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hank you to everyone who participated in The Cinematheque’s annual “June is for Film Lovers” campaign! As a charitable cultural organization, The Cinematheque relies on the support of donors like you to continue its innovative year-round film screenings and award-winning education programs.

We promised, in June, to choose one film lover’s favourite film and present it this fall, but we loved your suggestions so much that we’ve decided to screen five of them – all love stories of a sort!

Thanks to Graham and Ron (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg); Lesli (In the Mood for Love); Ingrid, Jim, and Leanna (Casablanca); James (A Matter of Life and Death); Ryan and Trish (Vertigo); and all our donors for sharing their love of film with us.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les parapluies de Cherbourg) France/West Germany 1964. Dir: Jacques Demy.

92 min. DCP

Jacques Demy’s fabulous “film in colour and song” pays glorious tribute to MGM musicals, features 19-year-old Catherine Deneuve in a breakthrough role, and won the Palme d’Or at Cannes. Beautifully shot in eye-popping colours by Jean Rabier, inventively art-directed by Bernard Evein, and set to an Oscar-nominated Michel Legrand score, the film has Deneuve as Geneviève, a radiant, restless provincial teen working in her widowed mom’s Cherbourg umbrella shop. When her true love Guy (Nino Castelnuovo), a poor gasstation attendant, is called up for military service, Geneviève finds herself pregnant and alone and facing an uncertain future. Umbrellas departs from the standard Hollywood musical by having the entirety of its dialogue delivered in song, and by its radical elevation of ordinary, everyday romance (and heartbreak) into extravagant musical spectacle.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 – 6:30 PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 – 4:30 PM SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – 8:30 PM

In the Mood for Love (Fa yeung nin wa)

Hong Kong/China 2000.

Dir: Wong Kar-Wai. 97 min. 35mm

Dazzling talent Wong Kar-Wai (Chungking Express) graduated from Hong Kong hipster to mature international master with this sensual, seductive mood piece, but he’s ever the exhilarating visual stylist, and memory, regret, and the relentless passage of time remain his métier. Two of Asia’s most glamorous performers, Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung (the latter winning Best Actor honours at Cannes), play neighbours in 1962 Hong Kong who come to suspect that their respective spouses are having an affair. As these two wounded souls begin spending time in each other’s company, intense feelings, largely unspoken and unacted upon, develop between them. Wong’s ravishing, erotically-charged drama of repression is orchestrated through details of gesture, glance, setting, and clothing (check out Cheung’s amazing dresses!), and filtered through the dreamy mind’s-eye of memory. One of the great films of the post-2000 period.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 – 8:20 PM MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – 6:30 PM

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Casablanca USA 1942. Dir: Michael Curtiz. 102 min. DCP

“Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine…” Director Michael Curtiz’s iconic and much-adulated wartime romantic epic – in which American tough-guy Rick (Humphrey Bogart), proprietor of a classy nightclub in Vichycontrolled Casablanca, re-encounters ex-flame Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), now married to a heroic Czech resistance leader (Paul Henreid) wanted by the Nazis – may be the most famous high-point of Hollywood’s Golden Age and studio system. It also represents, in the public imagination, the epitome of the legendary Bogart screen persona – cynical, solitary, sardonic, self-reliant, world-weary, anti-heroic, but ultimately redeemable by love. Casablanca won Oscars for Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay. The rogue’s-gallery supporting cast is superb.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 – 6:30 PM SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 – 9:00 PM SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – 4:30 PM

A Matter of Life and Death

(aka Stairway to Heaven) Great Britain 1946. Dirs: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger. 104 min. DCP

Powell and Pressburger’s tour-de-force fantasy stars dashing David Niven as a destined-to-die British aviator who, by angelic mistake, escapes certain death in WWII and lives to fall in love with a young American woman (played by Kim Hunter). When the error is discovered Upstairs, a celestial tribunal is convened to decide the hero’s fate: will he be allowed to remain on Earth, or must he make haste to Heaven? The jaw-dropping production design,

by Alfred Junge, includes a mammoth stairway-to-the-stars, peopled by history’s dead. In a playful jab at prevailing cinematic norms of realism, and at ideas of utopia, the film reverses Wizard of Oz colour-coding by presenting life-on-earth reality in sumptuous Technicolor and the heavenly afterlife in blander black-and-white!

“Breathtaking in its originality . . . One of the most audacious films ever made” (Roger Ebert).

