Canada &mdash; settima https://write.underworld.fr/settima/tag:Canada @settima@zirk.us Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:17:07 +0200 Waiting for Fidel (Michael Rubbo, 1974) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-xrrj <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Waiting for Fidel (Michael Rubbo, 1974)/div div class="month" Mar/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 8/div div class="occasion" International Women's Day/div div class="img" Waiting for Fidel (1974)/div div class="caption" A group of six girls and two boys sing in celebration of International Women's Day. DP: Douglas Kiefer./div div class="txt" Time flies while waiting for Fidel, and before you know it, it's March 8. &nbsp; &nbsp; Film du Jour posts does not list holidays on their respective date, unless a film or scene happens to take place on one./div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #March #MichaelRubbo #FidelCastro #ErichHonecker #BernabeOrdez #JoeySmallwood #GeoffStirling #DouglasKiefer #InternationalWomensDay #politics #documentary #Canada #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Waiting for Fidel (Michael Rubbo, 1974)

Mar

8

International Women's Day

Waiting for Fidel (1974)

A group of six girls and two boys sing in celebration of International Women's Day. DP: Douglas Kiefer.

Time flies while waiting for Fidel, and before you know it, it's March 8.

 

 

Film du Jour posts does not list holidays on their respective date, unless a film or scene happens to take place on one.

#FilmDuJour #March #MichaelRubbo #FidelCastro #ErichHonecker #BernabeOrdez #JoeySmallwood #GeoffStirling #DouglasKiefer #InternationalWomensDay #politics #documentary #Canada #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-xrrj Sun, 08 Mar 2026 09:00:00 +0100 Gina [Stone Cold Revenge] (Denys Arcand, 1975) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qh13 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Gina [Stone Cold Revenge] (Denys Arcand, 1975)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 11/div div class="occasion" 1952/div div class="img" Gina (1975)/div div class="caption" Gina (Céline Lomez) stripping in front of a silver tinsel curtain. The silhouette of a woman is visible in the foreground. DP: Alain Dostie./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #December #DenysArcand #CélineLomez #ClaudeBlanchard #FrédériqueCollin #BennyBarbara #MichelPagliaro #AlainDostie #drama #revenge #rape #SlowCinema #Québec #Canada #1970s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Gina [Stone Cold Revenge] (Denys Arcand, 1975)

Dec

11

1952

Gina (1975)

Gina (Céline Lomez) stripping in front of a silver tinsel curtain. The silhouette of a woman is visible in the foreground. DP: Alain Dostie.

#FilmDuJour #December #DenysArcand #CélineLomez #ClaudeBlanchard #FrédériqueCollin #BennyBarbara #MichelPagliaro #AlainDostie #drama #revenge #rape #SlowCinema #Québec #Canada #1970s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-qh13 Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:00:00 +0100 L'ange et la femme [The Angel and the Woman] (Gilles Carle, 1977) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-t81m <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" L'ange et la femme [The Angel and the Woman] (Gilles Carle, 1977)/div div class="month" Dec/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 3/div div class="X" /div div class="img" L'ange et la femme (1977).webp)/div div class="caption" Gabriel (Lewis Furey) and the woman he named Fabienne (Carole Laure). DP: François Protat./div div class="txt" A caregiver &nbsp; A woman is brutally murdered and taken home by a young man. This man – this angel – takes away her wounds, returns her to life, and nurses her. They fall in love. &nbsp; the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #GillesCarle #CaroleLaure #LewisFurey #JeanComptois #StephenLack #JLéoGagnon #GeorgesLévesque #FrançoisProtat #drama #mystery #fantasy #crime #Hooptober #Québec #Canada #1970s ★★★☆☆/div /section ]]>

L'ange et la femme [The Angel and the Woman] (Gilles Carle, 1977)

Dec

3

L'ange et la femme (1977)

Gabriel (Lewis Furey) and the woman he named Fabienne (Carole Laure). DP: François Protat.

