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Exclusive First Runs Vancity Impact Talk Artifishal JOSH MURPHY, US, 2019, 75 MIN. IMPACT THU JUN 27 - 6:30PM (FREE SCREENING) Artifishal is a film about people, rivers, and the fight for the future of wild fish and the environment that supports them. It explores wild salmon’s slide toward extinction, threats posed by fish hatcheries and fish farms, and our continued loss of faith in nature. This free screening will be followed by a conversation with the leading Long Day’s Journey Too Late To Die Young advocate for wild salmon, scientist Alexandra Morton. Tarde Para Morir Joven Diqiu zuihoude yewan Into Night DOMINGA SOTOMAYOR CASTILLO, CHILE, 2018, 110 MIN. PANORAMA BI GAN, CHINA, 2018, 133 MIN. GATEWAY FRI JUL 5 - 8:30PM • SAT JUL 6 - 6:15PM FRI JUN 28 - 8:15PM • SAT JUN 29 - 9:15PM SUN JUL 7 - 8:30PM • MON JUL 8 - 6:30PM MON JUL 1 - 6:00PM • THU JUL 4 - 8:20PM WED JUL 10 - 4:00PM • THU JUL 11 - 8:30PM This gorgeous, breathtaking movie from your next favourite In 1990 Chile transitioned to democracy, but all of that filmmaker, Bi Gan (Kaili Blues), dives deep into the halluci- seems a world away for 16-year-old Sofia, who lives far off natory hinterlands where cinema and consciousness inter- the grid in a mountain enclave of artists and bohemians. mingle, to create something uniquely memorable, keenly Too Late to Die Young takes place during the hot, languor- felt and intangibly alive. An oneiric detective story about ous days between Christmas and New Year’s, when the a man looking for a woman in a green dress, the movie troubling realities of the adult world—and the elemental ultimately abandons rationalism and plunges into the most forces of nature—begin to intrude on her teenage idyll. A unforgettable single take in film history. “Swooningly beauti- vivid and sun-splashed portrait of youth—and a country— ful.” LA Times (2D presentation) Push on the cusp of exhilarating and terrifying change. FREDRIK GERTTEN, SWEDEN, 2019, 92 MIN. IMPACT FRI JUL 19 - 6:30PM* • SAT JUL 20 - 5:45PM TUE JUL 23 - 5:00PM • WED JUL 24 - 8:35PM THU JUL 25 - 6:30PM In Vancouver for years we have debated if we are in a housing bubble. But there is another kind of bubble, one that allows us to assume this is a unique experience. In fact citizens in cities across North and South America, Europe, and Asia have been priced out of their homes as global investment companies buy up buildings as assets with little or no regard for their occupants. This investi- gative doc from the director of Bikes vs Cars follows UN Special Rapporteur Leilani Farha as she probes for an- The Serengeti Rules Ray & Liz swers. *Vancity Impact Talk on Friday July 19th NICOLAS BROWN, UK, 2018, 84 MIN. PANORAMA RICHARD BILLINGHAM, UK, 2018, 108 MIN. PANORAMA FRI JUL 12 - 5:45PM • SAT JUL 13 - 5:30PM FRI JUL 12 - 7:30PM • SAT JUL 13 - 7:15PM Anime Day | June 30 SUN JUL 14 - 3:00PM • TUE JUL 16 - 6:30PM TUE JUL 16 - 8:15PM • THU JUL 18 - 6:30PM Anime All Access Pack Available: $30 WED JUL 17 - 6:30PM Evoking the desperate defiance of Fish Tank and Ratcatch- We are all familiar with the pyramid structure of the food er, Richard Billingham’s deeply personal portrait of working chain. Over the last 50 years, though, scientists have pieced class life in Thatcher’s Britain is powerfully etched, grim, together a more nuanced understanding of how ecosys- funny, and terribly human. Ray and Liz are the filmmaker’s tems work and what happens when human development parents, and almost grotesquely ill-equipped for the task, removes “keystone” species — often predators — from the yet somehow children survive neglect and abuse, and picture. The good news: this is reversible. This fascinating as this memorable movie proves, live to tell the tale with doc looks at 5 scientists from different fields finding com- compassion and poetry. “All hail an instant classic.” London mon patterns of destruction and regeneration. Evening Standard

