Toronto SILENT FILM Festival

05/31/2026

Clara takes her "IT" qualities and puts them to good use. Sunday June 7th 2pm Paradise for our season closer.
Jordan Klapman accompanying.

05/31/2026

If you like going to the movies here in Toronto, then the upcoming Curious Minds at Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema is for you. Every Saturday afternoon in June, host Eric Veillette explores the movie going experience.

Curious Minds Speaker Series Returns with Toronto: Cinema City 🎬

Course 1 | The Nabes: Neighbourhood cinemas, the rise of rep culture, the innovators and the survivors
📅 Saturday, June 6, 1:00 PM

Decades before the first Cineplex opened at the Eaton Centre, Toronto was a city of neighbourhood cinemas: single-screen houses embedded in culturally vibrant communities.

This week we'll trace the rise, decline, and constant reinvention of these local theatres, from early storefront cinemas and postwar picture palaces to the emergence of ethnic cinemas in the 1950s and repertory programming in the 1960s and 1970s at places like The New Yorker, Cinecity, Cinema Lumiere, The 99c Roxy.

We'll examines the fight to maintain Toronto's screens in the face of industry consolidation and shifting audiences, and asks what the city's surviving neighbourhood cinemas—The R***e, Fox, Paradise, and Hot Docs Cinema—can tell us about the future of moviegoing in Toronto.

📸 Photo credit: Opening night of the Eglinton Theatre, 1936 - Archives of Ontario

05/28/2026

Summer fun means the amusement park!
Clara Bow in IT June 7th 2pm
Jordan Klapman accompanying

05/18/2026

Clara Bow, the original and still “IT” girl gets some sun at the beach. Certainly something most Torontonians are trying to do this gorgeous long weekend!
Clara will light up the screen June 7 in her signature role. Early jazz expert will accompany live.
🎟️ link in bio.

05/17/2026

Essanay Outpost!

05/13/2026

Less than a month before Clara takes Toronto by storm!
June 7th 2pm
Live accomplishes by Jordan Klapman
🎟️ link in bio

05/10/2026

Nothing quite like the feeling of getting your Kickstarter reward! BluRay-DVD combo too. Coutesy of Dr. Film aka Eric Grayson.

05/10/2026

Tonight at Hot Docs- Lumiere-Le Cinema. Link in comments

05/04/2026

Our next, and season finale, goes out to romance Clara Bow style in IT. June 7th 2pm Jordan Klapman will accompany.