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European Union 17th Annual

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17th Annual

European Union F i l m Fe s t i v a l

Europe without the Jetlag! ow in its 17th year, The Cinematheque’s annual European Union Film Festival spotlights acclaimed new and recent films from across greater Europe. Presented in partnership with the Embassies and Consulates of the European Union’s member states, our 2014 festival includes entries from 27 of the 28 EU countries (Malta is the exception). Each member has carte blanche to select the film that will represent it, making for a dynamic showcase of contemporary European cinema that impresses as much with its diversity as with its accomplishment. International festival favourites abound, but so too do major hometown hits not yet widely seen abroad. Join us for an entertaining and enlightening state-of-the-Union celebration!

eufilmfestival.com Updates, trailers, and advance tickets Program subject to change

November 21–December 4

Acknowledgements: For assistance in making this Vancouver presentation possible, The Cinematheque thanks Diodora Bucur, Press Officer, Delegation of the European Union to Canada (Ottawa); Tom McSorley, Executive Director, and Jerrett Zaroski, Programmer, Canadian Film Institute (Ottawa); and the Embassies and Consulates of all EU member states: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, and United Kingdom. For its kind support in organizing this year’s festival celebration during the current Italian presidency of the European Union, we are grateful to the Consulate General of Italy in Vancouver.

Italy

A Special Day

Rocks in My Pockets

Italy 2012. Dir: Francesca Comencini. 89 min. DCP

Latvia/USA 2014. Dir: Signe Baumane. 88 min. DCP

(Un giorno speciale)

(Akmeņi manās kabatās)

“Roman Holiday meets Before Sunrise in Francesca Comencini’s charming A Special Day, a brisk two-hander for youthful, likeable leads Giulia Valentini and Filippo Scicchitano” (Neil Young, Hollywood Reporter). Aspiring celebrity and TV addict Gina (Valentini), resident of a shabby Roman suburb, will do whatever it takes to have a showbiz career. When she arranges an “audience” with a powerful politician, attractive Marco (Scicchitano) is the chauffeur who picks her up. The politico gets stuck in parliament, leaving Gina and Marco with nothing to do but kill time – and, perhaps, kindle romance. Director Comencini’s genial film premiered at Venice. Veteran cinematographer Luca Bigazzi’s other recent credits include Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty and Kiarostami’s Certified Copy.

Latvian-born, U.S.-based filmmaker Signe Baumane’s breathtaking animated memoir, showcased this fall at VIFF, is Latvia’s official submission to the upcoming 87th Oscars. “A crazy quest for sanity,” Rocks in My Pockets mixes family saga, a personal account of inherited mental illness, and mini-history of 20th-century Latvia to fascinating, fantastical, and frequently funny effect. “A narrative of extraordinary complexity and density, stuffed with irony, humour, and tales-within-tales . . . Inspired by animators such as Jan Svankmajer (for his surrealism) and Bill Plympton (for his silliness), Baumane employs a unique, beautifully-textured combination of papier-mâché stop-motion and classic hand-drawn animation for this feature debut, which required more than 30,000 drawings” (Alissa Simon, Variety).

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 – 8:20 PM

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21 – 6:30 PM

Latvia

Slovakia

Romania

The Candidate

Déjà Vu

Slovakia/Czech Republic 2013. Dir: Jonás Karásek. 106 min. Blu-ray Disc

Romanian director Dan Chişu makes bold use of point-of-view perspective and extreme long-take shooting in this tale of Mihai, a man in midlife crisis. Mihai’s marriage is on the rocks, and he’s heading to the airport with his mistress. Mihai is never actually seen onscreen; instead, POV camerawork captures the other characters reacting to him. Like Hitchcock’s Rope, the film creates the illusion of having been shot in a single take without cuts. “One of the most promising of Romania’s ‘second tier’ of filmmakers – his works have yet to achieve the attention [given] Cristi Puiu or Cristian Mungiu – Chişu has proved himself every bit as adept and versatile a director as his most famous countrymen” (Next Projection).

(Kandidát)

This satirical political thriller and box-office hit from Slovakia tells “a real story that never happened.” In Bratislava, young Blondacik (Michal Kubovčík) is hired to run surveillance on various prominent figures during a presidential campaign. The identity of his employer is a mystery. Another mystery emerges: why has advertising hotshot Lambert (Marek Majeský) agreed to run the campaign of a lacklustre, no-hope candidate? And why is he betting the farm that his man can win the race? “The Candidate is a witty political farce depicting not only dirty political and marketing practices but also the reality of a post-communist society transformed into a money-ruled, unscrupulous, and individualistic society” (CinEast FF, Luxembourg).

Romania 2013. Dir: Dan Chişu. 75 min. Blu-ray Disc

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23 – 7:00 PM

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 – 6:30 PM

Czech Republic

Lithuania

Clownwise

How to Steal a Wife

Czech Republic/Slovakia 2013. Dir: Viktor Tauš. 120 min. DCP

Lithuania 2013. Dir: Donatas Ulvydas. 90 min. DCP

(Klauni)

(Kaip pavogti žmoną)

Czech director Viktor Tauš’s poignant film, the tragicomic tale of a superstar clown trio reuniting for one last show after decades of estrangement, received its Canadian premiere at VIFF this year. “A long-dormant team of three former mimes acts out hidden (and not so buried) streams of regret and resentment as they head toward an uneasy reunion in this darkly funny and not-very-nostalgic tale of creativity, political compromise, and the indignities of aging. It was co-written by Petr Jarchovský, who collaborated with Jan Hrebejk on Divided We Fall and many other great Czech films. . . Highly recommended” (Ken Eisner, Georgia Straight).

A box-office hit at home, this lively Lithuanian comedy comes from director Donatas Ulvydas, whose historical epic Fireheart: The Legend of Tadas Blinda (screened in our 2012 EUFF) broke domestic box-office records in Lithuania three years ago. When an investment banker unjustly accused of stealing millions is released from prison, he has nowhere to live but in the apartment of his ex-wife and her new husband. The resulting comic conflict is heightened by the unsolved mystery of the missing 300 million litas (the Lithuanian currency). Based on a play by Croatian writer Miro Gavran, and starring popular Lithuanian actors Giedrius Savickas, Rimantė Valiukaitė, Ramūnas Cicėnas, and Inga Jankauskaitė.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22 – 8:35 PM

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24 – 6:30 PM

Poland

Luxembourg

Stones For the Rampart

The Road Uphill

Poland 2014. Dir: Robert Gliński. 112 min. DCP

Tiny Luxembourg, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany, is home to two of the world’s best professional cyclists, brothers Andy and Fränk Schleck. This intimate documentary follows the siblings and their racing team, Leopard Trek, as they compete in the 2011 Tour de France. Expectations were high and the pressure enormous: Andy had been runner-up the previous two years. Director JeanLouis Schuller’s beautifully-shot film captures the physical, mental, and emotional toil of competing in one of the world’s elite sporting events. With Fabian Cancellara, Stuart O’Grady, and Jens Voigt.

(Kamienie na szaniec)

Director Robert Gliński’s adaptation of author and resistance fighter Aleksander Kamiński’s legendary “non-fiction novel” is one of the year’s most eagerly-awaited Polish films. Kamiński’s 1943 book, still highly revered in Poland, was published by the underground press during the Nazi occupation. It tells of the exploits of young Alek, Zośka, and Rudy, three school friends who make the dangerous decision to join the Grey Ranks, a paramilitary boy-scout troupe carrying out small acts of sabotage against the Germans. Gliński’s hair-raising film version was shot by noted cinematographer Pawel Edelman, cameraman on Roman Polanski’s recent films (including The Pianist, for which Edelman was Oscar-nominated). All Ages Welcome Admission for under-18s is $9 - membership not required Regular admission/membership requirements in effect for those 18+ SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23 – 4:30 PM

Luxembourg 2011. Dir: Jean-Louis Schuller. 90 min. DCP

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24 – 8:20 PM

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Denmark

This Life

Christmas Tango

Denmark 2012. Dir: Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis. 122 min. Blu-ray Disc

Greece 2011. Dir: Nikos Koutelidakis. 102 min. DCP

(Hvidsten gruppen)

(To tango ton Hristougennon)

Actress Anne-Grethe Bjarup Riis’s debut feature as a director won audience awards at several European festivals and became one of the highest-grossing Danish films in years at home. In Nazi-occupied Denmark in 1943, innkeepers Marius (Jens Jørn Spottag) and Gudrun (Bodil Jørgensen) and their grown children agree to help the local resistance in secreting men and material dropped from British planes. What seems at first a thrilling adventure for the family soon takes a much darker turn. Bjarup Riis’s film, based on the true story of eastern Jutland’s Hvidsten resistance group, is assured and admirably avoids melodrama. “Rivalling the big-budget resistance epic Flame and Citron, this is an intimate, affecting historical drama” (Alissa Simon, Variety).

Based on Yannis Xanthoulis’s novel, this crowd-pleasing romantic drama – winner of Greek film awards for art direction, costumes, and music – begins with an unexpected Christmas encounter and then flashes back to the 1970s. “Christmas Tango takes place during the Greek junta as four people struggle with illicit desires at a military camp. Zoi has long fallen out of love with her husband, the Colonel, and turned her attention to handsome lieutenant Stefanos. As Stefanos fervently learns to dance the tango so he may impress Zoi at the upcoming Christmas party, his dance instructor and fellow soldier Lazarou feels a surge of unwanted and confusing emotions he is reticent to recognise, let alone reveal” (Greek Film Festival, Melbourne).

