We discuss the directorial work of Gordon Parks, with an emphasis on The Learning Tree (1969) and Shaft (1971), and his incredible career as a photographer/musician/writer/renaissance man. WWW.PATREON.COM/THEIMPORTANTCINEMACLUB We have a PATREON! Join for five dollars...
We discuss the third genius of Silent Comedy and his films Safety Last, The Freshman and Speedy. Plus, a long conversation about Lloyd's final picture: The Preston Sturges' directed/Howard Hughes produced talkie The Sins of Harold Diddlebock....
We discuss the career of everyone's favorite rubber-faced comedian - Jim Varney. From the highs of Ernest Goes Jail to the lows of Ernest Goes to Africa - it's all here! We have a PATREON! Join for five dollars a month and get a brand new exclusive episode of ICC...
The Important Cinema Club welcome special guests Mathew Kumar (Co-Host of The Loose Cannons Podcast) and Emily Miling (Producer and Composer of Impossible Horror) to discuss our favorite (not-so-favorite) Christmas films. We talk Jingle All The Way, Home Alone 2: Lost...
We visit the magical time of Poverty Row studios with a discussion of Hitler's Madman, The Scar, Macbeth, The Golden Stallion and The Ghost Chasers. For more information on the retrospective visit: newsite.theroyal.to/movies We have a PATREON! Join for five dollars a...
I set out to make a list of important Canadian films that have never been properly released (which you can read below after this preamble), but there was one question that kept popping up in mind as I did it, one that I couldn't help but obsess over every time...
You ready to experience the wild world of Canadian Cinema in the most exciting form of all?! Book form?! I don’t simply mean tomes about Cronenberg and Egoyan. I’m talking about stuff like the memoir by the director of Alien Thunder, the history of STUDIO D: the...
We talk writer/director John Waters with Richelle Charkot - The Programming Director at The Royal Cinema and the curator of the upcoming This Filthy John Waters Retrospective. For more information on the retrospective check out: newsite.theroyal.to/movies We have a...
Humongous isn’t that big. He's more on the large side, a little misshapen, but to call him humongous would be plain insensitive. He was brought up to believe that humanity was evil, so it's only logical that he brutally murders everyone that stumbles onto his island...
We talk about the films of master surrealist, dramatist and cineaste Louis Buñuel. We have a PATREON! Join for five dollars a month and get a brand new exclusive episode of The Important Cinema Club every week. This week's Patreon subscribers get an entire episode on...
