NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2017 FGuideilm Theatre
LONG TIME RUNNING – SCREENING NOVEMBER 2 - 5
The best in world and independent cinema for 40 years
REGINALIBRARY.CA MON oct 30 TO SUN nov 5
Human Flow – Nov 9 to 12
HUMAN FLOW THU NOV 9 – 7:00 • FRI NOV 10 – 9:00 SAT NOV 11 – 7:00 • SUN NOV 12 – 2:30
GERMANY | 2017 | 140 MIN. | PG13 Dir. Ai Weiwei Meet Me in St. Louis – Nov 1 “[An] open-hearted and intricately woven mosaic that travels to 23 different countries (thanks to more than 2,000 crew members) in order to show MEET ME IN ST.LOUIS Letters from Baghdad – Nov 2 to 5 both the breadth of the refugee crisis as well as WED NOV 1 – 6:45 its dehumanizing volume. Eschewing the close- up approach of Gianfranco Rosi’s ‘Fire at Sea’ WEDNESDAY PLUS - FREE ADMISSION LETTERS FROM BAGHDAD or the urgent didacticism of Vanessa Redgrave’s 1944 | 113 MIN. | PG FROM THE RPL THU NOV 2 – 7:00 • FRI NOV 3 – 9:00 ‘Sea Sorrow,’ ‘Human Flow’ is an epic portrait of Dir. Vincent Minnelli DVD COLLECTION SAT NOV 4 – 7:00 • SUN NOV 5 – 2:30 mass migration that understands how a lack of empathy often stems from a failure of imagination. In the year leading up to the 1904 St. Louis World’s UK/USA/FRANCE | 2017 | 95 MIN. | STC Sometimes, the sheer scope of an atrocity proves Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and Directors: Zeva Oelbaum, Sabine Krayenbühl too overwhelming for people to comprehend, and so love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to they default to willful obliviousness, that passive evil New York. Sometimes called the female “Lawrence of Arabia”, Gertrude Lowthian Bell was a British adventurer, to which so many of us are predisposed. Whether it’s archaeologist and political powerhouse who helped the sprawling sierra of life jackets or the burning oil shape the modern Middle East after World War I. fields of Iraq that ISIS lit aflame as they made their Voiced and executive produced by Tilda Swinton, retreat, or any of the myriad other sights that sustain the film chronicles Bell’s journey into the uncharted Ai’s largest project for more than 140 minutes, the Arabian desert and all-male halls of colonial power, film combats indifference by articulating the dangers with never-before-seen archival footage of the region of allowing a problem to eclipse the people that are shot a century ago. suffering from it.” Indiewire
Whose Streets? – Nov 9 to 12
WHOSE STREETS? Long Time Running – Nov 2 to 5 THU NOV 9 - 9:30 • FRI NOV 10 – 7:00 SAT NOV 11 – 9:30 • SUN NOV 12 – 7:00
LONG TIME RUNNING USA | 2016 | 90 MIN. | 14A THU NOV 2 – 9:00 • FRI NOV 3 – 7:00 Directors: Sabaah Folayan, Damon Davis SAT NOV 4 – 9:00 • SUN NOV 5 – 7:00 An American in Paris – Nov 8 “An unflinching look at how the killing of 18-year old Mike Brown inspired a community to fight back CANADA | 2017 | 97 MIN. | PG a sparked a global movement.“ Urgent, vital and Directors Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de depressingly timely, ‘Whose Streets?’ is a riveting, Pencier MON nov 6 TO SUN nov 12 on-the-ground documentation of the 2014 uprising “No other band encapsulates the rugged rock ‘n’ roll on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, following soul of Canada like The Tragically Hip. For 30 years, AN AMERICAN IN PARIS the killing of Michael Brown Jr., an unarmed black the Kingston-born quintet have recorded and toured teenager who was shot dead by a white police officer. steadily, releasing over a dozen studio albums and WED NOV 8 – 6:45 Filmmakers Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis are in bringing their guitar-driven sound and gritty anthems WEDNESDAY PLUS - FREE ADMISSION the streets at night with the protestors and at home to an uncommonly passionate fan base. When it with them during the day during the initial riots, up 1951 | 113 MIN. | PG FROM THE RPL was announced last year that singer Gord Downie through the grand jury decision not to indict police Dir. Vincent Minnelli DVD COLLECTION had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, it officer Darren Wilson, and that outcome’s aftermath. looked like the end of the road for the Hip. Instead, Three friends struggle to find work in Paris. Things They use cell phone video captured by protestors their greatest journey was just beginning.” Toronto become more complicated when two of them fall in and tweets from the scene to paint a vivid picture of International Film Festival love with the same woman. the unrest from the inside out.” The Detroit News MON nov 13 TO SUN nov 19
Singin’ in the Rain – Nov 15
SInGIN’ IN THE RAIN Aida’s Secrets – Nov 23 to Nov 26 WED NOV 15 – 7:00 WEDNESDAY PLUS - FREE ADMISSION AIDA’S SECRETS THU NOV 23 – 7:00 • FRI NOV 24 – 9:00 1952 | 101 MIN. | PG FROM THE RPL DVD COLLECTION SAT NOV 25 – 7:00 • SUN NOV 26 – 2:30 Dir. Kelly Donen Loving Vincent – Nov 17 to 19 A silent film production company and cast make a CANADA/GERMANY/USA/ISRAEL | 2016 | difficult transition to sound! LOVING VINCENT 95 MIN. | STC Directors: Alon Schwarz, Shaul Schwarz FRI NOV 17 – 9:00 SAT NOV 18 – 7:00 • SUN NOV 19 – 7:00 Family secrets, high drama and generations of architectural contemporary history unspool in this international design series UK/POLAND | 2017 | 94 MIN. | PG13 story that begins with World War II. Izak was born Directors: Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman inside the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp INTEGRAL MAN On July 27, 1890, a gaunt figure stumbled down in 1945 and sent for adoption in Israel. Secret a drowsy high street at twilight in the small French details of his birth mother, an unknown brother in THU NOV 16 – 7:00 country town of Auvers. The man was carrying Canada and his father’s true identity slowly emerge in this personal, compassionate film of identity and CANADA | 2016 | 63 MIN. | STC nothing; his hands clasped to a fresh bullet wound leaking blood from his belly. This was Vincent van resilience. Winner of the Audience Award DOCAVIV See back page for more details Gogh, then a little known artist; now the most famous 2016. artist in the world. His tragic death has long been known, what has remained a mystery is how and why he came to be shot. Loving Vincent tells that story.
MON nov 20 TO SUN nov 26
Bombshell – Nov 23 to 26 Marjorie Prime – Nov 16 to 19 BOMBSHELL: MARJORIE PRIME THE HEDY LAMARR STORY THU NOV 16 – 9:00 • FRI NOV 17 – 7:00 THU NOV 23 – 9:00 • FRI NOV 24 – 7:00 SAT NOV 18 – 9:00 • SUN NOV 19 – 2:30 SAT NOV 25 – 9:00 • SUN NOV 26 – 7:00
