Seriously though…
The best “erotic” film I’ve ever seen involving women with women was called She’s Safe! At the time that I watched it (years ago now), I was under the impression that it was all Canadian. However, while digging up cites for the SDMB, it turns out that only some of the erotic shorts and public service announcements targeting safer sex messages to lesbians actually came out of Canada.
I still think it is worth mentioning though, considering how extremely rare it is to find any sort of decent dyke porn. 0:)
I Love a Man in Uniform.
I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing (very hard to find nowawadays. Quircky.) In fact, I really like any of the fims by Mermaids’s director, Particia Rozema her When Night is Fallings also has the same lyrical pace and White Room is interesting but hasn’t aged well (I saw it again recently and thought …“meh.”)
Also films by Robert LePage (he’s the guy in Jesus of Montreal who has no eyebrows and who really wanted to do Hamlet’s soliloquy. He’s also an accomplished director). Le Confessional is one andLe Polygraphe. His Nô is cool and provides some insight into the mood of 1970 Quebec.
There is also a great version of Eugene O’Neils play Long Days Journey into NIght. The Stratford cast was so good they decided to do a film verison.
And you’ll of course want to see the zany, Bruce McDonald road flicks (and cult favourites):
Highway 61 and Roadkill and I think it was a trilogy capped by Hard Core Logo.
Atom Egoyan’s films are plentiful and consistently good (though there are a few that I didn’t like so much – wasn’t fond of Calendar).
Another quirky road trip movie (this one in French) is August 32nd on Earth.
The Lotus Eaters and Beautiful Dreamers are very Canadian. (You can tell by the lighting and the number of Stratford actors involved.
:smack: Forgot Montréal vu par, six separate stories that all take place in Montreal.
Being at Home with Claude… this film has aged interestingly over the years.
Therea re also films by Jean-Claude Lauzon… Um, he has a particular kind of gritty style, hard to describe. I think you’ll either like his work or hate it. I saw Léolo with my ex-boyfriend, he really liked it, I was indifferent. I did like Un Zoo la Nuit despite its seediness (not the most appealing film), but I can’t honestly say I would recommend it because it certainly would not be to everyone’s tastes.
Oh and I love all films by Denys Arcand (Fatcat is named after him).
I third or fourth Last Night. It is funny, beautiful and undeniably Canadian. It is also one of the few films to ever leave me crying, but in such a way that had be watching it over and over just to feel like that again. I think it was Roger Ebert who said that the difference between Canadians and Americans is the difference between this film and Armageddon.
Ginger Snaps is another winner, and waydowntown is a nice little movie that fits somewhere between Office Space and the Edmonton Mall.
And, of course, the Degrassi movie is great. But that’s a given.
You’re right. I can’t immediatley think of many Western Canada flicks either. I know that the Lotus Eaters is set out there.
Oh, I also just remembered Map of the Human Heart with Jason Scott Lee as an Inuit who becomes a pilot in WWII and is in love with a Metis girl. It’s actually a Canada/ Australia/ UK/ France co-production. Not outstanding, but well-crafted.
:smack: Also forgot about Thiry-Two Short Films about Glenn Gould another co-production. François Girard was also the director of The Red Violin.
Sorry about the multiple posts. Stuff just keeps popping to mind. If I was at home I could give you even more (I collect Canadian cinema.)
I’m going to jump all over several bandwagons here, and second (third, fourth, tenth) a number of titles…
I recommend the Bruce McDonald films:
Highway 61
Hardcore Logo
and
Roadkill
You should also see:
The Last Night
Waydowntown
FUBAR
Goin’ Down The Road
And another fine Canadian film, although may not actually answer the OP (it was filmed in Vancouver, but “takes place” in Seattle)… The Changeling is a really good “scarey” film.