http://www.angelfire.com/movies/CrimeWave/
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:44 (twenty years ago) link
― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:47 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:48 (twenty years ago) link
um, NO :) Sam Raimi gets enough props
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:50 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:53 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 30 April 2004 17:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 30 April 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 April 2004 18:02 (twenty years ago) link
Donna, as much as I like you, you are wrong.
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 April 2004 18:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 30 April 2004 18:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 30 April 2004 18:11 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.montrealmirror.com/meat/mpp.html
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 30 April 2004 18:21 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 30 April 2004 18:49 (twenty years ago) link
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― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 30 April 2004 18:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 30 April 2004 19:39 (twenty years ago) link
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― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 30 April 2004 19:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Friday, 30 April 2004 19:42 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 April 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago) link
im sure part three (the prequel) will also suck.
― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 30 April 2004 19:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Friday, 30 April 2004 19:49 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 April 2004 19:54 (twenty years ago) link
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― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Friday, 30 April 2004 20:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 30 April 2004 20:49 (twenty years ago) link
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― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 1 May 2004 04:50 (twenty years ago) link
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― derrick (derrick), Saturday, 1 May 2004 05:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Dave M. (rotten03), Saturday, 1 May 2004 06:28 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 1 May 2004 18:52 (twenty years ago) link
― Huck, Saturday, 1 May 2004 20:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Prude (Prude), Saturday, 1 May 2004 20:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Saturday, 1 May 2004 23:58 (twenty years ago) link
calendar, the adjuster, speaking parts, family viewing, the sweet hereafter
― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 2 May 2004 00:01 (twenty years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 2 May 2004 01:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Huck, Sunday, 2 May 2004 01:09 (twenty years ago) link
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 2 May 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Sunday, 2 May 2004 17:51 (twenty years ago) link
Anyway.. Atom Egoyan, I liked Speaking Parts and Family Viewing the best of what I've seen; I thought the Sweet Hereafter and Exotica were kinda overrated, kind of predictable.
I saw a film Gaz Bar B1ues by Louis Belanger a while ago and quite liked it.
― daria g (daria g), Monday, 3 May 2004 02:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Huck, Monday, 3 May 2004 03:39 (twenty years ago) link
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Huck, Monday, 3 May 2004 04:37 (twenty years ago) link
Though then again he does talk to Geddy Lee.
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:38 (twenty years ago) link
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― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 3 May 2004 04:46 (twenty years ago) link
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― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 3 May 2004 06:26 (twenty years ago) link
― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 3 May 2004 13:35 (twenty years ago) link
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― The Huckle-Buck (Horace Mann), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:33 (twenty years ago) link
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― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 3 May 2004 14:39 (twenty years ago) link
Didn't know this thread existed, so I posted in the Kids in the Hall thread... I saw Crime Wave at MoMA last night; sort of indescribable except it's a color retro pastiche of '50s crime films/crazed loner tales/ a sort of Blue Velvet-sized ambition in 16mm. The writer-director went on to do filmed segments for TKITH, like "Mr Heavyfoot." It was shown in a new digital edition, so I suspect someone will retail it in the next year.
http://www.notcoming.com/features/johnpaizsinterview/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE-OFyPCBqM
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 November 2015 15:33 (eight years ago) link
what can you guys tell me about “Québec Direct Cinema” that isn't here?
http://artforum.com/film/id=59913
http://anthologyfilmarchives.org/film_screenings/series/45708
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Monday, 9 May 2016 14:03 (eight years ago) link
Embarrassing, but until tonight I'd never seen the film usually voted as Canada's greatest in polls: Claude Jutra's Mon Oncle Antoine from '71. There was a free screening at the Lightbox. Worth the wait--Goin' Down the Road remains my own favourite, but I can see why Jutra's is so revered. There were a couple of scenes right towards the end that I found tonally jarring, everything before that very Truffaut-like and poetic. Thought also of The Deer Hunter (the first hour, before they cut to Vietnam), My Life as a Dog, and As I Lay Dying. Great music throughout.
http://phildellio.tripod.com/jutra.jpg
― clemenza, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 04:16 (six years ago) link
Speaking of which:
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/the-filmmakers/this-summer-spend-your-saturday-nights-with-canadian-movies-on-the-filmmakers-1.4207703
"...Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner), widely regarded as the best Canadian film of all time." Yeah, I'd forgotten about that--I guess that's replaced Mon Oncle Antoine at the top. Prefer Jutra's film.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 14:36 (six years ago) link
I saw it recently as well and thought it was almost perfect. Tonally jarring in a good way, I would say. The whole sequence of the protagonist and Antoine out on their trek is brutal.
