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NONSENSE! NONSENSE? Featuring a post screening Acting Up a Storm: artist talk by Deirdre Logue and Shawna Dempsey Fringe Actors Film Festival The Film Group is thrilled to welcome artist Deirdre Logue for an exclusive screening of her early work, paired with the work of prolific local artists Shawna Dempsey and July 24 – 29 • See page 3 for details Lorri Millan, followed by a post screening artist talk. Nonsense! Nonsense? has been curated for the Winnipeg Film Group by Jenny Bisch. Admission is free and all are welcome. See page 3 for details. Tokyo! An omnibus triptych examining the modern urban life of this www.winnipegcinematheque.com unforgettable city. July 10 – 16 • See page 2 for details Summer Nights LatvianAugust 19 – 20 • See page 4 for details

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Publications Mail Agreement Number 40045468 Return to : Winnipeg Film Group Members Pay Only $6.00 304-100 Arthur Street Buy a membership! See page 6 for more information... Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H3 with I MET THE WALRUS not initially divulged. His journey, paradoxically Dir. Jerry Leviathain | Canada | 2008 | 5 min. | both intently focused and dreamlike, takes him Animation not only across Spain but also through his own In 1969, a 14 year old Beatle fanatic named consciousness. Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape “Jim Jarmusch’s latest is his best since deck and a head full of questions, snuck into Dead Man (1995). The inspirations are crystal ’s hotel room in Toronto and clear: Everything from Jean Pierre Melville’s convinced John to do an interview. This was in existential noirs to Jacque Rivette’s heady the midst of Lennon’s “bed-in” phase, during conspiracy tales.” (Time Out / New York) world which John and Yoko were staying in hotel beds in an effort to promote peace. Thirty eight n Friday – Sunday, August 21 – 23 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it • 7:00 PM which has won accolades at festivals around n Wednesday & Thursday, August the world. 26 & 27 • 7:00 PM n Thursday, July 23 • 7:00 PM TULPAN IRON ROAD Dir. Sergey Dvortsevoy | Germany | Switzerland | Dir. David Wu | Canada | 2009 | 95 min | Drama Kazakhstan | Russia | Poland | 2008 | 100 min. Starring Sam Neill, Peter O’Toole, Sun Li, From Cannes to Reykjavik, Zurich to Tokyo, Luke MacFarlane London, New York, Dubai, India, Toronto ravishing and inimitable Tokyo. Triptych, INTRODUCED BY PRODUCER ARNIE ZIPURSKY and across the Asia Pacific, the verdict is cinerhapsody,ma psychogeography, omnibus, urban Iron Road is the story of the hard won triumph unanimous! Tulpan has bowled over critics, valentine, freak show, mindwalk and many of a Chinese street urchin whose quest for won an unrivalled collection of Best Film other things, Tokyo! is a fantasy in three her long lost father takes her from a fireworks awards and astonished audiences with its movements that will make you see one of the factory in China to a remote construction camp extraordinary imagery, humanism and charm. world’s greatest cities – if not any city – in in the Rockies. A tale of disguise and forbidden Tulpan takes on the age-old boy meets girl unpredictable new ways. love set against the building of the Canadian love story, but spins the narrative (and the From the directors of Eternal Sunshine of the National Railroad, this story is a window into audience) into a reverie set in an unseen – yet Spotless Mind, Polax, and The Host comes a the neglected history of Chinese workers who strangely familiar – world. film that addresses the timeless question of helped forge the railroad that brought the Our protagonist is Asa, a young sailor fresh Un baiser s’il vous plait whether we shape cities, or if cities shape us – nation together. from completing his military service in the n in the process revealing the rich humanity at Russian Navy, who arrives at the home of his Friday & Saturday, July 3 & 4 the heart of modern urban life. n Friday & Saturday, August 7 & 8 sister, deep in the windswept ‘hunger’ steppes • 7:00 & 9:00 PM “Tokyo! is a must see for the Gondry segment, • 9:00 PM of Kazakhstan. Asa is desperate for a farm n Sunday, July 5 • 7:00 PM and a strange, diverting pleasure for the rest.” n Wednesday & Thursday, August 