March / April 2019
Restoration Tuesdays
Canadian & International Features LEVEL 16 special Events 5TH ANNUAL ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
www.winnipegcinematheque.com March 2019 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
1 2 3 Black Lodge: Secret Cinema Anthropocene: Anthropocene: with Damien Ferland / 7 pm The Human Epoch / The Human Epoch / 5 pm Anthropocene: 3 pm & 7:15 pm Bodied / 7 pm The Human Epoch / 7 pm Bodied / 5 pm & 9 pm Bodied / 9 pm
5 6 7 8 9 10 Restoration Tuesdays: McDonald at the Movies: French Film Festival: French Film Festival: Anthropocene: French Film Festival: The Hitch-Hiker / 7 pm Some Like It Hot / 7 pm Amanda / 7 pm (Being) Women in Canada / 7 pm The Human Epoch / 3 pm Mr. Klein / 2:30 pm Detour / 8:30 pm Bodied / 9:30 pm Sink or Swim / 9 pm In Safe Hands / 9 pm French Film Festival: 16 levers de soleil / 5 pm A Summer’s Tale / 5 pm Le samouraï / 7 pm Non-Fiction / 7 pm Keep an Eye Out / 9 pm
12 13 14 15 16 17 Restoration Tuesdays: Under a Cold War Sky / 7 pm WNDX: Shakedown / 7 pm am-fm: am-fm: am-fm: Detour / 7 pm Anthropocene: Benjamin Bartlett / 7 pm Panel: Gender Roles Algéria, De Gaulle and The Hitch-Hiker / 9 pm The Human Epoch / 9 pm I Still Hide to Smoke / 9 pm in Film / 1 pm the bomb / 2 pm Malaria Business / 3 pm To the Ghost of the Father / 4 pm N.G.O. (Nothing Going On) / 5 pm Keteke / 6 pm Zizou / 7:15 pm A Day for Women / 9:30 pm
19 20 21 22 23 24 Restoration Tuesdays: Best of Gimli: Best of Gimli: Decasia / 7 pm Decasia / 3 pm Falls Around Her / 3 pm & 7 pm The Hitch-Hiker / 7 pm Under The Tree / 7 pm Minding The Gap / 7 pm Best of Gimli: Best of Gimli: Best of Gimli: Detour / 8:30 pm Best of Gimli: Falls Around Her / 9 pm Minding The Gap / 9 pm Under The Tree / 5 pm & 9 pm Minding The Gap / 5 pm Minding The Gap / 9 pm Falls Around Her / 7 pm
26 27 28 29 30 31 Restoration Tuesdays: FACE | TIME: The Animated Level 16 / 7 pm & 9 pm Level 16 / 7 pm Level 16 / 3 pm & 9 pm Border / 3 pm Detour / 7 pm Works of Anita Lebeau / 7 pm Border / 9 pm Border / 5 pm & 7 pm Level 16 / 5 pm & 7 pm The Hitch-Hiker / 8:30 pm Border / 9 pm April 2019 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY
2 3 4 5 6 7 Restoration Tuesdays: Level 16 / 7 pm Border / 7 pm Level 16 / 7 pm The Woman Who Loves The Woman Who Loves Rocco and His Brothers / 7 pm Border / 9 pm Level 16 / 9 pm Border / 9 pm Giraffes / 3 pm & 5 pm Giraffes / 3 pm Border / 7 pm Border / 5 pm & 7 pm Level 16 / 9 pm
9 10 11 12 13 14 Restoration Tuesdays: McDonald at the Movies: Iranian Cinema: Black Lodge: The House That Jack The House That Jack Rocco and His Brothers / 7 pm Time Bandits / 7 pm Sheeple / 7 pm Secret Cinema with Built / 2 pm & 9 pm Built / 2 pm The House That Jack The House That Jack Stephanie Berrington / 7 pm The Woman Who Loves The Woman Who Loves Built / 9:30 pm Built / 9 pm The Woman Who Loves Giraffes / 5 pm & 7 pm Giraffes / 5 pm & 7 pm Giraffes / 7 pm The House That Jack Built / 9 pm
16 17 18 19 20 21 Restoration Tuesdays: National Canadian Film Day: The Woman Who Loves Burning / 7 pm The Woman Who Loves The Woman Who Loves Rocco and His Brothers / 7 pm Animating the Good and Giraffes / 7 pm Giraffes / 3 pm Giraffes / 3 pm & 5 pm the Bad / 7 pm The House That Jack Burning / 5 pm Burning / 7 pm Monday, April 15 Burning / 8:30 pm Built / 9 pm Cinematheque’s 4/20 The Last Supper: Cartoon Party! / 8 pm Special Screening & Master Class / 7 pm
23 24 25 26 27 28 Restoration Tuesdays: Burning / 7 pm Burning / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Burning / 2 pm & 9 pm Burning / 2 pm Rocco and His Brothers / 7 pm Giant Little Ones / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Burning / 9 pm Giant Little Ones / 5 pm & 7 pm Giant Little Ones / 5 pm & 7 pm
30 Restoration Tuesdays: Rocco and His Brothers / 7 pm Canadian & International Features
Falls Around Her Restoration Tuesdays: Directed by Darlene Naponse Rocco and His Brothers 2018, Canada, 98 min Directed by Luchino Visconti 1960, Italy, 177 min Thursday, March 21 / 9 pm Italian with English subtitles Saturday March 23 / 7 pm Sunday, March 24 / 3 pm & 7 pm Tuesday, April 2 / 7 pm Tuesday, April 9 / 7 pm March 21st screening introduced by Tina Keeper. Tuesday, April 16 / 7 pm Bodied Mary (played by legendary Cree and Métis actor Tantoo Cardinal Tuesday, April 23 / 7 pm Directed by Joseph Kahn in her first leading role), a world-famous Anishinaabe musician in Tuesday, April 30 / 7 pm 2017, USA, 120 min her sixties, has had enough. Fleeing the hectic pace of touring, her April 2nd screening features skype conversation with Amy Heller, abusive manager and even the love of her fans, she seeks refuge Friday, March 1 / 9 pm President of Milestone Films before the screening. on her reserve in Northern Ontario. Her sister