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 – 8:30 PM SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – 6:30 PM

Vertigo

USA 1958. Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. 128 min. DCP

Met with middling reviews and indifferent audiences upon original release, Hitchcock’s dreamlike chef d’oeuvre is now routinely (and justifiably) cited as one of cinema’s greatest works. In fact, it’s now the reigning “best film of all time,” at least according to Sight and Sound’s most recent (2012) decennial poll of international critics! Scottie (James Stewart), a former San Francisco policeman suffering from vertigo, is sucked into a vortex of romantic obsession after he is hired to tail the coolly-beautiful Madeleine (Kim Novak), wife of an old pal. Many unhappy months later, Scottie meets a Madeleine look-alike, and obsessively, shamelessly attempts to make her over in Madeleine’s image.

The director’s own unhappy obsessions with his cool-blonde leading ladies are well documented; this perverse, poetic, moodily muted psychological thriller, with its stunningly cynical view of male-female relations, is Hitchcock’s most nakedly honest film.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 – 6:30 PM MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 – 8:30 PM

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WIM WENDERS A RETROSPECTIVE

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ecipient of an Honorary Golden Bear for lifetime achievement at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, the German filmmaker Wim Wenders (b.

Düsseldorf, 1945) has had a long and distinguished career spanning the five decades from his earliest 16mm experimental shorts of the late 1960s to his recent award-winning arts documentaries such as Pina (2011) and The Salt of the Earth (2014).

Wenders first came to wide attention in the 1970s as the director of a series of existential road movies exploring modern-day alienation, spiritual confusion, loneliness and dislocation, the Americanization of Europe, the expressive possibilities of landscape, the glories of pop and rock music, and the primacy of the cinema. Including The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (1971), Alice in the Cities (1974), and Kings of the Road (1976), these haunting, highly-assured films – along with The American Friend (1977), a brilliant adaptation of Patricia Highsmith – established Wenders as a filmmaker of international prominence. Wenders’s work, in

turn, helped establish das neue Kino, the New German Cinema – that brave new wave of Wenders, Fassbinder, Herzog, Kluge, Schlöndorff, von Trotta, et al. – as arguably the most significant national cinema of the 1970s. With the 1980s art-house hits Paris, Texas (1984) and Wings of Desire (1987), Wenders’s international popularity reached a zenith.

Running from October through December, this major retrospective of Wenders’s cinema (the first presented in Vancouver in more than two decades) includes new digital restorations of many of his key fiction and nonfiction films; rare screenings of his early experimental short works, and of The Left-Handed Woman (1978), produced by Wenders and directed by his frequent collaborator Peter Handke; and (coming in December) the Vancouver premiere of the full-length, five-hour Director’s Cut of Wenders’s monumental science-fiction feature Until the End of the World (1991).

Acknowledgments: Janus Films (New York); Brian Belovarac, Janus Films

New Restoration!

The American Friend (Der amerikanische Freund)

West Germany/France 1977. Dir: Wim Wenders. 126 min. DCP

Wim Wenders’s audacious adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s Ripley’s Game is, in our humble opinion, one of the great films of the 1970s – and perhaps the perfect meeting of contemporary German angst and anxious American noir. Paying homage to the cinema of American mavericks Nicholas Ray and Samuel Fuller (both of whom appear in the film), and also full of references to Hitchcock (whose Strangers on a Train was a Highsmith adaptation), this moody thriller stars Dennis Hopper as Tom Ripley, an expat American and shady art dealer with a serious case of existential despair.

Befriending Jonathan Zimmerman (Bruno Ganz), a Hamburg picture framer and family man with an incurable blood disorder, Ripley schemes to convince him to carry out a contract killing. Wenders’s film, a sadly beautiful incantation of movie magic, is superbly filmed by Robbie Müller in a style inspired by American painter Edward Hopper.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 – 6:30 PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24 – 6:30 PM MONDAY, OCTOBER 26 – 6:30 PM WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28 – 9:15 PM

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“Wenders has had monumental influence on cinema. The time is right for a celebration of his work.”

Adam Lehrer, Forbes

New Restoration!