12 & 13 of his own, but before his brother-in-law will n Wednesday, July 8 • 7:00 & 9:00 PM (Philadelphia Inquirer) • 9:00 PM entrust him, he must find a wife. Unfortunately, n Thursday, July 9 • 9:00 PM the only eligible girl for miles is the beautiful Tulpan (Tulip). And she has other plans… Tokyo! THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE SHALL WE KISS? Dir. Steven Soderbergh | 2009 | USA | 77 min. | Drama The challenges that the undeterred Asa faces Starring Sasha Grey, Glenn Kenny in his quest to fulfil his destiny – set in the (UN BAISER S’IL VOUS PLAIT) most extraordinary of landscapes – makes Dir. Emmanuel Mouret | France | 2007 | 101 min. | “Shot during the early days of the economic French w/ English subtitles crisis, Steven Soderbergh’s (Che, Sex, Lies for a cinema experience that is breathtaking, hilarious and moving in equal measure. Tulpan “Impossibly charming, Shall we kiss? is a and Videotape, Ocean’s 13) The Girlfriend will reinvigorate adventurous spirits as it comic romance full of rueful musings about Experience is a mysterious and arresting look transports you to another place; once there, fidelity and true love. Written, directed by and at how the culture of money turns love and you’ll never want to ever leave. starring Emmanuel Mouret, whose onscreen desire into something you want to control. persona is shaggy and shambling. The film The escort, Chelsea, is played by Sasha Grey, Tulpan follows a man and a woman who are closest n Friday – Sunday, July 17 – 19 • 7:00 PM a real life adult-video star. The movie has the of friends but whose friendship turns to sexual fascination of a documentary about a fictional desire.” (Philadelphia Inquirier) LET HIM BE – John and Yoko character. Chelsea, with her ambitious teasing “Emmanuel Mouret’s romantic comedies have th blankness, occupies the center of a crumbling 40 Anniversary mosaic of money, status, deception and often been compared to those of Woody Allen, Dir. Peter McNamee | Canada | 2008 | 82 mins. | but his aesthetic really owes more to the films manipulated lust. Soderbergh has captured an “Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in of Eric Rohmer and the what-if plots of English America in which the line between selling out the ground.” () writer Alan Ayckbourn. In Shall we kiss?, there and selling yourself has never been thinner.” are not one but two sets of protagonists. Emilie Peter McNamee’s debut feature introduces us (Entertainment Weekly) (Julie Gayet) and Gabriel (Michaël Cohen) are to undergrad film students Tim and Kathleen. “Girlfriend Experience” is a coolly crafted, two strangers who meet in Nantes. Although Tim is astonished to discover a rock icon, long ruthless little work from a filmmaker who both are already emotionally involved, the thought to be dead, actually alive and living in keeps seeking out new challenges at a career a remote part of Canada. It all begins when he stage when most directors have settled into a attraction between them is palpable. Nevertheless, n Friday – Sunday, August 28 – 30 when Gabriel puts some rather chaste moves discovers a clip of an old man playing guitar groove.” (Salon Magazine) on Emilie, she staves off his advances with the on a tape left inside an old video camera. The • 7:00 PM aid of the cautionary tale of Judith and Nicolas, man in the video bears a strong resemblance n Friday & Saturday, August 21 & 22 n Wednesday & Thursday, September two “best friends” who belatedly discover that to John Lennon – that is, John Lennon as • 9:00 PM 2 & 3 • 7:00 PM they might be something more than that. (Mark he might look today. Could it be him? Tim is n Wednesday & Thursday, August 26 & 27 Harris / Georgia Straight) excited to the point of obsession. Kathleen ONLY thinks the whole concept is ridiculous. Wasn’t • 9:00 PM Sponsored by: Directed and Written by Ingrid Veninger, Simon there some big “Paul is dead!” hoax that all THE LIMITS OF CONTROL Reynolds | Canada | 2008 | 74 min. | those years ago? But what if Lennon really Dir. Jim Jarmusch | USA | 2009 | 116 min. Starring Jacob Switzer, Elena Hudgins is still out there? Still singing? Still writing? Starring Isaach De Bankole, Tilda Swinton, Bill INTRODUCED BY SIMON REYNOLDS Imagine! (Vancouver Film Festival) Murray, John Hurt, Gael Garcia Bernal “Parry Sound provides the