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COMING SOON
MONDAY NIGHTS: Showtime is 7:30pm
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JUNE 2011
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Monday, June 6th
The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
Cinefest is here to present what you won't find elsewhere, and in the case of this Monday's movie, what it might not even have occurred to you to look for. Jools and Lynda, the Topp Twins, are a cultural institution and a national treasure in New Zealand, and this documentary may expand the range of those titles to 'worldwide'.
They're musicians: big-voiced, forceful, and outspoken musical sisters who have carved successful careers by doing what most people only dream of: exactly as they please. That much and more is made clear in The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls, Leanne Pooley’s unabashedly admiring documentary about a double act that defies logic as well as convention. Merging old-fashioned comedy routines with up-to-the-minute politics — all of it enabled by fun-loving personalities and a gift for rousing original songs — the ladies emit a genuine warmth that continues to engage audiences year after year.
The Topps defy any straightforward, common sense description. “They should be commercial death, but instead they're the life and soul of our national party” their friend Paul Horan says. Attired in men’s suits and yodeling up a storm, delivering homespun monologues about their dairy farm upbringing and crooning parochial ditties like “Calf Club Day,” the Topps — out-and-proud jokes aside — could have been Phil and Don Everly playing on “The Lawrence Welk Show.” Yet their act has touched a cultural nerve in their native land, with its anarchic send-ups of Kiwi familiars like the boozy farmer and the daffy bowling lady delivered with much affection and no rancor.
The film follows their lives and career, starting with their farming childhood in Huntly in rural New Zealand and moving on through their various political causes and personal struggles. It includes live performances of the music-and-comedy-and-dance combination for which they've won many awards.
So there it is. If you do want to see at least one movie this year about hilarious, stroppy, yodelling lesbian twins from New Zealand, The Topp Twins is the one to choose.
The Ontario Film Review Board site does not have a rating for this film, but it would seem to be quite suitable for a general audience. It runs 84 minutes, and is in heavily accented English..
Monday,June 18th
Father of My Children
(on request, very likely)
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July 2011
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Monday, July 4th
Meek's Cutoff
Monday, July 18th
London River
(on request, not confirmed) |
August 2011
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Monday, August 1st
tba
Monday, August 15th
High Cost of Living
Monday, August 29th
Beginners
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Cinefest greatly acknowledges the support of our local sponsors.
Bald Photographer Studio & Gallery
Blizzmax Gallery
Brian Clark Architect
By Chadsey’s Cairns
Canadian Submarine Management Group
Casa Lucia Bloomfield
Chestnut Park Real Estate
Closson Chase Winery
East Lake Editorial Services
Elizabeth Crombie/Royal lePage
Fifth Town Cheese
Handyman Andy
Gentle Yoga with Pierrette
Jackson's Falls Schoolhouse
Liz Biz PR
Mad Dog Gallery
Oeno Gallery
peta hall gallery
Rose Haven Farm Store
Rosemary J Brown, Artist
Shattered Studio
Snowy Owl Productions
The Regent Cafe
Thirty Three vines
Travellers’ Tales Books
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