January / February 2019
Canadian & International Features
NEW WORLD DOCUMENTARIES special Events THE GREAT BUSTER CABIN FEVER: FREE FILMS FOR KIDS!
www.winnipegcinematheque.com January 2019 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
1 2 3 4 5 6 closed: New Year’s Day Roma / 7 pm Roma / 7 pm & 9:30 pm Roma / 7 pm & 9:30 pm Roma / 3 pm & 7 pm cabin fever: Coco 3D / 3 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Anthropocene: Anthropocene: The Human Epoch / 9:30 pm The Human Epoch / 5 pm Roma / 7 pm
8 9 10 11 12 13 The Last Movie / 7 pm Roma / 7 pm Jean-Pierre Melville: Black Lodge: Secret Cinema Roma / 2:30 pm cabin fever: The Big Bad Dial Code Santa Claus / 9 pm Le samouraï / 7 pm with the Laundry Room / 7 pm Jean-Pierre Melville: Fox and Other Tales… / 3 pm Roma / 9 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Léon Morin, Priest / 5 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Anthropocene: Canada’s Top Ten: Anthropocene: The Human Epoch / 7 pm Anthropocene: The Human Epoch / 5 pm Roma / 9 pm The Human Epoch / 7:15 pm Genesis / 7 pm Genesis / 9 pm
15 16 17 18 19 20 The Last Movie / 7 pm Jean-Pierre Melville: Canada’s Top Ten: Jean-Pierre Melville: The Great Buster / 3 pm & 7 pm cabin fever: Buster Keaton’s Dial Code Santa Claus / 9 pm Léon Morin, Priest / 7 pm Anthropocene: Le doulos / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Classic Shorts / 3 pm The Human Epoch / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Anthropocene: The Great Buster / 5 pm Roads in February / 9 pm Anthropocene: The Human Epoch / 5 pm Jean-Pierre Melville: The Human Epoch / 9 pm Roads in February / 9 pm Le samouraï / 7 pm
22 23 24 25 26 27 The Last Movie / 7 pm The Great Buster / 7 pm Jean-Pierre Melville: The Great Buster / 7 pm Jean-Pierre Melville: Remembering Siberia / 12:30 pm Dial Code Santa Claus / 9 pm Bob le flambeur / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Le doulos / 3 pm cabin fever: Canada’s Top Ten: Edge of the Knife / 9 pm Canada’s Top Ten: The Last Starfighter / 3 pm Edge of the Knife / 9 pm Edge of the Knife / 5 pm & 9 pm Jean-Pierre Melville: The Fireflies Are Gone / 7 pm Bob le flambeur / 5 pm Canada’s Top Ten: The Fireflies Are Gone / 7 pm
29 30 31 The Last Movie / 7 pm WINNIPEG DREAMERS: Architecture+Film: Dial Code Santa Claus / 9 pm Part One / 7 pm The Price of Everything / 7 pm Part Two / 9 pm Canada’s Top Ten: The Fireflies Are Gone / 9 pm February 2019 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
1 2 3 Jean-Pierre Melville: Canada’s Top Ten: Cabin Fever: The Goonies / 3 pm Army of Shadows / 7 pm Mouthpiece / 3 pm & 7 pm The Great Buster / 5 pm Canada’s Top Ten: The Fireflies Are Gone / 5 pm & 9 pm Jean-Pierre Melville: Mouthpiece / 9:30 pm Army of Shadows / 7 pm
5 6 7 8 9 10 Wanda / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Comedy Fest: Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda / 7 pm The Saturday Morning All- Cabin Fever: Mouthpiece / 7 pm Winnipeg’s Golden Boys of Comedy Fest: You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Mary and the Witch’s Flower / The Fireflies Are Gone / 9 pm The Golden Age / 7 pm Dancey-Dancey Doggies Party / 10 am 1 pm Commercials, Kubasa, Meet Chilly Winnipeg / 9 pm Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda / 3 pm Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda / 3 pm Birds, Bees and Dating In Winnipeg / 9 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Wildlife / 5 pm Mouthpiece / 5 pm & 9 pm El Toro / 7 pm El Toro / 7 pm
12 13 14 15 16 17 Wanda / 7 pm jean-Pierre Melville: Wildlife / 7 pm Wildlife / 7 pm El Toro / 3 pm Cabin Fever: Le cercle rouge / 7 pm El Toro / 9 pm Beyond Climate / 9 pm Beyond Climate / 5 pm Experimental Films for Kids! / 3 pm El Toro / 9 pm Black Lodge: Cream of the Crap: Beyond Climate / 5 pm Crappy Valentine’s Day / 7 pm Wildlife / 7 pm Wildlife / 7 pm jean-Pierre Melville: Le cercle rouge / 9 pm
19 20 21 22 23 24 Wanda / 7 pm McDonald at the Movies: Afro Prairie Film Festival / Afro Prairie Film Festival / Afro Prairie Film Festival / Cabin Fever: Ghostbusters / 7 pm Showtimes TBA Showtimes TBA Showtimes TBA Ruby Bridges / 1 pm Wildlife / 9 pm Afro Prairie Film Festival / Showtimes TBA
26 27 28 Wanda / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: What Walaa Wants / What Walaa Wants / 7 pm & 9 pm 7 pm & 9 pm Canadian & International Features
Roma Restoration Tuesdays: Directed by Alfonso Cuarón Wanda (Restoration) 2018, Mexico, 135 min Directed by Barbara Loden Spanish & Mixteco with English subtitles 1970, USA, 102 min
