I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing

Patricia Rozema is not a household name, and she's made an odd smattering of films, including one for the American Girl series... and yet she's been a fiercely independent filmmaker in every sense of the word since the 1980's, the decade she first wrote, directed, edited, and produced her debut, I've Heard the Mermaids Singing. …

Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy (original workprint cut & final cut)

Gen X doesn't have a lot to show for itself, but it does have the greatest sketch comedy troupe to come down the pike since Monty Python: Canada's The Kids in the Hall, whose endurance continues well into the 21st Century with a new season almost 3 decades later. Between their last TV season and …

Blue

Don McKellar has been in the Canadian film scene for some time now, but his work remains mostly unknown to the world. He's best known as an actor, appearing in a variety of great films by Canada's best: David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, and Bruce McDonald. He's less known as a screenwriter, having co-penned the masterpiece …

Hitman Hart: Wrestling With Shadows

There are a lot of movies about wrestling out there, but there's nothing like Wrestling With Shadows. It's the best wrestling doc I've ever seen, as well as one of the best documentaries, period- quite simply because it tells such a beautiful, tragic story about a legitimate, real-life hero and his legitimate real-life villain. The …

Le Jour des Corneilles (The Day of the Crows)

This French Canadian feature by Jean Christophe Dessaint is the best kind of kids' movie- funny, kinda twisted, a little dark, but also poignant and tender in a sincere, didn't-come-from-the-mind-of-a-Hollywood-exec sort of way. It's not actually a children's movie so much as an animated movie which happens to be okay for kids to watch, which …

Calendar

Armenian-Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan often borders on pretentiousness, what with his humorless and emotionally distant characters and all... but when he's on, he's sooo on. Calendar just might remain his best film in terms of constructing a perfect little work that manages to do one thing beautifully. The conceit is simple: a story that centers …