July 25, 2011

This summer, the Carlton Cinema will host the Toronto Film Society’s “From Page to Screen Film Festival” over seven Monday nights. Tonight’s program is the third of the summer, and includes The Horse’s Mouth (1953) and The Wrong Box (1966) with special guest speaker Risa Shuman, former executive producer of “Saturday Night at the Movies.”

The Horse’s Mouth is the tale of starving artist Gully Jimson as he searches for the “perfect” wall for his masterpiece. A British comedic masterpiece, this film is based on a novel by Joyce Cary. The Wrong Box is also a British comedy, based on Robert Louise Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne’s novel about inheritance and killing whoever is in the way of that inheritance!

The From Page to Screen Film Festival welcomes non-Toronto Film Society members; simply enquire at the Carlton Cinema box office for information on tickets. To learn more about the summer’s film line up at the Toronto Film Society, go to www.torontofilmsociety.com/.