Luminato & TIFF Go to the Movies: June 11-14 (Weekdays)

June 11-14

TIFF Bell Lightbox, Reitman Square, 350 King Street West

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Daily screenings throughout the length of the Festival, this series showcases films that relate to Luminato artists and productions.

ROBERT WILSON: VIDEO PORTRAITS will be shown before each film.

MONDAY, JUNE 11

6:00 PM  TESTIMONY
Director: Tony Palmer
Cast: Ben Kingsley
Year: 1988
Country: Denmark | Netherlands | Sweden | West Germany | UK, Runtime:  157 mins
Rating: PG
Introduction by Andrew Burashko, Artistic Director, The Art of Time Ensemble

An event-movie rarely seen on the big screen, Testimony is an epic account of Dmitri Shostakovich’s life. Palmer explosively addresses the multifaceted artist: Russia’s greatest and most famous composer, a patriot, an artist under Stalin’s crushing pressures, a man bouncing between social praise and humiliation. Shostakovich’s music is a true testament of his time, and Palmer doesn’t hold back from using it, alongside vivid imagery  telling of the sense of peace, conflict, violence, or rebellion each of his symphonies could evoke. Taking a hard look at the surroundings which mysteriously led the composer to survive, year after year, the lethal reign of Stalin, Testimony is an incredibly well crafted, adventurous, and inspired look at art and politics. Ben Kingsley offers one of the most interesting performances of his career.
TSO Goes Late Night: Shostakovich Symphony 11 by Arts Partner the Toronto Symphony Orchestra will be presented June 9, 2012 at the Festival.

9:15 PM LE CONFESSIONAL
Director: Robert Lepage
Year: 1995, Country: Canada | UK | France, Cast: Lothaire Bluteau, Kristin Scott Thomas, Language: French, English, Runtime: 100 mins, Distributor: Alliance Films
Rating: 14A
Introduction by Magali Simard, TIFF Programmer

Robert Lepage’s foray into the feature film world was a bold and sophisticated one. Winner of the Genie Award for Best Canadian Film in 1996, Le Confessionnal boasts an international cast (Kristin Scott Thomas, Lothaire Bluteau, Jean-Louis Millette) in a mystery set in Quebec City in 1989, alternating back to 1952 when Hitchock was shooting I Confess in the city. Pierre Lamontagne (Bluteau) comes back from three years in China to attend his father’s funeral. Now that he’s back, he embarks on a search to find his adoptive brother, as a mystery unfolds and bridges are ingeniously built between the two eras. Le Confessionnal marks Lepage’s establishment as an uncompromising filmmaker at a time when his career was on its way to become the colossal body of work we now recognize.
Playing Cards 1: SPADES directed by Robert Lepage will be presented June 13-17, 2012 at the Festival.

TUESDAY, JUNE 12

4:30 PM OUT OF FOCUS
Director: Tomer Heymann
With: Ohad Naharin
Year: 2007, Country: USA, Language: English, Hebrew, Runtime: 52 mins
Rating: PG
Introduction by Christopher House, Artistic Director, Toronto Dance Theatre

A close-up documentary on Ohad Naharin, Israel’s famed choreographer and artistic director of the Batsheva Dance Company (featured this year at Luminato). We follow Naharin as he carefully selects his dancers, works intensely with them while the troup rehearses with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet of New York City. A vivid account of the process and its leader, Out of Focus is true to the nature of body movement by presenting an enticing vision of an art that is usually seen live.
Sadeh21 by Ohad Naharin l Batsheva Dance Company will be presented June 14-16, 2012 at the Festival.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13

4:30 PM  TECTONIC PLATES
Director: Peter Mettler
Cast: Céline Bonnier, Robert Lepage, Marie Gignac
Year: 1992, Country: Canada, Language: English, Runtime: 106 mins, Distributor: Rhombus Media
Rated: PG
Introduction by Magali Simard, TIFF programmer

Director Peter Mettler (The Top of His Head, Gambling, Gods and LSD) created one of the most interesting film adaptation of a play in 1992 with Tectonic Plates. Taking Robert Lepage’s mostly improvised play and transferring it with equal visual freedom to the big screen, Mettler was the perfect match. Tectonic plates are used as a metaphor for human movement through time and space. Set in New York, Venice and Montreal, the two main characters – an art teacher and a woman looking for answers – are thrown in some of the most innovative physical settings, somewhere between cinema and theatre, inciting a discourse about temporality and space.
Playing Cards 1: SPADES directed by Robert Lepage will be presented June 13-17, 2012 at the Festival.

9:00 PM SING ME THE SONGS THAT SAY I LOVE YOU
Wim Wenders presents a film by Lian Lunson
Director: Lian Lunson
Executive Producer: Wim Wenders
Country: USA / Canada, Year: 2011, Runtime: 108 minutes
Cast: Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Anna McGarrigle, Jane McGarrigle, Teddy Thompson, Jenni Muldaur, Emmylou Harris, Antony, Norah Jones, Michael Ondaatje, Jimmy Fallon, Justin Vivian Bond, Krystle Warren, Lily Lanken, Dane Lanken, Sylvan Lanken
Rating: G
Film will be followed by a Q&A with members of the McGarrigle and Wainwright families

A Concert for Kate McGarrigle, a film by Lian Lunson, premiering in April 2012 at the inaugural Sundance London festival.
Love Over and Over – The Songs of Kate McGarrigle will be presented June 15, 2012 at the Festival.

THURSDAY, JUNE 14

5:15 PM THE IMAGE MILL REVEALED + ROBERT LEPAGE
Director: Marie Belzil, Mariano Franco
With: Robert Lepage
Year: 2009, Country: Canada, Language: French, English, Runtime: 52 mins, Distributor: National Film Board of Canada
Rating: PG
Introduction by Steve Lucas, Set and Lighting Designer
A major installation to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Quebec City, the Image Mill surpassed everyone’s expectations – it took over the city as a colossal panorama. The Image Mill Revealed takes a close look at the three months leading up to the opening of the installation and gives an idea of the scope the project covered and the creative forces behind such an artistic endeavor.

Preceded by ROBERT LEPAGE
Director: Jeremy Peter Allen
Year: 2009, Country: Canada, Language: French, English, Runtime: 7 mins, Distributor: National Film Board of Canada
Rating: PG

A short, innovative portrait of artist Robert Lepage. Lepage discusses recurrent actors, themes and aspirations. The documentary effectively does an overview of Lepage’s work as an actor, playwright, filmmaker and art director while letting him mull over ideas that pervade throughout his career. Recurrent actors, the sense of origin, themes of travel, origin, the future, the explosion of spatial settings – Robert Lepage is a quick and focused look at a relentless creative force.
Playing Cards 1: SPADES directed by Robert Lepage will be presented June 13-17, 2012 at the Festival.

Screening length varies per film