A caregiver*

 

A woman is brutally murdered and taken home by a young man. This man – this angel – takes away her wounds, returns her to life, and nurses her. They fall in love.

 

* the Bales 2025 Film Challenge for December has a few dateless themes. This is one of them.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #GillesCarle #CaroleLaure #LewisFurey #JeanComptois #StephenLack #JLéoGagnon #GeorgesLévesque #FrançoisProtat #drama #mystery #fantasy #crime #Hooptober #Québec #Canada #1970s ★★★☆☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-t81m Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:25:00 +0100 The Devil at Your Heels (Robert Fortier, 1981) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-9px8 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Devil at Your Heels (Robert Fortier, 1981)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 25/div div class="occasion" 1976/div div class="img" The Devil at Your Heels (1981)/div div class="caption" The location of the jump site, marked with a hand painted billboard: KEN CARTER'S JUMP SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION SAT. SEPT. 25 76 SEE A MAN JUMP A COUNTRY MILE! DP: Barry Perles./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #September #RobertFortier #GordonPinsent #KenCarter #JimDeist #RobertFortier #EvelKnievel #KennyPowers #ArtPhillips #BarryPerles #stunts #documentary #drama #carsploitation #Canada #1980s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

The Devil at Your Heels (Robert Fortier, 1981)

Sep

25

1976

The Devil at Your Heels (1981)

The location of the jump site, marked with a hand painted billboard: KEN CARTER'S JUMP SITE UNDER CONSTRUCTION SAT. SEPT. 25 76 SEE A MAN JUMP A COUNTRY MILE! DP: Barry Perles.

#FilmDuJour #September #RobertFortier #GordonPinsent #KenCarter #JimDeist #RobertFortier #EvelKnievel #KennyPowers #ArtPhillips #BarryPerles #stunts #documentary #drama #carsploitation #Canada #1980s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-9px8 Thu, 25 Sep 2025 10:00:00 +0200 Sweet Movie (Dušan Makavejev, 1974) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-2pqf <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Sweet Movie (Dušan Makavejev, 1974)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 13/div div class="occasion" International Chocolate Day/div div class="img" Sweet Movie (1974)/div div class="caption" The most virgin, Miss 1984 (Carole Laure), bathing in chocolate. DP: Pierre Lhomme./div div class="txt" Chocolate for International Chocolate Day (Milton S. Hershey's birthday) "In all my years of practice, I've never seen anything so sweet. A rosebud." ### – Dr. Mittelfinger Miss Canada, winner of the "most virgin" contest, escapes her rich, milk tycoon husband into a world of anarchy, lust, and sugar. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #InternationalChocolateDay #chocolate #food #DušanMakavejev #CaroleLaure #PierreClémenti #AnnaPrucnal #SamiFrey #JohnVernon #ManosHatzidakis #PierreLhomme #comedy #France #Canada #WestGermany #1970s/div /section ]]>

Sweet Movie (Dušan Makavejev, 1974)

Sep

13

International Chocolate Day

Sweet Movie (1974)

The most virgin, Miss 1984 (Carole Laure), bathing in chocolate. DP: Pierre Lhomme.

Chocolate for International Chocolate Day (Milton S. Hershey's birthday)

“In all my years of practice, I've never seen anything so sweet. A rosebud.”

– Dr. Mittelfinger

Miss Canada, winner of the “most virgin” contest, escapes her rich, milk tycoon husband into a world of anarchy, lust, and sugar.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #InternationalChocolateDay #chocolate #food #DušanMakavejev #CaroleLaure #PierreClémenti #AnnaPrucnal #SamiFrey #JohnVernon #ManosHatzidakis #PierreLhomme #comedy #France #Canada #WestGermany #1970s

