Made in MTL: Montreal takes the spotlight in Beau Is Afraid
We spoke with local cast and crew members from Ari Aster’s epic about shooting in Montreal, everywhere from a dilapidated corner of Ste-Catherine E. to Senneville to Cap Saint-Jacques.
Montreal played itself in David Cronenberg’s classic horror movie Rabid
David Cronenberg shot three films here in the late ’70s, but Montreal got the most screen time in Rabid.
Montreal was the setting for all-star 1970s disaster movie City on Fire
Leslie Nielsen, Henry Fonda and Ava Gardner co-starred in a film that features the most expensive set ever built in Canada.
Hayden Christensen is a memorable manchild in the Montreal-shot Shattered Glass
A still-compelling look at a world where fake news had yet to run rampant.
Pretentious ’90s sex farce Afterglow was shot at Habitat 67 and the Ritz
The streamable Alan Rudolph film stars Nick Nolte, Julie Christie, Jonny Lee Miller and Lara Flynn Boyle.
Montreal was the scene of a crime against cinema: the making of Beastly
This Twilight-adjacent take on Beauty and the Beast is torture from minute one.
Montreal-shot movie Zoe is some pretty pretentious sci-fi
Made in MTL is a monthly colomn about films shot in Montreal.
The Montreal-shot Heist does exactly what it’s supposed to
Though it has many similarities with The Score (also made in Montreal at the same time), Heist succeeds by doing less.
Unfortunately for all of us, Ivana Trump’s For Love Alone was shot in Montreal
This awful ’90s TV movie depicts a heavily fictionalized version of Ivana’s life, featuring a stand-in for the American weasel she married and divorced.
The mere existence of Montreal-shot thriller Abandon defies logic
Katie Holmes and a stack of talented character actors star in this film by Traffic screenwriter Stephen Gaghan.