New 2K restoration Nobuhiro Suwa’s second feature and breakout film, 2/Duo telescopes in on the seemingly mannered, domestic life of a young couple – Kei, a cash-strapped aspiring actor (Drive My Car’s Hidetoshi Nishijima) and Yu, a junior employee at a high-end clothing store (Eri Yu) – and finds in the vicissitudes of their relationship […]
April 1st screening with filmmaker Arnaud Valade in attendance Using footage from both amateur and professional sources, 2012/Through the Heart draws us into the intensity of the 2012 Quebec student strike protests and riots. While we are confronted with the brutality of the police, the film also reminds us of the power of this historic […]
Special screening in collaboration with 24 images for the release of their new issue “Panique! Le cinéma catastrophe dans tous ses états” SIX MILLION TONS OF ICY TERROR! A winter wonderland becomes a nightmare of destruction when an avalanche smashes into a ski resort and a holiday vacation becomes a struggle for survival. Once producer […]
Special screening in collaboration with 24 images for the release of their new issue “Panique! Le cinéma catastrophe dans tous ses états” This unforgettable tale of the atomic age swept the 1990 Japanese Academy Awards, and is the harrowing Eastern equivalent to American works like TESTAMENT and THE DAY AFTER. Five years after the lethal […]
Special screening with filmmaker Maxime-Claude L’Écuyer in attendance The 305 Bellechasse documentary is a gateway to the richness of the creative life of artists who have established their studio in this ancient pasta factory. Located at the confluence of the neighborhoods of Petite-Patrie, Mile End and Little Italy, this building has become, over time, a […]
May 24 and May 26 screenings with filmmaker Robert Morin in attendance A series of static shots repeated throughout the seasons slices and builds an anonymous forest with a river winding through it. Using remarkably precise sound, this film immerses us in a place with fauna that flourishes and flora that expresses itself through interactions […]
Godard. Belmondo. Seberg. The iconic trio of this shattering and revolutionary Nouvelle Vague debut, co-written by François Truffaut. Cinéma Moderne is proud to present this new 4K restoration by Rialto Pictures, honoring the film’s 60th anniversary. Small-time crook Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) steals a car and murders a policeman. While on the run, he reconnects with […]
Among the most praised and sought-after titles in all contemporary film, this singular masterpiece of Taiwanese cinema, directed by Edward Yang is finally available for US audiences. Set in the early sixties in Taiwan, A Brighter Summer Day is based on the true story of a crime that rocked the nation. A film of both […]
Special screening in collaboration with the Club ukrainien de Montréal In his acclaimed debut feature The Distant Barking of Dogs, filmmaker Simon Lereng Wilmont took on a 10-year-old child’s perspective of the war in Donbass in 2017. Three years later, the war still raging in Ukraine—and now on a scale that is difficult to comprehend—he […]
*In collaboration with the FNC Pierre-Olivier, Émilie, Steve and Nicolas, all aged 14 to 16, live in a Quebec City suburb and have the concerns you’d expect, from falling in love to finding friendship. One wild night, the group experiences something that changes how they see the world. Rough-edged, semi-improvisational and made on a shoestring, […]