*As part of the Post-Moderne Ciné-club – choice of Pascal Plante August 5: Introduction & discussion with the filmmaker Pascal Plante, the producer Dominique Dussault and the swimmer and actress Ariane Mainville *LAST SCREENING* While young and in her prime, Nadia decides to retire from pro swimming after the Olympic Games to escape a rigid […]
The brilliant and controversial Naked, from director Mike Leigh, stars David Thewlis as Johnny, a charming and eloquent but relentlessly vicious drifter. Rejecting anyone who might care for him, the volcanic Johnny hurls himself around London on a nocturnal odyssey, colliding with a succession of other desperate and dispossessed people and scorching everyone in his […]
BAINS DE MINUIT – Selected by Ariane Roy-Poirier (executive director, Pleins Écrans festival) Mae, a fascinating young girl, has an unusual beauty. Caleb meets her on a summer night and tries to seduce her. But she seems scared by the coming dawn and refuses to give in to him. He agrees to take her to […]
New 4K Restoration In early September three young Parisians – Caroline (Caroline Cartier), her cousin Kareen (Françoise Guégan), and Joëlle (Danièle Croisy) – travel to the sparsely populated oceanside town of Orouët for a carefree holiday. At Caroline’s mother’s house they soon take in Gilbert (Bernard Ménez), Joëlle’s boss, and romantic complications inevitably ensue: ever […]
Howard Beale, a veteran newscaster, is informed by his ratings-driven network executives that he is about to be dumped because he “skews old” – in turn, he uses his next broadcast to announce that he is going to commit suicide on his final programme. An ambitious programming executive convinces her superiors to let the broadcast […]
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 […]