Greatest Canadian movies

[syvalois]

I was looking for the movie Le Matou and I came across this website:

http://www.pulpanddagger.com/movies/filmtv.html

I thought his definition of canadian movie is pretty large, there is missing a lot of Quebecers movies, but he as seen some I've never heard about. I've seen 1 mistrake, but the rest seems acurate. I don't always agree with him (Les Filles de Caleb were greats and the mens where not pigs, even less in Blanche), most film I know about in that list I know because they where shown as American and his list would be twice bigger if he could include Quebec tv shows.

Whicch lead us to why I'm writting in this forum about that website. In that place:

http://www.pulpanddagger.com/movies/essay_twentyone.html


he talks about Alpha Flight and Wolverine. Nice paper, but is this not the obvious? Québec as a flouriching film but most of all tv industry, and we just don't care if others don't watch it, it's for us, it's sell very well between us and we love it, makes people from here works here. Everyone is happy and if it can be like by other country, it's a bonus. Tv and film are one of the best medium to show how strong is our culture, no?

[Ottawa Renegade]

The link didn't work for me, but when I think of my favourite Canadian movie, I have to think about nearly having a heart attack laughing at the Elvis Gratton movies.

Looking forward to #3

[syvalois]

The link did not work? But I just check and it do work for me at home and at work?????? I don'r know what's wrong.

And you know and like Elvis Gratton???? I must admit I never saw #2, mainly so many people did not liked it and we all know it's a way for Falardeau to gain money for other projects. But 'le retour d'Elvis Wong' as a title just seems too funny.

[Ottawa Renegade]

The link did not work? But I just check and it do work for me at home and at work?????? I don'r know what's wrong.

And you know and like Elvis Gratton???? I must admit I never saw #2, mainly so many people did not liked it and we all know it's a way for Falardeau to gain money for other projects. But 'le retour d'Elvis Wong' as a title just seems too funny.

Okay, it works now. Earlier I got the "page can not be displayed" message. Maybe just a server hiccup. Anyway, I'll check that site out, I've bookmarked it. Looks good!

And baby, I know and LOVE Elvis Gratton! Both movies. I came across where people are asked to grade movies from 1-10 and for "Miracle a Memphis", people either voted a 2 or a 9. There was very little middle ground. You love it or hate it. I thought it started lousy, ended terribly, but that the middle was as funny as any movie I'd ever seen.

Don't be surprised that I know them, by the way. My parents are from La Prairie, and even though Imoved out of the province when I was 8 years old and married into a completely anglophone family, I still hold on to a bit of my French background dearly.

'Sti. 8)

[syvalois]

And baby, I know and LOVE Elvis Gratton! Both movies. I came across where people are asked to grade movies from 1-10 and for "Miracle a Memphis", people either voted a 2 or a 9. There was very little middle ground. You love it or hate it. I thought it started lousy, ended terribly, but that the middle was as funny as any movie I'd ever seen.


http://www.christalfilms.com/officialsites/elvisgrattonxxx/

go there, you will see a link to a preview to Elvis Gratton III.

And another good movie is Dans une galaxie près de chez vous and les Triplettes de belleville which as some quebecers voices or the very nasty santa claus song:)


and not related to AF, but I saw a comic from DC written by Busiek and draw by Pacheco and we saw a grave with a canadian flag, I guess if canadian wrote about canadian, it could sell, no?

[seroquel]

My favorite canadian flick is Highway 61. Apparently it isn't made anymore you can only get it used.
it s about a barber and a homeless lady and they take highway 61 to new orleans with a dead body. its really funny (i thought anyway).

[syvalois]

Highway 61 is a canadian movie? I don't think I've seen it like most english canadian stuff, except kids in the Hall which I liked but forgot to watch.:)

[beetleblack]

I like 'Until The End of the World' by Wim Wenders - does that count? I also really like a movie called 'Roadkill', it's shot in black and white and has a soundtrack by the Ramones! It's a sort of road movie about a young woman who has to find the singer of a cult band who's gone missing.

