May / June 2017
Canadian & International Features The Lure special Events Architecture + Design Film Festival
shorts & artist talks A Vision at the Margins: The Films of William D. MacGillivray www.winnipegcinematheque.com May 2017 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
3 4 5 6 7 Architecture+Design Film Festival: Architecture+Design Film Festival: Architecture+Design Film Festival: Architecture+Design Film Festival: Architecture+Design Film Festival: Harry Seidler: Modernist / 7 pm Watermark / 7 pm Linotype: The Film / 7 pm ArchiShorts Film Contest / 12 pm Citizen Lambert: Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Amphithéâtre / 9 pm Roger D’Astous / 8:30 pm Patema Inverted / 3 pm Joan of Architecture / 2 pm Saw the Future / 9 pm Frei Otto: Spanning the Future / 7 pm Citizen Jane: Battle for the City / 4 pm The Architect / 8:30 pm Windshield: A Vanished Vision / 7 pm
10 11 12 13 14 Elle / 7 pm A Vision at the Margins: A Vision at the Margins: A Vision at the Margins: Elle / 3 pm Danny / 7 pm Understanding Bliss / 7 pm Life Classes and Don Shebib’s A Vision at the Margins: Elle / 9:15 pm Elle / 9:15 pm Goin’ Down the Road Discussion / 1 pm The Man of a Thousand Songs / 7 pm Reading Alistair MacLeod / 3 pm Life Classes / 7 pm Elle / 9:30 pm
17 18 19 20 21 Elle / 7 pm Tales from The Neighbourhood: UFOs: The Secret History / 7 pm After the Storm / 7 pm After the Storm / 3 pm New and Used & Bayline / 7 pm David Lynch—The Art Life / 9:30 pm David Lynch—The Art Life / 9 pm David Lynch—The Art Life / 7 pm After the Storm / 9 pm
24 25 26 27 28 After the Storm / 7 pm 100 Short Stories / 7 pm The Apology / 7 pm After the Storm / 3 pm The Apology / 3 pm David Lynch—The Art Life / 9 pm David Lynch—The Art Life / 9 pm The Apology / 7 pm David Lynch—The Art Life / 7 pm David Lynch—The Art Life / 9 pm
31 Kedi / 7 pm June 2017 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
1 2 3 4 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me / 7 pm Kedi / 7 pm Kedi / 3 pm & 7 pm Kedi / 3 pm The Lure / 9 pm The Lure / 9 pm The Lure / 7 pm
7 8 9 10 11 The Lure / 7 pm Kedi / 7 pm Kedi / 7 pm The Lure / 3 pm & 9 pm Kedi / 3 pm The Lure / 9 pm The Lure / 9 pm Kedi / 7 pm The Lure / 7 pm
14 15 16 17 18 Jazz Film Fest: Jazz Film Fest: Jazz Film Fest: Jazz Film Fest: Jazz Film Fest: Chasing Trane / 7 pm Mavis! / 7 pm King of Jazz / 7 pm Mavis! / 3 pm King of Jazz / 3 pm Chasing Trane / 9 pm I Called Him Morgan / 9 pm King of Jazz / 7 pm I Called Him Morgan / 7 pm I Called Him Morgan / 9 pm
21 22 23 24 25 Jazz Film Fest: McDonald At The Movies: Lesley Loksi Chan: Jazz Film Fest: Jazz Film Fest: Chasing Trane / 7 pm A Hard Day’s Night / 7 pm The Storyteller / 7 pm The Man Who Fell to Earth / 3 pm The Man Who Fell to Earth / 3 pm Jazz Film Fest: Jazz Film Fest: Citizen Jane: Citizen Jane: Battle for the City / 7 pm Chasing Trane / 9:15 pm The Man Who Fell to Earth / 9 pm Battle for the City / 7 pm & 9 pm
28 29 30 Citizen Jane: Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D / 7 pm Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D / 7 pm Battle for the City / 7 pm Citizen Jane: Battle for the City / 9 pm The Mask 3D / 9 pm Canadian & International Features
Elle After the Storm Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Directed by Paul Verhoeven Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda Directed by David Lynch 2016, France, 130 min 2016, Japan, 117 min 1992 USA, 135 min French with English subtitles Japanese with English subtitles Thursday, June 1 / 7 pm Wednesday, May 10 / 7 pm Thursday, May 18 / 9 pm Twin Peaks fans rejoice—we are celebrating the return of the Thursday & Friday, May 11 & 12 / 9:15 pm Saturday, May 20 / 7 pm cult TV series with an evening of all things Lynchian, with prizes Saturday, May 13 / 9:30 pm Sunday, May 21 / 3 pm for best dressed and best Lynch impression. The end of Twin Sunday, May 14 / 3 pm Wednesday, May 24 / 7 pm Peaks left millions of viewers clamouring for more—what was to Wednesday, May 17 / 7 pm Saturday, May 27 / 3 pm become of Special Agent Dale Cooper, newly possessed by Bob? “ Elle is an expertly layered drama in which a successful woman “The film is smart, funny, beautiful and profoundly moving— The film purports to show what happened in the last seven days experiences a rather unconventional midlife awakening. Elle nothing less than what we’d expect from this master.” of Laura Palmer’s life. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me keeps the vein centers on Michele LeBlanc (Isabelle Huppert), an assertive and — Vancouver Film Festival of humour that ran through the original seasons, but ramps up accomplished executive who oversees a video game company the nightmarish tension and abstract imagery. “Are you who you wanted to be?” asks the young son of former with her longtime friend, Anna. Michele never seems fazed by the novelist and gambling addict Ryota. It’s one of the central In the folksy town of Deerfield, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond behavior of her male employees—nor does she appear particularly questions in this sweet-natured comedy about father/son (Chris Isaak) inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man shocked after a masked intruder breaks into her home and rapes relationships and the gifts and curses that are passed down who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, her. Sandwiched between the inciting incident and its ultimate through generations. Dwelling on his past glory as a prize- after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, conclusion are brilliant and darkly comedic layers that explore winning author, Ryota wastes the money he makes as a Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) chillingly predicts that the typical familial discordance as well as female friendships and private detective on gambling and can barely pay child support. culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the similarly cozy those gender bonds that are often as unbreakable as they are After the death of his father, his aging mother and beautiful town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Lara Palmer (Sheryl Lee) unspoken.” —Britt Hayes, Screen Crush ex-wife both seem to be moving on with their lives. Renewing hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate. * Winner of the Golden Globe award for Best Foreign Film. contact with his initially distrusting family, Ryota struggles to take back control of his existence and to find a lasting place in the life of his young son—until a stormy summer night offers them a chance to truly bond again. From the director of Like Father, like Son and Our Little Sister. The Lure The Mask 3D Directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska Directed by Julian Roffman 2015, Poland, 92 min 1961, Canada, 83 min Polish with English subtitles Friday, June 30 / 9 pm Friday & Saturday, June 2 & 3 / 9 pm “The cinematography during the dream sequences is both Sunday, June 4 / 7 pm enchanting and haunting. Designed by legendary montage Wednesday, June 7 / 7 pm expert Slavo Vorkapich, the imagery is a brilliantly woven Thursday & Friday, June 8 & 9 / 9 pm nightmare display.”— Rebekah McKendry, Blumhouse.com Saturday, June 10 / 3 pm & 9 pm Sunday, June 11 / 7 pm The first feature-length Canadian horror movie and the first feature-length 3D film made in Canada, Julian Roffman’s 1961 “One enchanted evening in early ’80s Warsaw, Poland, famished cult classic has now been digitally restored. A psychiatrist comes heart-eating sister sirens Golden and Silver emerge from the sea into possession of an ancient tribal mask that, when worn, in search of prey. They soon find themselves joining an erotic assails him with nightmarish visions of monsters, occultists, discotheque act, enabling them to use their transformative and ritual torture. Believing that he has discovered a portal to
The Lure mermaid skills as a rather ultimate dancer performance attribute. the deepest recesses of his mind, he continues to explore this The plan is to stay in human form temporarily in order to explore terrifying new psychic world—even at the risk of his sanity. earthly experiences, but things become complicated when Silver develops feelings for her act’s bass player. A poetic and visually extravagant exploration of femininity and girlhood steeped in a vibrant, magical atmosphere that veers from the carnivalesque to the kink-spiked carnal, exploding with song, sensuality, sea water and blood in a jaw-dropping, goth-popping menagerie of invention. You’ve never seen anything like it.” — Mitch Davis, Fantasia Film Festival The Mask 3D New World Documentaries
UFOs: The Secret History David Lynch—The Art Life 100 Short Stories Directed by David Cherniack Directed by Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes & Olivia Neergaard-Holm Directed by Neal Livingston 2010, Canada, 102 min 2016, USA, 90 min 2016, Canada, 68 min
