Sunday, June 3 / 12pm - 5pm
Crime Wave
Directed by John Paizs
1985, Canada, 80 min
We are digging out our archive of rare movie posters and putting them on sale – often hard to find, many are rare!
We’re also blowing out our books & DVDs of Winnipeg Film Group films – prices are cheap like borscht!
BONUS! FREE screening of John Paizs’ Crime Wave at 2pm!
Crime Wave synopsis:
One of the greatest and yet most perversely overlooked debuts in English Canadian movie history, writer-director John Paizs’s CRIME WAVE announced the birth of a new genre in Canuck cinema: what cultural critic Geoff Pevere dubbed “prairie postmodernism.” CRIME WAVE centers around an awkward loner, Steven Penny, who turns out bizarre scenarios for colour crime movies. Steven wants to turn on the best colour movie ever, but he has a problem, he can only write beginnings and ends to his scripts. No middles! Living above a family garage in suburbia and befriended by the landlord’s ten-year-old daughter, we see excerpts from a number of Steven’s scripts, zany ideas based on get-rich-quick schemes. Finally frustrated by his creative block, he sets out for Kansas to meet Dr. Jolly, the script doctor.