Wednesday, January 2 / 7 pm Tuesday, February 5 / 7 pm Thursday & Friday, January 3 & 4 / 7 pm & 9:30 pm Tuesday, February 12 / 7 pm Saturday, January 5 / 3 pm & 7 pm Tuesday, February 19 / 7 pm The Last Movie Sunday, January 6 / 7 pm Tuesday, February 26 / 7 pm Wednesday, January 9 / 7 pm “Now widely acknowledged as a masterpiece of independent Thursday & Friday, January 10 & 11 / 9 pm cinema, and also as a cornerstone of women’s filmmaking—a Saturday, January 12 / 2:30 pm burst of creative autonomy from a time when female directors Oscar buzz is strong for Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón were few and far between.” — Criterion Collection (Y Tu Mamá También, Gravity) who returns with his best film so With her first and only feature film—a hard-luck drama she far: a thrilling, engrossing and moving picture with a richly wrote, directed, and starred in—Barbara Loden turned in a personal story to tell. Beautifully and dynamically shot in black groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing and white, and in his native language. Roma tells the story of to life a kind of character seldom seen on-screen. Set amid a soot- Cleo, a young woman of Mixteco heritage working as a live-in choked Pennsylvania landscape, and shot in an intensely intimate maid for a beleaguered upper-middle class family in Mexico vérité style, the film takes up with distant and soft-spoken Wanda City. With brilliant cinematography and a spectacular sound (Loden), who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, Wanda design, Cuarón has created a deeply personal memoir about and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and his childhood and the women who raised him. motels, and callously mistreated by a series of men—including a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme. Wanda Restoration Tuesdays: is a compassionate and wrenching portrait of a woman stranded The Last Movie (Restoration) on society’s margins. Directed by Dennis Hopper 1971, USA, 108 min Wildlife Directed by Paul Dano Tuesday, January 8 / 7 pm 2018, USA, 105 min Tuesday, January 15 / 7 pm Tuesday, January 22 / 7 pm Sunday, February 10 / 5 pm Tuesday, January 29 / 7 pm Thursday – Sunday, February 14 – 17 / 7 pm Wildlife Opening night Skype conversation with special guests from Arbelos Films. Wednesday, February 20 / 9 pm An inspired experiment, The Last Movie was considered by the late “Tender, gorgeous and exquisitely understated.” Dennis Hopper to be his lost masterwork. Given carte blanche by — David Ehrlich, IndieWIRE Universal after the tremendous commercial success of Easy Rider, In the impressive directorial debut from actor Paul Dano (There Hopper took the money and ran — literally — staging his next Will Be Blood, Love and Mercy), a carefully wrought adaptation directorial adventure at the farthest remove from the Hollywood of Richard Ford’s 1990 novel, a family comes apart one loosely beast. Featuring Kris Kristofferson, Peter Fonda, Michelle Phillips stitched seam at a time. We are in the lonely expanses of the and director Samuel Fuller, Hopper made his way to Cuzco, Peru, American west in the mid-60s. An affable man (Jake Gyllenhaal), to begin work on what would become a deeply personal, deeply down on his luck, runs off to fight the wildfires raging in the scarring journey. mountains. His wife (Carey Mulligan) strikes out blindly in search of security and finds herself running amok. It is left to their Restoration Tuesdays: young adolescent son Joe (Ed Oxenbould) to hold the center. Dial Code Santa Claus (Restoration) Co-written by Zoe Kazan, Wildlife is made with sensitivity and Directed by René Manzor at a level of craft that is increasingly rare in movies. McDonald 1989, France, 87 min at the Movies Tuesday, January 8 / 9 pm Tuesday, January 15 / 9 pm Tuesday, January 22 / 9 pm Once a month, comedian and co-founder of Tuesday, January 29 / 9 pm Kids in the Hall, Kevin McDonald will present a film handpicked from the archives of Thomas is a typical 1980s kid: he loves Rambo, computers, role- comic history. playing games and his dog. While mom’s away at the office on Introduced by Kevin McDonald. Xmas Eve, Thomas and his grandfather are left home alone — perfect timing for a disgruntled, perverted, bloodthirsty Santa Claus to come down the chimney and raid the home. But Hell Ghostbusters hath no fury like a mulleted ten-year-old with an arsenal of Directed by Ivan Reitman toys! Previously only available via VHS bootlegs, the film was 1984, USA, 105 min