backdrop for this “A clever little what-if exercise... Let Him Be n Friday – Sunday, July 10 – 12 Beautifully framed and photographed by Wong unusually well-observed end-of-childhood treats viewers to a jaw-dropping mini-concert Kar-Wai’s cinematographer Christopher piece, which finds a pair of 12 year olds enacting • 7:00 PM of songs Lennon might have written had Doyle, The Limits of Control has gone deeper a junior “BEFORE SUNRISE” courtship over n Wednesday & Thursday, July 15 & 16 he lived (including a terrific rant-tune about into the artistic realm to make a film which one faintly enchanted afternoon. Co-directors • 9:00 PM George W. Bush), performed “in-studio” by splits audiences and critics. “Surrender to its Ingrid Veninger and Simon Reynolds have a band of “locals,” fronted by someone who formalistic rhythm and beautiful compositions wisely resisted the temptation to over-manage TOKYO! looks and sounds uncannily like an elder and there is much pleasure to be had here their young leads and the kids respond with Dir. Michel Gondry, Bong Joon-Ho and Leos Carax Lennon.” (Toronto Sun) for an intellectual audience. Cinephiles impressively unaffected performances. They | France | Japan | Germany | South Korea | 2008 | truly seem to be listening to each other, and 112 mins. will appreciate the references, explicit and otherwise, to John Boorman’s Point Blank, The in the best scenes, their responses have a “In Tokyo!, three of the world’s greatest Lady From Shanghai, Antonioni’s entire oeuvre synapse-quick spontaneity.” (Eye Weekly) filmmakers for an omnibus and others.” “The performances are fantastic… a truly lovely triptych examining the nature of one unforgettable and charming movie.” (CBC Radio) city as it’s shaped by the disparate people The Limits of Control is the story of a mysterious who live, work (and even run amok!) inside loner (played by Mr. De Bankole), a stranger, “I hope programmers in North America take one enormous, constantly evolving, densely whose activities remain meticulously outside the time to catch up with this little gem of a the law. He is in the process of completing a movie and that it finds its way to audiences populated Japanese megalopolis – the Let Him Be job, yet he trusts no one, and his objectives are everywhere.” (Indiewire)

2 • cinematheque july/august 2009 Nonsense? Nonsense! Featuring artist talk with Deirdre Logue and Shawna Dempsey

Films and videos by Deirdre Logue and complex relationship to our psychological With all the wit and wisdom of a goddess who City in Windsor, the Executive Director of the Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan. With limitations. Sexual deception, humiliation, has been around the block a few times, she Images Festival of Independent Film and Video a post screening artist talk with Deirdre injury, fear and failure are common themes, reflects upon fashion, family ties and her future. from 1995-1999, the Executive Director at the Logue and Shawna Dempsey however, humour plays a critical role. Though Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre from Curated by Jenny Bisch dark, there is a funny, nonsensical quality, About Deirdre Logue 2001-2006 and am currently the Development which provides distance from the complexity “I am interested in examining performativity and Director for Vtape. n Wednesday, July 22 • 7:00 PM of this work as well as some comic relief. self-presentational discourse. My film, video, performance and installation work focuses About Shawna Dempsey NONSENSE? NONSENSE! PERIL! on exploring the future as an authentic self and Lorri Millan Free Admission! Dir. Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan | Canada | as well as notions of retrospection, the body In a collaboration that has spanned well over Behind the absurd hides a genuine reality. 