The Cinematheque JULY+AUG 2014 | Film Noir

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A HARD DAY’S NIGHT JULY 4–10 JODOROWSKY IN JULY JULY 11–19 RESTORATIONS, REVIVALS, REDISCOVERIES JULY 24–AUGUST 11

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JULY + AUGUST 2014 1131 Howe Street | Vancouver | theCinematheque.ca

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The Maltese Falcon + DoublE Indemnity + Mildred Pierce Triple Bill: $20 Adults / $18 Students & Seniors Regular single and double bill prices otherwise in effect.

Annual $3 membership required.

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Mildred Pierce New Restoration! 70th Anniversary!

Double Indemnity USA 1944. Dir: Billy Wilder. 106 min. DCP

Fred MacMurray, as gravely-wounded insurance salesman Walter Neff, staggers into a dark office, picks up a Dictaphone, and offers up a startling confession of murder. So begins Billy Wilder’s superlative Double Indemnity, one of film noir’s defining works – screening here in a new 70th-anniversary restoration! Barbara Stanwyck sizzles as Phyllis Dietrichson, the double-crossing dame who seduces Neff into a plot to bump off her husband and collect big on his life-insurance policy.

Edward G. Robinson co-stars as insurance investigator Keyes. Co-scripted by Raymond Chandler, from James M. Cain’s novella, Double Indemnity is “the gold standard of ’40s noir” (Jessica Winter, Time Out).

USA 1945. Dir: Michael Curtiz. 113 min. 35mm

Joan Crawford gives an iconic (and Oscarwinning) performance in this top-notch mix of moody film noir and glossy woman’s picture, expertly directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca), and based on the hardboiled novel by James M. Cain (Double Indemnity, The Postman Always Rings Twice). Opening with a murder, the film relates, in flashback, the rags-to-riches tale of devoted, divorced L.A. mom Mildred, who transforms herself from working-class waitress to wealthy restaurateur, but can’t win the respect of her spiteful, snooty daughter Veda (Ann Blyth). “Impeccable . . . One of the finest noir soap operas ever” (James Monaco).

SATURDAY, AUGUST 2 – 6:30 PM SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 – 9:00 PM MONDAY, AUGUST 4 – 6:30 PM

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Cry of the City

USA 1948. Dir: Robert Siodmak. 96 min. DCP

Director Robert Siodmak (Criss Cross, The Killers), one of noir’s great stylists and key talents, here marries his trademark studio Expressionism with the shot-inthe-streets semi-documentary realism of many late-1940s noirs. Victor Mature, as a cop, and Richard Conte, as a wounded cop-killer, are boyhood pals now facing off in good-versus-evil battle on the mean streets of Manhattan. Shelley Winters co-stars. Various corrupt lowlifes – check out that sadistic masseuse! – make memorable appearances. “Riveting . . . Rarely has the cruel, lived-in squalor of the city been presented in such telling detail” (Tom Milne, Time Out).

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13 – 6:30 PM SUNDAY, AUGUST 17 – 8:20 PM TUESDAY, AUGUST 19 – 8:20 PM

FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 – 6:30 PM SATURDAY, AUGUST 2 – 8:45 PM SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 – 7:00 PM WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6 – 8:30 PM

The Maltese Falcon USA 1941. Dir: John Huston. 100 min. 35mm

Pop culture artefact. Film noir prototype.

Classic Hollywood high point. John Huston’s directorial debut. And Humphrey Bogart, in his first top-billed role, establishing the nowlegendary Bogie persona: the snarling, cynical, self-reliant anti-hero whose tough-guy exterior masks the bittersweet romantic (and perhaps even sentimental) soul underneath. Bogart is “Spade, Sam Spade,” a San Francisco privateeye caught up in a deadly web of deceit involving a motley assortment of unscrupulous characters (Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Elisha Cook) and the search for a missing statuette. Has there been a better screen adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s deliciously hard-boiled detective fiction?

FRIDAY, AUGUST 1 – 8:35 PM SUNDAY, AUGUST 3 – 5:00 PM MONDAY, AUGUST 4 – 8:45 PM WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6 – 6:30 PM

DOUBLE INDEMNITY

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Detective Story

New Restoration!

Kirk Douglas is in ferocious form – and has some of the best lines of his career – in this hard-boiled drama set over the course of a single day in a NYC police station. Directed by Hollywood heavyweight William Wyler, from Sidney Kingsley’s hit play, the film has Douglas as a fanatical lawman whose treatment of lawbreakers verges on the sadistic. When he discovers that his own wife (Eleanor Parker) isn’t as “immaculate” as he thought, it pushes him right over the edge. Lee Grant, as a shoplifter, took Best Actress honours at Cannes. The film received four Oscar nominations.

USA 1948. Dir: Orson Welles. 87 min. DCP

USA 1951. Dir: William Wyler. 103 min. DCP

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13 – 8:25 PM THURSDAY, AUGUST 14 – 6:30 PM FRIDAY, AUGUST 15 – 8:20 PM

The Lady from Shanghai A sheer pleasure: film noir at its most bizarre and baroque, and Orson Welles at the top of his game! Rita Hayworth (the then-Mrs. Welles) is one of noir’s definitive spider ladies as Elsa Bannister, beautiful wife of a disabled lawyer (Everett Sloane). She persuades Irish adventurer Michael O’Hara (played by Welles) to join the crew of her husband’s yacht – and promptly lures him into a complex web of intrigue, betrayal, and murder. The convoluted plot reaches its climax in the film’s dazzling Hall of Mirrors shoot-out, one of the director’s most celebrated sequences.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 15 – 6:30 PM SATURDAY, AUGUST 16 – 8:20 PM SUNDAY, AUGUST 17 – 6:30 PM THURSDAY, AUGUST 21 – 8:30 PM

Niagara

USA 1953. Dir: Henry Hathaway. 90 min. DCP

Marilyn Monroe and Joseph Cotton are a murderously mismatched couple vacationing in Niagara Falls in Henry Hathaway’s tawdry, tasty thriller, shot in lurid Technicolor. Monroe, in a rare badgirl role, is red-dressed Rose, a scheming sexpot. Cotton is her jealous older husband George, a shell-shocked war vet.

