New 4K Restoration Adapted from actress and musician Cristiane Felscherinow’s harrowing account of her teenage years, Cristiane F. depicts the impact of West Berlin’s mid-to-late-70s heroin epidemic on one of its youngest and luckiest survivors. On the cusp of fourteen, David Bowie-worshipping Cristiane (Natja Brunckhorst) begins slipping out from under the watch of her divorced […]
On Christmas Eve, a huge, rambunctious extended Italian-American family gather upon their small Long Island hometown for what could be the last holiday in their ancestral home. As the night wears on, while hijinks and generational squabbles ensue, two of the teenage cousins take advantage of the chaos to sneak out into the wintry suburb […]
January 28 screening with filmmaker Nadine Gomez in attendance A patchwork of millions of lives, urban spaces are not only streets and concrete. They are where our dreams and deepest worries unfold. CHRONICLE OF A CITY drifts and strolls through time and chance encounters, moving between fantasy and reality, echoing the intimate and ghostly voices […]
The whiplash, double-pronged “Chungking Express” is one of the defining works of nineties cinema and the film that made Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar Wai an instant icon. Two heartsick Hong Kong cops (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Tony Leung), both jilted by ex-lovers, cross paths at the Midnight Express take-out restaurant stand, where the ethereal pixie […]
FERMETURE DES CINÉMAS Suite à l’annonce d’aujourd’hui, les bars, salles de spectacles et cinémas doivent fermer leurs portes à compter d’aujourd’hui 17h. Le café-bar et la salle de cinéma du Cinéma Moderne seront donc fermés du 20 décembre au 10 janvier et au-delà si la situation demeure ainsi. La sécurité de notre équipe et de […]
Staff Picks – Lucas Desrosiers (assistant manager) “Following the death of his old friend Alfredo, Salvatore reminisces about his youth in his native Sicily in the 1940s. Through his memories, we witness the blossoming of an unlikely friendship between a gruff old projectionist and a young boy, united by their shared passion for cinema. A […]
Quebec premiere Itto, a young Moroccan from humble origins, has adapted to the opulence of her husband’s family with whom she lives. Just as she was looking forward to a day of tranquility without her in-laws, supernatural events suggesting the approach of a mysterious presence throw the country into a state of emergency. Alone, she […]
Snapshots of daily life in two psychiatric units of the same hospital in Val-de-Marne, near Paris, focus on individual meetings between patients and caregivers. Nicolas Philibert films the caregivers with the same love expressed by Agnès Varda towards shopkeepers (Daguerréotypes) and highlights, in this second part of a documentary trilogy on mental health, the almost […]