2000 | 9:06 min. as material and corporeal entity, confessional a decade, Winnipeg multi-disciplinary artists The Winnipeg Film Group’s Cinematheque Peril! charts the dangerous territory of autobiography, the passage of ‘real’ time and Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan have created welcomes talented Toronto filmmaker, Deirdre women’s everyday lives. The tightrope walker the self-portrait. My most recent projects a body of internationally acclaimed work that Logue for this exclusive screening of her early vacuums across Niagara Falls while pondering include Enlightened Nonsense, a series of ten addresses feminist, lesbian and social concerns work, paired with the work of prolific local employment; the bearded lady waits by the short performance films about repetition, a with biting wit. Performance artifacts, films filmmakers/performers, Shawna Dempsey and phone while holding up the world; the human 12 channel self-portrait entitled Why Always and videos by Dempsey and Millan are held in Lorri Millan. Unique in their specific expression, cannonball hurtles through space, unsure if she instead of just Sometimes and Rough Count, collections including the Winnipeg Art Gallery, each film in this program takes internal conflict will ever land, but making the best of things. a continuous counting work dedicated to National Gallery of Canada, Regina Public and turns it out, using repetition, humour or Using video imagery from Dempsey and the infinite and the endless. It is through Libraries, Planned Parenthood USA, American monologue, not to resolve but to give body Millan’s performance, “The Headless Woman” these works that I examine how it is that Indian Reservation Centre and colleges and to subjective discord. Through the physical (The Western Front, January 1998), this video we, in particular queer women, organize our universities throughout North America. features acts of daredevilry by Sharon Bajer, images and identities for mass consumption manifestation of these struggles within, we About Jenny Bisch – curator Lorri Millan and Debbie Patterson. Note: this and how this reflects or distracts from our can finally come face-to-face with ourselves. Winnipeg filmmaker and curator, Jenny video was made using stagecraft, not keyed knowledge of the individual. I am interested With the 2009 Fringe Festival in full swing, this Bisch, has been involved in many filmmaking program of short films sheds the glitz of the effects! in both queer and feminist theory, early video and performance art, psychoanalysis and projects and has become fascinated by the mainstream and will capture audiences eagerly world of short, experimental film. Her films, seeking the power of raw performance! MEDUSA RAW psychosomatic illness. Dir. Shawna Dempsey and Lorri Millan | Canada | The Arousing Adventures of Sailor Boy, and As an extension of my practice, I am also Praying Mantis Upskirt (with Allison Bile), have ENLIGHTENED NONSENSE 1992 | 10 min. heavily invested in the politics of media arts Dir. Deirdre Logue | Canada | 2000 | 22 min. The story of Medusa concisely symbolizes the been enjoyed by audiences around the world. presentation and film and video dissemination In 2008, she curated a historical program Enlightened Nonsense (1997-2000) is a series shift from matriarchal religion to patriarchal theory. I have spent the past 18 years working of Manitoba experimental and animated of ten thematically related film works that spiritual, economic and social power. She on behalf of media artists by organizing shorts entitled EXPERIMENTAL ECHOES for were shot, hand-processed and edited within is the all-powerful goddess, the snake her independent film, video and new media Independent Film Week and more recently a total of approximately one week. Beginning familiar and her consort, who is vanquished by festivals and by participating in forums and organized the first annual GREENMOVIEFEST with a specific action, the works express both Perseus (the male hero). In Medusa Raw, the symposiums on the future of independent for Earth Day, 2009. the physical manifestation of different states Gorgon tells the story of her decapitation and artistic production and film and video of being and a desire to understand one’s its ramifications, from her own point of view. distribution. I was a founding member of Media

 – Liam Lacey, THE GLOBE AND MAIL “A sweetly comic coming-of- animation for good measure. Enter at your of the evening is Clint’s brilliant spoken and age story!” – A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES Astron 6 own risk! visual essay, Representations of Mathematics in Cinema – including good and bad. n “An amazing Thursday, July 30 • 7:00 PM accomplishment!” THE POETRY OF LOGICAL IDEAS: – J. Hoberman, THE VILLAGE VOICE MATHEMATICS AND FILM “Immensely charming… Curated by Clint Enns An audience-pleaser!” A return visit (newly modified) of last year’s – Jonathan Romney, SCREEN INTERNATIONAL smash success from Clint Enns’ dazzling evening of THE POETRY OF LOGICAL n Friday, July 17 • 9:00 PM IDEAS: MATHEMATICS AND FILM – a program which demonstrates the beauty of Astron 6: A NIGHT TO REMEMBER mathematics and/or mathematical thought

