – RKO – 1931: LONELY WIVES (dir. Russell Mack) & KEPT HUSBANDS (dir. Lloyd Bacon)

March 6, 2020: Acteurist Oeuvre-view - Jennifer Jones – Part 8: GOOD MORNING, MISS DOVE (1955) & THE MAN IN THE GREY FLANNEL SUIT (1956)

March 13, 2020: Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Universal – 1931: WATERLOO BRIDGE (dir. James Whale) & A HOUSE DIVIDED (dir. William Wyler)

March 20, 2020: Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto – Winter/Spring 2020 – Let's Dance: The Films of Angela Schanelec at TIFF Cinemathèque

March 27, 2020: Acteurist Oeuvre-view - Jennifer Jones – Part 9: THE BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET (1957) & A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1957)

April 3, 2020: Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Paramount – 1932: ONE HOUR WITH YOU (dir. Ernst Lubitsch) & LOVE ME TONIGHT (dir. Rouben Mamoulian)

April 10, 2020: Acteurist Oeuvre-view - Jennifer Jones – Part 10: TENDER IS THE NIGHT (1962) & THE IDOL (1966)

April 17, 2020: Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – MGM – 1932: RED-HEADED WOMAN (dir. Jack Conway) & RED DUST (dir. Victor Fleming)

April 24, 2020: Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto – Winter/Spring 2020 – Call Me Jimmy: The Films of James Stewart at TIFF Cinemathèque

May 1, 2020: Acteurist Oeuvre-view – Setsuko Hara – Part 1: ATARASHIKI TSUCHI (1937) & NO REGRETS FOR OUR YOUTH (1946)

May 8, 2020: Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Warner Brothers – 1932: LIFE BEGINS (dir. James Flood) & I AM A FUGITIVE FROM A CHAIN GANG (dir. Mervyn LeRoy)

May 15, 2020: Special Subject: Melville Français – POLA X (1999) & BEAU TRAVAIL (1999)

May 22, 2020: Acteurist oeuvre-view – Setsuko Hara – Part 2: A BALL AT THE ANJO HOUSE (1947) & THE WOMAN IN THE TYPHOON AREA (1948)

May 29, 2020: Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Fox Film Corporation – 1932: ME AND MY GAL (dir. Raoul Walsh) & AFTER TOMORROW (dir. Frank Borzage)

June 5, 2020:  Acteurist oeuvre-view – Setsuko Hara – Part 3: HERE’S TO THE YOUNG LADY (1949) & BLUE MOUNTAINS (1949)

June 12, 2020: Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – RKO – 1932: SYMPHONY OF SIX MILLION (dir. Gregory LaCava) & AGE OF CONSENT (Gregory LaCava)

June 19, 2020: June Special Subject – Ritwik Ghatak’s Partition Trilogy – THE CLOUD-CAPPED STAR (1960), A SOFT NOTE ON A SHARP SCALE (1961) & SUBARNAREKHA (1962)

June 26, 2020: Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Universal – 1932: BACK STREET (dir. John Stahl) and MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (dir. Robert Florey)

July 3, 2020: Acteurist oeuvre-view – Setsuko Hara – Part 4: LATE SPRING (1949) & THE IDIOT (1950)  

July 10, 2020: Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Paramount – 1933: ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (dir. Erle C. Kenton) & SIGN OF THE CROSS (dir. Cecil B. DeMille - release at the end of 1932, actually)

July 17, 2020: Summer Special Subject: SUMMER WITH MONIKA (dir. Ingmar Bergman) & A SUMMER PLACE (dir. Delmer Daves)

July 24, 2020: Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – MGM – 1933: PENTHOUSE (dir. W.S. Van Dyke) & THE STRANGER’S RETURN (dir. King Vidor)

July 31, 2020: Acteurist oeuvre-view – Setsuko Hara – Part 5: EARLY SUMMER (1951) & REPAST (1951)

August 7, 2020: Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Warner Brothers – 1933: EMPLOYEES’ ENTRANCE (dir. Roy Del Ruth) & BABY FACE (dir. Alfred E. Green)

August 14, 2020:  Critical Special Subject - Elizabeth Kendall's The Runaway Bride: Hollywood Romantic Comedy of the 1930s - also: IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934) and MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (1936)

August 21, 2020: Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year: Fox Film Corporation – 1933: STATE FAIR (dir. Henry King) & THE DEVIL’S IN LOVE (dir. William Dieterle)

August 28, 2020: Acteurist oeuvre-view – Setsuko Hara – Part 6: TOKYO STORY (1953) & SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN (1954)

September 4, 2020: Back to School Special Subject – DAMSELS IN DISTRESS (2011) & LOSER! (2000)

September 11, 2020: Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year - RKO – 1933: MORNING GLORY (dir. Lowell Sherman) & OUR BETTERS (dir. George Cukor)

September 18, 2020: Elizabeth Kendall II - Auteur/Acteur Special Subject - Barbara Stanwyck's films with Frank Capra - LADIES OF LEISURE (1930), THE MIRACLE WOMAN (1931), FORBIDDEN (1932), THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN (1933), & MEET JOHN DOE (1941)   

September 25, 2020:  Hollywood Studios Year-by-Year – Universal – 1933: KISS BEFORE THE MIRROR (dir. James Whale) & BY CANDLELIGHT (dir. James Whale)