Showing posts with label The Mayfair Theatre. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Mayfair Theatre. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Canada Day Hoser-O-Rama

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Goin’ Down the Road (Don Shebib, 1970) **** (Masterpiece) Strange Brew (Rick Moranis & Dave Thomas, 1983) ** (Worth Seeing) Fubar (Mic...
Sunday, June 27, 2010

Another Month (Horror and Action Movies)

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July Film Listings Bytowne Cinema This Movie is Broken (Bruce McDonald, 2010) 30/07 – 5/08. Mayfair Theatre Day of the Dead (George A. Romer...
Saturday, June 26, 2010

Silent Cottage Country Yarn

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Back to God's Country (David Hartford, 1919) **** (Masterpiece) In David M. Hartford’s Back To God’s Country (1919), an adaptation of J...
Monday, June 7, 2010

Spielberg, Dreyer, von Trier

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Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975) *** (A Must-See) 1941 (Steven Spielberg, 1979) *** (A Must-See) Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Steven Sp...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

A Busy June (And What I Will Be Doing)

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June Film Listings Bytowne Cinema Punishment Park (Peter Watkins, 1971) 14/06 – 16/06. Sweetgrass (Ilisa Barbash & Lucien Castaing-Taylo...
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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Interview with Lee Demarbre

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This is an interview I have been working on for a while with Lee Gordon Demarbre. Part of a series of interviews and list from local film ex...
Sunday, March 28, 2010

Studious April Distractions

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April Film Listings Canadian Film Institute Le Jour Avant Le Lendemain (Marie-Hélène Cousineau & Madeline Ivalu, 2009) 11/04. Contes de ...
Wednesday, March 3, 2010

A Quarantine and a Hybrid Western

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The Crazies (George A. Romero, 1973) *** (A Must-See) (The Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank Street, 1/03) ***** Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garc...
Monday, February 22, 2010

Old and New Canadian Films in March

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March Film Listings Canadian Film Institute Dying At Grace (Allan King, 2003) 14/03. Bytowne Cinema J’ai Tué Ma Mère (Xavier Dolan, 2009) 19...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Some New Auteur Films

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The White Ribbon (Michael Haneke, 2009) * (Has redeeming facets) Dave Kehr writes about Michael Haneke as being a “finger-wagging sensation...
Sunday, February 7, 2010

Blaxploitation Williamson

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Black Caesar (Larry Cohen, 1973) *** (A Must-See) (The Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank Street, 06/02)
Friday, February 5, 2010

A Cold and Cruel World

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Antichrist (Lars Von Trier, 2009) *** (A Must-See) Grief, Pain, Despair. The films divided chapter titles perfectly describe the mood of L...
Friday, January 29, 2010

Quality and Quantity February and the Double Bill at the Mayfair

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February Film Listings Bytowne Cinema Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993) 01/02 & 02/02. Antichrist (Lars Von Trier, 2009) 05/02 - 09/02....
Sunday, January 17, 2010

Anarchy, Self-promotion and the Comedian

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Bronson (Nicolas Winding Refn, 2008) ** (Worth Seeing) (The Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank Street, 15/01 - 17/01, 20/01 & 21/01)
Thursday, January 7, 2010

Apocalyptic Prophesy

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Collapse (Chris Smith, 2009) ** (Worth Seeing) Scare-mongering and facetious, Chris Smith's documentary Collapse is an 80-minute inter...
Sunday, December 27, 2009

See You January

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January Listings Bytowne Cinema Swimming Pool (François Ozon, 2003) 11/01 & 12/01. The Killer (John Woo, 1989) 27/01 - 28/01. Red Cliff ...
Monday, November 30, 2009

Hanukkah December Projections

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December Listings Bytowne Cinema The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (Werner Herzog, 2009) 4/12 - 10/12. The Mayfair Theatre Bad Li...
Saturday, November 21, 2009

Angry and Provoking

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The Last House on the Left (Wes Craven, 1972) **** (Masterpiece) (The Mayfair Theatre, 1074 Bank Street, 20/11)
Thursday, November 19, 2009

On Smash Cut

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A butchered "300 word" version of this capsule was published in the Volume 70, Issue 14 of the University of Ottawa student paper ...
Sunday, November 1, 2009

DVD Watching November Confinement

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November Listings The Mayfair Theatre Smash Cut (Lee Demarbre, 2009) 20/11. The Last House on the Left (Wes Craven, 1972) 20/11. The Polar ...