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Documentaries What’s on December 3 - January 27, 2018 December 3 - January 27, 2018 As a sidebar to our Best of 2017 series, we’re screening some of the outstanding non-fiction films of the year, with a different title each afternoon through the holiday period. at the BLUE Vancouver KARINA HOLDEN, AUSTRALIA, 2017, 76 MIN. IMPACT International SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY FRI JAN 12 - 6:30PM • SAT JAN 13 - 4:30PM SUN JAN 14 - 6:45PM • THU JAN 18 - 6:50PM DEC 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Film Centre 12:25 Jane Karina Holden’s urgent documentary charts the drastic 3:00 Blade of the 2:15 Faces Places decline in the health of our oceans—more than half of all 1181 Seymour Street Immortal marine life has been lost due to plastic pollution, overfish- Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver Vancouver Golden Panda Golden Panda Golden Panda Golden Panda 4:15 Jane 4:00 Tom of Finland ing, habitat destruction and the expansion of industrializa- 604.683.FILM 6:00 : the city Film Festival Film Festival Film Festival Film Festival God's Own Country tion—sets out the challenges we are facing, and illustrates Discover more at viff.org before the city Dec 4 - 7 Dec 4 - 7 Dec 4 - 7 Dec 4 - 7 6:10 BPM (Beats Per Minute) 6:20 the opportunities for positive change. Filmed on location 7:45 Better Watch Out gpiff.com gpiff.com gpiff.com gpiff.com 8:55 God's Own Country 8:30 BPM (Beats Per Minute) in Australia, Hawaii, the South Pacific, the Philippines and Indonesia, BLUE is a cogently argued, beautifully shot and 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 truly inspired call to action. 12:30 My Journey Through VIFF 2017 Impact Award Winner French Cinema RENTAL 4:20 Rebels on Pointe RENTAL MUSIC MONDAYS 4:55 Sidemen: 4:45 :the city 6:10 The Other Side of 3:00 Jane before the city 4:30 Rebels on Pointe Hope The Long Road to Glory RENTAL Faces Places 4:45 6:30 Tom of Finland 6:30 Meet Beau Dick: 6:30 The Other Side of 8:00 Youth God’s Own Country God’s Own Country 6:30 8:45 Sidemen: 6:30 Maker of Monsters 6:30 Tom of Finland Hope 10:30 Leningrad Cowboys BLUE Music Mondays $11 8:35 Tom of Finland The Long Road to Glory 8:35 BPM (Beats Per Minute) 8:30 Asphyxia 8:50 God’s Own Country 8:30 Youth Go America 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Holiday Ticket Packs 1:00 Michelangelo, apply through this period Love and Death RENTAL 3:30 I, Claude Monet 1:30 Youth 1:30 The Other Side of 3:30 Puttin’ on the Glitz: Hope 2:20 Rebels on Pointe Hollywood Musical Gems 4:00 The Other Side of 2:00 My Journey 5:30 Rebels on Pointe Hope Through French Cinema 3:30 Youth 7:20 The Other Side of 4:10 The Other Side of Hope 6:10 Le Crime de 6:30 Rebels on Pointe 6:30 Casque d’or Hope Monsieur Lange 8:20 The Other Side of 8:30 Le Crime de 6:20 Youth 9:15 Leningrad Cowboys: 6:10 Youth Hope Monsieur Lange 8:50 Rebels on Pointe 8:45 Eyes Wide Shut California Typewriter Brimstone & Glory Sidemen: 7:50 Casque d’or RENTAL DOUG NICHOL, USA, 2017, 103 MIN. PANORAMA VICTOR JAKOVLESKI, USA, 2017, 72 MIN. PANORAMA 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 The Long Road to Glory 1:30 Howards End THU DEC 28 - 4:00PM SUN DEC 31 - 4:10PM • MON JAN 1 - 9:00PM SCOTT D. ROSENBAUM, USA, 2017, 77 MIN. M/A/D BLUE TUE JAN 2 - 9:30PM This gem of a doc is a heartfelt valentine to the tactile joys of 4:10 Bombshell: The 1:30 The Remains of MON DEC 11 - 4:55PM, 8:45PM tapping out letters the old fashioned way, by typewriter. The Burn this! Tultepec, is home to the ten-day National Hedy Lamarr Story 1:30 Heat and Dust 1:30 Maurice the Day late Sam Shepard and are among the aficiona- Pyrotechnic Festival and fireworks are the town’s primary Narrated by Marc Maron and directed by Scott Rosenbaum, Best of 2017 4:00 Kedi 1:30 Shakespeare Wallah 4:10 Chavela 4:10 I Am Not Your dos and stalwarts who swear by this quaint device (Hanks source of employment year-round. It’s a mixed blessing this documentary explores the legacy of blues musicians 4:00 California Typewriter Negro has a collection of vintage machines, and marketed an app for the locals, who are artisans and indeed artists of the Pinetop Perkins, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, and Hubert Sum- 3:00 The Miracle of 6:00 Dunkirk 6:00 The Big Sick 6:00 Lucky to give your iPad a typewriter klang and clatter), while the highest order, but who also bear the scars of working with lin, best known for their work as sidemen for Muddy Waters Morgans Creek 8:10 The Other Side of 8:20 The Other Side of 6:00 Lady 7:50 The Other Side of 6:00 Get Out eponymous LA store defies the odds to service and repair explosive materials on a daily basis. Danger and thrilling and Howlin’ Wolf. The film includes their last concerts and Exclusive First Runs 5:00 Tangerine HAPPY HOLIDAYS Hope Hope 7:50 Youth Hope 8:00 Youth them, a niche market that the movie will surely multiply. beauty go hand in hand in this extraordinary dive into the interviews before they passed away, and also celebrates flowers of the night. their lives via accounts from the next generation of musi- 100% Fresh, 31 JAN 1 2 3 4 5 6 cians who were inspired by the trio. “Primal, enrapturing images.” Paste magazine The Other Music Mondays $11 Tickets Italian Film Festival In Spanish with English subtitles. 1:00 In Search of Fellini Side of Hope Jan 5 - 11 AKI KAURISMÄKI, FINLAND, 2017, 98 MIN. PANORAMA Meet Me In St Pom Poko 1:30 1:45 iffest.ca 2:55 FRI DEC 15 - 6:30PM • SAT DEC 16 - 6:10PM Louis 4:00 Dawson City: 5:00 Rome Open City MON DEC 18 - 4:00PM • TUE DEC 19 - 8:20PM 1:45 The Napping 1:30 The Age of 4:00 Rumble: The Frozen Time 1:00 My Voyage to Italy I Can Quit WED DEC 20 - 1:30PM • FRI DEC 22 - 7:20PM 1:50 Your Name Princess 7:00 SAT DEC 23 - 4:10PM • TUE DEC 26 - 8:10PM Innocence Indians Who Rocked the 6:20 Never Steady, 5:45 Opening Gala: Whenever I Want WED DEC 27 - 8:20PM • FRI DEC 29 - 7:50PM 4:10 Brimstone and World 4:00 School Life 4:00 Big Time Never Still Tulipani, Love, Honour & THU JAN 4 - 8:40PM 8:55 I Can Quit Glory 6:00 Blade Runner 2049 6:00 A Ghost Story 6:00 Columbus 8:40 The Other Side of A Bicycle Whenever I Want: The Finnish master of the droll and the deadpan, Aki 6:00 Girls Trip 9:00 Brimstone & Glory 9:30 Brimstone & Glory 8:00 Youth Hope 9:00 La Strada Masterclass Kaurismäki, returns with a second feature (after Le Havre) concerning the European refugee crisis, this one about a Syrian (Sherwan Haji) who washes up on Finland’s glum 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 shores and becomes an unlikely friend to a middle-aged 3:00 Spettacolo Finnish shirt salesman () in the midst of 5:00 Shepherds in the 2:50 Spettacolo Bombshell: Kedi Chavela re-making his life. Compassionate and wryly funny by turns, 2:15 A Special Day CEYDA TORUN, TURKEY/GERMANY/USA, 2015, 79 MIN. PANORAMA CATHERINE GUND, DARESHA KYI, USA,/MEXICO/SPAIN, 2017, 90 MIN. this is Kaurismäki firing on all cylinders. “A deeply humane Cave 4:45 Rainbow - A 2:00 I Am Love The Hedy Lamarr Story M/A/D film, as well as a quietly hilarious one.” Time Out Rainbow - A Private Affair 12:30 1900 4:30 Ears 