USA | 2017 | 98 MIN. | STC Architectural USA | 2016 | 86 MIN. | STC Dir. Michael Almereyda Design SERIES Dir. Alexandra Dean Eighty-six-year-old Marjorie spends her final, ailing Gentlemen Prefer Blondes – Nov 22 “Starlet.” Screen Siren. The Most Beautiful Woman days with a computerized version of her deceased in the World. All phrases used to describe 1940’s husband. With the intent to recount their life Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr. Alexandra Dean’s together, Marjorie’s “Prime” relies on the information GENTLEMeN pREFER BLONDES illuminating documentary adds Inventor to the list. from her and her kin to develop a more complex Known for her matchless beauty and electric screen understanding of his history. As their interactions WED NOV 22 – 7:00 persona, Lamarr’s legion of fans never knew she deepen, the family begins to develop ever diverging WEDNESDAY PLUS - FREE ADMISSION possessed such a beautiful mind. An Austrian Jewish recounts of their lives, drawn into the chance to émigré who acted by day and drew mechanical and USA | 1953 | 91 MIN. | PG FROM THE RPL reconstruct the often painful past. Built around electronic inventions by night, Lamarr came up with Dir. Howard Hawks DVD COLLECTION exceptional performances from a veteran cast, a “secret communication system” to help the Allies Marjorie Prime shines a light on an often-obscured Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to to beat the Nazis. Weaving in Lamarr’s own voice corner in the world of artificial intelligence and its Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the from archival recordings, Dean reveals how Lamarr interactions with mortality. Bringing us robustly into suspicious father of Lorelei’s fiancé, as well as a rich, gave her patent to the Navy, received no credit for the future, Michael Almaryeda’s poetic film forces us enamored old man and many other doting admirers. her contributions, and wound up impoverished in her to face the question - If we had the opportunity, how Features one of the most iconic dance numbers in latter years. Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story is would we choose to rebuild the past, and what would the history of the film musical, “Diamonds are a Girl’s a film for lovers of history, Hollywood and science.” we decide to forget? Best Friend”. Tribeca Film Festival FREE ADMISSION ADULTS STUDENTS* & SENIORS* CHILDREN Independent Visions, Talkies, Single Showing: $8 Single Showing: $7 14 and under: $5 Wednesday Plus and select Double Showing: $12 Double Showing: $10.50 Special Events.
NovemberNovembermon tue Wed thu fri Sat Sun
1 2 3 Afrofest 4 5 7:00 7:00 7:00 2:30 Matineé: Letters from Baghdad Long Time Running - Letters from Baghdad Letters from Baghdad Wed PLUS - STC PG - STC - STC 6:45 9:00 9:00 9:00 7:00 Meet Me in St. Louis Long Time Running - Letters from Baghdad Long Time Running - Long Time Running - – PG PG - STC PG PG
8 9 10 11 12 Wed PLUS 7:00 7:00 7:00 2:30 Matineé: Whose Streets? – Nov 9 to 12 Human Flow – PG13 Whose Streets? - STC Human Flow – PG13 Human Flow – PG13 6:45 special event live cinema An American in Paris 9:30 9:00 9:30 – PG Human Flow – PG13 7:00 Whose Streets? - STC Whose Streets? - STC Whose Streets? - STC
