Denis Villeneuve’s Dune, Leonard Cohen doc screen for free outdoors

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Summer time’s not over but. A number of free out of doors movie screenings give us extra causes to spend just a few extra evenings below open skies within the coming weeks.

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Denis Villeneuve’s Dune and a documentary on Leonard Cohen’s traditional tune Hallelujah are among the many movies exhibiting subsequent weekend as a part of the Estival du nouveau cinéma, a late-summer program working Thursday to Sunday on the Esplanade Tranquille in Quartier des Spectacles. The collection is a teaser for the 51^st Competition du nouveau cinéma, which takes place Oct. 5 to 16. And don’t miss Martin Scorsese’s crime thriller The Departed, which screens Sunday on the Lachine Canal, closing out one other season of the favored Movie Noir au Canal collection.

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Villeneuve’s big-budget adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi traditional was launched final fall to important acclaim and field workplace success, paving the way in which for a sequel to the 2½ hour opus, to be launched Nov. 17, 2023. Manufacturing on Dune: Half Two started in July.

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The director initially conceived the difference to be shot in two elements, as proof by the onscreen title “Dune: Half One” proven at the start of the primary movie. The $160 million blockbuster is the Quebec director’s crowning achievement up to now.

The film pulled in $401.8 million in ticket gross sales and earned 10 Academy Awards nominations, together with finest image and finest tailored screenplay, and gained six Oscars, together with finest unique rating, finest movie enhancing, finest manufacturing design (for Quebecer Patrice Vermette) and finest cinematography.

Dune screens Sept. 4 at 7 p.m. on the Esplanade Tranquille, on the nook of Clark St. and Ste-Catherine St. W., in Quartier des Spectacles. The grounds open at 6 p.m. every day. A whole lot of deck chairs shall be put out, and there shall be a themed bar, meals vehicles and “shock occasions showcasing native expertise,” in line with the competition.

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The Estival du nouveau cinéma begins Sept. 1 at 7 p.m. on the Esplanade Tranquille with a screening of Quebec director-producer Roger Frappier’s L’Infonie inachevée, a 1973 documentary about an experimental music/poetry collective led by Raoul Duguay and Walter Boudreau, that was a part of Quebec’s counterculture motion on the time.

Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand of God screens Sept. 2 at 7 p.m. The entertaining coming-of-age story is predicated on the Italian filmmaker’s experiences of romance and household as he tried to determine what he was going to do along with his life. The screening shall be adopted by an Italo disco DJ set by Xarah Dion.

Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Music traces the genesis of the singer-poet’s iconic tune. Utilizing a mixture of interviews, archival footage and Cohen’s handwritten notes, it follows his epic wrestle to get the phrases and music good.

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Do you know Cohen grappled with the tune’s lyrics for seven years, penning 180 verses within the course of? Or that his label Columbia initially didn’t wish to launch the tune or his 1984 album, Numerous Positions? Be taught all that after which some when the movie screens Sept. 3 at 7 p.m. For extra data on the collection and the competition, go to nouveaucinema.ca

The much-loved Movie Noir au Canal collection was supposed to finish its season final Sunday with Martin Scorsese’s acclaimed 2006 movie The Departed, however the screening was postponed to this Sunday as a result of climate. So that you’ve received one other likelihood to see this contemporary movie noir starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a cop making an attempt to infiltrate the mob, whereas a mobster (Matt Damon) infiltrates the police. Showing alongside them are Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Vera Farmiga and Alec Baldwin. It gained Oscars for finest image, finest director, finest tailored screenplay and finest movie enhancing, and earned Wahlberg a nomination for finest supporting actor.

It screens Sunday at sunset (8 p.m.) at Saint-Patrick Sq., within the Sud-Ouest, however the enjoyable begins at 6:45 with a efficiency by trombonist Mo Dibo. The movie shall be launched by movie critic and movie noir specialist Helen Faradji. For extra data, go to fb.com/filmnoiraucanal

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