The Rubber Gun

This was really good it kept a vibe even with it's low budget. It reminded me of the Safdie brothers "Heaven knows what" or Jerry Schatzberg's "The panic in needle park" with a very solid performance by Stephen Lack that really makes this a movie worth checking out. Some…

pirateneckbeard

manages to be distinctly Canadian while also bearing many of the hallmarks of transgressive american cinema of (and even ahead of) its era, which makes it all the more clear that underground culture, and its aesthetics and politics, isn't as defined or harbored by geography…

Justin LaLiberty

Fascinating, often hilarious Canadian produced movie about a community of drug using/drug dealing artists and weirdos (more proto-punk than hippie) in Montreal. Feels lose and improvised, but the hyper-stylized lingo of "the family" has to be somewhat scripted. Stephen Lack…

laird

FANTASIA #4 Restoration debut Introduced by Stephen Lack and DP Frank Vitale THE RUBBER GUN feels and looks just like Wim Wenders did one of his B-side slice-of-life films while on exchange one semester in Montreal... I just saw several of Wenders's low-key urban social…

Lynn Betts

Sociology student Allan Moyle falls in with an assemblage of omnisexual drug dealers/consumers who share a flat in Montreal and form a borderline cult around hyperverbal artist and front man Stephen Lack, all while a unit of lumpy police officers barely bothers to conceal…

Ira Brooker

Easily my favorite Canadian film. Most Americans know more about Russia than they do about Canada. A shame, for our northern neighbors have always given us a wealth of strange movies. Remember the plot of THE PRODUCERS, where in order to make money they must lose…

Bret Berg

Fascinating as both an end-of-an-era film and as a companion to Montreal Main, here focusing more on the dynamics of a small group rather than the larger scene they inhabit. I know very little about Canadian culture, but it's interesting just how much this lines up with…

Liz

"You're oot! You're definitely oot!" Intermittently fascinating, mostly annoying faux-verite, made by a student theater group, about a bunch of Canadian drug dealers lead by a massively irritating Stephen Lack, who spends nearly every ounce of his screen time "rapping"…

matt lynch

After the screening, Allan Moyle talked about one of the actor’s non-actor parents having a hard time performing in a scene because "they didn’t understand that being real is cool.” Moyle’s a soft-spoken guy, but I’ve never heard a louder statement. I can’t think of…

Jesse Knight