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-2pqf Sat, 13 Sep 2025 20:16:00 +0200 Red [The Red Half-Breed / Red the Half Breed] (Gilles Carle, 1970) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/red-1970 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Red [The Red Half-Breed / Red the Half Breed] (Gilles Carle, 1970)/div div class="month" Sep/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 2/div div class="X" /div div class="img" Red (1970)/div div class="caption" A counter at a Québécois branch of the Banque de Montréal – oddly enough using its English-language name. A wall calender reads September 2. DP: Bernard Chentrier./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #September #GillesCarle #DanielPilon #GenevièveRobert #GratienGélinas #FernandeGiroux #PaulGauthier #ClaudeMichaud #PierreFBrault #BernardChentrier #crime #Canada #1970s ★★★½/div /section ]]>

Red [The Red Half-Breed / Red the Half Breed] (Gilles Carle, 1970)

Sep

2

Red (1970)

A counter at a Québécois branch of the Banque de Montréal – oddly enough using its English-language name. A wall calender reads September 2. DP: Bernard Chentrier.

#FilmDuJour #September #GillesCarle #DanielPilon #GenevièveRobert #GratienGélinas #FernandeGiroux #PaulGauthier #ClaudeMichaud #PierreFBrault #BernardChentrier #crime #Canada #1970s ★★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/red-1970 Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:00:00 +0200 The Music of the Spheres (G. Philip Jackson, 1983) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-music-of-the-spheres-1983 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" The Music of the Spheres (G. Philip Jackson, 1983)/div div class="month" Aug/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 28/div div class="occasion" 1994/div div class="img" The Music of the Spheres (1983)/div div class="caption" Archive footage from the future dated August 28, 1994. DP: Nadine Humenick./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #August #GPhilipJackson #AnneDansereau #PeterBrikmanis #JacquesCouture #ClaudeBoux #NadineHumenick #drama #SciFi #Canada #1980s ★★½/div /section ]]>

The Music of the Spheres (G. Philip Jackson, 1983)

Aug

28

1994

The Music of the Spheres (1983)

Archive footage from the future dated August 28, 1994. DP: Nadine Humenick.

#FilmDuJour #August #GPhilipJackson #AnneDansereau #PeterBrikmanis #JacquesCouture #ClaudeBoux #NadineHumenick #drama #SciFi #Canada #1980s ★★½

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/the-music-of-the-spheres-1983 Thu, 28 Aug 2025 09:00:00 +0200 La mort d'un bûcheron [The Death of a Lumberjack] (Gilles Carle, 1973) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-pbd5 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La mort d'un bûcheron [The Death of a Lumberjack] (Gilles Carle, 1973)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 12/div div class="occasion" 1920/div div class="img" La mort d'un bûcheron (1973)/div div class="caption" Blanche Bellefeuille (Denise Filiatrault) in front of a wall covered in catholic knickknacks. Through a door, nightclub entrepreneur Armand St. Amour (Willie Lamothe) can be seen asleep, his beloved cowboy boots carefully placed next to his improvised bed. DP: René Verzier./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #July #GillesCarle #CaroleLaure #WillieLamothe #DanielPilon #DeniseFiliatrault #MarcelSabourin #JLéoGagnon #TristanHansinger #WillieLamothe #ChickPeabody #PeterVanGinkel #René Verzier #drama #comedy #mystery #crime #Canada #1970s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

La mort d'un bûcheron [The Death of a Lumberjack] (Gilles Carle, 1973)

Jul

12

1920

La mort d'un bûcheron (1973)

Blanche Bellefeuille (Denise Filiatrault) in front of a wall covered in catholic knickknacks. Through a door, nightclub entrepreneur Armand St. Amour (Willie Lamothe) can be seen asleep, his beloved cowboy boots carefully placed next to his improvised bed. DP: René Verzier.

