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Canada's Top Ten Film Festival March/ April 2017 special Events Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival Canadian & International Features Toni Erdmann shorts & artist talks Mike Hoolboom & Alex MacKenzie www.winnipegcinematheque.com March 2017 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1 2 3 4 5 Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Circus Without Borders / Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Angry Inuk / 7 pm Maliglutit / 7 pm 7 pm & 9 pm Maliglutit / 3 pm & 7 pm Angry Inuk / 3 pm Angry Inuk / 9 pm Angry Inuk / 9:15 pm Maliglutit / 7 pm 8 9 10 11 12 Toni Erdmann / 7 pm Toni Erdmann / 7 pm Architecture+Film: Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat Canada’s Top Ten: A Little Chaos / 7 pm Cereal Cartoon Party! / 10 am Hello Destroyer / 3 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Toni Erdmann / 3 pm & 7 pm Toni Erdmann / 7 pm Hello Destroyer / 9 pm 15 16 17 18 19 Toni Erdmann / 7 pm Toni Erdmann / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: canada’s Top Ten: Those Who Make Revolution Halfway, Those Who Make Revolution Halfway, Those Who Make Revolution Halfway, Only Dig Their Own Graves / 7 pm Only Dig Their Own Graves / 3 pm Only Dig Their Own Graves / 3 pm It’s Only the End of the World / 7 pm It’s Only the End of the World / 7 pm Toni Erdmann / 9 pm 22 23 24 25 26 French Film Festival: French Film Festival: French Film Festival: Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Daguerreotype / 7 pm Neither Heaven Nor Earth / 7 pm The Wages of Fear / 7 pm Shorts: Part One / 3 pm Shorts: Part Two / 3 pm Oh La La Pauline! / 9 pm Eyes Without a Face / 9:30 pm French Film Festival: Toni Erdmann / 7 pm Diabolique / 7 pm The Stopover / 9:15 pm 29 30 31 Paterson / 7 pm McDonald at the Movies: Paterson / 7 pm The Odd Couple / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Paterson / 9 pm Mean Dreams / 9:15 pm The Void / 11 pm April 2017 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1 2 Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Mean Dreams / 3 pm Student Shorts / 3 pm Paterson / 7 pm The Void / 7 pm The Void / 9:15 pm 5 6 7 8 9 Paterson / 7 pm Incident Reports / 7 pm Paterson / 7 pm Paterson / 3 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Old Stone / 3 pm The Void / 9:15 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Old Stone / 9:15 pm Apparitions / 7 pm Paterson / 7 pm The Void / 11 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Old Stone / 9:15 pm 12 13 14 15 16 The Void / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Closed for Easter Window Horses / 7 pm Window Horses / 7 pm Window Horses / 3 pm & 9 pm Nelly / 9 pm Nelly / 9 pm Nelly / 7 pm 19 20 21 22 23 National Canadian Film Day: Menorca / 7 pm Menorca / 7 pm Menorca / 3 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Nelly / 3 pm Léolo / 7 pm Dark Night / 9:15 pm Dark Night / 9 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Nelly / 7 pm Menorca / 7 pm Dark Night / 9 pm 26 27 28 29 30 Menorca / 7 pm McDonald at the Movies: Canada’s Top Ten: Menorca / 3 pm Menorca / 3 pm & 7 pm A Shot in the Dark / 7 pm Werewolf / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Dark Night / 9 pm Dark Night / 9 pm Werewolf / 7 pm Dark Night / 9 pm Canadian & International Features Toni Erdmann Paterson The Void Directed by Maren Ade Directed by Jim Jarmusch Directed by Steven Kostanski & Jeremy Gillespie 2016, Germany & Austria, 162 min 2016, USA, 118 min 2016, Canada, 90 min German, Romanian & English with subtitles Wednesday, March 29 / 7 pm Friday, March 31 / 11 pm Wednesday & Thursday, March 8 & 9 / 7 pm Thursday, March 30 / 9 pm Saturday, April 1 / 9:15 pm Saturday, March 11 / 3 pm & 7 pm Friday & Saturday, March 31 & April 1 / 7 pm Sunday, April 2 / 7 pm Sunday, March 12 / 7 pm Wednesday, April 5 / 7 pm Thursday, April 6 / 9:15 pm Wednesday & Thursday, March 15 & 16 / 7 pm Friday, April 7 / 7 pm Friday, April 7 / 11 pm Saturday, March 18 / 9 pm Saturday, April 8 / 3 pm Wed, April 12 / 7 pm Sunday, March 26 / 7 pm Sunday, April 9 / 7 pm “… nightmarish...the results recall beasts from films as diverse “Surprising, awkward, refreshing and at times, downright Adam Driver plays a bus driver and poet named Paterson living as John Carpenter’s The Thing, Stuart Gordon’s From Beyond, hilarious. Eliciting laughs and applause — in all the right places — and working in the city of Paterson, New Jersey, which was and Clive Barker’s Hellraiser… fantastic effects make for horrific at its Cannes press screening, this tale of a prankster father who home to the poet William Carlos Williams, whose most famous fun.”