Why Watch? Let’s start with Jean-Claude Labrecque, who turns 75 today. The Québécois director and cinematographer is one of the National Film Board of Canada’s most prolific documentarians, and 60 Cycles is perhaps his most successful work, winner of a slew of festival awards and a BAFTA nominee. In the summer of 1965 he followed a bike race in Québec, 2400 kilometers long. Filmed on a 1000 mm lens borrowed from Nasa, 60 Cycles presents the scope of such an enormous race unlike anything that came before. It has the humor of Louis Malle’s Tour de France film, 1962′s Vive le Tour, and an extra layer of 1960s cool. It’s a hidden gem of sports cinema. Inspired by Labrecque’s work, then-student filmmaker George Lucas decided to make a short documentary about driver Pete Brock trying to qualify for a competition with a Lotus 23 race car. The title, 1:42.08, is Brock’s lap time in the trial. Shooting...
- 6/19/2013
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
March 6
8:30 p.m.
Ata Gallery
992 Valencia (@ 21st)
San Francisco, CA
Hosted by: Other Cinema
Montreal’s transgressive film series Cinema Abattoir heads to the Bay Area to terrorize San Franciscans with a disturbing assortment of cinematic madness for the program entitled “Le cinema, l’apesanteur.” The madman behind Abattoir, Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt will be in attendance and screen his latest film, Neuf Oeufs Noirs.
The program will include both classic underground weirdness and modern visions of the extreme, including work by Abattoir stalwarts Serge de Cotret and Karl Lemieux. Now’s your chance Bay Area citizens to become acquainted with Cinema Abattoir’s unique brand of diabolic insanity:
Essai à la Mille (1970), dir. Jean-Claude Labrecque
Brouillard (2009), dir. Alexandre Larose
Neuf Oeufs Noirs (2010), dir. Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt
Sacré-coeur de Satan (2008), dir. Serge de Cotret
The Sex of Self-Hatred (2004), dir. Solomon Nagler
Mouvement de Lumière (2004), dir. Karl Lemieux
Chromo Sud (1968), dir. Étienne O’Leary
All That Rises (2007), dir.
8:30 p.m.
Ata Gallery
992 Valencia (@ 21st)
San Francisco, CA
Hosted by: Other Cinema
Montreal’s transgressive film series Cinema Abattoir heads to the Bay Area to terrorize San Franciscans with a disturbing assortment of cinematic madness for the program entitled “Le cinema, l’apesanteur.” The madman behind Abattoir, Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt will be in attendance and screen his latest film, Neuf Oeufs Noirs.
The program will include both classic underground weirdness and modern visions of the extreme, including work by Abattoir stalwarts Serge de Cotret and Karl Lemieux. Now’s your chance Bay Area citizens to become acquainted with Cinema Abattoir’s unique brand of diabolic insanity:
Essai à la Mille (1970), dir. Jean-Claude Labrecque
Brouillard (2009), dir. Alexandre Larose
Neuf Oeufs Noirs (2010), dir. Pierre-Luc Vaillancourt
Sacré-coeur de Satan (2008), dir. Serge de Cotret
The Sex of Self-Hatred (2004), dir. Solomon Nagler
Mouvement de Lumière (2004), dir. Karl Lemieux
Chromo Sud (1968), dir. Étienne O’Leary
All That Rises (2007), dir.
- 3/4/2010
- by screenings
- Underground Film Journal
2009 Genie Awards 2009 Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television’s Genie Award nominations: Feb. 10, 2009 2009 Genie Award winners: Ottawa, April 4, 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category) Best Motion Picture / Meilleur Film Amal - David Miller, Steven Bray Ce qu’il faut pour vivre / The Necessities of Life - Bernadette Payeur, René Chénier Normal - Andrew Boutilier, Carl Bessai * Passchendaele - Niv Fichman, Francis Damberger, Paul Gross, Frank Siracusa Tout est Parfait / Everything is Fine - Nicole Robert Best Documentary / Meilleur Documentaire Infiniment QUÉBEC - Jean-Claude Labrecque, Yves Fortin, Christian Medawar My Winnipeg - Guy Maddin, Phyllis Laing, Jody Shapiro * Up The Yangtze - Yung Chang, Mila Aung-Thwin, John Christou, Germaine Ying-Gee Wong Best Direction / Meilleure RÉALISATION Richie Mehta - Amal Lyne Charlebois - Borderline * Benoit Pilon - Ce qu’il faut pour vivre / The Necessities of Life Carl Bessai - Normal Yves-Christian Fournier - Tout est Parfait / Everything is Fine Performance By...
- 4/5/2009
- by Deborah Arthur
- Alt Film Guide
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