Betty (Tina Keeper) Saturday, March 2 / 5 pm & 9 pm urges her to reconnect with family and old friends. Looking for opportunity, five brothers move north with their Sunday, March 3 / 7 pm mother to Milan. There, Simone and Rocco find fame, in the Wednesday, March 6 / 9:30 pm Plays with Dear Hatetts / Directed by Kerry Barber, 2017, boxing ring, and love, in the same woman—Nadia. Jealousy Canada, 6 min Produced by Eminem and directed by world-renowned music video mounts, blood is shed, and a striving family faces self-destruction director Joseph Kahn, this is a go-for-the-jugular, hilarious look in this incisive, sensuous, emotionally bruising masterwork from inside the competitive world of rap battles. Bodied is the satirical Border (Gräns) director Luchino Visconti. Painstakingly restored in 4K by the story of Adam Merkin, a progressive grad student who accidentally 2018, Sweden, 110 min Film Foundation and the Cineteca di Bologna, Rocco and His becomes a battle rapper whose success breeds outrage. Directed by Ali Abissi Brothers has never looked or sounded so pristine. Swedish with English subtitles Sponsored by Fourth Quarter Records. The House That Jack Built (Director’s Cut) Wednesday, March 27 / 9 pm Directed by Lars Von Trier Friday, March 29 / 9 pm 2018, USA, 155 min Saturday, March 30 / 5 pm & 7 pm Restoration Tuesdays: Sunday, March 31 / 3 pm The Hitch-Hiker Wednesday, April 10 / 9:30 pm Wednesday, April 3 / 9 pm Directed by Ida Lupino Thursday & Friday, April 11 & 12 / 9 pm Thursday, April 4 / 7 pm 1953, USA, 71 min Saturday, April 13 / 2 pm & 9 pm Friday, April 5 / 9 pm Sunday, April 14 / 2 pm Saturday, April 6 / 7 pm Tuesday, March 5 / 7 pm Friday, April 18 / 9 pm Sunday, April 7 / 5 pm & 7 pm Tuesday, March 12 / 9 pm The Cannes premiere of Lars von Trier’s masterful provocation Tuesday, March 19 / 7 pm Co-written by John Ajvide Lindqvist, author of Swedish vampire sparked both bilious outrage and begrudging admiration. In Tuesday, March 26 / 8:30 pm movie Let the Right One In, Border is the Cannes award winning story detailing the murderous exploits of unrepentant serial killer Jack of Tina an unusual looking female border guard with a strange Beyond its obvious cultural significance as the only classic film a.k.a. Mr. Sophistication in graphic detail, the Peter Pan of enfants talent for smelling human emotions. Tina’s world is upended when noir directed by a woman (actress Ida Lupino), The Hitch-Hiker terribles also engages in some perverse but poignant self-reflection she meets a mysterious, yet suspicious man with a smell that is perhaps better remembered as one of the most nightmarish (if not outright character suicide). As he marches us to a dizzying confounds her detection. Vore becomes the man of her dreams. But motion pictures of the 1950s. Inspired by the true-life murder spree climax featuring an astonishingly cinematic depiction of damnation, through her affections for Vore, Tina is forced to face certain moral of Billy Cook, the film tells the tension-laden saga of two men who he once again displays his uncanny talent for eliciting performances quandaries for humankind. Unique, unforgettable and cathartic, are held captive by a homicidal drifter and forced at gunpoint to completely dialed into his film’s disturbing frequencies. Border is an oddball, but poignant, cult classic in the making. embark on a grim joyride across the Mexican desert. Representing — Vancouver International Film Festival renegade filmmaking at its finest, the film was independently produced, which allowed Lupino to work from a treatment by Level 16 Special Screening and Master Class: blacklisted writer Daniel Mainwaring, and tackle an incident that Directed by Danishka Esterhazy The Last Supper was too brutal for the major studios to even consider. 2018, Canada, 102 min Directed by Cynthia Roberts 1995, Canada, 96 min Thursday, March 28 / 7 pm & 9 pm Restoration Tuesdays: Friday, March 29 / 7 pm Detour Monday, April 15 / 7 pm Saturday, March 30 / 3 pm & 9 pm Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer Sunday, March 31 / 5 pm & 7 pm WFG Executive Director Greg Klymkiw will introduce the film and 1945, USA, 69 min Wednesday, April 3 / 7 pm provide an in-depth script-to-screen case study master class following Thursday, April 4 / 9 pm the screening. Tuesday, March 5 / 8:30 pm Friday, April 5 / 7 pm Tuesday, March 12 / 7 pm A dancer (Ken McDougall) dying of AIDS choreographs the last Saturday, April 6 / 9 pm Tuesday, March 19 / 8:30 pm ninety minutes of his life before choosing to have euthanasia Tuesday, March 26 / 7 pm At the Vestalis Academy, sixteen-year-old Vivien and her fellow performed by a compassionate doctor (Daniel MacIvor) to end his students follow a regimented program under the watchful suffering. Director