Alice Sweet Alice
Niagara Artists Centre 354 St. Paul St., St. Catharines" constantly keeps the audience on its toes with a wealth of incidental detail, excellent set pieces and technical versatility." - Time Out
" constantly keeps the audience on its toes with a wealth of incidental detail, excellent set pieces and technical versatility." - Time Out
Banned from making movies by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran.
Writer/director Nabwana Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey (AKA Nabwana IGG) is a major fan of Western action flicks and kung fu movies, and he crafted this film as something of an homage thereto, with a distinct Ugandan flavor.
Albert Pyun is the Werner Herzog of the b-movie. Not in content, but in the overwhelming desire to make a movie work...even if that means constructing an entire cyber-dystopia out of nothing but abandoned buildings and 100 pairs of cool sunglasses. - Letterboxd
When people call movies "poems" they're embarrassing themselves except if they said that about the kiarostami film Taste of Cherry. - Dylan Gulela, Letterboxd
70s Grindhouse Double Feature curated by Cult Canada's Will Foran
The night kicks off with 25 of the most insane minutes of grindhouse you could ever witness - in 3D!
You of strong will are invited to take part in the Analog Anarchy with the film being decided by the audience.
“What it comes down to is: we assume there’s more going on here than meets the eye, but maybe what meets the eye is all that’s going on, and there is no complete, objective reality. I can explain Blow-Up and L’Avventura to my own satisfaction. This is the best I can do with Certified Copy. Perhaps it was wrong of me to even try” -Roger Ebert
"Akira's strangeness is very startling and sometimes bewildering. But there is a thanatonic rapture to its vision of a whole world ending and being reborn as something else." - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian; "Perfect Blue's success lies in the twisted, self-referential storyline that intercuts reality with fantasy so fluidly that viewers inevitably take on Mima's shattered point of view, unable to distinguish the truth until the stunning conclusion." - Tasha Robinson, Sci-Fi Weekly
A brave, unofficial and impressionistic history of the Black Power movement that America at one point tried to suppress–an informal history that could only be told by outsiders. The Black Power Mixtape was shortlisted for the prestigious Grierson Award for Best Documentary at the London Film Festival and won the World Cinema Documentary Editing Award at the Sundance Festival. - Movie Metropolis
"The movie grinds along its dark, mordant, and fascinating path until it culminates in one of the most emotionally harrowing scenes ever filmed." - Austin Chronicle
Vtape and NAC co-present the latest Curatorial Incubator V.18: Learning From the Local, a video program based on the idea of Toronto-ness (Vtape) and Niagara-ness (NAC)
A week of photography, sculpture, painting, mixed media, and more for kids ages 5-10!