The UBC Dept. of Psychiatry and Pacific Cinémathèque present "Requiem for a Dream" NOV 21ST 7:30 PM at Pacific Cinémathèque 1131 Howe Street, Vancouver

TICKETS "Requiem for a Dream" $6.50 regular / USA, 2000. Director: Darren Aronofsky $5.00 students & seniors Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Jennifer Connelly, Marlon Wayans Tickets available The follow-up to his darkly brilliant debut “PI”, director Darren Aronofsky’s second at the door only. feature is a jaw-droppingly cinematic deconstruction of addiction. Adapted from Hubert Selby’s 1968 novel, this is a visceral and unflinching dissection of addiction. Pacific Cinémathèque annual Parallel stories are linked by the relationship between the lonely, widowed Sara Goldfarb membership ($6.00 per year) (Burstyn) and her aimless son Harry (Leto), a heroin addict. Galvanized by the prospect is required for this event. of appearing on a TV game show, Sara has started on a dangerous slimming regimen of diet pills and uppers prescribed by an unscrupulous doctor. Meanwhile, Harry and his new girlfriend Marion (Connelly) fantasize about opening a small business together CALL and spending the rest of their lives in love. Harry’s cohort, an intelligent hustler named Tyrone (Wayans), convinces the couple that freedom lies in the easy money that can be For Information gained by dealing drugs, an enterprise that only leads them further down the road to their inevitable ruin. Aronofsky’s frenetic (the film contains more than 2000 cuts) and Call (604) 822-7610 disturbing style is the perfect setting for this story of four people whose intertwined Or visit lives are full of eternally hopeful despair. www.psychiatry.ubc.ca/profdevelop/film/ Colour, 35mm, 102 mins. The program will include: STAY TUNED A post-screening discussion with: The UBC Dept. of Psychiatry and Mr. Dean Wilson of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), a non-profit organization whose membership works to improve the lives of people who use illicit Pacific Cinémathèque’s “Frames drugs through harm-reduction, education and peer support. Mr. Wilson will provide an of Mind” film series is held the overview of VANDU’s mission and activities, including the organization’s Alley Patrol third Thursday evening of and Street Program in the downtown eastside. each month at the Pacific Evening moderated by: Cinémathèque. Dr. Harry Karlinsky Director of Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia. Our next films are: December 19, 2002 at 7:30 pm This evening is co-sponsored by “West 47th Street” the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU) Directors: Bill Lichtenstein & June Peoples Co-sponsor: Coast Foundation Society

January 16, 2003 at 7:30 pm Physician Education Study Credits: “Complaints of a Eligible for 1.0 hour MAINPRO-M1 credit and 1.0 hour Section 1 of Royal College’s Dutiful Daughter” Maintenance of Certification program. Director: Deborah Hoffmann Learning Objectives: Co-sponsor: To promote professional and community education of issues pertaining to mental health and Alzheimer Society of B.C. illness, and in doing so acquaint audiences with award-winning, thought-provoking cinema.