Cinema Lounge: Critical Dialogue on Canadian Cinema
The cultural screening landscape of Canadian cinema is dominated by Hollywood movies. The screen time for Canadian films is shockingly low. In an essay about The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, (from Canada’s Best Features) writer and critic Tom McSorley defined it even more powerfully: “The American influence is monumental. For most of this century, the very century of cinema, Canada’s screens have been occupied almost exclusively by American images.” The media as well is saturated with coverage of Hollywood films.
To address this problem we developed an ongoing series entitled Cinema Lounge: Critical Dialogue on Canadian Cinema, where we invite Canadian filmmakers and curators to select a Canadian work and introduce a special screening of it. We also ask the invited guests to prepare a curatorial essay on the work, which is posted on our website as an online resource to enable the exploration of the film and to further document and interpret Canadian works.
December 5, 2012: Shereen Jerrett introduces The Hanging Garden (dir. Thom Fitzgerald)
November 7, 2012: Noam Gonick introduces Super 8 1/2 (dir. Bruce La Bruce)
October 3, 2012: Kevin Nikkel introduces The Champagne Safari (dir. George Ungar)
September 5, 2012: Shelagh Carter introduces Dancing in the Dark (dir. Leon Marr)
August 1, 2012: Steve Loft introduces A Windigo Tale (dir. Armand Garnet Ruffo)
July 11, 2012: Alison Davis introduces Gambling, Gods and LSD (dir. Peter Mettler)
February 26, 2012 – Andy Jones introduces Crime Wave (dir. John Paizs)
January 21, 2011: Gary Burns introduces A Winter Tan (dirs. Jackie Burroughs, Louise Clark, John Walker, John Frizzell, Aerlyn Weissman)
November 19, 2010: Cameron Bailey introduces Masala (Dir. Srinivas Krishna)
November 5, 2010: Philip Hoffman introduces The Films of Rick Hancox
May 14, 2010: Brenda Longfellow introduces The Memory of Angels (dir. Luc Bourdon)
March 6, 2010: Alex MacKenzie introduces The Western Influence: Films by Ellie Epp, Chris Gallagher, Al Razutis and David Rimmer
February 27, 2010: Peter Wintonick introduces The Adventure of Faustus Bidgood (dir. Mike & Andy Jones)
November 6, 2009: Patricia Rozema introduces The Sweet Hereafter (dir. Atom Egoyan)
October 25, 2009: John Greyson introduces Montreal Main (dir. Frank Vitale)
May 8, 2009: Andrea Dorfman introduces Double Happiness (dir. Mina Shum)
March 6, 2009: Bruce McDonald introduces Vinyl (dir. Alan Zweig)
February 21, 2009: Mike Hoolboom introduces View from the Other Side of the Falls (dir. John Price) and Up to the South (dirs. Jayce Salloum and Walid Ra’ad)
February 20, 2009: Mike Hoolboom introduces Practical Dreamers (films by Jeff Erbach, Daniel Barrow, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay & Richard Fung)
December 5, 2008: Guylaine Dionne introduces Kamouraska (dir. Claude Jutra)
October 4, 2008: Bruce Sweeney introduces The Grocer’s Wife (dir. John Pozer)