Documentaries Penguin Highway HIROYASU ISHIDA, 2019, 118 MIN. GATEWAY SUN JUN 30 - 3:00PM Based on a sci-fi mystery novel by Tomihiko Morimi (The Night is Short, Walk on Girl), Hiroyasu Ishida makes his directorial debut with Penguin Highway. Young book-smart Aoyama finds himself drawn into a bizarre local phenom- enon where penguins start appearing in his home town out of nowhere. While others can only act confused, Aoyama is determined to deduce his way through a thoroughly un- predictable mystery that happens to intertwine with a local dental assistant who has recently caught his fancy. Buddy Because We Are Girls Made In Abyss: HEDDY HONIGMANN, 2019, 86 MIN. PANORAMA BALJIT SANGRA, CANADA, 2019, 85 MIN. TRUE NORTH Journey’s Dawn FRI JUN 28 - 6:30PM • SAT JUN 29 - 5:45PM FRI JUL 5 - 6:20PM • SAT JUL 6 - 4:00PM, 8:30PM MASAYUKI KOJIMA, JAPAN, 2019, 118 MIN. GATEWAY MON JUL 1 - 4:00PM • WED JUL 3 - 6:30PM SUN JUL 7 - 6:45PM • THU JUL 11 - 6:30PM SUN JUN 30 - 5:15PM THU JUL 4 - 4:30PM Three of the most courageous women you will ever see Sentai Filmworks’ adapted Akihito Tsukushi’s sprawling Man’s best friend gets a turn in the spotlight in this loving — Indo-Canadian sisters who grew up in Williams Lake — manga into a hit, award-winning TV series, and have now tribute to the deep bonds forged between service dogs and share their story in this distressing but empowering docu- compressed the show into a two volume feature (part two their human charges.Renowned documentary filmmaker mentary. Jeeti, Kira, and Salakshana had a typical conserva- is due shortly). This is an epic quest narrative with a wild Heddy Honigmann looks at six such relationships, including tive upbringing, but each suffered years of repeated sexual fantasy setting in which a mischievous 12-year-old orphan ex soldiers suffering from PTSD, the partially sighted, and a abuse. . To speak up meant shame and social ostracism Riko sets out to descend through the multiple depths of a young man on the spectrum. The rapport between them is even within the family. Now, decades later, they are ready vast, gaping volcano (structured a little like Dante’s Inferno) a joy to behold. to confront their abuser and the parents who turned a blind in the company of a robot boy she names Reg, after a be- eye to their anguish. loved lost dog. Some mature content. Filmmaker Q&A Fri & Sat Urban Inuit: The 5th Region GABRIEL NURAKI KOPERQUALUK & AEYLIYA HUSAIN, 2018, 47 MIN. TRUE NORTH WED JUN 26 - 7:30PM For the Inuit, there is Inuit Nunangat — the four northerly territories — and then there is the fifth region, where most of the settlers live. Southern Canada is now home to approx The Girl Who Leapt 30 percent of their own. This doc follows artist Niap and Watergate Torontomiutaujugut co-founder Joshua Stribbell, two Inuit *with English voice cast CHARLES FERGUSON, USA, 2019, 260 MIN. PANORAMA Through Time raised in the fifth region under the shadow of the Sixties MAMORU HOSODA, JAPAN, 2006, 98 MIN. GATEWAY FRI JUL 26 - 1:30PM • SAT JUL 27 - 1:30PM Scoop, and still working to reconcile their identity, heritage, TUE JUL 30 - 6:00PM • WED JUL 31 - 12:30PM upbringing and experience. SUN JUN 30 - 7:30PM In this definitive account of the ousting of President Richard This screening, co-presented with the Marion Scott Gal- This 2006 hit from Mamoru Hosoda (Mirai) is based on a Nixon Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker lery, will be preceded by the short film Urban Inuk (6 min) classic sci-fi story by Yasutaka Tsutsui (Paprika). Makoto Charles Ferguson (Inside Job) interviews politicians, pros- and followed by a discussion with guests Joshua Stribbel Konno has discovered the ability to “time-leap” and relive ecutors, whistleblowers and defendants, journalists and (and more to be announced). specific moments over and over again. However, while she historians, to illuminate the Watergate scandal from all uses her power frivolously, she soon discovers that this angles. “So dramatic, suspenseful and clear, that it absorbs creates consequences for the people she loves, and that all of your attention.” New York Times Latin America Week she only has a limited