6:30 BLUE 4:30 BLUE WED DEC 27 - 4:00PM 7:00 ALEXANDRA DEAN, USA, 2017, 90 MIN. PANORAMA FRI DEC 29 - 4:10PM Private Affair 4:30 Libera Nos 6:30 Ears 6:30 Padre Padrone 6:30 Let Yourself Go 8:10 Birdboy: The 6:10 Belle de Jour One of our biggest hits this year, this irresistibly charming TUE DEC 26 - 4:10PM 6:30 Italian Race Forgotten Children film chronicles the fortunes of the beloved street cats of “A bull... kicking against life,” is how Chavela Vargas de- 8:45 The Night of the 8:30 The Music of 8:45 Rainbow - A 8:30 Tulipani, Love, 8:10 Birdboy: The “Any girl can look glamorous; all she has to do is stand still Istanbul. In Turkish culture caring for these animals is a cul- scribes her own persona. The legendary Central American The Other Side of Hope Shooting Stars 8:45 City of Women Silence Private Affair Honour & A Bicycle 9:45 Belle de Jour Forgotten Children and look stupid.” So declares Hollywood icon Hedy Lamarr, tural and religious obligation, and it’s estimated that in the singer - whose songs of grief and suffering regularly crop up whose legendary beauty and affinity for scandal—de- capital there are as many cats as citizens. This beautifully in the films of Pedro Almodóvar - never had an easy ride, and 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 nounced by the Pope at 18, six ex-husbands, drug addic- crafted and crafty film has asides on a relationship more gave as good as she got, but this portrait suggests that hard Aki Kaurismäki tion, financial ruin—blinded the world to the brilliant mind symbiotic than it first appears. Suitable for all ages. “Splen- times fuelled great art. 3:00 behind the invention of a secret WWII communications didly graceful and quietly magical.” Variety In Spanish with English subtitles. system that became the basis for modern WiFi. “The under- 4:45 exposed, amazing story of a Hollywood glamour queen who In Turkish with English subtitles. 4:00 Belle de Jour 6:30 PuSh presents: 6:50 BLUE 5:40 Mary and the 4:30 The Final Year could have been a scientist.” Hollywood Reporter 6:45 BLUE 6:30 Birdboy: The The Making of Justice 8:30 Birdboy: The Witch’s Flower 6:20 Mary and the 8:20 Belle de Jour Forgotten Children 8:40 Belle de Jour RENTAL Forgotten Children 7:45 The Final Year Witch’s Flower 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 3:00 Mary and the 5:00 PuSh presents: 4:00 Mary and the Witch’s Flower Blind Cinema Vancouver Short Vancouver Short Witch’s Flower 5:00 PuSh presents: Film Festival 2018 Film Festival 2018 Youth 5:00 The Final Year 6:30 PuSh presents: 7:00 Mary and the Blind Cinema Fang Hua 7:00 All The President's The Walkers Witch’s Flower 7:10 Mary and the Jan 26 - 27 Jan 26 - 27 , CHINA, 2017, 136 MIN. GATEWAY Men RENTAL 9:30 The Final Year 9:00 Witch’s Flower vsff.com vsff.com FRI DEC 15 - 8:30PM • SAT DEC 16 - 8:00PM Leningrad Cowboys Leningrad Cowboys: MON DEC 18 - 1:30PM • WED DEC 20 - 3:30PM THU DEC 21 - 6:20PM • SAT DEC 23 - 6:10PM Go America Total Balalaika Show Exhibition on Screen THU DEC 28 - 7:50PM • SAT DEC 30 - 8:00PM AKI KAURISMÄKI, FINLAND, 1989, 79 MIN. PANORAMA AKI KAURISMÄKI, FINLAND, 1994, 57 MIN. PANORAMA Vancouver Iranian Film Society presents... I Am Not Your Negro Rumble: The Indians School Life WED JAN 3 - 8:00PM SAT DEC 16 - 10:30PM FRI DEC 22 - 9:15PM RAOUL PECK, USA, 2016, 95 MIN. IMPACT In Loco Parentis Beginning in the 1970s, the latest from leading Chinese Who Rocked the World NEASA NÍ CHIANÁIN, DAVID RANE, IRELAND/SPAIN, 2017, 99 MIN. A struggling Siberian rock band leaves the lonely tundra to Aki Kaurismäki’s film of the Leningrad Cowboys’ massive SAT DEC 30 - 4:10PM CATHERINE BAINBRIDGE, ALFONSO MAIORANA, CANADA, 2017, PANORAMA filmmaker Feng Xiaogang (I Am Not Madame Bovary; tour the because, as they’re told, “they’ll buy concert in Helsinki’s Senate Square with the 150-member Raoul Peck picks up on an unfinished manuscript by James 102 MIN. TRUE NORTH Aftershock) chronicles the joys and travails of a provincial anything there.” Aki Kaurismäki’s winningly aloof farce fol- Alexandrov Red Army Chorus and Dance Ensemble is a TUE JAN 2 - 4:00PM military-arts troupe, soldiers in the People’s Liberation Army Baldwin to examine the issue of race in America through MON JAN 1 - 4:00PM lows the musicians as they bravely make their way across loving tribute to the rock band he made famous. 70,000 the (too-short) lives of Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, Ireland’s only primary-age boarding school, Headfort is a whose duty it is to promote culture, revolutionary values, the New World, carrying a bandmate (and some beer) in a people turned out for this megaspectacle; featuring musi- and Malcolm X. Connecting these martyrs of the Civil Rock n roll’s debt to is well known and long es- venerable institution in a drafty 18th century estate. It’s a music, and dance. Feng has crafted a sweeping melodrama coffin and sporting hairdos that resemble unicorn horns. cal selections from Sibelius to Bob Dylan, it crossed genre Rights movement with Black Lives Matter, Peck has pro- tablished. But the profound influence of Native American kind of Hogwarts without the sorcery. Some of the teach- out of contemporary history. Leningrad Cowboys Go America was such a sensation and national divides. Songs include Proud Mary, Yellow duced a searing work that cuts to the very heart of Ameri- music and musicians on rock and pop will come as a revela- ers have been there so long they even taught the current “A paean to idealism and endurance, yet the word 'heart- that it brought the fictional band a major real-life following. Submarine, Volga Boatmen and Katjusha. tion to many. This assertive and engaging movie (winner of headmaster. Yet this bastion of tradition is not so archaic can identity. “One of the best movies you are likely to see breaking'” comes to mind scene after scene.” Maggie Lee, (Check out Total Balaika Show, Sat Dec 23.) In English, Russian this year.” NY Times the Audience Award and Best Canadian Film awards at Hot as might think, and while you might not come away con- Variety Docs) sets the record straight, with reference to Link Wray, vinced you should send your kids here, you will admire the In Finnish, English with English subtitles. Nominated for Documentary (Feature) for Oscars 2017 Jimi Hendrix, Buffy Saint Marie, Robbie Robertson and commitment of the faculty to their charges education and In Mandarin with English subtitles. featuring Slash, Marky Ramone, Robert Trujillo and Wayne well-being. Asphyxia Michelangelo, I, Claude Monet Kramer, among many others. FEREYDOUN JEYRANI, IRAN, 2017, 107 MIN. PANORAMA LGBTQ PHIL GRABSKY, UK, 2017, 87 MIN. M/A/D WED DEC 13 - 8:30PM Love and Death DAVID BICKERSTAFF, UK, 2017, 91 MIN. M/A/D FRI DEC 22 - 3:30PM The latest film from Iranian director Fereydoun Jeyrani Monet’s life is a gripping tale about a man who, behind Rebels on Pointe FRI DEC 22 - 1:00PM BOBBI JO HART, CANADA, 2017, 90 MIN. TRUE NORTH evokes the spirit of Hitchcock as it weaves a complex his sun-dazzled canvases, suffered from feelings of de- tale of marital infidelity, dark power relationships and the From David to the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo was an ar- pression, loneliness, even suicide. However, as his art FRI DEC 15 - 4:30PM • SAT DEC 16 - 4:20PM lengths to which love and obsession drive people. Shot in tistic virtuoso. Spanning his 89 years, Michelangelo – Love developed and his love of gardening led to the glories of TUE DEC 19 - 6:30PM • THU DEC 21 - 8:50PM crisp black and white, Masood Salami and Death, takes a cinematic journey from the print and his Giverny garden, his humour, insight and love of life are FRI DEC 22 - 5:30PM • SAT DEC 23 - 2:20PM creates an air of claustrophobia throughout Asphyxia as drawing rooms of Europe, through the great chapels and revealed. Told through Monet’s own words and shot on If you’ve cracked enough nuts over Xmases past, savour we are presented with a world of interiors, small rooms museums of Florence, Rome and the Vatican to explore the location at the very spots he painted, the film features his this alternative dance doc celebrating the mighty Les Bal- and characters trapped by circumstance. tempestuous life of Michelangelo. most loved paintings in an unforgettable, immersive art lets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (an all-male troupe whose Q&A with producer and cowriter Phil Grabsky experience. tutu much philosophy will have you in stitches). Bobbi Jo Intro by director Phil Grabsky Hart’s affectionate portrait is often laugh out loud funny, but it is also a reminder of the dedication and sacrifice required Big Time Dawson City: The Final Year of any professional dancer, and maybe a male prima balle- PuSh Festival January 16 - February 4, 2018 KASPAR ASTRUP SCHRÖDER, DENMARK, 2017, 93 MIN. M/A/D Frozen Time GREG BARKER, USA, 2017, 89 MIN. PANORAMA rina more than most. WED JAN 3 - 4:00PM BILL MORRISON, USA, 2016, 120 MIN. PANORAMA FRI JAN 19 - 7:45PM • SAT JAN 20 - 4:30PM "Laugh out loud funny! Good company for any audience." SUN JAN 21 - 5:00PM • TUE JAN 23 - 9:30PM Seven arduous, successful years in the life of “starchitect” POV Magazine THU JAN 4 - 4:00PM Bjarke Ingels are chronicled in this intimate portrait. Named Among other things, 2016 was the eighth and final year of one of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world, In- A history of Yukon’s original capital, ground zero for the Barack Obama's Presidency. Filmmaker Greg Barker spent gels comes across as a down-to-earth visionary. Starting in Klondike Gold Rush, Bill Morrison’s enthralling, essayistic that year with Obama's State Department team: John Kerry, Copenhagen with a power station boasting a ski slope on non-fiction film is also the story of early twentieth century Abassador to the UN Samantha Power, speechwriter and its roof, the film follows him to New York, where the focus white settlement in the north told through the prism of a National Security advisor Ben Rhodes, as the administration is on his VIA 57 West apartments—and health issues... He treasure trove of thousands of rediscovered nitrate film signed a nuclear deal with Iran, reached a climate accord also designed the sweeping new ‘Vancouver House’ tower prints. This tale takes in such luminaries as Jack , in , and negotiated with Russia over Syria. Meanwhile, Rebels on Pointe In 2018 VIFF is thrilled to partner with PuSH International currently under construction at Pacific and Granville. Robert Service, Calamity Jane, Diamond Tooth Gertie, Alex- there was an election going on... "Invaluable." Now Maga- Performing Arts Festival to co-present a series of films, ander Pantages, Sid Grauman, Charlie Chaplin, and Donald zine hybrid film-theatre pieces, and the spectacular BiRD- In English, Danish with English subtitles. Trump’s grandfather, Fred, among many others. MAN: LiVE event with virtuoso drummer Antonio Sán- chez on Feb 1 at the Vogue Theatre. The Making of Justice The Walkers Animation Visit pushfestival.ca for more program information. SARAH VANHEE, BELIGUM/NETHERLANDS, 2017, 60 MIN. PANORAMA SINGING CHEN, TAIWAN, 2015, 148 MIN. M/A/D TUE JAN 16 - 6:30PM TUE JAN 23 - 6:30PM Antonio Sánchez Seven prisoners collaborate with artist Sarah Vanhee on Filmed for over 10 years, this epic documentary presents the scenario for a crime film. Like the main character in the story of renowned Taiwanese choreographer Lin Lee- the film they are making up, they are all guilty of murder. To chen and her Legend Lin Dance Theatre. Extracting the shape the story, they draw on their own experiences, ideas essential details of Lin’s daily life, the film explores the and desires. We, the viewers, can only guess whether they origins of her dance, contemplates the poetic and ritualistic are using fiction as a means of confirming, transcending or movements she creates, and delineates her lifetime pursuit transforming their present situation... of aesthetic concerns. BPM (Beats Per Minute) God’s Own Country Tom of Finland In Dutch with English subtitles. Visit viff.org for tickets. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Visit viff.org for tickets. 120 battements par minute FRANCIS LEE, UK, 2017, 104 MIN. PANORAMA DOME KARUKOSKI, FINLAND/GERMANY/DENMARK/SWEDEN, 2017, 116 MIN. PANORAMA ROBIN CAMPILLO, FRANCE, 2017, 144 MIN. PANORAMA FRI DEC 8 - 8:55PM • SAT DEC 9 - 6:20PM FRI DEC 8 - 6:10PM • SAT DEC 9 - 8:30PM SUN DEC 10 - 6:30PM • TUE DEC 12 - 6:30PM SAT DEC 9 - 4:00PM • SUN DEC 10 - 8:35PM TUE DEC 12 - 8:35PM THU DEC 14 - 8:50PM MON DEC 11 - 6:30PM • THU DEC 14 - 6:30PM Your Name The Napping Princess Pom Poko A favourite at Cannes and VIFF, and France’s entry for the Announcing himself as a major talent with this remarkable LGBTQ icon Tom of Finland—the artist who saw his “porno- Kimi no Na wa Hirune Hime: Shiranai Watashi no Monogatari Heisei Tanuki Gassen Ponpoko Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Campil- debut, Francis Lee has crafted a sharply observed, richly graphic” drawings of well-endowed hunks go from criminal to celebrated—is the fascinating focus of director Dome MAKOTO SHINKAI, JAPAN, 2017, 107 MIN. ALT KENJI KAMIYAMA, JAPAN, 2017, 111 MIN. GATEWAY ISAO TAKAHATA, JAPAN, 1994, 119 MIN. GATEWAY lo’s fast-paced drama positively vibrates with energy, com- textured and thrillingly sensual story about the redemptive powers of love and self-acceptance. Josh O’Connor is out- Karukoski’s biopic, starring an excellent Pekka Strang. Mov- TUE JAN 2 - 1:50PM mitment and joie de vivre. As the AIDS crisis claims more WED JAN 3 - 1:45PM THU JAN 4 - 1:45PM and more lives in early 1990s Paris, the AIDS activist group standing as mistrustful Johnny, who slowly opens up to the ing from WWII through to Tom’s halcyon days and nights Taking an almost farcical YA high concept (without warning 2020, three days before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics. Imagine Watership Down, Studio Ghibli-style. Instead of rab- ACT UP begins a heated campaign to raise awareness and possibility of happiness with the help of gentle Gheorghe in the California of the 1970s and 80s, the drama “is most two Japanese teens, a boy and a girl, swap bodies) but treat- While she should be studying for exams, Kokone is often bits, we have raccoons. And not just any raccoons - these disrupt the blasé middle class. “Five stars! Compellingly (Alec