100 Best Canadian Films – Greg Klymkiw

You might recognize Greg Klymkiw from his small roles in a few classic Canadian films from Winnipeg: John Paizs’ Springtime in Greenland and Crime Wave and Guy Maddin’s The Heart of the World. They’re impressive contributions to some really great titles. He's also a regular staple at a lot of Canadian cinema events in Toronto and maintains the impressive blog, The Film Corner with Greg Klymkiw. The brief resume that I was sent indicates that, “Greg Klymkiw is a producer, writer, programmer, critic and teacher. In his over forty years in the movie business, he has been responsible for a whole whack of iconoclastic works. He was the longtime Marketing Director of the Winnipeg Film Group and a longtime member of the faculty at Norman Jewison's Canadian Film Centre.” Klymkiw’s is the latest contributor to 100 Best Canadian films that includes so far Pat Mullen, Jason Anderson, Daniel Kremer, Yves Lever, Piers Handling, Marcel Jean, Mike Hoolboom and myself. – D.D.

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Are these the best? Well, possibly. Are they my favorites? Well, limited to one-hundred titles, then yeah, sure, they're my favorites. It's in chronological order and within years of release, they're alphabetical. Some of them are features, some are shorts. There's a mix of drama, documentary, animation and experimental. And yeah, you might find a few on this list that I produced. Why? Because it's my list and I can do whatever I want. – G.K.

Greg Klymkiw's 101 Best Canadian Films

- Back to God’s Country (Nell Shipman, 1919)

- Neighbours (Norman McLaren, 1952)

- A Dangerous Age (Sidney J. Furie, 1958)

- Circle of the Sun (Colin Low, 1960)

- Very Nice, Very Nice (Arthur Lipsett, 1961)

- The Bitter Ash (Larry Kent, 1963)

- Pour la suite du monde (Michel Brault, 1963)

- The Luck of Ginger Coffey (Irvin Kershner, 1964)

- Nobody Waved Goodbye (Don Owen, 1964)

- Paddle to the Sea (Bill Mason, 1966)

- Warrendale (Allan King, 1967)

- And No Birds Sing (Victor Cowie, 1969)

- Goin' Down the Road (Donald Shebib, 1970)

- Mon oncle Antoine (Claude Jutra, 1971)

- Rip-Off (Donald Shebib, 1971)

- The Rowdyman (Peter Carter, 1972)

- Wedding in White (William Fruet, 1972)

- Between Friends (Donald Shebib, 1973)

- Paperback Hero (Peter Pearson, 1973)

- The Pyx (Harvey Hart, 1973)

- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Ted Kotcheff, 1974)

- Black Christmas (Bob Clark, 1974)

- The Hard Part Begins (Paul Lynch, 1974)

- Les Ordres (Michel Brault, 1974)

- Montreal Main (Frank Vitale, 1974)

- Lies My Father Told Me (Jan Kadar, 1975)

- Shivers (David Cronenberg, 1975)

- Death Weekend (William Fruet, 1976)

- Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (Donald Brittain, 1976)

- Outrageous! (Richard Benner, 1977)

- Rabid (David Cronenberg, 1977)

- The Rubber Gun (Allan Moyle, 1977)

- Skip Tracer (Zale Dalen, 1977)

- Why Shoot The Teacher? (Silvio Narizzano, 1977)

- The Silent Partner (Daryl Duke, 1978)

- The Brood (David Cronenberg, 1979)

- Atlantic City (Louis Malle, 1980)

- Les Bons débarras (Francis Mankiewicz, 1980)

- The Changeling (Peter Medak, 1980)

- My Bloody Valentine (George Mihalka, 1981)

- Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper, 1981)

- Springtime in Greenland (John Paizs, 1981)

- Big Meat Eater (Chris Windsor, 1982)

- The Grey Fox (Philip Borsos, 1982)

- The Big Snit (Richard Condie, 1985)

- Crime Wave (John Paizs, 1985)

- Downtime (Greg Hanec, 1985)

- No Sad Songs (Nik Sheehan, 1985)

- One Magic Christmas (Phillip Borsos, 1985)

- Dancing in the Dark (Leon Marr, 1986)

- Life Classes (William D. MacGillivray, 1987)

- A Winter Tan (Jackie Burroughs, John Frizzell, Louise Clark, John Walker, Aerlyn Weissman, 1987)

- The Last Days of Contrition (Richard Kerr, 1988)

- The Milkman Cometh (Lorne Bailey, 1988)

- Primiti Too Taa (Ed Ackerman, Colin Morton, 1988)

- Jesus of Montreal (Denys Arcand, 1989)

- Next of Kin (Atom Edoyan, 1989)

- Archangel (Guy Maddin, 1990)

- Mike (MB Duggan, 1990)

- Leolo (Jean-Claude Lauzon, 1992)

- Zero Patience (John Greyson, 1993)

- The Last Supper (Cynthia Roberts, 1994)

- When Night is Falling (Patricia Rozema, 1995)

- Hard Core Logo (Bruce McDonald, 1996)

- Project Grizzly (Peter Lynch, 1996)

- City of Dark (Bruno Lazaro Pacheco, 1997)

- The Hanging Garden (Thom Fitzgerald, 1997)

- Felicia's Journey (Atom Egoyan, 1999)

- Suspicious River (Lynne Stopkewich, 2000)

- Big Girl (Renuka Jeyapalan, 2005)

- My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin, 2007)
- Nurse. Fighter. Boy. (Charles Officer, 2008)

- A Hard Name (Alan Zweig, 2009)

- The Saskatchewan Trilogy (Brian Stockton, 2009)

- Modra (Ingrid Veninger, 2010)

- Goon (Michael Dowse, 2011)

- Le vendeur (Sébastien Pilote, 2011)

- American Mary (Sylvia Soska, Jen Soska, 2012)

- The End of Time (Peter Mettler, 2012)

- Keep a Modest Head (deco dawson, 2012)

- A Kind of Wonderful Thing (Jason Lupish, 2012)

- Krivina (Igor Drljača, 2012)
- Stories We Tell (Sarah Polley, 2012)

- The First Winter (Ryan McKenna, 2013)

- The Last Pogo Jumps Again (Colin Brunton, Kire Papputs, 2013)

- Portrait as a Random Act of Violence (Randall Okita, 2013)

- Special Ed (John Paskievich, 2013)

- Le démantèlement (Sébastien Pilote, 2014)

- Altman (Ron Mann, 2014)

- The Captive (Atom Egoyan, 2014)
 

- The Editor (Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy, 2014)

- In Her Place (Albert Shin, 2014)

- Mynarski Death Plummet (Matthew Rankin, 2014)

- Run Run It's Him (Matthew Pollack, 2014)

- Septic Man (Jesse Thomas Cook, 2014)

- Shooting The Musical (Joel Ashton McCarthy, 2014)

- Bring Me the Head of Tim Horton (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, 2015)

- The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, 2015)

- Haida Gwaii: On the Edge of the World (Charles Wilkinson, 2015)

- How Heavy This Hammer (Kazik Radwanski, 2015)

- Hurt (Alan Zweig, 2015)