TIFF Cinematheque (formerly Cinematheque Ontario ) is a year-round programme of the Toronto International Film Festival devoted to the presentation, understanding and appreciation of Canadian and international cinema through carefully curated programming. It features acclaimed director's retrospectives, national and regional spotlights, experimental and avant-garde cinema, exclusive engagements of classic films, including many new and rare archival prints. It was established in 1990 after TIFF assumed management of the Ontario Film Institute from Gerald Pratley , creating Cinematheque for the OFI's film screening program while moving the OFI's reference library to the new Film Reference Library .
4-611: When TIFF took over the program, its leadership was assumed by James Quandt , who remained head of the program for 31 years until retiring in 2021. The Cinematheque screenings were originally shown in Jackman Hall at the Art Gallery of Ontario , before moving to the Bell Lightbox in the fall of 2010. This Toronto -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to
8-479: A film organization is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . James Quandt James Quandt is a Canadian film historian and festival programmer, best known as the longtime head programmer of the TIFF Cinematheque program of film retrospectives. Originally from Saskatoon , Saskatchewan , Quandt first moved to Toronto in the mid-1980s to work as curator of film screening series at
12-678: The Harbourfront Centre . In 1990, when the Toronto International Film Festival took over management and operations of Gerald Pratley 's Ontario Film Institute, Quandt was named Pratley's successor as head of the program, which was renamed Cinematheque later the same year. Exhibitions and retrospectives he has created for TIFF also frequently toured internationally. He has also been a regular contributor of film criticism and analysis to Artforum magazine and The Criterion Collection , and has been
16-623: The editor of scholarly monographs on the films of Robert Bresson , Shลhei Imamura , Kon Ichikawa and Apichatpong Weerasethakul . He retired from TIFF in 2021, after having led the Cinematheque program for 31 years. He was named a chevalier of France's Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1995 in honour of his work analyzing and curating French film, and was awarded the Japan Foundation 's Special Prize for Arts and Culture in 2004 for his work on Japanese film. In 2001 he
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