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JULY / AUGUST 2012 PROGRAM BEYOND THE BLACK RAINBOW CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 NEW WORLD DOCUMENTARIES NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS SHORTS & ARTIST TALKS THE NEW WAVE: THE FIRST DECADE IN A NEW CENTURY CANADIAN & INTERNATIONAL FEATURES CLOUDBURST INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE WWW.WINNIPEGCINEMATHEQUE.COM NEW WORLD DOCUMENTARIES INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE THE NATIONAL JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI INDIE GAME: THE MOVIE THIS IS NOT A FILM PARKS PROJECT DIRS. DAVID GELB & MATHIEU ROY DIRS. JAMES SWIRSKY & DIRS. JAFAR PANAHI & DIRS. ZACHARIAS KUNUK, JOHN 2012 | USA | 82 MIN LISANNE PAJOT MOJTABA MIRTAHMASB WALKER, PETER LYNCH, LOUISE (Japanese w/English Subtitles) 2011 | CANADA | 94 MIN 2011 | IRAN | 75 MIN ARCHAMBAULT, CATHERINE FRI JUL 6 & SAT JUL 7 - 9:00 PM (Persian w/English Subtitles) MARTIN, DANIEL COCKBURN, WED JUL 4 - 7:00 PM KEVIN MCMAHON, STURLA FRI JUL 6 & SAT JUL 7 - 7:00 PM SUN JUL 8 - 7:00 PM FRI AUG 3 & SAT AUG 4 - 9:00 PM GUNNARSON, HUBERT DAVIS, SUN JUL 8 - 2:00 PM THU JUL 12 - 9:00 PM SUN AUG 5 - 7:00 PM SCOTT SMITH, STÉPHANE LAFLEUR, THU AUG 9 - 9:00 PM JAMIE TRAVIS, KEITH BERHMAN THU JUL 12 - 7:00 PM This amazing success story by 2011 | CANADA | 127 MIN Winnipeggers James Swirsky and Sentenced to six years in prison for 85 year old Jiro Ono is considered Lisanne Pajot looks at the underdogs SUN JUL 1 - 7:00 PM advocating propaganda against by many to be the world’s greatest of the video game industry, indie sushi chef. He is the proprietor of the Islam Republic and banned from To mark Canada Day we present game developers, who sacrifice Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat, sushi- making movies for 20 years, Iranian this film which was created to money, health and sanity to realize only restaurant inauspiciously located filmmaker Jafar Panahi made a film honor the 100th Anniversary of the their lifelong dreams of sharing their in a Tokyo subway station. Despite anyway using an iPhone and a national parks system in Canada. creative visions with the world. This its humble appearances, it is the first digital camera. Working with fellow Thirteen acclaimed Canadian Sundance award-winning restaurant of its kind to be awarded director Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, he directors were commissioned to film captures the tension and a prestigious 3 star Michelin review, created the film in his apartment create a series of films interpreting drama by focusing on these artist’s and sushi lovers from around the while under house arrest. It is a the country’s national parks. Each vulnerability and obsessive quest globe make repeated pilgrimage, bold act of political defiance. He work was created together with to express themselves through calling months in advance and expresses his anger in an eloquent three musicians; the artists were a 21st century art form. shelling out top dollar for a coveted manner, acts out the dialogue for the all given five days in a national seat at Jiro’s sushi bar. “The film manages to not only give film he is not allowed to make and park, to collaborate on a film us a glimpse into the fascinating shows clips from his award winning and soundtrack inspired by the Jiro Dreams of Sushi is a thoughtful world of indie game development… films heT White Balloon, The Circle, environment. Covering all of and elegant meditation on work, the movie tugs at your heart strings and The Mirror. This ingenious act Canada’s provinces and territories, family, and the art of perfection, while weaving dramatic stories with of film subversion was smuggled out the collection highlights the diversity chronicling Jiro’s life as both precision and vision. It’s a must see.” of Iran on a flash drive hidden in a of this country’s massive landscape, an unparalleled success in the - GERMAIN LUSSIER cake and screened at the Cannes from the mystery of the Pacific culinary world, and a loving yet Film Festival to great acclaim. rainforest to the fragile dunes of the complicated father. Maritime coast. Musicians included "An inspiring must-see for anyone who feels the urgent need to create Sam Roberts, John K. Samson and something beautiful and meaningful, many more. no matter the cost." - CHRISTY LEMIRE, ASSOCIATED PRESS 1 JULY / AUGUST 2012 NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS BIG BOYS GONE BANANAS!