Jean Peter and Max Showalter (credited as Casey Adams) are the honeymooners next door. Niagara, as one contemporary review duly noted, makes full use “of both the grandeur of the Falls and the grandeur that is Marilyn Monroe”! Frequent Billy Wilder collaborator Charles Brackett co-wrote the script.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 14 – 8:30 PM SATURDAY, AUGUST 16 – 6:30 PM TUESDAY, AUGUST 19 – 6:30 PM

New Restoration!

Gun Crazy

(AKA DEADLY IS THE FEMALE)

USA 1949. Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. 86 min. DCP

A much-loved film noir classic, Joseph H. Lewis’s legendary B-movie, made for Poverty Row studio Monogram Pictures, is a manic tour-de-force of technique and deadly eroticism. John Dall, as a gun-obsessed sap, and Peggy Cummins, as a predatory femme fatale, play the film’s pistol-packing doomed-couple-on-the-run.

Admired by the French Surrealists and by the young guns of the French New Wave, and also an important ancestor of “fugitive couple” films such as Bonnie and Clyde, Badlands, and Natural Born Killers, this off-beat, original, and utterly stylish work now stands as both cult-movie masterpiece and American cinema landmark.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20 – 6:30 PM FRIDAY, AUGUST 22 – 6:30 PM MONDAY, AUGUST 25 – 8:00 PM

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House of Bamboo

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Glorious! The first Hollywood feature shot on location in Japan was directed by pulp-fiction primitive Samuel Fuller, whose lurid, kinetic, no-holds-barred noirs also include Pickup on South Street, Underworld USA, and The Naked Kiss. Robert Stack is the military cop who goes undercover to infiltrate a crime ring run by ruthless ex-G.I. Robert Ryan in American-occupied Japan. Shirley Yamaguchi is the “kimono girl” Stack falls for.

Shot in Deluxe Colour and CinemaScope and full of terrific action sequences, this eye-popping, incendiary film – a favourite of Godard’s – is one of Fuller’s most dynamic and beautiful works.

A Technicolor noir with the blackest of hearts, director John M. Stahl’s juicy, jaw-dropping melodrama features Oscar-winning cinematography by Leon Shamroy and an Oscar-nominated performance by Gene Tierney. Tierney (fresh off her role in the 1944 noir classic Laura) plays murderously bent, exquisitely dressed psycho-vixen Ellen Berent, a New Mexican socialite with Daddy issues. Cornel Wilde is her straight-laced new husband, about to discover the extremes to which Ellen’s devotion – and jealousy – can lead her. Vincent Price co-stars. Hollywood films in the 1940s were rarely as malignant – or as gorgeous!

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20 – 8:20 PM THURSDAY, AUGUST 21 – 6:30 PM SATURDAY, AUGUST 23 – 8:45 PM

SUNDAY, AUGUST 24 – 6:30 PM WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27 – 6:30 PM THURSDAY, AUGUST 28 – 8:45 PM

USA 1956. Dir: Samuel Fuller. 102 min. DCP

The Postman Always Rings Twice USA 1946. Dir: Tay Garnett. 113 min. 35mm

Hollywood’s first version of James M. Cain’s oft-adapted novel ranks with Double Indemnity (also based on a Cain story) as one of the quintessential examples of amour fou turned murderous in the tangled, treacherous noir universe.

A handsome drifter (John Garfield) arrives at a shabby roadside café, where he is drawn into the seductive web of platinumblonde Cora (Lana Turner), beautiful young wife of the aging proprietor, and joins with her in a deadly plot. As in Double Indemnity, the action is recounted in fatalistic flashback.

A glossy 1981 remake starred Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange.

USA 1945. Dir: John M. Stahl. 100 min. DCP

So Dark the Night

USA 1948. Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. 71 min. DCP

B-movie auteur Joseph H. Lewis (Gun Crazy, The Big Combo) is a cult favourite for his brisk, stylish films noir. In So Dark the Night, a Parisian detective takes a much-needed vacation in the French countryside, only to become tangled up in a messy romantic triangle – and murder. Made on a miniscule budget with a no-name cast, Lewis’s little-seen gem is “directed like a million bucks . . . It has more cinematic ideas per square foot of screen than any number of contemporary A features . . .

This is what Lewis was all about” (Tony Rayns, Time Out).

SUNDAY, AUGUST 24 – 8:30 PM MONDAY, AUGUST 25 – 6:30 PM WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27 – 8:30 PM

FRIDAY, AUGUST 22 – 8:15 PM SATURDAY, AUGUST 23 – 6:30 PM THURSDAY, AUGUST 28 – 6:30 PM

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50TH ANNIVERSARY!

Opening Night!

