Hello, my name is Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Will Sloan.

And you're listening to The Important Cinema Club.

And today, it is an incredibly self-indulgent episode where we talk about our Toronto film memory, specifically the ones that made us. I think we'd like to paint a picture of a changing and evolving Toronto. We want to weave a sort of memory tapestry, a my Winnipeg, if you will. The classic Guy Madden film. That's right. Will there be fiction that is inserted into this as well? And it's up to the viewer to find out what is true

and what is not? Nope. It's all going to be true. Okay. So where do you want to start? Are you going

to go chronologically? Which way are you going to approach this? Well, yeah, I guess I'm starting

going to go chronologically. We'd like to take this episode to tell you about some of the people,

some of the places, some of the events that shaped our cinnophilia, all of them Toronto-specific. Because, you know, we've been around for a while.

We're in our mid-30s. We've seen the city change. We've seen people and things come and go.

We've seen institutions fall. We've outlasted all of them.

Well, we will soon become extinct like the dinosaurs.

I would say 30 to 50 years from now. I think, you know, for some people, we're probably already there. I'm sure there are some younger people listening to us who were going to be the thing that they disavow. Oh, yeah. I remember the important cinema club. I listen to a few episodes of that. Yeah, they're going to toss us aside as sort of lame and normie the way that I know we did for film spotting.

Yes. the importance of my club i listen to a few episodes of that yeah they're going to toss us aside as sort of lame and normie the way that i know we did for film spotting eventually they're gonna kind of come back around and they're going to say you know those guys they wait a minute so are you saying you've come back around to film spotting recently i haven't heard it in years i'm sure it's lovely oh so you will come around in your i starting to beef with film spawning. No, not at all. I remember listen to film spotting, working at my job

as a reference checker for home hardware, sitting in the back room, just going through episodes

as I ate my lunch. I mean, back then it was like the only film podcast. So what were you going to do?

All right.

So I'm a little bit different than Will in that I came to Toronto willingly, that it was not a, you know, I lived near it.

So like you, it's been part of your life the entire time.

Yeah, that's right.

I mean, I grew up in Itobico, which was a suburb of Toronto now amalgamated into the city officially. So I have always been a subway ride away from the downtown. But, you know, when you're a kid growing up, that was still a long way away. I would have to go with, I would have to ask my parents to drive me downtown. Oh, so it was like a big deal when,

oh, I want to come do a film thing in town. Yeah, exactly. So, so there are certain things that I did, like when I was a teenager that certain things I'll mention, I think, well, okay, let's start with the Royal Cinema, which currently is a venue where, well, it's been hollowed out and it's mostly for like comedy events now.

They're not a regular running movie theater.

Killed by the pandemic.

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