Friday, May 19 / 7 pm Friday, May 19 / 9:30 pm Wednesday, May 25 / 7 pm Saturday, May 20 / 9 pm Panel to follow with UFO expert Chris Rutkowski, Director David Introduced by Neal Livingston. Sunday, May 21 / 7 pm Cherniack, and Stan Michalak. Thursday – Saturday, May 25 – 27 / 9 pm Neal Livingston is Atlantic Canada’s Don Quixote: he not On May 20, 1967 Manitoba prospector Stefan Michalak was Sunday, May 28 / 7 pm only tilts at windmills, he makes them. 100 Short Stories, in the woods near Falcon Lake when he encountered a disc which is more of a personal essay and less of an anthology, “Lynch narrates his life more thoroughly, poignantly and shaped object glowing red. As he moved to touch it a blast sees the veteran documentary director combine his twin evocatively than I’ve ever heard from him before.” of hot gas shot from holes in the unidentified object onto his loves—the environment and filmmaking—into one tale of —Sight and Sound chest, setting his shirt on fire. For two years he was examined trial and tribulation. Fighting the oil and gas interests in by more than a dozen physicians in USA and Canada none of David Lynch, the legendary director of Blue Velvet, Mulholland Cape Breton while trying to launch a wind energy project in them could explain what happened. To mark the anniversary Drive and Eraserhead, takes us on an intimate journey through Nova Scotia, Livingston and his passionately engaged film we present a rare screeningby one of the founders of the WFG, the formative years of his life. From his idyllic upbringing in have enough material for many short stories—maybe 100. David Cherniack,whose film explores the history of the UFO small-town America, to the dark streets of Philadelphia, we It’s about predatory Capitalism, renewable energy, stopping phenomenon from the dawn of the modern era in thelate ‘40s, follow Lynch as he traces the events that have helped to the frackers, and contemporary life in Atlantic Canada. up to the present moment. shape him. Citizen Jane: Battle for the City Directed by Matt Tyrnauer 2016, USA, 92 min
Saturday, June 24 / 7 pm & 9 pm Sunday, June 25 / 7 pm Wednesday, June 28 / 7 pm Thursday, June 29 / 9 pm In 1960, Jane Jacobs’s book The Death and Life of Great American Cities sent shockwaves through the architecture and planning worlds, with its exploration of the consequences of modern planners’ and architects’ reconfiguration of cities. Jacobs was also an activist and she was involved in many fights in mid- century New York, while trying to stop “master builder” Robert The Apology Kedi Moses from running roughshod over the city. This film retraces Directed by Tiffany Hsiung Directed by Ceyda Torun the battles for the city as personified by Jacobs and Moses, as 2016, Canada, 104 min 2016, Turkey, 80 min urbanization moves to the very front of the global agenda. Turkish with English subtitles Friday & Saturday, May 26 & 27 / 7 pm Sponsored by the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation. Sunday, May 28 / 3 pm Wednesday, May 31 / 7 pm Friday, June 2 / 7 pm “Heartbreaking and uplifting, devastatingly powerful Saturday, June 3 / 3 pm & 7 pm experience… at the film’s world premiere, where there Sunday, June 4 / 3 pm Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D wasn’t a dry eye in the house.” —Hollywood Reporter Thursday – Saturday, June 8 – 10 / 7 pm Directed by Werner Herzog One of the most powerful documentaries in recent memory Sunday, June 11 / 3 pm 2010, France/USA/Germany/Canada, 90 min and one of the Top 20 Audience favourites at the 2016 Hot Hundreds of thousands of cats roam the metropolis of Istanbul Docs Festival. The film tells the story of three women who Thursday & Friday, June 29 & 30 / 7 pm freely. For thousands of years they’ve wandered in and out of were amongst over 200,000 girls and women who were people’s lives, becoming an essential part of the communities Back by popular demand, Director Werner Herzog takes us forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army during that make the city so rich. Claiming no owners, these animals deep beyond the frontier of an extraordinary place. With WWII. After decades of living in silence and shame about live between two worlds, neither wild nor tame—and they bring specially designed 3D cameras he explores the interior of their past, they know that time is running out to give a joy and purpose to those people they choose to adopt. In the Chauvet Cave in Southern France where the world’s first-hand account of the truth and ensure that this horrific Istanbul, cats are the mirrors to the people, allowing them to oldest known cave paintings were discovered in 1994. In this chapter of history is not forgotten. reflect on their lives in ways nothing else could. mesmerizing film he reveals to us a breathtaking subterranean world and leads us to the 32,000 year old artworks. Architecture + Design Film Festival