FRIDAY, JULY 4

Refreshments and Special Introduction

6:30 PM – DOORS 7:30 PM – SCREENING OF A HARD DAY’S NIGHT / INTRODUCED BY MICHAEL BAKER

Michael Baker is a researcher and instructor in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at UBC. He is co-editor of Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada and is presently at work on a book, Rockumentary: The Incomplete History of the Popular Music Documentary.

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“Follow your own weird.” –James Broughton

Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton

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“A golden secret of West Coast bohemia,” the filmmaker and poet James Broughton was a member of the postwar San Francisco Renaissance that gave rise to the Beats; a leading figure in American avant-garde cinema; a pioneering creative voice in gay liberation; and a man who, once he had overcome the stigma and self-torment of growing up in a homophobic society, lived life with Big Joy. He also fathered a child with the film critic Pauline Kael. This lively, candid, and generously-illustrated documentary traces the career of a charismatic figure who believed in art and desire as forces of liberation and ecstasy. The Bed, Broughton’s effervescent erotic landmark from 1968, also screens.

“One of the most lyrically erotic of independent films, The Bed is a merry allegory which celebrates impudently and imaginatively just about everything that could happen in bed (and some things that couldn’t) – birth, young love, loneliness, dreams, and death, amid all sorts of hanky-panky from fetishism to plain old lechery” (LA Free Press). “Broughton’s finest film by far” (Stan Brakhage).

USA 2013. Dirs: Stephen Silha, Eric Slade. 82min. DCP

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The Bed

USA 1968. Dir: James Broughton. 20 min. 16mm.

SUNDAY, JULY 20 – 6:30 PM WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 – 8:20 PM Director of Photography Ian Hinkle and Animator Michael Mann will be in attendance for the July 20 screening of Big Joy.

“A pop culture phenomenon . . .

A direct injection of happiness.”

–David Edelstein, Slant “Joyous and original . . . One of the great life-affirming landmarks of the movies.”

–Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times “The Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals.” –Andrew Sarris 50th Anniversary! One Week!

Restored! Remastered! Remixed! Revolutionary!

Great Britain 1964. Dir: Richard Lester. 87 min. DCP

Are you a mod or a rocker? Ringo: I’m a mocker. The Beatles’ epochal first movie, originally released in the summer of ’64, is celebrated with a sparkling 50th anniversary restoration.

Richard Lester directed this seminal, kaleidoscopic reinvention of the musical-comedy film, bursting with “now” New Wave style as it follows the Fab Four on the road, in the studio, in concert, and in flight from shrieking fans. The film opens, like its song and album namesakes, with rock’s most famous (and mysterious) chord. The nifty title derives from another Ringoism – a phrase John Lennon transformed into a song overnight very near the end of filming. A Hard Day’s Night helped send Beatlemania to even more hysterical heights. Western Civilization, needless to say, hasn’t been the same since!

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All Ages Welcome Annual $3 Membership Requirement in Effect for Those 18+ FRIDAY, JULY 4 – OPENING NIGHT WITH REFRESHMENTS AND SPECIAL INTRODUCTION | DOORS 6:30 PM / SCREENING 7:30 PM SATURDAY, JULY 5 – 4:30 & 7:00 & 9:00 PM SUNDAY, JULY 6 – 4:30 & 7:00 & 9:00 PM MONDAY, JULY 7 – 7:00 & 9:00 PM TUESDAY, JULY 8 – 7:00 & 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY, JULY 9 – 7:00 & 9:00 PM THURSDAY, JULY 10 – 7:00 & 9:00 PM I USED T

“A sublime exploration of complex sexuality.” –Zachary Wigon, Village Voice “A fresh, antic comedy powered by libido . . . Guiraudie makes the most of the anarchic freedom of the genre.” – Nicolas Rapold, New York Times From Alain Guiraudie, director of Stranger by the Lake Vancouver Premiere!

The King of Escape (Le roi de l’évasion)

France 2009. Dir: Alain Guiraudie. 93 min. 35mm

Writer-director Alain Guiraudie was one of French cinema’s bestkept secrets until 2013’s Stranger by the Lake, his international breakthrough. Guiraudie’s preceding feature, a rambunctious and unabashedly carnal comedy of improbable romance, gives further proof of his provocative talents. When 16-year-old schoolgirl Curly (Hafsia Herzi) becomes smitten with gay, plump, middle-aged tractor salesman Armand (Ludovic Berthillot), the latter decides to give straight love a shot – “How hard can it be?” – and runs off with the lass, setting in motion an increasingly bizarre chain of events. “One of the director’s warmest, funniest films . . . Marked by a refreshingly tongue-in-cheek attitude toward the madness of love” (Film Society of Lincoln Center).

Imported 35mm print courtesy Institut Français.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 – 6:30 PM FRIDAY, JULY 25 – 6:30 PM SUNDAY, JULY 27 – 8:30 PM

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“A lyrical ballad that is intimate in scale but international in scope . . . Porterfield finds the melody in the melodrama.”

–Richard Brody, The New Yorker “A film of small events but major insights . . . Unfolds like a music album.” –Peter Howell, Toronto Star Vancouver Premiere!