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25 – 7:00 PM

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27 – 6:30 PM

Germany

Cyprus

F*ck You Gohte

Block 12

(Fack ju Göhte)

Cyprus/Greece 2013. Dir: Kyriakos Tofaridis. 94 min. Blu-ray Disc

aka Suck Me Shakespeer Germany 2013. Dir: Bora Dağtekin. 118 min. Blu-ray Disc

The year’s most popular German film was released in many English markets as Suck Me Shakespeer – hardly a precise translation of Fack ju Göhte, the original title, but you probably get the drift! Expect irreverent, over-the top comedy in this Bad Teacher-style tale of convict and poorspeller Zeki (Elyas M’Barek), newly released from prison. Discovering that a high-school gym has been built over the spot where his stolen loot is buried, Zeki passes himself off as a substitute teacher in order to retrieve his stash. In-joke for cinephiles: there’s a ditzy blonde student named Chantal Akerman! WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26 – 6:30 PM

Austria

(Oikopedo 12)

Bollywood-style song-and-dance routines are among the pleasures of this Cypriot-Greek satirical comedy, which takes in the financial crisis, global petropolitics, and dysfunctional family saga. “English spy satellites discover a massive oil reserve on abandoned mining land in Cyprus, but cantankerous and hermitic retiree Costantas Rizites (Costas Demetriou) and his wife Ellou (Karmen Rouggeri) lay claim to it first. When Costantas and his uproariously dysfunctional family stubbornly refuse to sell out, they become the centre of a faux siege as cross-continental oil powers compete against each other for Con’s signature on a much-coveted mining lease . . . Block 12 is a delightful comedic romp (Greek Film Festival, Melbourne). THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27 – 8:30 PM

Sweden

Two-Seater Rocket

The Last Sentence

Austria 2013. Dir: Hans-Jörg Hofer. 92 min. Blu-ray Disc

Sweden 2012. Dir: Jan Troell. 126 min. DCP

(Zweisitzrakete)

The debut feature from young Austrian director Hans-Jörg Hofer is a light-hearted romantic comedy set in Vienna. Press photographer Manuel (Manuel Rubey) and interpreter Mia (Alissa Jung) are best buddies. Manuel would like more from the relationship, but is too afraid of ruining the friendship to confess his feelings. When Mia falls for an Italian pilot and muses about moving to Rome, Manuel realizes it is high time to make a move – and decides he needs to aim sky-high! With the help of his hapless friends in a self-help group for jilted men, he launches a daring plan to make the space-age dream of Mia’s childhood come true. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26 – 8:45 PM

Greece

(Dom över död man)

Swedish Old Master Jan Troell, director of the Oscar-nominated epics The Immigrants and The New Land, released his latest historical drama at age 82. Bond villain Jesper Christensen plays anti-fascist Swedish journalist Torgny Segerstedt, who alarmed his countrymen during the war years by being a ferocious critic of Nazi Germany, at a time when Sweden was officially neutral. Segerstedt’s own words provide the epigraph that starts the film: “No human being can withstand close scrutiny.” Troell’s hero is a deeplyflawed man whose messy personal life stands in stark contrast to the rectitude of his public crusade. The film’s luminous blackand-white cinematography evokes the classic Swedish cinema. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28 – 6:30 PM

Finland

The Netherlands

Road North

Boys

Finland 2012. Dir: Mika Kaurismäki. 110 min. Blu-ray Disc

Netherlands 2014. Dir: Mischa Kamp. 78 min. DCP

(Tie pohjoiseen)

The latest quirky comedy from Mika Kaurismäki (older brother of Aki) tackles one of the veteran Finnish director’s favourite subjects: male bonding. When long-lost reprobate Leo (Vesa-Matti Loiri) turns up on the doorstep of uptight concert pianist Timo (Samuli Edelmann), the son he abandoned 35 years before, the stage is set for a wild-ride road trip full of comic mishaps and unexpected revelations. Road North was a major box-office hit at home, becoming the most successful movie by either Kaurismäki in Finland to date. “A jaunty comedy . . . Kaurismäki’s best films have dealt with music or road trips. His latest combines both elements with plenty of heart” (Alissa Simon, Variety). FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28 – 9:00 PM

France

(Jongens)

Sports movie meets coming-out coming-of-age tale in Dutch director Mischa Kamp’s enchanting Boys, a gay-teen romance praised for its gorgeous visuals, strong performances, and touching storyline. Teen athletes Sieger and Marc are training for an important track competition when they start falling for each other. For Sieger, a reserved 15-year-old dealing with family troubles after the recent death of his mother, these feelings for Marc are a source of happiness. They are also a cause of confusion, as Sieger hasn’t yet admitted to himself or others that he is gay. “Boys comes alive with a charming sensitivity to the stop-start unpredictability and headiness of first love” (Vancouver Queer Film Festival). All Ages Welcome Admission for under-18s is $9 - membership not required Regular admission/membership requirements in effect for those 18+ SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30 – 4:30 PM

Hungary

One of a Kind

aka My Soul Healed By You

(Mon âme par toi guérie)

France 2013. Dir: François Dupeyron. 124 min. DCP

An unhappy workingman must contend with his inheritance as a faith healer in this naturalistic, matter-of-fact drama about miraculous powers from veteran French director François Dupeyron (Monsieur Ibrahim). Weeks after the death of his mother, depressed, self-loathing Frédi (Grégory Gadebois, in a César-nominated performance) is grappling with the fact that he now has her gift: he can cure the sick and injured with his hands. His own sick soul, however, is in serious need of treatment. Drawn to affluent alcoholic Nina (Céline Sallette), Frédi decides that by helping her he can heal himself. The film is based on director Dupeyron’s own novel, Chacun pour soi, Dieu, s’en fout. Special Guest: Director of Photography Yves Angelo will be in attendance to introduce One of a Kind. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29 – 6:30 PM

Portugal

The Ambassador to Bern (A berni követ)

Hungary 2014. Dir: Attila Szász. 76 min. Blu-ray Disc

The brisk debut feature of Hungarian director Attila Szász dramatizes a little-known historical incident that took place in the aftermath of the failed Hungarian revolution of 1956. In August 1958, two months after the execution of former Hungarian prime minister Imre Nagy, an attack was launched on Hungary’s embassy in Bern, Switzerland. In Szász’s suspenseful thriller, two armed émigrés (played by Tamás Szabó Kimmel and József Kádas) break into the embassy and take the ambassador (János Kulka) hostage. Their motivations and intentions are murky. As police and demonstrators gather outside, a tense standoff plays out. The fine script is by Norbert Köbli, who also penned the entertaining political thriller The Exam, screened in last year’s EUFF. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30 – 6:30 PM

Ireland

The Gilded Cage (La cage dorée)

France/Portugal 2013. Dir: Ruben Alves. 90 min. DCP

A popular hit in both France and Portugal, the debut feature by Portuguese-French director Ruben Alves tackles issues of class, ethnicity, and immigration with great comic flair. A large ensemble cast enlivens this warm-hearted tale of Maria (Rita Blanco) and José (Joaquim de Almeida), working-class Portuguese immigrants who have lived for decades in an upscale Parisian neighbourhood, employed as concierge and handyman, respectively, in a swanky apartment building. When an unexpected change of fortune makes possible their dream of moving back to Portugal, the couple’s friends, neighbours, and employers start scheming to convince them to stay. The film was released in some countries as Portugal, Mon Amour. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29 – 9:15 PM

Ballymun Lullaby

Ireland 2011. Dir: Frank Berry. 72 min. Digibeta video

A dedicated music teacher who has worked for years in hardscrabble Ballymun, the Republic of Ireland’s only high-rise housing estate, is profiled in this touching documentary. Through times of dramatic transformation in the community, Ron Cooney and his Ballymun Music Program have continued to have an extraordinary impact on the neighbourhood’s children. Ballymun native Glen Hansard, of The Swell Season and Once fame, is among those testifying here to Cooney’s passion and commitment. The film follows Cooney and three of his students as they collaborate with composer Daragh O’Toole on an original musical project inspired by Ballymun. “One of those rare documentaries for which the term warm-hearted was invented” (Irish Times). All Ages Welcome Admission for under-18s is $9 - membership not required Regular admission/membership requirements in effect for those 18+ MONDAY, DECEMBER 1 – 6:30 PM

Bulgaria

Croatia

July

Vis-à-vis

(Krapetz)

Croatian rising-star Nevio Marasović’s indie comedy-drama, set to a score by American indie musician Andrew Bird, has won prizes at several festivals. A young filmmaker, struggling with his latest project, invites his leading actor to the remote island of Vis to work on the script. As the two settle in to the task, their respective personal problems become entwined with the plot of the film they are preparing. “An excellent surprise, placing its director, Nevio Marasović, between Woody Allen and the Croatian Alexander Payne . . . Produced without budget, without script, but with an indisputable talent for the story-within-astory style of narration, mise-en-scène, and the direction of actors” (Cineuropa).

aka Three

Bulgaria 2012. Dir: Kiril Stankov. 110 min. Blu-ray Disc

The dashed hopes of the post-Communist years form the backdrop to writer-director Kiril Stankov’s Bulgarian prize winner. Old friends Dju, Dana, and Lily meet at a seaside village on the Black Sea to renew acquaintances and escape the tedium of their now-lonely lives. As past personal conflicts are rekindled, the three women also discover that even here, in this remote idyll, there is no avoiding the crime, corruption, and violence plaguing contemporary society. “This is a film about people who in 1989 were 20 years old and during the so-called ‘transition years’ lost themselves. After two decades of timelessness they need to find themselves, to return to friendship and regain their dignity” (Stankov). MONDAY, DECEMBER 1 – 8:00 PM

Croatia 2013. Dir: Nevio Marasović. 81 min. DCP

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3 – 6:30 PM

Slovenia

Belgium

Chefurs Raus! (Čefurji raus!)

