January / February 2015

Canadian & International Features FM Youth shorts & artist talks Best of the Experimental Film Festival Portland

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↑ 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

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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. Heartbeat has a vibrant, handcrafted Sunday, March 1 / 3 pm & 7 pm quality. The director has consistently created Wednesday & Thursday, March 4 & 5 / 7 pm Franco-Manitoban independent filmmaker funny, original, and heartwarming portraits of Stéphane Oystryk has pulled off a minor “An artistic tour-de-force… Leviathan is a self-discovery.” miracle with his first feature film. With a tight heart-breaking, staggering masterpiece.” — TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL 2014 budget and influences as diverse as Richard — Thomas Patrick Linklater’s Dazed and Confused and Larry Halifax filmmaker Andrea Dorfman Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at Clark’s Kids, he has created a poignant and and poet/songwriter Tanya Davis have Cannes last year, the film is the story of satirical feature shot entirely in St. Boniface. followed up their multi-million hit YouTube Kolia who lives in Northern Russia. The Three young friends cruise the streets at night sensation How to Be Alone with a sweet, town’s corrupt mayor is determined to on their bikes, riffing on the stereotyped sassy full-length feature film that portrays take away his business, his house, as well and claustrophobic culture around them as Halifax’s North End BoHo life as a kind of as his land, but Kolia unflinchingly fights as Franco-Manitobans, the night before two contemporary paradise. With Davis playing hard as he can so as not to lose everything of them leave their tight knit francophone a meek but determined office worker he owns. Andrey has described the film as community in Winnipeg in favour of Montreal. bound to follow love and music rather than a loose retelling of the Book of Job as an convention, the gentle love/loss/love plot is FM Youth has been generously sponsored ordinary man must wrestle with his faith punctuated by quizzical bits of animation. by Radio-Canada Manitoba not in God but in the Russian state — an epic struggle against a monster with many faces possessed of the capacity to bend the law to suit its own appetites.

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Monsoon Sagrada: The Mystery of Creation * Cyber-Seniors Directed by Sturla Gunnarsson Directed by Stefan Haupt Directed by Saffron Cassaday 2014, Canada, 108 min 2013, Spain, 90 min 2013, Canada, 75 min * Catalan, Spanish, French and German

Friday – Sunday, February 13 – 15 / 7 pm w/English Subtitles Friday & Saturday, February 20 & 21 / 7 pm Thursday & Friday, February 26 & 27 / 7 pm February 13 screening introduced by Sturla Thursday, February 19 / 7 pm Gunnarsson “A sweet tale that will resonate with anyone Friday, February 20 / 9 pm who has tried to make a Skype call to a “A majestic new documentary... an awestruck Saturday, February 21 / 3 pm & 9 pm grandparent.” — New York Times homage to a meteorological force ...the Thursday, February 26 / 9 pm repeated images of gathering clouds and Touching, hilarious and poignant, the film “One of the most unusual documentaries of the drenched land and cityscapes have an eerie follows a group of teenagers who visit a year… a philosophical meditation on art, design beauty.” — Adam Nayman, POV retirement home to mentor seniors in the and time. Beautiful!” — Tribune de Genève skill of working with social network sites and Veteran filmmaker Sturla Gunnarsson whose One of the most iconic structures ever built, other computer applications. After a few Force of Nature, a look at the life of Canadian Barcelona’s La Sagrada Familia is a unique and pointers, seniors compete in a YouTube video icon David Suzuki, won the People’s Choice fascinating architectural project conceived challenge (one 89-year-old woman gives tips Award for Best Documentary at TIFF in by legendary architect Antoni Gaudi in the on how to make a grilled cheese sandwich 2010 — returns with one of his most personal late 19th century. More than 125 years after using an iron) while others are enriched by projects to date. Monsoon is a visually stunning construction began, the basilica still remains digitally re-connecting with their families on meditation on the annual rains that descend unfinished. This film celebrates Gaudi’s vision Facebook. Cyber-Seniors adds to the important upon India, and their alternately disastrous and and the continuing work of architects as they international conversation about the growing beneficial impact on Indian society economy, strive to complete the colossal project while generation gap. agriculture and individual lives. Stunningly delving into the process of artistic creation in shot in 4K, this film is a thoughtful, affecting Cyber-Seniors is generously sponsored a historical context. and overwhelming powerfully emotional by New Media Manitoba journey through anticipation, joy, heartbreak and relief.

