Our November 2023 Calendar is now here! You can download one here, or pick one up at the box office.
November starts off with Jonathan Demme’s newly restored Talking Heads concert film Stop Making Sense in partnership with GroundSwell (plays November 1-8), and the final screening of the kinky and queer Piaffe plays November 1.
Pascal Plante’s striking and austere examination of the true-crime industrial complex, Red Rooms, plays November 2-8.
Mutiny in Heaven, the new fully authorized bio-doc about Nick Cave and The Birthday Party plays November 3-11.
This month’s Trash Cult Tuesdays features two new 4K restorations of Italian Giallo master Dario Argento’s The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) and Opera (1987).
Kids in the Hall’s Kevin McDonald screens a new restoration of the Dave Foley starring film The Wrong Guy (1997) on November 9.
Kinosvit, a new series representing both modern and traditional Ukrainian films curated by Dmytro Kashuba, presents Sergei Parajanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965) followed by a panel discussion on November 10.
Kokomo City, two-time Grammy nominee D. Smith’s raw depiction of Black trans sex workers, plays November 10-16.
Fresh from TIFF, Ariane Louis-Seize’s absurd and charming Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person plays November 11-16.
Todd Haynes’ entertaining and uncomfortable May December plays November 17-23.
The new restoration of the modern-day fairy tale and rediscovered Czech New Wave cult classic, The Cassandra Cat (1963), plays November 17-19.
Interdisciplinary artist Iyunade Judah presents our next edition of Secret Cinema on November 18, our series that invites artists and curators to select films from our own archive of 16mm film prints.
Nic Kaneski explores Susan Seidelman’s vibrant time capsule of the gritty East Village and its young Eighties punk life, Smithereens (1982), as part of their Astral Projection series on November 22.
On November 23, we co-present Activated Memory: The Short Films of Sabrina Ratté with Platform Centre. Ratté is a Canadian artist based in Montreal, who explores the diverse forms of digital imagery.
Finnish deadpan master Aki Kaurismäki returns with his Cannes Jury Prize winning Fallen Leaves, which plays November 24-30.
And lastly, as part of our Human Rights Through Film series (in collaboration with the Canadian Museum of Human Rights) we present the compelling true crime narrative Seven Winters in Tehran, playing November 24-30.
Projectionist Sam Sarty presents Owen Kline’s playfully twisted coming-of-age story Funny Pages as part of our Staff Picks series on November 29.