Caution: extreme violence appears in these films. and experimental film. Featuring Norman a film by SERGEY DVORTSEVOY New underground short works by local McLaren’s 1971 film Synchromy/Synchromie The Poetry of Logical Ideas filmmakers Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy, (synchronization of image and sound in the Jeremy Gillespie, Steven Kostanski and Conor truest sense of the word) as well as Larry Sweeny – working individually and together – Kurnarsky’s An Aesthetic Indulgence – reflect a fast, furious and gorific approach to about Nathan Mendelsohn, former chair of new independent filmmaking. With titles like the ’s Mathematics Lazer Ghosts II, Goreblade and Insanophania, department. An Aesthetic Indulgence is their work is a mix of over-the-top cheesiness about family, friends, wisdom and the beauty Friday – Sunday, August 21 – 23 • 7:00 PM and a love of exploitation and horror, splashed that changes the world. Also includes Eric with humour and amazing stop motion Martin’s Flatland, Phillip Stapp’s Symmetry Wednesday & Thursday, August 26 & 27 and Donald in Mathmagic Land. The highlight 7:00 PM

cinematheque july/august 2009 • 3 n Thursday, July 9 at 7:00 PM The Punks are Alright extra footage featuring several giants from In honour of Nunavut Day: the world of soul music. Performing at their peak at a three day festival, the backdrop was anGaKKUIIt (sHaMan stOrIes) created for the infamous George Foreman dir. Zacharias Kunuk | nunavut | 2003 | 60 min. | / Muhammad Ali fight in Zaire in 1974. First Latvian inuktitut with english subtitles chronicled in the film When We Were Kings, Summer Nights angakkuiit relates to Inuit memories and the music is a revelation featuring all the experiences of shamanism and oral histories legends of the soul music world including great about the last shamans practicing in the region performances from the late legends James In conjunction with the embassy of latvia, the of Igloolik, nunavut. Interviewees range from Brown and Miriam Makeba. Baltic Film Festival and the latvian national young people to elders and politicians, but “Featuring terrific performances… a colorful Federation in Canada, Cinematheque presents they all share a belief that shamanism is still a fast moving crowd pleaser. Great sound and a special screening of two recent important living religion. fresh feeling footage that almost could have latvian releases. been shot yesterday.” (n. Young) n Wednesday & Thursday, July 15 & 16 • 7:00 PM n Friday – Sunday, July 31 – August 2 • 7:00 PM n Wednesday, August 19 • 7:00 PM Has GOd FOrsaKen aFrICa? n Friday – Sunday, August 7 – 9 Wednesday & Thursday, August 5 & 6 n Thursday, August 20 • 9:00 PM dir. Musa dieng Kala | 2008 | canada | 60 min. | • 7:00 PM each year, thousands of young africans risk • 7:00 PM n Wednesday & Thursday, August 12 & 13 deFenders OF rIGa (rigas sargi) their lives to flee a continent scourged by war dir. Aigars Grauba | 2007 | Latvia | 118 min. | and endemic poverty. shocked by this growing • 7:00 PM aCt OF GOd dir. Jennifer baichwal | canada | 75 min. | 2009 Latvian w/ english subtitles phenomenon, the senegal-born director Musa OBJeCtIFIed Opening night film at HOT dOCs, Act of God latvia’s official entry in the Best Foreign Dieng Kala returns to Dakar, where he grew Film category for the 81st . up and asks the painful question: Has God dir. Gary hustwit | UsA | 75 min. | 2009 | is a brilliant new documentary from Jennifer documentary Released in november of 2007, Rigas Sargi is Forsaken Africa? The answer is bitter. as he Baichwal (ManuFaCTuRed landsCaPes) Tactica presents the Winnipeg premiere of that examines the metaphysical effects of the most ambitious and highest grossing film in films five young adults seeking to immigrate to latvian history. The First World War has ended. the West at any cost, the filmmaker unearths Objectified – a thought provoking new film being struck by lightning. Baichwal’s movie about