Category Archives: Canadian Cinema

My Favorite Stephen and Timothy Quay Films

27 Wednesday Jun 2018

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* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   Street of Crocodiles (1986)
(Animated Short)

2.   The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer (1984)
(Animated Short)

3.   Are We Still Married? (1992)
(Animated Short)

4.   Stille Nacht IV: Can’t Go Wrong Without You (1993)
(Animated Short)

5.   De Artificiali Perspectiva (1991)
(Animated Short)

6.   Tales from Vienna Woods: Stille Nacht III. (1993)
(Animated Short)

7.   Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies (1988)
(Animated Short)

8.   Stille Nacht: Dramolet (1988)
(Animated Short)

9.   Nocturna Artificialia (1979)

10. The Comb (1991)
(Animated Short)

11. Maska (2010)
(Animated Short)

12. Through the Weeping Glass (2011)
(Documentary Short)

13. In Absentia (2000)
(Animated Short)

14. The Phantom Museum (2003)
(Animated Short)

15. Unmistaken Hands (2013)
(Animated Short)

16. The Unnameable Little Broom (1985)
(Animated Short)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Feature Films)

1.   Institute Benjamenta (1995)

2.   The Piano Turner of Earthquakes (2005)
(Animated Film)

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My Favorite Gaspar Noe Films

15 Friday Jun 2018

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1.   Enter the Void (2009)

2.   I Stand Alone (1998)

3.   Irreversible (2002)

My Favorite Peter Medak Films

06 Wednesday Jun 2018

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1.   The Ruling Class (1972)

2.   The Changeling (1980)
(no relation to the 2008 film)

3.   Let Him Have It (1991)

4.   The Krays (1990)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Cable/Television)

1.   Breaking Bad (2009)
(Episode from Season 2: “Peekaboo”)
(Cable Series)

2.   The Wire (2002)
(Episode from Season 1: “The Buys”)
(Cable Series)

3.   Carnivale (2003)
(Episode from Season 1: “Black Blizzard”)
(Cable Series)

4.   House (2004)
(Original Title: “House M.D.”)
(Episode from Season 1: “The Socratic Method”)
(TV Series)

5.   Hannibal (2014)
(Episode from Season 2: “Hassun”)
(TV Series)

6.   Hannibal (2013)
(Episode from Season 1: “Oeuf”)
(TV Series)

7.   Masters of Horror (2007)
(Episode from Season 2: “The Washingtonians”)
(Cable Series)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1972)

2.   Romeo is Bleeding (1993)

My Favorite Louis Malle Films

03 Sunday Jun 2018

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1.   Murmur of the Heart (1971)

2.   My Dinner with Andre (1981)

3.   Phantom India (1969)
(French TV Documentary Miniseries)

4.   Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)

5.   Lacombe, Lucien (1974)

6.   Atlantic City (1980)

7.   Au Revoir les Enfants (1987)

8.   God’s Country (1985)
(TV Documentary)

9.   Calcutta (1969)
(Documentary)

10. …And the Pursuit of Happiness (1986)
(TV Documentary)

11. Place de la Republique (1974)
(Documentary)

12. Humain, trop humain (1974)
(Documentary)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   Vive le tour (1962)
(Documentary Short)

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1.   The Fire Within (1963)

2.   Zazie in the Metro (1960)

3.   The Lovers (1958)

4.   Elevator to the Gallows (1958)

5.   Damage (1992)

6.   Black Moon (1975)

My Favorite Dusan Makavejev Films

03 Sunday Jun 2018

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1.   Sweet Movie (1974)

2.   W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)
(Half Documentary)

3.   Innocence Unprotected (1968)
(Documentary)

4.   Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (1967)

5.   Man is Not a Bird (1965)

6.   A Hole in the Soul (1993)
(TV Documentary)

7.   Montenegro (1981)

8.   Manifesto (1988)
(a.k.a. A Night of Love)
(I saw it on an old VHS tape)

9.   Gorilla Bathes at Noon (1993)

10. Coca-Cola Kid (1985)

My Favorite Guy Maddin Films

03 Sunday Jun 2018

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1.   My Winnipeg (2007)
(Documentary)

2.   The Forbidden Room (2015)

3.   Cowards Bend the Knee (2003)

4.   Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)

5.   Careful (1992)

6.   The Saddest Music in the World (2003)

7.   Archangel (1990)

8.   Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)

9.   Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Keyhole (2011)

My Favorite Patrice Leconte Films

21 Monday May 2018

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1.   The Hairdresser’s Husband (1990)

2.   The Man on the Train (2002)

3.   Monsieur Hire (1989)

4.   The Widow of Saint-Pierre (2000)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   Girl on the Bridge (1999)

2.   Ridicule (1996)

3.   Intimate Strangers (2004)

My Favorite John Landis Films

19 Saturday May 2018

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1.   An American Werewolf in London (1981)

2.   The Blues Brothers (1980)

3.   Innocent Blood (1992)

4.   Into the Night (1985)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Short Cinema)

1.   Michael Jackson: Thriller (1983)
(Music Video)

2.   B.B. King “Into the Night” (1985)
(Documentary Short)

3.   Michael Jackson: Black or White (1991)
(Music Video)

* * * * (Out of * * * *) (Cable/Television)

1.   Deer Woman (2005)
(Masters of Horror Episode)

2.   Family (2006)
(Masters of Horror Episode)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978)

2.   Trading Places (1983)

3.   The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

4.   Coming to America (1988)

My Favorite Philip Kaufman Films

06 Sunday May 2018

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1.   The Right Stuff (1983)

2.   Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)

3.   The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)

4.   The Wanderers (1979)

5.   Henry & June (1990)

6.   Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012)
(Cable Film)

* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)

1.   The White Dawn (1974)

2.   Quills (2000)

3.   The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid (1972)

4.   Goldstein (1964)