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There’s nothing quite like sitting in a movie theatre and seeing the same movie theatre up on the big screen.

That slightly surreal event happened while I was watching Guillermo del Toro’s hugely-praised fantasy romance, The Shape of Water, which got a leading 13 Oscar nominations including best picture earlier this week.

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The setting for my screening was the magnificently maintained Elgin Theatre in downtown T.O. where I watched the world premiere of del Toro’s movie at last year’s Toronto International film Festival.

When myself and the audience suddenly realized we were all sitting in the same theatre that figures so prominently in the film we spontaneously burst into applause.

Here’s a rundown — thanks to Toronto Life for spotting them — of other Toronto (and Hamilton) locations used in del Toro’s The Shape of Water set in 1962 Baltimore. (FYI: Toronto was just named the most filmed location of 2017 along with Atlanta):