The Best Music of Matt Farley (In Five Albums)
Matt Farley should be famous. Listen to this In that one song, you can hear that Matt Farley crafts raw musical gems that reflect his place as a struggling artist, hopeless romantic, and lovable weirdo. And he's always introduced like this: Matt Farley has written...
ICC #120 – The Most Popular Films Ever: Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year! We talk about Gone with the Wind and Wizard of Oz. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to drop us a line at [email protected] WWW.PATREON.COM/THEIMPORTANTCINEMACLUB On this week's Patreon episodes, we...
ICC #118 – Wow! They Did That In One Long Take?
We discuss the long take and what it means to cinematic style through the films I AM CUBA, HARD BOILED, TOUCH OF EVIL, GOODFELLAS and all of our other favorites. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to drop us a line at [email protected]...
Cancon Fun: Ryan’s Babe (2000)
It bums me out when someone says "Oh dude, that movie is worse than THE ROOM!" It's a smug comparison that straightjackets and cheapens offbeat slices of cinema. What about the works of The Kuchar Brothers? The passionate visions of Ed Wood? Can't we all think...
Watch This: The Soldier (1982)
The Soldier is a John le Carré style cold-war spy story shot as a mood thick procedural punctuated by moments of hyper-violence (Featuring James Bond). It's as if Soderbergh made an action film in the early eighties and Sam Peckinpah shot the second unit. For a long...
Cancon Fun: Dreamland – A History of Early Canadian Movies 1895-1939 (1974)
A few months ago, I was surprised to read there was a 1974 documentary called Dreamland: A History of Early Canadian Movies 1895-1939. "Wow," I thought to myself "There was enough Canadian Cinema during that time to warrant a whole documentary?" No, not really. Canada...
Book Meet: Picture by Lillian Ross
“Picture by Lillian Ross is a brilliant and sagacious bit of reporting rendered in a most disarming style; simple on the surface, yet profound in its choice of incidents, which serves to delineate some of the finest bits of characterization written in our time.” -...
You’re Dumb If You Don’t Love Ready Player One
****SPOILERS AHEAD, BUT COME ON, THERE ARE NO SURPRISES IN THIS FILM**** This movie was made for me. It has a scene where a Gundam fights Mecha Godzilla with the Iron Giant! I LOVE ALL THOSE THINGS How can I hate it? Well... Ready Player One has three great...
Physical Media Forever: Class of 1999 (Blu-Ray)
Total Running Time Of Bonus Features: 80 minutes In the exploitation classic Class of 1984, the teachers have to deal with crazy punk kids who want them dead. In the video era gem, Class of 1999, the punk kids are the ones have to deal with the crazy teachers, who...
The Best Canadian Films of 2017
It's always frustrating to read a THE BEST FILMS OF ____ list, get excited about a film I've never heard of, and then discover that its only played at a few festivals and there are no immediate plans for its release. The reality of today’s media-choked world is that...