15 Architectural 16 17 18 19 Design SERIES 7:00 Wed PLUS 7:00 Loving Vincent – PG 13 2:30 Matineé: 7:00 7:00 Marjorie Prime - PG Marjorie Prime – PG Singin’ in the Rain - PG Integral Man - STC 9:00 9:00 Marjorie Prime - PG 7:00 Loving Vincent – Nov 17 to 19 9:00 Loving Vincent – PG 13 Loving Vincent - PG 13 Marjorie Prime - PG
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 7:00 7:00 7:00 2:30 Matineé: Wed PLUS Aida’s Secrets - STC Bombshell: Aida’s Secrets - STC Aida’s Secrets - STC Hedy Lamarr - STC 7:00 9:00 9:00 7:00 Gentlemen Prefer Bombshell: 9:00 Bombshell: Bombshell: Blondes - PG Hedy Lamarr - STC Aida’s Secrets - STC Hedy Lamarr - STC Hedy Lamarr - STC Bombshell: Hedy Lamarr Story – Nov 23 to 26
27 talkies 28 29 30 1 2 3 Wed PLUS 7:00 7:00 7:00 2:30 Matineé: 78/52 – STC Psycho – STC 78/52 – STC Psycho – STC 7:00 7:00 Meet Dave - PG Funny Face – PG 9:00 9:00 9:00 7:00 Psycho – STC 78/52 – STC Psycho – STC 78/52 – STC
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DecemberDecembermon tue Wed thu fri Sat Sun 29 30 1 2 3 7:00 7:00 7:00 2:30 Matineé: Wed PLUS 78/52 – STC Psycho – STC 78/52 – STC Psycho – STC 7:00 Funny Face - PG 9:00 Psycho – STC 9:00 9:00 7:00 78/52 – STC Psycho – STC 78/52 – STC
6 7 8 9 10 7:00 7:00 7:00 2:30 Matineé: Rebel in the Rye – STC World of Darkness - Rebel in the Rye – STC World of Darkness – Wed PLUS STC STC 6:45 9:00 9:00 Miracle on 34th Street 7:00 World of Darkness - 9:00 World of Darkness - Rebel in the Rye - STC - PG STC Rebel in the Rye – STC STC
13 7:00 14 7:00 15 7:00 16 2:30 Matineé: 17 Wed PLUS The Divine Order – PG Mark Felt: The Man The Divine Order – PG Mark Felt: The Man 7:00 Who Brought Down the Who Brought Down the 9:00 White House – PG 13 9:00 White House – PG 13 Home Alone - PG Mark Felt: The Man Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the 9:00 Who Brought Down the 7:00 White House – PG 13 The Divine Order – PG White House – PG 13 The Divine Order – PG Psycho – Nov 30 to Dec 3 talkies 19 20 21 22 23 24 Wed PLUS Film theatre is closed Film theatre is closed 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 Jingle All The Way 2 A Christmas Story - PG Stalker - STC Solaris - STC - PG season’s Rebel in the Rye DIGITAL - Dec 7 to 10 RESTORATION SERIES greetings 27 28 29 30 31 Wed PLUS 7:00 7:00 7:00 2:30 Matineé: Novitiate - STC The Other Side of Novitiate - STC Novitiate - STC 7:00 Hope - PG Scrooged - PG 9:15 9:15 7:00 The Other Side of Hope 9:00 The Other Side of The Other Side of - PG Novitiate - STC Hope - PG Hope - PG
Novitiate - Dec 28 to 31
Tax included in ticket price; *pricing requires valid ID card. Box office opens 30 mins. before showtime. Tickets can be purchased for any show that day. Programs are subject to change. For confirmation and updates call 306.777.6104 or email [email protected]. wheelchair accessible: Intercom at north door for the convenience of patrons with wheelchairs. MON nov 27 TO SUN dec 3
MEET DAVE Tue NOV 28 – 7:00 TALKIES – FREE ADMISSION*
2008 | 90 MIN. | PG FROM THE RPL Dir. Brian Robbins DVD COLLECTION *With donation to Regina Food Bank. Join us for live commentary on less-than-excellent movies, featuring Regina-based comedian and Rebel in the Rye – Dec 7 to Dec 10 movie-lover, Jayden Pfeifer.