Little Black Spiders

Belgium 2012. Dir: Patrice Toye. 90 min. Blu-ray Disc

Flemish director Patrice Toye’s dreamy film, likened by some to Sofia Coppola’s Virgin Suicides, won three awards – Best Film, Director, and Screenplay – at last year’s Vancouver Women In Film Festival. In 1978 Belgium, 16-year-old Katja, carrying a married man’s child, arrives at a Catholic facility for unwed pregnant teens. She finds unexpected friendship amongst the other girls there, but also discovers that the nuns running the home have secret plans for their babies. “Little Black Spiders touchingly presents the naiveté, imagination, and self-discovery of adolescence, even in the face of society’s withering judgment and disapproval. A beautiful portrayal of young women on the brink of adulthood” (AFI Fest). TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2 – 6:30 PM

Slovenia 2013. Dir: Goran Vojnović. 100 min. DCP

Croat-Slovenian filmmaker and author Goran Vojnović adapts his own best-selling novel in this dark comedy-drama about immigrant youths facing troubles on streets of Ljubljana. It begins with 17-year-old Marko (Benjamin Krnetić) and his pals left stranded in the woods by the police after a confrontation. Events go from bad to worse, friendships are frayed, and Marko must also reckon with his violent father, furious that Marko has quit basketball. The film’s title, common anti-immigrant graffiti in Slovenia, translates literally as “Southern scum, go home!” “A wonderful adaptation . . . This film cleverly and comically explores the struggles of these second-generation immigrant communities and the intolerance and hardships they face” (Raindance FF, London). WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3 – 8:10 PM

Spain

Estonia

All the Women Flowers from the Mount of Olives (Õlimäe õied)

Estonia 2013. Dir: Heilika Pikkov. 70 min. Blu-ray Disc

An 82-year-old Orthodox nun with a startlingly unorthodox past is the subject of Estonian Heilika Pikkov’s rewarding documentary, shot in a convent on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives. “Although inside the convent’s walls the clock is never set and life still follows the Julian calendar, the 20 years that Mother Ksenya has spent there have passed by in a flash. In the nunnery’s hierarchy she has now achieved the second-tolast level. She is heading towards complete silence, the Great Schema. But before that she has been given permission to tell the story of her life for the very last time” (Locarno F.F.). “Engrossing . . . Ironic paradoxes quietly abound . . . A crowd-pleaser” (Hollywood Reporter). TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2 – 8:20 PM

(Todas las mujeres)

Spain 2013. Dir: Mariano Barroso. 90 min. Blu-ray Disc

The much-honoured Spanish actor Eduard Fernández is riveting in director Mariano Barroso’s incisive, insightful drama, adapted from a TV mini-series. Middle-aged veterinarian Nacho, a man in crisis, embarks on an ill-advised scheme to steal cattle. When his plans go awry, he turns to six women who have been important in his life for succour. “Engrossing . . . The most tightly-focused and emotionally penetrating film in a quietly formidable body of work from a director whose virtues continue to go largely unrecognized . . . A scaled-back, sharp-eyed, David Mamet-inspired deconstruction of the fragile psyches of Spanish and other males, anchored in Fernandez’s memorable central performance” (Jonathan Holland, Hollywood Reporter). THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4 – 6:30 PM

United Kingdom

One Mile Away

United Kingdom 2012. Dir: Penny Woolcock. 90 min. DCP

British filmmaker Penny Woolcock had cast actual gang members in her 2009 fiction feature 1 Day, a hip-hop musical set in Birmingham’s black community. She was later contacted by some of those gangsters and asked to help broker a truce between real-life rivals the Burger Boys and the Johnson Gang. This eye-opening documentary chronicles peace talks as remarkable, in their own way, as the Northern Ireland accords. One Mile Away was named Best British Feature at the Edinburgh IFF. “Another impressive, fearless film from Woolcock, who should be celebrated alongside Ken Loach as one of Britain’s foremost socially-conscious filmmakers” (Basia Cummings, Little White Lies).

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4 – 8:20 PM

Altman

Ron Mann’s New Documentary + Three Altman Masterpieces & Three Rare Altman Shorts “An affectionate, moving portrait of the legendary director . . . It’s a tribute to Mann’s film that it leads you from Altman’s life back to his films, and makes you want to see them anew.” - Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

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Altman

Canada 2014. Dir: Ron Mann. 95 min. DCP

Kudos to noted Canadian documentarian and popculture chronicler Ron Mann (Comic Book Confidential, Twist, Grass) for this trenchant, inspiring look at the life and art of Robert Altman, one of America’s signature filmmakers. Altman is generously illustrated with clips from Altman’s films, features pithy interviews with actors who worked with him (each is simply asked to define “Altmanesque”), and spins plenty of great tales (for instance, why Altman was fired very near the end of production on Countdown, his first feature). In the documentary’s poignant conclusion, Altman’s widow, Kathryn, describes how a trip to the movies in the late 1940s – and an encounter with a particular now-classic film – was seminal in shaping Altman’s vision of what cinema could accomplish.

followed by

The Kathryn Reed Story USA 1965. Dir: Robert Altman. 15 min. DCP

Stay in your seats at the conclusion of Ron Mann’s documentary Altman for this ultra-rare 1965 short, made by Altman as a love letter and birthday gift to his wife Kathryn when the couple were five years into their 46-year marriage. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7 – 6:30 PM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 – 6:30 PM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 – 2:00 PM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10 – 8:40 PM

McCabe and Mrs. Miller

USA 1971. Dir: Robert Altman. 121 min. 35mm

Robert Altman’s magnificent revisionist Western, filmed in West Vancouver, is one of his major achievements. Warren Beatty is mysterious stranger McCabe, a gambler and supposed gunfighter, who rides into a rough mining town looking to make some money. Julie Christie is Mrs. Miller, the opium-smoking madam who becomes his business partner in running a brothel. Their flourishing operation soon attracts the dangerous attention of powerful business interests. Leonard Cohen’s haunting music and Vilmos Zsigmond’s moody cinematography make important contributions. “A supremely beautiful movie . . . Altman’s sharpest visualization of the corruption of the American Dream” (Derek Malcolm). “This modern classic is not like any other film” (Pauline Kael). FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7 – 8:35 PM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 – 4:00 PM TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 – 6:30 PM

Nashville

USA 1975. Dir: Robert Altman. 157 min. DCP

Pauline Kael described Robert Altman’s wildly ambitious magnum opus as “an orgy for movie lovers” and “the funniest epic vision of America ever to reach the screen.” Nashville offers a penetrating, panoramic disquisition on U.S. politics, media, and violence on the eve of the country’s muchballyhooed Bicentennial. Rendered in the classic Altman style – free-form, improvisational, visually and aurally dense – the movie follows a staggering 24 principal characters over the course of a single weekend in Nashville, where a giant country-music concert has been organized in support of a political campaign. “Immensely, exhilaratingly enjoyable . . . A wonderful mosaic which yields up greater riches with each successive viewing” (Tom Milne, Time Out).

preceded by

The Party

USA 1966. Dir: Robert Altman. 4 min. DCP

Altman’s family and friends form the large festive cast of this rare comic short, the tale of a hapless guest at a groovy ’60s shindig. Originally made for the Scopitone, a jukebox-like machine. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 – 3:30 PM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 9 – 6:30 PM TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 – 3:30 PM THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13 – 6:30 PM

The Long Goodbye

USA 1973. Dir: Robert Altman. 112 min. 35mm

Robert Altman serves up an ironic revision/ critique of the private-eye genre in the long-underrated The Long Goodbye, now esteemed as one of the director’s masterpieces. Updating Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled 1950s novel to the 1970s, the film angered some by replacing film-noir darkness and rain with SoCal sunshine and hippie-stoner sensibility! Elliot Gould, in an inspired (and subversive) performance, plays Chandler’s gumshoe Philip Marlowe as a somewhat bumbling, oft-bewildered eccentric. The complicated plot has Marlowe attempting to clear a friend accused of murder. Screenwriter Leigh Brackett also co-wrote the famously convoluted 1946 Hawks/Bogart screen version of Chandler’s The Big Sleep. The cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond (McCabe and Mrs. Miller) is glorious.

preceded by

Pot au feu

USA 1965. Dir: Robert Altman. 4 min. DCP

Altman’s Fellini-esque short parodies TV cooking shows and pays hilarious tribute to the joys of pot smoking. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8 – 8:35 PM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 10 – 6:30 PM TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11 – 8:45 PM

Presented by The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery in conjunction with The Cinematheque Introductory Lecture by Carol Lu

USA 2012. Dir: Alison Klayman. 91 min. DCP

“Ai Weiwei is China’s most famous international artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. Against a backdrop of strict censorship and an unresponsive legal system, Ai expresses himself and organizes people through art and social media. In response, Chinese authorities have shut down his blog, beat him up, bulldozed his newly built studio, and held him in secret detention. Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry is the inside story of a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics. First-time director Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to Ai while working as a journalist in China. Her detailed portrait provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary China and one of its most compelling public figures” (official synopsis).

