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- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) A turning point in the then-emerging Canadian film industry as a critical and domestic box office success, Ted Kotcheff directs this adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s novel about the endlessly hustling Duddy Kravitz.
- Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001) This first feature film made in the Inuit language of Inuktitut, Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner is often compared to classic American Westerns in tone and storytelling.
- Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006) Bon Cop, Bad Cop refreshes the classic “mismatched cops” movie trope by teaming an uptight Toronto officer (Colm Feore) with a rogue Montreal cop (Patrick Huard) to solve a string of NHL-linked murders.
- C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) This coming-of-age story from future Oscar nominee Jean-Marc Vallée will ring true to anyone who has ever felt like a family outsider.
Apr 7, 2024 · From seminal horror thrillers like Videodrome to jaw-dropping mystery dramas like Incendies, Canada has produced some outstanding movies that shouldn't be overlooked. 10 'Dead Ringers' (1988)
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- Anne of Green Gables
- The Cat Came Back
- Gabrielle
- Existenz
- John Ware Reclaimed
- Mommy
- 1991
- Shiva Baby
- Waydowntown
- Why We Fight
Two wonderful things happened in the year of our Lord, 1985. The first: I was born. (You're welcome!) And, likely to commemorate my arrival into the world, Anne of Green Gables was first broadcast. In short, the Kevin Sullivan-directed mini-series is majestic. Over the course of several hours (and then several more in the 1987 sequel), we exist in ...
First, a history lesson in the childhood habits of elder millennials. Back in the early '90s, cartoons were hard to come by for a kid with no cable. Sure, there was the usual Saturday morning block, and maybe your local networks would program a few ancient reruns on weekdays: Care Bears at some ungodly pre-breakfast hour; Flintstones at noon; a hal...
Take a young woman's coming-of-age tale and mix in a love story, place it in Montreal, set the language to French, throw in a choir and a sprinkle of Robert Charlebois ... and here you have a film guaranteed to bring me joy. It's called Gabrielleand it's directed by Louise Archambault. The film tells the story of Gabrielle, a young woman living wit...
Pulsating organic video game consoles that jack right into your spine. Underground networks of violent anti-game crusaders. A polluted landscape populated with grotesque, two-headed critters. Hardly the stuff of joy, you might object. But rewatching David Cronenberg's techno-thriller eXistenZ two decades after its release, it's hard to get over jus...
Creeks, buildings and schools are among the buildings named after John Ware, but what do we really know about the story of Black Canadian cowboys? Personally growing up, the answer was ... very little. Given some of its subject matter, this is not an obvious choice for a film that gives me joy, but after watching Cheryl Foggo's vibrant documentary ...
If Canadian films have a reputation for heaviness and heartbreak, then Xavier Dolan's Mommy is an extremely Canadian film. But at the centre of this tender-to-painful mother-son story is perhaps one of the most joyful scenes in the national cinema. Die (Ann Dorval) is a single widowed mother raising her 15-year-old son, Steve (Antoine Olivier Pilon...
1991 is one of those films that drives English-Canadian film producers mad with envy: a Quebecois romp that collected a pile of awards, had wide distribution and made a ton of dough. In fact, it topped the box office in Canada in 2018, earning well over $3 million. It also landed on Netflix, where you can now watch it en français with English subti...
Canadian filmmaker Emma Seligman made quite the mark with her directorial debut Shiva Baby, which debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival and was a hit when it was released in largely virtual theatres last month (landing Seligman an HBO deal with Adam McKay). A comedy suggestively set in an era that now feels pretty much like a period pi...
The elevator pitch for Gary Burns's 2000 indie comedy set in the interconnected condos, business towers and shopping malls of Calgary's commerce district might go something like, "Office Space ... but Canadian." Shot in jittery digital video, seasoned with lo-fi surrealist fantasies and scored by a vigorous, vertiginous electroclash soundtrack, way...
Finally, do yourself a favour and spend time with an unbelievably beautiful family in every sense of the word in Maya Annik Bedward's short doc Why We Fight. The story centres around a Brazilian couple, whose family processes the ups and downs of life through Capoeira, all while trying to keep their son Nauê — who has a rare medical condition — ali...
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- The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974) “The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz” is a 1974 Canadian drama film directed by Ted Kotcheff, based on the novel of the same name by Mordecai Richler.
- Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001) “Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner” is a 2001 Canadian Inuktitut-language epic film directed by Zacharias Kunuk. The film is based on an ancient Inuit legend and tells the story of a community of Inuit in the Canadian Arctic in the 11th century.
- Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006) “Bon Cop, Bad Cop” is a Canadian comedy-crime film directed by Erik Canuel and released in 2006. The movie follows two police detectives, one from Ontario and one from Quebec, who are forced to work together to solve a murder that occurred on the Ontario-Quebec border.
- C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) “C.R.A.Z.Y.” is a 2005 French-Canadian drama film directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. The movie tells the story of a young boy named Zachary, who is the fourth of five sons born into a traditional Catholic family in Quebec during the 1960s and 1970s.
Top 100 Canadian Films. Compiled from a 2004 poll for Take One magazine. The poll consisted of Top 10s from critics and filmmakers.
Jul 1, 2021 · 15 of the best movies made in and about Canada. This list includes Anne of Green Gables, Les Boys, Strange Brew, the Sweet Hereafter, and Atanarjuat
Jul 1, 2023 · This week we celebrate Canada Day and to honor the occasion I’ve compiled a list of the best Canadian movies of all time. What follows is a list of films spanning decades and covering a wide variety of genres, themes, and styles— and all made in Canada.