The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter) West Germany/Austria 1971. Dir: Wim Wenders. 100 min. DCP

A quintessential expression of Wendersian alienation and wanderlust, the director’s second feature (after his rarely-seen diploma film) was his first full-length collaboration with novelist and screenwriter Peter Handke. (The two teamed up again for Wrong Move and Wings of Desire; Handke’s The Left-Handed Woman, produced by Wenders, also screens in the series). A soccer goalie, ejected from a match, commits a motiveless murder during the course of an aimless journey through Austria. Wenders’s hypnotic film eschews crime-thriller conventions, offers a wry take on American cultural imperialism, and skilfully evokes its anomic protagonist’s subjective state. “More than in his later movies, Wenders’s style here has a remarkably charged quality; every frame haunts you for goddamn weeks” (Tony Rayns, Time Out). “Indebted to the dead ends of film noir . . . it has an extraordinary visual capacity (David Thomson, The New Biographical Dictionary of Film).

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 – 8:50 PM SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 – 6:30 PM MONDAY, OCTOBER 26 – 8:50 PM

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Paris, Texas

West Germany/France/Great Britain/USA 1984. Dir: Wim Wenders. 148 min. DCP

Wim Wenders won the Palme d’Or at Cannes and had a major art-house hit with this moody existential odyssey across the epic landscapes of the American Southwest. Adapted by Sam Shepard and L. M. Kit Carson from Shepard’s “Motel Chronicles,” Paris, Texas casts career character actor Harry Dean Stanton, in his first-ever lead, as a drifter who returns after a four-year absence to reclaim his young son (Hunter Carson, Kit’s son) and search for his estranged wife (Nastassja Kinski). Wenders had long been interested in partnering with Shepard, whose work shares similarities with that of Austrian writer Peter Handke, a favourite Wenders collaborator.

Featuring a haunting slide-guitar score by Ry Cooder, and masterly cinematography by Wenders regular Robbie Müller, whose visuals evoke the paintings of Edward Hopper as well as the films of John Ford, Paris, Texas is one of Wenders’s finest achievements.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 – 6:30 PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24 – 8:50 PM SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 – 3:30 PM WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28 – 6:30 PM THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29 – 8:40 PM

New Restoration!

Alice in the Cities (Alice in den Städten)

West Germany 1974. Dir: Wim Wenders. 112 min. DCP

Alice in the Cities, Wim Wenders’s fourth feature, is one of his emblematic works – a touching road-movie tale of loss, longing, and existential questing that anticipates his later Paris, Texas. (It’s also reminiscent of 1973’s Paper Moon; the original script was even more similar, but Wenders substantially rewrote Alice after seeing Peter Bogdanovich’s film).

Wenders regular Rüdiger Vogler plays a world-weary German journalist who loses his faith in words during an extended American sojourn. Suddenly saddled with an abandoned nine-year-old girl, he reluctantly agrees to accompany the child on a journey across Germany in search of her grandmother. Scored by pioneering Krautrock band Can, shot in moody monochrome by Robbie Müller, and loaded with the director’s characteristic ambivalence about American culture, Alice “confirmed Wenders’s place as one of the leaders of the New German Cinema” (Philip French, The Guardian).

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23 – 9:15 PM SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25 – 8:30 PM THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29 – 6:30 PM

New Restoration!

The Left-Handed Woman (Die linkshändige Frau)

West Germany 1978. Dir: Peter Handke. 119 min. DCP

The directorial debut of writer Peter Handke, an important Wim Wenders collaborator, was produced by Wenders and shot by Robbie Müller. “An exquisite – and little-seen – film of the 1970s. A married woman living in the suburbs of Paris separates from her husband and begins adjusting to a life alone. She translates Flaubert, putters around the kitchen, picks up her father from the train station, and hikes with her son. As the banal particulars of her daily routine proceed in a rigorously poetic fashion, every spoken word and gesture feels deliberate and momentous. With its austere compositions, minimal camera movement, and delicately restrained performances

by Edith Clever and Bruno Ganz, The Left-Handed Woman is a powerful meditation on autonomy, self-preservation, and liberation.

Handke cited Chantal Akerman as a key influence when the film premiered at Cannes” (Museum of Modern Art, New York).

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1 – 6:30 PM MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 – 8:30 PM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 – 8:45 PM

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New Restoration!