Secareanu), a ruggedly handsome Romanian farm- effective at showcasing the bountiful beauty of [Tom’s] BiRDMAN: LiVE ing it with unexpected sincerity, Makoto Shinkai’s anime is a dozing off, stuck between reality and a dream-world full critters have magical powers of transformation. As their combines elegy, tragedy, urgency and a defiant euphoria… hand whose soulful appreciation for rural life provides the fleshy, filthy sketches, as well as the empowered pursuit of THU FEB 1 - 8:00PM VOGUE THEATRE strange and beguiling thing, a cosmic fantasy in which fate, catalyst for transformative change. pleasure for which they continue to stand.” —Variety of fantastic motorized contraptions. After her father, a me- habitat is stripped and paved by the encroaching humans, Full of cinematic life.” Guardian This is a very special event with Antonio Sánchez, one belief, and time itself is up for grabs. chanic, is arrested for stealing corporate technology, it’s up the good-natured but rather undisciplined forest creatures In French with English subtitles. "A stunning love story." Empire magazine In English, Finnish, German with English subtitles. of the world’s greatest living drummers, accompanying Blind Cinema History History History 97% Fresh, Rotten Tomatoes to Kokone and her friend to save him. They realize that her embark on a campaign of disruption and distraction. the Oscar-winning film Birdman live. Sánchez’ tour- BRITT HATZIUS, ENGLAND/GERMANY, 40 MIN. PANORAMA DEBORAH PEARSON, UK/CANADA, 2016, 90 MIN. PANORAMA dream-world holds the key, and they embark on a journey All ages welcome. In Japanese with English subtitles All ages welcome. de-force performance, in all its percussive glory, has WED JAN 24 - 5:00PM • THU JAN 25 - 5:00PM TUE JAN 30 - 6:30PM that traverses dreams and reality, city and country, and past French Cinema received applause across the globe: from L.A. to Syd- In Japanese with English subtitles. WED JAN 31 - 5:00PM • THU FEB 1 - 5:00PM and present. ney, São Paulo to Mexico City. Presented with Capilano A documentary, performed live. Deborah Pearson’s perfor- In Japanese with English subtitles. Inspired by Bertrand Tavernier’s superb tribute to French film, we present two classics from the Golden Age, ’s joyful 1936 comedy Le Crime de Monsieur Lange (newly University. Based on the method of audio description, Blind Cinema mance takes place against the backdrop of the 1956 upris- restored on DCP) and ’s luminous Casque d’or (1952, on 35mm). is a live event experience where the act of watching a film ing in Hungary against the Soviet Union, and the screening Antonio Sánchez, Behind The Sound becomes a shared investment: A collaborative and imagi- of a football comedy from that year. The performance runs THU FEB 1 - 1:00PM VANCITY THEATRE native act between seeing children and blinded adults. the length of and is timed alongside the film, using inter- In advance of his BiRDMAN: LiVE Performance at the The film screened during the performance will be seen views with the and people involved with Vogue Theatre, VIFF is thrilled to host a special “In by each group of children for the first time. Hence, each the film to playfully reflect on immigration, suppression, and Conversation” with Antonio Sánchez. Presented with performance will have a new group of describing children. our personal links with history. Cap Jazz Series. Each screening is preceded by a workshop with the group of children. Visit viff.org for tickets. Visit pushfestival.ca for tickets. Discover More. Visit pushfestival.ca for tickets. See great films for as little as $8 Year Round! Tickets Whether you see a few films or dozens of films each year, there is a membership level just for Film Centre Basic Membership $2 you. All memberships include savings, exclusive HOLIDAY TICKET PACK - 5 Ticket Pack $40 Birdboy: Mary and My Journey Through Le Crime de Casque d’or To see films at the Vancity Theatre, you must—with a few JACQUES BECKER, FRANCE, 1952, 94 MIN. PANORAMA The Forgotten Children the Witch’s Flower invitations, free popcorn and a nifty member French Cinema Monsieur Lange Holiday ticket packs apply to all films screening between December 18 and January 4. exceptions—be age 19 or older and be a member of our newsletter. SUN DEC 17 - 7:50PM • WED DEC 20 - 6:30PM registered non-profit society. Psiconautas, los niños olvidados Meari to Majo no Hana Voyage à travers le cinéma français JEAN RENOIR, FRANCE, 1936, 77 MIN. PANORAMA A riverside cafe. Manda () can’t tear his eyes ALBERTO VÁZQUEZ, PEDRO RIVERO, SPAIN, 2017, 76 MIN. ALT HIROMASA YONEBAYASHI, JAPAN, 2017, 102 MIN. GATEWAY BERTRAND TAVERNIER, FRANCE, 2017, 201 MIN. PANORAMA SUN DEC 17 - 6:10PM • WED DEC 20 - 8:30PM Tickets can be purchased in advance online at viff.org or in person 60 minutes away from the luminous Golden Marie (Simone Signoret), SINGLE DOUBLE VIFF+ Membership FRI JAN 12 - 8:10PM • SAT JAN 13 - 8:10PM Share the Joy! BILL BILL before . Call 604.683.3456 for the latest info and listings. Double bill FRI JAN 19 - 5:40PM • SAT JAN 20 - 6:20PM SAT DEC 16 - 12:30PM • TUE DEC 19 - 2:00PM Amedee Lange writes a comic strip - Arizona Jim - for a no matter that she’s in the company of a band of notorious There is a VIFF+ Membership level that will help save you MON JAN 15 - 6:30PM • THU JAN 18 - 8:30PM SUN JAN 21 - 3:00PM • TUE JAN 23 - 4:00PM $ tickets available in-person only. Give a VIFF+ membership to the film lover Bertrand Tavernier is among the great cinephile cineastes, small printing press run by the venal and corrupt Batala criminals. It’s love at first sight, and the subsequent romantic Adult 13 ALL money, join a community of film lovers and support the VIFF WED JAN 24 - 7:00PM • THU JAN 25 - 7:10PM SEATS There is light and beauty, even in the darkest of worlds. in your life. a writer-director (Round Midnight; Clean Slate) who is also (Jules Berry). Bankrupt, Batala does a runner and the work- triangle will bring one lover to the scaffold. Set in the Belle society. SUN JAN 28 - 3:00PM Student & $ $ Ticket sales are final and refunds are only offered in exceptional circumstances at Stranded on an island in a post-apocalyptic world, teenager a superb critic and student of film. Here he shares his en- ers take over the press as a collective. Written by the great Epoque, and based on a true story, this is a rich evocative Senior 11 20 the discretion of our box office. If you have made an error with your booking, please For more membership details, please visit viff.org Dinky and her friends hatch a dangerous plan to escape in The spirit of Ghibli is alive and well in this family anime from cyclopedic knowledge and insight on the glories of French Jacques Prevert (Children of Paradise) this is surely the fin- melodrama, a thriller with a passionately romantic heart. (For Vancity est film to come out of the Popular Front, a brief interlude of VIFF+ $ Theatre email [email protected]. Exchanges cannot be made for missed screenings. A fee of $1 the hope of finding a better life. Meanwhile, her old friend the director of When Marnie Was Here. Mary is a wild red- Visit viff.org for more details or contact cinema in an epic documentary that is both a celebration 35mm print. Members 9 members) per ticket exchange will apply to a maximum of $4 for exchanges done in person. Birdboy has shut himself off from the world, pursued by head bored with life in her grandmother’s country house - socialist enlightenment in pre-WWII France. [email protected] and a masterclass. Topics range from Jean Renoir and the police and haunted by demon tormentors. But unbe- until she happens across a magical flower in the woods and Jacques Becker to Melville, Godard, Prevert, Gabin, and a "Full of pure beauty and truth." Francois Truffaut In French with English subtitles. knownst to anyone, he contains a secret inside him that is propelled into a school for witches... dozen more artists both famous and obscure. "Like cracking "Delightful." NY Times MEDIA SPONSOR could change the world forever. open the lid of a box of delights.” New DCP restoration. In French with English subtitles. 