Jan 10, 2025
Red Rooms (2023) dir. Pascal Plante
Red Rooms (2023) dir. Pascal Plante
Dead Lover (Grace Glowicki, 2025)
one of the most amazing talents in contemporary cinema, as an actress and filmmaker, truly now one of my favorites - Grace Glowicki
Silent Hill (2006) Double-sided Japanese Chirashi Poster Art.
Just saw Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie and I wanna ramble a bit about what I think is the quintessential tone for Canadian cinema (and media in general). To make a gross comparison, I think it combines the optimism of prototypical American cinema with the cynical reality of British cinema. There's this idea that life kind of sucks, you end up in middling job, marriage, town, people die and you never achieve your dreams and yet you find these small joys that keep you going. There's no big victories, but there is value in the connections you make and aspiration without achievement. Especially in small towns narratives, like Anne of Green Gables, this plays really well but also in the make up of our largest city. Toronto is striving so hard to be like a big american city and yet it falls short in many ways (its all ugly concrete and desperate attempts to have iconic architectural moments) that it ends up being almost enduring. There is always this longing for something better that never really comes. Every single bit of successful canadian television I've seen is about constantly failing and facing hardships but refusing to be miserable. Maybe I'm reading to much into things but I think its a really enduring and sincere tone that you don't really see all that much of, and something to appreciate as being distinct in its own right.
Roadkill (1989) dir. Bruce McDonald
Best Canadian Horror movie
The Mask (1961)
Black Christmas (1974)
Scanners (1981)
Videodrome (1983)
The Fly (1986)
(Other Cronenberg movie)
Ginger Snaps (2000)
Pontypool (2008)
Blood Quantum (2018)
PG: Psycho Goreman (2020)
Skinamarink (2023)
Other
The Witch [or The VVitch: A New England Folktale] (2015), dir. Robert Eggers
Grace Glowicki in "Honey Bunch" (Madeleine Sims Fewer & Dusty Mancinelli, 2025)
i first saw Grace in Kentucker Audley's "Strawberry Mansion" and i absolutely loved that film and her performance. In Honey Bunch she's doing several different complex roles and its an incredible feat. It was almost like watching Jessie Buckley for the first time. Totally captivated.