Screening times:
Thursday, December 11, 8:30 PM
David Secter | Canada | 1965 | 81m
To celebrate the end of a wonderful year of Fleapit Cinema screenings and the 60th Anniversary of this beautiful film, Fleapit Cinema is proud to present the new 4K restoration of David Secter’s 1965 landmark queer romance, WINTER KEPT US WARM.
Made in Toronto by a 22-year old Secter and his friends just two years before the national decriminalization of homosexuality, Winter Kept Us Warm is a tender portrait of an unlikely friendship blossoming between two university students. Doug, a popular and cocksure sophomore majoring in economics, and Peter, a quiet freshman, new to the big city. The two meet and shortly after, find themselves doing everything together– until one of them begins to view their relationship a little differently.
Winter Kept Us Warm was the very first queer independent film made in Canada, as well as the very first English Canadian film to play at the Cannes film festival. David Cronenberg has also gone on record saying that the film is what inspired him to start making films of his own. While the list of historical significances could go on and on, we’d be remiss not to just call this film what it is; A gentle story about friendship and desire, shot on 16mm by a bunch of friends that had a few thousand dollars and their hearts on their sleeves.
Please join us for a warm evening filled with homemade cookies, warm apple cider, and this wonderful movie on the big screen. <3
“I can’t say that the University of Toronto led me to horror, but why did it lead me to cinema… WINTER KEPT US WARM is the most influential film of my life in that way.” – David Cronenberg
“Initially received as a curiosity, WINTER KEPT US WARM now looks like an absolute breakthrough in its treatment of queer characters as fully dimensional human beings.” – Norm Wilner, TIFF
“I see this unrequited love and the characters inability to articulate how they feel about one another, and I reflect on when this was made, when homosexuality was literally illegal and there were certain things you couldn’t say aloud. But this quiet longing feeling still resonates today, maybe as deeply as it did in the 60s, because to be queer is to be yearning, baby. WINTER KEPT US WARM forever.” – Laurie, Fleapit Cinema
Tickets $12.65 ($12 cash at the door if available)
If you’re unable to pay the standard rate, send fleapit.cine@gmail.com an email and we’ll reserve a spot for PWYC on the day. Movies 4 everyone. - FPC
