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Now he’s back with Salt of Life, EPISODE 3. tolerated as a fact of life, is being redefined as in which the same character is again beset and befuddled by The 1920s were a golden age for world cinema. German Expressionism, Soviet montage, a social problem. And while the film focuses on the demands and charms of the fairer sex. His stunning down- five families, it is also about the emergence of stairs neighbor and his mother’s voluptuous caretaker are but French impressionism and surrealism were passionate CINEMAGIC MEMBERSHIP JUNE-JULY 2012 new film movements, pushing the boundaries of the a movement. It documents a shift in conscious- two of the temptations Gianni encounters, and at the urging medium. 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There is no charge for parking on Sundays and holidays. discuss these years. The director of Singin’ in the all right.” This is wise advice and not only for and it features indelible performances and a remarkable Filmmaker and polar explorer Mark Terry (winner of this Rain, Stanley Donen, talks about his career. pirates. It’s also the closest thing to a lesson soundtrack by Cat Stevens. —Criterion Collection Tickets and memberships go on sale 40 minutes before showtime. TEN FILM DISCOUNT PASS year’s Gemini Humanitarian Award) takes us on a jour- in this delightful stop-motion animated story Please arrive early to avoid disappointment. ney to one of the most desolate but hauntingly beautiful EPISODE 6. Sex and melodrama in the movies of the of high-seas silliness from that British national UVSS Students, Seniors $50.00 places on earth: Antarctica. He brings us face to face fifties: James Dean, On the Waterfront and glossy treasure Aardman Animations (Wallace & All films are in English, or with English subtitles where noted. Films are 35mm with what global warming actually looks like in one of weepies. We travel to Egypt, India, China, Mexico, The past and the present, ancient laws and modern longings, collide in this satisfying, psychologically Gromit). Exquisitely detailed — from its ocean the most delicate eco-systems on earth. –The Gate Britain and Japan to find that movies there were also complex tale of a teenager caught in a blood feud in the craggy countryside of Albania. Nik (Tristan Halilaj) breakers to the curlicues on the luxurious prints unless otherwise indicated. $57.50 Magazine Plus, Mark Terry’s latest, multi award-winning full of rage and passion. Exclusive interviews include seems happy enough riding his motor scooter and courting a beautiful classmate. 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JULY 4 & 5 JULY 6 & 7 (7:00 & 9:40) cinecenta.com CANADIAN FEATURE (7:10 & 9:00) –Whistler Film Festival Episodes 7 & 8 KEYHOLE UK, 2011, each episode 60 min; Blu-ray Director: Fredrik Gertten Sweden/Denmark/USA THE HUNGER GAMES Director: Guy Maddin Canada, 2011, 94 minutes; 14A Director: Gary Ross USA, 2012, 143 minutes; PG 2011, 90 min; English & Swedish with subtitles FULL SERIES EPISODE 7. The explosive story of film in the late A gangster and deadbeat father, Ulysses Pick fifties and sixties: The great movie star Claudia As action, as allegory, as cinema, The Hunger PASS! (Jason Patric), returns home after a long Cardinale talks exclusively about Federico Fellini; in “A MUST-SEE FOR ANYONE Games is the best American science-fiction absence. He arrives, toting two teenag- Denmark, Lars von Trier describes his admiration for CONCERNED WITH FREE SPEECH!” film since The Matrix. 15 episodes + 1 medium THE STORY OF FILM ers: a drowned girl, Denny (Brooke –Boxoffice Magazine Ingmar Bergman; and Bernardo Bertolucci remem- –Postmedia News popcorn + 1 medium Palsson), who has mysteriously bers his work with Pier Paolo Pasolini. French film- pop = only $40.00 returned to life; and a hostage, who makers plant a bomb under the movies, and the new Hollywood didn’t screw up the film version UK, 2011, 60 MIN EPISODES; BLU-RAY This David-and-Goliath documentary tells a remarkable story of a available at the box is actually his teenage son, Manners wave it causes sweeps across Europe. small-time filmmaker who fights back against a mammoth corpo- of Suzanne Collins’ young-adult bestseller (David Wontner). Ulysses doesn’t rec- about a survival-of-the-fittest reality show office & Munchie Bar ration that tries to muzzle him. In 2009 Fredrik Gertten was all set Award-winning filmmaker Mark Cousins provides a guided tour of the greatest movies ever ognize his own son, but he feels with EPISODE 8. The dazzling 1960s in cinema around that sends home all its teen contestants, to premiere his doc Bananas! The film chronicles struggle by farm made and tells the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation. increasing conviction he must make an the world: In Hollywood, legendary cinematographer workers against Dole. The food giant responded with an aggressive save the victor, in body bags. The screen indoor odyssey from the back door of his Haskell Wexler reveals how documentary influ- Hunger Games radiates a hot, jumpy energy media and public relations campaign to quash the film’s release and dis- A feast for cinema lovers! Mark Cousins adapts his celebrated book of the same title into this audacious fifteen- home all the way up, one room at a time, to enced mainstream movies. Easy Rider and 2001: credit the reputation of the filmmaker. Retaliating against Dole’s repeated that’s irresistible. It has epic spectacle, yearning the marriage bedroom where his wife Hyacinth A Space Odyssey signal a new era in America romance, suspense that won’t quit and a shining hour project. He traces the entire history of film, concentrating on artistic vision from the silent era to the digital age. threats of legal action, Gertten launched a counter-suit, while document- Cousins showcases iconic film clips from Asia, Africa, India, the Middle East and South America — woven into the more (Isabella Rossellini) awaits... The house is haunted by cinema. We discover the films of Roman Polanski, ing the whole process for another film, which became Big Boys Gone star in Jennifer Lawrence, who gives us a female Andrei Tarkvosky, and Nagisa Oshima. Black African familiar legacy of Europe and North America. dead relatives. As in Homer’s Odyssey, Ulysses reaches his goal and Bananas! It’s a lesson in how, with a well-orchestrated boycott, a corporate warrior worth cheering. –Rolling Stone cinema is born, and we talk exclusively to the Indian vanquishes his enemy, but… bully can be brought to heel. –Maclean’s –Regina Public Library Theatre master director Mani Kaul. Based in Scotland, he marshals his wealth of knowledge to narrate The Story of Film in his endearing brogue. He interviews cinematic history makers such as Wim Wenders, Claire Denis and Alexander Sokurov and draws upon image makers who take our breath away: Buster Keaton, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Fritz Lang, Yasujiro Ozu, JULY 10 (7:00 & 9:20) JULY 8 & 9 (7:30 ONLY) JULY 11 & 12 (7:10 & 9:00) Satyajit Ray, Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Youssef Chahine, Agnes Varda, Nicholas THE STORY Episodes 9 & 10 OF FILM: MY PERESTROIKA Roeg, Ousmane Sembene, Abbas Kiarostami — to name only a sampling. You’ll drink their visions Sigur Rós: INNI UK, 2011, each episode 60 min; AN ODYSSEY and walk away thirsty for more. --Toronto International Film Festival Blu-ray *SEE BACK COVER Director: Robin Hessman Director: Vincent Morisset Iceland/UK/Canada, 2011, 74 minutes; Blu-ray FOR DETAILS* TUESDAYS IN JUNE & JULY BEGINNING JUNE 12 EPISODE 9. The maturing of American Russia/USA/UK, 2011, 87 min; Russian with subtitles; Blu-ray The music of Iceland’s Sigur Rós fills the cinema, as if reverberating off the walls of some darkly WINNER! BEST CANADIAN cinema of the late sixties and seventies: beautiful fjord. The black-and-white footage of front man Jon Birgisson, straining to hit his vocal FEATURE –Whistler Film Buck Henry, writer of The Graduate, talks An intimate epic that succeeds, because it does two things impeccably well: heights and sawing at his guitar strings with a violin bow, shimmers on the screen. Even before Festival exclusively about movie satire of the time. Paul sitting down at the new Sigur Ros concert film, directed by the wonderfully inventive Montreal It not only evocatively captures the Russian spirit and the yearnings of a generation, but it also Schrader