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The Hedy Lamarr Story California Typewriter FREE MONTHLY PROGRAM NOVEMBER 2017 OPENS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10 JANE + Game Changers profiles history’s greatest PAGE 4 Culture Workers Unwind returns PAGE 5 Walter Isaacson and Heather Reisman discuss Leonardo da Vinci PAGE 5 LIVE WITH JANE GOODALL AND THEIN CHIMPANZEESTANZANIA “ Wise, witty and nostalgic.” “ A tender love story.” “Unlikely hero of our time.” - Deadline Hollywood - The Film Stage - POV Magazine California Typewriter Dina Bill Nye: Science Guy Opens Friday, October 27 Opens Friday, November 3 Opens Friday, November 17 Page 2 Page 2 Page 2 “ Powerful and enlightening.” “Eye-opening exposé.” “ Moving and inspiring.” - Georgia Straight - POV Magazine - Flavorwire Dolores You’re Soaking In It Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story Opens Wednesday, November 22 Opens Friday, November 24 Opens Friday, November 24 Page 3 Page 3 Page 3 @HOTDOCSCINEMA /HOTDOCSCINEMA HOTDOCSCINEMA.CA 506 BLOOR STREET WEST (at Bathurst Street) 2 HOTDOCSCINEMA.CA OPENING at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema in November TICKETS MEMBERS BRONZE: $8 Silver: $6 $13 SAVE Gold: Free OPENS FRIDAY, OCTOBER 27 California Typewriter D: Doug Nichol | 2016 | USA | 103 min | G Is there a more romantic image of a writer than that of someone hunched over their typewriter passionately working away, the clicks and dings sounding off as they go? Discover extensive collections of trusty typewriters, all carefully selected by brand and generation, curated by those who are not so quick to shrug off old technology. Many artists and writers who still swear by the machine—among them Tom Hanks, John Mayer and the late Sam Shepard—share their thoughts on its value as a tool and source of inspiration. California Typewriter also looks at one of the last surviving typewriter repair “Quaintly ingenious meditation on what shops, run by a man determined to keep the tradition alive. the digital era is doing to us.” – Variety Director Doug Nichol joins film subject and antique typewriter aficionado Martin Howard for select post-screening Q&As. OPENS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Dina D: Antonio Santini, Dan Sickles | 2017 | USA | 103 min Winner—Grand Jury Prize, Best Documentary, Sundance Film Festival 2017 The richest love story to grace the big screen in ages is movingly told in this Sundance Festival hit, deservedly picking up the Grand Jury Prize. In Philadelphia, the impossibly endearing 49-year-old Dina and her fiancé Scott move in together, taking on the challenges of building a committed life partnership and moving on from troubled pasts. The neurologically diverse couple open up to each other and in front of the camera in this frank and deeply human portrait of love in a world “It’s impossible not to care deeply about that doesn’t understand them. With touching and truthful moments, - Screen International these anxious lovebirds.” Dina is an insightful and original movie romance you won’t soon forget. OPENS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10 Jane D: Brett Morgen | 2017 | USA | 90 min Live with Jane Goodall while she conducts her groundbreaking, enthralling work with chimpanzees, which she revealed to be so like humans. Fifty years ago, a National Geographic filmmaker was sent to join her in the Tanzanian jungle, where he captured over 140 hours of 16mm footage that was never used. Today, Academy Award–nominated director Brett Morgen, whose skills of documentary portraiture range from musician Kurt Cobain (Cobain: Montage of Heck) to producer Robert Evans (The Kid Stays in the Picture), takes “ Jane isn’t just required viewing for the footage and sets it to a dreamy orchestral score by Philip Glass fans of Goodall or animal lovers, but anyone in this gorgeous, and ultimately very moving, time capsule. seeking a classic in the making.” - IndieWire Andria Teather, Chief Executive Officer of The Jane Goodall Institute of Canada, in attendance for Q&As at select screenings. OPENS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17 “Playful, intelligent, fluidly assembled film takes Bill Nye: Science Guy the full measure of a man who back in the day D: David Alvarado, Jason Sussberg | 2017 | USA | 101 min enthralled millions of kids.” - POV Magzine The 1990s TV phenomenon Bill Nye the Science Guy educated and entertained a generation with a mix of facts and zany fun that made learning exciting. Today, the bow-tied Bill Nye has returned to the public eye—but his mission has evolved as the stakes have risen. There’s a dangerous wave of people in power whose fundamental lack of scientific reasoning is causing destruction to the planet we all inhabit. As a public figure, Bill is now taking every opportunity he can to openly call out and debate those who are twisting facts or outright denying them. The Science Guy is back and more vital than ever. HOTDOCSCINEMA.CA 3 OPENING at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema in November OPENS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Dolores D: Peter Bratt | 2017 | USA | 95 min