Cynthia Roberts and producer/co-screenwriter March 12 screening introduced by Guy Maddin with skype call to follow eye of stern headmistress Miss Brixil. Fearing an outside world Greg Klymkiw shot this harrowing drama at the Casey House with Ben Crossley-Marra from Janus Films. they have never seen, the teens work hard to be perfect young AIDS Hospice in Toronto. Veteran actor McDougall slipped into From the gutters of Poverty Row came a movie that, perhaps women, both in their cleanliness and domestic aptitude, in the a final coma and died four days after shooting was completed. more than any other, epitomizes the dark fatalism at the heart hopes of being adopted. But the school is not all as it seems. One of the most acclaimed Canadian films ever made. Winner of film noir. As he hitchhikes his way from New York to Los Reluctant at first to heed the warnings of former friend Sophia, Best Feature Film Teddy Award (Berlin Film Festival), Critics Week Angeles, a down-on-his-luck nightclub pianist finds himself Vivien begins to realize that sinister motives are at play. Level 16 Selection (Locarno International Film Festival), and invited to over with a dead body on his hands and nowhere to run—a waking is a compelling thriller that serves as a powerful metaphor for 200 international film festivals. nightmare that goes from bad to worse when he picks up the the unnatural standards society places on women. All seats for Screening and Master Class: $10.00 most vicious femme fatale in cinema history, Ann Savage’s snarling, monstrously conniving drifter Vera. Working with no-name stars on a bargain-basement budget, B-movie auteur Edgar G. Ulmer turned threadbare production values and seedy, low-rent atmosphere into indelible pulp poetry. McDonald Once a month, comedian and co-founder of Kids in the Hall, Kevin McDonald will present a film at the Movies handpicked from the archives of comic history. Introduced by Kevin McDonald.
Burning (Beoning) Directed by Chang-dong Lee 2018, South Korea, 149 min Korean with English subtitles
Wednesday, April 17 / 8:30 pm Friday, April 19 / 7 pm Some Like It Hot Time Bandits Directed by Billy Wilder Directed by Terry Gilliam Saturday, April 20 / 5 pm 1959, USA, 121 min 1981, UK, 116 min Sunday, April 21 / 7 pm Wednesday & Thursday, April 24 & 25 / 7 pm Wednesday, March 6 / 7 pm Wednesday, April 10 / 7 pm Friday, April 26 / 9 pm Saturday, April 27 / 2 pm & 9 pm Introduced by Kevin McDonald. “An extraordinarily inventive fantasy in which schoolboy Sunday, April 28 / 2 pm Warnock is rescued from a dull suburban existence by a “One of the enduring treasures of the movies, a film of band of renegade dwarfs, who emerge from his wardrobe Widely regarded as a critical masterpiece, Burning is the South inspiration and meticulous craft, a movie that’s about nothing and whisk him off on an incredible journey through time and Korean entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy but sex and yet pretends it’s about crime and greed. The plot is space. Guided by a ‘Time Hole Map of the Universe’, Warnock Awards. A psychological thriller wrapped in layers of mystery with classic screwball. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon play Chicago and his diminutive pals gatecrash history, meeting up with a haunting ending. Aspiring writer Jong-su runs into Haemi, musicians who disguise themselves as women to avoid Robin Hood and Napoleon, and turning up uninvited in who claims to be his childhood classmate. After seducing him, being rubbed out after they witness the St. Valentine’s Day Ancient Rome and on the deck of the ill-fated Titanic. Monty she scoots off to Africa, leaving him to feed her elusive cat. She Massacre. They join an all-girl orchestra on its way to Florida. Python animator Terry Gilliam fills the screen with bizarre returns with suave, well-heeled Ben, whose aura of privilege Monroe is the singer, who dreams of marrying a millionaire images, and directs with a breathless ingenuity.” — Time Out makes the farm boy roil with envy and self-pity. One day, Ben but despairs, “I always get the fuzzy end of the lollipop.” Curtis confides in a stoned haze that he has a secret fetish for burning lusts for Monroe and disguises himself as a millionaire to win “A cheerfully irreverent lark—part fairy tale, part science down greenhouses. Soon after that, Haemi disappears. her. Monroe lusts after money and gives him lessons in love. fiction and part comedy. It’s a fantastic though wobbly flight Jack Lemmon gets the fuzzy end of the lollipop in the parallel through history and legend in the company of a small boy relationship.” — Roger Ebert named Kevin and six dwarfs named Randall, Fidgit, Wally, Og, Stutter and Vermin.” — Vincent Canby, New York Times
GIMLI FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS
Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival: Giant Little Ones Directed by Keith Behrman BEST OF THE FEST 2018, Canada, 93 min The Gimli Film Festival and the Winnipeg Cinematheque are proud to present an encore screening Friday, April 26 / 7 pm of two of the best films from the 18th annual Gimli Film Festival. Minding the Gap won the Festival’s Saturday & Sunday, April 27 & 28 / 5 pm & 7 pm coveted Best of Fest Award, for its emotionally bare and bluntly honest portrayal of domestic abuse Adolescents face enormous pressure to make life-defining in middle America. Alternately, Under the Tree is a pristine example of the wry sense of dark Icelandic decisions every day and they want to lock in their identities humour that GFF so often features in their Northern Lights Film Series. sooner rather than later. All of this pressure is exacerbated by physical and social changes. Franky, the hero of Keith Behrman’s exquisite and generous Giant Little Ones, is under more pressure Under the Tree (Undir trénu) Minding the Gap than most. His life was altered when his father left his mother Directed by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson Directed by Bing Liu for a man. Franky is left confused and angry toward his father 2018, Iceland, 89 min 2018, USA, 93 min for breaking up the family. Things are further confused for Icelandic with English subtitles Franky when his wild birthday party ends in a sexual encounter Wednesday, March 20 / 9 pm no one could have imagined, including his best friend and Wednesday, March 20 / 7 pm Thursday, March 21 / 7 pm girlfriend. As Franky’s world crumbles, he and his friends are Saturday, March 23 / 5 pm & 9 pm Friday, March 22 / 9 pm forced to decide what kind of people they want to be. — TIFF Sunday, March 24 / 5 pm “Maintaining an unrelentingly gleeful grip on the film’s tone, GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY William F. White & IATSE 856 the director skillfully whips absurdist comedy and chilling * Winner of Best of Fest Award at 2018 Gimli Film Festival tragedy into a froth of surging hostilities.” — Jeannette Minding the Gap has garnered over 50 awards and recognitions, Catsoulis, New York Times most recently receiving an Academy Award nomination for Under the Tree follows a man who is accused of adultery Best Documentary. Three young men bond together over and forced to move in with his parents. While he fights for their love of skateboarding to escape their volatile families in custody of his four-year-old daughter, he is gradually sucked their Rust-Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, into a dispute between his parents and their neighbours unexpected revelations threaten their decade-long friendship. over an old and beautiful tree. What starts as a typical spat Filmmaker Bing Liu returns home to reconnect with his two between suburban neighbours unexpectedly and violently friends, bringing with him footage he shot over the course of reaches a boiling point, spiraling out of control. the last 10 years, and prepares for an emotional reckoning. New World Documentaries
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch Decasia Directed by Jennifer Baichwal, Edward Burtynsky & Directed by Bill Morrison Nicholas de Pencier 2002, USA, 70 min 2018, Canada, 87 min Friday, March 22 / 7 pm Friday, March 1 / 7 pm Saturday, March 23 / 3 pm Saturday, March 2 / 3 pm & 7:15 pm Often compared to Stan Brakhage, filmmaker Bill Morrison Sunday, March 3 / 5 pm created Decasia entirely from decaying old found footage, melded Saturday, March 9 / 3 pm to the music of Bang on a Can’s Michael Gordon performed by FACE | TIME: Thursday, March 14 / 9 pm the 55 piece Basel Sinfonietta. The result is a mesmerizing film of THE ANIMATED WORKS OF ANITA LEBEAU Back by popular demand, and four years in the making, this deteriorating film stock and a moving avant garde masterpiece. The evening will include an art talk and audience Q&A with the stunning new feature documentary is the latest film from the “A stunningly beautiful ode to creation and decay.” filmmaker, moderated by visual artist Diana Thorneycroft. award winning team that created Manufactured Landscapes (2006). — Sundance Film Festival The film follows the research of an international body of scientists, Wednesday, March 27 / 7 pm who after nearly 10 years of research, are arguing that because of Sponsored by Groundswell. profound and lasting human changes to the Earth, the Holocene Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art and Cinematheque Epoch gave way to the Anthropocene Epoch in the mid-twentieth present the Winnipeg premiere of Anita Lebeau’s new century. From concrete seawalls in China that now cover 60% of independent animated film FACE | TIME. In this