reveals his thoughts on his screenplay for director Vincent Morisset, who has previously worked with Arcade Fire, you know you’re going masterfully chronicles the historic collapse of the Soviet Union and its complex aftermath. Not Taxi Driver. Writer Robert Towne explores the dark to experience something stunning. This is simply one of the most engrossing concert films in an easy thing to do in 87 minutes. But director Robin Hessman, who grew up in the United JULY 13 & 14 (7:10 & 9:15) ideas in Chinatown, and director Charles Burnett recent memory. Morisset’s visual playfulness is perfectly suited to the band. Before going on States but spent eight formative years in Russia (it shows), somehow pulls it off. Clearly in talks about the birth of Black American cinema. hiatus in 2010 to pursue other projects, the band members were in top form when Morisset command of her subject, she uses amazing home movies, historic news footage and reveal- HYSTERIA EPISODE 10. The movies that tried to change the filmed them in London in 2008. It was a peak musically, and visually, with the kind of flashing ing interviews with five everyday people. We see how profoundly events before and after the Director: Tanya Wexler UK, 2012, 100 minutes; 14A world in the seventies: Wim Wenders in Germany; lightshow that hypnotizes to no end… --The Globe and Mail Iron Curtain have affected these well-spoken, intelligent individuals. By the end, the film has Cast: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Hugh Dancy, Felicity Jones, Rupert Everett Ken Loach and Britain; Pasolini in Italy; the birth served up a distinctly Russian-flavored mix of nostalgia and disillusionment that never fails to of new Australian cinema; and then Japan and the be engrossing. --San Francisco Chronicle The film is set in Victorian England where ‘hysteria’ serves as a diagnosis for every type of SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY most moving films in the world. Even bigger, bolder female disorder. An eccentric professor hires a young doctor who together with his best questions about film were being asked in Africa and friend invents the world’s first vibrator. Female patients queue up at the young doctor’s South America, and the story ends with the extraor- surgery for his new treatment. Everyone is caught up in the excitement with the exception of is one of the strongest films of the year. A dinary, psychedelic The Holy Mountain. JUNE 3 & 4 (700 & 9:00) JUNE 5 (7:00 ONLY) JUNE 6 & 7 JUNE 8 & 9 (7:00 & 9:00) Charlotte who is the professor’s stubborn and beautiful suffragette daughter. middle-class Tehran couple (Peyman Moadi and ) –New British Film Festival WEST WIND: THE VISION attempt to separate, and in their stubbornness and lack of communication irrevocably (7:00 & 9:20) DAMSELS IN DISTRESS MONSIEUR LAZHAR ! OF TOM THOMSON affect the lives of those around them, Director: Whit Stillman USA, 2011, 100 minutes; rated G Director: Philippe Falardeau Directors: Michèle Hozer & Peter Raymont JULY 15 & 16 including their precocious 11-year- ed, with an ending that (7:00 only) JULY 17 (7:00 & 9:20) No one has ever done “sweeping” better; when other bland epics Robert De Niro and director Paul Weitz find the Canada, 2011, 90 minutes; Blu-ray Canada, 2011, 95 min; French with subtitles; PG old daughter (), the will provoke arguments, are long forgotten, people will still be watching David Lean’s work. most congenial material either of them has had in husband’s Alzheimer’s-stricken A Separation - winner Zhivago follows its characters across a half-century quite some time in this fractious father-son drama Episodes 11 & 12 WINNER OF 6 GENIE AWARDS including If there father (Ali-Asghar Shahbazi) of the best foreign-lan- MARLEY span - from fin de siècle Russia, through the First with a soul-warming gentle core. What sounds is one and a devout cleaning woman guage movie Oscar - is a Director: Kevin Macdonald UK, 2011, each episode 60 min; Blu-ray World War, into the Bolshevik Revolution, past predictable—a young aspiring writer struggles with BEST PICTURE, ACTOR, DIRECTOR! iconic (Sareh Bayat). Writer/direc- the Russian Civil War, into the crackdowns great film that will haunt USA/UK, 2011, 146 minutes; PG