Category Archives: Carbon Arc Cinema

10 great films screened at Carbon Arc Cinema

For those who may not know, Carbon Arc has been offering an alternative to the multiplex in Halifax since 2010, screening the best international, independent, and Canadian cinema to a discerning audience looking for films to both challenge and entertain. I've been there for nine years as a volunteer, but this marks my first full…Read More

Carbon Arc Cinema review: Copa 71

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, where our mandate is to show independent Canadian, international, and documentary films. I'm part of a group of programmers who choose the films we screen.  Directed by James Erskine and Rachel Ramsay | Written by Erskine, Ramsay, and Victoria Gregory | 90 min | Carbon Arc…Read More

Carbon Arc Cinema review: Here

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, whose mandate is to show the best in Canadian, international and documentary film. I'm part of a group of programmers who choose what we screen. Written and Directed by Bas Devos | 82 min | Belgium | Carbon Arc Cinema  One of our programming team called this…Read More

Carbon Arc Cinema review: Once You Know

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, part of a group of programmers who choose the films we screen. This weekend we're screening a 4K restoration of Guy Maddin's 1990 film, Archangel, and a documentary from 2020, largely in French, called Once You Know. Directed by Emmanuel Cappellin | 104 min | Carbon Arc…Read More

Carbon Arc Review: Fallen Leaves

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, part of a group of programmers who choose the films we screen. An earlier version of this review appeared during my coverage of the 2023 Atlantic International Film Festival.  Written and Directed by Aki Kaurismäki | 81 min | Carbon Arc Cinema  Since the early 1980s…Read More

Carbon Arc Review: The Mission

I am the Artistic Director at Carbon Arc Cinema, part of a group of programmers who choose the films we screen.  Written and Directed by Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss | 103 min | Carbon Arc Cinema  Not to be confused with the Roland Roffé epic from 1986, this is a documentary centred on the…Read More