The Architecture + Design Film Festival (A+DFF) presents critically acclaimed films focusing on the importance of architecture and design in everyday life. Co-presented by Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, Urban Idea and Cinematheque, the festival is supported by the Canada Council, Manitoba Association of Architects and the Canada 150 Community Fund. www.adff.ca
Harry Seidler: Modernist Linotype: The Film The Architect Directed by Daryl Dellora Directed by Douglas Wilson Directed by Jonathan Parker 2016, Australia, 58 min 2012, USA, 75 min 2016, USA, 95 min
Wednesday, May 3 / 7 pm Friday, May 5 / 7 pm Saturday, May 6 / 8:30 pm Accepted as a refugee into the University of Manitoba’s Called the “Eighth Wonder of the World” by Thomas Edison, Jonathan Parker’s comedy stars indie starlet Parker Posey and architecture school in 1941, the film tells Seidler’s remarkable the Linotype type casting machine revolutionized printing and the ever-charming Eric McCormack as Drew and Colin, a married story of persistence, while introducing his legacy of elegant society. This film tells the charming and emotional story of the couple looking to build the perfect home. First though, they need work as Australia’s leading modern architect. people connected to the Linotype and how it impacted the world. the perfect architect, but what they get instead is one Miles Moss, a monstrous prima donna. Sponsored by 1X1 architecture. Roger D’Astous Directed by Etienne Desrosiers Citizen Lambert: Joan of Architecture Eero Saarinen: 2016, Canada, 103 min Directed by Teri Wehn-Damisch The Architect Who Saw the Future 2007, Canada, 52 min Directed by Peter Rosen Friday, May 5 / 8:30 pm 2016, USA, 70 min Sunday, May 7 / 2 pm From formative encounters with Frank Lloyd Wright, to timely Wednesday, May 3 / 9 pm opportunities boldly seized in the build up to Montréal’s Expo A unique glimpse into the world of Phyllis Lambert, renowned ’67, the work of this Quebec architect blossoms early, but mellows Canadian architect, urban activist, patron and founder of the Eric Saarinen, descendant of two world famous Finnish-American over the years. Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. architects, travels the world in a quest to discover for himself the meaning, beauty, and value of his imperfect father’s obsession Sponsored by JRWagner Architect. with space, light, movement and form. Citizen Jane: Battle for the City Directed by Matt Tyrnauer Sponsored by Monteyne Architecture Works. ArchiShorts Film Contest Screening 2016, USA, 92 min & Awards Ceremony Watermark Sunday, May 7 / 4 pm Saturday, May 6 / 12 pm / FREE ADMISSION Directed by Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky Following the recent centenary of her birth, and a flurry of 2013, Canada, 92 min Join us for a free screening of the winning entries in the annual books and exhibitions, this timely and inspirational documentary ArchiShorts two-minute digital film contest. chronicles the work of writer and urban activist Jane Jacobs, Thursday, May 4 / 7 pm including her legendary 1960s battle to save NYC neighbourhoods From multiple-award winning filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal Patema Inverted from the ruthless power broker Robert Moses. and renowned photographer Edward Burtynsky, the film brings Directed by Yasuhiro Yoshiura Sponsored by Lisa Landrum. together diverse stories from around the globe about our 2013, Japan, 98 min relationship with water: how we are drawn to it, what we learn Japanese and Esperanto with English subtitles from it, how we use it and the consequences of that use. Windshield: A Vanished Vision Saturday, May 6 / 3 pm Directed by Elissa Brown Sponsored by HTFC Planning & Design. 