31 Days of Horror - Day 3 - Detention

Last night's choice of Let Sleeping Corpses Lie was a big hit with Kat ("The dead in this film are remarkably intelligent!"), but now on to a film that she picked and one that has slipped through my viewing lists surprisingly enough - Detention. I missed it when Toronto After Dark presented it in the summer (I did catch V/H/S when they ran it at The Bloor), so time to catch up with the cool kids!

NO! Not that Detention! THIS Detention!

31 Days of Horror - Day 2 - Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

Day 2 of this countdown to Halloween and ever since my "Cent une tueries de zombies" project last Saturday at Nuit Blanche, Kat has been asking about the clip of the redhead walking towards the car with the zombie off in the yard. That would be Let Sleeping Corpses Lie aka The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue aka Don't Open The Window. As a kid, this one was a rarity and I had only seen a few stills, so when I came to Toronto and was introduced to the underworld of VHS tape trading, it soon found its way into my hands and did not disappoint. Now if Kat likes it enough, we might just have to track down a copy of the recently out of print green vinyl soundtrack LP issued by Death Waltz Recording! 

Luke Insect's artwork for the green vinyl soundtrack LP issued by Death Waltz Recording! 

  

31 Days of Halloween - Day 1: THE HAUNTING

The Haunting poster by Toronto's own Phantom City Creative
I watch lots of horror films regularly, for work and pleasure, so it might not be much of a change of viewing habits, but for 31 days straight...? Now that is a change. I'll be doing this with my wife, Kat, who is quite the movie fiend, but hasn't seen some of the films that I consider to be on the canon of horror. Tonight, a classic... Robert Wise's The Haunting, based on Shirley Jackson's novel, "The Haunting of Hill House".

Hopefully, I'll be able to keep on this run with a new film every day, culminating with a 35mm screening of Creepshow preceded by an on stage conversation with George A. Romero at TIFF Bell Lightbox. Nice way to round it all off!

 

inside the future circa 1975

Teaser for "Cent une tueries de zombies"

Here is our teaser trailer for the carnage that will go down tomorrow at Lightbox from 7PM til 7AM!

Cent une tueries de zombies
http://www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/project.html?project_id=1051

Film Installation
Curated by Colin Geddes and Mike Lane

Part of Nuit Blanche 2012 - September 29, 2012
TIFF Bell Lightbox

In the 21st century, zombies have overrun our society. Since George Romero's Night of the Living Dead in 1968, they have been feasting on our collective consciousness and are now in the mainstream of film, television and popular culture. Cent une tueries de zombies is a looped visual installation compilation of 101 "death" scenes of zombies from cinema and television. The scenes are a combination of classical hard-cut Eisensteinian montage and De Palma-inspired split-screen. By playing with the cause-and-effect and time-space of specific scenes, there will be an added level of physical tension and drama to the proceedings.

101 Zombie Kills at Nuit Blanche

A sneak peek for the test of our Nuit Blanche installation at Lightbox for this Saturday, "Cent une tueries de zombies"

http://tiff.net/filmsandschedules/tiffbelllightbox/2012/2550003973

Some new bits

Cannes pinball

 

Found this somewhere in my internet travels...

Bronson & Delon Go West

Love this photo from Kimberly Lindbergs' blog entry on Terence Young’s Red Sun (1971).

Funny Girl charity invite Toronto 1968

Recently was given a treasure trove of old cinema books and as I was flipping through one of them, this fell out.

And below is the Odeon Fairlawn Theatre on Yonge Street, north of Lawrence Avenue.  Notice the Yonge streetcar tracks that are visible in the foreground.

City of Toronto Archives, Globe and Mail Collection, Fonds 1488

(via http://tayloronhistory.com/2011/06/27/old-movie-houses-of-toronto/)

Cannes 1975

And just stumbled upon the 1975 Cannes poster. Was Jodorowsky the art designer that year?

Cannes 1976

My wife and I saw this poster in our favourite pizza place in Cannes back in May (add Papa Nino's to your tour guides) for the 1976 edition of the festival. Amazing! Anyone have a spare one kicking around? Found one of eBay for over $300...

The Life Cycle Centre

One of the 16mm film catalog entries from a recent haul of old educational films.

o lucky man

 

A little on the red side, but some frames from a 35mm print in the "collection" that will soon go to a good home in Colorado. 

A season in the sun

SENSATIONAL! JANE RUSSELL

a nightmare of lust and revenge

a touch of class - phaedra

Saw this at Cinematheque Ontario back in the day...

RIP Ray Bradbury

cold war in a can

Another find in our trove of 16mm treasures!

memories in a can

From a recent batch of inherited 16mm films...

Canned Goods

A selection of three stylish labels from the over one hundred 16mm films I rescued the other day. Yes I run a orphanage for abandoned film as well as a home for wayward girls.