short, Lebeau the mainland coast, to the devastated Great Barrier Reef in Australia explores the interplay of time, aging, art, and self-perception, the filmmakers have traversed the globe using high end production employing her signature blend of photo-realistic and hand values and state of the art camera techniques to document drawn images. The evening also features Lebeau’s past work, evidence and experience of human planetary domination. including her two award-winning films with The National Film Board, Louise and Big Drive. Additionally, Lebeau will offer a sneak peek at her current NFB project, as well as sharing Under a Cold War Sky a selection of experimental projects in which she explores a Directed by Kevin Nikkel variety of animation styles and software programs. Lebeau 2018, Canada, 70 min uses a multimedia approach to storytelling, where bits of reality share the screen with fully animated characters. Wednesday, March 13 / 7 pm The Woman Who Loves Giraffes Some projects allow hand-drawn animation to take center Panel discussion to follow the screening. Directed by Alison Reid stage, while others explore concepts using fully-articulated 2018, Canada, 83 min cut-outs of real humans (photographs of them, that is). What do you do with a radar station no one wants anymore? Lebeau’s art reflects the notion that ‘real’ life is filled with Under a Cold War Sky explores the stories from the communities of Saturday, April 6 / 3 pm & 5 pm ‘the unreal’ — absurdities — which should be embraced as Skrunda, Latvia and Hall Beach, Nunavut, Canada—two places on Sunday, April 7 / 3 pm part of personal experience. the margins that were home to radar sites built by the Americans Friday, April 12 / 7 pm and Soviets during the Cold War. The film reveals the stories of Saturday & Sunday, April 13 & 14 / 5 pm & 7 pm those living in places that were swept up in the conflict, people Thursday, April 18 / 7 pm that still have Cold War stories to tell. Saturday, April 20 / 3 pm Plays with: Magnetic Reconnection / 2016, Canada, 12 Sunday, April 21 / 3 pm & 5 pm NATIONAL CANADIAN FILM DAY: min, Directed by Kyle Armstrong / A short documentary film In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world WINNIPEG FILM GROUP: contrasting the Northern Lights with decaying man made debris in of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work FOUND IN TRANSLATION TOUR: Canada’s north. with mountain gorillas, 23-year-old Canadian biologist, Anne Innis Dagg, made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to Shakedown become the first person in the world to study animal behaviour ANIMATING Directed by Leilah Weinraub in the wild on that continent. In The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, 2018, USA, 82 min an older, wiser Anne takes us on her first expedition back to THE GOOD Africa where her trail-blazing journey began more than half a Thursday, March 14 / 7 pm century ago. Retracing her original steps, Anne offers an intimate window into her life as a young woman, juxtaposing it with a AND THE BAD ‘Shakedown’ was a series of parties founded by and for African firsthand look at the devastating reality that giraffes face today. American women in Los Angeles that featured go-go dancing Both the world’s first ‘giraffologist’, whose research findings Wednesday, April 17 / 7 pm / FREE ADMISSION and strip shows for the city’s lesbian underground scene. Showing ultimately became the foundation for many scientists following the protagonists backstage and in interviews, this intimate chronicle Introduced by Stephanie Berrington. in her footsteps, and the species she loves have each experienced reveals that ‘Shakedown’ was more than just a strip club; as one of triumphs as well as suffering some nasty battle scars. The Woman The films in this animation program are sometimes funny, the few spaces for lesbian subculture, the club brought together and Who Loves Giraffes gives us a moving perspective on both. sometimes irreverent, and sometimes dystopic in their galvanised a community of freaks and queers of colour. rejection of normative ideologies. Featuring work by Alain Presented in partnership with Delannoy, Trevor Kristjanson, Mike Maryniuk, Alison Davis, the WNDX Festival of Moving Image. John Paizs, Patrick Lowe, Murray Toews, Jackie Traverse, and Leslie Supnet. 5TH ANNUAL ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL WRONG COPS, JAZZTRONAUTS AND SYNCHRONIZED SWIMMING Alliance Française du Manitoba is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to teaching and promoting French and its diverse culture. For the 5th time, the Alliance Française’s French Film Festival, curated by Damien Ferland and Alan Nobili, will give Winnipeggers the opportunity to see a diverse selection of French feature-length movies.