The State of Things (Der Stand der Dinge)

West Germany/Portugal/USA 1982. Dir: Wim Wenders. 121 min. DCP

A European auteur finds himself at odds with Hollywood sensibilities in Wenders’s sardonic, self-referential The State of Things, winner of the 1982 Golden Lion at Venice. In Portugal, a prominent German director is shooting his first American movie, a low-budget, post-apocalyptic sci-fi epic, when the production runs out of film stock and money. After days of idleness, the desperate director sets out for Hollywood in search of the film’s missing producer. The State of Things was made during a break in the shooting of Hammett, Wenders’s U.S. debut, and is considered a film à clef account of Wenders’s troubles with Francis Ford Coppola and Hollywood during that fraught production. Samuel Fuller, Roger Corman, and Warhol superstar Viva have prominent supporting roles. French master Henri Alekan (Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast, Wenders’s Wings of Desire) was lead cinematographer of this beautiful black-and-white work.

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1 – 8:45 PM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 – 6:30 PM SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 – 6:30 PM

WIM WENDERS: SHORT FILMS Total running time: approx. 99 min. Format: DCP

3 American LPs (1969) Wenders calls his first film with writer Peter Handke “a film about American music . . . about how American rock music was about emotion and images instead of sounds.” 12 min.

Alabama (2000 Light Years) (1969) Wenders’s first film shot on 35mm, and first with cinematographer Robbie Müller, is a road movie set to John Coltrane, The Rolling Stones, and the competing Dylan/Hendrix versions of “All Along the Watchtower.” 21 min.

Polizeifilm (1968) The Munich police and their psychological tactics during the 1968 student riots make for “a very funny film . . . a sort of slapstick film” (Wenders). 12 min.

Silver City Revisited (1968) “I was very impressed by the views from the different apartments in which I lived as a student in Munich . . . And in the attic of the film school I found a collection of old 78 shellac records” (Wenders). 25 min.

Same Player Shoots Again (1967) A short black-andwhite sequence of a man running with a gun is repeated five times, with five different colour treatments, “like the five balls in a pinball machine” (Wenders). 12 min.

Reverse Angle: NYC March ’82 (1982) This introspective diary film finds Wenders on the road in New York, plagued by the dislocation that haunts his feature work, and embroiled in creative differences with Francis Ford Coppola over Hammett. 17 mins.

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2 – 6:30 PM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 – 8:45 PM

Wim Wenders continues through November/December!

Wrong Move (1975) ● Kings of the Road (1976) ● Tokyo-Ga (1985) ● Wings of Desire (1987) Notebook on Cities and Clothes (1989) ● Buena Vista Social Club (1999) ● The Salt of the Earth (2014) Plus: Vancouver Premiere! New Restoration! The full-length, five-hour, Director’s Cut of Until the End of the World (1991), Wenders’s wildly ambitious science-fiction drama Details available in October in our November/December 2015 Program Guide or online at theCinematheque.ca

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Casablanca – 6:30 pm

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A Matter of Life and Death – 8:30 pm

Cherbourg – 6:30 pm In the Mood for Love – 8:20 pm

Five for Film Lovers

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg – 4:30 pm Vertigo – 6:30 pm Casablanca – 9:00 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.

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New Documentary

Forbidden Films - 6:30 pm

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Sarajevo - 8:20 pm

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Visible Verse – 7:00 pm

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Alice in the Cities – 9:15 pm

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Penalty Kick – 8:50 pm

Forbidden Films – 8:20 pm

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Halloween Cinema Shindig

Come in Costume!

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Prizes! Refreshments!

Paris, Texas – 8:40 pm

Halloween Cinema

Rosemary’s Baby – 7:00 pm Barbarella – 9:30 pm

Doors - 6:00 pm

Penalty Kick – 8:50 pm

Barbarella - 7:00 pm Rosemary’s Baby - 9:00 pm

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LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS

EXPERIENCE ESSENTIAL CINEMA

“I would give up all my films to have directed Les Enfants du Paradis.” – François Truffaut

“An exemplary political film, the counterpart to Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game as a work of vast historical vision in a quasi-operatic form.” – Richard Brody, The New Yorker

Les Enfants du Paradis

“If the cinema had produced no other artists except Ophüls and Renoir, it would still be an art form of profundity and splendour.” – Andrew Sarris

(The Children of Paradise)