industrial designers which will make you ventures into the places where science and after many years spent fighting in foreign the impotence of individuals faced with lands, Martin returns home to latvia where his international indifference and the unconcern think twice about all the objects we use in our religion get all smushed together, where the daily lives. director of the cult documentary math of probability and the facts of electrical fiancée elza is waiting. He has no idea that of the leaders of a society emptied of its the decisive battle – both for elza’s heart and resources and incapable of meeting its needs. HelveTICa, (about the type font) Gary differential meet the human need to find a Hustwit has created a film that explores our deeper meaning behind the apparently random for the newly established latvian state – is still a moving film that makes the case for a ahead of him. defenders of Riga dramatizes global ecology in which no nation or people relationship with stuff, which is sometimes and destructive. Act of God has a terrific cast joyous and sometimes conflicted, by going of characters. the events of november 11, 1919 – “lacplesis is abandoned.The film was recently awarded day” – a crucial date in the battle for latvian directly to the source… the people who design Baichwal interviews people whose lives have Best documentary at the Panafrican Film and independence. Television Festival of Ouagadougou. (Institute that stuff. “Interviewees in several countries been changed forever by lightning, including of african studies) range from dieter Rams, formerly one of the the playwright James O’Reilly, who has written chief designers for Braun to Jonathan Ive of n Wednesday, August 19 • 9:00 PM about the strike he survived almost 30 years n Has God Forsaken Africa? Apple and design superstar Karim Rashid. ago, and who acts out, in chilling (and frankly Thursday, August 20 • 7:00 PM Rams, who may very well have had a hand in riveting) detail, the events as he recalls them. designing the coffee maker or clock you use tHe sOVIet stOrY some of the people involved want to talk dir. edvins snore | 86 min. | 2008 | Latvia every day, lists the precepts of good design about God and heaven, but O’Reilly is having The soviet story sparked an international row succinctly. The movie is particularly honest in none of that. Baichwal interviews religious after its premiere to the european parliament in the way it deals with the fact that cool stuff family members of people who were killed april of 2008. The Russian media launched a makes us want it – and designers are always by lightning in Mexico (as they were visiting a campaign to denounce the film and its director. coming up with ways to make newer, cooler shrine), films the energetic festival and parade The film tells the story of the soviet regime and stuff.” (salon Magazine) dedicated to shango, God of lightning, and how the soviet union helped nazi Germany “as sleek and handsome as any of the new talks to a French lightning aficionado about instigate the Holocaust. Working with recently and improved household items it exhibits.” storms and the soul. she also has a sequence uncovered archived documents and interviews (new York Times) with guitar improv hero Fred Frith, who talks with former soviet Military intelligence about electricity and the brain and how the act Sponsored by: officials, the film covers The Great Famine in of creation takes place somewhere between the Ukraine of 1932/33, the Katyn Massacre meaning and chance. n Friday & Saturday, July 24 & 25 (1940) Soviet Mass deportations amongst • 9:00 PM “visually magnificent. Baichwal manages other events. Filmed over two years in Russia, to convey all the power and majesty – and Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, France, the UK and tHe PUnKs are alrIGHt Soul Power menace – of lightning with just the sort of Belgium, The Soviet Story offers a provocative dir. doug crawford | canada | 2006 | 87 min. gobsmacking footage that keeps you glued to insight into recent soviet history told by Opening Performance by The Deceivers the screen. Act of God fearlessly approaches soviet citizens. the natural and the supernatural, and the result “From Hamilton, Canada to são Paulo, Brazil “Gripping, audacious and uncompromising. is visceral, intellectual, heartbreaking, delightful