Psycho – Nov 30 to Dec 3 REBEL IN THE RYE THU DEC 7 – 7:00 • FRI DEC 8 – 9:00 PSYCHO SAT DEC 9 – 7:00 • SUN DEC 10 – 7:00
THU NOV 30 – 9:00 • FRI DEC 1 – 7:00 USA | 2017 | 106 MIN. | STC SAT DEC 2 – 9:00 • SUN DEC 3 – 2:30 Dir. Danny Strong USA | 1960 | 109 MIN. | STC The world of legendary writer J. D. Salinger is brought Dir. Alfred Hitchcock vividly to life in this revealing look at one of the most renowned, controversial, and enigmatic´ authors of “Where would we be without ‘Psycho’? Fifty years Funny Face – November 29 our time. Set amidst the colorful backdrop of mid- on and Hitch’s delicious cod-Freudian nightmare 20th century New York City, the film follows a young about a platinum-blonde embezzler (Janet Leigh) Salinger (Nicholas Hoult) struggling to find his voice, FUNNY FACE who neglected to consult a guide before selecting pursuing a love affair with famed socialite Oona her motel still has much to answer for. It blazed a WED NOV 29 – 7:00 O’Neill (Zoey Deutch), and fighting on the frontlines bloody trail for the much-loved slasher cycle, but it of World War II. It’s these experiences that will inform WEDNESDAY PLUS - FREE ADMISSION also assured us that a B-movie could be A-grade in the creation of his masterpiece, The Catcher in the quality and innovation. It dared to suggest that your 1957 | 103 MIN. | PG FROM THE RPL Rye, bringing him overnight fame and notoriety, star didn’t need to surface from an ordeal smelling Dir. Stanley Donen DVD COLLECTION and leading him to withdraw from the public eye for of roses (or, indeed, at all). It combined a knife, a the rest of his life. Co-starring Kevin Spacey and The dancing of Fred Astair and the charm of Audrey scream, a melon, some chocolate sauce, Bernard Sarah Paulson, Rebel in the Rye offers a tantalizing Hepburn are combined in this stylish musical comedy Herrmann’s greatest score and more than 70 edits window into the life and times of a little-understood about Paris, the world of high fashion photographers to push the envelope of screen violence.” Time Out genius who broke the rules and redefined American are models. Beautifully filmed on location with dance London sequences at the Eiffel Tower and the left bank. literature.
WORLD OF DARKNESS: MON dec 4 TO SUN dec 10 THE DOCUMENTARY THU DEC 7 – 9:00 • FRI DEC 8 – 7:00 SAT DEC 9 – 9:00 • SUN DEC 10 – 2:30
SWEDEN | 2017 | 85 MIN. | STC Dir. Giles Alderson Don’t miss this excellent documentary on the cult phenomenon role-playing games “World of Darkness” and “Vampire: The Masquerade” that helped shape and define film, literature, fashion, club and television culture. Perhaps their biggest impact was on the fans whose lives they changed forever.
Miracle on 34th Street – Dec 6 MON dec 11 TO SUN dec 17 78/52 – Nov 30 to Dec 3 MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET HOME ALONE WED DEC 6 – 6:45 78/52 WEDNESDAY PLUS - FREE ADMISSION WED DEC 13 – 7:00 WEDNESDAY PLUS - FREE ADMISSION THU NOV 30 – 7:00 • FRI DEC 1 – 9:00 1994 | 113 MIN. | PG FROM THE RPL SAT DEC 2 – 7:00 • SUN DEC 3 – 7:00 Dir. Les Mayfield DVD COLLECTION 1990 | 103 MIN. | PG FROM THE RPL DVD COLLECTION In this retelling of a holiday classic, Kris Kringle is Dir. Chris Columbus USA | 2017 | 91 MIN. | STC hired on as Macy’s department store Santa Claus for When eight-year-old Kevin McCallister’s family Dir. Alexandre O. Philippe the Christmas season. An unscrupulous corporate rushes off on a holiday trip to Paris three days before A revealing feature chronicling the single most rival tries to discredit Kris while angling to gobble Christmas, they accidentally leave the youngster extraordinary and mysterious scene in the history of up the financially beleaguered store in a hostile behind to deck the halls with a barrage of booby cinema: the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s corporate takeover bid. The result is a sensational traps to keep out a bumbling pair of burglars who Psycho. 78/52 tells the story of the man behind the trial to determine the state of Kris’ health (or lack have discovered that this tough little tyke is home curtain and his greatest obsession. thereof) and whether Santa Claus actually exists. alone. mon dec 18 TO SUN dec 24
JINGLE ALL THE WAY 2 TUE DEC 19 – 7:00 TALKIES – FREE ADMISSION*
