Movies
100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, The
There are many great pleasures to growing old, and though society would prefer to warehouse the aged in a futile bid to affirm the perky flesh of youth, director Felix Herngren sets a 100-year-old man loose on an unsuspecting public, and lets us relish the resulting devastation. The explosions are
War Photographer
The Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom invites you to join us Nov. 23 at the Mayfair Theatre for a special event to mark the International Day of Impunity. Its a date set aside around the world on behalf of all those who have been targeted for exercising their right
OIFF 2014 – Short Program
The Ottawa International Film Festival (OIFF) celebrates its Fifth Anniversary with a showcase of Canadian and international films at the historic Mayfair Theatre.Over the course of four days, OIFF will showcase 25 films, including narrative features, shorts and documentaries. All tickets $10 SUNDAY’S SHORT FILMS: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved
Search For Weng Weng, The
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS DECEMBER 19 During the burgeoning video boom of the early eighties, thousands of cinematic oddities from around the globe packed the shelves. One such film that stuck in the psyche of many viewers, probably for all the wrong reasons, was the 1981 Filipino James Bond rip-off, For Y’ur
Tusk
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS NOVEMBER 9 I am walrus, hear me blubber might be the mantra of Kevin Smiths Tusk, an utterly bizarre, weirdly compelling story of manimal love that stakes out its own brazen path somewhere between The Fly and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And yet theres much good humor, too,
Time Bandits
SPECIAL SCREENING HOSTED BY KELLY TINDALL, CELEBRATING THE PUBLICATION OF HIS COMIC BOOK “STRANGEBEARD” Gilliam’s cult classic takes a young boy on the adventure of several lifetimes as he accidentally joins a band of time-travelling, treasure-hunting dwarves and encounters, among others, John Cleese, Sean Connery, Ian Holm, Michael Palin and
OIFF 2014 presents Girlhouse
A Halloween-style slasher for the digital age, it follows a beautiful young college student who, needing money for tuition, moves into a house that streams content to an Xrated website. After a deranged fan hacks in to determine the houses location, she finds herself in a terrifying fight for her
White Bird In A Blizzard
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS OCTOBER 24 By now, devoted cinephiles likely know what to expect going into a Gregg Araki movie: sex-crazed teens, an overabundance of nudity (sometimes pretty, sometimes not), a dream-like story wrapped snugly in a nightmare and a killer soundtrack. However, it would be lazy for someone
20,000 Days On Earth
There was a time when everyone was trying to be Morrissey. At least it seemed that way back when Johnny Depp was young and Ronald Reagan was a running joke. Every art rocker had coal-black hair and a foreboding brow. They all looked tall and skinny and just greasy enough
Hundred-Foot Journey, The
Lasse Hallstrom, who directed the charming 2000 film Chocolat, has returned to the world of culinary creativity adding a healthy soupcon of cultural conflict and blending it all into a very satisfying cinematic stew. In The Hundred-Foot Journey, we are introduced to the warm and loving Kadam family who,