Posted on 26/03/08
Indie art, and breakfast cinema too
The hip crowd in Winnipeg has long known about it. But for those outside the scene: There exists a little 120-seat haven of cinema art in the downtown core, a spot for everything from the highly praised new Canadian documentary Up The Yangtze to the underground shocker Flaming Creatures, a cult short notoriously confiscated in the early 1960s by New York police on obscenity charges. It's a home for the multi-award-winning Quebec film Continental, un film sans fusil and also the French documentary Llik Your Idols about the psychoneurotic grindhouse of post-punk New York filmmaking in the late 1970s.
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