Winner—Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature, San Francisco International Film Festival 2017 American feminist, labour leader and civil rights icon Dolores Huerta has never been afraid to speak truth to power. She co-founded the National Farmworkers Association, the first farmworkers’ union in the “It’s educational, to be sure, but U.S., but was never quite as well-known as her ally César Chávez. This is even true when it comes to the movement’s famous slogan, Sí se pu- also exhilarating, inspiring and deeply ede, which inspired Barack Obama’s “yes we can” and is often wrongly attributed to Chavez. As shown in this Hot Docs Festival hit spanning emotional.” - Washington Post over 50 years of footage, Dolores is never less than bold and compas- sionate, and remains outspoken and committed well into her 80s. OPENS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24 You’re Soaking In It D: Scott Harper | 2017 | Canada | 75 min “Math men” have replaced the “mad men.” Advertisers today have access to an unprecedented level of data about us, our preferences and predilections. With porous levels of digital privacy, advertising is no longer simply something we see, it’s what surrounds us in every Encourages audiences and consumers to see new arena. Ads are no longer targeted to us based on creative teams “ thinking up marketing strategies—they are the result of perpetual the invisible advertising that has become covertly surveillance and collection of personal information. Director Scott Harper’s meticulously researched You’re Soaking In it, a Hot Docs pervasive in the digital age.” - POV Magazine Festival hit, reveals the inner workings of advertising today, and its hidden impact on our daily lives and the way we spend. OPENS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story D: Alexandra Dean | 90 min | 2017 | USA | PG Hedy Lamarr’s stint as a Hollywood starlet had her best known for her tabloid scandals rather than her performances—but behind the scenes she was a secret genius inventor changing the course of history. In the 1940s she starred alongside legends like Clark Gable and James Not just a stupendous tribute to Lamarr, but also Stewart, and infamously had affairs with the likes of Howard Hughes “ and JFK. Today Lamarr has re-entered public consciousness as a Hall a tribute to every brilliant woman ignored, thanking them of Fame-inducted inventor for developing a secret radio system during WWII that paved the way for modern Wi-Fi and Bluetooth technology. even if they never snagged the spotlight.” - Nerdist Bombshell tells her whole incredible story for the first time. Back by POPULAR DEMAND Special Event “A treasured US institution opens itself to the painstaking view of fly-on-the-wall master Frederick Wiseman.” - The Guardian Ex Libris: The New York Public Library 6ix Kids TICKETS D: Frederick Wiseman | USA | 2017 | 195 min D: Shawney Cohen | Canada | 2017 | 75 mins FREE Official Selection—TIFF 2017 See one of the most comprehensive documentaries about the Toronto hip hop scene ever created. Step inside the world-renowned New York Public Library and explore its many facets, from newspaper archives Following the successes of Drake and The Weeknd, Director Shawney Cohen joins select film to after-school classes and excerpts from talks featuring Elvis Costello and Patti Smith. Exemplifying democratic discover emerging rap artists on the cusp of change subjects for a post-screening Q&A. ideals, this is a truly empathetic and heartfelt tribute to the library and the advancement of knowledge. in our city. Presented with RETURNS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16 7:30 PM 4 HOTDOCSCINEMA.CA The Great OUR PHOTOGRAPHERS Special Tribute BEAUTIFUL CITY “Unexpectedly moving.” “Stunning footage.” - Boston Globe - Time Out Richard Avedon: Darkness Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction Sketches of Frank Gehry and Light D: Sophie Huber | 2012 | USA, Switzerland | 77 min D: Sydney Pollack | 2005 | USA | 86 min D: Helen Whitney | 1996 | USA | 90 min This past September, we lost iconic character actor Harry Dean Stan- Our series on the future of Toronto returns with this portrait ton, an unmistakable face from films including Alien, Cool Hand Luke, of the legendary “starchitect” and Toronto native Frank Gehry, What do Pablo Picasso, Frank Lloyd Wright, Brigitte Bardot, Pretty in Pink, Twin Peaks and Paris, Texas. At the time of Partly Fiction, directed by his dear friend, the Academy Award-winning Jacques Cousteau, Andy Warhol and Lena Horne have in common? Stanton is 86 years old and had worked in over 200 films—or “over filmmaker Sydney Pollack. They were a few of the personalities captured on film by 250 maybe, I lost count a long time ago.” photographer Richard Avedon. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 5 7:00 PM After the screening, we’re joined by Alex Bozikovic, the architecture critic for The Globe and Mail, who will help After the screening, we’re joined by Paul Roth, director us relate the film back to civic and architectural issues of the Ryerson Image Centre, who is the former in Toronto.
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