Available from Saturday 29/08 7pm (BST) - Tuesday 01/09 11:59pm (BST) Crime Wave has optional English SDH and French SDH <img src="https://storage.googleapis.com/eventive-static/c17da1aa7a5206e6669fc9e9ed92ff21.jpg">

One of the greatest and yet most perversely overlooked debuts in movie history, writer-director John Paizs’s Crime Wave announced the birth of a new genre in Canadian cinema: what cultural critic Geoff Pevere dubbed “prairie postmodernism.” Crime Wave centers around an awkward loner, Steven Penny, who turns out bizarre scenarios for colour crime movies. Steven wants to turn on the best colour movie ever, but he has a problem, he can only write beginnings and ends to his scripts. No middles! Living above a family garage in suburbia and befriended by the landlord’s ten-year-old daughter, we see excerpts from a number of Steven’s scripts, zany ideas based on get-rich-quick schemes. Finally frustrated by his creative block, he sets out for Kansas to meet Dr Jolly, the script doctor. Content Warnings | Crime Wave contains comic depictions of mild gore; comic reference to and depiction of kidnapping.

Crime Wave

Documentary, originally broadcast 16th March, 2008. Featured interviews with John Paizs, producer Greg Klymkiw and Eva Kovacs reveal why&nbsp;Crime Wave&nbsp;is often considered to be Canada’s quintessential film comedy. On Screen!&nbsp;is a documentary series that explores and celebrates the Canadian film industry’s most important cultural milestones. Each one-hour program showcases a quintessentially Canadian feature film and the work of the people who made it; artists and auteurs who blazed new paths, opened doors and set new standards for a modern generation of story tellers yet to come. Along with clips from the films, each episode features interviews with members of the cast, crew, and nationally known critics, who reveal the behind-the-scenes trials of how each movie evolved from page to screen. Occasionally sad, sometimes hilarious, but always poignant, these are the stories that changed the face of Canadian film forever.

On Screen! Crime Wave

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