a huge audience smash at Fantastic Fest 2018. Dial Code Santa Claus Wednesday, February 20 / 7 pm After the members of a team of scientists (Harold Ramis, Dan Restoration Tuesdays / More and more there is essential work being done across the world on the front lines in the battle against losing Aykroyd, Bill Murray) lose their cushy positions at a university the history of film to the annals of time, ignorance, and neglect. Efforts to find and restore classic and important obscure and forgotten film works in New York City, they decide to become “ghostbusters” to by such trailblazing organizations as the UCLA Film and Television Archive, Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation, American Genre Film Archive, wage a high-tech battle with the supernatural for money. Milestone Film and Video and Janus Films has resulted in some of the most exciting cinema releases in recent years. We are endeavouring to find They stumble upon a gateway to another dimension, a and present some of the best examples of these new restorations, and have expanded our program calendar to now include Tuesdays in a new series doorway that will release evil upon the city. The Ghostbusters called Restoration Tuesdays. All admission to these screenings is $5. must now save New York from complete destruction. New World Documentaries
The Great Buster El Toro Directed by Peter Bogdanovich Directed by Danielle Sturk 2018, USA, 102 min 2018, Canada, 43 min
Saturday, January 19 / 3 pm & 7 pm Saturday & Sunday, February 9 & 10 / 7 pm Sunday, January 20 / 5 pm Wednesday & Thursday, February 13 & 14 / 9 pm Wednesday, January 23 / 7 pm Saturday, February 16 / 3 pm The Great Buster Friday, January 25 / 7 pm Introduction by director Danielle Sturk on February 9th, 10th, 13th & 14th. Sunday, February 3 / 5 pm Following two sold out screenings at the Gimme Some Truth Wednesday, January 23rd screening introduced by Kevin McDonald. Documentary Festival, El Toro returns for five screenings. Former critic and director of The Last Picture Show and Paper Moon, Working with some outstanding Winnipeg artists including Peter Bogdanovich has just completed a “beautiful cinematic Freya Olafson, Brian Rougeau, Diana Thorneycroft, Peter Graham, love letter to the greatest of all silent-era comedians, Buster Rhayne Vermette, Gabriel Levesque, Stephanein Boulet, and Keaton. Through well-curated film clips from Keaton’s seemingly Dany Joyal: Daneille Sturk has crafted a wonderful documentary bottomless résumé of shorts and features from every stage of history of a family-run St. Boniface truck stop diner called El Toro his career, we get a front row seat to the miraculous bits and located between Canada Packers and the Union Stockyards in death-defying gags from such classic films as Steamboat Bill, Jr., the 1960s and 70s. The film El Toro rebuilds the walls, stools, The General, Sherlock Jr., and Seven Chances. Bogdanovich wrangles and atmosphere of the restaurant, recreating a surreal, rich, and an eclectic mix of talking heads to testify to Keaton’s unique imaginative world, evoking a lost time and place through the lens
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda genius including Mel Brooks, Richard Lewis, Bill Hader, Dick Van of memory, nostalgia and love. Dyke, and Werner Herzog.” — Entertainment Weekly Plays with: The Price of Daily Bread / Directed by John Paskievich & Mike Mirus, 1985, Canada, 16 min / Anthony Nahuliak, Remembering Siberia his wife and daughter, must sell their farm equipment, house, and land Directed by Dzintra Geka to pay the bank. 2015, Russia, 60 min
Sunday, January 27 / 12:30 pm Introduced by director Dzintra Geka with a panel to follow with Daniel Raiskin (WSO Music Director), Dzintra Geka, and distinguished Guest Composer Pēteris Vasks. An emotional, figurative and historical study of the memories El Toro of people deported to Siberia as children on June 14, 1941. The film represents the sufferings of these victims in contrast to the beautiful landscapes of Siberia. On June 14, 2009, a film crew, a number of those who survived, along with their own children, went on a pilgrimage to Siberia to install memorial plaques in memory of all those deported between 1941 and 1949. In conjunction with the WSO’s New Music Festival. Architecture+Film Architecture+Film, an ongoing series which focuses on architecture and design, is co-presented by Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, a charitable organization Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda Beyond Climate dedicated to advancing the awareness and appreciation of Directed by Stephen Nomura Schible Beyond Climate Winnipeg’s built environment through public education. 2017, USA / Japan, 100 min 2018, Canada, 48 min Directed by Ian Mauro The Price of Everything Friday, February 8 / 7 pm Saturday & Sunday, February 9 & 10 / 3 pm Directed by Nathaniel Kahn Friday, February 15 / 9 pm 2018, USA, 98 min “One of the great documentaries about the creative process.” Saturday & Sunday, February 16 & 17 / 5 pm — The Telegraph Thursday, January 31 / 7 pm All screenings introduced by director Ian Mauro. One of the most important artists of our era composer Ryuichi Back by popular demand. A sold out crowd greeted the recent Introduced by Amy Karlinsky: a curator, critic sessional lecturer Sakamoto has had a prolific music career spanning over Manitoba premiere at the Gimme Some Truth Documentary in art history and teacher of reading in