Inspired by true-events. Humble Quebec Securities Commission inspector and auditor Eric Asselin is mandated to monitor the activities of financial firm Norbourg. Seduced by the charm and audacity of Norbourg’s slick leader Vincent Lacroix, Asselin leaves his boring commission position and joins the lavish lifestyle as his right-hand man. Together they set up a fraudulent […]
New 4K Restoration Cary Grant teams with director Alfred Hitchcock for the fourth and final time in this superlative espionage caper. After Roger Thornhill, an innocent man, is mistaken for a wanted fugitive he is pursued across North America by a pair of espionage agents trying to kill him, as well as by police who […]
New 4K Restoration Andrei Tarkovsky explained that in Russian the word “nostalghia” conveys “the love for your homeland and the melancholy that arises from being far away.” This debilitating form of homesickness is embodied in the film by Andrei (Oleg Yankovsky, The Mirror), a Russian intellectual doing research in Italy. He becomes obsessed with the […]
New 4K Restoration In 1976, trailblazing director Martha Coolidge (Valley Girl, Rambling Rose) made her feature debut with the startling Not a Pretty Picture, a documentary-fiction hybrid that continues to raise provocative questions about sexual violence and the ethics of its on-screen representation. Coolidge based the film’s fictional sections on her rape at the age […]
Screening followed by a Q&A with director Sarah Fortin and author Caroline Lavergne In collaboration with Nouvelle adresse and Salon du livre de Montréal NOUVEAU-QUÉBEC: As they make their way to Schefferville, an isolated village in Northern Quebec, to settle the sale of a cottage, Sophie and Mathieu unwittingly find themselves facing a grave and […]
Special screening with filmmaker Iphigénie Marcoux-Fortier in attendance November is a peripatetic experience in search of the many souls who make up the city of Montreal, in that seasonal no man’s land between colorful autumn and pristine winter, well known for its bent toward grouchiness. It’s an excursion through the streets of the city with […]
New 4K Restoration The 4K restoration of Gregg Araki’s Nowhere is a stylized foray into the nightmare world of adolescent highs and lows, but more than that, it functions as a study of an entire generation and the direction they’re headed. Where The Doom Generation seemed to be a wake-up call, Nowhere is more of […]
New 4K Restoration Jong-du, who has three previous convictions, pays a visit to the family of the victim in the hit-and run accident for which he served time and meets Gong-ju, the daughter, who has cerebral palsy. Jong-du is fascinated by her at first sight and visits her again when he knows she is alone. […]
This internationally award-winning film casually and sometimes caustically uncovers what binds us — and blinds us — to the differences between our ways of life in the West with modern day Iran. Fascinating, funny and tragic, it’s “a gem of comic action… that explores the ambiguity between the sexes” (The Hollywood Reporter). The Tehran soccer […]
March 15th screening with filmmaker Laurence Lévesque in attendance Noriko Oi, a Japanese-Canadian woman who has been living in Montreal for more than 20 years, is about to return to Nagasaki, her hometown. She has to go back to help her brothers and sisters clear out their childhood home, which will soon be sold. Within […]