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The final instalment of John Paizs’ “Three Worlds of Nick” trilogy is an amusing melange of ’60s spy thrillers and other classics. Super secret agent Nick attempts to liberate a top secret microchip from the clutches of multimillionaire Quinton Frost. Paizs pokes fun at the jet set, the Cold War and Jean-Paul Sartre.

The film stars Canadian television personality Peter Jordan as the protagonist, and John Paizs in his reoccurring silent Nick character. Guy Madden (credited as Gal Madden) also has an unbelievable cameo, as does George Toles.Read More »

In the second instalment of “The Three Worlds of Nick”, Paizs’ silent hero sets off to college where he meets Brock West (Winnipeg journalist and rocker Peter Jordon, aka Rocky Roletti). Unwittingly, Nick becomes involved in attempts to restore an old campus hangout and in the dirty political tricks swirling around a hard fought student election. The film successfully weaves the tone of college hijinx movies through the clever spoof of electoral trends, suggesting how easily old fashioned ethics can turn into fashion.Read More »

This surreal film, shot in pixilation (a kind of stop-motion animation with actors), is about two neighbours who come to barbaric blows over a flower that straddles the property line.Read More »

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Following the first Karmina, all the vampires need to take the special potion to be humans. The potion is made by Ghislain Chabot and sent to Transylvania for the others vampires. Chatbot’s wife isn’t a vampire yet and she wishes to be one. Ghislain doesn’t want that, because of all the rules and responsibilities of being a vampire, so she throws Ghislain out of the house without the potion. Ghislain tries to get back in there to get the potion for the others with the help of Vlad. Meanwhile, Philippe comes to Montréal because they’re running out of potion in Transylvania.Read More »

Peep Show demonstrates a form of pornography that intrudes upon a customerís more intimate desires. Using an unusual and innovative colour technique, the film manipulates the ordinary into the unexpected, culminating in a peep show in which the viewer becomes the subject of exploitation.Read More »

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On the basis of their own creative, political and financial struggles, two filmmakers – along with composer Geneviève Ackerman – decide to play the lead roles in a B-movie inspired scenario, creating a diffracted projection of their own concerns with the state of things. Shot over a three-year period with an old analog camera, no budget, financial or professional support, The Dream and the Radio was entirely produced with the help of friends, neighbours and homeless people. Mixing hybrid elements and using alienating visual and sound effects, the film refers to experimental and political film movements from the 1920s and 1960s. Read More »

A young man meets his obsession – a ghostly ’60’s Playboy-bunny styled “Connie,” – and is never the same! This is the first of John Paizs’ films to feature his silent Nick character that would later be featured in his cult hits Springtime in Greenland and Crimewave.Read More »

Sarah (O’Neal) is fifteen going on sixteen, and lives at home. Dad’s an Egyptologist; Mom refuses to acknowledge any generation gap; boy-friend wants to get her into the sack, but she refuses. Dodging him one day she meets Ashley (Burton), a once-chic artist who’s currently light on inspiration. He might be sixty but he’s hunky in that experienced way, and he has a Bohemian haven in the country where he plays Vivaldi. The pair get literary and have intense chats in which Sarah learns the difference between the Sistine Chapel and Burger Kings. Sarah tries the physical, but Ashley sagely demurs. Mom and Dad are horrified by the liaison.Read More »

Set in a pawnshop the documentary by award-winning filmmaker Rosie Dransfeld features the unlikely friendship between a cynic pawnbroker and a psychopath.Read More »