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July 20, 2011 
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Located at 100 and 200 de Gaspe on Ile-des-soeurs (known as Nuns Island to anglophones), the Mies Van der Rohe Buildings – a duo of luxury high-rises directly opposite eachother by the edge of the St-Lawrence River – were transformed into the dystopian closed community of David Cronenberg’s Shivers.
Among the first apartment buildings built on Nun’s Island, they were viagra medication the work of renowned Chicago-based architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969). These 15-story towers dating from 1962 are typical the simplistic style van der Rohe adopted following his transition to Bauhaus in 1938.
Check out the street view here, and compare it to the film still below – not much has changed!
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SHIVERS screens on July 20th at 6:45pm, following a Lifetime Achievement Award ceremony and live tribute panel to Andre Link and John Dunning’s Cinepix Films. Read about the Tribute HERE and read about Shivers HERE. Read more about this year’s “Maple Syrup Thrills” spotlight series on Cinepix Films HERE.
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Kier-La Janisse is a film writer, free sample pack of cialis publisher, producer, acquisitions executive for Severin Films and an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Cockfight: A Fable of Failure (2024), House of Psychotic Women: An Autobiographical Topography of Female Neurosis in Horror and Exploitation Films (2012/2022) and A Violent Professional: The Films of Luciano Rossi (2007) and has been an editor on numerous books including Warped & Faded: Weird Wednesday and the Birth of the American Genre Film Archive (2021) and Satanic Panic: Pop-Cultural Paranoia in the 1980s (2015). She wrote, directed and produced the award-winning documentary Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021), and produced the acclaimed blu-ray box sets All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror (2021) and The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle (2023).