Amanda A Summer’s Tale (Conte d’été) Mr. Klein Directed by Mikhaël Hers Directed by Éric Rohmer Directed by Joseph Losey 2018, France, 107 min 1996, France, 113 min 1976, France, 123 min French with English subtitles French with English subtitles French with English subtitles
Thursday, March 7 / 7 pm Saturday, March 9 / 5 pm Sunday, March 10 / 2:30 pm Modern-day Paris. Twenty-four-year-old David (Vincent Gaspard (Melvil Poupaud) is a young, handsome, completely “Joseph Losey’s Mr. Klein, made in France during the director’s Lacoste) lives in the moment. He juggles a variety of different self-absorbed musician holidaying in Brittany. Awaiting long post-blacklist exile from the U.S., is a chilling parable odd jobs and continues to put off—just for a while longer—the the arrival of his not-quite girlfriend Léna—more a “habit about identity, fascism, exploitation and oppression… time to make more serious decisions. But the relaxed pace of of coincidence,” he clarifies—Gaspard begins courting the unforgettable.” — Ed Howard, Only The Cinema his life shifts gears when he suddenly must take charge of his affections of sweet, smart, ethnology student Margot, and Robert Klein (Alain Delon) cannot find any fault with the seven-year-old niece, Amanda. then Margot’s smitten friend. Léna, of course, shows up, state of affairs in German-occupied France. He has a well- pushing the romancer to choose between his three surprise furnished flat, a mistress, and business is booming. Jews suitresses. Sink or Swim (Le grand bain) facing discrimination because of laws carried forth by the Directed by Gilles Lellouche French government are desperate to sell valuable works of 2018, France, 122 min Non-Fiction (Double vies) art—and it is easy for him to get them at bargain prices. His French with English subtitles Directed by Olivier Assayas comfortable situation is disrupted when he discovers that 2018, France, 108 min there is another Robert Klein living in Paris. Also starring Thursday, March 7 / 9 pm French with English subtitles Jeanne Moreau. A group of 40-somethings on the verge of a mid-life crisis, Saturday, March 9 / 7 pm decide to form their local pool’s first ever synchronized 16 levers de soleil swimming team—for men. Starring Mathieu Almaric and Set amidst the intelligentsia of the publishing world, Directed by Pierre-Emmanuel Le Goff Guillaume Canet. Non-Fiction by Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria and 2018, France, 117 min Personal Shopper) traces the romantic and emotional fallout French with English subtitles that results when a controversial writer uses his real-life Winnipeg Film Group: Found In Translation Tour: love affairs —including a passionate fling with an actress Sunday, March 10 / 5 pm (Being) Women in Canada who happens to be married to his editor—as fodder for On November 17th 2016, French ESA astronaut Thomas his explosive new novel. Balancing dry wit with keen Friday, March 8 / 7 pm Pesquet took off for his first mission on the International observations on the tensions between art, commerce, and Space Station. For six months, 450 kilometres from Earth Introduced by Stephanie Berrington. technology, Non-Fiction is a breezy delight from a master where the world seems to fade into the unknown, a dialogue FREE ADMISSION director at his most effortlessly brilliant. Starring Juliette is established between the astronaut and Antoine de Saint- Binoche and Guillaume Canet. This program recognizes and celebrates films from the Exupéry’s classic The Little Prince, which he brought with Winnipeg Film Group’s history that are directed by women. him to the space station. A visually stunning documentary Featuring work by Jessie Short, Danielle Sturk, Tricia Keep an Eye Out (Au poste!) with a lively jazz score by Guillaume Perret, witness a young Wasney, Shawna Dempsey, Tracy Traeger, Lorri Millan, Directed by Quentin Dupieux aka Mr. Oizo astronaut’s awe as he realizes his dreams. Erica Eyres, Eve Majzels, Michelle Elrick, Caroline Monnet, 2018, France, 73 min Amanda Strong, Leslie Supnet, and Rhayne Vermette. French with English subtitles Le samouraï Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville Saturday, March 9 / 9 pm In Safe Hands (Pupille) 1967, France, 101 min Directed by Jeanne Herry “A delightful French comedy, with some genuinely hilarious French with English subtitles 2018, France, 107 min moments… perfect for one hell of a family movie night.” French with English subtitles — David Cuevas, On The Clock Sunday, March 10 / 7 pm Hapless, moustachioed Fuguain (Gregoire Ludig) has been Back by popular demand. In a career-defining performance, Friday, March 8 / 9 pm hauled in to give a statement to Commissaire Buron (Man Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. A Abandoned at birth, baby Theo’s uncertain future lies in the Bites Dog’s Benoît Poelvoorde) about a corpse he found—and razor-sharp cocktail of 1940s American gangster cinema and hands of child welfare services. Jeanne (Sandrine Kiberlain) it quickly turns into a banal, exhaustive description of his 1960s French pop culture—with a liberal dose of Japanese is given the responsibility of temporarily looking after Theo whole evening, involving a cockroach, a bag of chips, and a lone-warrior mythology. while the members of the adoption agency have the difficult TV show about horses. When he’s left alone with a paranoid task of finding him a home. Alice (Élodie Bouchez), unable to deputy, Fuguain suddenly finds himself with not one, but have children of her own, has never stopped fighting to be a two unexplained corpses on his hands. mother. AFRICAN MOVIE FESTIVAL
