From arthouse to Canuxploitation, CIP is devoted to resurrecting vital, distinctive, and overlooked triumphs of Canadian cinema.

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Resurrecting an essential chapter of Canuxploitation history, MAPLE SYRUP PIX, VOL. 1 features two classic sex comedies from Claude Fournier and Marie-José Raymond that helped define Québec’s “Maple Syrup Porno” movement. Preorder now: vinegarsyndrome.com/collecti…
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Digging THE STUNT DRIVER in theaters? Check out @thenfb's even crazier, even more unbelievable documentary about it, THE DEVIL AT YOUR HEELS, available on @cipictures's Blu-ray. 🏎️Order link in comments🏎️
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***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Now available to order on Blu-ray and shipping at the end of the month in the US from the @VinegarSyndrome website from @OCNDistro #PartnerLabel @CIPictures with a new variant slipcover: #Ghostkeeper (1981)! This special limited edition slipcover is limited to 500 units Note: The disc is identical to the previous release. vinegarsyndrome.com/products… #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #VinegarSyndrome #OCNDistribution #CanadianInternationalPictures
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In other GHOSTKEEPER news, we’re partnering with @DegausserVideo to bring the film back to videotape with another LED VHS release, following on the heels of THE AMITYVILLE CURSE tape that arrived in June. Pre-order now: vinegarsyndrome.com/products…
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Jim Makichuk’s GHOSTKEEPER gets a refresh this month with a catalogue slipcover featuring new art by @wesbenscoter. Preorder now: vinegarsyndrome.com/products…
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Tiki Tiki (1971, 1hr 11min) Streaming on Eternal Family in North America. A group of monkeys struggle to make an epic adventure film in Gerald Potterton’s psychedelic satire of early-’70s Hollywood counterculture. Blending animation with repurposed footage from the Soviet fantasy Aybolit-66, Tiki Tiki is a wildly inventive cinematic oddity. Directed by Gerald Potterton and Jack Stokes. Presented with @CIPictures eternal.tv/programs/tiki-tik…
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Delighted to have written the essay for this incredible box set from @CIPictures / @VinegarSyndrome @elephantcineqc
Resurrecting an essential chapter of Canuxploitation history, MAPLE SYRUP PIX, VOL. 1 features two classic sex comedies from Claude Fournier and Marie-José Raymond that helped define Québec’s “Maple Syrup Porno” movement. Preorder now: vinegarsyndrome.com/collecti…
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***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Now available to order on Blu-ray and shipping at the end of this month in the US from the @VinegarSyndrome website from @OCNDistro #PartnerLabel @CIPictures: #MapleSyrup Pix Volume 1 (1970/1974)! This special limited edition Blu-ray comes with a spot gloss hard slipcase + slipcover combo (designed by Robert Sammelin), includes a 40-page perfect bound book (limited edition only), and is limited to 2,000 units. Two classic sex comedies from Québec’s “Maple Syrup Porno” movement. TWO WOMEN IN GOLD (DEUX FEMMES EN OR) – Feeling neglected by their husbands, bored housewives Fernande (Naked Lunch’s Monique Mercure) and Violette (Panic’s Louise Turcot) embrace a new spirit of liberated promiscuity, delighting in casual sex with the men in their suburban neighbourhood. After establishing himself as a director of documentary shorts, Claude Fournier graduated to feature filmmaking with this explicit sex comedy written in collaboration with his wife Marie-José Raymond. More than simply confirming the commercial viability of the “Maple Syrup Porno” movement, Two Women in Gold went on to become one of the biggest box office successes in the history of Québec, inspiring countless imitators and a 2025 remake. THE APPLE, THE STEM AND THE SEEDS! (LA POMME, LA QUEUE ET LES PEPINS) – Riding high on the sexual vitality of their blossoming romance, Martial (Gina’s Donald Lautrec) and Louise (The Red Kitchen’s Han Masson) are thrown a curveball when Martial emerges from their wedding day with a crippling case of impotence. As Louise grows frustrated with her new state of celibacy, friends, family, and scientists join forces to help Martial recapture his virility. Four years after Two Women in Gold, Fournier and Raymond partnered with the “Maple Syrup Porno” pioneers at Cinépix to deliver an exercise in heightened bad taste and bawdy screwball absurdity that remains their most outrageous effort. directed by: Claude Fournier starring: Monique Mercure, Louise Turcot, Marcel Sabourin, Donald Pilon, Donald Lautrec, Han Masson, Roméo Pérusse, Janine Sutto 1970, 1974 / 194 min (combined) / 2.35:1, 1.85:1 / French DTS-HD MA 2.0 Additional info: Region A Blu-ray Scanned and restored by Éléphant - mémoire du cinéma québécois New Two Women in Gold audio commentary