Willy’s quest to reconnect with Marlena, his lost love, brings him from Mexico to Canada, where he gets hired as a seasonal worker on the Bécotte family farm, on the outskirts of Montréal. A place where different worlds and destinies collide, where tension mounts and where moments of magical realism occur during the long, trying […]
April 27 screening introduced by filmmaker Miryam Charles New 4K Restoration A lost treasure of 1990s DIY filmmaking, Cauleen Smith’s Drylongso embeds an incisive look at racial injustice within a lovingly handmade buddy movie/murder mystery/romance. Alarmed by the rate at which the young Black men around her are dying—indeed, “becoming extinct,” as she sees it—brash […]
Screenings presented with our Dolby ATMOS experience Staff picks – Jarrett Mann (assistant director of the Cinéma Moderne) A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, “Dune” tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, who must travel to the most dangerous planet in the […]
New 4K Restorations Screenings in collaboration with Hors Champ for the release of their new issue “Entrelacements de Jean Eustache” A DIRTY STORY (Jean Eustache, France, 1977, 50 minutes) Deceptively simple in form and content, Eustache’s Une Sale Histoire is a fascinatingly complex investigation of the relationship between fiction and documentary, verbal and visual storytelling, […]
The world is a mysterious place when seen through the eyes of an animal. EO, a grey donkey with melancholic eyes, meets good and bad people on his life’s path, experiences joy and pain, endures the wheel of fortune randomly turn his luck into disaster and his despair into unexpected bliss. But not even for […]
Petits Modernes rate – 10$ tickets Ernest et Célestine retournent au pays d’Ernest, la Charabie, pour faire réparer son précieux violon cassé. Ils découvrent alors que la musique est bannie dans tout le pays depuis plusieurs années. Pour nos deux héros, il est impensable de vivre sans musique ! Accompagnés de complices, dont un mystérieux […]
Traversing time, space and genre, Argentinian filmmaker Lisandro Alonso (Jauja) presents an elliptical meditation on the experiences of indigenous communities across the Americas. Opening in a dusty town of the Old West, reality soon transitions to contemporary South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation before finally landing in the jungles of 1970s Brazil. As the triptych unfolds, […]
Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as The Daniels, the film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can’t seem to finish her taxes. *SXSW Festival 2022 *Nominated for 11 categories including Best Picture, Best Actress in a leading role (Michelle Yeoh) […]