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January / February 2015 Canadian & International Features FM Youth shorts & artist talks Best of the Experimental Film Festival Portland www.winnipegcinematheque.com January/February Staff Picks ↑ Left to right: Kristy Muckosky, Dave Barber, Cameron Courchene, Jaimz Asmundson, and Mark Borowski. Photo by Leif Norman. The Cabin Fever! Free Films for Kids free Sunday matinee series is the theatre and then join Alison in a discussion at the Manitoba Writer’s definitely a favourite from the January / February program every year. Guild in the Burns Classroom. The series will include films based on As a Francophile, having studied French for a number of years now books by Jane Austen, Margaret Laurence, Nick Hornby and JG Ballard (indeed, I am in France studying French as I write this), I also want as well a panel discussion on the subject of adapting novels for screen to highlight the Alliance Française du Manitoba’s 100th Anniversary with writer and Professor George Toles and author David Bergen. program, January 22 – 24. Robert Lepage’s Le Confessionnal (January — Dave Barber, Programming Coordinator 23 at 9 pm) is the film I am most looking forward to watching (again) from this series. — Cecilia Araneda, Executive Director After being brought to tears by Alive Inside, the story of seniors living with dementia who find joy and memory in music from donated iPods, The child in me is extremely excited for our 11th Annual Cabin Fever I think the same will happen when I watch seniors being reconnected series. Dave has put together a great lineup of films and I’m especially with loved ones on Facebook in Cyber-Seniors. Also, if you haven’t had excited to share Nicolas Roeg’s brilliantly hilarious and terrifying the opportunity to visit the Sagrada yourself, then I would suggest adaptation of Ronald Dahl’s The Witches with a new audience. I’m coming down to enjoy Sagrada: The Mystery of Creation. I’ve seen other also excited to see Halifax filmmaker Andrea Dorfman’s follow up to films on Gaudi’s work but this one looks to be quite informative as well her multi-million YouTube hit How to Be Alone. Heartbeat continues as having amazing imagery. — Kristy Muckosky, Operations Manager her collaboration with musician/poet Tanya Davis and looks like a very amusing magical realist story about reconnecting with your true The film I am most excited about is Rome, Open City. Filmed in 1945 passion after realizing that your life is stuck in an unintended routine. just after the liberation of Rome, a year prior. It is interesting to see Lastly, hot off the sold-out premiere at Cinémental this past October, how the Italians thought about the occupation and what some brave we present Franco-Manitoban filmmaker Stéphane Oystryk’s FM Youth. people might have done to throw off the shackles of Nazi Occupied With a small budget and several fantastic short films under his belt, Rome. This film is the first film we will be playing when we come back Steph has managed to pull off something quite extraordinary with from the holiday break! — Cameron Courchene, Head Projectionist his first feature film about a trio of franglais-speaking 20-somethings biking around St. Boniface at night and gently mocking the stereotypes I have always been a fan of French Cinema and a lot of my creative of their tight-knit community – not to be missed! work is reminiscent of early 1960’s French Films. I am looking forward — Jaimz Asmundson, Programming Director to re-watching Contempt (Le Mépris) by one of my favourite directors, Jean-Luc Godard. This is a highly stylized film about filmmaking and When was the last time you read a book and then watched the movie? the struggles to create art while dealing with producers who would Did it compare? Film and pop culture writer Alison Gillmor will host rather make money. There is also some relationship drama to tie a post screening discussion comparing book adaptations to film. The everything together. This is a star-studded event starring Jack Palance, idea is for participants to read the book in advance, watch the film at Brigitte Bardot and Fritz Lang. — Mark Borowski, Box Office STAFF LIST DISTRIBUTION CENTRE CINEMATHEQUE PRODUCTION CENTRE Cecilia Araneda Monica Lowe Jaimz Asmundson Dave Barber Ben Williams Executive Director Distribution Director Cinematheque Programming Director Cinematheque Programming Production Centre Director [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Coordinator [email protected] Kevin Lee Burton Devon Kerslake Kristy Muckosky Cameron Courchene Marcel Kreutzer Executive Assistant Distribution Coordinator Cinematheque Operations Manager Cinematheque Head Projectionist Technical Coordinator Mark Borowski Programs Coordinator 2 staff picks Contact Colour Size Marcelle Lussier C0 / M0 / Y15 / K82 8.5 x 11” (Plus 0.125” bleeds) 204 261 0073 urbanink.net [email protected] C0 / M75 / Y57 / K0 canadian & International features 3 Contact Colour Size Marcelle Lussier C0 / M0 / Y15 / K82 8.5 x 11” (Plus 0.125” bleeds) 204 261 0073 