* BETTER THAN SOMETHING JAY REATARD NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS DIR. FREDRIK GERTTEN DIRS. ALEX HAMMOND & IAN MARKIEWICZ DIR. JONATHAN DEMME 2012 | SWEDEN | 88 MIN 2011 | USA | 89 MIN 2011 | USA | 87 MIN (English, Swedish And Spanish w/ English Subtitles) FRI AUG 17 & SAT AUG 18 - 9:00 PM FRI AUG 24 & SAT AUG 25 - 7:00 PM FRI AUG 10 & SAT AUG 11 - 7:00 PM SUN AUG 19 - 7:00 PM SUN AUG 26 – 2:00 PM SUN AUG 12 - 2:00 PM THU AUG 23 - 9:00 PM WED AUG 29 TO FRI AUG 31 - 7:00 PM WED AUG 15 & THU AUG 16 - 7:00 PM Better Than Something Jay Reatard is a dynamic Jonathan Demme’s Neil Young Journeys is the and poignant portrait of Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr. final film in the trilogy of Neil Young concert films Winner of Best Documentary at the Sarasota Film (better known as Jay Reatard); a garage punk icon beginning with Heart of Gold and Trunk Show. Festival, Big Boys Gone Bananas!* was also the who died four months before his 30th birthday. Demme follows Neil on a road trip through Ontario audience favourite at the Full Frame Documentary Born into poverty in Memphis, he learned the craft where he visits the small town of Omemee, where, Film Festival and was recently voted second of songwriting and played in numerous bands next to Winnipeg, he spent some of his formative favourite at the Hot Docs Festival. including The Reatards, Lost Sounds, The Final years growing up. The film finishes with a live solo In 2009 Fredrik Gertten’s documentary Bananas!* Solutions, Nervous Patterns, Angry Angles, and performance at Toronto’s Massey Hall – both electric chronicling a lawsuit against controversial food Destruction Unit. He opened for The Pixies and and acoustic, mixing new songs from his album La giant Dole, was set to premiere at the Los Angeles Dinosaur Jr. and was admired by Beck and Arcade Noise with classics like Ohio and I Believe in You. Film Festival. Dole responded with an aggressive Fire’s Win Butler. Jay had an extraordinarily difficult “Journeys features some of the most astounding media and public relations campaign to quash the personality and was also hilarious, outspoken and footage of the hallowed rock legend you will ever film’s release and discredit the reputation of the outrageous with a mesmerizing screen presence. In see committed to film. Neil is admittedly in great filmmakers. The filmmaking team behind Bananas!* live shows he ripped down disco balls and once bit form here. There are plenty of stunning moments refused to be bullied, filing a counter law suit and the head off of a pigeon. The film features interviews - a heartbreaking Down by the River, and a truly launching their own media strategy. Their point with Jay as well as his bandmates and friends and powerful sequence in honor of those slain during was that no one suing them had even seen the film. features lots of electrifying performance footage. the Kent State Massacre.” A true documentarian, Gertten again picks up his “Riveting, sad, and inspiring Better Than Something camera to capture his fight for free speech.Big Boys - GREG KLYMKIW / CFC is the best rock documentary since DIG!” Gone Bananas!* is an in depth case study of an independent filmmaker’s David and Goliath battle - AV CLUB Neil Young Journeys has been generously with a corporate machine. sponsored by Joanne Lesko & Cindi French Royal LePage Dynamic Real Estate "Big Boys Gone Bananas!* is a fun ride. It got a well-deserved standing ovation here at Sundance." - CIVILIZED DISOBEDIENCE 2 JULY / AUGUST 2012 CANADIAN & INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILMS THE KID WITH A BIKE (LE GAMIN AU VELO) FREE MEMBER SCREENING AUG 13! CLOUDBURST BEYOND THE BLACK THE KID WITH A BIKE H.P. LOVECRAFT DIR. THOM FITZGERALD RAINBOW (LE GAMIN AU VELO) HORRORS DOUBLE BILL! To honour the birthday of one 2011 | CANADA | 94 MIN DIR. PANOS COSMATOS DIRS. JEAN PIERRE & LUC of the greatest horror writers of 2012 | CANADA | 110 MIN FRI AUG 3 & SAT AUG 4 - 7:00 PM DARDENNE the 20th century, H.P. Lovecraft, 2011| BELGIUM, FRANCE, SUN AUG 5 - 2:00 PM FRI AUG 10 & Cinematheque presents these horror SAT AUG 11 - 9:00 PM ITALY | 87 MIN films based on his early classics. WED AUG 8 & THU AUG 9 - 7:00 PM SAT AUG 11 - 11:30 PM (French w/English Subtitles) FRI AUG 24 & Oscar® winning actresses Olympia SUN AUG 12 - 7:00 PM MON AUG 13 - 7:00 PM SAT AUG 25 - 9:00 PM Dukakis and Brenda Fricker play an (MEMBER SCREENING) THU AUG 16 - 9:00 PM SUN AUG 26 - 7:00 PM aging couple named Stella and Dot Cinematheque members get in for THU AUG 30 & who have been together for 31 years free! Please RSVP to Kristy at Elena has been a prisoner her entire FRI AUG 31 - 9:00 PM and have faithfully accompanied [email protected] life, her world consisting of four stark one another through life's ups and white walls and one single window. FRI AUG 17 & THE WHISPERER IN downs. Now in their seventies, Stella And on the other side of that SAT AUG 18 - 7:00 PM is hard of hearing and Dot is legally DARKNESS window, Doctor Barry Nyle.