EPISODE 11. Star Wars, Jaws and The Exorcist addiction while trying to deal with his delusional JULY 20 & 21 (7:10 & 9:15) image in tor Farhadi has created a of the ‘20s and ‘30s. Zhivago (Omar Sharif) you. –Now Magazine created the multiplexes, but they were also innova- dad—engages in elemental human ways Monsieur Lazhar is a tender and touching drama. Canadian complex, gripping mystery is a humanist and an intellectual, a man of tive. In India the world’s most famous movie star, thanks to insightful writing and sensi- Algerian refugee Bachir Lahzar (Mohamed Fellag) art, it must that sheds light on modern Everybody knows Bob Marley — a face on a T-shirt — both medicine and art. He’s paired with two BEING FLYNN Amitabh Bachchan, shows how Bollywood was tive performances all around. De becomes a substitute teacher to students struggling with be Tom ’s religious and class but Kevin Macdonald’s documentary is the definitive women: Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin), whom he doing new things in the seventies too. And we dis- Niro, playing Jonathan Flynn, Director: Paul Weitz USA, 2012, grief after their former teacher's suicide. He must navigate Thomson, differences, not to mention cradle-to-grave bible on the man behind the phenom- marries, and Lara (Julie Christie), whom he cover that Bruce Lee movies kick-started the kinetic who claims that he, Mark Twain 102 minutes Cast: Robert De Niro, the minefield that is dealing with traumatized children - no pipe in mouth, its circuitous legal system. enon. Macdonald (The Last King Of Scotland), in col- loves. The vicissitudes of war and revolution films of Hong Kong, where master Yuen Woo-ping and J.D. Salinger are the only Paul Dano, Olivia Thirlby, Lili Taylor, physical contact being of utmost importance. Like the kids daubing paint on a But above all it’s a human laboration with the Marley family, packs his camera and keep bringing Lara and Zhivago together and talks about his action movies and his wire fu chore- great American writers, does who are faced with a new world of tragedy and lost inno- board in the stern of a and moral drama that plays follows in the gentle footsteps of reggae’s godfather in tearing them apart….Screenwriter Robert Bolt The ography for The Matrix. cut the ham a bit thick, but it’s cence, Bachir must confront his own personal demons while canoe. His brief career ended in the sum- with your sympathies and Things are looking up: Whit Stillman has made another movie, his first since 1998’s a documentary that takes in friends, family and musi- condensed Boris Pasternak’s long-banned JULY 18 & 19 (7:00 ONLY) mer of 1917 in Algonquin Park under mysterious poses questions of inno- Last Days of Disco completed the urbane, preppy trilogy begun with Metropolitan and EPISODE 12. an honest, vibrant performance. figuring out his place in a new country. Director Falardeau cal collaborators; no stone is left unturned. This epic, Protest in the movies of the 1980s: novel to movie proportions. Happily, he’s got a splendid circumstances. So far on film, the enigma of his final cence and guilt while pro- Barcelona. So welcome Damsels, an exhilarating gift of a comedy about college, the brave filmmakers spoke truth to power. American proves once again why he's one of Canada's premier uplifting film takes us to the colourful heart of Jamaica, counterbalance in Paul Dano, days has consumed most of the narrative about the viding no pat answers. female intellect, the limitless male ego, inventing a new dance, and suicide prevention. independent director John Sayles talks exclusively –San Francisco Chronicle talents in this through American tours and on to Bob’s exile in London, DR. ZHIVAGO who centers Weitz’s smartly eighth member of the Group of Seven. This film sets Superbly acted Greta Gerwig leads the all-aces cast as Violet, a sophomore who yearns to make Seven about these years. In Beijing, Chinese cinema blos- focused and intelligent drama. A witty screenplay, revealing how Marley — father, player, leader — became judged adaptation of Nick out to correct that unfortunate skew with a fresh look and craft- Oaks U. a more congenial place for her and cohorts Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke), somed