Premiering Friday, August 28th, and playing on subsequent days until the 30th at the Montreal World Film Festival is local filmmaker Tyler Gibb’s first live-action feature film, Refrain. A tale both about spousal abuse and the empowerment endowed by music, my interview with Gibb reveals a little bit about what he hopes to achieve and what he wants the audience to walk away with, as well as a little about related projects stemming from the film. Read the full interview at Midnight Poutine.
John Cassavetes’ greatest legacy to film, besides his acting, will be his contribution to writing and directing. His cinema verité style of filmmaking gave his films a sense of reality - a style very much against the grain of Hollywood film. His entire directorial works will be shown at Cinema du Parc from July 31st to August 13th. Read more »
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to experience film back before sound ruined it all? The Cinémathèque québécoise is once again offering live accompaniment to silent films, as was done in the 20s and 30s. This time around they are doing it as part of their Ciné concert jazz series in collaboration with the International Jazz Festival. Read more »
Surrealist director David Lynch may be busy on his current online webisode interview series and absent from feature filmmaking, but his work lives on starting this week at the Cinéma du Parc with Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. Read more »
Starting tonight and running 24 hours at the Cinémathèque québecoise is an ode to film sponsored by local movie magazine, 24 Images. Films include Reservoir Dogs, Modern Times and Un chien andalou. For more information check out my post on Midnight Poutine.
Frédéric Back is an award-winning animator who began working for Radio-Canada in the 1950s. Winning the Academy Award for Best Animated Short twice, he is best known for his work L’Homme qui plantait des arbres (The Man Who Planted Trees). Beginning June 17th, his collected animated works will be presented at the Cinémathèque Québécoise. Running parallel to this on June 18th begins a Back exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Read more »
In order to celebrate accomplishing 70 years of existence with an impressive output of important documentaries and cutting edge animation, Montréal’s NFB Cinérobotheque on St-Denis and De Maisonneuve will be presenting a few free activities from Friday, June 5th to Sunday, June 7th, including screenings and workshops. Read more »
Review: A Wink and a Smile (2008)
Running until Thursday, May 21 at Cinéma du Parc, A Wink and a Smile is a documentary on the Seattle burlesque scene. Montréal’s own Blue Light Burlesque team is present for all screenings, performing a small number before the doc and talking about their art post-credits. Anybody curious about the art will find this a decent introduction. Below is a review of the film and information on local acts. Read more »
Beginning this evening at Cinéma du Parc, Denis Villeneuve’s controversial fictional rendition of the 1989 massacre at Université de Montréal’s Polytechnique school is available for the first time with English subtitles. Tonight’s 6pm showing is in collaboration with the Douglas Mental Health University Institute and will be introduced by actress Karine Vanasse. The limited run ends on May 14th. Read more »
Concordia’s Communication Studies Video III course celebrated their semester on Wednesday, April 29th, with an 80 minute vernissage showcasing twelve works by its graduating students. Ranging from self-portraits to documentaries, the student productions showed a sense of play and focus that is sure to mature as the creators go beyond the confines of the classroom. Congratulations to all Communication Studies students involved in the productions! Read more »
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