France 1945. Dir: Marcel Carné. 195 min. DCP

Voted “Best French Film of the Century” in a 1995 poll of 600 French critics and film professionals, Les Enfants du Paradis is one of world cinema’s most cherished masterpieces. It’s also the pinnacle achievement of one of filmmaking’s great collaborative teams: director Marcel Carné and surrealist poet/screenwriter Jacques Prévert, whose work defined the haunting style known as French “poetic realism.” Made under trying conditions during the Nazi occupation, the film is a bittersweet, beautifullyrendered tale of love and loss set against the richly recreated theatre scene of 19th-century Paris. Topping the superb cast – and giving “one of the greatest portraits of a woman in all of cinema” (Richard Roud) – is the magnificent actress Arletty as Garance, a resolutely independent courtesan who stirs the competing passions of a mime (JeanLouis Barrault), an actor (Pierre Brasseur), a criminal (Marcel Herrand), and a count (Louis Salou). “One of the most aesthetically satisfying films of all time” (Ephraim Katz).

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10 – 7:00 PM SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11 – 7:00 PM MONDAY, OCTOBER 12 – 7:00 PM

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From Mayerling to Sarajevo

(aka Sarajevo) (De Mayerling à Sarajevo) France 1940. Dir: Max Ophüls. 95 min. 35mm

One of the cinema’s supreme artists, Max Ophüls (The Earrings of Madame de… ) was a master of swirling mobile camera and opulent mise-en-scène. His romantic sensibilities and visual virtuosity are on lavish display in this rarely-seen historical drama, made in France in 1940.

The politics and protocols of court life enrich Ophüls’s ironic tale of the love between Archduke Franz Ferdinand (John Lodge), heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and Czech countess Sophie Chotek (Edwige Feuillère). The two married against the wishes of Emperor Franz Joseph; Franz Ferdinand was heir presumptive only because of an earlier romantic scandal: his cousin, Crown Prince Rudolf, had killed himself and his 17-year-old lover in the Mayerling Incident of 1889. The fate that awaited Franz Ferdinand and Sophie in Sarajevo in 1914 would, of course, trigger World War I. Ophüls, German and Jewish, had exiled himself to France in 1933; soon after making this film, Germany’s occupation of France forced him into exile again.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15 – 8:20 PM FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16 – 8:20 PM SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 – 6:30 PM MONDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 6:30 PM

NEW DOCUMENTARY

“This is a documentary fascinated with and fearful of cinema’s potency, but it’s also devoted to the idea of open discourse, a stance that underlines the urgency of thinking about film critically.” – Nicolas Rapold, New York Times “Moeller’s documentary is must-see viewing for cinephiles of all persuasions.” – Ronnie Scheib, Variety “Timely and even vital . . . A thoughtful and sensitive addition to the debate surrounding censorship that continues to complicate our ideas concerning freedom and self-expression in the modern world.” – Oleg Ivanov, Slant Vancouver Premiere!

FORBIDDEN FILMS: THE HIDDEN LEGACY OF NAZI FILM (Verbotene Filme)

Germany 2014. Dir: Felix Moeller. 94 min. DCP

“1,200 feature films were made in Germany’s Third Reich. According to experts, some 100 of these were blatant Nazi propaganda. Nearly seventy years after the end of the Nazi regime, more than 40 of these films remain under lock and key. Director Felix Moeller (Harlan: In the Shadow of Jew Süss) interviews German film historians, archivists, and filmgoers in an investigation of the power, and potential danger, of cinema when used for ideological purposes. Utilizing clips from the films and recorded discussions from public screenings (permitted in Germany in educational contexts) in Munich, Berlin, Paris, and Jerusalem, Moeller shows how contentious these 70-year-old films remain, and how propaganda can retain its punch when presented to audiences susceptible to manipulation” (Telluride Film Festival).

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15 – 6:30 PM FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16 – 6:30 PM SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 – 8:20 PM MONDAY, OCTOBER 19 – 8:20 PM

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Barbarella France/Italy 1968. Dir: Roger Vadim. 98 min. DCP

“Barbarella Psychedella!” Jane Fonda, pre-politicized, became an iconic ’60s sex kitten – and performed cinema’s first zero-gravity strip-tease! – in then-husband Roger Vadim’s ultra-groovy sci-fi sex farce, adapted from Jean-Claude Forest’s French “adult” comic. In the distant future, sexuallyuninhibited space agent Barbarella is sent on a vital mission to locate missing mad scientist DurandDurand, inventor of the dreaded Positronic Ray. British popsters Duran Duran named themselves after the latter character. Barbarella, roundly dismissed by critics of the day, has proven massively influential in fashion, film-design, comic-art, and pop-music circles. Terry Southern (Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider) is co-credited with the loopy screenplay. The notable cast includes Keith Richards consort Anita Pallenberg and Blow-Up’s David Hemmings. A camp, cult, and Swinging ’60s classic!