[beetleblack]

Highway 61 is a canadian movie? I don't think I've seen it like most english canadian stuff, except kids in the Hall which I liked but forgot to watch.:)

Yeah, Kids in the Hall ROCKED! Did you ever see that movie that they did? That was pretty cool.

I also loved the Canadian 'teen drama series' Madison (which starred Phil Collin's daughter Joely), so much better than Dawson's Creek and all of that ilk, much more compelling and daring and REAL.

[Ben]

Sorry folks, had to move this topic :)

Ben

[syvalois]

I was thinking that myself :oops:

[DarkSnowbird]

The Ginger Snaps Series

[syvalois]

The Ginger Snaps Series


What is that????

[DarkSnowbird]

Ginger Snaps:
Is becoming a woman analogous, in some deep psychological way, to becoming a werewolf? Ginger is 16, edgy, tough, and, with her younger sister, into staging and photographing scenes of death. They've made a pact about dying together. In early October, on the night she has her first period, which is also the night of a full moon, a werewolf bites Ginger. Within a few days, some serious changes happen to her body and her temperament. Her sister Brigitte, 15, tries to find a cure with the help of Sam, a local doper. As Brigitte races against the clock, Halloween and another full moon approach, Ginger gets scarier, and it isn't just local dogs that begin to die. From Imdb

Ginger Snaps II:
Brigitte's on the run from Bailey Downs, and she tries to prevent what happened to her sister, Ginger, from happening to her by shooting up with monkshood. Eventually she collapses and the police that find assume the monkshood is an illegal drug, and she is sent to rehab. She is deprived of the only thing that will stop her from turning into a beast and killing everyone and everything in her way. She meets a girl who is quiet and not well-liked, and much like herself, by the name of Ghost that helps her deal with her new problem and to escape the werewolf curse.

Both starring Katherine Isabelle as Ginger and Emily Perkins as Brigitte

[Legerd]

I have to say Jesus Of Montreal was the best Canadian flick so far. The writing was fantastic, the acting was great (though I saw the dubbed version of course) and most of all I was impressed with how good the play within the movie was. Except for this production I have yet to see a "show within a show" done so well. IMO it could stand on its own as a real play.

[JohnnyCanuck]

Ok Good day.
First, I just saw Ginger Snaps on Space a couple weeks ago and it's a beauty. I'm now a fan.

but I think i'm gonna have to go with STRANGE BREW, eh!?


Ok , so...

Good day , eh?

[cmdrkoenig67]

Oh!....I saw Jesus of montreal too a few years ago...very good film. I'm not sure if I've seen any other Canadian films though. TV series....yes. I've seen Friday the 13th(the series), Forever Knight....and Silk Stalkings(I think it was called). Wasn't the War of the Worlds TV series a Canadian production too?

Dana

[beetleblack]

Oh!....I saw Jesus of montreal too a few years ago...very good film. I'm not sure if I've seen any other Canadian films though. TV series....yes. I've seen Friday the 13th(the series), Forever Knight....and Silk Stalkings(I think it was called). Wasn't the War of the Worlds TV series a Canadian production too?

Dana

WOTWs was filmed in Canada. I enjoyed that show too, even though both seasons varied greatly!

We also got 'Street Legal' (drama about lawyers - Canadain LA Law?) and some show about a clinic with doctors which was called something that escapes me - but it was really rather good.

[ladymako71]

The only thing I have ever seen that I can confirm for a fact was Canadian made and produced is 'Yvon of the Yukon'...and I had to go home to NZ to see that. Hilarious show though...my hero's the dog.

[SwiftFox]

Just saw The Last Casino the other night... it was pretty decent... if you get TMN it's been on here and there.. if you have TMN on Demand (free for TMN customers on Rogers Digital Cable, not to be confused with ROGERS on demand which costs $$) You can currently watch it on there (Channel 208) whenever you like...

