After rock musician Randall Pritchard’s fatal car accident, his wife and band mate Delia Byrd drags their unwilling daughter Cissy from his California home to her own, a Georgia backwater. Read More »
Tag Archives: Canada
C’est pas moi, je le jure! / It’s Not Me, I Swear! (2008) Philippe Falardeau, Antoine L’Écuyer, Suzanne Clément, Daniel Brière, Comedy, Drama, Family
Léon is ten years old, has lots of problems and an overly fertile imagination. Read More »
Age of Innocence (1977) Alan Bridges, David Warner, Honor Blackman, Trudy Young, Drama
Henry Buchanan, an English schoolmaster, comes to teach in a small Canadian town. Read More »
Le Déclin de l’empire américain / The Decline of the American Empire (1986) Denys Arcand, Dominique Michel, Dorothée Berryman, Louise Portal, Comedy, Drama
Four very different Montreal university teachers gather at a rambling country house to prepare a dinner. Read More »
Seul ou avec d’autres / Alone or With Others (1962) Denys Arcand, Denis Héroux, Michelle Boulizon, Nicole Braun, André Dubois, Drama
September 1961. It’s the start of a new academic year at the Université de Montréal. Nicole meets Pierre, a sophomore who shows her how to succeed in her courses without attending them. Read More »
American Dreams: Lost and Found (1984) James Benning, Documentary
American Dreams is chock full of concrete, discrete elements that comprise an American iconography of the past three decades. Read More »
Screamers (1995) Christian Duguay, Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, Jennifer Rubin, Sci-Fi, Thriller
(SIRIUS 6B, Year 2078) On a distant mining planet ravaged by a decade of war, scientists have created the perfect weapon: a blade-wielding Read More »
Cadence (1990) Charlie Sheen, Martin Sheen, Jay Brazeau, Drama
As punishment for drunken, rebellious behavior, a young white soldier is thrown into a stockade populated entirely by black inmates. Read More »