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30 – 7:00 PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31 – 9:30 PM

Rosemary’s Baby USA 1968. Dir: Roman Polanski. 136 min. DCP

“This is no dream, this is really happening!” Roman Polanski’s first American film, shot on location in New York City, is a milestone of modern psychological horror. Employing a muted, highly effective naturalism, Polanski recasts Christian myth in devilish guise, with Mia Farrow as a fragile young woman who comes to believe that she’s been impregnated by Satan – and that her out-of-work actor husband (John Cassavetes) and kindly neighbours (Sidney Blackmer and Ruth Gordon, the latter in an Oscar-winning turn) are in on the plot. The film, unfolding from Rosemary’s uncertain perspective, is deliciously, disturbingly ambiguous: are her fears grounded in reality or just figments of a paranoid prenatal imagination? Adapted from Ira Levin’s 1967 best-seller, and featuring uniformly excellent performances, Polanski’s masterpiece is “supremely intelligent and convincing” (Geoff Andrew, Time Out).

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30 – 9:00 PM SATURDAY, OCTOBER 31 – 7:00 PM

‘60s Halloween Shindig FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30 Come in costume! Prizes! Refreshments!

DOORS: 6:00 PM BARBARELLA: 7:00 PM

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The Cinematheque’s Education Department presents

An Afternoon Film Program for Children and Their Families

KING KONG

$6 Children & Youths (under 18) $9 Adults (Cinematheque membership not required)

If there’s one thing the movies do best, it’s whisking audiences away on incredible journeys and fantastic voyages. Travel with us to points unknown in our 2015 Cinema Sunday series, “The Spirit of Adventure.” Teeter on the edge of your seat over the perilous pursuit of ancient artifacts, expeditions of eternal enlightenment, quests to quench fortune and glory, and missions to vanquish the vile villain. We are thrilled to present amazing adventures of the ages… for all ages!

Films will be introduced by Vancouver film history teacher, critic, and dashing man of adventure Michael van ben Bos. In-theatre giveaways courtesy of Cinema Sunday community sponsors Videomatica Sales and Golden Age Collectables.

The Adventures of Robin Hood USA 1938. Dirs: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley. 102 min. DCP

Still the gold standard by which all swashbuckler films are measured, Warner Brothers’ 1938 iteration of the oft-adapted folk legend is, quite simply, “cinematic pageantry at its best” (Variety). Errol Flynn is the feather-capped crusader; Olivia de Havilland, Maid Marion. Together with the outlaw band of Merry Men, they do battle with (and thieve from) the oppressive Norman lords who threaten to usurp the throne in King Richard’s absence. An early, costly foray into three-strip Technicolor for the normally tight-fisted studio, the luminously-shot film did gangbusters at the box office and established Flynn, already a bona fide star thanks to the Curtiz-helmed Captain Blood (1935), as the definitive bandit of Sherwood Forest (sorry Douglas Fairbanks).

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 – 1:00 PM

After the film, grab a sword and explore your inner swashbuckler with a lesson from an Academie Duello swordfighting instructor! You’ll learn the basics of authentic swordplay and be ready for any foil-wielding foe that crosses your path. For more on Academie Duello, visit www.academieudello.com.

King Kong

USA 1933. Dirs: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack. 104 min. Blu-ray Disc

Kong is coming this Halloween season! RKO’s utterly iconic 50-foot-ape-in-Manhattan classic has spawned sequels, remakes, imitations, and inspired-bys – none of which hold a torch to the rough-hewn original. Alberta-born “scream queen” Fay Wray plays the golden-haired object of Kong’s infatuation, a New York vagrant cajoled aboard a ship bound for the mysterious Skull Island with the promise of top-billing in a new “exotic” picture. Soon she’s dangling from the digits of the oversized primate in a perilous, prehistoric jungle – then atop the Empire State Building – with a foolhardy film director, love-struck first mate, and expendable everyone else in the mix. One of the AFI’s top-ten fantasy films of all time, this pathos-imbued monster movie and feast of visual feats (thanks to effects pioneer Willis O’Brien’s stop-motion magic) screens here in its definitive 2005 restoration.