The screening will be introduced by Carol Lu, a critic and curator based in Beijing. Ms. Lu is artistic director and chief curator of OCAT Shenzhen and a contributing editor at Frieze magazine. She was a jury member for the 2011 Venice Biennale’s Golden Lion Award, co-artistic director of the 2012 Gwangju Biennial, and writes frequently for international art journals. Her curatorial work includes Unscrolled: Reframing Tradition in Chinese Art (with Diana Freundl), opening November 15th at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 – 7:00 PM

Organized in conjunction with

Ai Weiwei: New York Photographs 1983-1993 The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, UBC September 5 - November 30, 2014 www.belkin.ubc.ca

The Chan Centre Connects Series and The Cinematheque present

The Gloaming: Moment to Moment + Aisling Gheal The Chan Centre Connects Series showcases two acclaimed documentary films out of the Emerald Isle. The Gloaming: Moment to Moment chronicles the fascinating collaboration of five musicians, including Martin Hayes and Iarla Ó Lionáird, who comprise the acclaimed Irish-music supergroup The Gloaming. The eponymous subjects of Aisling Gheal are a team of women passionately keeping the sean-nós (“old style”) vocal tradition alive and attracting young protégés such as 10-yearold Shahira Apraku, who attends the local Gaelscoil and personifies an entire new generation of Irish speakers.

The Gloaming: Moment to Moment

Aisling Gheal

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6 – 7:00 PM

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6 – 8:15 PM

Ireland 2014. Dirs: Philip King, Nuala O’Connor. 52 min. Blu-ray Disc

Ireland, 2013. Dir: Dónal Ó Céilleachair. 80 min. DVD

This special double bill is presented in conjunction with the Chan Centre presentation of The Gloaming on Saturday, November 15th, at 8:00pm (at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts at UBC).

The Chan Centre Connects series is programmed in conjunction with the Chan Centre Presents concert series and includes film screenings, panel discussions, and talks which explore the role of arts and artists in society. www.chancentre.com

RESTORED

New DCP Restorations of

East of Eden Rebel Without a Cause Giant

he actor James Dean was killed in a car accident in September 1955. He was but 24-years-old and at the very beginning of a promising career. TV appearances and three or four uncredited bit parts aside, he left behind only a very small body of work: three outstanding films which have preserved forever – and as forever young – what would become, after Dean’s tragic death, a persona of cultish and then legendary proportions: the eternal Rebel Without a Cause, romantic embodiment of all the torments and troubles, the alienation and confusion, of adolescence. No screen actor since Valentino has inspired, in death, such devotion. Few screen actors since Brando have been as influential. Over the holiday season, The Cinematheque will present, in beautiful restorations newly created by Warner Brothers, the celebrated trio of movies in which James Dean starred: East of Eden (1955), Rebel Without a Cause (1956), and Giant (1956). The enduring popularity of these classics had left extant 35mm prints heavily worn and the original camera elements from which new copies were created badly damaged and faded. These meticulous new digital restorations bring Dean’s fabled films – and this mythic icon of American pop culture – vividly back to life.

All Ages Welcome Annual $3 membership requirement in effect for those 18+

Rebel Without a Cause USA 1955. Dir: Nicholas Ray. 111 min. DCP

“What are you rebelling against?” “Whaddya got?” Okay, that was Brando in 1953’s The Wild One, but it lit the fuse on the generationgap bomb that exploded two year later in Rebel Without a Cause, James Dean’s most celebrated film – and a highlight in the work of maverick director Nicholas Ray. Dean is Jim “You’re Tearing Me Apart!” Stark, tormented son of clueless middle-class parents. Natalie Wood is his emotionally-damaged neighbour Judy, while Sal Mineo is their pal Plato, who’s really messed up. Shot in gorgeous Cinemascope, and displaying Ray’s mastery of composition and colour, Rebel’s suggestion that the comfy middle-class (and not just the slums) might spawn delinquent juveniles was shocking in its time. The film opened four weeks after Dean’s death in a car crash. MONDAY, DECEMBER 22 – 8:40 PM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26 – 4:00 PM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27 – 6:30 PM SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28 – 6:30 PM

East of Eden

Giant

Almost as archetypal a tale of teen angst as Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden was the only one of James Dean’s three major films released prior to his death. Director Elia Kazan’s follow-up to On the Waterfront adapts John Steinbeck’s novel, and sets a Cain-and-Abel drama in California’s Salinas Valley during WWI. Dean is black-sheep Cal Trask, misunderstood son of affluent farmer Adam (Raymond Massey). Richard Davalos is Aron, Cal’s upstanding brother. Rivals for the approval of their puritanical father, the dissimilar siblings also vie for the attentions of Abra (Julie Harris), Aron’s girlfriend. This was Kazan’s first film in Cinemascope and colour, and he clearly enjoyed the new expressive possibilities afforded him. Dean received a posthumous Oscar nomination for his highly-charged performance.

Giant indeed! James Dean’s final film – tagged “The legendary epic that’s as big as Texas!” – was this sprawling melodrama in the grandest, glossiest 1950s Hollywood style. Directed by George Stevens, from Edna Ferber’s novel, Giant serves up, in extra-large helpings, a steamy stew of romance, money, oil, racism, and rivalry. Rock Hudson, as a wealthy Texas cattle baron, and Elizabeth Taylor, as his new bride, star. Dean, third billed, is Jett Rink, the couple’s antagonist, a rough-around-the-edges ranch hand who strikes it rich with oil. Dean’s character ages decades during the film; this was his only chance to play an adult. Stevens won the Oscar for Best Director; the film’s additional nine nominations include Dean’s second-straight posthumous nod (he received one for East of Eden the year before).

MONDAY, DECEMBER 22 – 6:30 PM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27 – 8:40 PM SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28 – 8:40 PM MONDAY, DECEMBER 29 – 4:00 PM

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26 – 6:30 PM SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28 – 2:30 PM MONDAY, DECEMBER 29 – 6:30 PM

USA 1955. Dir: Elia Kazan. 115 min. DCP

USA 1956. Dir: George Stevens. 197 min. DCP

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NOW PLAYING

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Altman

Altman + The Kathryn

HOW TO BUY TICKETS Day-of tickets go on sale at the Box Office 30 minutes before the first show of the evening. Advance tickets are available for credit card purchase at theCinematheque.ca ($1 service charge applies). Events, times, and prices are subject to change without notice.

MON

Altman

The Long Goodbye + Pot

Altman

Nashville + The Party – 3:30 pm

THURS The Chan Centre Connects Series

The Gloaming: Moment

FRI

Altman

Altman + The Kathryn

to Moment – 7:00 pm

Reed Story – 6:30 pm

Aisling Gheal – 8:15 pm

McCabe and Mrs. Miller – 8:35 pm

Altman

Nashville + The Party – 6:30 pm

Altman

Nashville + The Party – 3:30 pm Altman + The Kathryn

NOVEMBER Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry – 7:00 pm

SAT Reed Story – 6:30 pm The Long Goodbye + Pot au feu – 8:35 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2 Opening Night with

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Every Man for Himself – 6:30 pm Sympathy for the Devil – 8:15 pm

Reed Story – 2:00 pm

au feu – 6:30 pm

McCabe and Mrs. Miller – 6:30 pm

Special Introduction

McCabe and Mrs. Miller – 4:00 pm

Altman + The Kathryn

The Long Goodbye + Pot

Doors – 6:00pm

Nashville + The Party – 6:30 pm

Reed Story – 8:40 pm

au feu – 8:45 pm

Sympathy for the Devil – 7:00 pm Tout va bien – 9:15 pm

Cinema Sunday

The Wizard of Oz – 1:00pm

DIM Cinema

Material Experiments:

Frames of Mind

Web Junkie – 7:30 pm

Sympathy for the Devil – 6:30 pm

EUFF 2014

A Special Day – 6:30 pm

Every Man for Himself – 8:40 pm

The Films of Richard

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Rocks in My Pockets – 8:20 pm

EUFF 2014

The Candidate – 6:30 pm Clownwise – 8:35 pm

Tuohy – 7:30 pm

Tout va bien – 6:30 pm Every Man for Himself – 8:20 pm THE CINEMATHEQUE IS RECOGNIZED AS AN EXEMPT NON-PROFIT FILM SOCIETY UNDER THE B.C. MOTION PICTURE ACT, AND AS SUCH IS ABLE TO SCREEN FILMS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN REVIEWED BY THE B.C. FILM CLASSIFICATION OFFICE. UNDER THE ACT, ALL PERSONS ATTENDING CINEMATHEQUE SCREENINGS MUST BE MEMBERS OF THE PACIFIC CINÉMATHÈQUE PACIFIQUE SOCIETY AND BE 18 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER.

