Ron Mann

1

The Last Pogo Jumps Again

Nov 01, 2013

The Last Pogo Jumps Again

2013 200 min 1 vues

A history of Toronto punk and new wave. A history of the first wave of Toronto punk rock and new wave music, from when the Ramones played in 1976 through to when the cops gave Teenage Head the boot at "The Last Pogo" concert in 1978.

Music

6.5

Grass

Sep 15, 1999

Grass

1999 80 min 35 vues

Documentary

6

Go Further

Mar 07, 2003

Go Further

2003 80 min 8 vues

"Go Further" explores the idea that the single individual is the key to large-scale transformational change. The film follows actor Woody Harrelson as he takes a small group of friends on a bio-fueled bus-ride down the Pacific Coast Highway. Their goal? To show the people they encounter that there are viable alternatives.

Documentary

6.6

Comic Book Confidential

Jun 14, 1989

Comic Book Confidential

1989 90 min 27 vues

"Go Further" explores the idea that the single individual is the key to large-scale transformational change. The film follows actor Woody Harrelson as he takes a small group of friends on a bio-fueled bus-ride down the Pacific Coast Highway. Their goal? To show the people they encounter that there are viable alternatives.

Documentary

5.3

Tales of the Rat Fink

Jan 01, 2006

Tales of the Rat Fink

2006 78 min 7 vues

This is an interesting look at the Life and Times of car customizer/cartoonist Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. Through the use of many graphically enhanced photographs and "talking" cars, it is a loving look at the car culture in Southern California from the Early 50's to Ed's Passing in 2001.

Documentary

7

Poetry in Motion

Sep 17, 1982

Poetry in Motion

1982 91 min 1 vues

More than 20 contemporary North American poets recite, sing, and perform their work. Early in the film, Charles Bukowski talks about the energy of poets and of a poem. These poets are the children of Walt Whitman and of Charles Olson, incantatory and oratorical, radical, sometimes incorporating contemporary political imagery. Black Mountain poets, the Beats, minimalists like John Cage, the wordless Four Horsemen, Tom Waits, and others capture aspects of poets as troubadours.

Documentary

6.3

Twist

Sep 18, 1992

Twist

1992 74 min 3 vues

Combining rare and often hilarious archival footage with engaging interviews, this groovy documentary chronicles the evolution of the titular postwar rock ’n' roll dance craze that took America by storm. Featuring singers and musicians who helped define the phenomenon like Hank Ballard, Chubby Checker, and Joey Dee, as well as clips from TV shows like “American Bandstand,” TWIST tells the overlooked story of how shaking your hips went from being a sign of social degeneracy to the dance form that rocked the world.

Documentary

8

Mighty Uke

Jan 11, 2011

Mighty Uke

2011 76 min 1 vues

Mighty Uke travels the world to discover why so many people of different nations, cultures, ages and musical tastes are turning to the ukulele to express themselves, connect with the past, and with each other.

Documentary

3

The Colour of Ink

Sep 13, 2022

The Colour of Ink

2022 105 min 1 vues

A feature film that follows Jason Logan, who creates unique inks for some of the world’s most celebrated artists by using highly unconventional materials, many of which he finds while foraging in locations ranging from the landfill beaches of Toronto’s Leslie Street Spit to the Mojave Desert. Among the more unusual materials he employs are weeds, rocks, and even rust. Logan’s fans range from the legendary Robert Crumb to New Yorker cartoonist Liana Finck and Japanese artist Koji Kakinuma.

Documentary

7

Marcia Resnick's Bad Boys

Jan 01, 1985

Marcia Resnick's Bad Boys

1985 5 min 1 vues

A study of New York-based photographer Marcia Resnick's all-male gallery.

Documentary

1

Flak

May 03, 2009

Flak

2009 30 min 1 vues

Canadian filmmaker Ron Mann attempts to capture the apolitical spirit of the 1970s by following several people as they wander the city, work, play street hockey, and sit around debating political change.

Documentary

1

Flak

May 03, 2009

Flak

2009 30 min 1 vues

Canadian filmmaker Ron Mann attempts to capture the apolitical spirit of the 1970s by following several people as they wander the city, work, play street hockey, and sit around debating political change.