1181 Seymour St. / Vancouver BC / V6B 3M7 In French with English subtitles. 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Tulipani, Love, Honour & Ears The Music of Silence 1900 Orecchie MICHAEL RADFORD, ITALY, 2017, 115 MIN. PANORAMA Novecento A Bicycle ALESSANDRO ARONADIO, ITALY, 2016, 90 MIN. PANORAMA TUE JAN 9 - 8:30PM BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI, ITALY, 1976, 317 MIN. PANORAMA MIKE VAN DIEM, ITALY/CANADA/NETHERLANDS, 2017, 90 MIN. PANORAMA TUE JAN 9 - 6:30PM • THU JAN 11 - 4:30PM Andrea Bocelli gets the biopic treatment in this lush, re- WED JAN 10 - 12:30PM Anyone else hear that ringing sound? Unfolding in a single spectful film from Il Postino director Michael Radford. Bo- A rare opportunity to see Bertolucci’s massively ambitious FRI JAN 5 - 5:45PM (OPENING GALA) celli, here lightly disguised as “Amos”, wanted to sing opera THU JAN 11 - 8:30PM day, Ears upsets a hapless man’s routine with a series of political saga, set on a farm in the Po Valley between 1900 hilarious, Kafkaesque situations involving meddlesome for as long as he can remember. But the heavenly voice that and 1945, in its full, five hour plus form. The film chronicles Montrealer Anna (Ksenia Solo) embarks on a pilgrimage nuns, bumbling doctors, and a perplexing array of bu- was his birthright was accompanied by partial blindness, the fortunes of two young men, one the son of a landowner, Eyes Wide Shut The Miracle of Tangerine to Puglia to return her mother’s ashes to her hometown. reaucratic mishaps. Aronadio’s black-and-white, aspect and his road to fame and fulfillment was not an easy one. the other a worker. Morricone store, Storaro cinematogra- STANLEY KUBRICK, USA/UK, 1999, 139 MIN. PANORAMA SEAN BAKER, USA, 2015, 87 MIN. PANORAMA There she hears an amazing tale of love at first sight, ratio–shifting second feature is a one-of-a-kind comedy The music, of course, is sublime. phy, and performances from Robert De Niro and Gerard Morgans Creek SAT DEC 23 - 8:45PM PRESTON STURGES, USA, 1944, 98 MIN. PANORAMA SUN DEC 24 - 5:00PM adventure and comradeship, extortion, violence, tragedy - that surprises and delights with unassuming humor and a (Note: English language version.) Depardieu, Donald Sutherland and , Burt Kubrick’s Christmas story is a droll, furtive dream of sex and It’s the night before Christmas, and Sin-Dee is back turning and tulips. This whimsical fable of cultural cross-pollination quirky supporting cast. Lancaster and , all magnificent. SUN DEC 24 - 3:00PM juggles farce, romance and mystery. An Italian/Canadian/ In English, Italian with English subtitles. infidelity, probably the weirdest film in Tom Cruise’s filmog- tricks on the street after a month in stir. But it’s her pimp Dutch copro from Academy Award-winning director Mike raphy. Loosely based on Arthur Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle, Trudy Kockenlocker (Betty Hutton) does her bit for the boys boyfriend who should be worried: Sin-Dee has heard he’s van Diem (Character). it’s a film about a Manhattan doctor whose complacent be- going off to war and then some - she wakes up married to been cheating on her, and she means to get to the bottom liefs about his marriage to Alice () are shaken someone she doesn’t remember and definitively pregnant. of the rumours... Opening Gala includes live music, food and wine (doors when she admits to having fantasized about another man. At least her previously shunned admirer Norval (Eddie open 5.45pm), film at 7pm. Bracken) will do everything in his limited power to help. Shot entirely on iPhones, this is the previous film by The "An essential Christmas movie." David Ehrlich, Rolling Stone Project director Sean Baker, and a surprisingly Opening Gala Tickets $30. By sticking to the letter of the Production Code, comedy genius Preston Sturges somehow got away with this most sweet, warm and forgiving yuletide tale. outrageous travesty of smalltown morality. It’s also, by the by, a nativity story of sorts. Tulipani, Love, Honour & A Bicycle

Ivory Towers

In light of 's screenplay for Call Me By Your Name, this is the ideal time to revisit some of the landmarks from his distinguished career as a director (usually in partnership with producer Ismael Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala). It is a body of work that goes back to the early 1960s and spans three continents but remains indelibly Padre Padrone A Special Day Let Yourself Go identified with historical literary adaptations. The films are admirable for their elegance and sensitivity, but they are also critiques of hidebound convention, class prejudice and PAOLO AND VITTORIO TAVIANI, ITALY, 1977, 114 MIN. PANORAMA Una giornata particolare Lasciati andare social repression. Our mini-series features four newly restored James Ivory classics, and is complemented with Martin Scoresese’s singular take on the genre, The Age of Innocence. WED JAN 10 - 6:30PM ETTORE SCOLA, ITALY, 1977, 106 MIN. PANORAMA FRANCESCO AMATO, ITALY, 2017, 98 MIN. PANORAMA The Taviani Brothers (Rainbow; Night of the Shooting Stars) THU JAN 11 - 2:15PM THU JAN 11 - 6:30PM triumphed with their first feature, which won the Palme d’Or Rome, 1938: Adolf Hitler is being welcomed by Musso- Elia (Toni Servillo, The Great Beauty) is a Jewish psycho- at Cannes. Barely literate shepherd boy Gavino lives under lini, but in a working class neighbourhood a conservative analyst from a purely Freudian school of thought. Elia lives the thumb of his tyrannical peasant father. He is ultimately housewife () strikes up an unexpected rapport alone in a flat on the same floor as his ex- wife Giovanna, rescued by a call to military service, eventually emerging as with a liberal radio broadcaster (Marcello Mastroiannni) with whom he is still secretly in love. When his doctor warns My Voyage to Italy Rome Open City In Search of Fellini a brilliant linguist and scholar. Based on the book by Gavino who is soon to be deported. Nominated for two Academy him that his weight is putting his health at risk, he enlists TARON LEXTON, USA, 2017, 93 MIN. PANORAMA Il Mio Viaggio in Italia Roma città aperta Ledda. Awards (Best Actor and Best Foreign Language Film) this is Claudia to help get him into shape. A single mother to an , ITALY, 1945, 105 MIN. PANORAMA , USA/ITALY, 