INThe African Movie FestivalMANITOBA in Manitoba (AM-FM) is devoted to African themes and issues, especially as they relate to Manitoba, Canada and the world. The annual festival held in Winnipeg celebrates African culture and promotes diversity through cinema. It establishes a platform for dialogue on Afro-Canadian/American issues and it supports the development of young Canadian film talents. A creation of Manitoba African Film Festival Inc., the festival showcases African talents through carefully curated films and generates social, political and economic issues for discourse and entertainment. Full details available at www.am-fm.ca SPECIAL EVENT PRICING — NO PASSES. Benjamin Bartlett N.G.O. (Nothing Going On) Algéria, De Gaulle and the bomb Directed by Tope Babalola Directed by Aganze Arnold Directed by Benchiha Larbi 2018, Canada, 90 min 2016, Uganda, 83 min 2010, Algeria/France, 52 min French with English Subtitles Friday, March 15 / 7 pm Saturday, March 16 / 5 pm Sunday, March 17 / 2 pm An introverted student, with incredible deductive reasoning Two friends jokingly setup a fake NGO and soon realize that skills, teams up with a spirited artist to help clear the name of getting out of it is harder than getting it started. The untold story of nuclear bomb tests in the Sahara desert during their school’s recently disgraced athlete. the 1960s under the direction of President Charles de Gaulle. Plays with Fallou / Directed by Allasane Sy, 2017, Senegal, 30 Plays with Change Your Heart, Not My Colour (Change min, Wolof with English Subtitles Plays with Angles / Directed by Lea Malle Frank Thierry / Ton Coeur, Pas Ma Couleur) / Directed by Pierre-Antoine 2017, Cameroun, 16 min Carpentier, 2017, Senegal, 19 min Zizou Directed by Ferid Boughedir To the Ghost of the Father I Still Hide to Smoke (À mon âge je me cache 2016, Tunisia, 99 min Directed by Bayala Marie Laurentine encore pour fumer) French and Arabic with English Subtitles 2017, Burkina Faso, 50 min Directed by Rayhana French with English Subtitles 2016, Algeria/France, 90 min Saturday, March 16 / 7:15 pm Arabic and French with English subtitles Sunday, March 17 / 4 pm In the heat of the Arab Spring, a young unemployed man gets into trouble, falls in love, becomes a political hero, and creates The story of a Franco-Burkinabe mixed race woman who Friday, March 15 / 9 pm chaos all in very short span of time. embarks on a quest to find her long lost father. Nine women of various backgrounds gather in an Algerian Plays with Hands / Directed by Lea Malle Frank Thierry, 2017, Plays with Mukhanya / Directed by Siza Mukhanya, 2018, hammam to talk about their lives. Cameroun, 11 min, French with English Subtitles Zimbabwe, 20 min, Shona with English Subtitles Plays with Beyond That Wall / Directed by Aisha Jabour, 2017, Morocco, 18 min, Arabic with English subtitles A Day for Women Keteke Directed by Kamla Abu Zekry Directed by Peter Sedufia 2016, Egypt, 110 min 2017, Ghana, 98 min Malaria Business Arabic with English Subtitles Directed by Bernard Crutzen Sunday, March 17 / 6 pm 2017, France, 70 min Saturday, March 16 / 9:30 pm English and French with Subtitles A couple travels by rail to give birth at the next village, but a The opening of a new swimming pool is the talk of the town – wrong decision finds them in the middle of nowhere and they Saturday, March 16 / 3 pm particularly because Sunday has been announced as a day must race to make it on time for the delivery. for women. The controversial story of those who have been trying to fight Plays with Kaniama Show / Directed by Baloji, 2018, DR malaria for the last 50 years. Plays with Sega / Directed by Idil Ibrahim, 2018, Senegal/USA, Congo, 24 min, French with English Subtitles 24 min Plays with Watu Wote: All of us / Directed by Katja Benrath, 2017, Kenya, 22 min, Swahili and Somali with English subtitles
Iranian Cinema CINEMATHEQUE’S
Sheeple (Maghzhaye Koochake Zang Zadeh) Directed by Houman Seyyedi 4/20 CARTOON PARTY! 2018, Iran, 110 min Persian with English Subtitles Saturday, April 20 / 8 pm – 11 pm Thursday, April 11 / 7 pm Admission: $15 General / $12 Students, Seniors & Members Shahin, a loud-mouth fellow adopted years ago, is trying to establish his authority in a family Things just keep getting curiouser and curiouser here at the Cinematheque, and as an extension run by the iron hand of his drug lord brother. When a cell phone video of their sister showing to our popular Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Party we’ve now got a special treat her hair to a strange man—a grave sin in that society—starts circulating, things get really crazy. cooked up for the adults who want to indulge in their own brand of sweetness while binging The family’s honour becomes more important than any single member. on sugary cereal and the cartoons of days gone by. Rest assured, if you are lysergically-inclined, An ongoing series of Iranian films presented in conjunction with Amir or like a bit of that friendly puf-n-stuf, this show spanning ‘50s hipsville to the spacy ‘70s is for Ganjavie, president of the Phoenix Cultural Centre of Toronto and you. From trippy kids shorts made by hippie animators to corporate-funded anti-drug films that CineIran—an annual festival of contemporary Iranian cinema in Toronto. co-opt the hallmarks of counterculture filmmaking, these cartoons are made to feed your head! March/April Staff Picks