I Used to Be Darker

USA 2013. Dir: Matthew Porterfield. 90 min. DCP

The low-key, naturalistic, quietly-moving films of Matthew Porterfield (Putty Hill) share affinities with those of his American indie contemporary Kelly Reichardt. Porterfield’s third feature, named after a Bill Callahan lyric, has musicians Kim Taylor and Ned Oldham in compelling acting performances – and a couple of extraordinary musical ones. In-trouble Irish teen Taryn (Deragh Campbell) seeks refuge with American aunt and uncle Kim and Bill, both musicians, but finds them in the midst of a messy separation that will shell-shock their back-from-college daughter Abby (Hannah Gross). Campbell and Gross are both from notable Canadian acting families! Slow-burning, evocative, and affecting, with nicely-judged use of music, this is another distinctive achievement for Baltimore filmmaker Porterfield.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7 – 6:30 PM FRIDAY, AUGUST 8 – 8:20 PM SATURDAY, AUGUST 9 – 6:30 PM SUNDAY, AUGUST 10 – 8:20 PM MONDAY, AUGUST 11 – 6:30 PM

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WED Liv & Ingmar!

Liv & Ingmar – 6:30 pm

THURS

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Liv & Ingmar!

Cries and Whispers – 6:30 pm

Autumn Sonata – 8:15 pm

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6:30 pm – Doors 7:30 pm – Screening of

Liv & Ingmar – 8:30 pm

SAT A Hard Day’s Night

4:30 & 7:00 & 9:00 pm

A Hard Day’s Night

For July 2 & 3 film descriptions, please consult our previous program guide or visit theCinematheque.ca

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(A Hard Day’s) Opening Night!

Introduced by Michael Baker

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Jodorowsky in July

A Hard Day’s Night

A Hard Day’s Night

A Hard Day’s Night

A Hard Day’s Night

A Hard Day’s Night

The Dance of Reality – 6:30 pm

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El Topo – 9:00 pm

Jodorowsky in July Triple Bill

Jodorowsky’s Dune – 4:30 pm The Dance of Reality – 6:30 pm The Holy Mountain – 9:00 pm

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.

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Jodorowsky in July

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The Holy Mountain – 6:30 pm

The Dance of Reality – 6:30 pm

El Topo – 6:30 pm

The Dance of Reality – 8:15 pm

Jodorowsky’s Dune – 9:00 pm

The Dance of Reality – 8:45 pm

El Topo – 9:00 pm

The Holy Mountain – 9:00 pm

Cinema Sunday

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Sita Sings the Blues – 1:00 pm

DIM Cinema

Promised Lands – 7:30 pm

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Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

Voyage to Italy – 8:50 pm

of James Broughton +

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Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

Il Sorpasso – 6:30 pm

Voyage to Italy – 6:30 pm

New Cinema

Sorcerer – 8:20 pm

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Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

Il Sorpasso – 6:30 pm

Sorcerer – 6:30 pm

Voyage to Italy – 8:30 pm

Il Sorpasso – 8:50 pm

The Maltese Falcon – 5:00 pm

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Film Noir

Mildred Pierce – 6:30 pm

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The Maltese Falcon – 8:45 pm

Double Indemnity – 7:00 pm

Film Noir

The Maltese Falcon – 6:30 pm

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Double Indemnity – 8:30 pm

New Cinema

I Used to Be Darker – 6:30 pm

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Je t’aime, Je t’aime – 8:20 pm

IN THIS ISSUE

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CINEMA SUNDAY 14 DIM CINEMA 15

New Cinema

I Used to Be Darker – 8:20 pm

Je t’aime, Je t’aime – 8:20 pm

Cinema Sunday

Oklahoma! – 1:00 pm

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DIM Cinema

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I Used to Be Darker – 6:30 pm Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

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Film Noir

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Film Noir

Scenes from America: on the

Niagara – 6:30 pm

Film Noir

road with Jørgen Leth and

Cry of the City – 8:20 pm

House of Bamboo – 8:20 pm

The Lady from Shanghai – 6:30 pm

Robert Frank – 7:30 pm

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Mildred Pierce – 6:30 pm

The Maltese Falcon – 8:35 pm

Double Indemnity – 8:45 pm

Film Noir

House of Bamboo – 6:30 pm The Lady from

New Cinema

I Used to Be Darker – 6:30 pm Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

I Used to Be Darker – 8:20 pm

Je t’aime, Je t’aime – 8:20 pm

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Shanghai – 8:30 pm

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Film Noir

Film Noir

The Lady from

Niagara – 6:30 pm

Shanghai – 6:30 pm

The Lady from

Detective Story – 8:20 pm

Shanghai – 8:20 pm

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Film Noir

Film Noir

Gun Crazy – 6:30 pm

The Postman Always

The Postman Always

Rings Twice – 6:30 pm

Rings Twice – 8:15 pm

House of Bamboo – 8:45 pm

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Film Noir

So Dark the Night – 8:30 pm

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Film Noir

So Dark the Night – 6:30 pm Gun Crazy – 8:00 pm

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Film Noir

Leave Her to Heaven – 6:30 pm

The Postman Always

So Dark the Night – 8:30 pm

Rings Twice – 6:30 pm

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Leave Her to Heaven – 8:45 pm

Acting. Writing. Directing.

FILM ARTS AT LANGARA Our intensive 8-month program trains actors, writers, and directors. Learn how to produce award-winning feature films, short story adaptions, television series, and shorts. Program runs January to August 2015. Spaces still available.

