Jeffrey Bender
@benderoni.bsky.social
I talk about movies at The Westdale Theatre in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
www.thewestdale.ca
Air Sitarist - Retired.
www.thewestdale.ca
Air Sitarist - Retired.
Noirvember begins tonight @thewestdale.bsky.social theatre in #HamOnt with Otto Preminger’s 1944 dreamy murder mystery, LAURA! For you old movie weirdos I just know that you can hear David Raksin’s score as soon as you saw this pic! #Noirvember
November 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Noirvember begins tonight @thewestdale.bsky.social theatre in #HamOnt with Otto Preminger’s 1944 dreamy murder mystery, LAURA! For you old movie weirdos I just know that you can hear David Raksin’s score as soon as you saw this pic! #Noirvember
Come join me this October 29th at the historic Westdale Theatre in #HamOnt as we go back to the Weimar Republic where everything is beautiful in 1972’s multi-award winning CABARET directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey as the Emcee! @thewestdale.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Come join me this October 29th at the historic Westdale Theatre in #HamOnt as we go back to the Weimar Republic where everything is beautiful in 1972’s multi-award winning CABARET directed by Bob Fosse and starring Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey as the Emcee! @thewestdale.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
October 7: FOOTLIGHT PARADE kicks off The Westdale Theatre’s 6 film series of Musicals on the Big Screen!!! A great big Art Deco, Pre-Code Naughty & Bonkers Song & Dance! Starring fast-talkin’ James Cagney! Saucy Secretary Joan Blondell and Busby Berkeley’s Syncopated Gams! @thewestdale.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 4:11 PM
October 7: FOOTLIGHT PARADE kicks off The Westdale Theatre’s 6 film series of Musicals on the Big Screen!!! A great big Art Deco, Pre-Code Naughty & Bonkers Song & Dance! Starring fast-talkin’ James Cagney! Saucy Secretary Joan Blondell and Busby Berkeley’s Syncopated Gams! @thewestdale.bsky.social
Happy 130th Birthday, Buster Keaton!
October 5, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Happy 130th Birthday, Buster Keaton!
We are screening Federico Fellini’s Academy Award Winning film from 1973, AMARCORD with a special introduction and discussion with Italian cinema scholar, professor emeritus and frequent contributor to @criterion.bsky.social Frank Burke @thewestdale.bsky.social on October 5! #HamOnt #Fellini #cinema
October 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
We are screening Federico Fellini’s Academy Award Winning film from 1973, AMARCORD with a special introduction and discussion with Italian cinema scholar, professor emeritus and frequent contributor to @criterion.bsky.social Frank Burke @thewestdale.bsky.social on October 5! #HamOnt #Fellini #cinema
130 Years of Buster Keaton!
October 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
130 Years of Buster Keaton!
Farewell to the Sundance Kid.
September 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Farewell to the Sundance Kid.
We are screening ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953) at the historical @thewestdale.bsky.social theatre June 11th at 7pm! Cannoli from and conversation for members after the screening! #HamOnt #AudreyHepburn #ClassicMovies
June 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM
We are screening ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953) at the historical @thewestdale.bsky.social theatre June 11th at 7pm! Cannoli from and conversation for members after the screening! #HamOnt #AudreyHepburn #ClassicMovies
We screened ‘Bicycle Thieves” this spring @thewestdale.bsky.social The audience fell in love with Enzo Staiolo’s performance, 77 years after it first appeared on the silver screen.
Enzo Staiolo. Riposa in Pace.
Enzo Staiolo. Riposa in Pace.
June 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
We screened ‘Bicycle Thieves” this spring @thewestdale.bsky.social The audience fell in love with Enzo Staiolo’s performance, 77 years after it first appeared on the silver screen.
Enzo Staiolo. Riposa in Pace.
Enzo Staiolo. Riposa in Pace.
Born on this date in 1907, the incomparable Katharine Hepburn who will soon appear in David Lean’s SUMMERTIME (1955) at @thewestdale.bsky.social theatre in #HamOnt
May 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Born on this date in 1907, the incomparable Katharine Hepburn who will soon appear in David Lean’s SUMMERTIME (1955) at @thewestdale.bsky.social theatre in #HamOnt
I watched Bergman’s great classic THE SEVENTH SEAL @thewestdale.bsky.social in #HamOnt this past weekend. It may have been my first exposure to a foreign language film in a theatre back in the late 80s. I was blown away by the eternal questions in the movie, like how many hot dogs could Death eat?
April 29, 2025 at 2:59 PM
I watched Bergman’s great classic THE SEVENTH SEAL @thewestdale.bsky.social in #HamOnt this past weekend. It may have been my first exposure to a foreign language film in a theatre back in the late 80s. I was blown away by the eternal questions in the movie, like how many hot dogs could Death eat?
What a great evening at #HamOnt historic art deco theatre @thewestdale.bsky.social
A cinema full of film aficionados enjoying #AlfredHitchcock put #CaryGrant through the paces in that beautiful (and seemingly indestructible) grey suit in NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959).
A cinema full of film aficionados enjoying #AlfredHitchcock put #CaryGrant through the paces in that beautiful (and seemingly indestructible) grey suit in NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959).
April 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
What a great evening at #HamOnt historic art deco theatre @thewestdale.bsky.social
A cinema full of film aficionados enjoying #AlfredHitchcock put #CaryGrant through the paces in that beautiful (and seemingly indestructible) grey suit in NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959).
