New 4K restoration Written, directed, scored, and edited by John Carpenter two years prior to Halloween, Assault on Precinct 13 combines the template of Night of the Living Dead with the spirit of Rio Bravo to forge a movie like no other. The story follows a group of police officers (including the mighty Austin Stoker) […]
NEW 4K RESTORATION Cléopâtre, la reine d’Égypte, décide, pour défier l’Empereur romain Jules César, de construire en trois mois un palais somptueux en plein désert. Si elle y parvient, celui-ci devra concéder publiquement que le peuple égyptien est le plus grand de tous les peuples. Pour ce faire, Cléopâtre fait appel à Numérobis, un architecte […]
Contemporary Ukrainian cinema: discover same director’s Reflection and Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi’s The Tribe! In collaboration with FNC Over the next few weeks, to celebrate Ukrainian film culture, Cinéma Moderne is committed to present a selection of Ukrainian films from recent years, including several gems from festivals that have still not found their way to the big screens […]
Free screening In honour of Michel Côté (1950-2023) In the middle of a bitter Montreal winter, Bert (Guy L’Écuyer) and François (Michel Côté) live in a broken-down, snowbound Chevy parked permanently behind the Moonshine Bowling Alley. Bert is a former bowling champion reduced by arthritis to serving as a sandwich-board man for the Moonshine; François, […]
Screening of November 30th followed by a discussion with the teams of Été 2000, Mothers & Monsters and Baigal Nurr – Lake Baigal Come and join us to discover the FNC 52th edition winners. You’ll drift from a phantom island in Spain to a reimagined lake in Siberia, from a surrealist satire on maternity to […]
Middle-aged sexist Cédric gets suspended from work after drunkenly kissing a female reporter during a prank on live TV. Stuck at home with his long-suffering girlfriend and their incessantly crying baby, Cédric teams up with his sensitive brother to co-author a confessional book apologizing for their past misogyny. – Sundance *Sundance Film Festival 2022
*As part of our CONTES POUR TOUS cycle in tribute to producer Rock Demers* “Bachelor Jonathan’s only passion is Bach music. The last thing he thought he needed was a long-lost niece, at least that was what he thought before the arrival of 11- year-old Fanny and her skunk Broccoli. Newly orphaned Fanny has a […]
February 16th screening followed by a Q&A with co-director Guylaine Maroist In fall 2017, the MeToo hashtag shook the planet, sparking an unprecedented wave of sexual assault accusations in the Western world. Now a storm of virulent misogyny rages on, flooding our screens with harassment, defamation, lynching, sextortion, the sharing of intimate photographs, rape and deaths […]
*Warning – for mature audiences only This masterpiece by Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude, winner of the Golden Bear at the 2021 Berlinale, will leave you reeling. Throwing up a middle finger to hypocrisy, double standards and rah-rah patriotism, Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn is a searing, hilarious satire about the misadventures of Emi, a […]
As seen from the inside out through the eyes of a Mohawk teenager from Kahnawake, Tracey Deer’s new feature film offers a powerful and necessary perspective on the Oka crisis. Despite being only thirteen, Beans has a lot on her shoulders and has to juggle family obligations and inclusion in her new group of friends, […]