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PROGRAM SCHEDULE MARCH • APRIL 2009 Infoline: 925-3457 100 Arthur St. IN THE EXCHANGE www.winnipegcinematheque.com The Animated Imaginings of Richard Condie WFG Annual Fundraising Gala (Page 4) WENDY AND LUCY – On more than 60 critics lists as one of the Highlights: year’s TOP TEN FILMS of 2008, Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain, Synecdoche, New York) gives a heartbreaking The Animated Imaginings THE ANIMATED IMAGININGS OF RICHARD CONDIE – Our performance in the superb new film WENDY AND LUCY. Annual Fundraising Gala on Saturday, April 18 at 7 PM honours the exceptional career of one of the Winnipeg Film Group’s Wendy and Lucy founders – Winnipeg animation genius and two-time Oscar® of Richard Condie nominated filmmaker Richard Condie. The program will feature See Page 4 for details a superb collection of works, including THE BIG SNIT, GETTING STARTED and PIGBIRD, and will include a special introduction by writer Professor Gene Walz. A wine and chocolate reception will follow the screening. Tickets are $55 each, with a $35 tax receipt provided, and are available through our online store at www.winnipegcinematheque.com or by calling Arlea Ashcroft BRUCE MCDONALD at 925-3456. BRUCE MCDONALD – On Friday / March 6 from noon to 2:00 PM Canada’s pre – eminent maverick director, Bruce McDonald The SUPER 8’S, VIDEOS and ANIMATIONS of (Roadkill, Hard Core Logo, The Tracey Fragments) will give a BOB WISEMAN – On Sunday, March 15 at 7:30 PM, Bob MASTER CLASS talk about his professional growth as a in person See Page 4 for details Wiseman, the acclaimed musician and filmmaker brings his filmmaker and provide tips on how to develop independent film incredibly eclectic films and music (guitar and accordion) for projects. Later that evening at 6:45 PM he will introduce Alan a live performance at Cinematheque. Bob, “Canada’s Tom Zweig’s masterpiece about obsessive record collectors, VINYL, Waits”, has recorded and played with a who’s who of excellent as part of our ongoing free admission Cinema Lounge: Critical SHORT FILM PROGRAMS musicians, including Wilco, Jane Sibbery, Edie Brickell, The Dialogue on Canadian Cinema series. Wallflowers, Barenaked Ladies, and The Hidden Cameras. Earlier in the day, Sunday March 15 at 2:00 PM, Bob will THE MOSAIC WOMEN’S FILM PROJECT KEEP CONNECTED WITH OUR NEW WEBSITE! Our new present a MASTER CLASS: HE SHOOTS HE SCORES at EARTH DAY RECYCLED FILM FEST... See Page 5 for details Cinematheque, where he will speak about working with Don website is up and running at www.winnipegcinematheque.com. Mckeller, Bruce McDonald, Bruce McCulloch, and Vincenzo Upcoming films are listed right on our homepage, as well, Natali of “Cube.” He will also speak about working for Saturday an interactive calendar, where more information on our films The Cinematheque is proud to be in partnership Night Live and making his own films – including scoring and and preview trailers are available. Our new online store features with UMFM Campus Radio...and is a sponsor of how to get your music into films. Cinematheque gift certificates and passes – including our ten-pass for the special price of $45 (a $10 savings!). Winnipeg’s only film talk radio show Ultrasonic Film. Tune to 101.5 on the FM dial every Thursday evening Please refer to Calendarwww.winnipegcinematheque.com on page 6 to find out date and times of films playing. from 10 PM to 11 PM for the best in film reviews and discussion with hosts James and Lindsay. The Winnipeg Film Group’s Cinematheque gratefully acknowledges the on-going support of the Canada Council For The Arts, the Manitoba Arts Council, and the City of Winnipeg through the Winnipeg Arts Council. We also acknowledge the media sponsorship of CKUW 95.9 and UMFM 101.5 FM. Admission • $7.00 general • $6.00 students and seniors • $5.00 Film Group and Cinematheque Members $1.00 of each admission goes toward our capital improvements, aimed at making your experience at the Cinematheque even more satisfying Publications Mail Agreement Number 40045468 Return to : Winnipeg Film Group Members Pay Only $5.00 304-100 Arthur Street Buy a membership! See page 6 for more information... Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H3 childhood memories of searching for strange insects away and breaking and entering. The cause of in the forest, which gives way to a reverie on his first Léon’s behaviour is fairly obvious. His parents are a girlfriend. Although it all seems benign, an undercurrent truly horrific match, prone to ear-splitting domestic of terror develops as the relationship intensifies. In squabbles that begin with smashed plates and NEW WORLD the second, French artist Marie Caillou uses the conclude with paintings being ripped apart. (Toronto simplicity of Japanese anime to create a nightmare a International Film Festival) little girl is having under the guidance of a malevolent *Grand Prize Winner / BEST FEATURE FILM / psychiatrist.” (Bill White / Seattle Post Intelligencer) 2009 Berlin Film Fest. An inventiveness that’s never less than mesmerizing… Jury Award: “Original, funny, provocative, and exhibiting an astonishing range of styles.” deeply moving.” (New York Times) Cinema It’s Not Me, I Swear n Saturday, March 7 • 7:00 & 9:00 PM n Friday – Sunday, March 27 – 29 n Sunday, March 8 • 7:00 PM • 7:00 PM n Wednesday, March 11 & Thursday, n Wednesday – Saturday, April 1 – 5 March 12 • 7:00 & 9:00 PM • 7:00 PM LET THE RIGHT ONE IN WENDY AND LUCY Dir. Kelly Reichardt | USA | 2008 | 80 min | (Låt den rätte komma in) Drama | 35 mm Dir. Tomas Alfredson | Sweden | 2008 | 114 min | Starring Michelle Williams, Larry Fessenden, Will Patton Horror | 35 mm – Swedish w/ English subtitles Winner of over 22 awards around the world and On more than 60 critics lists as one of the year’s Fears of the Dark critical raves, the soulful Swedish vampire film LET TOP TEN FILMS of 2008, Michelle Williams THE RIGHT ONE IN is “a hushed gentle story of (Brokeback Mountain, Synecdoche, New York) gives provisional friendship, the ordeal of adolescence, a heartbreaking performance in this deceptively n Friday, May 1 – Sunday, May 3 and the curse of vampiric immortality. Hypnotic simple story of a young woman and her dog on their way to Oregon and Washington to Alaska. “Kelly • 7:00 PM from beginning to end the film is one of the most n persuasive, haunting film experiences of the year.” Reichardt’s modest and critically beloved second Wednesday, May 6 & Thursday, Bullied at school, 12 year old Oskar dreams of feature, WENDY AND LUCY, takes place mainly May 7 • 7:00 PM revenge on his schoolmates and spends his hours outdoors and registers the natural beauty of the wandering around his snowbound apartment Pacific Northwest with unostentatious affection. THE NECESSITIES OF LIFE complex. One night he meets Eli, a mysterious girl... Instead of a musical soundtrack there is the sighing with whom he strikes up a tentative friendship. As of the wind in the trees, the rumbling of freight trains (Ce qu’il faut pour vivre) the two learn more about each other it becomes and trucks…. [Wendy] encounters a run of bad luck, Dr. Benoit Pilon | Canada | 2008 | 102 min | Drama clear that something is killing off the paranoid some of it brought about by her own bad decisions. – French and Inuktitut, with English subtitles residents of the community. Her car breaks down. She is arrested for shoplifting. Canada’s official Academy Awards entry for Foreign Her dog goes missing. But underneath the plain “LET THE RIGHT ONE IN not only re-energizes Language Film and Grand Jury Prize winner at narrative surface is a lucid and melancholy inquiry the Montreal Film Festival, THE NECESSITIES OF vampire cinema, this is one of the best pictures into the current state of American society.” (New of 2008.” (Brian Orndof) LIFE is the most critically acclaimed film about the York Times) North since Zacharius Kunuk’s Atanarjuat: The Fast “Exquisitely realized, with a tremendous, naturalistic Runner. The film was inspired by the tuberculosis performance by Michelle Williams at its heart… epidemic that broke out in the Inuit population in she’s absolutely riveting.” (Portland Oregonian) the 1940’s and 50’s in Canada’s far north. Natar Ungalaaq (from Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner) plays n Friday – Sunday, April 10 – 12 Tivii, an Inuk who is stricken with the disease and • 7:00 PM is moved to Quebec City, uprooted from his loved ones and stripped of his traditional identity of n Wednesday & Thursday, April 15 & 16 kamiks and parkas. Though despairing at first, Tivii • 7:00 PM is cheered by the transfer of a new roommate, a young orphan boy named Kaki, who is facing similar RUMBA problems. Kaki rekindles his hope and interest in life Dirs. Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Bruno Romy | and Tivi looks for a way to adopt him within his family. France | 2008 | 77 min | 35mm | Comedy – French “A must see film… a stunning performance from w/ English Subtitles Ungalaaq.” (Sikunews) Let the Right One In Partially recapturing the madcap antics of the silent comedy, updating it with some traditional fairytale The Necessities of Life elements, along with an intentionally wild pastel n Friday, March 27 & Saturday, March colour palette, RUMBA could be described as a 28 • 8:30 PM whimsical dark comedy, a live action cartoon or a saucy critique of looking on the bright side… March 27–29 • 7:00 PM / April 1–5 • 7:00 PM EDISON AND LEO Rumba is often hilarious, truly bizarre and a lot of Dir. Neil Burns | Canada | 2008 | 79 min | Animation fun. The movie focuses on a married couple, Fiona | 35 mm and Dom, who love to dance.