Donna Deitch’s swooning and sensual first film, Desert Hearts, was groundbreaking upon its 1986 release: a love story about two women, produced and directed by a woman. In the 1959-set film, an adaptation of a beloved novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives in Reno to file for divorce, […]
Part of our cycle “Frank et Eleanor Perry: Marginalités latentes”, in collaboration with Hors Champ Screening followed by a discussion with writer and film critic Alice Michaud-Lapointe Diary of a Mad Housewife may have done more to change the public image of the American woman than any other film in history. Carrie Snodgress (Pale Rider) […]
New York City policeman John McClane (Bruce Willis) is visiting his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) and two daughters on Christmas Eve. He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for. But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive high-rise, and […]
Aleksei is a young Belarusian on the run from a past he must bury. In a form of Faustian pact, he becomes a member of the French Foreign Legion in exchange for the promise of French citizenship. Far away, in the Niger Delta, Jomo is a revolutionary activist, engaged in armed struggle to defend his […]
*DOUBLE BILL Disintegration Loops David Wexler│États-Unis, 2021│45 min Between 2002 and 2003, against the backdrop of the still-fresh September 11 attacks, New York-based composer William Basinski released one of the most important recordings of the twenty-first century. Disintegration Loops, a series of four albums that Basinski finished the morning of 9/11, initially stemmed from a […]
Terence Davies double bill: discover director’s Benediction Winner of the Cannes ‘88 International Critics’ Prize. Loosely based on the director’s own family and upbringing, Distant Voices, Still Lives is an evocative account of working-class life in Liverpool, England during the ‘40s and ‘50s. Births, marriages and deaths — and an expressive use of music — […]
An overworked and underpaid production assistant must drive around the city of Bucharest to film the casting for a workplace safety video commissioned by a multinational company. When one of her interviewees makes a statement that ignites a scandal she is forced to re-invent the whole story. *Special Jury Prize – Locrano Film Festival 2023
Staff Picks – Ribs Beauchamp (café-bar) 4K Restoration Set on one block of Brooklyn’s Bed-Stuy Do or Die neighborhood, at the height of summer, this 1989 masterpiece by Spike Lee confirmed him as a writer and filmmaker of peerless vision and passionate social engagement. Over the course of a single day, the easygoing interactions of […]
Special screening in partnership with DOC Québec, with filmmaker Ève Lamont in attendance If you’re in Montreal, it’s impossible not to see it. After making its way through a number of neighbourhoods, gentrification finally reached Pointe-Saint-Charles, along the Lachine Canal. Pressed forward by developers, luxury condo towers are springing up in the traditionally working-class neighbourhood […]