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Vintage Film Festival
Don’t miss the 31st Annual Vintage Film Festival in Port Hope, with a fabulous program celebrating the Great Directors!
The directors represented in this year’s program are all “great” in so many different ways! They include actor-directors Buster Keaton and Orson Welles, screenwriter-directors John Huston and Preston Sturges, and producer-directors Robert Wise and Billy Wilder. They include Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and John Ford, three directors who exercised tremendous control over the look and feel of their movies. And they include two important foreign language filmmakers whom you may be encountering for the first time: Japanese “golden age” master Yasujirō Ozu, and French screenwriter-director Agnès Varda, whom Martin Scorsese called “one of the Gods of Cinema”.
The movies on this year’s program span more than half a century (from 1921 to 1974) and a range of genres: musical, suspense, comedy (including black comedy and screwball comedy), crime, melodrama, western and neo-noir. They include two silent films—Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. (1924) and Lois Weber’s The Blot (1921)—which will be accompanied live on the piano by VFF favourite Jordan Klapman.
As usual, there’ll also be a Sunday lunchtime film talk. Journalist, author and award-winning lecturer Mark Kearney will tell us all about the movie career of London, Ontario’s own Al Christie, a forgotten Hollywood film pioneer who made more than a thousand short comedy films and features over the course of a 30-year directing and producing career.
Festival passes—which include all 13 of this year’s movies plus the Sunday lunchtime film talk—are available, as are single tickets. Single tickets are free for anyone aged 25 or under; and there’s free popcorn all weekend!