#FilmDuJour #July #GillesCarle #CaroleLaure #WillieLamothe #DanielPilon #DeniseFiliatrault #MarcelSabourin #JLéoGagnon #TristanHansinger #WillieLamothe #ChickPeabody #PeterVanGinkel #René Verzier #drama #comedy #mystery #crime #Canada #1970s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-pbd5 Sat, 12 Jul 2025 09:00:00 +0200 Rat Life and Diet in North America (Joyce Wieland, 1968) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-nm3n <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" Rat Life and Diet in North America (Joyce Wieland, 1968)/div div class="month" Jul/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 4/div div class="occasion" Independence Day/div div class="img" Rat Life and Diet in North America (1968)/div div class="caption" Rats – gerbils actually – nibbling on the Stars and Stripes (via). DP: Joyce Wieland./div div class="txt" A movie set in the USA for Independence Day (USA)) "This film tells a story of rebels (played by real rats) and cops (played by real cats). After a long domination by cats, the rats escape from prison (this is their rebellion) and find refuge in Canada. There, they feed on organic produce from a garden where the grass hasn’t been sprayed with DDT." ### – Jonas Mekas, via French-Canadian patriot Joyce Wieland tells a fable of freedom. &nbsp; ##### Coincidentally, the Canadian city of Trois-Rivières, scene of the final battle of the American Revolutionary War, also celebrates an Independence Day#Other_countries) on the fourth of July. /div div class="tags" ##### #Bales2025FilmChallenge #IndependenceDay #JoyceWieland #freedom #VietnamWar #animals #rats #gerbils #politics #ShortFilm #satire #Canada #1960s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

Rat Life and Diet in North America (Joyce Wieland, 1968)

Jul

4

Independence Day

Rat Life and Diet in North America (1968)

Rats – gerbils actually – nibbling on the Stars and Stripes (via). DP: Joyce Wieland.

A movie set in the USA for Independence Day (USA)

“This film tells a story of rebels (played by real rats) and cops (played by real cats). After a long domination by cats, the rats escape from prison (this is their rebellion) and find refuge in Canada. There, they feed on organic produce from a garden where the grass hasn’t been sprayed with DDT.”

– Jonas Mekas, via

French-Canadian patriot Joyce Wieland tells a fable of freedom.

 

Coincidentally, the Canadian city of Trois-Rivières, scene of the final battle of the American Revolutionary War, also celebrates an Independence Day on the fourth of July.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #IndependenceDay #JoyceWieland #freedom #VietnamWar #animals #rats #gerbils #politics #ShortFilm #satire #Canada #1960s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-nm3n Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:00:00 +0200 La maudite galette [Dirty Money] (Denys Arcand, 1972) https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-d320 <![CDATA[section class="boxinfo" markdown="1" div class="title" La maudite galette [Dirty Money] (Denys Arcand, 1972)/div div class="month" Jun/div div class="dont-fill" /div div class="daynr" 16/div div class="X" /div div class="img" La maudite galette (1972)/div div class="caption" Berthe (Luce Guilbeault) points a rifle offscreen. Next to her a perpetual wall calendar from Desjardins with the date. It's June 16. DP: Alain Dostie./div div class="txt" /div div class="tags" ##### #FilmDuJour #June #DenysArcand #LuceGuilbeault #MarcelSabourin #RenéCaron #GabrielArcand #MichelHinton #LionelThériault #AlainDostie #crime #drama #absurdism #Montréal #Québec #Canada #1970s ★★★★☆/div /section ]]>

La maudite galette [Dirty Money] (Denys Arcand, 1972)

Jun

16

La maudite galette (1972)

Berthe (Luce Guilbeault) points a rifle offscreen. Next to her a perpetual wall calendar from Desjardins with the date. It's June 16. DP: Alain Dostie.

#FilmDuJour #June #DenysArcand #LuceGuilbeault #MarcelSabourin #RenéCaron #GabrielArcand #MichelHinton #LionelThériault #AlainDostie #crime #drama #absurdism #Montréal #Québec #Canada #1970s ★★★★☆

]]> https://write.underworld.fr/settima/section-class-boxinfo-markdown-1-d320 Mon, 16 Jun 2025 09:00:00 +0200