featuring writer/film programmer Justine Peres Smith and film historian Alex Rose New The Apple, the Stem and the Seeds! audio commentary featuring writer/film critic Ralph Elawani and Rose New introductions for both films featuring writer/producer Marie-José Raymond New interview with Raymond on Two Women in Gold New interview with Raymond on The Apple, the Stem and the Seeds! Maple Syrup Promo (1969-1975, 23 min.) - Theatrical trailers for Two Women in Gold, The Apple, the Stem and the Seeds!, and eight other “Maple Syrup Porno” films from filmmakers Gilles Carle, Claude Fournier, Denis Héroux, and Jean Pierre Lefebvre Maple Syrup Promo commentary featuring film programmer Marc Lamothe Alternate English language audio track for Two Women in Gold 40-page perfect bound book featuring a new essay by filmmaker/professor Éric Falardeau, a collection of “Maple Syrup Porno” posters, and new Motion Picture Purgatory comic strips on both films by Rick Trembles (Limited Edition exclusive) Double-sided poster Reversible cover artwork English SDH subtitles Trailer: youtu.be/y-tr2ZPbdSc vinegarsyndrome.com/collecti… #BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #VinegarSyndrome #OCNDistribution #CanadianInternationalPictures #CIP #ClaudeFornier
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such a privilege to be a part of this BEAUTIFUL set
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In addition to @elephantcineqc’s restorations of TWO WOMEN IN GOLD and THE APPLE, THE STEM AND THE SEEDS, this set includes new audio commentaries featuring Ralph Elawani, @redroomrantings, and Alex Rose, new interviews with writer/producer Marie-José Raymond...
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Check out the trailer for MAPLE SYRUP PIX, VOL. 1 here: youtube.com/watch?v=y-tr2ZPb…
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…Maple Syrup Promo (a collection of 10 “Maple Syrup Porno” trailers featuring optional commentary by Marc Lamothe), and more! The limited edition includes a slipcover + spot gloss hard slipcase with new art by Robert Sammelin…
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…and a 40-page perfect bound book featuring a new essay by filmmaker/professor Éric Falardeau, a collection of “Maple Syrup Porno” posters, and new Motion Picture Purgatory comic strips by Rick Trembles.
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‘70s Canucksploitation tax-shelter choice cut SUDDEN FURY plays several successive, increasingly desperate games of cat and mouse, leading to a final, stomach-churning, unresolvable question: under what circumstances could you bring yourself to end another person’s life?
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We're thrilled to be world premiering a gorgeous new 4K 30th anniversary restoration of Lynne Stopkewich's groundbreaking KISSED (1996) staring Molly Parker!
Bringing restored and rediscovered works back into the spotlight 🌟 Announcing the #TIFF26 Classics programme presented by @mubicanada, supported by @OntarioCreates and the @CanadaCouncil for the Arts 📽️
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Critics often talk about “transgressive” movies, with a wide latitude of definition for the term. But few could debate the label for “𝗞𝗶𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱,” Lynne Stopkewich’s tragic drama of death and desire. It electrified the 1996 Toronto International Film Festival and made a star of Molly Parker, who plays a necrophiliac with a funeral home job and serious boundary issues. A 4K restoration of “Kissed” is part of a fantastic TIFF Classics line-up, as is another transgressive totem, “𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗹𝘀” (1971), a director’s cut starring Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave. Another highlight of the section is Fei Mu’s “𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗻” (1948), a story of love and longing that inspired Wong Kar-wai’s “In the Mood for Love.” #TIFF26 #MUBI #film
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Reminder that our new 4K restoration of Brian Damude’s SUDDEN FURY is screening at @FilmLinc as part of Scary Movies XIV on Aug. 15, and writer/director Brian Damude will be there for a Q&A! Additional details here: filmlinc.org/films/sudden-fu…
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👻 🩸 Watch (if you dare!) the trailer for Scary Movies XIV (August 12-20), the city's premium showcase for boundary-pushing horror and genre-bending cinema! 🎟️: filmlinc.org/scary Please be advised that we are not responsible for any films that make your blood run cold! This series is sponsored by @mubiusa.
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The premiere of our new 4K restoration of Tibor Takács' METAL MESSIAH is just two days away. While Saturday’s @FantasiaFest screening is sold out, you can sample our restoration of this little-seen dystopian sci-fi rock opera in the new teaser here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=kpRTul…
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