Documentary

8

The Sadies Stop and Start

Oct 29, 2022

The Sadies Stop and Start

2022 23 min 2 vues

The Sadies Stop and Start captures a moment in time. That time was uncertain and dark. Still reeling from losing Dallas, we found out that Mike needed to have emergency wrist surgery. We needed to play these songs, not knowing if we would ever have the opportunity again. With one day's notice, documentary filmmaker Ron Mann and a stellar crew pulled together to help us capture these songs. Friends and family gathered to help out and show their support. James McKenty engineered in his mobile recording trailer, In Record Time Studio. The resulting film looked and sounded better than we could have hoped. We are thankful to share that Mike's surgery was successful and we are back out on the road and coming to a city near you.

Music

8

The Sadies Stop and Start

Oct 29, 2022

The Sadies Stop and Start

2022 23 min 2 vues

The Sadies Stop and Start captures a moment in time. That time was uncertain and dark. Still reeling from losing Dallas, we found out that Mike needed to have emergency wrist surgery. We needed to play these songs, not knowing if we would ever have the opportunity again. With one day's notice, documentary filmmaker Ron Mann and a stellar crew pulled together to help us capture these songs. Friends and family gathered to help out and show their support. James McKenty engineered in his mobile recording trailer, In Record Time Studio. The resulting film looked and sounded better than we could have hoped. We are thankful to share that Mike's surgery was successful and we are back out on the road and coming to a city near you.

Music

8

The Sadies Stop and Start

Oct 29, 2022

The Sadies Stop and Start

2022 23 min 2 vues

The Sadies Stop and Start captures a moment in time. That time was uncertain and dark. Still reeling from losing Dallas, we found out that Mike needed to have emergency wrist surgery. We needed to play these songs, not knowing if we would ever have the opportunity again. With one day's notice, documentary filmmaker Ron Mann and a stellar crew pulled together to help us capture these songs. Friends and family gathered to help out and show their support. James McKenty engineered in his mobile recording trailer, In Record Time Studio. The resulting film looked and sounded better than we could have hoped. We are thankful to share that Mike's surgery was successful and we are back out on the road and coming to a city near you.

Music

7

Dream Tower

Jan 01, 1994

Dream Tower

1994 47 min 2 vues

Dream Tower chronicles Toronto's most notorious social experiment of the sixties. Inspired by cultural critic Paul Goodman, philosophies of alternative education, and the decade's political upheaval, a group of young idealists established Rochdale as a free university and student residence in 1968. Rochdale's founders envisioned an enlightened community of self-educators, and the first 100 or so students, earnestly studying subjects such as Heidegger and anarchism in eight-hour seminars, made the dream seem possible. But they didn't anticipate that some people wouldn't know what to do with freedom, that hippies kicked out of Yorkville would overrun the building, or that drug-dealing motorcycle gangs would camp out in the lobby.

Documentary

7

Brakhage

Sep 17, 1998

Brakhage

1998 75 min 6 vues

BRAKHAGE explores the depth and breadth of the filmmaker’s genius, the exquisite splendor of his films, his magic personal charm, his aesthetic fellow travelers, and the influence his work has had on generations of other creators. While touching on significant moments in Brakhage’s biography, the film celebrates Brakhage’s visionary genius, and explores the extraordinary artistic possibilities of cinema, a medium mostly known only for its commercial applications in the form of narratives, cartoons, documentaries, and advertising. BRAKHAGE combines excerpts from Brakhage’s films and films of other avant-garde filmmakers (eg, George Kuchar, Jonas Mekas, Willie Varela, Bruce Elder, and others); interviews with Brakhage, his friends, family, colleagues, and critics; archival footage of Brakhage spanning the past thirty-five years; and location shooting in Boulder, Colorado and New York.

Documentary

1

Listen to the City

Sep 13, 1984

Listen to the City

1984 78 min 1 vues

Hupar wakes up from a 20-year coma. Disoriented, he soon meets Arete, a young poet and Sophis, a TV newswoman. Together, the three team up to expose corporate crime in a crumbling city scape of the very near future.

Drama

6.6

Imagine the Sound

Aug 24, 1981

Imagine the Sound

1981 91 min 5 vues

An examination, shown through both interviews and performances, of the avant-garde free jazz movement which reigned during the 1960s.

Documentary

6.4

Altman

Aug 01, 2014

Altman

2014 95 min 34 vues

An examination, shown through both interviews and performances, of the avant-garde free jazz movement which reigned during the 1960s.

Documentary

7.2

I Called Him Morgan

Sep 05, 2016

I Called Him Morgan

2016 91 min 47 vues

Part jazz history, part true-crime tale, Kasper Collin’s new documentary employs extensive archival footage and new interviews to tell the tragic story of the magnificently talented trumpeter Lee Morgan and his common-law wife Helen, who murdered him in a New York bar in 1972.

