Retrontario

Retrontario is proud to be a community partner with the Toronto Jewish Film Festival Archival series. This year's screening will be a trio of 1970s student films capturing the hangouts and attitudes of secular Jewish youth around Bathurst Street. Alan Zweig’s funny and introspective The Boys (1977), with Ralph Benmergui and Joel Axler, follows dateless twenty-somethings during one night. Lawrence Plaza (1973), made by Zweig along with Bernie Lightman and Paul Hutter—friends from Bathurst Heights Secondary School—is a scrappy comedy about awkward college students trying to hook up. And in Eric Weinthal’s Justice (1974), a kid swipes a pack of gum from a Bathurst and Eglinton convenience store and sparks a chase with the cops through the leafy streets of Forest Hill. (Lawrence Plaza and Justice will screen with live filmmaker commentary.)
"The Boys and Other Snapshots of Jew-ish Toronto"
June 6
6:00pm
https://tjff.com/films/boys-and-other-snapshots-of-jew-ish-toronto/

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