urbanink.net [email protected] C0 / M75 / Y57 / K0 Canadian & International Features Rome, Open City (Roma città aperta) * Love Is Strange Listen Up Philip Directed by Roberto Rossellini Directed by Ira Sachs Directed by Alex Ross Perry 1945, Italy, 103 min 2014, USA, 94 min 2014, USA, 108 min * Italian and German w/English subtitles Friday & Saturday, January 2 & 3 / 9 pm Thursday - Saturday, January 8 - 10 / 9 pm Friday, January 2 / 7 pm Thursday & Friday, January 8 & 9 / 7 pm Sunday, January 11 / 7 pm Saturday, January 3 / 3 pm & 7 pm Saturday, January 10 / 3 pm & 7 pm Wednesday, January 14 / 7 pm Sunday, January 4 / 7 pm Friday, January 16 / 7 pm Thursday, January 15 / 9 pm Wednesday, January 7 / 7 pm Saturday, January 17 / 3 pm & 7 pm “Remarkably well-observed and rich. The “The most precious moment of film history” “I doubt I’ll see a more finely performed and skewering of these appalling characters is — Martin Scorsese beautifully crafted love story this year.” often riotously funny.”— INDIEWIRE —THE PLAYLIST “A still thrilling call to conscience and hope! Anger rages in Philip (Jason Schwartzman) Shot with electrifying urgency months after After nearly four decades together, Ben (John as he awaits the publication of his sure- Rome’s liberation... A cinematic landmark... Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) finally to-succeed second novel. He feels pushed Rome, Open City has lost little of its power.” tie the knot in an idyllic wedding ceremony out of his adopted home city by the — Kristen M. Jones, Wall Street Journal in lower Manhattan. But when George loses constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating his job soon after, the couple must sell their relationship with his photographer girlfriend Shot in 1945 in the immediate aftermath apartment and - victims of the relentless New Ashley (Elisabeth Moss), and his indifference of the liberation of Rome, Rossellini’s York City real estate market - temporarily to promoting his own work. When Philip’s masterpiece returns to the screen in a live apart until they can find an affordable idol Ike Zimmerman (Jonathan Pryce) offers gorgeous 4K digital restoration. Set during new home. While George moves in with his isolated summer home as a refuge, he the occupation, the narrative follows two cops who live downstairs, Ben lands in finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on disparate strands of resistance struggling Brooklyn with his nephew, his wife and their his favorite subject – himself. A complex, under the crushing jackboot of the Nazis. temperamental teenage son, with whom intimate, and highly idiosyncratic comedy, Ubaldo Arata’s visceral cinematography he shares a bedroom. While struggling with this film is a literary look at the triumph of blends the grit of a documentary with the the pain of separation, they are further reality over the human spirit. heart and soul of a drama as the people challenged by the intergenerational tensions of Rome wrestle with the constraints, and capricious family dynamics of their new compromises and collusions of life during living arrangements. wartime. 4 canadian & International features Force Majeure * Directed by Ruben Östlund 2014, Sweden, 118 min * Swedish w/English subtitles Friday, January 30 / 7 pm Saturday, January 31 / 3 pm & 7 pm Sunday, February 1 / 7 pm Wednesday, February 4 / 7 pm Thursday, February 5 / 9 pm Friday, February 13 / 9:15 pm Saturday, February 14 / 3 pm & 9 pm “There are those trying to position Gone Girl as the date-and-debate movie of the season, but it isn’t half the unsettling thriller Force Majeure is.” — NEW YORK TIMES A sensation at last year’s Cannes Film Festival. A Swedish family travels to the French Alps to enjoy a few days of skiing when the sudden, shocking threat of an avalanche prompts an impulsive, selfish and perhaps unforgivable reaction from Tomas. Mother Ebba calls for her husband Tomas as she tries to protect their children. Tomas, meanwhile, is running for his life, and the film grippingly and incisively measures the fallout from Tomas’ fateful act, replete with bravura sequences — from the frighteningly FM Youth Heartbeat realistic avalanche scene to the incredibly Directed by Stéphane Oystryk Directed by Andrea Dorfman extended crying jag that teeters between 2014, Canada, 74 min 2014, Canada, 93 min the harrowing and the hilarious. Thursday, January 15 / 7 pm Sunday, January 25 / 7 pm Leviathan * Friday & Saturday, January 16 & 17 / 9 pm Thursday – Saturday, Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev Sunday, January 18 / 7 pm January 29 – 31 / 9:15 pm 2014, Russia, 140 min Wednesday, January 21 / 7 pm Thursday, February 5 / 7 pm * Russian w/English subtitles Saturday, January 24 / 9 pm “A tender and charmingly offbeat portrait of Opening night introduced by Stéphane Oystryk a musician’s bumpy road to self-discovery set Friday, February 27 / 9 pm and actors Katrine Deniset, Stéphane Simard and against the backdrop of Halifax’s lively arts Saturday, February 28 / 3 pm & 7 pm Mariève Laflèche scene.