Film Dictionary

Directed by Didier Flamano. Bizarre film (set in a bizarre department store) about bizarre people speaking a bizarre language. Nominated f...

An excellent music video by Weezer, a post-modernist homage to "Happy Days". Edited by Eric Zumbrunnen and directed by Spike Jon...

Directed by Yvon Marciano. An actress is auditioning for a role by talking about the contents of a purse.

A superb Pet Shop Boys' music video directed by Howard Greenhalgh. Beautiful, computer-animated imagery.

Directed by M.Lozinski. Trains in Europe travel on tracks that are 1435 mm wide. The width of the train tracks in the former Soviet Union...

A Beastie Boys music video directed by Spike Jonze.

An Aerosmith video starring Alicia Silverstone and Liv Tyler.

Amusing short about a card game.

Directed by J.Fawcett. A short film from Alberta, about two young guys winning an instant lottery ticket and getting into trouble. It won th...

An art critic cannot bring himself to deflower his beautiful wife (Neve Campbell).

A guide at the Chinese Garden in Montreal encounters some weird people. Length: 31 min.

A game of "Truth or dare".

Short drama about virginity.

A dentist ruins his surprise birthday party.

A fine parody of "Frankenstein", "The Brady Bunch" and countless other films and TV shows. It begins in a rustic setti...

A reinterpretation of biblical events, told from the point of view of God's janitor.

A young girl slowly discovers her musical talent.

The horrible realities of industrial chicken farming are denounced with biting humor and cruel satire.

Melancholic cartoon about a young girl with a wooden leg. Animation consists of etchings on negative.

A 13-year-old boy is drafted into the army. An impressive cartoon about the ravages of war. Like all Drouin's films, it uses the pinscre...

Very short cartoon with three Kirk Douglases at different stages of his career.

A man tries to catch an elusive mouse. Directed by K.Bronzit.

Directed by A.M.Fleming. Two girls are singing a weird song.

A puppet-animated adaptation of Rossini's famous opera.

A poor chap cannot open his car, but still refuses to take the bus or even a bicycle. If it wasn't for his daughter's roller skates,...

Directed by A.M.Fleming. Crudely drawn, but quite amusing little cartoon.

A condemnation of violence on television.

Two kids are playing chess.

A pretentious New Age fantasy full of spiritual mumbo-jumbo. Visually very imaginative, but hopelessly naive in its anti-technological preac...

Computer-animated film about sweet dreams and harsh realities.

The daily routine of a child: breakfast, school, homework and bed. Over and over again.

Rotoscoping was used in this adaptation of Bizet's famous opera.

A cartoon about a woman and her cat.

Puppet-animated film about racial tolerance. It's about children playing on a thin ice.

Oscar-nominated cartoon about a monk chasing a fish.

A rather simplistic film about an evil stepfather.

Semi-abstract film that won the Second Prize (short subject) at the Montreal Film Festival.

Directed by Matthias Muller. Experimental film about a young boy. The most memorable scene - milk flood.

Meandering cartoon full of vivid images.

Boring film about moon-worshippers in an ancient desert city.

A weak cartoon set to the music by Vivaldi.

Piosenki: "A moze krol" *** "On za duzy a ona za mala" ** "Notatki z nieudanych rekolekcji paryskich" * ...

Piosenki: "Nie ma czarnego" ** "Cos gadaja" ** "Nie donos na mnie" * "Ciele placze" * "Koledzy ...

Piosenki: "Bomba w gore Lizodupki" * "Mucha" * "Piosenka na zamowienie rzadowe" * "Myku myku" *** ...

Piosenki: "Festi Nativitatis Christi laudes czyli pochwala Bozego Narodzenia" ** "Nieznany rekopis St. Wyspianskiego" **...

Seriously deranged film about seriously deranged people. Weird thriller with very steamy sex scenes between Bruce Willis and Jane March.

Paul Newman is superb in this pleasant film set in a sleepy little town.

Judy Davis and James Woods star in this bizarre black comedy, directed by Michael Tolkin.

Slightly pretentious drama about the famous New York writer. The film's highlights are Robert Benchley's brilliantly satiric "l...

Tragicomical historical drama starring Nigel Hawthorne as George III.

Intelligent film about two close friends from an Italian neighborhood in Providence, Rhode Island.

This epic western, directed by Lawrence Kasdan, isn't half as bad as most critics have claimed. It's a flawed, but very interesting ...

A man and a woman talk.

An adaptation of Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya".

Incredible true story of Leon Therem, Russian-born inventor of an electronic musical instrument who was kidnapped by the Soviet secret polic...

Were it not for excessive pathos, this uneven black comedy might be quite watchable. It's an extremely unpleasant, sickenly violent, but...

Clearly inspired by "Deliverance" (1972), it's an effective thriller starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Bacon.

Simple story of a mysterious girl found in England and believed to be an Asian princess, kidnapped by sailors.

Boring animated film about a little boy (Macaulay Culkin), who becomes a cartoon character and has many adventures.

A mean-spirited, terribly unfunny comedy about an 11-year old boy who wants to divorce his parents. A failure in all respects.

Slow-moving biography of the famous 18th-century doctor, whose unorthodox cures earned him the scorn of the medical establishment. Alan Rick...

Everyone's hugging, kissing and crying in this overblown horse opera set in Montana during World War I.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Emma Thompson are the parents, but he's the mother and she's the father. Ridiculous concept, unsuccessful ...

The chemistry is great between Nicolas Cage and Bridget Fonda, but the film (about a married cop sharing a winning lottery ticket with a wai...

Campy action film starring Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte as two ace reporters investigating a mysterious train crash. *

Bizarre and boring film starring Tim Robbins, Paul Newman and Jennifer Jason Leigh.

John Goodman is perfectly cast as Fred Flintstone, but the film is very boring.

Terminally boring thriller about a female art critic befriending a homocidal artist.

Mediocre adaptation of John Grisham's bestselling novel.

A misguided and totally unfunny film about a "war" between United States and Canada. Michael Moore's only fictional feature.

The life of a white trash family in rural Maine.

Overrated and disappointing horror movie.

An unsuccessful musical cartoon with forgettable characters.

Brother of a murder suspect survives a car explosion.

One of the sickest and most disgusting films to hit the movie screens in a long while.

Mediocre Christmas comedy starring Tim Allen as Santa Claus.

Terribly boring mess about a private eye investigating a series of murders.

Mediocre film about journalists.

Jodie Foster performance is superb, but the film (about a wild mountain girl) is only moderately successful.

Kevin Bacon and Christian Slater star in this grim courtroom drama about the inhuman treatment of prisoners in the Alcatraz prison.

Violent, but meditative gangster film.

Uneven, often a bit too precious comedy about Albert Einstein's niece (Meg Ryan) falling in love with a service station attendant (Tim R...

A disturbing drama about a disturbed man.

Jessica Lange won an Oscar for her performance as a wife of an Army officer (Tommy Lee Jones).

Silly, tasteless comedy starring Jim Carrey.