Stones for the Rampart - 4:30 pm

AI WEIWEI 8

How to Steal a Wife – 6:30 pm

EUFF 2014

This Life – 7:00 pm

EUFF 2014

F*ck You Gohte – 6:30 pm

Two-Seater Rocket – 8:45 pm

The Road Uphill – 8:20 pm

EUFF 2014

Boys – 4:30 pm

EUFF 2014

Ballymun

EUFF 2014

Little Black Spiders – 6:30 pm

The Ambassador

Lullaby – 6:30 pm

Flowers from the Mount

to Bern – 6:30 pm

July – 8:00 pm

of Olives – 8:20 pm

IN THIS ISSUE ALTMAN 7

EUFF 2014

Christmas Tango – 6:30 pm

EUFF 2014

The Last Sentence – 6:30 pm

Road North – 9:00 pm

Block 12 – 8:30 pm

EUFF 2014

One of a Kind – 6:30 pm The Gilded Cage – 9:15 pm

Déjà Vu - 7:00 pm

EUFF 2014 2–6

EUFF 2014

DECEMBER NOVEMBER

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Histoire(s) du

DIM Cinema

The And in Wieland – 7:30 pm

EUFF 2014

Vis-à-vis – 6:30 pm

Chefurs Raus! – 8:10 pm

EUFF 2014

All the Women – 6:30 pm

Two B.C. Milestones

In the Land of the Head Hunters – 6:30 pm

One Mile Away – 8:20 pm

Two B.C. Milestones

The Bitter Ash – 4:30 pm In the Land of the Head

The Bitter Ash – 8:00 pm

Hunters – 6:30 pm The Bitter Ash – 8:00 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Histoire(s) du cinema – 6:30 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Hail Mary – 6:30 pm

Hélas pour moi – 8:35 pm

cinema – 6:30 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Notre musique – 6:30 pm Hail Mary – 8:10 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Soigne ta droite – 4:30 pm Hélas pour moi – 6:30 pm Notre musique – 8:15 pm

CHAN CENTRE CONNECTS 8 JAMES DEAN RESTORED 9 JEAN-LUC GODARD 2 12–15 THE SHORTEST DAY 16

Cinema Sunday

FRAMES OF MIND 17

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Passion – 6:30 pm

Frames of Mind

Gabriel – 7:30 pm

Soigne ta droite – 8:15 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2

DIM CINEMA 17

Jean-Luc Godard 2

King Lear – 6:30 pm

Prénom Carmen – 8:20 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Nouvelle Vague - 6:30 pm King Lear - 8:20 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2

King Lear – 4:30 pm Prénom Carmen – 6:30 pm Nouvelle Vague – 8:20 pm

Hail Mary – 6:30 pm

CINEMA SUNDAY 18 TWO BC MILESTONES 19

Meet Me in St. Louis – 1:00 pm

Notre musique – 8:35 pm

The Shortest Day 2014

Kids’ Program – 2:30 pm

Family Program – 4:00 pm

James Dean Restored

East of Eden – 6:30 pm

Rebel Without a Cause – 8:40 pm

Comedy – 6:00 pm

CLOSED FOR THE HOLIDAYS

James Dean Restored

Rebel Without

James Dean Restored

Rebel Without

a Cause – 4:00 pm

a Cause – 6:30 pm

Giant – 6:30 pm

East of Eden – 8:40 pm

SPECIAL GUEST IN ATTENDANCE

ALL AGES EVENT

James Dean Restored

Giant – 2:30 pm

Rebel Without a Cause – 6:30 pm

James Dean Restored

East of Eden – 4:00 pm

Giant – 6:30 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2

For Ever Mozart – 6:30 pm

CLOSED FOR THE HOLIDAYS

East of Eden – 8:40 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2

For Ever Mozart – 6:30 pm Éloge de l’amour – 8:15 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Éloge de l’amour – 6:30 pm For Ever Mozart – 8:30 pm

JANUARY

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Film Socialisme – 7:00 pm

Film Socialisme – 8:15 pm

T h e C i n e m a t h e q u e ’s

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17th Annual

European Union Film Festival

Enter at any festival screening and you could win two return flights to Europe from Vancouver, Canada.

WIN

A pair of tickets to Europe! courtesy of

SUN

TUES

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NOW PLAYING

TICKETS

Altman

Altman + The Kathryn

MON

Altman

The Long Goodbye + Pot

Altman

Nashville + The Party – 3:30 pm

THURS The Chan Centre Connects Series

The Gloaming: Moment

FRI

Altman

Altman + The Kathryn

to Moment – 7:00 pm

Reed Story – 6:30 pm

Aisling Gheal – 8:15 pm

McCabe and Mrs. Miller – 8:35 pm

Altman

Nashville + The Party – 6:30 pm

Altman

Nashville + The Party – 3:30 pm Altman + The Kathryn

NOVEMBER Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry – 7:00 pm

SAT Reed Story – 6:30 pm The Long Goodbye + Pot au feu – 8:35 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2 Opening Night with

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Every Man for Himself – 6:30 pm Sympathy for the Devil – 8:15 pm

Reed Story – 2:00 pm

au feu – 6:30 pm

McCabe and Mrs. Miller – 6:30 pm

Special Introduction

McCabe and Mrs. Miller – 4:00 pm

Altman + The Kathryn

The Long Goodbye + Pot

Doors – 6:00pm

Nashville + The Party – 6:30 pm

Reed Story – 8:40 pm

au feu – 8:45 pm

Sympathy for the Devil – 7:00 pm Tout va bien – 9:15 pm

Cinema Sunday

The Wizard of Oz – 1:00pm

DIM Cinema

Material Experiments:

Frames of Mind

Web Junkie – 7:30 pm

Sympathy for the Devil – 6:30 pm

EUFF 2014

A Special Day – 6:30 pm

Every Man for Himself – 8:40 pm

The Films of Richard

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Rocks in My Pockets – 8:20 pm

EUFF 2014

The Candidate – 6:30 pm Clownwise – 8:35 pm

Tuohy – 7:30 pm

Stones for the Rampart - 4:30 pm

AI WEIWEI 8

How to Steal a Wife – 6:30 pm

EUFF 2014

This Life – 7:00 pm

EUFF 2014

F*ck You Gohte – 6:30 pm

Two-Seater Rocket – 8:45 pm

The Road Uphill – 8:20 pm

EUFF 2014

Boys – 4:30 pm

EUFF 2014

Ballymun

EUFF 2014

Little Black Spiders – 6:30 pm

The Ambassador

Lullaby – 6:30 pm

Flowers from the Mount

to Bern – 6:30 pm

July – 8:00 pm

of Olives – 8:20 pm

IN THIS ISSUE ALTMAN 7

EUFF 2014

Christmas Tango – 6:30 pm

EUFF 2014

The Last Sentence – 6:30 pm

Road North – 9:00 pm

Block 12 – 8:30 pm

EUFF 2014

One of a Kind – 6:30 pm The Gilded Cage – 9:15 pm

Déjà Vu - 7:00 pm

EUFF 2014 2–6

EUFF 2014

DECEMBER NOVEMBER

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Histoire(s) du

DIM Cinema

The And in Wieland – 7:30 pm

EUFF 2014

Vis-à-vis – 6:30 pm

Chefurs Raus! – 8:10 pm

EUFF 2014

All the Women – 6:30 pm

Two B.C. Milestones

In the Land of the Head Hunters – 6:30 pm

One Mile Away – 8:20 pm

Two B.C. Milestones

The Bitter Ash – 4:30 pm In the Land of the Head

The Bitter Ash – 8:00 pm

Hunters – 6:30 pm The Bitter Ash – 8:00 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Histoire(s) du cinema – 6:30 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Hail Mary – 6:30 pm

Hélas pour moi – 8:35 pm

cinema – 6:30 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Notre musique – 6:30 pm Hail Mary – 8:10 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Soigne ta droite – 4:30 pm Hélas pour moi – 6:30 pm Notre musique – 8:15 pm

CHAN CENTRE CONNECTS 8 JAMES DEAN RESTORED 9 JEAN-LUC GODARD 2 12–15 THE SHORTEST DAY 16

Cinema Sunday

FRAMES OF MIND 17

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Passion – 6:30 pm

Frames of Mind

Gabriel – 7:30 pm

Soigne ta droite – 8:15 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2

DIM CINEMA 17

Jean-Luc Godard 2

King Lear – 6:30 pm

Prénom Carmen – 8:20 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Nouvelle Vague - 6:30 pm King Lear - 8:20 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2

King Lear – 4:30 pm Prénom Carmen – 6:30 pm Nouvelle Vague – 8:20 pm

Hail Mary – 6:30 pm

CINEMA SUNDAY 18 TWO BC MILESTONES 19

Meet Me in St. Louis – 1:00 pm

Notre musique – 8:35 pm

The Shortest Day 2014

Kids’ Program – 2:30 pm

Family Program – 4:00 pm

James Dean Restored

East of Eden – 6:30 pm

Rebel Without a Cause – 8:40 pm

Comedy – 6:00 pm

CLOSED FOR THE HOLIDAYS

James Dean Restored

Rebel Without

James Dean Restored

Rebel Without

a Cause – 4:00 pm

a Cause – 6:30 pm

Giant – 6:30 pm

East of Eden – 8:40 pm

SPECIAL GUEST IN ATTENDANCE

ALL AGES EVENT

James Dean Restored

Giant – 2:30 pm

Rebel Without a Cause – 6:30 pm

James Dean Restored

East of Eden – 4:00 pm

Giant – 6:30 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2

For Ever Mozart – 6:30 pm

CLOSED FOR THE HOLIDAYS

East of Eden – 8:40 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2

For Ever Mozart – 6:30 pm Éloge de l’amour – 8:15 pm

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Éloge de l’amour – 6:30 pm For Ever Mozart – 8:30 pm

JANUARY

Jean-Luc Godard 2

Film Socialisme – 7:00 pm

Film Socialisme – 8:15 pm

T h e C i n e m a t h e q u e ’s

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JEAN-LUC CINÉMA GODARD 2

ean-Luc Godard’s epochal French New Wave films from Breathless (1959) to Weekend (1967) – the 15 films that shook the world! – were spotlighted in part one of The Cinematheque’s Godard retrospective earlier this year. Part two showcases a substantial portion of this singular master’s prolific post-1967 output, focusing on Godard’s work in the narrative feature film – a form he would for a time abandon as “bourgeois,” but later returned to, with glorious results. Godard has continued, well into the second decade of our 21st century, to create some of contemporary cinema’s most startling, daring, and original works. North American audiences have had only limited opportunities to view the director’s great films of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, as most never found their way into commercial distribution here and received only scattered festival and cinematheque screenings. Our retrospective opens with a new DCP restoration of 1968’s Sympathy for the Devil, a much-troubled production Godard made with The Rolling Stones. A number of 35mm prints imported from Europe will screen, and there will be two (rare) presentations of Godard’s monumental, five-hour Histoire(s) du cinema (1988-98).