2014 | 93 MIN. | PG FROM THE RPL Dir. Alex Zamm DVD COLLECTION *With donation to Regina Food Bank. Join us for live commentary on less-than-excellent Novitiate – Dec 28 to 31 movies, featuring Regina-based comedian and The Divine Order – Dec 14 to Dec 17 movie-lover, Jayden Pfeifer. Novitiate THE DIVINE ORDER A CHRISTMAS STORY THU DEC 28 – 7:00 • FRI DEC 29 – 9:00 SAT DEC 30 – 7:00 • SUN DEC 31 – 2:30 THU DEC 14 – 7:00 • FRI DEC 15 – 9:00 WED DEC 20 – 7:00 SAT DEC 16 – 7:00 • SUN DEC 17 – 7:00 WEDNESDAY PLUS - FREE ADMISSION USA | 2017 | 123 MIN. | STC Dir. Margaret Betts Switzerland | 2017 | 96 MIN. | STC 1983 | 98 MIN. | PG FROM THE RPL Spanning over a decade from the early 1950s Dir. Petra Volpe Dir. Bob Clark DVD COLLECTION through to the mid-60s, Novitiate centres around a In Swiss, German, English, Italian Ralphie, a young boy growing up in the forties, young girl’s first experience with love – in this case, dreams of owning a Red Rider BB gun. He sets out to 1971. Young housewife and mother Nora lives in a God. Raised by a vehemently non-religious, single convince the world this is the perfect gift. But along quaint little village with her husband and their two mother in rural Tennessee, a scholarship to Catholic the way, he runs into opposition from his parents, his sons. The Swiss countryside is untouched by the school soon finds Cathleen drawn into all the mystery teacher, and even good ol’ Santa Claus himself. major social upheavals the movement of 1968 has and romanticism of a life devoted to the worship and brought about. Nora’s life is not affected either – until servitude. With the dawn of the Vatican II era, radical she starts to publicly fight for women’s suffrage, changes in the Church are threating the course which the men are due to vote on in a ballot on of nuns’ lives. Cathleen finds herself struggling February 7, 1971. “Volpe dramatizes her action with a with issues of faith, sexuality, and the changing light touch that allows for flashes of pointed comedy administration. As she progresses from the postulant — a comical sex-magazine subplot shows the Stalker – Dec 21 to the novitiate stage of training, she finds her faith women as the keepers of everyone’s secrets — even repeatedly confronted and challenged by the harsh, as she maintains a firm focus on the way threats of STALKER often inhumane realities of being a servant of God. slander, humiliation, abuse and ostracism are used by the ruling class to maintain privilege.” Variety THU DEC 21 – 7:00 RUSSIA | 1979 DIGITAL 161 MIN. | 14A RESTORATION SERIES See back page for more details
Novitiate – Dec 28 to 31
Mark Felt – Dec 14 to 17 Solaris – Dec 22 THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE SOLARIS THU DEC 28 – 9:15 • FRI DEC 29 – 7:00 MARK FELT: THE MAN FRI DEC 22 – 7:00 SAT DEC 30 – 9:15 • SUN DEC 31 – 2:30 WHO BROUGHT DOWN THE WHITEHOUSE RUSSIA | 1972 DIGITAL FINLAND/GERMANY | 2017 | 98 MIN. | STC 166 MIN. | 14A RESTORATION SERIES Dir. Aki Kaurismäki THU DEC 14 – 9:00 • FRI DEC 15 – 7:00 See back page for more details SAT DEC 16 – 9:00 • SUN DEC 17 – 2:30 In Finnish, English, Arabic with English subtitles Two stories converge in this story of the European USA | 2016 | 103 MIN. | STC Refugee crisis, told with Kaurismäki’s trademark Dir. Peter Landesman MON dec 25 TO SUN dec 31 style. Khaled is a Syrian refugee. A stowaway on a “Deep Throat” was the pseudonym given to the coal freighter, he ends up in Helsinki where he applies notorious whistleblower for one of the greatest SCROOGED for asylum without much hope of success. Wikström, scandals of all time, Watergate. The true identity the second main character, is a travelling salesman of the secret informant remained a mystery and WED DEC 27 – 7:00 peddling ties and men’s shirts. Turning his back on source of much public curiosity and speculation for WEDNESDAY PLUS - FREE ADMISSION his trade, he instead decides to put his poker face to more than 30 years. That is until, in 2005, special good use at a gambling table and subsequently buys 1988 | 101 MIN. | PG FROM THE RPL agent Mark Felt shockingly revealed himself as the himself a restaurant in the remotest corner of Helsinki. Dir. Richard Donner DVD COLLECTION tipster. This unbelievable true story chronicles the “Movingly, this sort of wry humour sits alongside a personal and professional life of the brilliant and Frank, a TV Network President and a modern-day persuasive vision of what it might mean to be a Syrian uncompromising Felt, who risked and ultimately Mr. Bah Humbug, places everybody else last, but refugee in Finland, complete with fascist bullying and sacrificed everything – his family, his career, his his holiday spirit changes when he is visited by three threats of violence. It’s a deeply humane film as well freedom – in the name of justice. zany ghosts. as a quietly hilarious one.” Time Out London Architectural design series digital restoration series
Presented in partnership with Regina Advocates for Design, OPEN, and Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, the current film in this series of design- oriented screenings is presented by a passionate community hoping to challenge perceptions of our built environment.