[syvalois]

I saw Les Invasions Barbares (well, I bought the DVD). It's excellent! I really liked it. No wonder it won an Oscar and many, many other prices. Les Invasions Barbares did so well everywhere it was shown, I read somewhere that the only place the producers where disappointed was in english Canada but they where blaming the distributor lack of faith in a homemade product and most of all with subtitle.


Now I just need to see La grande Séduction to see the big movies from last year (and also Gaz Blues Bar). And I'm not counting the movies from this year, Camping sauvage and Elvis Gratton XXX, but I did saw Dans une galaxie près de chez vous, which was hilarious. Too many movies to see, not enough time :cry:



I also saw Les triplettes de Belleville and it's funny because a lot of the french you heard in it is with Québec accent. I don't know in english how they translated the movie since there is so little speaking parts, but the christmas "dirty" song is definitly song by someone from Québec :wink:

[Sir John A.]

Quebec produces a lot better movies than the rest of Canada.

Elvis Gratton is awesome! syvalois, you really must see #2 since most people I know think it is a lot funnier than the first.

Les Invasions Barbares was very good. A very stinging critic of the "Canadian system". I hated "Rise and Fall of the American Empire" because I hated the characters and thanfully they didn't use these characters too much in the second movie.

The Les Boys series is also pretty good too and La grande Séduction and Gaz Blues Bar are next on my list.

I'm tempted to watch Seraphin but I'm not too interested in the story.

FYI: I believe Highway 61 and Roadkill are both movies by Bruce MacDonald. He also did Hard Core Logo.

For fave English Canada movies, I'd say Strange Brew and Last Night (a movie about the last day before the earth is destroyed, actually a bit of a comedy).

[syvalois]

Quebec produces a lot better movies than the rest of Canada.


But the question is why? English canadian have a much more big public than in Québec, they should do better, no?


Elvis Gratton is awesome! syvalois, you really must see #2 since most people I know think it is a lot funnier than the first.

That's not what I've heard here, most think that it was very bad and mostly done to finance Falardeau (the director) other projects like 15 février 1839 (excellent movie even if you're not agreing with him)


Les Invasions Barbares was very good. A very stinging critic of the "Canadian system".

Not only of the "Canadian system", of the new generation after the babyboomers, what was the ideal and what went wrong or right. It's been 2 times I've watch it and I'm still seeing new meaning to different scenes. I really like the way is show the union or the TV problem, I'm still laughing thinking about it.



I hated "Rise and Fall of the American Empire" because I hated the characters and thanfully they didn't use these characters too much in the second movie.

That's the title in english? good, Well, I liked the first movie because of the characters and mostly what they had to say. Like in les invasions barbares I really liked how they could talked of everything with such a derision, ironism and je m'en foutisme:)



I'm tempted to watch Seraphin but I'm not too interested in the story.

Well, I've seen Séraphin. It's good but it's a slow movie. my brother Jocelyn hated it. Most of all it revisiting a icon story. Everyone in Québec know that story or should know about it. First there was the book, than it was shown on the radio, then on black and white television and then in color tv. I think a generation grew up with that show. It's the only movie that my father knew more about the characters than me. And because of that serie, if someone say you are a Séraphin, it's not something nice, it's mean you're greedy. :twisted: So all that to say that if you don't have the emotional et historical link, maybe Séraphin the movie is not that good, but I don't know, I may be wrong.



FYI: I believe Highway 61 and Roadkill are both movies by Bruce MacDonald. He also did Hard Core Logo.
For fave English Canada movies, I'd say Strange Brew and Last Night (a movie about the last day before the earth is destroyed, actually a bit of a comedy).

Strange Brew right a bell, but it's all movies I've never seen.

[ladymako71]

Well like I mentioned in chat, I'm not a big movie person to begin with...however our local PBS station is showing 'Anne of Green Gables' like mad and I now have a really good idea what that little island Ben call's 'home' looks like. Kinda nice, makes me want to visit Cavendish. ^^

[Ben]

Well like I mentioned in chat, I'm not a big movie person to begin with...however our local PBS station is showing 'Anne of Green Gables' like mad and I now have a really good idea what that little island Ben call's 'home' looks like. Kinda nice, makes me want to visit Cavendish. ^^

Never say that name again! Don't make me sensor add that little red head tot he sensor! :x

Actually what you see is a poor reflection of Cavendish. It's all tourist -rap-like now. There are much nicer places on the island to visit.

