cultured nyc 🇺🇦New 🧵 of our 🇨🇦 film fest.
Kicked things off with an old favorite from the Toronto New Wave: Bruce McDonald’s 1989 classic, Roadkill.
This is the Canadian version of Apocalypse Now, set in Northern Ontario.
Movie #2 in our 🇨🇦 #Canadian film fest: Bruce McDonald’s follow up to Roadkill, Highway 61 (1991). This one has everything: stubbies, BTO, Canadians mispronouncing American cities, guns, Satan. A little like Jim Jarmusch, eh?
Oh, and Jello Biafra as a US customs agent! Get well, Jello!
Movie #3 in our 🇨🇦 #Canadian film fest intersects with our regular #SaturdayNightAtTheMovies
It's South of Wawa from 1991. Have not seen this movie in ages but I remember it as being good and gentle, which we need right now.
Lovely film, and peak early '90s Ontario. Someone VCR’d it off CBC it Yukon in March of 1994. I love that they left the commercials in, a few of which I remember word-for-word.
South of Wawa - 1991 - complete movie
Movie #4 in our 🇨🇦 #Canadian film festival is Atom Egoyan’s 1989 film Speaking Parts. Great director. His sister, Eve Egoyan is a great pianist who we knew when we were in TO. Lovely person.
Also, it’s an early Mychael Danna score; we studied with the same composition teacher at U of T: Lothar Klein.
We used to live near After Dark Video in the '90s. There were a few *really* good rental places back then.
We’re thinking that the hotel in the film is the old Sutton Place Hotel at Bay and Wellesley, but can’t any info on it.