— Rob Hunter, Film School Rejects uses practical jokes and disguises to rescue his adult daughter from poem is titled Paterson. Jim Jarmusch is in top form with this “A nostalgic, gory creature feature reminiscent of everything the work-obsessed spiral of seriousness he feels she has sunk into, wonderfully funny and warm meditation on the quotidian we loved about ’80s horror… The creature design work is utterly also manages, without an ounce of schmaltz, to address big issues details of one loving couple’s (extra)ordinary life together. The fantastic… If Clive Barker and H.P. Lovecraft had a warped, twisted relating, among other themes, to a stressed, permanently online film, gorgeously shot by Frederick Elmes (Eraserhead and Blue love child, it would look like The Void.”— Meagan Navarro, modern world where work is no longer something we leave behind Velvet) and perfectly played by Driver and Iranian star Golshifteh Modern Horrors at the office; how families communicate (or fail to); business ethics Farahani as the couple in question, is also a quietly stirring homage and sexism in the workplace.”— Screen International to the affirmative power of art. Jarmusch weaves a tapestry of In the middle of a routine patrol, Officer Daniel Carter happens honest, hopeful small-town life that is rich in comic detail and upon a blood-soaked figure limping down a deserted stretch of “A moving, often hilarious portrait of an unusual father-daughter real emotion. road. He rushes the young man to a nearby rural hospital which relationship… startlingly original... completely surprising at every is staffed by a skeleton crew, only to discover that patients turn. It’s a rare film that makes you think deeply about the world and personnel are transforming into something inhuman. As around you… brilliant.” — Dave Calhoun, Time Out the horror intensifies, Carter leads the other survivors on a On virtually every critic’s list as one of the best if not the best hellish voyage into the subterranean depths of the hospital in a foreign film of the year. desperate bid to end the nightmare before it’s too late. Veteran members of Astron 6 have created an over-the-top homage to the great horror films of the 1980’s. Menorca Dark Night Directed by John Barnard Directed by Tim Sutton 2016, Canada, 81 min 2016, USA, 85 min Thursday & Friday, April 20 & 21 / 7 pm Thursday, April 20 / 9:15 pm Saturday, April 22 / 3 pm Friday & Saturday, April 21 & 22 / 9 pm Sunday, April 23 / 7 pm Thursday – Saturday, April 27 – 29 / 9 pm Wednesday, April 26 / 7 pm “Filmmaker Tim Sutton develops terrifying suspense around Saturday, April 29 / 3 pm nothing happening. Dark Night often feels like a series of Sunday, April 30 / 3 pm & 7 pm likeminded dreams flowing together.”— IndieWIRE Opening night introduced by Director John Barnard. A haunting, artfully understated critique of American gun culture, “Seriously provocative… Menorca somehow gets under your loosely based on the 2012 massacre in Aurora, Colorado which skin.”— Georgia Straight took place during a multiplex screening of The Dark Knight Rises. Employing a mesmerizing documentary-style technique and a A hit at the recent Whistler Film Festival, this Winnipeg feature is cast of non-professional actors, the film follows the activities the story of Claire, a suburban mother who is restless and wants Toni Erdmann of six strangers over the course of one day, from sunrise to to escape her home life. She indulges in some good-natured midnight, the shooter among them. Shot in Sarasota, Florida hedonistic debauchery and receives word from her child that he and lensed by veteran French cinematographer Helene Louvart is abandoning her as his mother. To win back his affection, she (Pina, The Beaches of Agnes), the dreamlike visuals articulate both decides to carry a small rock half way around the world to its Sutton’s carefully crafted landscapes and the characters’ sense of place of origin on a Mediterranean island. Along the way, she alienation and suburban malaise. Winner of the Lanterna Magica goes to work in a strange strip club on the edge of civilization Award at the Venice Film Festival, Dark Night is essential viewing, where exotic dancers perform in an otherworldly space for not only for art-house filmgoers, but also for anyone invested in abandoned souls just like her. Shot on location in Manitoba and the debate over gun violence in America. Menorca, Balearic Islands, this beautifully photographed story features a great performance from lead actress Tammy Gillis and a largely Winnipeg cast. plays with: Imitations / Directed by Milos Mitrovic and Fabian Velasco, 2016, Canada, 10 min / A devoted superfan of the biggest pop star in the world gets plastic surgery to look exactly like his hero but the botched operation turns into to a nightmare in this camp satire of celebrity obsession.
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