Winnipeg. four decades He has composed the scores for Merry Christmas Festival. Narrated by David Suzuki, Beyond Climate explores the Mr. Lawrence, The Last Emperor and The Sheltering Sky and more Basquiat paintings regularly fetch tens of millions of dollars, human and environmental impacts of climate change in British recently The Revenant. From techno pop to Oscar winning film and the recent sale of a little-known Da Vinci topped $450 Columbia, and it is a timely contribution to the province and composer, the evolution of his music has coincided with his life million—but what forces are driving the white-hot art country as we grapple with climate change, the paramount journeys. market? Who assigns and who pays these astronomical sums? issue of our time. What currency adequately measures art’s value? The Price of Co-presented by Groundswell Everything leads us into a rarefied labyrinth of galleries, studios, Plays with: Climate Conversation / 2018, Canada, 20 min / and auction houses to wrestle with these questions. With At the premiere of Beyond Climate, Drs. David Suzuki (narrator) and unprecedented access to in-demand artists like Jeff Koons, Ian Mauro (director) sit down for a conversation about the film and Gerhard Richter, and Njideka Akunyili Crosby, and to prominent future of the planet. collectors and dealers, My Architect director Nathaniel Kahn coaxes out the dynamics at play in pricing the priceless. Le doulos Army of Shadows (L’armee des ombres) JEAN-PIERRE Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville 1963, France, 108 min 1969, France, 145 min MELVILLE French with English subtitles French with English subtitles Friday, January 18 / 7 pm Friday, February 1 / 7 pm RETROSPECTIVE Saturday, January 26 / 3 pm Sunday, February 3 / 7 pm A stone-faced Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as enigmatic gangster This masterpiece went unreleased in the United States for Le samouraï Silien, who may or may not be responsible for squealing on thirty-seven years. Philippe (Lino Ventura), aided by his Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville Faugel (Serge Reggiani), just released from the slammer and Resistance compatriots, including maitresse of disguise Mathilde 1967, France, 101 min already involved in what should have been a simple heist. By the (Simone Signoret), goes underground in the face of the German French with English subtitles end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will Occupation — but the price of heroism can be truly horrific. be left to trust? Thursday, January 10 / 7 pm Sunday, January 20 / 7 pm Le cercle rouge Bob le flambeur Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville 1970, France, 130 min killer with samurai instincts. A razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s 1956, France, 104 min French with English subtitles American gangster cinema and 1960s French pop culture — French with English subtitles with a liberal dose of Japanese lone-warrior mythology. Wednesday February 13 / 7 pm Thursday, January 24 / 7 pm Saturday, February 16 / 9 pm Léon Morin, Priest (Léon morin, prêtre) Sunday, January 27 / 5 pm Alain Delon plays a master thief, fresh out of prison, who crosses Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville As the neon is extinguished for another dawn, an aging gambler paths with a notorious escapee (Gian Maria Volonté) and an 1961, France, 128 min navigates the treacherous world of pimps, moneymen, and naive alcoholic ex-cop (Yves Montand). The unlikely trio plot a heist French with English subtitles associates while plotting one last score—the heist of the Deauville against impossible odds until a relentless inspector and their casino. This underworld comedy of manners possesses all the own pasts seal their fates. Saturday, January 12 / 5 pm formal beauty, finesse, and treacherous allure of green baize. Wednesday, January 16 / 7 pm Plays with 24 heures de la vie d’un clown / Directed by French superstar Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a devoted man the Jean-pierre melville retrospective is presented In Jean-Pierre Melville, 1946, France, 18 min, French with English of the cloth who is desired by all the women of a small village partnership with the Alliance Française du Manitoba, subtitles / Jean-Pierre Melville’s first film, a documentary of the day in Nazi-occupied France. He finds himself most drawn to Institut Français, Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the life of Beby the clown. a sexually frustrated widow (Emmanuelle Riva), a religious in Canada, and the Jean-Pierre Melville Foundation. skeptic whose relationship with her confessor turns into a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire. WINNIPEG DREAMERS: THE ANNUAL WFG MEMBERS’ SCREENING