Opening Night: Friday, November 14 Refreshments & Special Introduction 6:00 pm – Doors 7:00 pm – Sympathy for the Devil / Introduced by Shaun Inouye 9:15 pm – Tout va bien

Shaun Inouye is The Cinematheque’s Operations + Marketing Assistant. He holds a Masters in Film Studies from the University of British Columbia and has published articles on Jean-Luc Godard and Harmony Korine for Intellect Books.

DCP Restoration!

Sympathy for the Devil

Great Britain 1968. Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. 111 min. DCP

As The Rolling Stones record “Sympathy for the Devil” in the studio, “Eve Democracy” (Anne Wiazemsky) wanders around London, black revolutionaries spout political rhetoric in an auto junkyard, and girlie-magazine covers are set to quotes from Mein Kampf. Godard’s first film in English is a fascinating, infuriating disquisition on race and revolution. It was publicized as “Jean-Luc Godard on sex, Black Power, acid, murder, pornography, rape, fascism, revolution, brutality.” Godard’s cut, known as One Plus One, didn’t included the completed version of the Stones song. His British producer added it at the end and released the film as Sympathy for the Devil. Godard punched him at the London Film Festival! “A movie experience of major importance” (Vincent Canby, New York Times). FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14

Opening Night with Refreshments & Special Introduction Doors 6:00 pm / Screening 7:00 pm SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15 – 8:15 PM THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 – 6:30 PM

Imported 35mm Print!

Tout va bien

France 1972. Dirs: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin. 95 min. 35mm

Jerry Lewis’s comedies and Bertolt Brecht’s aesthetics inform Godard’s tale of a strike at a sausage factory, starring Jane Fonda and Yves Montand. She’s an American reporter living in Paris; he’s a former left-wing filmmaker now making TV ads. The strike rekindles their radical spirits and has them questioning the politics of their personal lives. The film is chock-full of vintage Godardian provocations and extravagances, including a huge, Lewis-inspired two-storey cutaway set of the factory, and a magnificent lateral tracking shot at a gigantic supermarket. Godard had abandoned “bourgeois” cinema in the late ’60s to make militant films (his “Dziga Vertov Group” period); Tout va bien was a rapprochement between Godard’s “revolutionary” work and his New Wave origins. “In bourgeois cinema we call this a ‘tour de force’” (James Monaco). FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14 – 9:15 PM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 – 6:30 PM

“Still the single most influential artist to take cinema as his medium . . . No film artist who has ever lived would be more justified than Jean-Luc Godard in thinking: Le cinéma c’est moi.” J. Hoberman, New York Times

Every Man for Himself

(Sauve qui peut - la vie)

France/Switzerland 1980. Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. 87 min. 35mm.

Described by Godard as “my second first film,” Every Man for Himself marked the director’s glorious return to “mainstream” cinema after years of video experiments. Set in Switzerland, the film has French pop star Jacques Dutronc as a dislikeable filmmaker named Godard, Nathalie Baye (in a César-winning performance) as the girlfriend trying to leave him, and Isabelle Huppert as a rural woman working as a prostitute in the city. Godard offers up a characteristically self-reflexive and corrosive comic account of emotional confusion, the problems of filmmaking, the metaphysics of survival, and the connection between sexual and economic exploitation. Critics were agog – Godard was back, and Godard still mattered! This blunt, cynical, playful, witty, and surprisingly pastoral film points the way from Godard’s celebrated work of the ’60s to his remarkable late-period output. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 15 – 6:30 PM SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 – 8:20 PM THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20 – 8:40 PM

Histoire(s) du cinéma

France 1988-98 Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. 265 min. DVD

Godard’s massive, meditative, multi-media history of cinema is one of his ultimate achievements. “Twenty years in conception, Godard’s eight-part, five-hour video essay is a magical mystery tour through the medium of cinema conducted by Godard himself. Densely allusive, with overlapping text and imagery constantly battling for our attention, it is also an autobiographical memoir, and an epitaph for cinema from one of its most ardent believers. Critics have likened it to Finnegan’s Wake, in both its scope and form, and its importance” (Tom Charity, The Rough Guide to Film). “Subsuming both the history of cinema and the history of the 20th century in its glorious density, Godard’s magnum opus is utterly unique: there has never been anything else like it in cinema” (TIFF Cinematheque). Part 1(a): Toutes les histoires (All the (Hi)stories) 1988. 51 min. ● Part 1(b): Une histoire seule (A Single (Hi) story) 1989. 42 min. ● Part 2(a): Seul le cinéma (Only the Cinema) 1997. 26 min. ● Part 2(b): Fatale beauté (Fatal Beauty) 1997. 28 min. ● Part 3(a): La Monnaie de l’absolu (The Coin of the Absolute) 1998. 26 min. ● Part 3(b): Une vague nouvelle (A New Wave) 1998. 27 min. ● Part 4(a): Le Contrôle de l’univers (The Control of the Universe) 1998. 27 min. ● Part 4(b): Les Signes parmi nous (The Signs Among Us) 1998. 38 min.

Hail Mary

(Je vous salue, Marie)

France 1985. Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. 107 min. DCP

No Godard film was more controversial. This startling modernization of the Annunciation and Nativity stories, depicting the Virgin as the basketball-playing daughter of a gas-station manager, and Joseph as her jealous taxi-driver boyfriend, was met with bans, bomb threats, protests, and a papal condemnation! Not that the haters had actually seen the film! Hail Mary has a palpable sense of reverence and awe – David Denby called it “one of the most radiant and tenderly religious movies ever made” – and won acclaim from many Christians. Late-period Godard often displays a spiritual bent. “Composed like a brilliant mosaic, Godard’s film gives fresh meaning to everyday images; makes us listen to Dvorak with new appreciation; and shows the female nude as though never filmed before” (David Thompson). The original version release of Hail Mary included The Book of Mary, a companion short by Godard’s partner Anne-Marie Miéville, which also screens here. Source: The Cinematheque is grateful to the Cohen Film Collection (cohenfilmcollection.net) for making this presentation of Hail Mary possible. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11 – 6:30 PM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12 – 8:10 PM SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14 – 6:30 PM

Imported 35mm Print!

Hélas pour moi (Woe is Me)

France/Switzerland 1993. Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. 90 min. 35mm

GODard and DeparDIEU (the film’s marketers had great fun) team up in the ravishingly photographed, spiritually beguiling Hélas pour moi, an exploration of “the desire of a God to feel human desire.” Riffing on the Greek myth of Alcmene (in which Zeus impersonates Alcmene’s husband Amphitryon and seduces her, conceiving Hercules), the film has a modern-day Swiss schoolteacher (Laurence Masliah) discovering that her innkeeper husband (Gérard Depardieu) suddenly speaks with the voice of God. Godard’s metaphysical inquiry takes in the distances between men and women, the sacred and the profane, humanity and nature; as always, his approach is brilliantly iconoclastic, visually and aurally luxuriant, literate, essayistic, funny, provocative, and occasionally infuriating! Hélas pour moi rivals Hail Mary as Godard’s most spiritual work. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11 – 8:35 PM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 – 6:30 PM

There will be a 15-minute intermission between Parts 2(b) and 3(a). Double Bill prices ($14 Adults/$12 Student & Seniors) in effect for this screening. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7 – 6:30 PM WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10 – 6:30 PM

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Notre musique (Our Music)

France/Switzerland 2004. Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. 80 min. 35mm

Three Dante-inspired chapters – “Hell,” Purgatory,” and “Paradise” – divide Godard’s scathing portrait of the 20th century on fire in this surprisingly underseen 2004 feature, never released in English Canada. War, political violence, and cinema’s relation to them have preoccupied Godard throughout his career. In the searing Notre musique, the auteur provides perhaps his most honest and profound articulation of these ideas, using a collage of war footage and a narrative involving a Sarajevo symposium (with Godard as Godard) to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the long arm of colonialism, and the state of American imperialism, all in the context of film art. “A marvel of lucidity and wit” (John Powers, L.A. Weekly). FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12 – 6:30 PM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13 – 8:15 PM SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14 – 8:35 PM

King Lear

USA 1987. Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. 90 min. 35mm

Holy shmoly! Godard’s idiosyncratic, elliptical reworking of Lear ponders the impossibility of mounting Shakespeare’s great tragedy – of giving any narrative order to reality – in our complex, fragmented times. It opens with Norman Mailer, the original choice for the title role, leaving the project in a dispute; Burgess Meredith thereafter takes over the lead. Molly Ringwald is Cordelia; Godard himself (in telephone-cable dreadlocks!) is the Fool, muttering acerbic asides about movies and money; and theatre director Peter Sellars is William Shakespeare Jr., a screenwriter tasked with developing “an approach to King Lear after Chernobyl and without nudity.” Woody Allen and Leos Carax have cameos. Godard’s deft, daft Lear is unlike any other – as you’d expect! THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18 – 6:30 PM FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19 – 8:20 PM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 – 4:30 PM

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Soigne ta droite (Keep Your Right Up)

France 1987. Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. 82 min. Blu-ray Disc

Prénom Carmen (First Name: Carmen)

France 1983. Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. 95 min. 35mm

Perhaps the rarest of Godard’s later films, the little-seen Soigne ta droite is a pun-filled, poetic mixture of philosophical musing and Jacques Tati-like slapstick. The title is both a boxing term and a reference to Tati’s 1936 short Soigne ton gauche. The film, pugilistically described by Godard as “the camera versus landscapes over 17 rounds,” casts the director himself as Dostoevsky’s Idiot, here a hapless filmmaker commissioned by Gaumont to make a film and deliver it within a day! Expect suicidal passenger-jet pilots, French pop band Les Rita Mitsouko in the studio, and Jane Birkin as a grasshopper! Soigne ta droite is throughout a typically masterfully mix of ravishing images, literary references, self-reflexiveness, jokiness and seriousness, metaphysics, and exasperating non-narrative.