Apply now. www.langara.bc.ca/filmarts

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New Cinema

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Film Noir

Film Noir

Double Indemnity – 6:30 pm

Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

Niagara – 8:30 pm

Detective Story – 8:25 pm

Il Sorpasso – 8:15 pm

Film Noir

Detective Story – 6:30 pm

Cry of the City – 6:30 pm

Gun Crazy – 6:30 pm

Leave Her to Heaven – 6:30 pm ALL AGES EVENT

New Cinema

Voyage to Italy – 6:30 pm

Cry of the City – 8:20 pm

Frames of Mind will resume in September

SPECIAL GUEST IN ATTENDANCE

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Je t’aime, Je t’aime – 6:30 pm

A HARD DAY’S NIGHT 6 RESTORATIONS 10

Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

Je t’aime, Je t’aime – 6:30 pm

Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

Mildred Pierce – 9:00 pm

Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

AUGUST

The King of Escape – 8:30 pm

Film Noir Triple Bill

The King of Escape – 6:30 pm

Sorcerer – 8:20 pm

The Bed – 8:20 pm

The Bed – 6:30 pm

The Holy Mountain – 6:45 pm El Topo – 9:00 pm

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New Cinema

Sorcerer – 6:30 pm

Big Joy: The Adventures

of James Broughton +

Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

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The King of Escape – 6:30 pm

Big Joy: The Adventures

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New Cinema

Jodorowsky in July Triple Bill

The Dance of Reality – 4:15 pm

The Dance of Reality – 6:30 pm

New Cinema

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Jodorowsky’s Dune – 6:30 pm

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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.

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Liv & Ingmar – 6:30 pm

THURS

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Liv & Ingmar!

Cries and Whispers – 6:30 pm

Autumn Sonata – 8:15 pm

FRI

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6:30 pm – Doors 7:30 pm – Screening of

Liv & Ingmar – 8:30 pm

SAT A Hard Day’s Night

4:30 & 7:00 & 9:00 pm

A Hard Day’s Night

For July 2 & 3 film descriptions, please consult our previous program guide or visit theCinematheque.ca

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(A Hard Day’s) Opening Night!

Introduced by Michael Baker

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A Hard Day’s Night

A Hard Day’s Night

A Hard Day’s Night

A Hard Day’s Night

A Hard Day’s Night

The Dance of Reality – 6:30 pm

4:30 & 7:00 & 9:00 pm

7:00 & 9:00 pm

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7:00 & 9:00 pm

7:00 & 9:00 pm

El Topo – 9:00 pm

Jodorowsky in July Triple Bill

Jodorowsky’s Dune – 4:30 pm The Dance of Reality – 6:30 pm The Holy Mountain – 9:00 pm

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.

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The Holy Mountain – 6:30 pm

The Dance of Reality – 6:30 pm

El Topo – 6:30 pm

The Dance of Reality – 8:15 pm

Jodorowsky’s Dune – 9:00 pm

The Dance of Reality – 8:45 pm

El Topo – 9:00 pm

The Holy Mountain – 9:00 pm

Cinema Sunday

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Sita Sings the Blues – 1:00 pm

DIM Cinema

Promised Lands – 7:30 pm

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Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

Voyage to Italy – 8:50 pm

of James Broughton +

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Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

Il Sorpasso – 6:30 pm

Voyage to Italy – 6:30 pm

New Cinema

Sorcerer – 8:20 pm

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Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

Il Sorpasso – 6:30 pm

Sorcerer – 6:30 pm

Voyage to Italy – 8:30 pm

Il Sorpasso – 8:50 pm

The Maltese Falcon – 5:00 pm

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Film Noir

Mildred Pierce – 6:30 pm

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The Maltese Falcon – 8:45 pm

Double Indemnity – 7:00 pm

Film Noir

The Maltese Falcon – 6:30 pm

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Double Indemnity – 8:30 pm

New Cinema

I Used to Be Darker – 6:30 pm

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Je t’aime, Je t’aime – 8:20 pm

IN THIS ISSUE

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New Cinema

I Used to Be Darker – 8:20 pm

Je t’aime, Je t’aime – 8:20 pm

Cinema Sunday

Oklahoma! – 1:00 pm

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DIM Cinema

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I Used to Be Darker – 6:30 pm Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

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Film Noir

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Film Noir

Scenes from America: on the

Niagara – 6:30 pm

Film Noir

road with Jørgen Leth and

Cry of the City – 8:20 pm

House of Bamboo – 8:20 pm

The Lady from Shanghai – 6:30 pm

Robert Frank – 7:30 pm

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Mildred Pierce – 6:30 pm

The Maltese Falcon – 8:35 pm

Double Indemnity – 8:45 pm

Film Noir

House of Bamboo – 6:30 pm The Lady from

New Cinema

I Used to Be Darker – 6:30 pm Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

I Used to Be Darker – 8:20 pm

Je t’aime, Je t’aime – 8:20 pm

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Shanghai – 8:30 pm

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Film Noir

Film Noir

The Lady from

Niagara – 6:30 pm

Shanghai – 6:30 pm

The Lady from

Detective Story – 8:20 pm

Shanghai – 8:20 pm

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Film Noir

Film Noir

Gun Crazy – 6:30 pm

The Postman Always

The Postman Always

Rings Twice – 6:30 pm

Rings Twice – 8:15 pm

House of Bamboo – 8:45 pm

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Film Noir

So Dark the Night – 8:30 pm

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Film Noir

So Dark the Night – 6:30 pm Gun Crazy – 8:00 pm

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Film Noir

Leave Her to Heaven – 6:30 pm

The Postman Always

So Dark the Night – 8:30 pm

Rings Twice – 6:30 pm

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Film Noir

Film Noir

Double Indemnity – 6:30 pm

Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

Niagara – 8:30 pm

Detective Story – 8:25 pm

Il Sorpasso – 8:15 pm

Film Noir

Detective Story – 6:30 pm

Cry of the City – 6:30 pm

Gun Crazy – 6:30 pm

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Voyage to Italy – 6:30 pm

Cry of the City – 8:20 pm

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Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