All Admissions: $6 The Winnipeg Film Group’s membership has generated a wealth of cinematic treats during the past year and we are proud to present these two feature-length programs of independent short films. One program will feature primarily narrative work and the other, non-narrative (experimental/documentary). As always with our filmmakers, do not expect the expected — there is plenty of hybrid work in these two programs — some traditional and many others mind-blowingly and decidedly untraditional. All of these films represent the dreams and imaginations of Canada’s premiere breeding ground for original and fiercely independent work. with the Laundry Room Theatre Crappy Valentine’s Day Part One
Friday, January 11 / 7 pm Saturday, February 16 / 7 pm Wednesday, January 30 / 7 pm Black Lodge Studio (Suite 304, Artspace Building) Black Lodge Studio (Suite 304, Artspace Building) Featuring: Bebe Blue (Kayla Jeanson), Broken Dolls (Doug Admission by donation Admission by donation Livingston), Deeper Shades of Blue (Julie Epp), Undone (Erin Buelow), In Secret Cinema, our all-celluloid film series, films from Preceded by a VHS swap meet at 6 pm! Chain Mail (Vincent Tang), The Birdwatcher (Ryan Steel), Platypus our own archive of 16mm film prints are selected by guest (Trevor Kristjanson), Hot Hot Hott (Alex Ateah), Olympia (Eric Our special team of cultural archaeologists has sifted curators. The film titles are kept secret until the night of Peterson). through dying video stores, thrift shops and garage sales the screening. This month Secret Cinema will be curated to dig up an especially terrible romantic home video and introduced by the Laundry Room Theatre, a pop-up Part Two atrocity. In the vein of Secret Cinema, our film selection movie theatre curated by filmmakers Ryan Steel and will be secret until the night of the screening, and will Allegra Chiarella. Wednesday, January 30 / 9 pm feature drinking games, trivia and live commentary from Generously sponsored by William F. White & IATSE 856. our team of tapehead VHexperts and special guests. Featuring: Konstruktion Aria (Jim Pomeroy), Red River Roots (Rachel Beaulieu), Velocity (Kent Tate), On the Bus (Ryan Steel), RSVP for a swap meet table by emailing Laminar Part 1 (Alyssa Bornn), Ccconvolve (Scott Fitzpatrick), Love [email protected] Starved: More Than Fat (Allison Stevens), Star Machine (Alyssa Bornn), My Boy (Sage). Genesis (Genèse) The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles) Directed by Philippe Lesage Directed by Sébastien Pilote 2018, Canada, 129 min 2018, Canada, 96 min
Saturday, January 12 / 9 pm Saturday & Sunday, January 26 & 27 / 7 pm Sunday, January 13 / 7 pm Thursday, January 31 / 9 pm Saturday, February 2 / 5 pm & 9 pm Philippe Lesage (Les Démons) returns with a vengeance with Wednesday, February 6 / 9 pm this bold, coming-of-age tale about half-siblings Guillaume (Never Steady, Never Still’s Théodore Pellerin) and Charlotte (Noée From Sébastien Pilote, acclaimed Quebec director of The Abita) and their respective life-altering experiences. While Salesman and The Auction, this lovely, poignant gem of a film Guillaume takes his first liberating steps towards sexual follows the life Leo, a troubled young teenage girl who lives actualization, Charlotte’s bids at hedonism result in wounding with her mother and father in a small Quebec town. Unsure life lessons. They learn the consequences of being steadfast of her direction in life she meets an older metalhead guitarist Canada‘s Top Ten Film Festival™ returns for in their resolve, vaulting us into a beautifully realized coda set named Steve in a roadside diner. He teaches her guitar as they the 18th year with a diverse and compelling in a summer camp that depicts a budding innocent romance develop a quiet unspoken friendship. line up of features and shorts. In January and between young Félix and Béatrice. February, we will present the first part of this Mouthpiece program. It will be continued later in March Roads in February (Les routes en février) Directed by Patricia Rozema to June. Directed by Katherine Jerkovic 2018, Canada, 91 min GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY 2018, Canada / Uruguay, 82 min French and Spanish with English subtitles Friday, February 1 / 9:30 pm Saturday, February 2 / 3 pm & 7 pm Thursday, January 17 / 9 pm Wednesday, February 6 / 7 pm Saturday, January 19 / 9 pm Thursday, February 9 / 5 pm & 9 pm Anthropocene: The Human Epoch In Katherine Jerkovic’s enthralling debut feature, a young Patricia Rozema (I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing) adapts Directed by Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky & Nicholas woman struggles to rekindle her relationship with her the award-winning two-woman play by Amy Nostbakken de Pencier paternal grandmother and her home country while mourning and Norah Sadava, about an aspiring writer attempting to 2017, Canada, 