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CINEMATHEQUE May MAY / JUN 2011 CINEMATHEQUE PROGRAM NEW WORLD DOCUMENTARIES | STORIES IN OUR SKIES: CANADIAN AVIATION HISTORY ON FILM CANADIAN & INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILMS Cont’d on PG. 7 THE YEAR DOLLY PARTON WAS MY MOM DIR. TARA JOHNS | 2011 | CANADA | 95 MIN Starring Gil Bellows, Macha Grenon, Julia Stone › FRI JUN 10 & SAT JUN 11 – 7:00 PM & 9:00 PM › SUN JUN 12 – 7:00 PM › WED JUN 15 & THU JUN 16 – 7:00 PM & 9:00 PM Director Tara Johns has created a poignant, affectionate story of a young girl who is convinced that Dolly Parton is her real mother and journeys off to meet her. It’s 1976 and Elizabeth is just your average suburban 11 year old praying for adolescence to arrive when she discovers her whole life has been a lie. With only her imagination to guide her, Elizabeth runs away in search of her true identity. Her adoptive mother Marion is then forced to break out of the carefully constructed “truth” she’s been clinging to and go after her daughter. This leads to a cathartic cross-country trek by a mother searching for a daughter who’s searching for a mother – both of them really searching for themselves…. The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom is a poignant, sometimes funny, very female, coming of age story that explores the tension between creating identity and finding it within. Shot in Quebec and the wide open spaces of the Manitoba prairies, The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom features songs by Martha Wainwright and The Wailin’ Jennys. “Nostalgic, innocent, funny, touching...” - Montreal Gazette $8 GENERAL $6 FILM GROUP & $1 of each admission goes toward MEMBERS PAY ONLY $6.00 our capital improvements, aimed CINEMATHEQUE ADMISSION $7 STUDENTS BUY A MEMBERSHIP! SEE PAGE 8 FOR at making your experience at the & SENIORS MEMBERS MORE INFORMATION... Cinematheque even more satisfying. PUBLICATIONS MAIL AGREEMENT NUMBER 40045468 INFOLINE: 204-925-3457 RETURN TO : WINNIPEG FILM GROUP 304-100 ARTHUR STREET 100 ARTHUR STREET, IN THE EXCHANGE WINNIPEG, MB R3B 1H3 www.winnipegcinematheque.com PHIL OCHS: THERE BUT FOR FORTUNE NEW WORLD DOCUMENTARIES ORGASM INC. UNSPEAKABLE PHIL OCHS: THERE BUT DIR. JOHN PASKIEVICH | 2009 | CANADA | 89 MIN DIR. LIZ CANNER | 2010 | USA | 78 MIN FOR FORTUNE › FRI MAY 13 TO SUN MAY 15 – 7:00 PM › SUN MAY 1 – 7:00 PM DIR. KENNETH BOWSER | 2011 | USA | 98 MIN › SUN MAY 15 – 2:00 PM › WED MAY 4 & THU MAY 5 – 7:00 PM › FRI MAY 20 TO SUN MAY 22 – 7:00 PM › THU MAY 19 – 7:00 PM › FRI MAY 6 & SAT MAY 7 – 7:00 PM & 9:00 PM › WED MAY 25 – 7:00 PM › SUN MAY 8 – 7:00 PM Academy Award winner The King’s Speech has › WED MAY 11 & THU MAY 12 – 7:00 PM brought the subject of stuttering out into the open. Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune is a new documentary Winnipeg filmmaker John Paskievich’s documentary about Phil Ochs, a forgotten folk singing legend In this shocking and hilarious documentary, filmmaker Unspeakable explores in humourous and fascinating from the United States and a friendly rival of Bob Liz Canner takes a job editing erotic videos for a drug detail the nature, history and treatment of stuttering Dylan. Wielding only a battered guitar, a clear voice trial for a pharmaceutical company. Her employer is with rare footage of the real King George VI giving and some razor sharp songs, he tirelessly fought for developing what they hope will be the first Viagra a speech. King George VI as well as Winston peace and justice throughout his short life. Featuring drug for women to win FDA approval to treat a Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, and James Earl Jones rare archival concert footage and interviews with new disease: Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD). Liz were all afflicted with the disorder-yet it remains a Billy Bragg, Pete Seeger, Tom Hayden, Christopher gains permission to film the company for her own medical enigma. Paskievich’s story and the stories Hitchens and Joan Baez, the film is also an exciting documentary. Initially, she plans to create a movie of others in the film are poignant, funny, angry and illumination of the political movement of the about science and pleasure but she soon begins to courageous, providing eloquent testimony to what U.S. in the 1960s. His life ended tragically when suspect that her employer, along with a cadre of it means to live imprisoned in what the poet W.H. he committed suicide in 1976 at the age of 35. other medical companies, might be trying to take Auden called “the tower of stutter”. Unspeakable advantage of women (and potentially endanger their “An ESSENTIAL PORTRAIT of an artist who ought to be is a call for liberation, not from stuttering, but health) in pursuit of billion dollar profits.Orgasm far better known. Filmmaker Kenneth Bowser does an from the ignorance and stigma that surround it. Inc. is a powerful look inside the medical industry admirable job of conveying why Ochs’ music continues to mean so much to his fans. A MUST SEE.” and the marketing campaigns that are literally and * The Friday, May 13 screening will include a panel –Entertainment Weekly figuratively reshaping our everyday lives around health, discussion with filmmaker John Paskievich, a illness, desire – and that ultimate moment: orgasm. speech therapist and the parent of a child who The screening of Phil Ochs: stutters. They will all discuss their personal There but for Fortune is “Both poignant and hilarious, Orgasm Inc. will leave you generously sponsored by hot and bothered.”