and Jakarta, Indonesia, The Punks are Alright The most powerful antidote yet to the and instructive, all at once.” (Toronto sun / is a highly entertaining punk rock safari from sanitisation of the past.” (The economist) liz Braun) the first world to the third, from the profane to the sacred. exploring human connections and the unifying power of music, the film profiles Act of God three punk bands from three parts of the world. Beginning its journey with the cult Canadian punk band The Forgotten Rebels, The Punks are Alright follows the surprising lineage of n Friday & Saturday, August 28 & 29 their influence and inspiration to The Blind Pigs • 9:00 PM from Brazil and superman Is dead from Bali. n Wednesday & Thursday, September Connected through their music by unusual but coincidental circumstances, the film introduces 2 & 3 • 9:00 PM the viewer to some fascinating people. The sOUl POWer result is an insightful social commentary dir. Jeffrey Ley-hinte | UsA | 93 min. | about young people’s perception of their environments, dIY culture, and globalization.” Featuring B.B. King, James Brown, Miriam Makeba, Sister Sledge, The Crusaders, Muhammad Ali (Sonatrope / Hong Kong) Held up in legal wrangling for years, the music film soul Power is culled from 125 hours of

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They “arabian nights” style collection of tales, (w/ 3d glasses) blend classical piano and rock guitar with ’s 1973 captures *Come to the July 10 opening night screening for electronics and syncopated percussion to the great Italian director at the peak of his a group photo with your 3D glasses which will be create a dark, blissful, melodramatic prog pop cinematic powers. posted on our website. that has been described as “Tori Amos and “Amarcord is a massively enjoyable Based on the Ray Bradbury story The Meteor, Enya having a paranoid acid trip with Jefferson entertainment infused with more than a little science fiction veteran Jack arnold (director of Airplane.” They are finishing up a new album to wry wisdom, pathos and mystery.” (salon Creature from the Black Lagoon and Incredible be released in Fall of 2009. Magazine) Shrinking Man) created one of the key early works of science fiction. It Came from Outer n Friday & Saturday, July 31 & August 1 space opens with Richard Carlson, a scientist, • 9:00 PM Amarcord and Barbara Rush, his school-teacher fiancee, n Wednesday & Thursday, August 5 & 6 observing the landing of a fiery object in the arizona desert. at first believing it is a meteor, • 9:00 PM Carlson changes his opinion when he ventures HUnGer into the crater. strange things begin to happen dir. steve McQueen | United Kingdom | 96 min. | in the community. Townspeople disappear and drama their likenesses are taken over by the space Starring Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Friday – sunday, July 31 – aug. 2 visitors. (variety) Stuart Graham 7:00 PM a tour de force debut by renowned British visual artist steve McQueen, Hunger follows Wednesday & thursday, august 5 & 6 the final six weeks in the life of Irish hunger 7:00 PM striker Bobby sands. displaying a breathtaking control of image, sound, pacing and tone, McQueen delivers a precise and devastating portrait of political violence both as it is FRINGE ACTORS FILM FESTIVAL inflicted and most especially as it is felt. (Toronto Film Festival 2009) n Friday, Saturday & Wednesday, Starring: Darcy Fehr, Vic Cowie, Melissa Dionissio, “a superbly balanced piece of work, July 24, 25 & 29 • 7:00 PM Jon Ted Wynne, Mike Bell, David Evans compelling drama…The heart of the movie adapted from a ten-part peephole installation, is an extraordinary 20 minute conversation aCtInG UP a stOrM: FrInGe Cowards Bend the Knee is “jam-packed between sands and a tough parish priest. aCtOrs FIlM FestIVal with enough kinetically photographed action I can’t recall a movie with a more powerful to seem like a never-ending cliffhanger. In priest-prisoner dialogue. Hunger’s harrowing several of Winnipeg’s acting finest have this twisted and poisoned wish-fulfillment, final moment is informed not only by scripture, presented some great performances in short the mythomaniacal Maddin casts ‘himself’ but by a thousand years of religious art. I’ve films from the independent film community, (actually, darcy