From the mid 1980s to the early 1990s, Toronto’s fabled Bloor Cinema would run its annual B Festival for (usually) one week every October. Below is the program guide for the 4th Annual B Fest, in October 1989. This souvenir has a special resonance for me, because that fall I had ventured to the big city for school, and on the side was immersing myself into however much film culture I could. I spent a wonderful Sunday seeing the 1949 Batman and Robin condensed serial (the program lists the 1943 serial instead), and Dracula Has Risen from the Grave. This cemented my love of Toronto’s rep cinemas, in which I had spent untold evenings and weekend matinees.
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Greg Woods
Greg Woods has been a film enthusiast since his teens, and began his writing "career" at the same time- prolific in capsule reviews of everything he had watched, first on index cards, then those hardcover dollar store black journals, then an old Mac IIsi. He founded The Eclectic Screening Room in 2001, as a portal to share his film love with the world, and find some like-minded enthusiasts along the way. In addition to having worked in the film industry for over two decades, he has been a co-programmer of films at Trash Palace, and a programmer/co-founder of the Toronto Film Noir Syndicate. He has also written for Broken Pencil, CU-Confidential, Micro-Film, and is currently working on his first novel. His secret desire is for someone to interview him for a podcast or a DVD extra.