Fantasia’s opening night party is going to be at S.A.T. (1195 Boul St. Laurent). Doors open at 9. Tickets are 9 dollars at the door. Shows are going to start around 11. Shows? Live performances by Poxy, D.J. Frigid & Gentle Bake-mono + DJ XL5 + DJ Chevy Van. Visuals by Pillow & Mademoiselle.

The 2005 edition of the FANTASIA FILM FESTIVAL kicks off this Thursday night at 6:30 pm with two screenings at the Hall Theatre:

6:30 ASHURA (dir Yojiro Takita) 2 hours.

Followed by CRYING FIST (dir. Ryoo Seung-wan) at 9pm (2 hours 14 minutes).

Well, clearly, this weekend it’s going to be Spielberg’s second installment into what is shaping up to be a trilogy of post 9/11 exploits of the pop-unconscious. We got the airport safety reclamation project THE TERMINAL in 2004, and now, in every theatre you can find, we have the WAR OF THE WORLDS, a sobering study of the United States’ lack of military preparedness in the event of intergalactic warfare. And, coming soon, we’ll see what the IMDb is calling UNTITLED 1972 MUNICH OLYMPICS PROJECT: Spielberg’s Tony Kushner scripted exploration of guilt-ridden Mossad hitmen going after the Palestinian terrorists who murdered Israeli athletes at the ’72 Munich games.

There’s a good NY Times article that says all this even better (you need to suffer the indignity of registering for free):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/01/movies/01spie.html

But just to maintain the credibility of this blog: if you’ve never seen J.P. Melville’s LE CERCLE ROUGE, this weekend you get a rare chance at Cinema du Parc. Melville is most famous for BOB LE FLAMBEUR, which suffered a dopey yet fitfully entertaining remake by Neil Jordan called THE GOOD THIEF. Expect hard-boiled dialogue by an aristocratic thief, witty cinematography, and ironic Americanisms of the sort that only a French Americaphile like Melville can pull off. See it before John Woo remakes it.

Le Cercle rouge [2:20]
Fri, Sat, Sun, Thu: 5:00
Mon, Wed: 8:30
Tue: 7:00

Last year, at around this time, a number of Synoptique staffers were involved with the 3rd INTERNATIONAL WOMEN AND THE SILENT SCREEN CONGRESS.

http://cinema.concordia.ca/wscreen

A special SYNOPTIQUE edition followed that September, featuring dazzling recreations of panel presentations given by silent cinema gurus Tom Gunning, Christine Gledhill, and Concordia professor Rosanna Maule.

http://articles.synoptique.ca/wscreen

So, now, we’re more than happy to announce information on the 4th international WSCREEN conference, held next year in sunny Guadalajara, Mexico:

Please join us for the Fourth International Women and the Silent Screen Conference which will be held at the University of Guadalajara in the beautiful colonial city of Guadalajara, Mexico June 7 through June 10, 2006. Following the first Women and the Silent Screen Conference, held in Utrecht in 1999, the second in Santa Cruz, CA in 2001, and the third in Montreal in 2004, the Guadalajara conference will include scholarly panels and workshops that advance research on historical and theoretical issues related to women and silent cinema from 1898 through 1937. The Call for Papers in English and Spanish will be published shortly.

The WWSC co-directors

Patricia Torres San Martin
University of Guadalajara

Joanne Hershfield
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Projection-bénéfice :: Jimmywork à l’Outremont

10$

Les profits de la projection seront remis à un membre de la production qui nous est très cher et qui lutte présentement contre un cancer. Les fonds recueillis l’aideront à traverser cette rude épreuve.

Nous vous remercions de votre générosité.
Atopia

Pour acheter vos billets, laissez simplement vos coordonées (nom, téléphone, courriel) à l’adresse qui suit. Nous vous contacterons très bientôt.

goodwork@jimmywork.com

You can read an interview with the director of JIMMYWORK
in Synoptique 9.

Golda Fried launches her new novel in Montreal!
Golda Fried lauches “Nellcott Is My Darling” with Marc Ngui, author of “The Unexpurgated Tale of Lordie Jones” (Conundrum Press).

21 June, 7.00 pm
Pharmacie Esperanza
5490 Saint-Laurent, Montreal
Free

SUMMARY OF THE NOVEL: Alice Darling has just moved to Montreal to go to McGill University. She’s never had a boyfriend and doesn’t know how to do laundry. She joins the Film Society and hangs out in the library. She drifts away from boring Bethany, her best friend from high school, and starts to trail after Allegra, the caffeine-addicted, dish-throwing artist in the dorm room next to hers. And, most of all, she thinks about how she’s still a virgin and how she’ll never figure it all out. And then she meets Nellcott Ragland, a 23-year-old who works at Basement Records and wears black eyeliner, and he asks her on a date. Alice tries to hide out in the Film Society office. She spies on Nellcott at the record store. She gets advice from Walker, her filmmaking, womanizing friend from Toronto. But sooner or later her parents are going to visit and watch her cry. She won’t admit it to them, but Nellcott has become her darling.