87 min the death of her father. While still in mourning, Sarah travels reconcile her feminism with the conformist choices of her from Montreal to a sleepy village in rural Uruguay to visit her mother following her sudden death. A potent exploration Saturday, January 5 / 9:30 pm father’s mother, Magda. Over a decade ago, Sarah and her of how women across generations contend with their own Sunday, January 6 / 5 pm parents left Uruguay and never returned. Driven by childhood socialization. Rozema knots together the thematic threads of Friday, January 11 / 7 pm memories, she hopes to renew her relationship with Magda her past work — feminist consciousness, the struggle for self- Saturday, January 12 / 7:15 pm and with her home country. expression — into one of her most vibrant films to date. Sunday, January 13 / 5 pm Thursday, January 17 / 7 pm Edge of the Knife (SGaawaay K’uuna) What Walaa Wants Friday, January 18 / 9 pm Director Helen Haig-Brown & Gwaai Edenshaw Directed by Christy Garland Saturday, January 19 / 5 pm 2018, Canada, 100 min 2018, Canada / Denmark, 89 min Four years in the making, the stunning new feature documentary Arabic with English subtitles Anthropocene: The Human Epoch, is the latest film from the Thursday & Friday, January 24 & 25 / 9 pm award-winning team, Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier Saturday, January 26 / 5 pm & 9 pm Wednesday & Thursday, February 27 & 28 / 7 pm & 9 pm and Edward Burtynsky, who created Manufactured Landscapes Two extended families meet at their annual fishing camp one For eight years, young Walaa was raised in Balata Refugee (2006) and Watermark (2013). From concrete seawalls in China summer on the shores of Haida Gwaii, in Canada’s Pacific Camp while her mother was held in an Israeli jail. Now that that now cover 60% of the mainland coast; to the devastated Northwest. Charming Adiits’ii is close to the family of his best her mother has been released in a much-publicized prisoner Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the filmmakers traversed the friend Kwa and an ardent teacher to Kwa’s young son. The swap, Walaa can finally focus on her lifelong dream: joining globe using high end production values and state of the art boy looks up to him, but Kwa’s wife, Hlaaya, is concerned that the Palestinian Security Forces. What makes this dream camera techniques to document evidence and experience of Adiits’ii’s appetite for challenges may lead to reckless choices. difficult to attain is that few women make it into the forces. human planetary domination. Tragedy strikes when a storm hits the small encampment Will Walaa successfully tackle her demons and manage to and Adiits’ii becomes separated from the group. Presuming craft a meaningful career for herself? him dead, they return to their winter home without him. Adiits’ii creeps deep into the forest and begins his ominous transformation into a Gaagiid/Gaagiixiid — the legendary Haida Wildman.
The Canadian International Comedy Film Festival in association with the Winnipeg THE CANADIAN INTERNATIONAL Film Group presents two days of classic & recent WFG films at the Cinematheque. COMEDY FILM FESTIVAL Full program at www.cicff.ca Winnipeg’s Golden Boys of the Golden Age Commercials, Kubasa, Birds, Bees and Dating Dancey-Dancey Doggies Meet Chilly Winnipeg In Winnipeg Thursday, February 7 / 7 pm Friday, February 8 / 9 pm Thursday, February 7 / 9 pm Featuring: animated madness Primiti Too Taa by Ed Ackerman/ Featuring: Dog Stories, the legendary Shereen Jerrett short on Colin Morton; Noam Gonick’s General Strike bathhouse shenanigans Featuring: “The Talk”: True Stories About The Birds & The Bees dog owners and dogs. The First Winter, Ryan McKenna’s feature 1919; Guy Maddin’s “grey comedy” The Dead Father; John Paizs by Alain Delannoy; Alex Ateah’s ode to the Other Half Dating in which a young Portuguese man faces our inhospitable deep classic Springtime in Greenland; Lorne Bailey’s milk-can ode, The Service, mock ads in Commercials by Erica Eyres; Kubasa in a freeze. Milkman Cometh. Glass, a pastiche of cheesy Winnipeg 80s TV programming, rescued from the trash by the Atelier National du Manitoba, Matthew Rankin and Walter Forsberg. What started as a dream in 2005 has blossomed into a rite of passage for parents and their kids. They can shake the snow off their boots and spend an afternoon at the movies every Sunday all through January and February thanks to the generous support of the Assiniboine Credit Union. Due to the popularity of this series it is our desire that parents and their kids be seated before all others. Thanks for your understanding. There will be will be free stop motion animation workshops offered by Art City one hour prior to select screenings. Check our website for details. We acknowledge the continued and generous support of the Assiniboine Credit Union.
