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 […]
Screening as part of The Divorced Women’s Film Festival curated by writer Haley Mlotek for the release of her new memoir “No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce”. The screening will be introduced by Haley Mlotek and a special guest. “‘You’re wrong about things being different because they’re not the same,’ Cary Grant tells […]
An actress and new mother (played by Zita Hanrot) is haunted by voices as she embarks on inhabiting the role of surrealist writer Suzanne Roussi-Césaire. In the sleepy palm groves of the tropics, a small group of filmmakers and actors confront the history of writer Suzanne Césaire in her youth and then stage scenes from […]
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 […]
In collaboration with Film Noir au Canal New 4K Restoration Noir doesn’t get any more hard-boiled than this scorching tale of vice and retribution, a film that finds director Fritz Lang working at the peak of his Hollywood style—stripped to the bone, simmering with outrage, and fatalistic to the core. A tightly wound Glenn Ford […]
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, […]
In Lac-Saint-Jean, summer means blueberry season. Once the fields paint themselves blue, fruit gatherers of all kinds rush to pick these precious boreal berries before the first frost. The Blueberry Blues celebrates a territory and the people who return to this hardy little fruit each summer, connecting generations and cultures. Together, like blueberries emerging from […]
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 […]