Movies
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Nouvelle Vague
This is the story of Jean-Luc Godard making BREATHLESS, told in the style and spirit in which Jean-Luc Godard made BREATHLESS. Oscar-winning filmmaker Richard Linklater (BOYHOOD, DAZED AND CONFUSED) has crafted a playful, poignant love letter to cinema with NOUVELLE VAGUE, which ably reimagines the making
Day of the Dead (40th Anniversary Screening)
George A. Romero’s DAY OF THE DEAD, the apocalyptic final chapter of the ultimate zombie trilogy, returns for its 40th Anniversary! Whole generations of horror lovers had never seen any of Romero’s zombie classics at a theatre or drive-in, but in November 2021 Red Band Releasing started helping book the
Urchin
The promising and confident directorial debut of acclaimed actor Harris Dickinson (BABYGIRL, TRIANGLE OF SADNESS). The film had its world premiere at this years Cannes Film Festival where Dickinson won the prestigious FIPRESCI Prize, and Frank Dillane won Best Actor in the Un Certain Regard section. Mike, a
The Smashing Machine
Dwayne Johnson goes the distance with his transformative turn as Mark Kerr in Benny Safdie‘s (UNCUT GEMS) THE SMASHING MACHINE, a gritty biopic that sidesteps cliché even at the expense of narrative satisfaction while still landing the dramatic body blows that count. With Emily Blunt. “He gives a transformative performance.” (Variety)
The Mastermind
Celebrated filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (FIRST COW, SHOWING UP) directs an unforgettable Josh O’Connor (CHALLENGERS, Netflix’s THE CROWN) in THE MASTERMIND, her latest Cannes triumph. In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and
Requiem for a Dream (25th Anniversary Restoration Screening)
Darren Aronofsky‘s hyperstylish REQUIEM FOR A DREAM is a lucid and devastating fever dream of a film, with a deliberately frenzied and kinetic pace that draws its audience down the very spirals experienced by the protagonists’ own horrific descent into addictive behaviours. Imaginatively evoking the inner landscape of human beings longing
Alberta Number One (Filmmakers in Attendance for Q&A!)
An eccentric documentary crew treks across the vast roadways of Alberta, Canada, to document monuments, museums, and other roadside curios. Armed with only a loose idea of the project’s final form, the wayward director struggles to manage a slew of messy personal entanglements and rivalries embroiling her collaborators. They
Saints and Warriors (Director Q&A)
SAINTS AND WARRIORS is the epic and inspiring story of how basketball became not only an obsession, but a means for survival for the Haida people and their culture on the remote Indigenous Nation of Haida Gwaii on the northwest coast of Canada, near Alaska. Over the course of the
State Organs: Unmasking Transplant Abuse in China
STATE ORGANS – VANCOUVER SCREENING & PANEL DISCUSSION by Taiwan Frogcast Taiwan Frogcast presents a special screening of the internationally acclaimed documentary STATE ORGANS, followed by a live panel discussion with director Raymond Zhang, producer Cindy Song, and Nobel Peace Prize nominee David Matas. Together, they will explore the
Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE, the cinematic return of the global phenomenon, follows the Crawley family and their staff as they enter the 1930s. When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the entire household grapples with the threat of social