2016, USA, 47 min An animated film about a young girl from a civilization that resides in deep underground tunnels who finds herself trapped in an Amphithéâtre Sunday, May 7 / 7 pm inverted world and teams up with a resident to escape and return Directed by Antti Seppänen home. Recommended for ages 8 and up. In 1936 Richard Neutra designed a summer home for John Nicholas 2016, Canada, 47 min Brown II. This new documentary tells its touching story from a family perspective; most notably by J. Carter Brown III, a charismatic Thursday, May 4 / 9 pm Frei Otto: Spanning the Future champion of art and architecture who grew up in the house. Directed by Joshua Hassel Quebec architect, Paul Laurendeau, reflects on crucial design 2016, USA, 60 min Plays With VDL Research House: Richard Neutra’s developments, influences and collaborations, enabling his Studio and Residence / Directed by Timothy Sakamoto, competition-winning design of the Amphithéâtre Cogeco de Saturday, May 6 / 7 pm 2007, USA, 40 min / This film carries viewers on a detailed tour of this Trois-Rivières to become a sublime venue for the arts, balancing Richard J. Neutra’s structure and evaluates the way in which many of dramatic gestures against a powerful site. Like great birds in flight, the tensile structures of Frei Otto its structural and aesthetic aspects can be viewed as commentaries on (1925–2015) are wonders to behold. As this documentary reveals, Plays With Jean Nouvel: Reflections / Directed by Matt various phases of his career. the works of this Pritzker laureate—whose name means “Free”— Tyrnauer, 2016, USA, 15 min / This short film reveals illuminating are eloquent ecological and political statements, grounded in Sponsored by Unit 7 Architecture. subtleties in recent works by France’s most flamboyant architect. specific histories of influence, with an engineering ethos tethered by poetic principles. Sponsored by Crosier, Kilgour and Partners.
Lisa Landrum A Vision at the Margins: The Films of William D. MacGillivray
Understanding Bliss literature: it’s about Maritime light; about the roads that Directed by William D. MacGillivray edge the land next to the sea; about the homes along 1990, Canada, 80 mins those roads and the people who inhabit them, including MacLeod’s family who make a significant appearance. Friday, May 12 / 7 pm Co-presented by the Manitoba Writer’s Guild. Two academics try to keep their affair a secret, as difficult a task in St. John’s, Newfoundland, as it is to find a place to make love. On one level Understanding Bliss is an intimate drama of misalliance, but MacGillivray refuses to play a safe hand. Shot originally on video to facilitate long takes—a dazzling Life Classes “Cinematheque is honored to feature a example takes viewers across the street and down sidewalks Directed by William D. MacGillivray four day retrospective of the works of East to a building interior where a theatre class is in session—the 1988, Canada, 117 min coast independent filmmaker William D. technique also supports the film’s intimate scenes, romantic MacGillivray. In a career that exemplifies and familial. The film also offers a marvellous sketch of St. John’s Saturday, May 13 / 7 pm / FREE ADMISSION topography and a stunning performance of a Mummers Play, imaginative energy and tenacity, MacGillivray Life Classes does a wonderful thing: it takes a premise, well-worn a traditional Newfoundland folk practice adapted from the has made a sustained contribution to one even in 1987—the unmarried pregnant young woman Old World. Canadian cinema for nealy 40 years. In 2013, quitting her hometown to have her baby and start a new he received the Governor General’s Award Plays With Linda Joy / Directed by William D. MacGillivray life—and rejuvenates it. Mary leaves her boyfriend Earl and in Visual and Media Arts. Trusting that the & Linda Busby, 1985, Canada, 20 min / In a stark testimonial of her Cape Breton hometown for Halifax. Here she meets other geography, people and culture of the Maritimes radiant courage, a young woman, Linda Joy Busby, addresses the women who will help her transform her sense of self. Through constitute a rich and worthy subject for film, viewer directly about her terminal illness. his heroine’s connections with her own and other marginal the filmmaker has put his convictions into Maritime cultures, MacGillivray creates a generous and gentle action encompassing over five fiction features, comic drama that encompasses past and present, interior and numerous documentaries and shorter films Life Classes and Don Shebib’s exterior space, artisanal skill and technological reach. as well as a television series. They constitute Goin’ Down the Road Discussion a strong body of work that deserves our One of the top 40 Canadian features of 150 essential moving image attention.” —Howard Curle Saturday, May 13 / 1 pm / Free Admission works selected by the Toronto International Film Festival.