Free Films for Kids!
Coco 3D The Last Starfighter Experimental Films for Kids! Directed by Lee Unkrich & Adrian Molina Directed by Nick Castle 2017, USA, 105 min 1984, USA, 101 min Sunday, February 17 / 3 pm Join us for a short film program filled with lots of fun and a Sunday, January 6 / 3 pm Sunday, January 27 / 3 pm dynamic group of experimental films. From hand made films to This beautiful Pixar 3D animated classic tells the story of a 12-year- Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after documentaries to animations… you will see lots of cats! Learn a old Mexican boy, Miguel Rivera, who has dreams of becoming a conquering a video game, discovering that it was just a test to lot of good life lessons! Laugh! And have FUN! Local filmmaker musician and discovers his secret family history when searching for recruit him to a team of starfighters defending their world from favourites Darryl Nepinak, Leslie Supnet, Winona Bearshield and his legendary great-great grandfather in his travels to the Land of the attack. Ed Ackerman feature amongst an incredible roster of experimental the Dead. films from all around! And as an extra added bonus, we will see the The Goonies world premiere of ART CITY’S brand new handcrafted 16mm film! Directed by Richard Donner The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales… Presented in partnership with 1985, USA, 114 min Directed by Patrick Imbert & Benjamin Renner WNDX Festival of Moving Image. 2017, France, 83 min Sunday, February 3 / 3 pm Sunday, January 13 / 3 pm In order to save their town from developers, a group of rowdy kids set out to find a pirate’s ancient valuable treasure. The countryside isn’t always as calm and peaceful as it’s made Ruby Bridges out to be, and the animals on this farm are particularly agitated: Plays with The Real Journey to Churchill / Directed by Directed by Euzhan Palcy a fox who mothers a family of chicks, a rabbit who plays the Ivan Hughes, 2018, Canada, 11 min / When their parents take the 1998, USA, 96 min stork, and a duck who wants to be Santa Claus. With a pacing train up to Churchill to see the polar bears and explore the town, vloggers and visual spontaneity that harkens back to classic Looney Toby and Thea Hughes get in front of the camera to show us what it Sunday, February 24 / 1 pm Tunes shorts. was really like. The real-life tale of young Ruby Bridges, one of the first African- Plays with The Importance of Dreaming / Directed by Tara American children to attend an integrated school in the Deep Audibert, 2017, Canada, 12 min / When a lonely owl meets a Mary and the Witch’s Flower South. At only age 6, Ruby is selected to attend an all-white school beautiful fox, his dreams take flight. Directed by Hiromasa Yonebayashi in New Orleans, causing uproar in the racially divided region. 2017, Japan, 103 min Presented in partnership with Buster Keaton’s Classic Shorts the Afro Prairie Film Festival. Sunday, February 10 / 1 pm Sunday, January 20 / 3 pm A dazzling new adventure from Studio Ghibli about a young girl named Mary, who discovers a flower that grants magical Buster Keaton has emerged as one of the era’s most admired powers, but only for one night. Based on Mary Stewart’s 1971 and respected artists. Behind the deadpan expression and classic children’s book The Little Broomstick, Mary and the Witch’s trademark porkpie hat was a filmmaking comic genius who Flower is an action-packed film full of jaw-dropping imaginative conceived and engineered some of the most breathtaking worlds, ingenious characters, and the simple, heartfelt story of a stunts and feats of visual trickery. This program features his young girl trying to find a place in the world. films One Week, Cops, and The Boat. Plays with: Ropa da Salsa / Directed by Papa Mbao, 2016, Canada, 2:18 min / Animator Papa Mbao shows the celebration of couple on a night out in the town using actual clothing, hand drawn and stop motion animation, and photos.
THE SATURDAY MORNING ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT CEREAL CARTOON PARTY!
