Canadian International Pictures

No Way Home In which Norm marks Canada's Indigenous People's Day by spinning up Canadian International Pictures' new Blu-ray of COLD JOURNEY.

In the latest edition of SHINY THINGS, I look at the new @cipictures.bsky.social Blu-ray of COLD JOURNEY -- a forgotten film that more than deserves this level of consideration.

Toronto On Screen for Mon Sep 29, 2025 A daily compendium of repertory, one-off and festival screenings happening in Toronto plus selected films in release at the city's independent cinemas. Click Read Notes for further details on each mov...

Today - Toronto landmark WINTER KEPT US WARM at Paradise via Queer Cinema Club, residential school doc SUGARCANE at Innis, parenting doc SEEN at Yonge & Dundas, SHIN GODZILLA 4K at Revue, Greek FF continues at Carlton, more! Rundown: letterboxd.com/torontoplex/... #toRep

On Tuesday Sept 30 there's going to be a showing of "Cold Journey" (1975) at the Revue Cinema on Roncesvalles Ave, followed by a Q&A session about residential schools, the NFB, and Indigenous film-making in 1960s and 1970s Canada.
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On Deck at Paradise - WINTER KEPT US WARM via Queer Cinema Club, Working Class Hero NORMA RAE, WHO KILLED TEDDY BEAR restored. #toRep

Winter Kept us Warm - NEW RESTORATION Leaving his small town to attend the University of Toronto, introspective freshman Peter (Henry Tarvainen) finds a campus steeped in tradition waking up to the radical politics of the 1960s. Following...

David Secter's nearly forgotten first feature film WINTER KEPT US WARM incorporates LGBTQ+ themes into a college campus coming of age tale — one of the first Canadian films to do so. It has also been noted as the film that inspired David Cronenberg to become a filmmaker. Screening Wednesday (9/24)

Tuesday at 7, Gallery 44 and VTape present INTO THE NIGHT: YONGE STREET SHORTS (1975 – 1978) at Toronto's Bachir/Yerex Presentation Space. This event includes Janis Cole and Holly Dale’s early shorts and a panel with Cole, Jordan King, and Sameen Mahboubi. vtape.org/event/into-t...

9/15 EAST END HUSTLE hits the screen at LF3 / @amcinematheque.bsky.social for our September Sleaze series. Brand new restoration by @cipictures.bsky.social 🎟️: tinyurl.com/23ehhre7

September Sleaze at LF3 / @amcinematheque.bsky.social continues on 9/15 with @cipictures.bsky.social’s beautiful restoration of the Canuxploitation classics EAST END HUSTLE. 🎟️: tinyurl.com/23ehhre7

Men, Alone In which Norm spins up Canadian International Pictures' restoration of the landmark queer drama WINTER KEPT US WARM, and Imprint's Blu-ray of Martin Ritt's HUD.

New SHINY THINGS just landed, reviewing the exquisite new @cipictures.bsky.social Blu-ray of WINTER KEPT US WARM and the @imprintfilms.bsky.social release of HUD. Wanna read? Of course you do!

Catch @cipictures.bsky.social’s brand new restoration of EAST END HUSTLE 9/15 at LF3 / @amcinematheque.bsky.social. Part of our September Sleaze series. 🎟️: tinyurl.com/23ehhre7

My OCN preorder for the month. This looks amazing. #PhysicalMedia #filmsky

Phenomenal news. These extras that will deliver a sense of Defalco's wider filmography. In a world where CBC licensing wasn't impossible this could have the landmark 1st episode of Wojeck with Johnny Yesno as well. But while we wait for the CBC to loosen up, buy this and watch it front to back.

You can watch the new trailer for COLD JOURNEY here: youtu.be/23g0wkMb4MI

…Willie Dunn, whose legacy is also highlighted in THE BALLAD OF CROWFOOT and new interviews/commentary featuring his son Lawrence Dunn and Kevin Howes, producers of Light in the Attic's Creation Never Sleeps, Creation Never Dies: The Willie Dunn Anthology.