― jmm, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 14:51 (six years ago) link
Being Canadian's not enough here--you've got to be Canadian and over 50. The Royal in Toronto is showing Face Off next month--not that one, no--with Art Hindle in attendance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig9aeTrfZSQ
It's the Canadian Love Story, The Love Machine, and Panic in Needle Park all rolled into one. That's why I dig it.
― clemenza, Sunday, 30 July 2017 00:21 (six years ago) link
ooh I might have to catch that
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 30 July 2017 06:47 (six years ago) link
The hockey footage is amazing--besides all the Leafs, I know Derek Sanderson turns up, and I think there are shots of Orr, too. George Armstrong has a scene with Hindle/Billy (based on Jim McKenny, I believe).
― clemenza, Sunday, 30 July 2017 12:27 (six years ago) link
I should probably post this on the hockey thread...The hockey footage in Face Off was even better than I remembered. As Art Hindle said afterwards, you could never pull it off today: Orr, Howe, Béliveau, Mikita, Plante, Espositio, Keon, Foster Hewitt. I haven't been a fan for 40 years, so I was surprised by lesser Leafs I still recognized: Bobby Baun, Ron Ellis, Ricky Ley, Jim Dorey. You also get Paul Henderson the year before he scores the most famous goal ever in Canada, and a very young Darryl Sittler. Hilarious: maybe 30 people in the theatre, and when Harold Ballard (Toronto's George Steinbrenner) showed up for about 10 seconds, two or three people booed.) Recognized George Gross, the sportswriter, but missed Scott Young, Neil's father, who had a hand in the script. Joe Sgro, the Leafs trainer at the time, gets a line; I believe my dad knew his sister from the bank and we got tickets through him one time.
Pretty good film for the first half. Even the music's not bad, very 1970-ish folky sunshine pop in the vein of the Poppy Family. At some point, bad vibes take over and everything gets very grim. Hindle spoke for an hour afterwards, lots of funny stories. I hung around and got him to sign my Invasion of the Body Snatchers DVD, '78 version; "You're next!" he wrote.
― clemenza, Sunday, 6 August 2017 04:22 (six years ago) link
Heads up, Canadians, especially if you're older--this could be excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA2tLyDEl2A
I hope they pull back a bit and look at '67 as some kind of epiphany for our country in general.
― clemenza, Thursday, 10 August 2017 22:54 (six years ago) link
Didn't like the Expo documentary much--hardly any '67 about it. And virtually nothing on Buckminster Fuller's geodesic dome.
One follow-up to Face Off. I met up with Dianne yesterday, my retired teaching assistant from when I started. She always has amazing stories--saw the Beatles at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1964, processed government paperwork for "Cassius Clay" around that time, etc. I mentioned having seen Face Off recently and asked her if she'd ever seen it. Turns out she a) went to school with Trudy Young (the lead actress in the clip above), and b) Young taught Dianne how to whistle. Telling her that Art Hindle was in attendance was a bit anti-climactic after that.
― clemenza, Friday, 25 August 2017 00:11 (six years ago) link
Finally saw Don McKellar's Last Night after all these years and it lived up to expectations. It's playing on Mubi US this month, I believe Canadians can stream it free at another sight linked here: https://www.cbc.ca/arts/the-filmmakers/before-the-world-ends-watch-don-mckellar-talk-about-his-apocalyptic-film-last-night-1.4239450
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 June 2019 01:35 (five years ago) link
always liked that one
― Simon H., Saturday, 8 June 2019 02:38 (five years ago) link
Here is another related video: https://www.cbc.ca/arts/the-filmmakers/it-was-the-end-of-the-world-as-he-knew-it-looking-back-at-don-mckellar-s-last-night-1.4232269
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 June 2019 12:58 (five years ago) link
Wonder what else of his I should watch. Found Roadkill on Kanopy and Sensitive Skin on Netflix.