Godard took top prize at the Venice Film Festival for this sexually-explosive (and explicit) tragicomedy, beautifully lensed by his New Wave cinematographer Raoul Coutard. A barely-there screen adaptation of Georges Bizet’s opera Carmen (the music is, in fact, late Beethoven), Prénom Carmen offers up one of Godard and collaborator Anne-Marie Miéville’s most lucid meditations on returned-to themes like gender power, generational divides, and the act of artistic creation itself. Dutch looker Maruschka Detmers is the titular Carmen, a self-possessed twentysomething who convinces her institutionalized uncle – a washed-up film director, played by Godard – to lend her his beachside apartment to shoot a documentary. Instead, she flees there with her captor-turned-lover when a bank heist turns bloody.

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The Cinematheque is grateful to the Institut Français for making this presentation of Prénom Carmen possible.

Passion

France/Switzerland 1982. Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. 88 min. DVD

“Godard’s masterpiece of the 1980s” (Colin McCabe) is s a visually sumptuous, burstingwith-ideas rumination on art and commerce (and, of course, filmmaking). Jerzy Radziwilowicz plays a Polish director trying to make a film called Passion, a series of tableaux vivants based on masterpieces by Rembrandt, Goya, and Delacroix. Fassbinder diva Hanna Schygulla is the owner of the French motel where the film’s cast and crew are staying; Michel Piccoli is her husband, a factory owner facing a strike; Isabelle Huppert is the strike organizer. Politics, polemics, adultery, and classical music are all a pungent part of the mix. Passion was the first collaboration in 15 years between Godard and master nouvelle vague cinematographer Raoul Coutard. MONDAY, DECEMBER 15 – 6:30 PM

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18 – 8:20 PM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 – 6:30 PM

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Nouvelle Vague

France/Switzerland 1990. Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. 89 min. 35mm

Voted the number one unreleased foreign-language film of the 1990s in a Film Comment poll, this rarelyscreened masterpiece of late Godard stands as one of the auteur’s most intellectually demanding, yet visually stunning, works. Shot on the Swiss coast of Lake Geneva – a site that reminded Godard of his youth – the film stars iconic French actor Alain Delon as a lowly hitchhiker struck by the car of a wealthy businesswoman (Nostalghia’s Domiziana Giordano). When she decides to nurse him back to health at her nearby villa, it becomes a theatre of class antagonism, sexual ownership, and gender politics. “The most beautiful movie made since The Magnificent Ambersons” (Armond White). The Cinematheque is grateful to the Institut Français for making this presentation of Nouvelle Vague possible. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19 – 6:30 PM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20 – 8:20 PM

For Ever Mozart

France/Switzerland 1996. Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. 84 min. DCP

An austere, slippery work never released theatrically in English Canada, Godard’s film in four movements tackles nothing less than art’s (in)ability to faithfully render or alter the horrors of history, using the recently-waged Bosnian War as its site of rumination. It centres on an acting troupe who, having traveled to Sarajevo to stage an Alfred de Musset play, are taken prisoner, tortured, and executed in the midst of the intensifying conflict. Mourning the death of his daughter, a film director (Godard stand-in Vicky Messica) creates his opus: a personal, political art film, seen by no one. “A melancholy, exquisitely beautiful elegy to the dream of movies as high art” (Stephen Holden, New York Times). Source: The Cinematheque is grateful to the Cohen Film Collection (cohenfilmcollection.net) for making this presentation of For Ever Mozart possible. FRIDAY, JANUARY 2 – 6:30 PM SATURDAY, JANUARY 3 – 8:30 PM SUNDAY, JANUARY 4 – 6:30 PM

Film Socialisme France/Switzerland 2010. Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. 102 min. Blu-ray Disc

JLG exploded into the new decade with this gloriously ambitious, densely packed cine-symphony that polarized Cannes, leaving as many scratching their heads as singing its praise. Four years in the making – and Godard’s first feature shot entirely in digital – it’s a three-part film essay that tackles nothing less than the freefall of contemporary European society. Part one, set on a Mediterranean cruise ship, features passengers (including musician Patti Smith) waxing philosophical in a cacophony of tongues. Part two sees a brother and sister hold a gas-station children’s tribunal for the crimes of their parents’ generation. Part three, a globe-trotting montage of postcard locales, brings the atrocities of the past into harrowing focus. “Bursting with a new wave of anger and vitality, re-tooling once again the visual language of cinema” (Jason Solomons, The Observer). SUNDAY, JANUARY 4 – 8:15 PM MONDAY, JANUARY 5 – 7:00 PM

Éloge de l’amour (In Praise of Love)

Switzerland/France 2001. Dir: Jean-Luc Godard. 98 min. 35mm

The magisterial Éloge de l’amour ranks with Godard’s greatest works. The film is composed of two parts with startling different, stunningly beautiful visual schemes. In the first, set in Paris and filmed in luxuriant 35mm black-and-white, a young filmmaker named Edgar (Bruno Putzulu) prepares a project about love. The second, shot on the Brittany coast in colour-saturated digital video, is set two years earlier, and has Edgar visiting the home of an elderly couple who were resistance heroes. An elegy to art and love; a mournful reflection on memory, history, and mortality; a witty antiAmerican, anti-Hollywood screed; a dazzling display of the expressive possibilities of both film and video – this is Godard at his richest, most rewarding, and most inspired. FRIDAY, JANUARY 2 – 8:15 PM SATURDAY, JANUARY 3 – 6:30 PM

A DAY OF FREE SCREENINGS! ALL AGES WELCOME!

The Shortest Day, an annual international one-day celebration of the short film, will have its second Canadian edition on December 21, 2014. The National Film Board of Canada, Telefilm Canada, and Quebec’s Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC) are national partners in presenting this event in Canada. The Cinematheque is pleased to join with them again this year in hosting this special day of free screenings in Vancouver. The celebration takes place on December 21, the winter solstice: the shortest day of the year! The Shortest Day was initiated in France in 2011, and is designed to bring great short films to wider audiences.

FREE ADMISSION! ALL AGES WELCOME! Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. Cinematheque membership is not required for this event. The three programs of entertaining and humorous Canadian shorts screening in our Vancouver celebration include many award-winners, festival picks, and audience favourites. Among the selections are the Oscar nominees The Cat Came Back and My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts, the Oscar winner The Danish Poet, and the great NFB classic The Sweater. More details on The Shortest Day screenings and films, including film synopses, can be found at www.theshortestday.ca

, s Kid PROGRAM

(59 min.) Suitable for children under 8 (and their family and friends) Films in this (mostly animation) program are in English or without dialogue

● Bounce (Guillaume Blanchet/Québec 2014) ● Tzarirtza (Theodore Ushev/Québec 2006) ● The Dingles (Les Drew/NFB Prairies Studio 1988) ● The Cat Came Back (Cordel Barker/Québec 1988) ● At Home with Mrs. Hen (Tali/Québec 2006) ● Ciel d’encre / Ink Sky (Caroline Pellerin & Audrey B. Portelance/Québec 2013) ● The Amautalik (Neil Christopher/Nunavut 2014) ● Seasick (Eva Cvijanovic/Québec 2014) ● Flocons (Marie-Josée Saint-Pierre/Québec 2014) ● The War Killed the King’s Dog (Zabelle Côté/Québec 2003) SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21 – 2:30 PM

Fa m i ly P ro g r a m (88 min.) Films in this (mostly animation) program are in English or with English subtitles.

● The Danish Poet (Torill Kove/Québec 2006) ● Sleeping Betty (Claude Cloutier/Québec 2007) ● The Sweater (Sheldon Cohen/B.C. 1980) ● The Bear Facts (Jonathan Wright/Nunavut 2010) ● The Great Thinkers (Karina Garcia Casanova/Québec 2009) ● Josef and Aimee (Ben Sherinian/Ontario 2014) ● Godhead (Connor Gaston/B.C. 2014) ● The Magic Ferret (Alison Parker/B.C. 2013) ● In Your Heart (Raymond Caplin/Québec 2012) SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21 – 4:00 PM

COMEDY (99 min.) Recommended for older or adult audiences Films in this program are in English or with English subtitles.

● Petit Frère / Little Brother (Rémi St-Michel/Québec 2014) ● Imelda (Martin Villeneuve/Québec 2014) ● Pour Retourner / To Return (Scooter Corkle/B.C. 2014) ● Infanticide (G. Patrick Condon/Newfoundland and Labrador 2013) ● Life’s a Bitch (François Jaros/Québec 2014) ● Sunday Punch (Alan Powell/Ontario 2014) ● My Grandmother Ironed the King’s Shirts (Torill Kove/Québec 1999) ● A Mile in Those Hooves (James Brylowski/Ontario 2014) SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21 – 6:00 PM

THE DANISH POET

GABRIEL

A Monthly Mental Health Film Series Presented by The Cinematheque and the Institute of Mental Health, UBC Department of Psychiatry

he Cinematheque is pleased to join with the Institute of Mental Health, UBC Department of Psychiatry in presenting “Frames of Mind,” a monthly event utilizing film and video to promote professional and community education on issues pertaining to mental health and illness. Screenings, accompanied by presentations and audience discussions, are held on the third Wednesday of each month. Series directed by Dr. Harry Karlinsky, Director of Public Education, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia.