A cinema full of film aficionados enjoying #AlfredHitchcock put #CaryGrant through the paces in that beautiful (and seemingly indestructible) grey suit in NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959).
This Wednesday, our Hitchcock retrospective continues with NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason at the historic @thewestdale.bsky.social theatre in #HamOnt #AlfredHitchcock
April 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This Wednesday, our Hitchcock retrospective continues with NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason at the historic @thewestdale.bsky.social theatre in #HamOnt #AlfredHitchcock
He has risen!
LA DOLCE VITA (1960)
Directed by Federico Fellini.
LA DOLCE VITA (1960)
Directed by Federico Fellini.
April 20, 2025 at 12:03 PM
He has risen!
LA DOLCE VITA (1960)
Directed by Federico Fellini.
LA DOLCE VITA (1960)
Directed by Federico Fellini.
We screened TO CATCH A THIEF (1955) at the historic @thewestdale.bsky.social theatre in #HamOnt where it appeared 70 yrs ago. Cary Grant stopped by at the Tivoli movie palace for a matinee screening in 1956; not the 1st time Mr Grant was here-he appeared in an acrobatic act at the Lyric in 1923.
April 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
We screened TO CATCH A THIEF (1955) at the historic @thewestdale.bsky.social theatre in #HamOnt where it appeared 70 yrs ago. Cary Grant stopped by at the Tivoli movie palace for a matinee screening in 1956; not the 1st time Mr Grant was here-he appeared in an acrobatic act at the Lyric in 1923.
Last night we celebrated the Master of Suspense #AlfredHitchcock at the historical art deco cinema @thewestdale.bsky.social with a 70th Anniversary screening of TO CATCH A THIEF. VOLUME UP as the audience gives its love for Hitch! #HamOnt #CaryGrant #GraceKelly
April 10, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Last night we celebrated the Master of Suspense #AlfredHitchcock at the historical art deco cinema @thewestdale.bsky.social with a 70th Anniversary screening of TO CATCH A THIEF. VOLUME UP as the audience gives its love for Hitch! #HamOnt #CaryGrant #GraceKelly
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Trans rights are human rights. ✊🏳️⚧️
a blue white and pink flag with the words human rights written on it
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March 31, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Trans rights are human rights. ✊🏳️⚧️
In my introduction for Hitchcock’s DIAL M FOR MURDER, I referenced TVO’s Elwy Yost as an influence to learning about classic films. It was Mr. Yost who introduced me to the works of the Master of Suspense on ‘Saturday Night at the Movies’ in the early 80s.
@tvotoday.bsky.social
@tvotoday.bsky.social
March 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
In my introduction for Hitchcock’s DIAL M FOR MURDER, I referenced TVO’s Elwy Yost as an influence to learning about classic films. It was Mr. Yost who introduced me to the works of the Master of Suspense on ‘Saturday Night at the Movies’ in the early 80s.
@tvotoday.bsky.social
@tvotoday.bsky.social
Last night, 120 classic film lovers watched a 71 year old movie in a 90 year old theatre and gasped, laughed aloud and applauded at the brief appearance of its director, Alfred Hitchcock! The film was DIAL M FOR MURDER and the theatre was @thewestdale.bsky.social in #HamOnt
March 27, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Last night, 120 classic film lovers watched a 71 year old movie in a 90 year old theatre and gasped, laughed aloud and applauded at the brief appearance of its director, Alfred Hitchcock! The film was DIAL M FOR MURDER and the theatre was @thewestdale.bsky.social in #HamOnt
Tomorrow Night our Hitchcock Film Talk Series continues with DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954), w/ Grace Kelly, Ray Milland & Robert Cummings. Originally filmed in the 3-D trendsetting fad of 1953, our screening will be the gorgeous flat version! Still Suspenseful as Ever! @thewestdale.bsky.social #HamOnt
March 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Tomorrow Night our Hitchcock Film Talk Series continues with DIAL M FOR MURDER (1954), w/ Grace Kelly, Ray Milland & Robert Cummings. Originally filmed in the 3-D trendsetting fad of 1953, our screening will be the gorgeous flat version! Still Suspenseful as Ever! @thewestdale.bsky.social #HamOnt
The mesmerizing PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK directed by Peter Weir is 50 this year. I saw it days ago at The Playhouse Theatre in #HamOnt and can’t get it out of my head. Zamfir’s pan pipes, the superimposed images, slow motion, freeze frames, and haunting use of sound disorient in wonderful ways.
March 25, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The mesmerizing PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK directed by Peter Weir is 50 this year. I saw it days ago at The Playhouse Theatre in #HamOnt and can’t get it out of my head. Zamfir’s pan pipes, the superimposed images, slow motion, freeze frames, and haunting use of sound disorient in wonderful ways.
Last night, I learned that some of our audience members @thewestdale.bsky.social experienced their first Hitchcock movie…ever…and it was in our beautiful art deco cinema from 1935 and that movie was NOTORIOUS! #HamOnt #Hitchcock #IndependentCinema
March 13, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Last night, I learned that some of our audience members @thewestdale.bsky.social experienced their first Hitchcock movie…ever…and it was in our beautiful art deco cinema from 1935 and that movie was NOTORIOUS! #HamOnt #Hitchcock #IndependentCinema