Canada

  • Sook-Yin Lee – Year of the Carnivore (2009)

    Drama2001-2010CanadaComedySook-Yin Lee

    Sammy Smalls is a 21-year-old tomboy who works as a store detective, catching shoplifters for her boss who beats them up so they never re-offend. She is head over heels for scruffy musician Eugene Zaslavsky. He’s perfect for her, but doesn’t want to be in a relationship.

    After a disastrous one-night stand, Eugene suggests they play the field to get more experience. Following his advice, Sammy hatches a plan catapulting her on a quest that takes her through her neighbours’ bedroom, the public swimming pool, and finally to blackmailing shoplifters into giving her sex lessons in the woods behind the supermarket.Read More »

  • Carl Brown – The Red Thread (1994)

    1991-2000CanadaCarl BrownExperimental

    “I have been working in film and photography for over twenty-five years. In that time I have tried through my journey to perfect my alchemy / my art / my life.

    It is in the spirit of an experience and not of experiment that my work has been viewed these past 25 years, seized in moments of visual detachment during periods of emotional contact. These images are oxidized residues, fixed by light and chemical elements, of living organisms. No plastic expression can ever be more than a residue of the experience. Yet, that residue is recognition of an image that has somehow survived the experience, recalling the event, like the undisturbed ashes of an object consumed by flames.Read More »

  • Gilles Carle – Le diable d’Amérique aka The Devil in America (1990)

    1981-1990CanadaDocumentaryGilles CarlePhilosophy

    In America, the Devil, omnipresent, goes across ages and centuries nourishing fears and superstitions. The blistering devil of the catholic religion as now been replaced by is double, as bitter as the high-technology, globalization and mass consummation.

    In this documentary film, Gilles Carle takes a in dept look at the stories and legends about the devil in the past and actual populations of the North America from a variety of angles and try to understand the importance of the devil in our collective imagination.Read More »

  • Harvey Hart & Jules Schwerin – Fortune and Men’s Eyes (1971)

    1971-1980CanadaDramaHarvey HartJules SchwerinQueer Cinema(s)

    Young, naive Smitty is sent to prison for six months and bunks with other convicts, specifically quiet cocky bully Rocky. Eventually Rocky offers protection to Smitty for a price and Smitty becomes a most reluctant sexual slave.Read More »

  • Edgar G. Ulmer – From Nine to Nine (1935)

    1931-1940CanadaClassicsEdgar G. UlmerRomance

    Another rare Ulmer. From Canda. Source is vhs.Read More »

  • James P. Lewis – Heartland Reggae (1980)

    1971-1980CanadaDocumentaryJames P. LewisPerformance

    Tom Lyons, Eye Weekly said:
    Jacob Miller reappears on the darkened stage not as a good-natured clown but as a possessed messenger. Peter Tosh spits out “400 Years” as if he is reading a death sentence to a condemned people. And Marley himself seems less a pop singer than a genuine messiah when he returns to the island to deliver classics like “War” and bring Manley and Seaga together onstage in an attempt to halt the bloodshed. Even seemingly innocuous songs like “Jammin’ ” and “Trenchtown Rock” take on an added dimension when they are viewed as wished-for escapes from the violence.Read More »

  • Patricia Rozema – I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987)

    Arthouse1981-1990CanadaComedyPatricia Rozema

    Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle’s art gallery. Polly aspires to be a professional photographer, and idolizes Gabrielle for her artistic ability. When Gabrielle rekindles an old romantic relationship with the younger painter Mary, Polly becomes jealous, and discovers Gabrielle is not who she claims to be.Read More »

  • Anne Émond – Nuit #1 (2011) (HD)

    2011-2020Anne ÉmondArthouseCanadaDrama

    Clara and Nikolaï meet at a rave. They return to Nikolaï’s apartment and make love. Afterwards, instead of parting, the two lovers divulge their deepest secrets to one another.

    Nicolaï is a beautiful loser. At thirty-one years old, he leads a simple and frugal life. He applies himself to reading the great classics of literature but never finishes a book he has begun. Unable to submit to any schedule, he finds himself unfit for work. He envisions big projects and has large ideas but, inevitably and despite himself, loses sight of them beforethey are realized.Read More »

  • Various – Heavy Metal (1981)

    1981-1990AnimationCanadaFantasyVarious

    Quote:
    Inspired by stories from the fantasy graphics magazine Heavy Metal, this five-part animated feature combines the talents of hundreds of artists and animators from 17 different countries. A glowing green orb called Loc-Nar that contains the sum total of all evil in the universe travels through space and time, spreading violence and discord in its wake. The stories that follow demonstrate Loc-Nar’s malevolent presence throughout the universe. In New York in the year 2023, cabbie Harry Canyon picks up a fare who turns out to have Loc-Nar in her possession, and it turns out to be one trip he wishes that he had never made. In contemporary suburban America, a nerdy high school kid finds the orb in his backyard and is transported to a comic-book universe where he’s a mighty warrior and famous spoiler of women.Read More »

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