Music

1

In the Wake of the Flood

Aug 02, 2010

In the Wake of the Flood

2010 47 min 1 vues

On the eve of her 70th birthday, Canadian writer Margaret Atwood set out on an international tour criss-crossing the British Isles and North America to celebrate the publication of her new dystopian novel, The Year of the Flood. Rather than mount a traditional tour to promote a book's publication, Atwood conceived and executed something far more ambitious and revelatory--a theatrical version of her novel. Along the way she reinvented what a book tour could (and maybe should) be. But Atwood wasn't selling books as much as advocating an idea: how humanity must respond to the consequences of an environmentally compromised planet before her work of speculative fiction transforms into prophesy.

Documentary

6.6

Imagine the Sound

Aug 24, 1981

Imagine the Sound

1981 91 min 5 vues

An examination, shown through both interviews and performances, of the avant-garde free jazz movement which reigned during the 1960s.

Documentary

7.2

Carmine Street Guitars

Aug 30, 2018

Carmine Street Guitars

2018 86 min 10 vues

An examination, shown through both interviews and performances, of the avant-garde free jazz movement which reigned during the 1960s.

Documentary

1

In the Wake of the Flood

Aug 02, 2010

In the Wake of the Flood

2010 47 min 1 vues

On the eve of her 70th birthday, Canadian writer Margaret Atwood set out on an international tour criss-crossing the British Isles and North America to celebrate the publication of her new dystopian novel, The Year of the Flood. Rather than mount a traditional tour to promote a book's publication, Atwood conceived and executed something far more ambitious and revelatory--a theatrical version of her novel. Along the way she reinvented what a book tour could (and maybe should) be. But Atwood wasn't selling books as much as advocating an idea: how humanity must respond to the consequences of an environmentally compromised planet before her work of speculative fiction transforms into prophesy.

Documentary

1

Inside Kenk

Sep 03, 2019

Inside Kenk

2019 29 min 1 vues

Igor Kenk was known as the world's most prolific bicycle thief. His shop in Toronto notoriously sold stolen bikes back to their original owners. In 2008 he was arrested and jailed, after which he sold his shop and disappeared. Ten years later in Switzerland, Igor reflects on his past and his new life.

Documentary

5.6

Know Your Mushrooms

May 29, 2009

Know Your Mushrooms

2009 74 min 5 vues

KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS follows uber myco visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans (two of the more expert and unforgettably mercurial characters in the community) as they lead us on a hunt for the wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experiences attached to the mysterious fungi.

Documentary

5.6

Know Your Mushrooms

May 29, 2009

Know Your Mushrooms

2009 74 min 5 vues

KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS follows uber myco visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans (two of the more expert and unforgettably mercurial characters in the community) as they lead us on a hunt for the wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experiences attached to the mysterious fungi.

Documentary

6.6

Comic Book Confidential

Jun 14, 1989

Comic Book Confidential

1989 90 min 27 vues

KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS follows uber myco visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans (two of the more expert and unforgettably mercurial characters in the community) as they lead us on a hunt for the wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experiences attached to the mysterious fungi.

Documentary

6.6

Comic Book Confidential

Jun 14, 1989

Comic Book Confidential

1989 90 min 27 vues

KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS follows uber myco visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans (two of the more expert and unforgettably mercurial characters in the community) as they lead us on a hunt for the wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experiences attached to the mysterious fungi.

Documentary

6.6

Comic Book Confidential

Jun 14, 1989

Comic Book Confidential

1989 90 min 27 vues

KNOW YOUR MUSHROOMS follows uber myco visionaries Gary Lincoff and Larry Evans (two of the more expert and unforgettably mercurial characters in the community) as they lead us on a hunt for the wild mushroom and the deeper cultural experiences attached to the mysterious fungi.

Documentary

6.3

Twist

Sep 18, 1992

Twist

1992 74 min 3 vues

Combining rare and often hilarious archival footage with engaging interviews, this groovy documentary chronicles the evolution of the titular postwar rock ’n' roll dance craze that took America by storm. Featuring singers and musicians who helped define the phenomenon like Hank Ballard, Chubby Checker, and Joey Dee, as well as clips from TV shows like “American Bandstand,” TWIST tells the overlooked story of how shaking your hips went from being a sign of social degeneracy to the dance form that rocked the world.

Documentary

6.3

Aug 23, 2008

2008 min 3 vues

This fictional series purports to chronicle the life and adventures of Jeremy, a Canadian and self-proclaimed "pro gamer".

Comedy