Je t’aime, Je t’aime – 6:30 pm

Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

Mildred Pierce – 9:00 pm

Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

AUGUST

The King of Escape – 8:30 pm

Film Noir Triple Bill

The King of Escape – 6:30 pm

Sorcerer – 8:20 pm

The Bed – 8:20 pm

The Bed – 6:30 pm

The Holy Mountain – 6:45 pm El Topo – 9:00 pm

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New Cinema

Sorcerer – 6:30 pm

Big Joy: The Adventures

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Restorations, Revivals, Rediscoveries

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The King of Escape – 6:30 pm

Big Joy: The Adventures

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New Cinema

Jodorowsky in July Triple Bill

The Dance of Reality – 4:15 pm

The Dance of Reality – 6:30 pm

New Cinema

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Jodorowsky in July

Jodorowsky’s Dune – 6:30 pm

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“The film I hope to be remembered by . . . Basically lost for 37 years, its restoration is like Lazarus.” -William Friedkin

“Perhaps the best remake of all time . . . Released the same year as Star Wars, Friedkin’s audacious masterpiece represents the braver road abandoned by the studio system.” -Harvard Film Archive New Restoration!

Sorcerer

USA 1977. Dir: William Friedkin. 122 min. DCP

After conquering Hollywood with The French Connection and The Exorcist, William Friedkin ventured into a Latin American jungle to shoot an elaborate, ambitious remake of Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear. The jinxed production went wildly over budget, bombed at the box office, and helped capsize the director’s career. Neglected for years, Sorcerer has been restored and is being reassessed – as a formidable existential thriller; as one of Friedkin’s best films; and as a late masterwork of 1970s New Hollywood (an era of creative freedom obliterated by Star Wars, released around the same time). Roy Scheider stars in this slow-burning tale of four desperate men hired to drive two truckloads of unstable nitroglycerine over treacherous jungle terrain (including, memorably, a rickety suspension bridge over a raging river). Friedkin added extensive backstories that required location shooting around the world. The score is by Tangerine Dream.

THURSDAY, JULY 24 – 6:30 PM FRIDAY, JULY 25 – 8:20 PM MONDAY, JULY 28 – 8:20 PM THURSDAY, JULY 31 – 6:30 PM

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Il Sorpasso (The Easy Life)

Italy 1962. Dir: Dino Risi. 105 min. DCP

Brash playboy Vittorio Gassman, driving a souped-up Lancia Aurelia convertible, takes uptight Roman law student JeanLouis Trintignant on a la-dolce-vita road trip to the coasts of Lazio and Tuscany in Dino Risi’s delectable Il Sorpasso. The fun-filled, sun-drenched journey, set to a lively pop soundtrack, takes on more poignant dimensions as the two men speed to their uncertain destination. Long unavailable in North America, and screening here in a new restoration made from the original camera negative, Risi’s classic of Commedia all’italiana is a revelation: one of the first modern-day road movies, and a major film by an underappreciated master of caustic social comedy. The great Gassman was a Risi regular.

SATURDAY, JULY 26 – 8:15 PM SUNDAY, JULY 27 – 6:30 PM WEDNESDAY, JULY 30 – 6:30 PM THURSDAY, JULY 31 – 8:50 PM

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“The most beautiful and magical of films.”

-Don Macpherson, Time Out

“Quite simply, it is a very, very great film.”

-Geoff Andrew, British Film Institute New Restoration!

Voyage to Italy (aka Journey to Italy) (Viaggio in Italia)

Italy 1954. Dir: Roberto Rossellini. 86 min. DCP

Is Voyage to Italy Roberto Rossellini’s greatest film? Widely hailed as one of cinema’s most beautiful works, and as one of the modern era’s most influential films, Rossellini’s landmark has Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders as an English couple travelling in southern Italy. Their stale marriage is fracturing; the eternal beauty of their surroundings offers the promise of renewal.

Subtle incident and detail, sensuous locations, and remarkable screen chemistry contribute to Rossellini’s quietly miraculous achievement. Journey to Italy is presented here in a new, definitive restoration of the essential English-language version of the film. “Rossellini’s masterpiece is a heartrending work of emotional transcendence and profound spirituality” (Janus Films) .

THURSDAY, JULY 24 – 8:50 PM SATURDAY, JULY 26 – 6:30 PM MONDAY, JULY 28 – 6:30 PM WEDNESDAY, JULY 30 – 8:30 PM

“The quintessential road movie . . . Dino Risi’s ode to freewheeling behaviour - fast sports cars, bikini-clad hips, slinky jazz.”

-Steve Dollar, Wall Street Journal

“A magnificent film . . . Cinema is a time machine, and Resnais is its ultimate time traveler.” –Manohla Dargis, New York Times “With Marker’s La Jetée and Tarkovsky’s Solaris, it is part of a holy trinity of meditations on the horrors of eternal life.” -Raymond Durgnat New 35mm Print!

