my profile | my password | search | faq & rules | forum home

» Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE   » Community   » Film-Yak   » Toronto Film Fest

Author Topic: Toronto Film Fest Matt Hale Expert Film Handler Posts: 123 From: Vancouver, Canada Registered: Dec 2002 posted 09-08-2003 06:54 PM                        If anybody here is planning to attend the Toronto International Film Festival this year, I highly recommend you see "The Snow Walker" It is premiering at the Visa Screening Room (aka Elgin Theatre) on 9/11/03 at 9pm, and on again at 12:15pm 9/12/03 at Uptown 2. This film is so good I consider it a privilege to have worked on it. It has also been selected for the Closing Gala at the Vancouver Internation Film Fest on Oct 10. Info is here .  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-08-2003 07:06 PM                     The Elgin is a classic old vaudiviller theatre (originaly the Leows downtown) with a second vaudviller theatre built on its roof at the same time (the wintergarden) it is a live venue with a temp Vic8 setup for the festival The uptown (closing at the end of the festival) was the Leows Uptown and was split into 5 The balcony (#1) 950 seats (THX 70mm) the orchestra spit inot 2 theatres (1 in 70mm)(they both suck) and two stacked above each other on the stage with a seperate enterance called the backstage cinemas  |  IP: Logged Matt Hale Expert Film Handler Posts: 123 From: Vancouver, Canada Registered: Dec 2002 posted 09-08-2003 07:21 PM                        You know, I didn't think the Elgin was a film venue... that explains it. Hopefully they will do a decent job - the cinematography on this one is simply stunning. The Vancouver screening will be at The Vogue (sorry, the "Visa Screening Room" - must obey corporate overlords) Not sure of the film/not film status there at the moment either - last film I saw there was the first run of Return of the Jedi.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-08-2003 11:04 PM                     the elgin spent most of it life showing films built in 1914 and afer converting to sound was predominaently a cinema until as a historical site being sold to the Ontario Heritage society who run it and the wintergarden as stage venues (Note the sale has a clause about no movies being shown except for the festival)  |  IP: Logged Ron Lacheur Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 650 From: British Columbia, Canada Registered: Feb 2002 posted 09-09-2003 09:13 AM                     Elgin Theatre sounds very much like the Vogue. Vogue is all live now, it closed as a movie house in 1987. No screen in there but they may be able to " fly " one in. I'm possibly getting in their some time this week to take some photos. I'll ask the caretaker about the setup for the VIFF.  |  IP: Logged

All times are Central (GMT -6:00)

Printer-friendly view of this topic

Hop To: Select a Forum: Category: Operations -------------------- Digital Cinema Forum Film Handlers' Forum Large Format Forum Ground Level Feature Info, Trailer Attachments & REAL Credit Offsets Category: Community -------------------- Film-Yak Film Handlers' Movie Reviews The Afterlife Bob Maar's Joke-A-Thon Category: Classified -------------------- Equipment and Supplies Wanted/For Sale Help Wanted/Seeking Employment Category: System -------------------- Software Beta Testing Forum

The Film-Tech Forums are designed for various members related to the cinema industry to express their opinions, viewpoints and testimonials on various products, services and events based upon speculation, personal knowledge and factual information through use, therefore all views represented here allow no liability upon the publishers of this web site and the owners of said views assume no liability for any ill will resulting from these postings. The posts made here are for educational as well as entertainment purposes and as such anyone viewing this portion of the website must accept these views as statements of the author of that opinion and agrees to release the authors from any and all liability.