Saturday, February 9 / 10 am – 1 pm Admission: $15 General / $12 Students, Seniors and Members It’s that special time when kids and kids-at-heart get to relive the exciting Saturday morning ritual of non-stop retro cartoons, and binge on the multi-colored sugary cereals that used to be a part of every “balanced” breakfast! The cartoon lineup is always a mystery, but you’ll see both Holiday faves and obscurities spanning the 40s through the 80s, all punctuated with vintage commercials and PSAs! Curated by film programmer, writer and pop culture connoisseur Kier-La Janisse! Feel free to roll right out of bed and come on down to the theatre in your pajamas (but brush your teeth first please)! January/February Staff Picks
This year The Canada International Comedy Film Festival For the first time in years, we are offering programming Anthropocene. David and I love discovering newly restored is highlighting gems from the Winnipeg cinematic tradition. on Tuesday evenings. I am very excited to have a hand in film classics so we are now re-opening on Tuesday nights Every film is a doozy but some of my personal highlights programming some of the best new film restorations available with Dennis Hopper’s legendary lost film The Last Movie are: Kubasa in a Glass (which is the funniest theatre going in our new ongoing series: Restoration Tuesdays. Right off and Barbara Loden’s pioneering Wanda with more to come. experience I have ever had), The First Winter (which is in the bat, we have Dennis Hopper’s long-lost The Last Movie; And all seats are $5! — Dave Barber, Senior Cinematheque my opinion the most criminally underrated feature film ever the bloody French proto-Home Alone Dial Code Santa Claus; Programmer made), and the unforgettable documentary Dog Stories and the feminist classic Wanda, now finally getting its due. In (which is both poignant and hilarious). I always enjoy the keeping with the restoration trend, we are partnering with This is one of the most exciting Cinematheque programs I’ve discoveries I make during the Canada’s Top Ten Film Alliance Française du Manitoba on an extensive retrospective seen in ages. I want to see everything, but if I had to pick a Festival but as a fan of Edward Burtynsky’s photography of Jean-Pierre Melville’s finest films to celebrate his centenary. mere handful, you absolutely cannot miss the Jean-Pierre I’m anticipating Anthropocene: The Human Epoch. Two films making their Oscar pushes open this winter: Alfonso Melville Retrospective (easily one of the most important — Ryan Steel, Cinematheque Box Office Cuaron’s familial epic Roma and actor Paul Dano’s directorial French directors of all time), Sébastien Pilote’s The Fireflies debut Wildlife, and both promise to be beautiful experiences. are Gone (easily one of the most important Quebec directors I am thrilled to see The Great Buster, a documentary directed Lastly, closing out February is the second annual Afro Prairie of all time), El Toro, Danielle Sturk’s wonderful documentary by Peter Bogdanovich, on our marquee. Comedy and stunt Film Festival – the only festival in the prairies to highlight the (and huge sellout hit at the 2018 Gimme Some Truth festival) legend Buster Keaton made an eternal imprint on comedy and work of Black filmmakers and Black narratives in film. The full and the exciting, laugh-filled WFG retrospective programming filmmaking. If you see a stunt in a movie, you can probably program and schedule will be announced soon. — David Knipe, during the Canadian International Comedy Film Festival. thank Mr. Keaton. The laughs will continue with the Winnipeg Cinematheque Operations Manager — Greg Klymkiw, Executive Director Film Group’s presentation of The Canadian International Comedy Film Festival. Get ready to hold your sides and slap An embarrassment of film riches this winter at the Cinematheque: If your little ones are feeling antsy being too cooped up this your knees as we show some of the wittiest, goofiest, and don’t miss our exclusive run of Alfonso Caurón’s (Gravity, Y Tu winter, dust them off and cart them down to Cinematheque for downright weirdest short funny films the industry has to offer. Mamá También) Roma - a beautiful story about his childhood our annual Cabin Fever: Free Films for Kids series! This year — Jessica Seburn, Cinematheque Box Office in Mexico City with stunning use of ambient sound and we have a terrific line-up including one of my favourite kids cinematography. The WFG Premieres and International films of recent years, Coco, a gorgeous and fantastical story of a I was excited to see that we were showing Roma in January. Comedy Fest reveal why Winnipeg independent filmmaking young Mexican musician who searches for his legendary great- I am a big fan of Cuarón’s work and can’t wait to see his new is the best in the world. Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival great grandfather in the Land of the Dead; and “Hey you guys!” film in a theatre. It seems like it will be a film with a new angle brings us many films which wouldn’t play if it weren’t for the we’re showing one of my all time ‘80s faves – The Goonies! I’d and perspective on life. In addition, The Fireflies Are Gone (La Cinematheque - my three favourites are Sebastian Pilote’s also highly recommend WNDX’s Experimental Films for Kids disparition des lucioles) is a coming of age story that reminds lovely gem about a young rebellious girl growing up in Quebec featuring some charming kid-friendly head-trips, including the me of the movies growing up that sparked my interest in film The Fireflies are Gone; Patricia Rozema’s Mouthpiece, about world premiere of a handcrafted 16mm film made by the kids and I cannot wait to see this Canadian film succeed. a woman making the arrangements for her mother’s funeral; at Art City! — Jaimz Asmundson, Cinematheque Programming — Thomas Hanan, Cinematheque Box Office and the visually stunning climate change documentary Director We acknowledge that Cinematheque isonTreaty One landand on thehomelandof Métis. 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Clockwise from top left: Jaimz Asmundson, Dave Barber, Greg Klymkiw, Jessica Seburn, David Knipe, Thomas Hanan, Sam Sarty, Ryan Steel, Omid Moterassed, and Eric Peterson. Photo by Mahlet Cuff.