number of leaps to set things right. Screening in a classic English language dub produced The film is presented here in two parts, with an addi- by Ocean Studios here in Vancouver. tional 1 hour intermission. The Pearl Button PATRICIO GUZMAN, CHILE, 2015, 82 MIN. TUE JUL 2 - 6:30PM This entrancing, poetic, political documentary from the director of Nostalgia for the Light is a potent reminder of the abuses committed by the Pinochet regime, and a vivid essay on the stunning Patagonian Archipelago. “By turns lyrical, impressionistic and profound.” LA Times Plus short film NUHUANI (8 min) + live music and buffet Doors from 5.30pm, film at 6.30pm Millennium Actress Double bill ticket with Rojo (8.30pm) $20 SATOSHI KON, JAPAN, 2001, 87 MIN. GATEWAY Propaganda - SUN JUN 30 - 9:30PM The Art of Selling Lies The second film from the late Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue, LARRY WEINSTEIN, CANADA, 2019, 92 MIN. TRUE NORTH Tokyo Godfathers, Paprika), Millennium Actress is returning to theatres in a restored version. An obsessed TV reporter FRI JUL 26 - 7:10PM • SAT JUL 27 - 7:10PM tracks down a prolific and reclusive actress, Chiyoko Fu- MON JUL 29 - 6:30PM • TUE JUL 30 - 4:00PM jiwara, who has agreed to a rare interview. The story she For as long as human beings have been making art we have tells blurs the lines between fiction and reality, as her in- been telling lies: exaggerating our own accomplishments to terviewers are drawn into dizzying, intertwining narratives scare off the competition, propping up power and privilege, that blend Chiyoko’s harrowing life with the characters she or, contrarily, fomenting revolution. This engaging, wide- played on the screen. ranging essay film from Larry Weinstein looks at our own fraught political moment in the broad context of art history. In a tightly packed 90 minutes, Weinstein interviews several Cinema Salon notable artists, including Ai Weiwei, Shepard Fairey and Rojo Kent Monkman. BENJAMÍN NAISHTAT, ARGENTINA, 2018, 109 MIN. PANORAMA The Times of Harvey Milk TUE JUL 2 - 8:30PM ROBERT EPSTEIN, USA, 1984, 88 MIN. PANORAMA The Last Bolshevik SAT JUL 20 - 7:35PM • MON JUL 22 - 6:30PM CHRIS MARKER, FRANCE, 1993, 116 MIN. PANORAMA WED JUL 24 - 6:30PM • THU JUL 25 - 8:20PM TUE JUL 23 - 7:30PM SAT JUL 27 - 9:00PM • SUN JUL 28 - 3:30PM This hypnotic Argentinean drama follows a successful Winner of the Best Documentary Oscar 1985, this film rings lawyer (Darío Grandinetti, Wild Tales) whose enviable life with passion. It isn’t just about the brave and influential Chris Marker’s inspired tribute to the early Soviet filmmaker unravels after an encounter with an angry stranger. A neo- political career of Harvey Milk, but of the movement in San Aleksandr Medvedkin (Happiness) is a masterpiece that noir mystery — there is even a Chilean celebrity detective Francisco in the 1970s to accept the gay community and resonates far beyond the world of cinema. “A great film al- (Alfredo Castro) — Benjamin Naishtat’s artful movie keeps other minorities as proud equals. The murder of Milk and most no one has seen,” per Pauline Kael, The Last Bolshevik pulling us off balance and drawing us into unexpected Mayor Moscone who supported Milk by their ex-colleague is the story of an artist and the revolution, about Commu- places... It’s a film about appearances and disappearances, Dan White did nothing to suppress Milk’s work, which nist ideals as they were lived in the early 20th Century, and about perception, corruption and power... a film about spread across America for decades to come. looked back upon as the Soviet Union crumbled in the age South America in the 70s and about the world today. of perestroika. Guest presenter: Spencer Chandra Herbert, MLA Vancouver International Film Festival’s Year-Round Showcase Jun 23 - Aug 3, 2019

SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY JUN 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Royal Opera House presents: Vancity Impact Talks 5:45 Buddy 6:30 3 Ballets: Within the 6:30 Artifishal (Alexandra Golden Hour / Medusa / Morton in Conversation) 7:30 Gordon Lightfoot: If Flight Pattern 4:45 There Are No Fakes 6:30 Buddy You Could Read My Mind Music Mondays 7:30 Urban Inuit: The 5th 8:45 nîpawistamâsowin: 8:15 Long Day’s Journey 9:15 Long Day’s Journey RENTAL 9:00 Echo in the Canyon RENTAL Region + Talk We Will Stand Up Into Night Into Night

30 Anime Day JUL 1 2 3 4 5 6 3:00 Penguin Highway 5:15 Made In Abyss: 4:00 Because We Are Journey’s Dawn 4:00 Buddy 4:30 Buddy Girls 7:30 The Girl Who Leapt 6:00 Long Day’s Journey 6:30 Gordon Lightfoot: If 6:20 Because We Are 6:15 Too Late To Die Latin American Week Through Time Into Night 6:30 Buddy You Could Read My Mind Girls Young 6:30 The Pearl Button 9:30 Millennium 8:30 Gordon Lightfoot: If 8:20 Gordon Lightfoot: If 8:20 Long Day’s Journey 8:30 Too Late To Die 8:30 Because We Are Actress You Could Read My Mind 8:30 Rojo You Could Read My Mind Into Night Young Girls 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 4:00 Too Late To Die Young RENTAL SciFact vs SciFi: Nerd Nite Goes to the Movies 6:45 Because We Are 6:30 Because We Are 6:30 Too Late To Die 7:30 (1) Animals 5:45 The Serengeti Rules 5:30 The Serengeti Rules Girls 6:30 The Good, the Bad Girls Young According to Hollywood 8:30 Too Late To Die and the Ugly - Definitive 8:30 Too Late To Die 7:30 Ray & Liz 7:15 Ray & Liz Young 8:40 Echo in the Canyon Cut 9:00 The Birds Young 9:35 Babylon 9:30 Babylon 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 3:00 The Serengeti Rules Film Studies 6:30 Push 5:15 Babylon 1:45 The Right Stuff 5:45 Push 7:30 Razzle Dazzle 6:30 Babylon 6:30 The Serengeti Rules Vincent Ward: The 7:35 Rojo Divas! The Women of 8:30 That Pärt Feeling: 6:30 The Serengeti Rules 8:20 That Pärt Feeling: 6:30 Ray & Liz Wizard of NZ 9:45 The Navigator: A Movie Musicals The Universe of Arvo Pärt 8:15 Ray & Liz The Universe of Arvo Pärt 8:40 Babylon 9:30 Vigil Medieval Odyssey 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 3:00 Vigil 4:50 The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey 6:45 Map of the Human 5:00 Push 1:30 Watergate Heart Cinema Salon 1:30 Watergate 7:10 Propaganda - The 9:00 What Dreams May 6:30 Rojo 7:30 The Times of 6:30 Rojo 6:30 Push 7:10 Propaganda - The Art of Selling Lies Come 8:40 Nureyev Harvey Milk 8:35 Push 8:20 Rojo Art of Selling Lies 9:00 The Last Bolshevik 28 29 30 31 AUG 1 2 3 12:30 Watergate Vancouver Korean 3:30 The Last Bolshevik SciFact vs SciFi: Film Festival 7:30 Happiness: Live Nerd Nite Goes to the Movies Aug 1 - 3 Cinema by The Little 4:00 Propaganda - The 7:30 (2) The Universe goviff.org/vkff2019 6:30 Merry Christmas Chamber Music Series 6:30 Propaganda - The Art of Selling Lies According to Hollywood 7:00 Opening Gala 6:20 Little Forest Mr Mo That Could Art of Selling Lies 6:00 Watergate Film TBA Missing 8:30 The Throne 8:30 Familyhood

Classics

The Good, the Bad and Film Studies: Happiness: the Ugly - Definitive Cut The Right Stuff Live Cinema by The Little Chamber PHILIP KAUFMAN, USA, 1983, 193 MIN. PANORAMA SERGIO LEONE, ITALY, 1966, 162 MIN. PANORAMA Music Series That Could TUE JUL 9 - 6:30PM MON JUL 15 - 1:45PM ALEKSANDR MEDVEDKIN, SOVIET UNION, 1935, 65 MIN. Introduced by filmmakers and Sergio Leone-aficionados Fifty years ago this week, man walked on the moon for the SUN JUL 28 - 7:30PM Will Ross and Devan Scott, this is the nearest you will get first time. The Right Stuff, released in 1983, is the story of the daring and expertise it took to get there. Based on Tom Partnering with Mark Haney’s The Little Chamber Music to the definitive director’s cut of the Italian’s 1966 master- Series That Could, VIFF presents a lost classic of silent cin- piece. The third and the best of the so-called ‘Dollars’ trilogy Wolfe’s best-seller, the movie is an idiosyncratic epic about the loner test pilots who became world famous astronauts, ema with a brand new music score, performed live for the amplifies Leone’s baroque style: crane shots, shock cuts first time! Happiness is best known to cinephiles through and Morricone music all vying for attention as three