Five days in the life of fabled Greenwich Village guitar store Carmine Street Guitars. From 2x Genie Awards winning director Ronn Mann! TIFF: Best Canadian Feature Film nominee! “Ron Mann’s portrait of a New York custom guitar maker is a delectable celebration of analog culture, DIY craft, and the heart
This month, Saturday Night Sinema puts its finger on the racing pulse of the counter-culture with an ultra-rare treat. Master of Eurotic cinema Metzger suggests more than he shows in his hep-cat update of Bizets opera, but rest assured: this is one sassy, seductive flick.
Carmen – Screening on August 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, September 1 Advance tickets now available for Carmen! In a small Mediterranean village, Carmen has looked after her brother, the local priest, for her entire life. When the Church abandons Carmen, she is mistaken for the new priest. Carmen
Carlos: The Santana Journey – One Night Only on Friday September 29! Advance tickets now available for Carlos: The Santana Journey! Follows Santana’s journey from 14-year-old street musician to a 10-time Grammy winning global sensation. Features unseen archival footage and tracks. From Tribeca Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival
Assayas (Summer Hours, Clean) telling of the story of Venezuelan criminal/revolutionary/terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, aka The Jackal, is a landmark. Bravura narrative filmmaking on hugely ambitions scale. A spectacular achievement. (Variety)
The Carleton University History Department presents a FREE screening of two documentaries on humanitarian aid: Humanitarian Citadel (about the International Committee of the Red Cross work during Yemens Civil War) and The Fight Against Typhus (about the ICRCs work in Poland in the wake of WWI). For more
Careful – Screening on Friday March 20 at 9:00pm! Advance tickets now available from the International Film Festival of Ottawa! Guy Maddin will attend the screening to introduce the film and participate in a Q&A after the screening. The wary residents of a 19th century mountain village must tread
The best Christmas movie ever! The best everyman action movie ever! The best Bruce Willis and Alan Rickman ever! The definition 80s action, Die Hard was emulated (or ripped off) by countless wannabes that followed (Under Siege, I’m looking at you). Yippee-ki-yay, stocking-stuffers.
OTTAWA PREMIERE Penetrating the PR smokescreen that surrounds the multi-billion-dollar carbon offset industry, this defiant doc travels the world to see what impact carbon credits really have and who really pays the price. An intelligent and relentlessly critical look at an under-reported aspect of the earth’s environmental problems. (Rabble.ca)
In the wake of the mighty McConaissance, is it now time for a Rey-boot? Over the last three years, the actor Matthew McConaughey has expertly slipped from romcom purgatory to critical and public acclaim via a series of brilliantly chosen, often loopily intense, character-actor roles. No one else in Hollywood now needs