Ben

[ladymako71]

LOL I'm surprised you haven't added 'that' to the censor yet.

'sides, I only posted that to bait ya along. ^^ I was bored. =)~~

And yes I've seen the pics you have of the place. *drools* I agree there are better. ^^

[Sir John A.]

That's the title in english? good, Well, I liked the first movie because of the characters and mostly what they had to say. Like in les invasions barbares I really liked how they could talked of everything with such a derision, ironism and je m'en foutisme:)

ya, that's what it was in English. Couldn't think of the French name.

The reasons you liked those characters is the reason I hated them,

:lol:

Did you catch on that one of the father's friends who visits him in the hospital (which is falling apart due to lack of government funds) brags about how he's defrauding the government by getting grants for the fake school he and his boyfriend set up?

They were so proud of it yet, they didn't clue into the fact that their actions in a small way, are what has caused their friend to be given such poor service at that hospital.

[syvalois]

ya, that's what it was in English. Couldn't think of the French name.

Le déclin de l'empire américain



Did you catch on that one of the father's friends who visits him in the hospital (which is falling apart due to lack of government funds) brags about how he's defrauding the government by getting grants for the fake school he and his boyfriend set up?

They were so proud of it yet, they didn't clue into the fact that their actions in a small way, are what has caused their friend to be given such poor service at that hospital.

That's Yves Jacques character, the gay one and almost the only one that as a long time relationship. I do think they are aware of the irony in all this, but I don't think Yves Jacques character is frauding or that he created that title. It was never said in the movie, but I guest that the position was already existing and he simply took advantage of that function. Most of those characters are not bad or fraudulous, they usually take advantage of the system in a very egotistical way. Plus, you see in Pierre comment that they are totally aware that it's the income taxes he and everyone pay that makes Yves Jacques character live in Rome.

But that's what I like about those 2 movies. Good characters that are all but saints that have very goods dialogues that hide a darker reality. Do you think in Les Invasion Barbares that Sébastien, Rémy son, is better than the others in bribing or buying everyone? I don't think so, but he is not a bad person either.

It must also be true that the dialogues must lost a little bit of their vivacity in the translation, like it's usually does:(


But it's nice talking about it. It's a very good movie anyway

[Sir John A.]

I'm of mixed Franco-Ontarian roots so I didn't watch the translation.

[syvalois]

I'm of mixed Franco-Ontarian roots so I didn't watch the translation.

So that explain why you know so many francophone movies. anyway, it's always a question of taste and the original version is always better to watch anyway. That's why I like DVD's, watch the original version to get the feeling and watch a second time in french to understand what I missed the first time. It was very useful for the Carabian pirates (??? the movie with Johnny Depp as a pirate)

[crozack]

I think we all know the greatest Canadian movie of all time: CANADIAN BACON, starring the greatest actor ever, John Candy! If you've seen him in UNCLE BUCK, you know what I'm talkin' bout!

I would have said STRANGE BREW, but I feel that movie doesn't do enough for Canadian stereotypes, as CANADIAN BACON does. As an American, I of course reserve the right to stereotype any other nation and their people since they were all initially opposed to our God-blessed War On Terror.

Hopefully, the guys who made ROAD TRIP will do a sequel entitled ROAD TRIP 2: WHERE'S THE SYRUP? Oh, man, if only John Candy was alive to star in it...

[Sir John A.]

Canadian Bacon was done by Michael Moore so technically I'd say its an American movie.

[crozack]

Canadian Bacon was done by Michael Moore so technically I'd say its an American movie.

It is an American movie. I suppose the humor I was going for in showing my non-existent love for a movie that is built upon Canadian stereotypes was not expressed well enough. I apologize :D

[Sir John A.]

A lot of American stereotypes too.

I thought that movie would be funny but it sucked big time.