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CBC - Absolutely Canadian
Theatrical Starts November 14, 2023
1990 - CANADA - 77 MINUTES - ENGLISH
A FILM BY GUY MADDIN
Literally a film like no other, this weird, wild and extraordinary photoplay is both melodrama and deadpan parody. With striking black and white cinematography and stylized set design, Guy Maddin tells a tale of obsessive love in the arctic Russian town of Archangel, where Bolsheviks, White Russians and German Huns converge during World War I.
Theatrical starts Fall 2025
DIGITAL RESTORATION BY SPHINX PRODUCTIONS PRODUCED WITH THE GENEROUS FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF TELEFILM CANADA
CANADA - 1994 - 92 MINUTES
A FILM BY BY LARRY WEINSTEIN
WITH WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, BETTY CARTER, NICK CAVE, ELVIS COSTELLO, LOU REED
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill is a visually arresting and musically rich tribute to the legendary German-American composer Kurt Weill. Directed by Larry Weinstein and made in collaboration with visionary music producer Hal Willner, the film was originally released in 1994, and is now digitally rerstored by Sphinx Productions for re-release in September 2025.
The Sadies perform songs from their new record COLDER STREAMS in an impromptu concert which could possibly be their last.
Theatrical starts September 30, 2022
1988 - 64 MINUTES - B&W - 4K - STEREO - MANITOBA, CANADA - IN ENGLISH + ICELANDIC
A FILM BY GUY MADDIN
FEATURING: KYLE MCCULLOCH, MICHAEL GOTTLI, ANGELA HECK, MARGARET ANNE MACLEOD, HEATHER NEALE, DAVID NEALE, CAROLINE BONNER
Set during a smallpox epidemic in the village of Gimli, Manitoba near the turn of the century, Tales From The Gimli Hospitalis a dreamlike, elliptical film which explores the jealousy and madness instilled in two men who share a hospital room "in a Gimli we no longer know." The two men, Einar (Kyle McCulloch) and Gunnar (Michael Gottli) are friends at first, until they reveal their darkest secrets to each other. Tales of creeping pestilence, unconsummated passions, reckless envy and necrophilia are told, climaxing in a deadly battle between the two patients, now rivals. Does a better world await these two lost souls on Earth...or in Heaven?
2019 - CANADA - 79 MINUTES - COLOUR
A FILM BY ALBERT NERENBERG AND NIK SHEEHAN
From antiquity’s first fart joke to the ubiquitous whoopee cushion, the act of flatus both amuses and dismays... and now may contribute to civilization’s demise. Who Farted? is a frightening, illuminating, and funny journey through the absurd reality of 21st Century human survival.
THEATRICAL STARTS April 5, 2019
4K - 5.1 - COLOUR - 80 MIN - Canada
PRODUCED AND DIRECTED BY RON MANN
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: CARTER LOGAN, MICHAEL HIRSHWRITER: LEN BLUM
Once the centre of the New York bohemia, Greenwich Village is now home to lux restaurants, and buzzer door clothing stores catering to the nouveau riche. But one shop in the heart of the Village remains resilient to the encroaching gentrification: Carmine Street Guitars.
THEATRICAL BEGINS MARCH 17, 2017
CANADA – 2016 - BLACK AND WHITE - 84 MINUTES
A FILM BY BRUCE MCDONALD
WRITTEN BY DANIEL MACIVOR
FEATURING: ALLAN HAWCO, MOLLY DUNSWORTH, JULIA SARAH STONE AND DYLAN AUTHORS
Nova Scotia. 1976. The weekend of the American Bicentennial. When 15-year-old Kit decides that living with his father is too repressive, he hits the road to move in with his mother. Accompanied by his girlfriend Alice, Kit will explore his very core - his sexuality, his sense of place and self - in an attempt to find a place to call home.
THEATRICAL BEGINS DECEMBER 17, 2016
4K REMASTER!
CANADA – 2015 – 95 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY PAUL SHAPIRO
FEATURING: MEGAN FOLLOWS, RICK MORANIS, GAIL YOUNGS
When a young girl wants to join her high school's hockey team as goalie, she meets with resistence, but also gets support, especially from the star forward of the team.
CANADA – 1973 – 84 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY IVAN REITMAN
Second City TV regulars Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin star in this Canadian horror spoof as a couple on a romantic holiday who settle into a quaint little bed-and-breakfast run by a trio of flesh-eating ladies who fancy them for tomorrow's menu.
