The ongoing history of film exhibition in Toronto.
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The Ramones at the New Yorker Theatre
The box office at the New Yorker Theatre, September, 1976. Courtesy Gary Topp.
Fifty years ago this month, the Ramones came to Toronto for the first time, playing three shows at the New Yorker Theatre on Yonge Street on September 24 and 25...
Famous Players, Cineplex & the monopoly of Canadian film exhibition
The Eaton Centre Cineplex, 1979. City of Toronto Archives.
Earlier this month, Imagine Cinemas, which runs a small network of multiplexes in Ontario, including the Carlton and Market Square complexes in Toronto, cried foul when their booki...
Paul Morrissey’s Mixed Blood & the whims of Ontario’s censors
The lower mezzanine of the Hot Docs Cinema, 1967 when it was known as the Capri. Courtesy David Dymond Collection & Paul Moore.
As I write the finishing stretches of my book, I’ve been interviewing people who worked in rep cinemas in the ‘...
Banning Bergman: Ontario film censorship in the 1950s
Censors Lock Elliott, O.J. Silverthorne, and Jack Evans at the Board’s new Leaside headquarters. Credit Globe & Mail, January 15, 1949.
In 1950, O.J. Silverthorne began his fifteenth year as chair of the Ontario Board of Censors with new h...
Film Censorship in Ontario: A timeline
The following chronological timeline is primarily drawn upon work I’ve published here and elsewhere on the topic of Ontario film censorship. It is by no means exhaustive, and additions to the list are ongoing. I am of course indebted...
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Arts journalist & media producer in Toronto | Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, CBC Arts, Radio-Canada, Severin Films | Author: “In the Dark: A history of moviegoing in Toronto” (ECW Press, 2027) | Editor: The Downtown Theatre | Franco-ontarien
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