rogues a satire on the Space Race, and a reverie for the pioneering spirit. the efforts of Chris Marker. It is a slapstick cinematic folktale hunt buried gold in a series of triangular variations. in which a poor, lazy peasant is sent out by his wife, Anna, “The best directed movie of all time.” Quentin Tarantino Introduced by Tom Charity, VIFF Vancity Theatre program- to find happiness. Unfortunately, his quest is hampered by mer and author of the book, The Right Stuff (BFI Modern priests, officials and other freeloaders along the way. Classics). Tickets $15 Tickets $18 Vincent Ward: The Wizard of NZ SciFact vs SciFi Nerd Nite Goes to the Movies Animals According to Hollywood presented by Dr Carin Bondar 65 MIN. WED JUL 10 - 7:30PM Our new lecture series debunking Hollywood Fake Science begins with biologist Dr. Carin Bondar! She’s been the host of Science Channel’s Outrageous Acts of Science, and she’s the author of several books including “Wild Moms: The Science Behind Mating in the Animal Kingdom”. Tonight she’ll join Kaylee and Michael from Nerd Nite to Vigil The Navigator: A discuss the sci-facts in a variety of clips from cinema. We’ll VINCENT WARD, NEW ZEALAND, 1984, 90 MIN. PANORAMA be discussing the science in Planet of the Apes, The Birds, Medieval Odyssey Arachnophobia, Snakes on a Plane, and more! FRI JUL 19 - 9:30PM • SUN JUL 21 - 3:00PM VINCENT WARD, 1988, 92 MIN. PANORAMA The debut feature from Vincent Ward — the Wizard of NZ Tickets $15 (or with film The Birds for $20) SAT JUL 20 - 9:45PM • SUN JUL 21 - 4:50PM —is an eye-opening tale of a young girl on a remote farm, and the interloper who comes in to help after the death of Cumbria, 1348 – the year of the Black Death. Griffin, a young The Birds her dad, who she suspects may be the devil. The narrative boy, is plagued by apocalyptic visions which he believes ALFRED HITCHCOCK, USA, 1963, 120 MIN. PANORAMA is spare but layered with symbolism - what sets Vigil apart is could save his village. Encouraging a small band of men to the image-making: Ward has a singular way of looking at the tunnel into the earth, they surface in 1980s New Zealand, a WED JUL 10 - 9:00PM world, at once elemental and supernatural. This is astonish- future far beyond their comprehension... Truffaut: “Birds attack people! I am convinced that cinema ing cinema, impure and simple. “Almost three decades later, the film is still gobsmacking to was invented so that such a film could be made. This is an “Extraordinary... a work of awesome beauty.” LA Times watch and shows no signs of aging. It is the sort of head trip artist’s dream…” that leaves audiences gasping for air and critics lunging for adjectives.” The Guardian Royal Opera House presents... Map of the Human Heart What Dreams May Come VINCENT WARD, 1992, 109 MIN. PANORAMA VINCENT WARD, 1998, 113 MIN. PANORAMA SUN JUL 21 - 6:45PM SUN JUL 21 - 9:00PM A few years before The English Patient, Ward made this That shopworn phrase “like nothing you have seen before” more eccentric but fascinatingly fervid war-torn romance. surely fits this colour-saturated journey into the afterlife, It begins in the arctic, where a drunken, elderly Inuit, Avik a dazzling fantasy based on a novel by Richard Matheson (Jason Scott Lee) recounts his extraordinary life story to a (Twilight Zone; I Am Legend). Robin Williams and Annabella young mapmaker (John Cusack): how an aviator dropped Sciorra are lovers whose bond reaches beyond the grave... out of the sky and whisked him to a sanitarium in Montreal “So breathtaking, so beautiful, so bold in its imagination,” to cure his TB; how he met his soulmate there, Albertine wrote Roger Ebert. “Even in its imperfect form shows how (Anne Parillaud); how racism and fate swept them apart, movies can imagine the unknown, can lead our imagina- only to reconnect at the height of WWII... tions into wonderful places.” 