Most crime films are made after the dust settles. This one wasn’t. In 2000, a Quebec director pointed his camera at a Montreal neighborhood while a real war between motorcycle clubs was still unresolved, and
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The Ontario – Quebec Border Scene in Bon Cop Bad Cop: Why the Film’s First Jurisdiction Problem Explains Everything That Follows
A dead man hanging over the Ontario – Quebec border is a striking way to open a police comedy. In Bon Cop, Bad Cop (2006), though, the location does more than attract attention. The body
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Unrequited Love and the Writer’s Voice: What Young Werther (2024) Inherits from Goethe
This article argues that the film inherits something other than plot. What travels from Goethe to the screen is a way of speaking: the confiding, restless, self – examining voice of a person who turns
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The One-Minute Canadian Animation With a Technique That Outlived the Film
A film barely one minute long can still leave a mark on cinema history. Evelyn Lambart’s O Canada, made at the National Film Board of Canada in 1952, did exactly that. The stereoscopic animation used
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The Forgotten Canadian Cinema Experiment That Put Transportation Into Full-Colour IMAX 3D
The train, the canoe and the moving bodies may sound like documentary subjects. At Expo 86 in Vancouver however the train, the canoe and the moving bodies became part of a film experiment. Transitions was
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Ginger Snaps (2000) : Canada’s Werewolf Tradition in Film
A creature attacks at night, the moon hangs over the neighbourhood, and the bite starts to change the person it marked. But director John Fawcett and screenwriter Karen Walton aimed at something stranger. The transformation
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