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.
Theatrical starts November 25, 2022
93 MINUTES - USA - DOCUMENTARY
A FILM BY JUSTIN KREUTZMANN
FEATURING: TAYLOR HAWKINS, STEWARD COPELAND, CHAD SMITH, RINGO STARR, KEITH MOON
"Let There Be Drums!" examines the personal struggles that so many musicians and their families have faced, the nature of how music passes from generation to generation, and the essential role that drumming plays in human life.
The Sadies perform songs from their new record COLDER STREAMS in an impromptu concert which could possibly be their last.
Theatrical Starts Fall/ Winter 2022
DOCUMENTARY/ UK / ENGLISH / 88 MINUTES / 2021A FILM BY SOPHIE ROBINSON AND DUSTAN BRUCE
Part music documentary, part unflinching character study, part a punk version of ‘A Christmas Carol’ - I Get Knocked Down is the funny, surreal and deeply human story of the most audacious anarchist music experiment of all time and a call to arms to those who think activism is best undertaken by someone else.
Theatrical starts September 30, 2021
88 MINUTES/ USA/ 2012
A FILM BY TOM SURGAL
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS RON MANN, PETER AFTERMAN
Fire Music tells the history of the Free Jazz Revolution. Capturing the sights and sounds of one of the most innovative movements in music history. The intensity of the music and the outlandish personalities of the artists who played it make for a compelling story.
58 MINUTES - CANADA - COLOUR - 1989
A FILM BY LARRY WEINSTEIN
Writers, artists, and musicians celebrate the whale.
CANADA – 1981 – 90 MIN – COLOUR - DOCUMENTARY - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY RON MANN
IMAGINE THE SOUND brings together interviews and performance, the prime innovators of the once controversial free jazz movement of the 60s.
CANADA – 2005 – 106 MIN – COLOUR - DOCUMENTARY - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY RON MANN
FEATURING: BLUE RODEO
Blue Rodeo releases their first-ever DVD to celebrate their 20th anniversary as a band!
Ron's DVD celebrating 20 years of Blue Rodeo is now available. Featuring a reunion concert with the original 5 members i.e. Jim Cuddy, Greg Keelor, Bazil Donovan, Bob Wiseman and Cleave Anderson!
Directed by renowned Canadian filmmaker, Ron Mann, it features a reunion concert with the original 5 members i.e. Jim Cuddy, Greg Keelor, Bazil Donovan, Bob Wiseman and Cleave Anderson
CANADA – 1992 – 80 MIN – COLOUR - B&W - DOCUMENTARY - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY RON MANN
Combining rare and often hilarious archival footage with interviews, Twist chronicles the evolution of rock and roll dance.
From the time when moving hips marked you as a social degenerate, to a time when shaking your "thing" became the dance-form that rocked the world.
Featuring: Cholly Atkins, Hank Ballard, American Bandstand Dancers, Chubby Checker, Joey Dee, Gladys Horton, Dee Dee Sharp, Mama Lu Parks, The Parkettes
THE DEVIL'S HORN
CANADA – 2016 – 86 MIN – COLOUR - 5.1 - DOCUMENTARY - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY LARRY WEINSTEIN
From Adolphe Sax’s workshop of the 1840's to the legendary era of jazz and bebop, it was forbidden by Nazis and Communists and banned by the Pope – gradually conquering all music genres. Throughout its 175-year history the saxophone has been both the most seductive and most feared instrument. Award-winning Canadian filmmaker Larry Weinstein illuminates and mythologizes the story of the saxophone, featuring its most legendary players as well as astonishing discoveries. The Devil's Horn explores the sax's longstanding curse that stemmed from the difficult life of its mad inventor, and is still said to affect saxophonists who fall prey to the instrument’s dark powers.