1999, 246 MIN. PANORAMA SAT JAN 6 - 1:00PM Winner: Palme D’Or, one of Scola’s finest achievements. undisciplined child, Claudia could use some life coaching. Together, this mismatched pair makes strides in healing FRI JAN 5 - 1:00PM SAT JAN 6 - 5:00PM In this feature debut, coscripted by actress Nancy Cart- both body and soul. FREE with purchase of a ticket to any other film in the A Communist leader hides out from the Nazis, but the wright, Ohio girl Lucy (Ksenia Solo, Tulipani) falls in love Italian Film Festival. stakes are life and death for anyone who gives him aid. with the films of , and heads to Italy to meet Made under the strictures of the Occupation, this landmark the maestro. While the film pays homage to multiple Fellini Rarely screened, Martin Scorsese’s epic documentary is a film is a searing political melodrama and an authentic re- classics in various ways, it doesn’t sentimentalize the movie Howards End Shakespeare Wallah Maurice love letter to the cinema of his ancestors, and many of the Best of 2017 JAMES IVORY, UK/USA/JAPAN, 1993, 142 MIN. PANORAMA JAMES IVORY, USA, 1965, 122 MIN. PANORAMA JAMES IVORY, UK, 1987, 140 MIN. PANORAMA cord of a particular time and place. business or the perils a young woman travelling abroad for filmmakers who influenced his own work most directly: the first time can encounter. In that sense it honours not TUE DEC 26 - 1:30PM THU DEC 28 - 1:30PM FRI DEC 29 - 1:30PM Robert Rossellini and the other neo-realists, Luchino Vis- “A world cinema landmark, but that dusty, respectful word only to the magic in Fellini’s art, but also a tough-minded- Ten of the best feature films released in Canadian theatres in 2017. Best of 2017 Ticket Packs Available: Margaret Schlegel () and her sister Helen Set against the stifling conformity of pre-World War I Eng- conti, Michaelangelo Antonioni, and, of course, Federico does not do justice to a film that has not lost its power to ness that is often overlooked. Elegiac and atmospheric, Shakespeare Wallah put Mer- Fellini. surprise and even shock.” Kenneth Turan, LA Times 3 Ticket Pack $27 | 5 Ticket Pack $40 () become involved with two couples: chant Ivory Productions on the international movie map. lish society, EM Forster’s Maurice is a story of coming to 100% Fresh, Rotten Tomatoes a wealthy, conservative industrialist (Anthony Hopkins) Starring Shashi Kapoor, , and a young Felicity terms with one’s sexuality and identity in the face of disap- “Inspiring.. will change and deepen the way you look at and his wife (), and a working-class man Kendal, the film’s inspiration lies in the real-life adventures proval and misunderstanding. Maurice Hall (James Wilby) cinema.” NY Times (Samuel West) and his mistress (Niccola Duffet). The inter- of Ms. Kendal’s family as a traveling theater group in India and Clive Durham (Hugh Grant) find themselves falling in woven fates and misfortunes of these three families and the during the final days of English colonial rule. The Bucking- love at Cambridge. In a time when homosexuality is punish- diverging trajectories of the two sisters’ lives are connected ham Players stage Shakespeare for the public, schools, able by imprisonment, the two must keep their feelings for La Strada to the ownership of Howards End, a beloved country home. and local royalty, but are unable to compete with the wildly one another a complete secret. FEDERICO FELLINI, ITALY, 1954, 108 MIN. PANORAMA popular Bollywood film industry... FRI JAN 5 - 9:00PM • SAT JAN 6 - 2:55PM Winner of the first ever Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film (an award that Fellini would win four times in all), La Strada is the heartbreaking story of an intellectually-unde- veloped, innocent young woman, Gelsomina, sold to circus strong man Zampano (Anthony Quinn) by her mother. He brings her into his act, but this brute of a man treats her badly, and a fellow circus performer (Richard Basehart) Dunkirk The Big Sick intercedes… CHRISTOPHER NOLAN, UK/USA, 2017, 106 MIN. PANORAMA MICHAEL SHOWALTER, USA, 2017, 120 MIN. PANORAMA WILLIAM OLDROYD, UK, 2017, 89 MIN. PANORAMA TUE DEC 26 - 6:00PM WED DEC 27 - 6:00PM THU DEC 28 - 6:00PM The year’s most grown up blockbuster is a visceral, thrilling Reaching the parts other rom-coms can only dream about, Northern England, 1860s. Katherine (Florence Pugh) is the war movie by Christopher Nolan. This is a surprisingly terse The Big Sick isn’t just a consistently funny love story, it’s new mistress on a mid-sized farm. But she is soon put in and even radical work, eschewing backstory romanticism also a very poignant movie about serious illness and a brac- her place by her boorish husband and his bullying father; and Churchillian pomp for something more elemental and ingly true film about the immigrant experience, families and she’s little more than a servant to both. When both men are Heat and Dust The Remains of the Day The Age of Innocence raw, “just the men and the beach and the sea and the sky,” culture clash. Pakistani-born stand up comic Kumail (Kumail called away on business she tastes freedom for the first JAMES IVORY, UK, 1983, 130 MIN. PANORAMA JAMES IVORY, UK, 1993, 134 MIN. PANORAMA MARTIN SCORSESE, USA, 1993, 139 MIN. PANORAMA as Christopher Orr put it in his review for The Atlantic. “It is Nanjiani) falls in love with Caucasian grad student Emily time, and embarks on a reckless, passionate affair with one WED DEC 27 - 1:30PM SAT DEC 30 - 1:30PM SUN DEC 31 - 1:30PM hard to imagine a better tribute to this victory of survival than (Zoe Kazan). But an illness puts Emily into a coma, mean- of the farmhands. And when her father-in-law returns she is Nolan’s spare, stunning, extraordinarily ambitious film.” while his family have a different bride in mind... determined to prevail, no matter what it takes... Cross-cutting between two generations, James Ivory’s epic Adapted from the novel by Nobel Prize for Literature-winner Scorsese’s Edith Wharton adaptation investigates the man- of self-discovery is also a lush evocation of the prismatic Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day is a beautifully ners and mores of nineteenth century New York society with La Strada “Joyous, generous-hearted.” NY Times and sensuous beauty of India. As she searches for answers modulated character study set in an English ancestral home the same rapt attention he brings to lowlife mobsters a hun- to the mystery surrounding a long-ago affair between her in the 1930s. Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins play dred years later. It’s the tragic story of a gentleman (Daniel aunt Olivia (Greta Scacchi) and an Indian prince (Shashi Ka- housekeeper Mrs Kenton and butler Stevens, respectively. Day-Lewis) who allows the love of his life to slip away under poor), Anne () becomes immersed in the local The latter is such a stickler for duty that he seems to have the influence of social convention, and arguably Scorsese’s Get Out culture, the pull of the past simultaneously leading her into suppressed all human emotion entirely in the service of his most beautiful and moving work. , USA, 2017, 104 MIN. ALT a clearer view of her own future. master, a callow lord (James Fox). But Mrs Kenton set her SAT DEC 30 - 6:00PM mind to opening him up... Guess who’s coming to dinner? When Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) accompanies girlfriend Rose for a weekend in the country with her folks he’s a little nervous about how he will Classics be received. The only African Americans in this neck of the woods are servants. But as the visit unfolds he becomes in- creasingly concerned, even paranoid, about what they have Belle de Jour in mind for him... This simple, brilliantly satiric horror film LUIS BUÑUEL, FRANCE, 1967, 100 MIN. PANORAMA resonates deeply with Black Lives Matter. FRI JAN 12 - 9:45PM • SAT JAN 13 - 6:10PM I Can Quit Whenever I Want I Can Quit Whenever I Want: Spettacolo SUN JAN 14 - 8:20PM • MON JAN 15 - 4:00PM Smetto quando voglio JEFF MALMBERG, CHRIS SHELLEN, USA, 2017, 91 MIN. PANORAMA TUE JAN 16 - 8:40PM SYDNEY SIBILIA, ITALY, 2014, 100 MIN. PANORAMA Masterclass SYDNEY SIBILIA, ITALY, 2017, 118 MIN. PANORAMA SUN JAN 7 - 3:00PM • TUE JAN 9 - 2:50PM It’s been 50 years since the release of Luis Buñuel's most SAT JAN 6 - 7:00PM Once upon a time there was a tiny hill town in Tuscany popular film, an exercise in what the great Spanish surreal- SAT JAN 6 - 8:55PM ist dubbed “chaste eroticism”. A frigid bourgeois housewife, A smash hit in Italy, this 2014 comedy about a university that found a remarkable way to confront their issues - they “This second chapter invests everything it has in entertain- Severine () explores her masochistic researcher, laid off by budget cuts, who recruits his former turned their lives into a play. Spettacolo is a portrait of this ing the audience, showing off a well-oiled machine (the fantasies by working as a (daytime) prostitute. While Buñuel colleagues to produce and market illicit chemical sub- 50-year-old tradition, where their piazza becomes their respective expertise of the group members downgraded freely allowed the material was pornographic, his treatment stances inevitably recalls TV’s Breaking Bad. But Sibilia’s stage and every villager from 6 to 90 plays a part - the role within a criminal context, the eloquent language, the use is not: this is an elegant, mysterious and poetic, mischie- movie is lighter, more reminiscent of classic crime capers of themselves. “Truly poetic and delicately beautiful.” Fran- of highly sophisticated tools and so on). All of this is in aid vously funny film, a film of fetishistic mise-en-scène and like Big Deal on Madonna Street or The Ladykillers. “A slick, cesca Bezzone, L’Italo-Americano Get Out of an action-comedy that harks back to the great classics.” cool as a cucumber. 35mm print energetic crowdpleaser.” Dennis Harvey, Variety Cineuropa In French with English subtitles.

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Considered by the Vancouver Sun to Lucky Girls Trip Shepherds in the Cave The Night of the I Am Love JOHN CARROL LYNCH, USA, 2017, 88 MIN. PANORAMA MALCOLM D. LEE, USA, 2017, 122 MIN. PANORAMA ANTHONY GRIECO, CANADA/ITALY, 2017, 85 MIN. PANORAMA Io sono l’amore be the "Best of the best... the city's top- Shooting Stars FRI DEC 29 - 6:00PM SUN DEC 31 - 6:00PM SUN JAN 7 - 5:00PM LUCA GUADAGNINO, ITALY, 2009, 120 MIN. PANORAMA rated all-round cinema", admission to di San Lorenzo A life-affirming comedy about old age and encroaching Cast your inhibitions at the door and get New Year’s Eve MON JAN 8 - 2:00PM the Vancity Theatre is the gift that keeps An international team of art restorers, archaeologists and PAOLO AND VITTORIO TAVIANI, ITALY, 1982, 105 MIN. PANORAMA death, Lucky is a loving portrait of its star, the great character off to a flying start with the raciest, raunchiest, funniest volunteers begin work on the restoration of medieval fres- Call My By Your Name filmmaker Luca Guadagnino first giving. Choose between giving someone SUN JAN 7 - 8:45PM actor Harry Dean Stanton, who was 89 at the time of filming comedy of the year, a female Hangover farce with a star- coes inside a network of ancient caves. Faced with local bu- registered on film lovers’ radar with this opulent family you care about a reloadable VIFF Gift Card and sadly passed away in September. Lucky lives his way - making turn from Tiffany Haddish front and centre. Four old reaucratic challenges and systemic neglect of archaeologi- One of the most popular films from the esteemed Taviani melodrama self-consciously styled after ’s or a VIFF+ membership that offers year- yoga, cigarettes, crosswords, Jeopardy and beer - but even college friends (Haddish, Regina Hall, Jada Pinkett Smith cal sites, the team encounters a community of shepherds brothers, this magical-realist fable was inspired by tales they Senso - but set in Milan at the end of the millennium. Tilda this ornery old man has a community who cares about him. and Queen Latifah) head out to the Big Easy for the annual Meet Me In St Louis The Big Heat In A Lonely Place , USA, 1944, 113 MIN. PANORAMA , USA, 1953, 90 MIN. PANORAMA , USA, 1950, 94 MIN. PANORAMA and migrants that have used the caves for centuries and heard growing up in their village. The Night of San Lorenzo, Swinton enjoys perhaps her richest lead as the Russian- round discounts. Essence Festival, rekindling their youthful euphoria along discover a living culture worth preserving most of all. the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams born wife of a wealthy but aging industrialist who embarks the way... MON JAN 1 - 1:30PM SUN JAN 14 - 3:00PM SUN JAN 14 - 4:45PM come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee on a passionate affair with a brilliant young chef. “Soaringly Director Anthony Grieco will attend this screening. Join us for cocktails at from 5.30, film at 6.45pm A year comes in and a year goes out... Vincente Minnelli’s “I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor. Believe me, rich is better,” One of the silver screen’s most vivid and indelible femmes their town after hearing rumours that the Nazis plan to blow beautiful.” Manohla Dargis, New York Times Visit viff.org for details. it up... “Revealing unanticipated beauties everywhere, even heartwarming evergreen chronicles an ordinarily tumultu- says Debbie (Gloria Grahame), the good time gal whose re- fatales, Gloria Grahame could be conniving and duplicitous amid the horrors of war ... the Tavianis’ masterpiece.” The ous year in the life of a prosperous household in 1904, when lationship with a thug () proves the key to unlock and sexy as hell, but somehow you always ended up feel- New York Times the worst prospect that faces them is a potential move to ing a city wide corruption scandal in this intensely bleak film ing sorry for her. Grahame (whose romantic swansong . It’s frightening because it means change, and noir classic from Fritz Lang. is the dogged cop is portrayed by in Film Stars Don’t Die in that’s inevitable - but it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t cherish who is determined to bring the whole show down, no matter Liverpool) has a way of getting under your skin. Here she’s what we share now, our past together. It’s debatable that what. dynamite as Bogart’s lover, who begins to suspect he may Rainbow - A Private Affair MGM ever conjured