Programmed by Caroline Coutts, film curator, filmmaker, and programmer of “Frames of Mind” since its inception in September 2002.

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In 2008, China became the first county in the world to declare “internet addiction” a formal clinical disorder – one it now considers the greatest threat to the health of its young people. The Daxing boot camp in suburban Beijing is one of more than 400 rehabilitation centres in that country designed to treat the disorder. It admits children aged 13 to 18, usually boys; sometimes kids arrive in the middle of the night after being drugged by their desperate parents. The film follows three teenagers confined to Daxing, documenting the harsh military-inspired physical training, monitored sleep, food, medication regimens, and group-therapy sessions experienced by the boys, who still speak boastfully of 24-hour marathon World of Warcraft sessions when the adults aren’t around.

USA 2014. Dir: Lou Howe. 88 min. DCP

Israel/USA 2013. Dirs: Hilla Medalia, Shosh Shlam. 74 min. Blu-ray Disc

Post-screening discussion with Dr. Susan Baer, a child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Clinic of B.C. Children’s Hospital, and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include video-gaming and internet use in children and youth with mental health disorders. Moderated by Dr. Harry Karlinsky, Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 – 7:30 PM

Gabriel

Out on a temporary pass from a mental health facility, Gabriel (Rory Culkin, the youngest of the seven Culkin siblings) is anxiously awaited at home by his doting but exhausted mother and exasperated older brother. But Gabriel has other plans, and embarks on an unscheduled side trip in search of Alice, a former girlfriend. He hasn’t seen her in years, but he’s convinced she holds the key to his future happiness. With his family at their wits’ end, and obstacles mounting against his quest, Gabriel resorts to extreme measures. “A wrenching first feature . . . There’s not a false note in its portrait of a desperate, floundering young man, indelibly played by Rory Culkin” (Stephen Holden, New York Times). Post-screening discussion with Dr. Trudy Adam, Ph.D., MD, FRCPC, a psychiatrist with the Richmond Child and Adolescent Program and a Clinical Instructor within the UBC Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine. Moderated by Dr. Harry Karlinsky, Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17 – 7:30 PM

Moving-image art in dialogue with cinema www.dimcinema.ca

Material Experiments: The Films of Richard Tuohy In Person from Australia: Richard Tuohy Active in film since the late 1980s, Richard Tuohy has spent the past decade immersed in the materialist tradition of experimental filmmaking — work that tests the absolute limits of the medium itself. Drawing primarily on natural forms and environments as subject matter for his celluloid manipulations — an array of classic and novel in-camera, darkroom, printing, and editing techniques — Tuohy “abstracts out the fleshiness of the particular” to create dynamic studies of form, structure, time, and pattern, an approach he describes as “cine-cubism.” The filmmaker will present a series of 16mm films, closing with a live performance using two projectors. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17 – 7:30 PM

Co-presented with Cineworks and Iris Film Collective

On November 15 & 16, Iris Film Collective and Cineworks present a two-day workshop with Richard Tuohy on his Chromaflex technique. For more information and to register: www.irisfilmcollective.com

The And in Wieland “I thought I was Leni Riefenstahl. It was due perhaps to editing Trudeau. Would he be a good leader? Or just a politician? Irony came wandering in, in the porn of applause for his statement ‘Reason over passion, that is the theme of all my writing.’ It should be reason and passion in a person.” – Joyce Wieland Two Pierres are keystones of these twin portraits of a nation at a historical turning point, playfully interlocking the main themes of Joyce Wieland’s art: feminism, ecology, politics, and identity. Reason Over Passion explores Canada’s landscape, symbolism, and bilingualism, while taking issue with the famous “reason over passion” statement by Pierre Trudeau, whose every gesture is anatomized in footage Wieland shot at the 1968 Liberal leadership convention, when his election signalled the possibility of change. Pierre Vallières incorporates reel changes and camera breakdowns as it attempts a tightly-framed unbroken shot of the lips of Vallières, the FLQ’s intellectual leader, as he holds forth, with reason and passion, on labour issues, Quebec independence, and women’s liberation. Ironically, the balance of qualities lacking in Trudeau can be heard in the voice of a sovereigntist revolutionary whose politics threatened the national harmony Wieland sought through her work. Reason Over Passion / La raison avant la passion | Joyce Wieland/Canada 1968. 84 min. 16mm Pierre Vallières | Joyce Wieland/Canada 1972. 32 min. 16mm. MONDAY, DECEMBER 8 – 7:30 PM

The Cinematheque’s Education Department presents

An Afternoon Film Program for Children and Their Families $6 Children & Youths (under 18) $9 Adults (Cinematheque membership not required)

“Gotta Sing! Gotta Dance!” That’s what characters from the wonderful world of movie musicals sing when mere words can’t express their feelings and rhythm takes hold of their feet. The best of these glittering gems appeal to all ages and have inspired our all-singing, all-dancing Cinema Sunday 2014: What A Glorious Feeling! This scintillating selection of note-for-noteworthy musical films will have the whole family dancing on air! Films will be introduced by Vancouver film history teacher, critic, and movie musical maven Michael van den Bos. In-theatre giveaways courtesy of Cinema Sunday community sponsors Videomatica Sales and Kidsbooks.

The Wizard of Oz

USA 1939. Dir: Victor Fleming. 102 min. DCP

Too rarely experienced on the big screen, MGM’s enchanting adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s beloved children’s novel is a cinematic gift to behold: a pillar of Hollywood’s Golden Age and a cogent reminder of cinema’s astonishing power to transport. A fresh-faced Judy Garland plays Dorothy, the daydreaming Kansas kid who longs for life over the rainbow. When a freak tornado drops her and her little dog Toto into the Technicolor world of Oz, she sets off along the yellow brick road in search of the fabled Emerald City and its great and powerful Wizard, who alone can send Dorothy home – or so she believes. “There’s an audience for Oz wherever there’s a projection machine and a screen” (Variety). All Ages Come dressed as your favourite Oz character and have your face painted by the talented makeup artists from Vancouver’s New Image College of Fine Arts. They’ll be on-site from 12 noon to 1:00 pm. www.newimage.ca SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 16 – 1:00PM

Meet Me in St. Louis

USA 1944. Dir: Vincente Minnelli. 113 min. DCP

The swansong to Cinema Sunday’s yearlong celebration of the movie musical is this timeless holiday classic directed by Hollywood hall-of-famer Vincente Minnelli. A tender, Technicolor portrait of American life at the turn of the 20th century, the film follows four seasons in the picture-postcard home of The Smiths, a middle-class family preparing to exit St. Louis for New York on the cusp of the 1904 World’s Fair. Judy Garland, in one of her first leading lady (not girl) roles, is exquisite. Her rendition of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” sung to her character’s teary-eyed little sister, is one of the most moving musical moments ever put to screen. All Ages Before the screening, a representative chorister from Vancouver Children’s Choir will perform a special Christmas song for our audience. For more on the choir and its annual Christmas concert, please visit www.vancouverchildrenschoir.ca. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 14 – 1:00 PM

IN THE LAND OF THE HEAD HUNTERS

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In the Land of the Head Hunters USA/Canada 1914. Dir: Edward S. Curtis. 65 min. DCP

The Cinematheque and Vancity Theatre join together this weekend to celebrate the centenary of a cinema landmark. In the Land of the Head Hunters was the first feature film made in B.C. and is the oldest extant feature made in Canada. It’s also the first feature made with an entirely indigenous North American cast. A portrait of the Kwakwaka’wakw (formerly Kwakiutl) people of northern Vancouver Island and the central coast, it was directed by Edward S. Curtis, the renowned American photographer of First Nations life. The film mixes documentary and dramatic elements, recording authentic traditions and rituals, including the potlatch ceremony, but also offering an epic tale of love, war, and adventure set in pre-European times. It premiered in New York and Seattle on December 7, 1914. This beautiful restoration features John J. Branham’s original 1914 score performed by Vancouver’s Turning Point Ensemble. The Cinematheque screens the film December 5 & 6; Vancity will present it on December 7, the centenary date. Special guests will introduce the film.

For information about Vancity Theatre’s December 7 presentation of In the Land of the Head Hunters, visit www.viff.org/theatre

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5 – 6:30 PM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 – 6:30 PM

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The Bitter Ash

Canada 1963. Dir: Larry Kent. 79 min. DCP

In 1963, a 26-year-old UBC student named Larry Kent wrote and directed the first modern and truly Canadian feature made in Vancouver. Produced for a mere $5000, this stylish, scandalous drama set against the sexual revolution was also, arguably, the first modern EnglishCanadian feature, predating Donald Owen’s Nobody Waved Goodbye by a year. Kent’s brash film follows the sexual shenanigans of a young man torn between adult responsibility and the freedoms offered by the emerging counterculture. Set to a free jazz score and imbued with New Wave visual energy, The Bitter Ash announced itself as something new and vital in Canadian cinema. A notorious nude scene saw it banned in many locales, but also made it highly popular on Canadian campuses! “A big piece of Canadian and B.C. film history . . . The Bitter Ash is to Vancouver what La Dolce Vita is to Rome” (Brett Enemark). FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5 – 8:00 PM SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 – 4:30 PM & 8:00 PM

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