🌟🎬 Happy holidays from LIFT! Please help us reach our year end fundraising goal of $20,000. Donations will help to make our 45th anniversary year our best year yet! Thank you for keeping us in your year end giving plans. 💖 Donate: www.lift.ca/donate

🌟🎬 Happy holidays from LIFT! Please help us reach our year end fundraising goal of $20,000. Donations will help to make our 45th anniversary year our best year yet! Thank you for keeping us in your year end giving plans. 💖 Donate: www.lift.ca/donate

Toronto’s film production access centre, LIFT, had set a fundraising goal of $45,000 by our 45th birthday on April 8, 2026, with the goal of half of that by the end of the year! Thank you for keeping LIFT in your year-end giving plans. 💖 www.lift.ca/donate

Happy motion smoothing with the relatives, for all who celebrate!

Knausgaard’s SCHOOL OF NIGHT - the Morningstar series feels like Stephen King for adults, but Knausgaard is such a master of introspection that you get absorbed into the characters’ psyche overwhelmingly. 1/2

Christmas time. The one time of the year that you might have a little bit of time to go to a movie, but all the programming is Christmas themed.

Nice Don Cherry tribute #CDFriday

One Survivor series every 25 years seems like a good pace.

Survivor is yet another example of how you need to vote the threat out early before they entrench their power.

The Kennedy Center is where I had the life changing experience of watching UTU at age 6. You can’t take that away from me.

Gotta say, growing up, “Your name is Kennedy, like the President?” was about as charming as “You’re so tall. Do you play basketball?” “Like the Secretary of Health and Human Services?” is even worse.

I just confirmed with my lawyer that the Kennedy Center board has no jurisdiction in Canada, and I therefore do not have to take on the surname Trump-Kennedy.

Will this be the last time year end lists are generated without the aid of AI?

If you’re obsessively on Blue Sky, you’re doomscolding.

Seems like a bit of a demotion… The last orb glowed…

🥹💗 Great news! We're almost at our first day goal of $5k...only $1K left to raise before 12am ET. #LiftFilm Thank you to all who donated today, we truly appreciate your support of Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto 🥰🎬 You can still donate at lift.ca/donate

🎬🫰 #GivingTuesdayCA is TODAY (December 2, 2025). The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto has set the long goal of $45,000 by their 45th birthday on April 8, 2026 & half of that by the end of the year! Thanks for keeping LIFT in your year-end giving plans. Donate via: www.lift.ca/donate

Charitable Choices, Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto,: torontoguardian.com/2025/12/toro...

Songs in the Key of Holy See

Sorry, John Paul was more hardcore

An album that sounds exactly like its cover suggests.

Fümms bö wö tää zää Uu, pögiff, kwii Ee. Oooooooooooooooooooooooo, dll rrrrr beeeee bö dll rrrrr beeeee bö fümms bö, rrrrr beeeee bö fümms bö wö, beeeee bö fümms bö wö tää, bö fümms bö wö tää zää, fümms bö wö tää zää Uu

Kid wanted to go to the new shoe shop: JD Vans

Google could balance this out by adding a “people also ask” option for male historians: “Does [male historian] look lecherously at his students?”

🎱 November 27-29 in Toronto, ON: the8fest Small-Gauge Film Festival, a unique film festival that presents all forms of small-gauge film: 8mm, Super 8 and 9.5mm. Don't miss the shorts screening on Nov 29 w/ films by CFMDC members Rennie Taylor & Larissa Fan.

Autechre’s Tiny Desk Concert coming soon!

Proposal for a universal emoji filing system: Filing system for an optimist archivist 😀 😢 😡 (Smiles on top!) Filing system for a pessimist archivist 😀 😢 😡 (It’s all going to shit)

Boys and girls at play.

There’s $30 tix (plus $14 in fees) for Cindy Lee at Massey Hall tonight

Thundercrack in Toronto! It’s been a while since Kuchar and McDowell graced our screens! A wild classic…

Swing and a miss…

I’m a Los Bros Hernandez fan, but not when they play for the Dodgers.

Autechre Sphere residency when?

Like a sidereal nod to Black Light District, the voices bubbled up on the far side of coherence. I couldn’t shake the feeling that this was Autechre at their most political, the cacophony of the current moment, the digital daemonic noise around us struggling to take form.

Heard a lot of vocal cadences in the Autechre show. Nowhere close to recognizable words, but floating language rhythms.

If you’re obsessively on Blue Sky, you’re doomscolding.

Rob and Sean greeted at the border tomorrow. “Welcome Autechr-eh?”

Letting my pet chimpanzee borrow my typewriter today to see if he can predict the Autechre set list.

It’s days like today that I get jealous of Europe. In Canada, no one would rob a museum.

People aren’t doing a good job keeping this updated!

I keep telling friends, “see you at the Autechre show!” and then realizing that no, that’s technically not true.

Posting this in honour of Krasznahorkai winning then Nobel Prize in Literature. May his sentences never stop: youtu.be/4UXpmvu35Fk

it's crazy how fast movies become dated. for instance, the 2021 movie "Don't Look Up" no longer makes sense, because if an American scientist discovered a planet-killing comet heading towards us today, their main response would be "oh thank fuck for that"

nice piece on ken jacobs from the times. no firewall www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/m...

Happy release day for an album of (Jonathan) Swiftian proportions. #CDFriday

Was wondering why the Indian film THEY CALL HIM OG disappeared from the Toronto Cineplex theatres it was originally scheduled to play in and, lo and behold, another vandalism incident for the files: toronto.citynews.ca/2025/09/26/o...

There’s a renewed interest in miniDV camcorders and with that comes the realization that you can’t drag and drop the recorded footage through the firewire cable.

Always a tough choice: Do I follow the Autechre tour on setlist.fm this month in anticipation, or allow myself to be completely surprised by what they play when I see them at the end of the month.

When re-releases like this appear, do record stores just hide their dollar bin copies?

Gen Xers had “sell-out” Gen Z has “over-rated” Gen X at least had the semblance that there might be money in the game; for Gen Z, there’s only the clicks.