Je t’aime, Je t’aime France 1968. Dir: Alain Resnais. 91 min. 35mm

A missing link between Chris Marker’s La Jetée and Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – it was influenced by the former and an inspiration for the latter – Je t’aime, Je t’aime is an extraordinary foray into science-fiction by French master Alain Resnais (Hiroshima, Mon Amour; Last Year at Marienbad), who died earlier this year. We’re pleased to present this underrated, long-unseen film in a beautiful new 35mm print! After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, a man is persuaded by two scientists to participate in a time-travel experiment. When something goes awry, he finds himself lost within the structure of time itself, living and re-living moments from his past. Released during the turmoil of May ’68, Resnais’s haunting, poetic film never received its due. “The quintessential distillation of Resnais’s obsession with time, memory, and the imagination” (James Monaco).

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7 – 8:20 PM FRIDAY, AUGUST 8 – 6:30 PM SATURDAY, AUGUST 9 – 8:20 PM SUNDAY, AUGUST 10 – 6:30 PM MONDAY, AUGUST 11 – 8:20 PM

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EL TOPO

he recent documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune has brought renewed attention to the freak-out vision of legendary cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky, whose altered-state epic El Topo became an underground/countercultural sensation in the early 1970s and is often credited with sparking the entire midnight movie phenomenon.

Beginning July 11, The Cinematheque presents the Vancouver premiere of The Dance of Reality, Jodorowsky’s long-awaited latest – his first new film in 23 years! To mark the occasion, we’ll also be offering revival screenings of Jodorowsky’s two signature films, El Topo and The Holy Mountain (El Topo’s biggerbudget follow-up, which got financed, by Beatles and Stones manager Allen Klein’s ABKCO empire, because John Lennon was a big fan of El Topo), and of Jodorowsky’s Dune. Those seeking a marathon immersion into the mind-warping Jodorowskian multiverse can subject their psyches to special Jodorowsky triple-bills on Saturday, July 12 and Saturday, July 19!

“The Dance of Reality may be Jodorowsky’s best film . . . It has something El Topo and The Holy Mountain did not: the graceful clarity of a fairy tale.” –Michael Atkinson, Village Voice Vancouver Premiere! Exclusive First Run!

The Dance of Reality (La danza de la realidad)

Chile/France 2013. Dir: Alejandro Jodorowsky. 130 min. DCP

Alejandro Jodorowsky’s first movie in 23 years is a full-throttle return to form for the mad maestro of El Topo and Holy Mountain, now an octogenarian (and, perhaps fittingly, also now an asteroid: 261690 Jodorowsky). A semi-autobiographical, semi-fantasized coming-ofage tale reminiscent of Fellini’s Amarcord, the film is set in 1930s Chile, where a little boy named Alejandro grows up, unhappily, under a stern, domineering father and a statuesque, operaticallyemotive mother. The Dance of Reality may be Jodorowsky’s most coherent, grounded, and personal film ever. Stuffed with mythology, metaphor, poetry, surrealist spectacle, and outré sexuality, it’s also still very much the real Jodorowsky deal – “alive with enough images and ideas for several movies” (Scott Foundas, Variety).

FRIDAY, JULY 11 – 6:30 PM SATURDAY, JULY 12 – 6:30 PM SUNDAY, JULY 13 – 8:15 PM MONDAY, JULY 14 – 6:30 PM WEDNESDAY, JULY 16 – 8:45 PM THURSDAY, JULY 17 – 6:30 PM SATURDAY, JULY 19 – 4:15 PM

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“A triumphant return . . .

The extinct volcano of underground cinema has burst into life once again.”

–Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian “The arrival of a new Jodorowsky feature would be grounds for excitement even if the movie in question, The Dance of Reality, were not something very close to a masterpiece.”

–A. O. Scott, New York Times

JODO ROWSKY J U L Y 11 - 19

IN JULY

The Vancouver Premie re of The Dance of Rea lity, Jodorowsky’s new film !

Plus El Topo, The Hol y Mountain, and Jodorowsky’s Du ne!

Special Jodorowsky Triple Bills!

Saturday, July 12 & Saturday, July 19

Triple Bill Price:

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El Topo

Jodorowsky’s Dune

Mexico 1970. Dir: Alejandro Jodorowsky. 125 min. DCP

In 1975, riding high on his cult hits El Topo and The Holy Mountain, Alejandro Jodorowsky optioned Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune and set out to blow even more minds. Orson Welles, Mick Jagger, and Salvador Dalí were cast as actors. Artists H.R. Giger and Jean (“Moebius”) Giraud were hired to design. A score was commissioned from Pink Floyd. And then . . . Frank Pavich’s spellbinding documentary chronicles a cinematic what-if tale of mythic and messianic proportions. “If even a fraction of Jodorowsky’s claims are true, Dune would have been an astounding film . . . Pavich delivers his own mind-blowing cult movie” (Peter Debruge, Variety).

(The Mole)

Jodorowsky’s legendary peyote western is the ultimate midnight-movie freak-out. The director himself plays titular El Topo (“The Mole”), the mysterious leather-clad gunslinger who rides into a corpse-strewn desert town and then – in sections titled Genesis, Prophets, Psalms, and Apocalypse – embarks on a quest for revenge and redemption.

El Topo’s over-the-top mix of sex, violence, religious symbolism, and surreal imagery earned it a fanatical following (including the likes of John Lennon and George Harrison) back in the halcyon days of hallucinatory, hallucinogenic counterculture. One L.A. underground paper called it “the greatest film ever made”! A sequel starring Marilyn Manson was announced by Jodorowsky but never made.