Bill MacGillivray in attendance. Bill MacGillivray will compare Life Classes and Don Shebib’s Goin’ Down the Road in terms of appropriation, cultural representation Sponsored by IATSE 856. and notions of ‘regionalism’ versus ‘the centre’ as well as gender politics. The Man of a Thousand Songs Directed by William D. MacGillivray Reading Alistair MacLeod 2010, Canada, 93 min Danny Directed by William D. MacGillivray Directed by William D. MacGillivray & Justin Simms 2005, Canada, 88 min Sunday, May 14 / 7 pm 2015, Canada, 83 min Saturday, May 13 / 3 pm MacGillivray’s portrait of veteran Newfoundland singer- Thursday, May 11 / 7 pm songwriter Ron Hynes. The film takes Hynes to the Cornerbrook Alistair MacLeod (1936–2014) was one of Canada’s most home he inherited from his father who abandoned his wife and During his seven years as Premier, Newfoundland and Labrador distinguished writers. This documentary links the author’s children when Ron was just a youngster, an episode that recalls was transformed from a “have not” into a “have” province affection for Cape Breton and his themes of exile and a lyrical sequence from Life Classes. Hynes has his own sharply under the charismatic and unflinching leadership of Danny return to that of the filmmaker. This moving film portrait funny take on the thin line between truth and myth in his life, Williams. Through revealing back room anecdotes and in– is organized around other writers telling stories about but revelations of another kind dig even deeper. depth interviews Danny tells the story of how Williams battled MacLeod and reading from his work, beginning with Lisa Ottawa and Big Oil alike to ensure that the province received Moore’s intense engagement with the “tenderness and a fair share for its abundant natural resources. brutality” of his prose. But the film is about more than
A Hard Day’s Night Directed by Richard Lester 1964, USA, 87 min
Thursday, June 22 / 7 pm Just one month after they exploded onto the US scene in the McDonald 1960’s with their Ed Sullivan appearance, The Beatles began working on a project with veteran British director Richard at the Movies Lester. Playing slapstick versions of themselves they captured the excitement of a day when Beatlemania changed the face Once a month, comedian and co-founder of of popular music. Kids in the Hall, Kevin McDonald will present a handpicked film from the archives of comic history. Introduced by Kevin McDonald. A Hard Day’s Night Shorts & Artist Talks
New and Used: Winnipeg Lesley Loksi Chan: The Storyteller Tales from the Directed by James Mierau 2016, Canada, 46 min Friday, June 23 / 7 PM Neighbourhood Curated by Mike Hoolboom, introduced by Lesley Loksi Chan. Thursday, May 18 / 7 pm Over the past several years, MTS Stories From Home has “One of the most important new voices in Canadian sparked the creation of hundreds of hours of new intensely Introduced by director James Mierau and producer Dave Kornas. narrative cinema, Lesley Loksi Chan was born to make local TV content in Manitoba. This body of work, unique in The record stores once lining North Portage Avenue in movies. Her genius is that she fully embraces, or so it seems, vision and vast in scope has supported local filmmakers as Winnipeg, Manitoba were the epicenter of cultural meeting the place she actually is. No far away Telefilm dreams, no they tell stories that may not have otherwise been produced. places. This new documentary is a showcase of those places waiting for mountains of equipment, instead she crafts Sponsored by MTS Stories From Home. from the past, what they meant to people and what this out of the circumstances of her own life an intimate, witty, community looks like today. Featuring a who’s who from thoughtful, touching cinema, often featuring her young Winnipeg’s music community and record store scene—both boy and her sister as actors. Her whimsical dramas feature past and present. air tight voice-overs, exquisite framings and hand-made animations. Whether dishing a love story or leaning in close Plays With Bayline / Directed by JJ Neepin, 2017, Canada, to hear the whispers that only a mother and son could 15 min / Two sister filmmakers, JJ and Justina Neepin follow their exchange, Chan lights it all up with a breezy, sweatless parents to the northern Manitoba wilderness for a camping trip, to gaze so fine you don’t notice the bullet holes in your eyes learn about the ‘Bayline’ and the place their father once called home. until you stagger out of the darkness and find everything changed.”