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starring: Joel Bissonnette, Lindy Booth, Albert Chung, Colm Feore, David Hewlettdirected by: David Weaver
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0821575508605
Format: Color, NTSC
Label: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Manufacturer: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Release Date: October 22, 2002
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 1384
Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm
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Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - A unique screenplay that yields surprising results!
You may think that you have seen this screenplay before;one hotel room with different people occupying it at different times...but you haven't!
The genius in this Canadian Indie is in the precise manner in which each of these vignettes is started,stopped and then resumed.Room 720 is the room of a Cosmopolitan Hotel that has had several different things occur in it from 1921 to 2000.Seven distinct stories are told and each starts,gives a little info,and then flits to another time period ... Read More
Rating:  - Century Hotel the movie
Great movie to watch. You have to watch the whole thing form the beginning or you could get lost. David Hewlett was great.
Rating: - An interesting, quircky movie
Century Hotel is a movie about a hotel room, and seven stories about the people who have stayed in Room 720 over nearly a century. The writers and director made conscious decisions about the cinematic styles for each era, and even though none of the stories was very long by necessity, they brought the moment into the light and gave you enough for you to hang your imagination on. They went for edgy and succeeded in some ways with stories about love, betrayal, beginnings and endings. The stories are told ... Read More
Rating: - Despite flaws and uneven quality, I found it enjoyable
This 2001 Canadian art film is composed of several short stories which all take place in the same hotel room over the last century. Century Hotel is a low budget film and a good platform for aspiring actors, most of whom were unknown to me with the exception of Mia Kushner who I recognize as the character who plays Jenny on "The L Word".
Some of the stories work. Some don't. And the quality of the acting is mixed. The stories are not interrelated but yet we see them in pieces which make ... Read More
Rating:  - Interesting idea with mixed results
I feel like this plot has been done before - vignettes about the various occupants of a single hotel room - but I was still intrigued by this movie. The setting is a hotel in a cosmopolitan Canadian city. The stories - set in 1921, 1933, 1945, 1953, 1968, the late '80s to early '90s, and the turn of the millennium - do not follow each other in chronological order but are broken into short scenes and jumbled together in a creative if sometimes confusing (especially early on) manner.
As the box cover says, ... Read More
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