before the Tiananmen crackdown. In the moving performances - particularly from the precocious the figurehead for the Rastafarian culture that accepted him and the “spiritual” music that to Director: David Lean USA, 1965, 197 minutes, Blu-ray Flynn’s memoir. KIDS MATINEES WILL at Thomson’s life and, especially, his art. As in their Heather (Carrie MacLemore) and Lily (Analeigh Tipton). The girls’s good works extend to Soviet Union, the past wells up in astonishing films, Cast: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, child cast - and social observations free of a political agenda A SEPARATION this day remains his legacy to the world. A testament befitting a legend. –Empire “The tunes, --The Hollywood CONTINUE IN SEPTEMBER! recent collaboration, Genius Within: The Inner Life of helping depressed students. At the end, the characters whirl around to Violet’s dance. and master director Krzysztof Kieslowski emerges Monsieur Lazhar Director: Asghar Farhadi, Iran, 2011, 123 minutes; Persian with –Time Out New York Tom Courtenay, Alec Guinness, Rod Steiger Reporter makes a high achiever. Glenn Gould, Peter Raymont and Micelle Hozer inves- This is the world as Stillman sees it, and to luxuriate for two hours in that retro bubble of flooding every frame, remain perfect.” in Poland. subtitles; rated G –Now Magazine tigate a genius and the nature of his genius. --VIFF sparkling wit is a pleasure not to be missed. –Rolling Stone

JUNE 15 & 16 (7:00 & 9:00) JULY 22 & 23 (7:15 & 9:00) JULY 24 (7:00 ONLY) JULY 25 & 26 (7:15 & 9:00) “SURPRISINGLY TENDER!” JULY 27 & 28 (7:10 & 9:15) JUNE 10 & 11 (7:00 & 9:15) THE STORY OF FILM JUNE 13 & 14 (7:10 & 9:00) THE DEEP BLUE SEA THE GIRLS IN THE BAND Episodes 12 & 13 & 14 JOFFREY: MAVERICKS OF AMERICAN DANCE –The Globe and Mail UK, 2011, each episode 60 min; Blu-ray DARLING ALBERT NOBBS Director: Terence Davies USA/UK, 2011, 98 minutes; PG Director: Bob Hercules USA, 2012, 82 minutes Director: Judy Chaikin USA, 2011, 83 minutes; Blu-ray The first surprise of Comic-Con is that it’s the first Mor- COMPANION gan Spurlock film Spurlock isn’t in. The second surprise is - in what has to be the perfor- EPISODE 13. Film in the 1990s enters a surprise The full story of this groundbreaking dance company, from their founding in 1956 to the present. Director: Rodrigo Garcia UK/Ireland, 2011, 113 minutes; golden age. In Iran we meet Abbas Kiarostami; in Director: Lawrence Kasdan that it’s the most entertaining geek lovefest since 1997’s mance of her career, and there have been The Joffrey is considered the first truly ‘American’ ballet company and was the first to perform at PG Cast: Glenn Close, Janet McTeer, Mia Wasikowska, 15 EPISODE Tokyo, we meet Shinji Tsukamoto, who laid the USA, 2012, 104 minutes; PG Trekkies. Spurlock knows that on an earth the geeks lots of good ones - plays an intelligent the White House and the first company to be featured on the cover of Time Magazine. Narrated by Aaron Johnson, Brendan Gleeson, Jonathan Rhys DOCUMENTARY have already inherited, it would be foolish to chortle ground for the bold new Japanese horror cinema. *SEE BACK COVER woman in the grip of a lust that’s too big Mandy Patinkin, the film shows how the Joffrey transformed American dance by combining modern Meyers, Brenda Fricker, Pauline Collins at those who value droids, hobbits, Vulcans, zom- One of the world’s greatest directors, Claire Denis, dance with classical ballet and by working with cutting edge choreographers like Twyla Tharp, Laura Darling Companion is about and for an audience that FOR DETAILS* to handle or suppress. She can either ride talks about her work. The story ends in Mexico. really doesn’t get enough respect: women of a certain age bies, and avatars more than their own lives. So the tiger or be devoured. Terence Davies Dean and others. Features famed former Joffrey stars Kevin McKenzie, Gary Chryst, Helgi Tomasson, Rodrigo Garcia's adaptation of an Irish short story is spare, quiet JUNE 12 (7:00 & 9:20) EPISODE 14. Brilliant, flashy, playful movies in the who love their dogs too much. It’s far from a great movie he does something hipper and more honest: adapted and directed the film, based Trinette Singleton and