Screening with filmmaker Matthieu Brouillard in attendance For this special screening of The Anguish of the Heron, Cinéma Moderne and SPIRA offers a program of 3 films centered on canadian artists. THE ANGUISH OF THE HERON (2024) by Matthieu Brouillard (Essay/Documentary, 44 minutes) Seated in his kitchen, Quebec novelist Gaétan Soucy, who died in 2013, […]
“Bud” Baxter knows the way to success in business… it’s through the door of his apartment! By providing a perfect hideaway for philandering bosses, the ambitious young employee reaps a series of undeserved promotions. But when Bud lends the key to big boss J.D. Sheldrake, he not only advances his career, but his own love […]
Shepitko’s emotionally overwhelming final film won the Golden Bear at the 1977 Berlin Film Festival and has been hailed around the world as the finest Soviet film of its decade. Set during World War II’s darkest days, The Ascent follows the path of two peasant soldiers, cut off from their troop, who trudge through the […]
With its light touch that follows the sentimental wandering of a young female protagonist, The August Virgin evokes the intimacy of Éric Rohmer’s “A Summer’s Tale”. Stripped of artificiality, La virgen de agosto (The August Virgin) inspires a desire to abandon everything and run off to Madrid to enjoy the last whispers of the summer […]
Éric Rohmer double bill: discover director’s Boyfriends and Girlfriends! Inaugurating Rohmer’s “Comedies and Proverbs” cycle, The Aviator’s Wife is a fleecy farce of romantic overanalysis that finds Rohmer exploring the possibilities of handheld camerawork in following a narrative expression of the opening epigraph, “It is impossible to think of nothing.” A young man sees his […]
The year is 2044: artificial intelligence controls all facets of a stoic society as humans routinely “erase” their feelings. Hoping to eliminate pain caused by their past-life romances, Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) continually falls in love with different incarnations of Louis (George MacKay). Set first in Belle Époque-era Paris, Louis is a British man who woos […]
4K Restoration ‘The Dude’, Jeff Lebowski is unemployed and as laid-back as they come. That is until he becomes a victim of mistaken identity, and two thugs break into his apartment with the errant belief that they’re strong-arming Jeff Lebowski – the Pasadena millionaire. In the hope of getting a replacement for his soiled carpet, […]
After losing his mother during the war, young Mahito moves to his family’s estate in the countryside. There, a series of mysterious events lead him to a secluded and ancient tower, home to a mischievous gray heron. When Mahito’s new stepmother disappears, he follows the gray heron into the tower, and enters a fantastic world […]