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This year's Vintage Film Festival celebrates Great Directors!
What is it that makes a director a Great Director? Is it the critical or box office success of their movies? The number of Oscar or Golden Globe wins and nominations? Dominance in Hollywood? Election to auteur status by French film critics? The staying power and artistic significance of their body of work?
It can be any or all of the above, of course; and the thirteen directors we've chosen to highlight this year all check many or most of those boxes. Here are the directors, and the representative films of theirs which we plan to share:
- Robert Wise – West Side Story (1961) – starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer and Rita Moreno
- Billy Wilder – Some Like It Hot (1959) – starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe
- Alfred Hitchcock – The 39 Steps (1935) – starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll
- Buster Keaton – Sherlock Jr. (1924) – starring Buster Keaton
- Yasujiro Ozu – Tokyo Story (1953) – starring Chishū Ryū and Setsuko Hara
- Orson Welles – Citizen Kane (1941) – starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten
- Roman Polanski – Chinatown (1974) – starring Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway and John Huston
- Stanley Kubrick – Dr. Strangelove (1964) – starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott and Sterling Hayden
- Agnès Varda – Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962) – starring Corinne Marchand and Antoine Bourseiller
- Lois Weber – The Blot (1921) – starring Claire Windsor and Louis Calhern
- John Huston – Key Largo (1948) – starring Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall and Edward G. Robinson
- John Ford – The Searchers (1956) – starring John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter and Vera Miles
- Preston Sturges – The Palm Beach Story (1942) – starring Claudette Colbert, Joel McCrae and Rudy Vallee
Read more: Vintage Film Festival 2024 celebrates Great Directors
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To mark its 30th anniversary, the Vintage Film Festival worked with its friends at Two Blue Shirts Productions to produce a short video documentary that surveys the Festival’s 30-year history, and the events that led up to its establishment. The story is told through interviews with past and present VFF organizers, and illustrated by a wealth of images from the Festival’s first 29 years, and before. We’re very pleased with the result: please join us in enjoying it!
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At the recent Lang Pioneer Village Museum Apple Fest, Vintage Film Festival representatives were there and had a draw for 2 full Weekend Passes to the 2023 Festival.
We have a winner - Mr. Dick Winters.
Lang Pioneer Village Museum Web site.
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Festival passes and single tickets for this fall’s Vintage Film Festival, October 20th, 21st and 22nd at Port Hope, Ontario’s beautiful Capitol Theatre, are now on sale at this link: https://capitoltheatre.com/2023-vintage-film-festival/.
Starting this year, all passes and tickets must be purchased through the Capitol Theatre.
You can purchase tickets online here, or in person at the Capitol’s box office at 20 Queen Street, Port Hope. This includes Festival passes (with or without the catered box lunch for Sunday’s film talk), single tickets for individual films and the Sunday talk, and free tickets for young people 25 and under. Yes, they’re free; but you must obtain a ticket to ensure you have a seat for the film.
Our prices have increased a little over last year to cover the cost of Capitol ticketing system fees. These fees are already included in the prices listed below.
- Festival passes (giving admission to all 13 films and the Sunday lunchtime film talk) are $89.00
- Festival passes with a pre-ordered Sunday box lunch are $104.00
- Single film tickets are $12.50 and must be ordered for a specific film at time of purchase
- Sunday lunch talk single tickets are $7.50
The Capitol will add a $2.50 Capital Improvement Fund fee to each order—no matter how many passes or tickets make up the order.
No passes or tickets will be sold at the VFF’s registration table in the lobby of the Capitol Theatre, as in the past. During the Festival, tickets can only be purchased onsite at the Capitol’s Box Office which will be open an hour before every film. However, we strongly encourage you to order your tickets in advance as we hopefully anticipate the possibility of some sold-out screenings and line-ups for last minute purchasers!
>>>>> Buy Your Tickets Now at https://capitoltheatre.com/2023-vintage-film-festival/ <<<<<
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Join the Vintage Film Festival for a Springtime Film Talk - all about Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Toronto film critic, teacher and curator Alicia Fletcher will talk about Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: the 1925 Anita Loos book, the lost 1926 silent film, and the 1953 musical comedy starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe (which will be screened at Port Hope's Capitol Theatre this October as part of the Vintage Film Festival's 30th anniversary program).
The event will take place on Wednesday, June 14th, at 7:30 p.m. at the Citizens' Forum in Cobourg's Victoria Hall. Tickets are just $10 and can be purchased in advance online through Eventbrite.
Alicia Fletcher is a writer, producer and presenter of Hollywood Suite's "A Year in Film" and "Cinema A to Z" docuseries and podcast. She has taught at Toronto Metropolitan University, the LIFE Institute, and Humber College. Her film curation has been featured at TIFF Cinematheque, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Royal Cinema. Since 2012, Alicia has curated Silent Revue, held at the historic Revue Cinema, Canada's only year-round showcase dedicated to silent cinema and Toronto's longest-running repertory series.
This event is generously sponsored by Lynn Hardy.