Fehr) as a hockey sniper seen Hunger three times…it’s awe inspiring.” we’ve dug around and discovered some gems: made lily-livered by mother and daughter (J. Hoberman, village voice) • Mike Bell in Jason Lapeyre’s femme fatales and resurrects his father as dIReCTOR’s CuT as the team’s radio broadcaster as his own n Friday & Saturday, August 14 & 15 • Muriel Hogue and Jeff Skinner in Brendon romantic antagonist. set in a shadow-suffused • 7:00 & 9:15 PM sawatzky’s MIGRaIne hockey arena and a Mabuse-like beauty n Sunday, August 16 • 7:00 PM • Tom Keenan and Andrew Cecon in salon-slash-abortion clinic, the plot drips with Grecian formula, as sordid family secrets NewlY ReStoRed 35 mm PRINt: Ryan McKenna’s KNIGHTS OF THE Blue COllaR spawn unintentional murder most foul.” (Mark aMarCOrd Peranson / vancouver Film Festival) n Saturday, July 18 • 9:00 PM • Sharon Bajer’s Star Trek spoof “IT’S dir. Federico Fellini | italy | 123 min. | 1973 | italian sO IllOGICal” “MADDIN’S MASTERPIECE! An evocation of w/ english subtitles forbidden desire and monstrous repression. tHe PHantOM OF tHe OPera • Darcy Fehr and Vic Cowie in Guy Maddin’s Fellini delighted audiences with this funny and The murky ambience, and even some of the dir. rupert Julian (based on the classic novel COWARDS BEND THE KNEE by Gaston Leroux) | 1925 | UsA | horror affectionate fantasy vision of his boyhood, motifs, suggest early-’30s horror films like The • Talia Pura, Darcy Fehr and Wayne Nicklas Starring Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin the fourth of the legendary director’s works Mystery of the Wax Museum or Mad Love. in Talia Pura’s THe sTRaWBeRRY What’s truly extraordinary is that it not only with lIVe muSIc ScoRe bY QueRkuS to win the academy award for Best Foreign language Film. Amarcord has now been given COnFessIOn plays like a dream but feels like one.” admISSIoN: $10 non-members / $8.00 members a gorgeous new 35mm restoration under • Graham Ashmore in Patrick Lowe’s (J. Hoberman, The village voice) One of the great early silent classics of the the supervision of Giuseppe Rotunno, the a BIT TRansCendenTal horror genre, Phantom of the Opera features renowned cinematographer who originally • Arlea Ashcroft in Tammy Jones FUCK IT! the legendary lon Chaney as the mysterious shot its sumptuous images. Hailed by many insane phantom who haunts the catacombs • Donna Lewis in Shereen Jerrett’s THE critics as a welcomed return for Fellini after the WALTZ and many more! beneath the Paris Opera House. The phantom extravagant excesses of Satyricon and Roma, “To be or not to be…better to be from wants his protégé, Christine daaé to sing the Amarcord (the title is Romagnese dialect for Winnipeg!” (Dave Barber) role of Marguerite in Gounod’s Faust, replacing “I remember”) is set in Fellini’s hometown of the diva Mlle. Carlotta. Rimini during the Fascist period. It follows n Sunday, July 26 • 7:00 PM “Phantom is an impressive technical tour de the comic coming of age adventures of Titta, force, and all that makeup/cinematography actINg uP a StoRm: a teenaged Fellini surrogate making his way FRINge actoRS FIlm FeStIVal supports high-quality storytelling. lon through the minefields of religion, love, sex, Chaney’s erik is memorable for more than his politics, puberty and family life. an inspired COWards Bend tHe Knee hideous visage; Chaney makes the character mix of memory, melancholia, imagination, dir. Guy Maddin | canada | 2003 | 64 min. | imposing and otherworldly long before we see bawdy humour and nostalgia, the film is set silent w/english intertitles

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5 6 7 8 9 10 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Shall We Kiss? Shall We Kiss? Angakkuiit Tokyo! Act of God Act of God Objectified (pg 2) 7:00 PM (pg 2) (Shaman (pg 2) 7:00 PM (pg 4) 7:00 PM (pg 4) 7:00 PM (pg 4) 7:00 PM 7:00 & 9:00 PM Stories) (pg 4) 7:00 PM 3D Classics: It Came Hunger The Girlfriend Experience from Outer Space (pg 5) 9:00 PM (pg 2) 9:00 PM Shall We Kiss? (pg 5) 9:00 PM (pg 2) 9:00 PM 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Tokyo! Has God Forsaken Africa? Let Him Be Objectified Objectified Amarcord (pg 4) (pg 2) 7:00 PM (pg 4) 7:00 PM (pg 2) 7:00 PM (pg 4) 7:00 PM 7:00 PM (pg 5) 7:00 & 9:15 PM

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