Staff Picks – Marie-Ève Drolet (café-bar) Letters from Chantal Akerman’s mother are read over a series of elegantly composed shots of 1976 New York, where our (unseen) filmmaker and protagonist has relocated. Akerman’s unforgettable time capsule of the city is also a gorgeous meditation on urban alienation and personal and familial disconnection.
Special screening on October 18, with filmmaker Guillaume Lambert in attendance for the launch of his new novel ESCHATOLOGIE (L’EFFONDREMENT) PRICE INCLUDES A TICKET FOR THE FILM, A COPY OF THE BOOK AND A DRINK AT THE BAR! Three brothers in their fifties will have to reconnect on the death of their father, who died […]
Special screening on October 18, with filmmaker Guillaume Lambert in attendance for the launch of his new novel ESCHATOLOGIE (L’EFFONDREMENT) PRICE INCLUDES A TICKET FOR THE FILM, A COPY OF THE BOOK AND A DRINK AT THE BAR! NIAGARA: Three brothers in their fifties will have to reconnect on the death of their father, who […]
*Halloween at Cinéma Moderne in collaboration with Panorama-Cinéma* Thrill me! When an alien experiment goes awry, it crashes to Earth in 1959 and infects a young college student. Twenty-seven years later, his cryogenically frozen body is thawed out by fraternity pledges … and the campus is quickly overrun by alien creatures whose victims turn into […]
Free screening organized by Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC) for National Canadian Film Day. Free tickets must be reserved online in advance! Feature presented with short film NALUJUK NIGHT (2021) by Jennie Williams. It’s 2043. In a dystopian postwar future, Niska and her 11-year-old daughter Waseese, both Cree, are living on the run in the […]
Part of our late-night screenings, Bains de minuit! Film selected and presented by Ariel Esteban Cayer, film critic and festival programmer After a dazzling meteor shower, the Nightbeast lands near a small East Coast town, armed with his vaporizing ray gun and a goal of killing everyone who crosses his path. As area residents are […]
In partnership with Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Montréal 4K restoration In the role that won her the Best Actress award at Cannes, Giulietta Masina stars as “Cabiria,” a tough Roman streetwalker who, after a near-drowning by her pimp boyfriend, is swept off her feet by a square, but sympathetic, accountant…until a final disillusionment. Federico […]
Curated specifically for Cinéma Moderne by the filmmaker himself, Nightsongs is a program of eight short experimental films by multidisciplinary artist Scott Barley. « Among the films here, the ones I am most proud of, are those which I describe as “nightsongs”, where the distance between the experience and the experiencer narrow into a unitive […]
One of the world’s great cinematic artists, Jafar Panahi has been carefully crafting self-reflexive works about artistic, personal, and political freedom for the past three decades, despite his oppression at the hands of the Iranian government. Now, as the international film community vehemently denounces his summer 2022 arrest and continued imprisonment for his vocal support […]