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18 – 1:00 PM

Walk with (or run from) the dinosaurs of Skull Island! After the movie, our award-winning Education Department will put you in Kong’s treacherous jungle using digital effects and green-screen technology.

For more on The Cinematheque’s Education Department, visit www.education.thecinematheque.ca

EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

Presented by the YWCA Metro Vancouver with The Cinematheque’s Education Department

The Mask You Live In USA 2015. Dir: Jennifer Siebel Newsom. 97 min. Blu-ray Disc

Back by popular demand! Join YWCA Metro Vancouver and The Cinematheque’s Education Department for a special screening of The Mask You Live In, a documentary about boys and young men struggling to stay true to themselves while negotiating narrow definitions of masculinity. Director Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s followup to her much-acclaimed Miss Representation, The Mask You Live In explores ongoing issues of equality between men and women. One such issue is how boys are taught to “be a man” — to be tough, hide their emotions, and ignore their feelings. How does this impact their development and society as a whole?

Coarse & sexual language; sexually suggestive scene Persons under 14 must be accompanied by an adult The screening will be followed by an interactive panel discussion, hosted by Liz Schulze, Education Manager of The Cinematheque, featuring a group of advocates and youths who will discuss the film, share their experiences, and consider actions to address issues of gender inequality.

Special Price: $8.00 (adults, students, and seniors). Membership in The Cinematheque is not required for this event.

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 – 6:30 PM

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COLOR BOY

Moving-image art in dialogue with cinema Programmed by Michèle Smith, co-editor of the art journal Drawing Room Confessions.

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THE POINT OF LEAST RESISTANCE Image courtesy of Icarus Films

Fischli & Weiss are Rat & Bear “Like Laurel and Hardy, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Bouvard and Pécuchet, Rat and Bear!”

– Stefan Zweifel, Flowers & Questions (Tate Modern, 2006) Dressed in rented animal costumes, internationally-acclaimed Swiss multimedia artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss, “the merry pranksters of contemporary art” (New York Times), take their characters “rat” and “bear” on a string of adventures that pose serious questions about art, crime, nature, and the meaning of life. Their first film, a Chandleresque crime drama, begins when they stumble upon a corpse in a Los Angeles art gallery.

Hoping it will be their key to fame and fortune, they take it with them, only to find their plans spiralling out of control. “The result is more reminiscent of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction watched after a dose of psilocybin mushrooms” (Lauren O’Neill Butler, Artforum). In the sequel, rat and bear’s philosophical debates and fractious relationship are tested against the majestic backdrop of the Swiss Alps, as they find themselves at the mercy of nature, once again grappling to understand the seeming chaos of the world. “In the epic style of an ageold tale, the film traces the path to understanding: the profound, melancholy, but also the comic realization that every ‘right way’ is also a wrong way (and every wrong way also a right way)” (Patrick Frey, Parkett).

The Point of Least Resistance (Der geringste Widerstand) | Switzerland 1981. 29 min. In German with English subtitles.

The Right Way (Der rechte Weg) | Switzerland 1984. 55 min. In German with English subtitles.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 – 7:30 PM

VICTORIAN SUSHI

Alarm Songs Montreal-based artist Julie Favreau is fascinated by the aura of objects, which she mines for their embedded stories. Taking a Soviet-era novella about science gone awry as inspiration, her film Anomalies creates sci-fi scenarios with enigmatic objects to “suggest parables about the judicious use of knowledge and technology, and about personal discipline and mindfulness” (Saelan Twerdy, Canadian Art). Dominique Sirois’s multidisciplinary project Alarm Songs orchestrates the passage from modernity to the dystopian now using sampled warning sounds from a music database mixed with texts by Freud, Stockhausen, and the poet Alexei Gastev. The suite of four videos connects different epochs through quasi-allegorical figures and narratives that reveal the past function and latent memory of their Glasgow locations, tracking the development of the military-industrial complex, the leisure society, globalization, and other forms of social control. Filmed in the Smithsonian Institute, Camille Henrot’s Grosse Fatigue, winner of the Silver Lion at the 2013 Venice Biennale, is the French artist’s attempt to tell the story of the universe’s creation; specimens from the collection are montaged with images found on the internet and scenes recorded from everyday life, which appear like pop-ups at the screen’s surface.

