Free screening In honour of Michel Côté (1950-2023) The central character, Lea Mentha, is an assertive teenager who deals contraband cigarettes out of the back of a car. Her boyfriend is an up-and-coming prize fighter who runs off with Lea’s 50-year-old mother. The Mentha family patriarch is the trainer of the two-timing boxer boyfriend.
This uncompromising portrait of domestic turmoil details the emotional breakdown of a suburban housewife and her family’s struggle to save her from herself. Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk give unforgettably harrowing performances as a married couple deeply in love but unable to express their ardor in terms the other can understand. This landmark American film […]
Samet, a young art teacher, is finishing his fourth year of compulsory service in a remote village in Anatolia. After a turn of events he can hardly make sense of, he loses his hopes of escaping the grim life he seems to be stuck in. Will his encounter with Nuray, herself a teacher, help him […]
April 27th screening with filmmaker Arshad Khan in attendance ABU is a journey to the center of a fragmented family while they grapple with religion, sexuality, colonialism and migration. Through a tapestry of narratives composed of family footage, observation and classic Bollywood films, gay-identifying Pakistani-Muslim filmmaker Arshad Khan takes viewers through the tense relationships between […]
New 4K Restoration Paired with short film Bardot & Godard (1964) Bardot et Godard (Jacques Rozier, France, 1964, 9 minutes) A behind-the-scenes documentary as only Rozier could make, this film finds him tagging along with Jean-Luc Godard, Brigitte Bardot, and Michel Piccoli as they arrive in Capri to film Godard’s seminal Contempt (1963). Adieu Philippine […]
Trailblazing auteur Márta Mészáros gives aching expression to the experiences of women in 1970s Hungary in this sensitive and absorbing slice-of-life drama, which became the first film directed by a woman to win the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Through intensely intimate camerawork, Mészáros immerses the viewer in the worlds two women, each […]
December 8th screening with guests in attendance Inventive and whimsical, Adrianne & The Castle is a true story of great love and loss. Alan St-George is a mascot-maker and artist in rural Illinois who hand-makes an ornate castle with his wife Adrianne. After her death in 2006 he continues to put the finishing touches on […]
The audio installation Cinéma Moderne, novembre 2023 from Julie Faubert will be presented before the November 26th screening. Only the following ticketholders will be able to witness the audio installation (by arriving 30 minutes before the screening) : B3, B4, B5, C3, C4, C5, D3, D4, D5. _______ While vacationing by the Baltic Sea, writer Leon (Thomas […]
Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne) ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman (Rosanna Arquette). So begins the wildest night of his life, as bizarre occurrences—involving underground-art punks, a distressed waitress, a crazed Mister Softee truck driver, and a bagel-and-cream-cheese paperweight—pile up with anxiety-inducing relentlessness […]