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1919 WITH HUGH BRODY
(UK, 1985, 99 mins)
Special Presentation
Sunday, September 19th 7:30pm
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Join us for this rare screening and the post-movie discussion with filmmaker Hugh Brody.



Renowned writer, anthropologist and filmmaker Hugh Brody introduces 1919, the acclaimed 1985 feature he co-wrote with Michael Ignatieff. Sophie Rubin (Schell), returns to Vienna from exile in the US to find Alexander Scherbatov (Scofield), a White Russian aristocrat. They are the last surviving patients of Sigmund Freud. More...
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CINEMA SALON: THE THIN RED LINE
(USA, 1998, 170 mins)
Cinema Salon
Tuesday, September 7th 7:30pm
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Based on James Jones' novel of the same name, THE THIN RED LINE is set during the battle of Guadalcanal during World War II, in a battle between the Americans and the Japanese. More...
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FIVE EASY PIECES
(U.S.A., 1970, 98 mins)
Vancity Theatre Screening
Friday, September 24th 6:30pm
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Friday, September 24th 8:15pm
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Saturday, September 25th 6:00pm
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Saturday, September 25th 7:45pm
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Sunday, September 26th 5:00pm
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In a seminal performance, Jack Nicholson is Robert Eroica Dupea, a drop out from the cultured upper classes busy boozing and whoring in the California oil fields. News of his father's stroke - and/or his girlfriend's pregnancy - sends him scuttling back home to the Pacific Northwest on a numb journey to reconcile who he is with where he's from. More...
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MERRY CHRISTMAS, MR LAWRENCE
(UK/Japan, 1983, 124 mins)
Vancity Theatre Screening
Sunday, September 19th 4:30pm
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Monday, September 20th 7:00pm
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Wednesday, September 22nd 7:00pm
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Oshima's most celebrated success, Lawrence features two rock icons as arch-nemeses in a World War II POW camp in Java in 1942. David Bowie plays Celliers, an upper crust New Zealand major, responsible for the British POWs' morale; Ryuichi Sakamoto, who contributed the film's hypnotically spare music track, plays Yonoi, the fanatical camp commander whose Mishima-like obsession with hara-kiri is replaced by his growing fixation on his androgynous blonde prisoner. More...
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ONLY WHEN I DANCE
(Brazil/UK, 2009, 78 mins)
Vancity Theatre Screening
Friday, September 3rd 8:00pm
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Saturday, September 4th 7:00pm
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Sunday, September 5th 7:00pm
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Monday, September 6th 8:00pm
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Monday, September 13th 6:30pm
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Monday, September 13th 8:00pm
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Tuesday, September 14th 6:30pm
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Tuesday, September 14th 8:00pm
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When two teenagers from one of the most violent favelas in Rio attempted to scale the rarefied, and still predominantly white, heights of classical ballet, director Beadie Finzi captured every unbelievable moment. A truly remarkable story, told through the eyes, ears and powerfully beautiful bodies of two extraordinary performers. More...
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SWEET LAND
(USA, 2005, 110 mins)
Special Presentation
Thursday, September 23rd 7:00pm
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Sweet Land is a poignant and lyrical celebration of land, love, and the immigrant experience, as recollected in a man’s memory of his grandmother’s stories.

Inge arrives in Minnesota in 1920 to marry a young Norwegian farmer named Olaf, but the community is suspicious of this German stranger, and the marriage is forbidden. Alone and adrift, Inge goes to live with Olaf’s friend and neighbor Frandsen and his wife Brownie, where she learns the English language, American ways, and a hard-won independence.

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THE SECRET OF KELLS
(Ireland, 2009, 75 mins)
Vancity Theatre Screening
Friday, September 3rd 6:30pm
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Saturday, September 4th 4:00pm
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Saturday, September 4th 5:30pm
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Sunday, September 5th 4:00pm
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Sunday, September 5th 5:30pm
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Monday, September 6th 5:00pm
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Monday, September 6th 6:30pm
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Twelve-year-old Brendan must fight Vikings and a serpent god to find a crystal and complete the legendary Book of Kells in this spellbinding animated adventure. Living in a monastery alongside his uncle the Abbott, Brendan is inducted into the art of illuminated manuscripts by a new arrival, Brother Aidan. In order to finish the magnificent book, Brendan must venture on a secret quest into the enchanted forest and confront his deepest fears. More...
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WATER ON THE TABLE
(Canada, 2010, 80 mins)
Vancity Theatre Screening
Saturday, September 25th 2:30pm
Not Ticketed FREE event --
Sunday, September 26th 7:00pm
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It becomes increasingly apparent that Canada’s most precious natural resource isn't the tar sands, it's our fresh water. But should access to water be a human right, or is it a commodity to be exploited, bought and sold? More...
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