For locally filmed masterpieces, collect Tubi … and otherwise – Winnipeg Free Press

If the legendary frugality of Winnipeggers is to be believed, the average city dweller would be drawn to a free streaming service like Tubi. It costs nothing but the patience required to sit through it, even if it is ungodly Judge of beauty advertisements.

But the service has a more tangible appeal. Tubi includes a surprising wealth of good movies that are hard to find on DVD or other streaming services like Michael Powell. Looking TomAlfred Hitchcock 39 steps and Alexander McKendrick The sweet smell of success also of Charles Laughton Night of the hunter and Michael Apted's 1983 thriller Gorky Park.

Best of all, the service is a treasure trove of films, shorts and TV series made in Manitoba. Like all of Tubi's offerings, these range from great to obscure. (Think of Tubi as a video store with its share of '90s classics and more than its share of laziness.)

In honor of Canadian Film Day on April 17th, here's a sampling of Manitoba films (and more) available now on Tubi.

Reputation

Filmed in Winnipeg and southern Manitoba in the fall of 2004, Capote was a rare offshore production in which the late Philip Seymour Hoffman won an Oscar for his starring role. Future Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty) came to Manitoba in 2001 to shoot scenes for the Russian subthriller K19: The widower On frozen Lake Winnipeg with Harrison Ford. Famous landlord author Guy Maddin has several movies on Tubi including The saddest music in the world (2003), starring Isabella Rossellini and Keyhole Starring Jason Patrick (2011).

Back to 1941, Michael Powell's 49th parallel Laurence Olivier and Leslie Howard star in the thriller about German soldiers trying to sneak into the still-neutral United States from Canada. Manitoba lands include Winnipeg, Ely, Hudson Bay and the Hutterite Colony.

TV series

A great comedy series Less than kind (2008-13), about Winnipeg's troubled Belcher family, has a full version of everything that doesn't work. 2008 is the only season of the series House partyWritten by Sarah Constable and Matt Kippen, the novella stunt features a novel look at an out-of-control house party through the eyes of different attendees per episode. Sixteen candles adds Rashomon.

Tubi also offers three different reality series including Ice Vikings, Quest for the Bay and eight seasons Winnipeg Comedy Festival.

Comedy

Check out former Winnipegger Colleen Friesen's 2018 dark comedy Sorry for you Loss, about a son (Justin Barta) who tries to fulfill his mission to bury his father's ashes on the field of his favorite football team. Rocker Blaine Thurier (The New Pornographers) co-wrote and directed 2014's Darker Comedy. Adolescent passionIt's about a guy who wants to lose his virginity before his Satan-worshiping parents sacrifice him.

Set in Texas but filmed in Manitoba. A very horrible wedding (2017), the sequel to Del Shores Bad lives Their moral reverse sees women committed to mounting gay marriage in the community. The worst crime of 2017 Hitman never dies about a group of killers who entered the house of a porn producer.

2001 comedy A woman is a hell of a thing Angus Macfadyen, Penelope Ann Miller and Ann-Margret reunite for a comedy about a gambler forced to change his ways. Warning: Unable to view.

TV movies

Who knew two different female designers were in town to star in two different TV movies? Jean Smart played an FBI agent Killer Instinct: From Agent Candice DeLong's files (2003) and that same year starred Annie Potts as a mother who sets out to ensnare her daughter's online predator. Protecting Our Children: The Julie Posey Story.

A who's who of local actors rub shoulders with the likes of Gina Gershon, Randy Quaid and James Brolin in Disaster. Category 7: The End (2005). 2012 docudrama We were children creates an essay by recounting the horrors of residential schools.

Horror

2005 revenge thriller Tamara Jenna Dewan stars as a teenager resurrected from the dead to exact revenge on her brutal tormentors. Director Martyrs Helmer Pascal Logie, A story in a land of ghosts (2008) presented a fractured reality that occurs during a horrific home invasion.

Distribution (2012) is a post-apocalyptic drama in which survivors of a nuclear holocaust take refuge in a disaster shelter and turn against each other. Thriller for young adults I will see you again (2017) takes place in a world where a cataclysm causes a rift, where the living world shares the same plane as ghosts. Bella Thorne is a young woman who receives a dire warning from the other side.

2015 thriller Dark forest amateur action in the four-woman-camp-maniac stalking genre. A relatively inspired, nay, 2011 horror comedy Father's Day Coming from the good folks at Astron-6, a Winnipeg collective dedicated to the 80s horror aesthetic well represented on Tubi. While not technically a Manitoba film, Astron-6 vets Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski are the brainchild of Lovecraftian, Ontario-based Claws. Empty (2017).

Local color

In addition to Maddin, Tooby has several proudly local films under her belt, including the 2019 Winnipeg Film Group existential comedy. Tapeworm directed by Fabian Velasco and Milos Mitrovic. Manitoba Connection (2020) is a 35-minute doc celebrating the Winnipeg punk scene of the 1990s and early 2000s. Battle (2012) – Erwin Chartrand's 45-minute NFB documentary about a high school teacher who tries to help a few at-risk students by putting them in the boxing ring.

Action

Not to be confused with the 2021 local film Bob Odenkirk Nobody (it's now available on Netflix) Nobody (2007) is an existential noir thriller about a criminal (Kostas Mandilor) whose last victim is exile. Black ice (1992) Michael Nouri stars as a taxi driver who decides to help a woman (Joanna Pakula) on the run from killers. The always entertaining Michael Ironside is also there.

Drama

Newly Selfish, Aaron Paul came to Manitoba to play a fugitive who befriends a deaf boy in the 2019 drama. The parts you lost. Mary Elizabeth Winstead stars as a small-town girl who travels to Chicago to make it big on the burlesque scene in the 2008 dance film. Make it happen, Tessa Thompson also stars (Avengers: Endgame).

Nicolas Winding Refn's 2005 Lynchian film Fear X John Turturro stars as a husband investigating his wife's death. It's… frustrating.

Refn himself gave the harshest review of the film. “Artistically, it was a failure on every level,” Refn said Free press In a 2016 interview.

“I was too young, too arrogant, too selfish, I thought I was walking on water. I learned the impossible the hard way.”

Another note: Tubi has a very obscure movie Winnipeg Run (1972) starring Lance Henriksen (Foreigners) as a troubled Vietnam vet sets out to heal himself through the magic of snowmobile racing. But it wasn't actually filmed in Winnipeg. It was apparently shot mostly around Thief River Falls, Minn. Henriksen himself called his screen debut the worst film he had ever made.

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