― TS The Students vs. The Regents (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 8 June 2019 13:17 (five years ago) link
the latter is a series; I've caught a bit of it. not bad but nothing special, apparently it's an adaptation of a UK thing
― Simon H., Saturday, 8 June 2019 14:08 (five years ago) link
he starred in and co-created a TV series I liked called Twitch City
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitch_City
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 8 June 2019 15:23 (five years ago) link
Last Night was really good, yeah.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 8 June 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link
The Lightbox had a free Canada Day screening of Michel Brault's Entre la mer et l'eau douce today, which, truthfully, I was oblivious to until I saw it on the schedule a couple of weeks ago. Belongs aside Nobody Waved Goodbye and Winter Kept Us Warm as a pioneering Canadian feature (1967, his first full-length film)--Denys Arcand and Claude Jutra are among the screenwriters. You can see traces of its influence in Goin' Down the Road and Mon Oncle Antonine. I didn't love it--when I connect with a mood piece, I overrate it, and when I don't, I probably underrate it, and I never really connected with this--but above all else there's Geneviève Bujold, whose beauty kind of breaks your heart.
http://phildellio.tripod.com/genevieve.jpg
On YouTube, along with Geneviève, a short he made three years earlier with, yes, her. I plan to watch that posthaste.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDncYA5Vxg8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTWO8xa0jxs
― clemenza, Monday, 1 July 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
I liked Geneviève better than Entre la mer et l'eau douce--more Truffaut, more Geneviève.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 2 July 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
Looking for a film to add to a syllabus I'm putting together, with the stipulations that it be
*Canadian*Coming-of-age themed (though not necessarily made for children/teenagers)*From the 20th century*In English
This seemed like it should be easy, but every time I think of something I like/would want to teach, I realize that they are either in French (Mon Oncle Antoine, Léolo), too contemporary (My Winnipeg) or both (C.R.A.Z.Y.). Who has suggestions?
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 00:58 (four years ago) link
Can you do something Degrassi-related? I can't remember if I actually saw this made-for-TV movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%27s_Out_(1992_film)
― jmm, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 01:04 (four years ago) link
Not adverse to it; will have a look to see if I can find it. The biggest challenge for any film I pick is making sure its available to stream/rent somewhere. We're still working under the delusion that classes will be in session in the Fall, but I expect the course to be moved online.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 01:07 (four years ago) link
New Waterford Girl might work.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 01:58 (four years ago) link
Also, Nobody Waved Goodbye.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 01:59 (four years ago) link
I still need to see both of those! Both look promising for my purposes, though.
Thanks to both of you!
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 02:12 (four years ago) link
Tu dors Nicole could work?
― dip to dup (rob), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 03:41 (four years ago) link
Oh lol missed the language req
yeah it's tough cause so many of the best canadian films are quebecois
Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz?
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 03:47 (four years ago) link
Already have Duddy (the novel) on the syllabus. I've somehow never actually seen the film!
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 04:03 (four years ago) link
me neither actually! it somehow was never screened in any of my classes. but it's Ted Kotcheff in the 70s so I assume it's at least competent.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 04:05 (four years ago) link
Excellent--maybe Dreyfuss's best performance, or at least on par with Close Encounters.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 04:56 (four years ago) link
Funny to read that he abhorred his perf and panic-snabbed his Jaws role before critics got their eyes on it.
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Wednesday, 6 May 2020 04:58 (four years ago) link
Geez, I forgot Jaws--that'd actually be my pick. There's a bar mitzvah film in Duddy--probably from the book, I've never read it--that's just about about the funniest parody of pseudo-art ever.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 6 May 2020 05:03 (four years ago) link
Anyone have any idea how to watch Alan Zweig's Records in the U.S.?
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Friday, 25 March 2022 16:43 (two years ago) link
I can tell you how to spend three hours getting interviewed for the film and then end up on the cutting-room floor, but not that.
― clemenza, Friday, 25 March 2022 17:56 (two years ago) link
and Maelstrom, for sure.
― (We're Not) The Experimental Jet Set (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 5 November 2022 14:27 (one year ago) link
I've only seen that and Incendies, both fine but, though he's a big name now, I don't have a strong sense of what makes him special.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 5 November 2022 17:25 (one year ago) link
Denis Villeneuve, that is, whose name isn't mentioned elsewhere in the thread.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 5 November 2022 17:28 (one year ago) link
Saw 'Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person' last night at a film fest, a great addition to the 'What We Do in the Shadows' / 'Only Lovers Left Alive' type canon.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 14:33 (two months ago) link
my brain immediatley went to " wheels Ontario"
― stwahberrymilkgirlll, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 18:25 (two months ago) link
after seeing the thread title
― stwahberrymilkgirlll, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 18:26 (two months ago) link
First post is about John Paisz? Love Crimewave!
― banana-flavoured potatoes, “bonatoes”, (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 18:40 (two months ago) link