Giddy up cinema lovers! March and April are an embarrassment in ages. I loved it. Part romance, part horror film and deeply that while on vacation in the USA, David got to see a fabled of riches at the Cinematheque. I’m particularly excited for the moving. Former Winnipeg based director Danishka Esterhazy one-night-only screening of Lars Von Trier’s director’s cut of Winnipeg Film Group: Found In Translation Tour which has two has created a terrific suspense thriller, Level 16, about a The House That Jack Built, which caused the distributor to get programs featuring tons of local cinematic gems made by many boarding school where young girls are being trained in the in piping hot water with the MPAA, so we cinema fans should of my personal heroes. I’d also like to highlight Bill Morrison’s virtues of obedience and cleanliness. Four years before Jane rejoice at the opportunity to see this verboten, perverse and Decasia which is a meditation on the decay of celluloid film. Goodall, 23-year-old Canadian biologist Anne Innis Dagg was provocative tour de force. Lastly, please join us for a very special Decasia pairs well with the continuation of the incredible the first person to study animal behavior in the African wild, edition of Secret Cinema curated by our departing Distribution Restoration Tuesdays series. Of note is the March 12th screening she is the unsung hero of The Woman Who Loves Giraffes. Coordinator, Stephanie “Cousin Stephie” Berrington, and help of Detour featuring an introduction from Guy Maddin and Skype The Legendary Cree and Métis actor Tantoo Cardinal gives a us give her a proper Winnipeg send off. — Jaimz Asmundson, conversation with Ben Crossley-Mara from the legendary Janus terrific performance in Darlene Naponse’s new feature Falls Cinematheque Programming Director Films. — Ryan Steel, Cinematheque Box Office Around Her which will be introduced by Tina Keeper who has a great role as her sister Betty. — Dave Barber, Senior The Woman Who Loves Giraffes is going to be a beautiful and It’s getting harder for me to narrow down my picks to just a Cinematheque Programmer wild ride (excuse the pun) and I am excited to learn more about few selections each program. This time around, a few of my a woman who spent her life passionately studying a majestic favourite films of 2018 (Minding the Gap, Burning, The House Nothing has me more excited this program then being able to creature. I am also extremely excited for Level 16 directed by That Jack Built) butt up against one of my all-time favourites watch a double dipping of film noir in March with our Restoration Danishka Esterhazy, she was one of the first people from the (Rocco and His Brothers) and the return of a favourite Tuesdays screenings of The Hitch-Hiker and Detour. These Winnipeg film industry I ever met and I can’t wait to see her local festival (Alliance Francaise French Film Fest). Lots of fantastic pulp films will have you entertained but also showcase new film! — Thomas Hanan, Cinematheque Box Office favourites! March/April will supply us with no shortage of the brilliant low budget independent film making showcase of cinematic experimentations: Shakedown, Decasia, and the the 40s and 50s in the United States. We are also saying farewell Another avalanche of great films in this program. A few that I’ll Anita Lebeau program are sure to expand Winnipeg’s film to our Distribution Coordinator Stephanie Berrington in May draw your attention to includes the rare screening of The Last IQ. We’ve been working hard at building up a head of steam as she moves away, but before she goes she will be curating Supper by Cynthia Roberts, the harrowing critically acclaimed, towards a festival of new film restorations in 2020, and have our Secret Cinema Series. Come join us in the Black Lodge multi-award-winning feature drama about AIDS and euthanasia invited professionals in the field to share their knowledge Studio as we screen her long awaited pick! — Eric Peterson, which won the 1995 Berlinale Best Feature Film Gay Teddy Bear. on Restoration Tuesdays. Don’t miss the chance to hear Cinematheque Head Projectionist (This screening is accompanied by a Master Class as part of my from giants Janus Films and Milestone Films. — David Knipe, Creative Producing Series of workshops.) The restoration of Cinematheque Operations Manager Bill Morrison’s Decasia is on my list of films that I am quite Ida Lupino’s creepy, brilliantly directed 1953 film noir classic embarrassed to have never seen, so I’m rather thrilled to The Hitch-Hiker is an absolute must-see as is Winnipeg The Swedish entry for Best Foreign Film at the Academy finally get a chance to be immersed by this magnum opus of filmmaker Danishka Esterhazy’s chilling dystopian thriller Level 16. Awards, Border (Gräns) is one of the weirdest films I have seen decayed celluloid—in a proper setting. Also I’m fairly jealous — Greg Klymkiw, Executive Director Left to right: Jaimz Asmundson, David Knipe, Dave Barber, Eric Peterson, Greg Klymkiw, Conrad Vandenberg, Ryan Steel, Thomas Hanan. Photo by Jen Doerksen.
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