Adam Sklute. –KinoSmith and surprisingly moving, with Oscar nominee Glenn Close deliv- nineties. Quentin Tarantino and the Coen Brothers. In — but it has Diane Keaton, and that’s enough. Keaton Episodes 1 & 2 He takes Comic-Con seriously. He talks to on the play by Terence Rattigan, with a ering an astonishing performance as a 19th century woman Australia, Baz Luhrmann talks about Moulin Rouge, plays Beth, the wife of an officious doctor (Kevin Kline). UK, 2011, each episode 60 min; Blu-ray Kevin Smith, Harry Knowles, and other fa- complete immersion in the viewpoint of who disguises herself as a man in order to work. A deli- and we plunge into the digital world to see how it has Freeway (played by a charmingly shaggy mixed-breed) is mous grown-up geeks, but mostly he fol- his lead character. This is a small story, changed the movies forever. cate, closely observed chamber piece, this affect- lows a handful of people whose dream it scooped up from the side of an interstate and becomes EPISODE 1. How this art form was born. Filmed in the set in 1950, but the emotions are epic, and EPISODE 15. Movies come full circle: They get more ing portrait of longing, lying and leading double is to pass through the fan/professional Beth’s lifeline. DC is mostly about what happens when buildings where the first movies were made, it shows Davies expresses those emotions with an serious after 9/11, and Romanian movies come to the lives in 19th-century Ireland sneaks up on the that ideas and passion have always driven film, more looking glass and carve out a place for fore. David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive; Inception the dog gets lost. All of Beth’s late-life frustrations epic treatment. Weisz plays the 40ish wife audience with the quiet discretion of the than money. The story is full of surprises, such as the themselves in the industry of fantasy. They wiggled, they jiggled, they wore low-cut gowns and short shorts, they turns film into a game. In Moscow, master director pour helplessly forth. Coming along on the search-and- of a 50ish judge who meets a 30ish young enigmatic protagonist at its center. A heady greatest and best-paid writers in these early years were COMIC-CON The film reveals that whatever the movie, kowtowed to the club owners and smiled at the customers…and they did it Alexander Sokurov talks about his innovative films. redemption mission are Penny (Dianne Wiest); her new man (Tom Hiddleston), a former World War mix of sexuality, identity, class politics and women. comic book, or videogame, the real reli- The Girls in the Band Story of Film boyfriend (Richard Jenkins); Penny’s son Bryan (Mark Duplass); and the couple’s caretaker, II pilot in the RAF. Her discovery of physical all, just to play the music they loved. tells the poi- Then, a surprise: goes beyond the romantic self-deception swirl throughout EPISODE IV: gion isn’t the worship of Luke Skywalker. gnant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their present, to look at film in the future. Carmen (Ayelet Zurer), a gypsy who can sense where Freeway has gone. Sam Shepard is the love cannot be ignored...The war was his great the movie. –Washington Post EPISODE 2. The roaring twenties, when Hollywood It’s the idea that you can be somebody fascinating, groundbreaking journey from the late 30s to the present day. town sheriff. Keaton imbues Beth with a sorrow, warmth, wisdom, and rage that feel earned. revelation, just as love is hers. Weisz’s performance, became a glittering entertainment industry, and star else. That you are somebody else. And Her performance is an extension of worn, resilient grace. --Boston Globe A FAN’S HOPE from moment to moment - in merciless close-up and –Victoria Film Festival directors such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton reality? That can go chase itself down a Director: Morgan Spurlock long takes - is innovative, truthful and revealing. emerged. But the likes of Robert Flaherty, Eric Von Stro- rabbit hole. –Entertainment Weekly USA, 2012, 87 minutes; PG –San Francisco Chronicle heim and Carl Theodor Dreyer wanted films to be more mature. Filmed in Hollywood, Denmark and Moscow.

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