SKIDLOVE

DISTRIBUTION COMING

2011-03-24T00:30:00.000-04:00

SKIDLOVE is currently finalizing deals for cable broadcast as well as multi-platform online distribution.

Stay tuned!

OLIO FESTIVAL 2010

2010-09-15T14:39:00.003-04:00

SKIDLOVE is proud to be a part of the awesome Vancouver multi-arts OLIO FESTIVAL 2010!

Check it out on Saturday September 25 2010! One screening only and seriously LIMITED SEATING in a private little mini-theatre! It's gonna be intimate as all hell...

SKIDLOVE is programmed on a double bill with Harmony Korine's TRASH HUMPERS so you can totally get a deal or just get a wristband for the whole weekend and check out all kinds of bands/films/art and comedy!

All the info you need for tickets is here...

OLIO FESTIVAL

Check out the trailers here...

TRASH HUMPERS

SKIDLOVE

Screening Info:

Saturday September 25 2010
428 Pacific Blvd. - Club Viva
7:30 PM

SEE SKIDLOVE IT UNTIL the 26th!

2010-08-24T14:06:00.004-04:00

Ryan Arnold will be in attendance on Tuesday the 24th and Thursday the 26th! Come take at look at the last few chances to see the film in the theatre proper!

Here's what Jason Anderson @ The Toronto Star had to say...

Jason Anderson
Special to the Star

SKIDLOVE

Starring Jayme Keith, Ryan Arnold and Roger Bainbridge. Directed by Ryan Arnold. 80 minutes. At the Royal. Subject to Classification.

Such are the tools available to filmmakers today that the most intrepid directors can create feature films with the same amount of money that others spend on monthly parking spaces.

Ryan Arnold obviously didn't let a tiny budget impede his ambitions. However, a capacity for multi-tasking proved to be handy. Serving as writer, director, producer, editor, animator and star, the Vancouver-bred and Toronto-based filmmaker made his debut feature on the (very) cheap in locations in and around Parkdale.

A resulting quality of rough-hewn vitality is one of the primary virtues of Skidlove, a grubby but occasionally inspired indie drama that makes its local debut with a five-night run at the Royal starting Sunday.

Termed an “anti-romance” by its creator, Skidlove tells the unhappy story of twentysomething lovers Rennie (Ryan Arnold) and Page (Jayme Keith, who won a prize from the Whistler film festival for her performance).

Precise details about their lives are hard to come by due to Page's penchant for secrecy and the movie's own fragmentary nature — the images of people on screen are often accompanied only by eerie drones or dialogue from different scenes.

It gradually becomes clear that Page is involved in a bizarre corner of Toronto's black market, one devoted to the sale of young women's bodily fluids and dirty underwear. That, of course, is a very polite way of describing her arrangement with Ray (Roger Bainbridge), her increasingly high-strung connection to this little-known trade for fetishists.

Page's understandable reticence about divulging her source of income creates an atmosphere of mistrust in her relationship with Rennie. When not sullenly riding his bicycle through town or working on paintings in his apartment, Rennie tries to get Page to open up.

(Our glimpses of a thickly bearded and clearly self-destructive Rennie sometime in the future are omens of the nastiness that's to come, however.)

And it does get nasty, though Arnold's efforts to be transgressive have too little context or motivation to have the power they should. Likewise, the thinness of Skidlove's story and characters isn't entirely disguised by the often striking cinematography by Chris Clifford, the elliptical, non-linear editing or the jarring bits of animation that fracture the action even further.

Even so, this seedy hipster tragedy wears its micro-budget well and establishes Arnold as a promising and unusually determined new talent.

Check the article here - Toronto Star Skidlove

TORONTO PREMIERE @ THE ROYAL!

2010-08-04T14:14:00.004-04:00

SKIDLOVE will play the Royal Cinema in Toronto for 5 nights from August 22 - August 26!

Showtime is 7pm across the board at the College Street theatre in the heart of Little Italy.

Check back for planned events surrounding some selected screenings...

VANCOUVER SCREENING JUNE 2010

2010-06-14T16:44:00.003-04:00

Tuesday June 22 2010

THE CHINA CLOUD theatre presents

a special screening of the Feature Film

SKIDLOVE

A film by Ryan John Arnold
Scored by Steven Donald Robert Nelson of Machu Picchu

2009 - 78 mins

Official Competition Festival of New Cinema Montreal 2009
Winner - Special Jury Prize - Whistler Film Festival Borsos Competition 2009

Admission 5$
Door at 8pm
Showing at 9pm

Hosted by Cameron MacLeod with Ryan Arnold in attendance

"SKIDLOVE" & "J'ai Tué Ma Mère"

2010-04-01T12:34:00.008-04:00

Mr. Davidson @ Ottawa Film Review had some interesting things to say about the film again, specifically drawing lines to Xavier Dolan's "J'ai Tué Ma Mère".

Check out the full article here -- OFR-An Unfortunate Kinship

Also, Mr. Davidson has caught the attention of Cinema Scope columnist Mark Peranson on his latest top ten list!

Q & A WITH OTTAWA FILM REVIEW

2010-01-18T10:52:00.006-05:00

Since the completion of the Skidlove it has premiered at the Nouveau Cinema Film Festival in Montreal and at the 2009 Whistler Film Festival, where the Borsos Competition Jury awarded Jayme Keith with a Special Jury Prize for her central performance in the film. I wrote a review of the film after seeing it in Montreal, which can be found here, as well Skidlove made it into my ten best film list of 2009.