—Mike Hoolboom Mavis! I Called Him Morgan Directed by Jessica Edwards Directed by Kasper Collin JAZZ FILM FEST 2015, USA, 80 min 2016, Sweden/USA, 92 min From cinema screening of The Man Who Fell to Earth to mark the Thursday, June 15 / 7 pm Friday & Saturday, June 16 & 17 / 9 pm Jazz Fest’s David Bowie Tribute to the dynamic portrait of Mavis Saturday, June 17 / 3 pm Sunday, June 18 / 7 pm Staples, to a new documentary on the legendary John Coltrane, Cinematheque presents the hottest new contemporary jazz Get ready for the June 21st appearance of Mavis Staples at “ Spellbinding, hallucinatory, exuberant, tragic.”—The Guardian films! For advance tickets go to Tickets and Merch on the the Jazz Festival by checking out this fantastic portrait of the On a snowy night in February 1972, celebrated jazz bop website www.winnipegcinematheque.com. Gospel/soul music legend and civil rights activist who began trumpeter Lee Morgan was shot dead by his wife Helen during her career in the 1950s with the legendary band The Staple Sponsored by a gig at a club in New York City. The murder sent shockwaves Singers. This terrific documentary explores her roots growing TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival. through the jazz community, and the memory of the event up on Chicago’s south side and features rare archival footage still haunts those who knew the Morgans. This documentary from TV performances and live concerts. At 75 she’s making by Swedish filmmaker Kasper Collin (My Name Is Albert Ayler) the most vital music of her career. is a love letter to two unique personalities and the music that brought them together. Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary King of Jazz Directed by John Scheinfield Directed by John Murray Anderson The Man Who Fell to Earth 2016, USA, 99 min 1930, USA, 98 min Directed by Nicolas Roeg 1976, UK, 139 min Wednesday, June 14 / 7 pm Friday & Saturday, June 16 & 17 / 7 pm Thursday, June 15 / 9 pm Sunday, June 18 / 3 pm Friday, June 23 / 9 pm Wednesday, June 21 / 7 pm This stunning, newly restored 1930 feature starring Paul Saturday & Sunday, June 24 & 25 / 3 pm Thursday, June 22 / 9:15 pm Whiteman and his orchestra (including Joe Venuti and Eddie “ Beautiful, jagged, freakish, startling and displacing… tender This smart, passionate, thought-provoking and uplifting Lang) largely consists of musical performances, featuring and mournful.”—Tony Macklin documentary is the definitive film about the legendary jazz several songs sung on camera by the Rhythm Boys (Bing saxophonist who turned the jazz world upside down with his Crosby, Al Rinker and Harry Barris). David Bowie leaped to screen stardom in his debut film, Nicolas boundary-shattering music and worked with titans like Miles Roeg’s adaptation of Walter Tevis’ 1963 sci-fi tale of betrayal Davis. Featuring “hundreds of never-before-seen photos, and hopelessness. Roeg’s exquisite visual sense and inspired home movies, animated paintings and other treasures—Coltrane’s casting made this a modern classic of sci-fi with a core much musician friends, children, and biographers tell his story. more attuned to the human than the technological, replete with elements of Burroughs, classic film and mythology. May/June Staff Picks
The Lure promises to be an unsettling and absurd mix of Mermaids; David Lynch; cats; jazz; UFOs—what do all of This program, I’ve found myself attracted to films that address genres: erotic horror musical. The film has the potential to these things have in common? Nothing really on the surface, everything whimsical, otherworldly and cryptic, like the doc be more than just an exploration of femininity and girlhood: but they’re all things I love and the subjects of films that are David Lynch: The Art Life or The Lure where I’ll be thoroughly it takes the sinister seductress trope head-on through its playing this May and June! How about some cherry pie and mesmerized by disco night mermaids. My craving for the protagonists, siren