Special screening in partnership with DOC Québec Screening with filmmaker Catherine Legault in attendance Tyr and Jasa grew up in an artistic household where art was a way of life. Quirky and insightful sisters, Tyr is a musician and singer while Jasa is an interdisciplinary artist. Inspired by their great-grandmother’s recordings of Icelandic folk songs, […]
Part of our late-night screenings, Bains de minuit! Film selected by Paul Provencher (Kirouac), rapper and our very own Ciméma Moderne café-bar manager « The father, the mother and their three kids live at the outskirts of a city. There is a tall fence surrounding the house. The kids have never been outside that fence. […]
Dec 17, Dec 22 & Jan 2: Dolby Atmos sound – 18$ screening Dec 15, Dec 18, Dec 24: Dolby 5.1 sound – 15$ screening Get a first look at one of the year’s biggest films before its streaming premiere on December 24: an all-out satire of planetary proportions from american comedy master Adam McKay […]
In this lovingly crafted, wildly eccentric adaptation of a classic French fairy tale, Jacques Demy casts Catherine Deneuve as a princess who must go into hiding as a scullery maid in order to fend off an unwanted marriage proposal—from her own father, the king (Jean Marais). A topsy-turvy riches-to-rags fable with songs by Michel Legrand, […]
Winner of a Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Dos Estaciones follows iron-willed businesswoman María García (Teresa Sánchez), the owner of Dos Estaciones, a once-majestic tequila factory now struggling to stay afloat. The factory is the final holdover from generations of Mexican-owned tequila plants in the highlands of Jalisco, the rest having folded […]
In collaboration with Film Noir au Canal New 4K Restoration Has dialogue ever been more perfectly hard-boiled? Has a femme fatale ever been as deliciously wicked as Barbara Stanwyck? And has 1940s Los Angeles ever looked so seductively sordid? Working with cowriter Raymond Chandler, director Billy Wilder launched himself onto the Hollywood A-list with this […]
Director Jim Jarmusch followed up his brilliant breakout film Stranger Than Paradise with another, equally beloved portrait of loners and misfits in the American landscape. When fate brings together three hapless men—an unemployed disc jockey (Tom Waits), a small-time pimp (John Lurie), and a strong-willed Italian tourist (Roberto Benigni)—in a Louisiana prison, a singular adventure […]
September 4 screening followed by Tsai Ming-liang’s GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (2003) for a double bill | Tickets sold separately The Chinese Wuxia (martial arts) picture was never the same after King Hu’s legendary Dragon Inn. During the Ming dynasty, the emperor’s minister of defense is framed by a powerful court eunuch and executed, and his […]
After starting a new job at a local film production company, Isabelle (Liliane Lemaître-Auger) meets animator Virginie (Véronique Le Flaguais) and the two become fast friends. Over the course of a freewheeling, sun-dappled Montreal summer, the pair supports each other through evolving experiences of love, loss, labor, and politics. A fleet-footed and generous filmmaker, Mireille […]