FRIDAY, JULY 11 – 9:00 PM THURSDAY, JULY 17 – 9:00 PM FRIDAY, JULY 18 – 6:30 PM SATURDAY, JULY 19 – 9:00 PM

USA 2013. Dir: Frank Pavich. 88 min. DCP

SATURDAY, JULY 12 – 4:30 PM SUNDAY, JULY 13 – 6:30 PM MONDAY, JULY 14 – 9:00 PM

The Holy Mountain (La montaña sagrada)

Mexico/USA 1973. Dir: Alejandro Jodorowsky. 114 min. DCP

Holy Yeezus! Did you know that Kanye West’s 2013 Yeezus Tour was inspired by (or, as the rapper put it, was “dancing all sloppy off”) Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain?! Jodorowsky’s lavish follow up to El Topo got made thanks to John Lennon’s ardent support. A fantastical allegory full of crazed, often sacrilegious, sometimes violent surreal imagery, the film follows a messiah-like Thief who teams with several symbolic planetary figures to ascend a sacred summit and overthrow the Immortals. Or something like that! Jodorowsky himself plays The Alchemist. “Beautifully shot and designed . . . it suggests what might have resulted if Luis Buñuel, Michelangelo Antonioni, and George Romero had all dropped acid and made a movie together” (Mark Deming, allmovie.com).

SATURDAY, JULY 12 – 9:00 PM WEDNESDAY, JULY 16 – 6:30 PM FRIDAY, JULY 18 – 9:00 PM SATURDAY, JULY 19 – 6:45 PM

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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.

Sita Sings the Blues

USA 2008. Dir: Nina Paley. 82 min. 35mm

In conjunction with Indian Summer Festival 2014, Cinema Sunday is delighted to bring back Nina Paley’s animated dazzler for our all-ages movie musical series. A playful coupling of Indian folklore and open-diary confession, Paley’s multi-method animation – painstakingly crafted over five years – parallels the epic breakup story of Sita, Hindu goddess from The Ramayana, with the filmmaker’s own love woes (her husband dumped her for a job in India). Separated by centuries, both women feel the urge to sing the blues – with the voice of 1920s jazz singer Annette Hanshaw!

ALL AGES WELCOME

Sirish Rao, Co-Founder & Artistic Director of Indian Summer Festival, will introduce the film.

For more on this year’s festival, go to www.indiansummerfestival.ca.

After the screening, join The Shiamak Vancouver Dance Team for a Bollywood Grooves mini-class that will get you moving like a Bollywood star. Must haves: comfy clothes and a big smile! For more on Shiamak Vancouver, go to www.shiamak.com.

SUNDAY, JULY 20 – 1:00 PM

Oklahoma!

USA 1955. Dir: Fred Zinnemann. 145 min. DCP

Hot off its world premiere at the TCM Classic Film Festival in Hollywood, the newly-restored Todd-AO version of the enduring family classic comes to The Cinematheque for a special onetime engagement! Adapted from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway smash, Zinnemann’s musical-on-the-range stars Shirley Jones as a farm girl torn between two suitors: the fetching cowboy Curly (Gordon MacRae) and obsessive farmhand Jud (Rod Steiger). Like most love triangles, it ends badly for one (guess who?). Returned to its original 30-frames-per-second format, this beloved movie musical now looks as brilliant as its time-tested songs sound!

ALL AGES WELCOME

After the screening, enjoy light refreshments and a discussion of Oklahoma! with fellow moviegoers.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 17 – 1:00 PM

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Promised Lands

France 1974. Dir: Susan Sontag. 87 min. 16mm

Famed writer and critic Susan Sontag’s third film and only documentary obliquely witnesses the final days of the 1973 Yom Kippur War in Israel. The film is a collage of observational fragments showing that something happened, but not why it happened, a strategy illustrating her conviction that “to interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world.” Sontag resisted the label documentary, instead suggesting literary analogues such as “the poem, the essay and the lamentation” to describe the film’s dialectical structure. Roberto Rossellini said she uses “the Arab-Israel War as a metaphor for the human condition.” Sontag continued to explore the metaphor of suffering in her writing (Illness as Metaphor, Regarding the Pain of Others).

Programmed by Amy Kazymerchyk and Sarah Todd MONDAY, JULY 21 – 7:30 PM

Scenes from America: on the road with Jørgen Leth and Robert Frank

For his 1982 travelogue 66 Scenes from America, Danish filmmaker Jørgen Leth recorded a more-or-less random cross-section of the country’s people and places in postcard-like tableaux — most famously a four-minute homage to Andy Warhol’s screen tests, in which the pop artist wordlessly eats a Whopper. The Stars-andStripes flutters across these archetypal images, evoking The Americans, Robert Frank’s iconic mid-century photo essay. Frank’s own C’est Vrai/One Hour, his nearly-unknown late masterpiece, is a perverse buddy movie shot in a single take and a single hour on July 26, 1990. The camera moves from Frank’s Manhattan studio onto the street and into the back of a minivan that careens around the neighbourhood, now and then stopping to jump out and capture a bit of action: candid, staged, improvised — it can be hard to tell.

“C’est Vrai is a one-of-a-kind stunt, both street theatre and an urban road movie” (J. Hoberman). “How much this is a tossed-off home movie about Frank’s neighbourhood and how much it’s a contrived board game spread out over several city blocks ultimately becomes a metaphysical question” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).

66 Scenes from America (66 scener fra Amerika) | Jørgen Leth/Denmark 1982. 42 min.

C’est Vrai/One Hour | Robert Frank/France 1990. 60 min.

Programmed by Michèle Smith MONDAY, AUGUST 18 – 7:30 PM 66 SCENES FROM AMERICA DFI / STILLS & POSTERS ARCHIVE

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