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42nd STREET
(U.S.A., 1933, 89 mins)
Vancity Theatre Screening
Wednesday, March 24th 6:30pm
A smash hit for Warner Bros in 1933, 42nd Street revitalized the popularity of the backstage musical just as the entire movie business seemed to be flagging. Mixing hardboiled Depression cynicism and Broadway glamour, the film introduced tap dancer Ruby Keeler (Mrs Al Jolson) as a lowly chorine promoted to the lead role on opening night, giving rise to the legendary line, "Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star." More...
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Sunday, March 28th 1:30pm
Sunday, March 28th 4:30pm
It is 1960. CBC TV has been broadcasting in the Lower Mainland since December 1953 under the name CBUT (Channel 2), originally flying in kinescopes from Toronto, but increasingly producing locally-made shows. Turning the dial back 50 years, CBC's Vancouver archivist Colin Preston will introduce a typical day's programming from that era, compressed into about an hour and a half. More...
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Saturday, March 13th 7:00pm
Harriet Frost's third recording Random Days features her commanding voice and distinctive melodic sensibilities rooted in the folk rock tradition with shades of gypsy jazz and pop underpinnings. Her compelling vocals and evocative lyrics bring to mind Annie Lennox, Chrissie Hynde, Jennifer Warnes and Leonard Cohen. More...
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Thursday, March 11th 6:20pm
Thursday, March 11th 8:15pm
Sunday, March 14th 8:00pm
Monday, March 15th 6:30pm
Tuesday, March 16th 8:15pm
Thursday, March 18th 1:00pm
Thursday, March 18th 8:15pm
Xavier Dolan's debut feature may be the Canadian film success story of the year. It received a triumvirate of prizes at the Cannes Festival's Quinzaine and has proved a box office smash in Quebec. At just 17, Dolan penned the script for this semi-autobiographical story of a stormy relationship between a mother and her son. Call it therapy. More...
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Friday, March 19th 6:30pm
Friday, March 19th 8:00pm
Saturday, March 20th 4:30pm
Saturday, March 20th 6:00pm
Saturday, March 20th 7:30pm
Sunday, March 21st 6:00pm
Sunday, March 21st 7:30pm
Monday, March 22nd 6:30pm
Monday, March 22nd 8:00pm
Friday, March 26th 6:30pm
Monday, March 29th 6:30pm
Tuesday, March 30th 6:30pm
"This Italian gem, ideally watched with a group of gently sozzled but discerning friends and relatives, gives family entertainment a good name. Gianni Di Gregorio, the picture's writer-director, plays Gianni, an amiable, undemonstrative man in his fifties who still lives with his 90-year-old mother. During Rome's midsummer Ferragosto celebrations, he finds himself saddled with caring for two other men's elderly mothers (plus an aunt) and presiding over a feast to keep them all sated and smiling. It squeezes more insights, compassion and gently bubbling gags into its 75 minutes than most films could manage in double that time, and leaves you feeling like you've been simultaneously hugged and tickled. Weirdly, Di Gregorio also wrote the violent and incisive crime drama Gomorrah, which I suppose you could call another family film, in the Corleone sense at least..." - Ryan Gilbey, theartsdesk.com More...
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Friday, March 26th 8:00pm
Sunday, March 28th 7:00pm
Monday, March 29th 8:00pm
Tuesday, March 30th 8:00pm
Thursday, April 1st 6:30pm
Thursday, April 1st 8:15pm
Trunk Show: a traveling display of unique goods, packed and unpacked along the way. Neil Young Trunk Show: Jonathan Demme's follow up and reaction to the acclaimed concert film Heart of Gold, drawn from two December 2007 shows at the Tower Theatre, Pennsylvania. More...
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Friday, March 12th 6:30pm
Friday, March 12th 8:15pm
Sunday, March 14th 6:00pm
Monday, March 15th 8:20pm
Tuesday, March 16th 6:30pm
Thursday, March 18th 6:30pm
How much of what we think of as "myself" is pre-determined by genetic inheritance? To what extent are we able to re-invent or even recreate ourselves - and if we can pull it off, how does that affect those who love and know us best: our family? More...
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Saturday, March 13th 3:00pm
What is the write stuff? Whether you're an industry pro, an aspiring screenwriter and filmmaker or just a typical movie fan, this fascinating documentary is a must-see for its insights, anecdotes and back-stories. More...
THE COMMITMENTS
(Ireland/Great Britain, 1991, 118 mins)
Vancity Theatre Screening
Wednesday, March 17th 7:30pm
On bass, Derek "Meatman" Scully. On piano, Steven "Soul Surgeon" Clifford. Dean "Mr Nipple" Fay on sax. Joey "The Lips" Fagan on trumpet. Our gorgeous chanteuses are Bernie, Imelda, and Natalie. Deco "Deep Throat" Cuffe on vocals. On lead guitar, Outspan "Fender bender" Foster. Finally, on drums, Mickah "Don't F*** With Me" Wallace. Ladies and gentlemen... The Commitments. More...
TIME BEING
(Canada, 2009, 88 mins)
Special Presentation
Sunday, March 14th 2:30pm
Canadian premiere of an extraordinary non-fiction feature from Vancouver filmmaker Chris Gallagher. We all have an intimate relationship with time, but when you try to picture it, what does time look like? Our efforts to gauge and measure time's physical properties reveal the limits of science and the reaches of creativity. Essentially 88 one-minute movies, Gallagher's philosophically and formally adventurous Time Being fits in the tradition of essay films by European masters Chris Marker and Joris Ivens. More...
For support call (604) 685-0260
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