a more affecting musical. “An unmissa- Restored DCP. be a psychopath. Extra piquant, Grahame’s real life mar- Una questione private ble big-screen experience.” The Guardian riage to director Nick Ray was on the rocks at the time. PAOLO AND VITTORIO TAVIANI, ITALY, 2017, 84 MIN. PANORAMA 35mm print. SUN JAN 7 - 7:00PM • TUE JAN 9 - 4:45PM Special Presentation WED JAN 10 - 8:45PM The Taviani brothers have been at the forefront of Italian cin- ema since the mid-1970s. This WWII love story is imbued with the sensitivity and contrarian impulses characteristic of the Tavianis. Milton, named after the English poet and played by Luca Marinelli (the villain in Jeeg, Robot), is madly in love with Fulvia (Valentina Belle). Their courtship is inter- Blade Runner 2049 A Ghost Story Columbus rupted by the outbreak of hostilities, but when fighting in DENIS VILLENEUVE, USA, 2017, 164 MIN. ALT DAVID LOWERY, USA, 2017, 92 MIN. ALT KOGONADA, USA, 2017, 100 MIN. PANORAMA the Resistance Milton has occasion to revisit his hometown, MON JAN 1 - 6:00PM TUE JAN 2 - 6:00PM WED JAN 3 - 6:00PM and he seeks out his beloved… All sequels should be so good. Director Denis Villeneuve It takes real nerve to make a ghost story today with such Columbus, Indiana is home to some gorgeously designed and co bring their A-game to this immersively spectacular simple means (the ghost appears as a white sheet, with two buildings; it’s that kind of beauty that brings Casey (Haley riff on ’s seminal sci-fi classic. Set 20 years into eyeholes) and without designs on scaring us to death. Audi- Lu Richardson) and Jin (John Cho) together. He’s a book the future Scott imagined so vividly, BR49 also feels very ences clearly didn’t know what to make of David Lowery’s translator returning home from South Korea; she’s a high 2017 in its preoccupations with artificial intelligence and film, but it’s a spellbinder, an utterly disarming movie about school grad with a deep love for architecture. It’s clearly a Puttin’ on the Glitz: All the Border Radio authenticity, virtual escapism, and a ruthlessly policed di- grief, mortality, and love. love shared by director Kogonada, who makes inspired use , KURT VOSS, DEAN LENT, USA, 1987, 83 MIN. Hollywood Musical Gems PANORAMA vide between the privileged elite and the rest. What price is of the city’s buildings and other locales for this spellbinding President's Men Plus Bertrand Bonello’s short film, Sarah Winchester, presented by Michael van den Bos reality in a techno world where fake rules? Dense, enthrall- film about art, conversation and other essentials of life. ALAN J PAKULA, USA, 1976, 138 MIN. PANORAMA WED JAN 24 - 9:00PM Rainbow - A Private Affair Ghost Opera (24 min) and Episode 8 (60 min) 2017, 110 MIN. M/A/D ing cinema on an immense scale. SUN JAN 21 - 7:00PM A low-key, semi-improvised post-punk diary that took four SUN DEC 17 - 3:30PM With Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman as Bob Wood- years to complete, Border Radio features legendary rocker Glittering glamour, show-stopping spectacles, elegant ward and Carl Bernstein, the reporters who exposed the Chris D., of , as a singer/songwriter who extravagance and razzle-dazzle rhythms leap off the Watergate break-in and brought down President Nixon. has stolen loot from a club and gone missing, leaving his Never Steady, Vancity Theatre screen this Christmas season when This high water mark in the reputation of American journal- wife (Luanna Anders), a no-nonsense rock journalist, to film scholar Michael van den Bos presents an all-new ism inspired an enthralling, fastidiously researched thriller track him down with the help of his friends ( of the Never Still celebratory show of movie musical marvels. Michael will - one of the few movies that really conveys the legwork and band X; Chris Shearer). KATHLEEN HEPBURN, CANADA, 2017, 110 MIN. SEA TO SKY introduce a sizzling selection of star-spangled clips from resilience that goes into great investigative reporting. “Simply is one of the best movies ever made about the some of Hollywood’s splashiest, swankiest musical films. THU JAN 4 - 6:20PM Introduced by Rod Mickleburgh, senior reporter, The world of rock music.” LA Times Style is the substance in this blitz of glitz that’ll have you Globe & Mail Winner of three awards at VIFF 2017, Kathleen Hepburn’s all lit up like a Christmas tree! heartbreaking feature debut is a beautifully observed, very Tickets $15 personal piece about Judy (Shirley Henderson), coping with the loss of her husband, the departure of her teen son (Théodore Pellerin), and with Parkinson’s disease. Set in Libera Nos (Deliver Us) Italian Race City of Women northern BC (Stuart Lake), this is one of the most outstand- VIFF's programming streams: La città delle donne ing Canadian films in recent years. “Rich and poetic.” Now Liberami Veloce come il vento PANORAMA SEA TO SKY TRUE NORTH NEXT FEDERICO DI GIACOMO, ITALY, 2016, 90 MIN. PANORAMA MATTEO ROVERE, ITALY, 2016, 118 MIN. PANORAMA FEDERICO FELLINI, ITALY, 1980, 139 MIN. Magazine Contemporary world cinema Celebrating BC filmmakers Canadian stories from coast to coast Next-level experiences in screen-based storytelling MON JAN 8 - 4:30PM MON JAN 8 - 6:30PM MON JAN 8 - 8:45PM This chilling documentary looks at the Catholic Church’s After her father dies, responsibility for a younger brother Federico Fellini’s epic 1980 fantasia introduced the start VIFF 2017 Sea to Sky Award Winner surprisingly still common act of performing exorcisms by and the family’s debt-plagued auto-racing business falls on of the Maestro’s delirious late period. A surrealist tour- VIFF 2017 BC Emerging Filmmaker Award Winner following Franciscan Father Cataldo Migliazzo, Sicily’s the shoulders of 17-year-old Giulia. An aspiring Gran Tur- de-force filmed on soundstages and locations alike, and GATEWAY M/A/D ALT IMPACT VIFF 2017 Emerging Canadian Director Award Winner most famous exorcist, as he works to “cure” those who ismo racer, Giulia reaches out to her older brother, a once- overflowing with the same sensory (and sensual) invention Compelling world of East Asian cinema Focus on music, art + design Fantastic cinema that defies classification Films that change the way we see the world claim to be demonically possessed – troubled souls facing great driver now mired in drug addiction. Based on a true heretofore found only in the classic movie-musicals (and schizophrenia, depression, and other psychological disor- story, Veloce come il vento is an inspiring sports drama with Fellini’s own oeuvre), La città delle donne taps into the era’s ders which the act of exorcism not only refuses to address, both well-drawn characters and exciting action. restless youth culture, coalescing into nothing less than Never Steady, Never Still but can often make worse. Fellini’s post-punk opus. MEDIA SPONSOR Winner: Six David di Donatello Awards, including Best Winner: Best Film, Orizzonti section, Venice Film Festival Actor 1181 Seymour St. / Vancouver BC / V6B 3M7 Film Info 604.683.3456 / Office 604.685.0260 / Email [email protected] viff.org Vancouver International Film Festival’s Year-Round Showcase Vancouver International Film Festival’s Year-Round Showcase