Anomalies | Julie Favreau/Canada 2014. 11 min. DCP. Color Boy | Dominique Sirois/Canada 2015. 7 min. DCP Military Techno | Dominique Sirois/Canada 2015. 8 min. DCP Victorian Sushi | Dominique Sirois/Canada 2015. 11 min. DCP Leisure Machine | Dominique Sirois/Canada 2015. 20 min. DCP Grosse Fatigue | Camille Henrot/France-USA 2013. 13 min. Video

LEISURE MACHINE

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14 – 7:30 PM

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CHARLIE’S COUNTRY

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

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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.

Charlie’s Country

Australia 2014. Dir: Rolf de Heer. 108 min. Blu-ray Disc

The iconic Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil won the Best Actor award at Cannes for his role as Charlie, an aging indigenous man determined to maintain his culture and autonomy in white-dominated society.

(Although the film is set in Northern Australia and about the Yolngu Aboriginal people, the parallels with Canada and its First Nations are writ large.) When his hunting rifle and then a homemade spear are confiscated by the white authorities as “dangerous weapons,” Charlie’s frustration reaches a boiling point. Retreating into the outback, he “goes bush,” only to be done in by failing health. Sent to far-away Darwin to recuperate, Charlie falls in with a group of homeless Aborigines struggling with addiction and endures a stint in jail before his resilience and inner strength show him a way home.

Post-screening discussion with Leslie Bonshor, Director of Aboriginal Health at Fraser Health.

Ms. Bonshor provides leadership within Fraser Health by planning, supporting, and guiding the implementation of initiatives designed to improve the health of Aboriginal people comprising First Nations (on and off reserve), Inuit, and Metis people. Prior to her current position, from 2001 to 2007 she provided business support and consulting services to First Nations communities and organizations in the Fraser Valley. Leslie is a member of the Tzeachten First Nation.

Moderated by Dr. Harry Karlinsky, Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 – 7:30 PM

Vancouver Premiere!

No No: A Dockumentary USA 2014. Dir: Jeffrey Radice. 100 min. DCP

A big hit (pun intended) when it premiered at Sundance and SXSW, No No: A Dockumentary tells the outsized story of baseball icon Dock Ellis. Famous for pitching a no no (or no hitter) for the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1970 while “tripping balls” on acid, Ellis was both a man of his time (drug use in pro baseball at the time was so rampant that players taking the field without pharmacological assistance were known as “playing naked”) and, as an outspoken critic of the entrenched racism of the day, ahead of the curve. Claiming he had never pitched a major league game when not high, Ellis checked himself into rehab in 1980, spending the rest of his life as a drug counsellor, working mostly with inmates.

“Unfailingly entertaining and occasionally even mind-blowing.” (Soren Anderson, Seattle Times).

Post-screening discussion with Dr. Rob Roy, a Registered Psychologist with thirty years of experience in clinical, sport, and forensic psychology. Dr. Roy has been working with athletes since the early 1990’s, with a clientele that includes youth, recreational and competitive athletes, professionals and world champions. In recent years, his practice has focused on the assessment and treatment of athletes suffering from mental illness.

Moderated by Dr. Harry Karlinsky, Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21 – 7:30 PM

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NO NO: A DOCKUMENTARY

PRESENTS

Curated & Hosted by Ray Hsu Presented by The Cinematheque since 2000, Visible Verse is one of the longestrunning video poetry festivals in the world. Video poetry is a hybrid creative form bringing together verse and moving images. Visible Verse selects its annual program from hundreds of submissions received from local, national, and international artists.

On the occasion of the 2015 festival, The Cinematheque says a fond farewell and expresses its great gratitude to Heather Haley, founder of Visible Verse and its curator and host from 2000 to 2014. We welcome Vancouver poet Ray Hsu into his new role as Visible Verse’s artistic director.

Visit thecinematheque.ca for the complete line-up of films screening in the 2015 festival. Details will be posted closer to the date.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17 – 7:00 PM

Ray Hsu is a poet and Artistic Director of Visible Verse. He is author of Anthropy (winner of the Gerald Lampert Award, finalist for the Trillium Book Award in Poetry) and Cold Sleep Permanent Afternoon (winner of the Alcuin Award). His work has been published in Chicago, London, New York, Singapore, Toronto, and Vancouver. He taught writing for over two years in a U.S. prison, has given a TED talk on creativity and education, and is co-founder of Art Song Lab. Find him on Twitter at @thewayofray.

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