In addition to a restoration by the NFB, this disc includes new art by Gord Hill, a new interview with Jesse Wente, an alternate cut of the film created for children by Alanis Obomsawin, 5 short films directed by Defalco, including THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LEDGER, co-directed by…

Martin Defalco’s COLD JOURNEY is a deeply empathetic and bracingly unsentimental portrait of Canada’s now-infamous residential school system and its devastating impact on First Nations youth. Now available in a deluxe 50th anniversary special edition. vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

David Secter’s "Winter Kept Us Warm" Blu-ray - Henry Tarvainen, John Labow, Joy Fielding, Janet Amos @CIPicture
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Leaving his small town to attend the University of Toronto...

Canuxploitation classic EAST END HUSTLE hits the big screen at LF3 / @amcinematheque.bsky.social on 9/15. This gritty 70s slice of streetwise cinema has been stunningly restored by @cipictures.bsky.social 🎟️: tinyurl.com/23ehhre7

FUN FACT: David Cronenberg called WINTER KEPT US WARM “the most influential movie of my life.” He was attending the University of Toronto and one of his classmates, David Secter, was writing and directing it. It was the first time Cronenberg realized that you can just go out and make your own movie.

9/15: catch @cipictures.bsky.social brand new restoration of the canuxploitation classic, EAST END HUSTLE when we screen it at LF3 / @amcinematheque.bsky.social 🎟️: tinyurl.com/23ehhre7

9/15: join us for EAST END HUSTLE. Newly restored by @cipictures.bsky.social & for fans of ANGEL, MS. 45, and gritty exploitation films. Catch at LF3 / @amcinematheque.bsky.social 🎟️: tinyurl.com/23ehhre7

Nicolas Ménard a conçu et réalisé le logo animé de l'ONF (la vignette qui apparait au début des films). Ce diplômé de l'UQAM aujourd'hui établi à Londres nous fait le plaisir de partager deux photos de tournage. 1/2

Winter Kept Us Warm 2025 Subscribers: This is NOT included in your Subscription. If you'd like to purchase it, you will need to login to view your special 50% off SRP pricing. This special limited edition slipcover

Just announced from @cipictures.bsky.social via @vinsyn.bsky.social: A first-ever Blu-ray edition of David Secter's landmark queer drama WINTER KEPT US WARM. I screened this restoration in TIFF's See the North series last year, and it's beautiful. Order yours ASAP.

…and composer Paul Hoffert, outtakes, deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes footage, Secter’s first short, Joel Secter’s career-spanning documentary about David Secter, a new essay by Chris Dupuis, and more.

In addition to our new 4K restoration, this 60th anniversary special edition includes new slip art by Seth, new commentaries featuring Secter, Thomas Waugh, and John Greyson, new interviews with Secter, actress Joy Fielding, executive producer Ronald B. Thomson…

A trailblazing queer classic and a milestone in independent film production, David Secter’s WINTER KEPT US WARM has been cited by David Cronenberg as the film that inspired him to become a filmmaker. Preorder now: vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/...

It’s a summer breeze into September sleaze

9/1 52 PICK-UP in 35mm

9/8 GONE WITH THE POPE in 35mm

9/15 EAST END HUSTLE

9/22 PSYCHOMANIA in 35mm

All shows 7 PM at the Los Feliz 3 / @amcinematheque.bsky.social

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A ★★★★ review of One Man (1977) 356: Solid thriller from the NFB about a journalist who stumbles onto a high powered story about kids getting sick from a dirty factory in Montreal. I really dug this one. It’s gritty, and the politic...

Movie a day!

A hell of a thriller from the NFB that still packs a punch. from those beauties at @cipictures.bsky.social, who packed it with a bunch of shorts i can't wait to dig into.

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YouTube video by Brian Saur Vinegar Syndrome Partner Label Blu-ray Haul Part 1: Canadian International Pictures & more!

Today on my @justthediscs.bsky.social channel, I’m talking about some recent @cipictures.bsky.social Blurays:
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Nice to see Gordon Pinsent getting some special treatment.