Movies: Denis Villeneuve

In the 2130s, a team of astronauts is tasked with intercepting a mysterious 50-by-20-kilometre cylindrical alien starship that enters the solar system....

Everyone has seen a Trumbull sequence in Stanley Kubrick's "2001 A Space Odyssey", Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" or Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". Recognized and respected SFX maestro, he has also directed two full-length fi...

Denis Villeneuve created this film during his participation in the third season of La Course Destination Monde, a show broadcast on Radio-Canada in which contestants travelled to different regions of the world to make short films about their journeys...

This piece offers a fascinating discussion of how the music was made and why it compliments the story and tone....

Marc Labrèche, the Director of this documentary, himself an author, actor and host, meets other creators to ask them these questions that inhabit him. Do artists have an expiry date? Do we create our best works in our youth or, on the contrary, does ...

In the harsh, wintry woods of rural Quebec, Bruce (Thomas Haden Church), a down-on-his-luck snowplow operator, accidentally kills a man during a drunken night joyride. Stricken with panic, he hides the body and takes to the deep wilderness in hopes o...

A man journeys through time and space in an increasingly desperate and unlikely attempt to reunite with his fiancée. However, small incidents wreak havoc on the space-time continuum, driving their wedding date further away....

A politician has just a couple of minutes to convince people to vote for him, and tries to seduce his audience with promises he thinks they want to hear....

A look at the source story, core human themes, the challenges and process of bringing the story to the screen, casting, creating realistic characters within their fields of expertise, alien ship and being design, costumes, alien language construction...

Explores a ticking-clock scenario about what would happen in the event of a nuclear war, based on dozens of exclusive new interviews with military and civilian experts who built the weapons and have been privy to the response plans and have been resp...

The cast and crew of 'Enemy' guide the audience through the making of the film and the possible meanings behind its enigmatic imagery....

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An experimental short about the relationship between music and color....

In Jordan, in the heart of the Middle East, Iraqi, Palestinian and Lebanese refugees are working on the filming of "Incendies", an adaptation of Wajdi Mouawad's play. Whether extras or onlookers, these exiles once experienced scenes very similar to t...

Hope explores the fragmented violence of war seen through the eyes of a General on his deathbed. A mind accustomed to a life on the battlefield surrenders to a stream of consciousness, mixing death, brutality, and finally, one last gesture of hope....

A playful stab at mass hypnosis. Celebrating the mesmerizing power of movies, mischievous glimpses into a subconscious world inhabited by Bergman, Spielberg... and Bo Derek....

Poetry and cinema merge as 11 filmmakers bring to life 21 poems by Québécois poets....

This compelling documentary explores Canadian film culture and tries to discover what defines Canadian film through interviews with notable filmmakers....

A discussion of the film's use of sound, its positioning as a character in the film, what it represents, technical details of the sound design, and more....

A man who is paranoid and deluded by his own conspiracies that someone out there is after him must come to terms with the root of his suffering....