sisters Silver and Gold. It’ll be interesting Mädchen Amick? We’ve got that too, at our Twin Peaks: Fire unexplained will be further satisfied with UFOs: The Secret to see how director Agnieszka Smoczynska spins this trope, Walk with Me night, which will celebrate the singular vision History which explores Manitoba’s eerie underbelly of footage born from hundreds of years of mythologizing women as of the show and its unhinged, bastard movie spawn. Also and stories involving our extraterrestrial friends. I’ll also gladly inherently manipulative and female sexuality as threatening or of note is our visiting filmmaker retrospective of William enter another dimension when I float away to the sound of misleading. —Mariana Muñoz Gomez, Cinematheque Box Office D. MacGillivray, whose East Coast films have often been Werner Herzog’s voice in Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D. overlooked in the pantheon of Canadian cinema.—David Knipe, —Sam Sarty, Cinematheque Box Office Pioneering East Coast filmmaker William D. MacGillivray will Cinematheque Operations Manager introduce a four day retrospective of his best work including As I am a big time David Lynch fan, I must say, I am most excited a stunning film on singer Ron Hynes, The Man of a Thousand I’m most excited to see David Lynch: The Art Life. I’m a for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me and the documentary David Songs, his early classic Life Classes selected as one of Canada’s documentary geek and David Lynch has been a major influence Lynch—The Art Life. Other great film events I am looking forward Top 150 films and the incredibly poignant Linda Joy. Mike on my creative expression. I can’t wait to see how deliciously to include the wonderful Architecture+Design Film Festival Hoolboom has curated a selection of great handmade shorts weird he is in his day-to-day life. I also look forward to our and the Jazz Film Festival. —Milos Mitrovic, Cinematheque by Toronto filmmaker Lesley Loksi Chan, who will be here special event: Tales from the Neighbourhood. I love seeing local Technical Liaison in late June! Finally don’t miss these new jazz films on John stories, and I predict this event will be a hit. —Jessica Seburn, Coltrane, Mavis Staples, and the newly restored two-strip Cinematheque Box Office In anticipation of the return of Twin Peaks, we will be screening Technicolor classic King of Jazz. —Dave Barber, Cinematheque the prequel film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, which shows Programming Coordinator I think I’m still in disbelief that Laura Palmer’s words “I’ll see us the heartbreaking last days of Laura Palmer’s life, and takes you in again in 25 years” are actually coming true with the new away the humour of the TV show for Lynch’s most bleak and Lynch fans, this one’s for you. With both a documentary about the Twin Peaks series this May. To celebrate, we are showing the terrifying portrayal of small town America. If this isn’t enough eccentric auteur and a screening of Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with severely underrated 1992 movie prequel, Fire Walk with Me for you we will also have the documentary David Lynch – Me, weirdness will definitely abound. I would also recommend and the new Lynch Doc, The Art Life! As an avid (obsessive!) The Art Life. —Eric Peterson, Cinematheque Box Office & catching Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzog’s hypnotic record collector, I am also personally very excited to hear the Projection 3D documentary about cave paintings, if you missed it the first history of the forgotten record stores of Winnipeg in the new time around. Plus, the Architecture+Design Film Festival delivers film New and Used: Winnipeg as part of our Tales from the a wide selection of factual and narrative films, with something Neighbourhood series. —Jaimz Asmundson, Cinematheque to offer the architect and casual onlooker alike. —Allegra Programming Director / Interim Co-Executive Director Chiarella, Cinematheque Box Office Left to right: Jaimz Asmundson, Allegra Chiarella, David Knipe, Eric Peterson, Sam Sarty, Milos Mitrovic, Dave Barber, Dylan Baillie and Mariana Muñoz Gomez. Photo by Leif Norman.
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