The next meeting of the CINEMA COALITION ;
Agenda

1 INTERNET SITE

– brief presentation of the website with Q & A – request that members register and participate in workgroups

2 NEWS

– return from from Annecy – post mortem on Matthew’s recent exchange with Claude Joli-Coeur – reactions since the website went live – announced reinvestment in production

3 WORKGROUP REPORTS

Actions: – Richard’s letter – Thursday therapy sessions at the NFB – petition and protest – the Bensimon countdown Reflexion: – a broad survey of group discussions Organisation: – plan a meeting for active website contributors – now seeking a fundraiser – also seeking a location scout for the annual forum

4 NEXT MEETING All of our usual and new friends and supporters are welcome to join this open gathering. Keep up the great work, everybody!
-The Organising Committee of the CINEMA COALITION

Thursday, June 16, 2005, 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Ralliement Etudiant Haiti Canada
Event type: Films
Sponsored by: Ralliement Etudiant Haiti Canada
Hatian Movie Festival

Location:
SGW Campus, Room H – 937
Henry F. Hall Building 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Friday, June 17, 2005, 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Ralliement Etudiant Haiti Canada
Event type: Films
Sponsored by: Ralliement Etudiant Haiti Canada
Hatian Movie Festival

Location:
SGW Campus, Room H – 520
Henry F. Hall Building 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.

Finally, short films worth seeing!

Thursday, June 16th I will have the pleasure to show 7 of my favorite picks, chosen from the hundreds of short films I have seen at Concordia in the last 3 years.

An hour and a half of spellbinding, deeply moving and hilarious films!

Dramas, comedies, poetic films…

And for those of you who haven’t seen ‘La Neige Rouillée’ the film that I made last year in memory of my father, this is your chance.

Los Mujeres de Pinochet, Eddie Menz
Vaisseau Fantôme, Anna Woch
Grassroots, John Keevil
Rushing ahead without seeing, Anna Sarkassian
La Neige Rouillée, Tamara Taddeo
Noir en Homme, Alexandre Gibault
Pink Fuck, Heather Warwick

Hope to see you on thursday the 16th,

Cheers,
Tamara

The double negative collective presents films from filmmaker Ken Jacobs:

Le 16, 17 et 18 juin, le collectif double négatif,regroupement de cinéastes montréalais, présentera l’oeuvre de Ken Jacobs, Celestial Subway Lines / Salvaging Noise, au Cinéma Parrallèle de l’Ex-Centris, et Star Spangled To Death, au Cinéma De Sève. À cette occasion, seront présentés aussi deux courts métrages, Mountaineer Spinning et The Whirled, du même auteur.

June 16 (Thu.) – Ex-Centris (Cinema Parallele), 3pm and 7:15pm
Nervous Magic Lantern filmed performance – Celestial Subway Lines / Salvaging Noise (68 min.), Preceded by Mountaineer Spinning (26 min.)

For more info visit: http://www.ex-centris.com

June 17 (Fri.)
Concordia University, Cinema de Seve, 6 pm – 10 pm
Star Spangled to Death – part 1, (with a short intermission in the middle)

June 18 (Sat.)
Concordia University, Cinema de Seve, 6pm – 10 pm
Star Spangled to Death – part 2, (with a short intermission in the middle)

$7 ticket for both Friday/Saturday

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CELESTIAL SUBWAY LINES / SALVAGING NOISE
Nervous Magic Lantern Performances
avec musique par John Zorn, assisté de Ikuë Mori
(Ken Jacobs, É.-U., 2004, 68 min., sans dialogue)

MOUNTAINEER SPINNING
(Ken Jacobs, É.-U. , 2004, 26 min., sans dialogue,
musique par Rick Reed)

THE WHIRLED
(Ken Jacobs, É.-U., 1956-62, 19 min., V.O. anglaise)

STAR SPANGLED TO DEATH (Ken Jacobs, USA, 1957-2003, V.O. English)

Winner of Los Angeles Film Critics Association’s Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award 2004.

“Star Spangled to Death – Ken Jacobs began annotating a lyrical junkyard allegory with chunks of found footage in the late ’50s; screened in various versions over the decades, Star Spangled to Death became his life’s work. Incorporating audiovisual material ranging from political campaign films to animated cartoons to children’s phonograph records, featuring Al Jolson, Mickey Mouse, the young Jack Smith, and a half-dozen American presidents, this vast, ironic pageant of 20th-century American history is a unique and mind-boggling contraption, the ultimate underground movie”. (J. Hoberman, Village Voice)