A trio of 1970s student films captures 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.