SÉRIE C’EST ARRIVÉ PRÈS DE CHEZ NOUS For the third haunting adventure in our recurring series, C’est arrivé près de chez nous, we dive into a classic from Canada’s reigning horror master with David Cronenberg’s Videodrome. Despite its already established reputation among cinephiles, don’t be fooled – Videodrome remains as shocking and bewildering as it […]
Stéphane Lafleur’s first feature since the 2014 Cannes hit and TIFF selection Tu dors Nicole, Viking is ample proof that the director’s distinctive take on the human condition is as singular as ever — his empathy for those on the outside looking in and his flair for absurdist images are wonderfully present. Viking places Lafleur’s […]
The sophomore feature from Tsai Ming-liang (REBELS OF THE NEON GOD; GOODBYE, DRAGON INN) finds the acclaimed master of Taiwan’s Second New Wave demonstrating a confident new cinematic voice. VIVE L’AMOUR follows three characters unknowingly sharing a supposedly empty Taipei apartment. The beautiful realtor May Lin (Yang Kuei-mei) brings her lover Ah-jung (Chen Chao-jung) to […]
In collaboration with FNC At the end of the day, what’s life all about? After a recent (and far too close) brush with the Grim Reaper, provocateur filmmaker Gaspar Noé pondered the question. The result is Vortex, arguably his most radical and surprising work to date, which screened to acclaim at the last Cannes Festival. […]
Part of our summer cycle L’été au Cinéma, Volume 2! Alongside Mad Max and Walkabout, Wake in Fright is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal films in the development of modern Australian cinema. Directed by Ted Kotcheff (First Blood) and starring Donald Pleasence (Halloween), Wake in Fright tells the nightmarish story of a schoolteacher’s […]
In collaboration with Fantasia Somewhere in a typical American suburb – a big house and an attic bedroom containing an unknowable adolescent universe orbiting around the World Wide Web – a lonely teen stares intently at her computer screen. “Casey here. Today I’m going to take the World’s Fair Challenge.” A worrisome ritual, at once […]
New 4K Restoration One of the major achievements of twenty-first-century cinema thus far, Béla Tarr’s mesmeric parable of societal collapse is an enigma of transcendent visual, philosophical, and mystical resonance. Adapted from a novel by the celebrated writer and frequent Tarr collaborator László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown era in an unnamed village, […]
New 4K Restoration Mauritanian French director Med Hondo’s West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty proved a watershed event for African cinema—the continent’s first musical as well as a sui generis amalgam of historical epic, Broadway revue, Brechtian theater, and joyous agitprop. Using an enormous mock slave ship as the film’s only soundstage, Hondo mounts […]
In collaboration with the FNC Lisa, a pharmacist, collides with soccer player Giorgi in the middle of the street. Bang, it’s love! The two young people make plans to meet up again the next day. Alas, their assignation is subject to an uncanny curse that will turn things sideways. Rendered unrecognizable through altered appearances, they […]
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Screenwriting Award at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival, WHAT HAPPENED WAS… is Tom Noonan’s directorial debut; a darkly humorous take on dating dread. Featuring powerhouse performances by Noonan and Karen Sillas as two lonely hearts spending one claustrophobic Friday night together in an imposing apartment, the film […]