3 Ballets: Within the Golden Hour / Music & Dance Medusa / Flight Pattern from the Royal Ballet, with Crystal Pite Q&A UK, 2019, 120 MIN. M/A/D MON JUN 24 - 6:30PM Vancouver’s internationally renowned choreographer Crys- tal Pite is at Vancity Theatre in person to introduce the Royal Ballet’s revival of her Olivier-award winning piece, Flight Pattern, a poignant, passionate reflection on migration set to the music of Górecki. Before that, we will see Christopher Wheeldon’s Within the Golden Hour, in which 7 couples separate and interminge to music by Vivaldi and Bossi; and Medusa, a brand new work by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Gordon Lightfoot: If You Babylon Crystal Pite will be in attendance Could Read My Mind FRANCO ROSSO, UK, 1980, 95 MIN. M/A/D FRI JUL 12 - 9:35PM • SAT JUL 13 - 9:30PM Nureyev JOAN TOSONI, MARTHA KEHOE, CANADA, 2019, 90 MIN. M/A/D JACQUI MORRIS, DAVID MORRIS, UK, 2019, 109 MIN. M/A/D SUN JUL 14 - 5:15PM • MON JUL 15 - 6:30PM* SAT JUN 29 - 7:30PM • MON JUL 1 - 8:30PM* THU JUL 18 - 8:40PM MON JUL 22 - 8:40PM WED JUL 3 - 8:20PM • THU JUL 4 - 6:30PM Finally released in North America 39 years since it pre- Nureyev wasn’t just the most astonishing dancer of his Portrait of a Canadian icon: one of the most successful miered at Cannes, Franco Rosso’s reggae rabble-rouser generation, he was also intensely charismatic and slyly singer-songwriters this country has ever produced, Gordon immediately claims its place beside The Harder They Come fascinating. This acclaimed documentary by siblings Jacqui Lightfoot looks back candidly on a life of big appetites, re- and Rockers as a lost classic of the genre. It’s a palpably and David Morris features oodles of dance footage (some flects on the art and craft of songwriting, and on what it's authentic picture of being young and black in south London, of it never seen before), TV chat show interviews from the like to be covered by Elvis. There’s additional commentary with racism constantly simmering in the background, but 70s, and off-screen reminiscences from friends and peers. from Ian and Sylvia Tyson, Anne Murray, Randy Bachman, all fuel to the fire of the music (courtesy of Aswad, Johnny “Instantly essential.” Hollywood Reporter Steve Earle and Geddy Lee. Clarke and Dennis Bovell, among others). “One of the great- “Briskly entertaining and entirely legend-affirming.” Ben est British films.” Mojo “Good enough to leave you thrilled and haunted.” Variety Rayner, The Toronto Star Razzle Dazzle Divas! Echo in the Canyon That Pärt Feeling: The ANDREW SLATER, USA, 2019, 90 MIN. M/A/D Universe of Arvo Pärt The Women of Movie MON JUN 24 - 9:00PM* • MON JUL 8 - 8:40PM* PAUL HEGEMAN, 2019, 75 MIN. M/A/D Musicals Presented by Michael van den Bos Traversing a musical journey from Liverpool to California, MON JUL 15 - 8:30PM* • WED JUL 17 - 8:20PM 110 MIN. M/A/D this -fronted doc casts a new light on 60s The great composer Arvo Pärt at work, whilst the artists SUN JUL 14 - 7:30PM sounds so deeply ingrained in our culture we might feel who perform his music and are inspired by it illustrate the All-Singing! All-Dancing! All-Women Who Wow! Film we imbibe them at birth. , , Buf- different aspects of the phenomenon the man is. Pärt’s mu- scholar Michael van den Bos spotlights the wonder women falo Springfield and The Mamas & the Papas were all in- sic has featured in films as diverse as The Thin Red Line, of classic movie song and dance in a clip show featuring fluenced by (and then went on to influence the The Great Beauty, and Avengers: Age of Ultron (among sensational performances by Julie Andrews, Cyd Charisse, Beatles in turn). The locus for this shift was Laurel Canyon, more than 100 credits), and at 83 he’s known as “the most Judy Garland, Betty Grable, Lena Horne, Ann Miller, Debbie jammed with unparalleled creativity, and inspiring he likes performed composer of our times”, but then as this appro- Reynolds, and more! Michael also pays tribute to the daz- of , and Cat Power to this day. priately understated portrait suggests, that’s because he zling Doris Day and the musical muses of choreographer/ *Music Mondays $11 Tickets puts work first. director Bob Fosse. Tickets and Membership

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