The following is a question and answer exchange I had with Ryan about his film Skidlove.

David Davidson: What were the neighborhoods and areas you were filming in? I am thinking in particular of the scenes by the train tracks, the park, the downtown streets, and the biking scenes. These shots are all visually captivating: The train tracks had a very discomforting feeling towards them; the dead squirrel lying on them in the beginning of the film is an unsettling use of foreshadowing, the park scene where you confront Jayme Keith remind me of the personal confessionals in the cinema of Andrei Tarkosvky, and the shots of the downtown streets made me feel like I was actually there.

Ryan Arnold: We shot the film in west Toronto proper, specifically Parkdale, Roncesvalles Village, High Park and the Junction. There’s an abundance of tracks throughout this whole corridor. I like train tracks, just hanging out getting drunk on them is a pretty decent party in itself for my tastes, which we do in the film. I don’t find them discomforting myself as most of the time they’re very still, save the obvious example...

Continue reading the article @

Ottawa Film Review - Q/A - Ryan Arnold

WHISTLER PHOTOS/VIDEOS

2009-12-24T17:35:00.008-05:00

Ryan Arnold, Ivan Reitman, Stacey Donen, Niv Fichman and Jessica Pare @ the Whistler Film Festival Awards Brunch.

Ottawa Film Review names us in their Top Ten of 2009. Check back for a Q/A with them soon.

Ottawa Film Review 2009

Just got sent this link too. Ryan talks film festivals, 'crap shoots' and SKIDLOVE.

WFF-Meet The Artist

WFF AWARDS SPECIAL JURY PRIZE

2009-12-08T23:28:00.003-05:00

The Borsos Competition Jury awarded JAYME KEITH with a SPECIAL JURY PRIZE for her captivating and mysterious central performance in the film SKIDLOVE. The award was presented by actress Jessica Pare, producer Niv Fichman and jury president Ivan Reitman.

WhistlerFilmFestival

Interviews/print/photos/press to come later this week.

WHISTLER SCREENING TIME & LOCATION

2009-11-10T15:51:00.003-05:00

ONE SCREENING ONLY! BE THERE!

FRIDAY DECEMBER 4 2009 - 1:30PM
Village 8 Cinemas - Theatre 3
4295 Blackcomb Way
Whistler, BC V0N 1B4

Q/A to follow with Ryan Arnold (Director) & Steve Nelson (Composer).

SKID-YIN LEE

2009-11-06T20:36:00.002-05:00

Getting listed under others is better than nothing...I suppose.

SKID-YIN LEE

WHISTLER FILM FESTIVAL 2009

2009-11-02T22:51:00.005-05:00

SKIDLOVE has been selected as one of 6 films to compete for Best New Canadian Feature Film at the Whistler Film Festival from Dec 3 - 6 2009.

Whistler Film Festival - Press Release

Whistler Film Festival - 6 Films

HORIZONS

2009-10-30T12:54:00.003-04:00

Montreal was a success. Unfortunately, the gonzo-cam was lifted mid-festival so event photos will have to wait.

Big announcements in the coming weeks...

OFFICIAL FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CINEMA WEBSITE

2009-10-02T19:50:00.008-04:00

Nouveau Cinema

FNC -- TICKETS and SCREENING INFO

2009-09-30T21:15:00.001-04:00

Tickets:

AGORA HYDRO QUÉBEC DU COEUR DES SCIENCES DE L’UQAM
175, avenue du Président Kennedy
Corner of Jeanne-Mance street
Subway PLACE DES ARTS ; Bus 80

Then the screenings will be on :

Friday October 9, at 21:00 (Cinéma Ex-Centris, 3536 boulevard Saint-Laurent) (screening number 31 for reservation)
Sunday October 11, at 13:30 (Ex-Centris) (82)
Saturday October 17, at 13 :00 (Impérial theatre, 1430, rue Bleury) (252)

There is a number to call for information: 1 866 844 2172

Tell some friends and budbuds.

GAZETTE & IONCINEMA SEPT. 22

2009-09-24T17:50:00.005-04:00

Link: Montreal Gazette

IonCinema

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE - FNC

2009-09-24T12:14:00.005-04:00

FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CINEMA PRESS RELEASE 2009

Here it is, and it outlines the films we'll be screening with and competing with. Peruse at your leisure, there's going to be lots of great stuff -- and SKIDLOVE -- is programmed to compete for the INTERNATIONAL SELECTIONS - Louve D'Or - Quebecor!

Link: Nouveau Cinema

First Connection

2009-09-18T13:52:00.002-04:00

Our friend Vanessa sent this link. Merci.

Link: Think Contra

SKIDLOVE - Teaser Trailer & Poster

2009-09-17T11:58:00.008-04:00

WATCH HQ on YOUTUBE HERE : YouTube

WORLD PREMIERE

2009-08-22T12:52:00.004-04:00

FESTIVAL DU NOUVEAU CINEMA
Montreal - OCT 7 - 18 2009

SKIDLOVE

writer/producer/editor/director RYAN ARNOLD
director of photography CHRIS CLIFFORD
composer STEVE NELSON
sound design BRIAN COLLINS
art/animation production MONO-MATTE
sound recordists TIM MOORE / MORGAN TAMS
hair/make-up/effects make-up TRACY LAI
art direction GRACE MORGAN

featuring

Jayme Keith
Ryan Arnold
Roger Bainbridge
James Fraser Algie
Chris Swimmings
Vanessa Gronowski
Elysse Connery

STAY TUNED.