–Time Magazine experiences of stuttering as well as various scenes from The King’s Speech. Mayworks: A Festival of “A must-see for women of all ages, for their partners, Labour and the Arts and for their physicians.”–About.com Documentaries 2 | CINEMATHEQUE MAY/JUNE 2011 THE PEOPLE VS. GEORGE LUCAS COLOGNE INTERNATIONAL RESIDENCY SCREENING & ARTIST TALK DISH: WOMEN, WAITRESSING THE PEOPLE VS. GEORGE LUCAS › Fri MAY 27 – 9:15 PM DIR. ALEXANDRE O. PHILLIPE | FRANCE, USA | 2010 | 93 MIN AND THE ART OF SERVICE * Free Admission DIR. MAYA GALLUS | 2010 | CANADA | 70 MIN › FRI JUN 17 & SAT JUN 18 – 9:00 PM › WED JUN 22 & THU JUNE 23 – 9:00 PM › WED JUN 1 TO FRI JUNE 3 – 7:00 PM In 2010, the Winnipeg Film Group sent › SAT JUN 4 – 7:00 PM & 9:00 PM › FRI JUN 24 & SAT JUN 25 – 7:00 PM & 9:00 PM › SUN JUN 5 – 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM › SUN JUN 26 – 7:00 PM three filmmakers to Cologne, Germany › WED JUN 8 & THU JUN 9 – 7:00 PM › WED JUN 29 & THU JUN 30 – 7:00 PM for a two-week residency at our sister Former waitress and Gemini award-winning director The passion that the original Star Wars trilogy inspires organization, the Kölner Filmhaus. Maya Gallus dines out and dishes the dirt with in its fans is unparalleled; but when it comes to George In May 2011, three filmmakers from waitresses, restaurant owners and maitre d’s about Lucas himself, many have found their ardor has cooled the demands of working as a waitress. From the into a complicated love-hate relationship. This hilarious, Cologne will be completing hustle of a busy truck stop to the discreet hush heartfelt documentary delves deep into Lucas’s cultural a residency at the WFG, working of a Parisian house of fine dining, Dish features legacy, asking all the tough questions. Has Lucas to develop projects and connecting touching and hilarious stories from waitresses betrayed his masterwork? Should he just have left the who have worked everywhere from Ontario original trilogy alone? Is The Phantom Menace so bad with the local film community. Join truckstops to Maid Cafes in Tokyo and Hooters style it should carry a health warning? Utilizing interviews us for an evening with Teresa taken from over 600 hours of footage includes restaurants in North America. “You’ll never look Hayer, Svetlana Postnova and Wilda at a waitress the same way again.”–Will Brownridge interviews with Chris Gore (founder of Film Threat) and critic Roger Ebert. Peppered with extraordinary Wahnwitz as they share some of * The Friday, June 3 screening will be Star Wars and Indiana Jones recreations lovingly their work of films and discuss accompanied by an Independent Producers Panel immortalized in song, needlepoint, Lego, claymation, Discussion on the creative tools necessary for puppets and paper-mâché, above all this film asks the filmmaking in Winnipeg and Cologne. making quality independent films, featuring question: who truly owns that galaxy far, far away - the panelists Kyle Bornais (Farpoint Films), Brendon man who created it, or the fans who worship it? Sawatzky (Inferno Pictures) and Liz Jarvis (Buffalo Gal Pictures), and Dish’s producer Justine Pimlott (Red Queen Productions). 3 | CINEMATHEQUE MAY/JUNE 2011 SKYDIVE STORIES IN OUR SKIES: CANADIAN AVIATION HISTORY ON FILM › THU MAY 26 – SUN MAY 29 Curated by Kevin Nikkel *Special Full Series Pass: $50 / $35 members – available for advance purchase through our online store at www.winnipegcinematheque.com. In 2006, it was announced that the Winnipeg International Airport would be renamed after James Armstrong Richardson, a modern canonization of a pioneer of the early days of flight on the prairies. To mark the occasion this year, a new terminal will be unveiled. What better time to look closer at the history of our skies. As events of the last decade remind us, pilots rise to mythical status as they face moments of crisis and are commemorated for achievements. It is not hard to celebrate with wonder these pilots of the past, regardless of their back-stories—or the discriminating circumstances that existed during their days of triumph.
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