April 8, 2008
Go Over The Top With John Paizs
The Over The Top Festival will play Toronto April 30th to May 4th (including special screenings of Crispin Hellion Glover’s What Is It? and It is Fine: Everything Is Fine!, and the musical portion of the event we've previously previewed) but in advance of that, the Over The Top Fest and The Royal Cinema are showing a special retrospective, The Films of John Paizs, this week.
The retrospective features Paizs’s 1999 50s science fiction spoof Top Of The Food Chain and his 1985 comedy Crime Wave in a double bill, preceded by Springtime in Greenland, his 1981 short. Paizs will be in attendance.
The internet, despite being, you know, "the internet," doesn't actually have that much information about Paizs work on it, but, for example, Berge Garabedian at JoBlo.com raves that Top Of The Food Chain is "the movie that Mars Attacks! should have been!" and someone over at Canuxploitation calls Crime Wave "truly one of the best Canadian movies" and claims that it should "be viewed by everyone interested in Canadian film."
The Films of John Paizs starts on Thursday, April 10th, at 7 p.m. at The Royal Cinema (608 College Street).
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I love Top of the Food Chain. Sometimes it seems like I'm the only one who's ever even heard of it, let alone seen it.
Hi, I'm that "someone" from Canuxploitation. Thanks for the link.
For anyone interested, I have a few free passes left for Thursday's Paizs retrospective courtesy of The Royal. You can get them in this thread at our forums.