Welcome to the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema  one of the only documentary cinemas in the world. The renovated century-old cinema is an historic landmark in Toronto, providing Hot Docs with a permanent home for its annual festival and a unique opportunity to present year-round documentary programming. The cinema features special documentary events and screenings, hosts many of Torontos film festivals, and offers fiction film programming, as well as some beloved Bloor classics.

Eames: The Architect and The Painter


83 minutes  Jason Cohn, Bill Jersey, United States, 2011

Distributed by First Run Films

Narrated by James Franco

Well-crafted and insightful. A must for those with an interest in modern design. Hollywood Reporter

Superb. A dazzling, sensory adventure. An extraordinary and enjoyable history of how two people influenced so much of our thinking and surroundings today.  Seattle Times

Design history was born in a cavernous warehouse on a gritty street in Venice Beach, California, where Charles and Ray Eames set up their Renaissance-style studio in the optimistic flush of American victory during World War II. Often referred to as the father and mother of modernism, the Eames ideal of design (an alchemical combination of beauty and purpose) is still prevalent today.

Jason Cohn and Bill Jerseys definitive cinematic foray into the world of the Eameses is the first film to be made about Charles and Ray since their deathsand the only one that peers deeply inside the link between their artistic collaboration and their sometimes tortured love for one another. Insightfully narrated by James Franco, the film brings to light a virgin cache of archival material, films, love letters, photographs and artifacts produced by Charles and Ray with their talented staff during the hyper-creative forty-year epoch of the Eames Office. Inter views with family members and design historians guide the viewer on an intimate tour of the Eames era, while junior designers who were swept into the 24-7 world of The Eamery flesh out a fascinating complex blueprint of this husband and wife powerhouse.
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