Solaris – Dec 22
SOLARIS Integral Man – Nov 16 FRI DEC 22 – 7:00
INTEGRAL MAN RUSSIA | 1972 | 166 MIN. | 14A Dir. Andrei Tarkvosky In Russian with English subtitles THU NOV 16 – 7:00 Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three CANADA | 2016 | 63 MIN. | STC Dir. Joseph Clement remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and “He chose two young architects that would come to change contemporary psychologist Kris Kelvin is dispatched to investigate, he experiences the same architecture. Jim Stewart is the most published mathematician since Euclid, a strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into concert level violinist, calculus professor, philanthropist, and gay rights activist. He the darkest recesses of his consciousness. With Solaris, the legendary Russian is a true polymath, a modern day renaissance man. He had a bold vision and the filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky created a brilliantly original science-fiction epic that conviction to follow through. It took almost ten years to realize his dream, Integral challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself. House, which was completed in 2009. Designed around a stunning internal concert hall, it was hailed as a masterpiece by some of the greatest architecture and design critics in the world. Integral House, like Jim, was unlike anything else. Now confronting his inability to play violin as arthritis cripples his hands, Jim boldly faces his declining health, jumping head long into the role of impresario. But it would not be so simple. As unexpected events unfold, Jim is left to make some of the most difficult decisions of his life.” Joseph Clement, Director/Producer
Music and dance project
Stalker – Dec 21
STALKER The Remembrance Solos – Nov 27 at the Artesian THU DEC 21 – 7:00
RUSSIA | 1979 | 161 MIN. | 14A Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky Aida’s Secret and Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story In Russian with English subtitles November 23-26 One of the most immersive and rarefied experiences in the history of cinema, Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker embarks on a metaphysical journey through an In cooperation with the University of Regina Conservatory of Performing enigmatic post-apocalyptic landscape. A hired guide—the “Stalker” of the Arts - Music & Dance Project, RPL Film Theatre is screening two films title—leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site - Aida’s Secrets and Bombshell: The Hedy Larmarr Story - thematically of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, linked to Regina choreographer Karen Rose’s “The Remembrance a place rumored to fulfill one’s most deeply held desires. Adapting a science- Solos” exploring women in war. The MaDP is an initiative that strives to fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and making what would be his build community connections, and interdisciplinary relationships among final Soviet feature, Tarkovsky created a challenging and visually stunning work, professional and student performers, dancers and musicians. his painstaking attention to material detail and sense of organic atmosphere further enriched by this vivid new digital restoration. At once a religious allegory, “The Remembrance Solos” will be performed at the Artesian, Monday, a reflection of contemporary political anxieties, and a meditation on film itself— November 27, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. Please see the University of Regina among many other interpretations—Stalker envelops the viewer by opening a Conservatory of Performing Arts website for further details. multitude of possible meanings.