Life After Death From Above 1979 Directed by Eva Michon 2014, Canada, 73 min

Wednesday, January 28 / 9 pm

Introduced by Eva Michon, Jesse Keeler and Sebastien Grainger

A terrific portrait of dance punk band Death From Above 1979 featuring Jesse Keeler (bass) and Sebastien Grainger (drums) who rose to fame based on their electrifying live performances and seminal album “You’re a Woman, I’m A Machine”. Featuring interviews with The Strokes, Metric, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and great live performance footage of Death From Above 1979, the film charts their rise, break-up and return from the dead.

6 new world documentaries Shorts & Artist Talks Tales from the Enduring Neighbourhood Favourite Favourites: Best of the Experimental Film Festival Portland

Curated and introduced by EFF Portland Co-Director Hannah Piper Burns

Thursday, February 19 / 9 pm

When my co-director Ben Popp and I put together each year’s “Best Of” program, it is simply a way for us to indicate our favourites: the films that resonated with us the most. All of the films we screened each year were wonderful (or horrifying) in their own ways. In making this list I tried to show a range of forms, from dance film to documentary and portrait of place to glitch art, as well as create a tempo in viewing that can connect the pieces across their disparate Thursday, January 29 / 7 pm origins. It’s my sincere hope that you can find something new here Over the last several years MTS Stories from Home has sparked the to love as much as I do. — Hannah Piper Burns creation of hundreds of hours of new intensely local TV content in Manitoba. Literally dozens of documentary films by Winnipeg Where She Stood in the First Place / Dir. Lindsay McIntyre, filmmakers — emerging and senior — have been prominent among 2010, Canada, 10 min this new programming. This body of work, unique in vision and vast in scope, has supported local filmmakers as they tell stories that Remote / Dir. Jesse McLean, 2011, USA, 11 min may not have been otherwise produced. Digital Decay / Dir. Tyler Lynch, 2012, USA, 2:30 min Adventures with the Movie Club Directed by Kevin Nikkel Agnus Dei / Dir. Réka Szűcs, 2013, Hungary, 10:36 min 2014, Canada, 44 min

Up Ended / Dir. Brenda L. Burmeister, 2012, USA, 14:23 min Introduced by Kevin Nikkel and preceded by three short films from the Winnipeg Amateur Moviemakers Collection which will be accompanied by a Pittsburgh 8/5/68 / Dir. Ted Kennedy, 2013, USA, 2:31 min live music score by Keith Price.

From the early days, amateur moviemakers thrived on a DIY spirit, Former Models / Dir. Benjamin Pearson, 2011, USA, 20 min capturing memorable moments of both personal and civic interest. These images have become cinematic time capsules, treasured by Pain So Light That Appears As Tickle / Dir. Dalibor Barić, families, and at one time, celebrated in film clubs across the country. 2010, Croatia, 4 min Founded in 1935, the Winnipeg Amateur Moviemakers Club peaked in the 1950s with over a hundred members. Today a handful of retirees Little Block of Cement with Disheveled Hair Containing make it out to meetings and worry about keeping the club alive if the Sea / Dir. Jorge Lopez Navarette, 2013, Spain, 15:32 min they can’t recruit new members with the passion of making movies. A Special Presentation of This screening is generously sponsored by Open City Cinema and Cinematheque MTS Stories from Home Special Events

↑ Clockwise from top right: Babe / A Hard Day’s Night / The Secret Garden / Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein

Free Films for Kids! Winter can feel like forever in Winnipeg especially when you have kids. Round them up, bundle them up and bring them down to our 11th Annual series of kids films – every Sunday afternoon throughout January and February at 2 pm – FOR FREE! With the popularity of our Cabin Fever series, our hope is that families with children will be seated before others. We appreciate your cooperation! As always, join us from noon to 2 pm to participate in FREE animation and craft workshops organized by our friends The Edge Gallery and Freeze Frame Media Arts Centre for Young People!

Cinematheque acknowledges the generous support of the Assiniboine Credit Union for our Cabin Fever series

Babe Abbott and Costello Meet A Hard Day’s Night Directed by Chris Noonan Frankenstein Directed by Richard Lester 1995, USA, 89 min Directed by Charles Barton 1964, UK, 87 min 1948, USA, 83 min Sunday, January 4 / 2 pm Sunday, January 18 / 2 pm Sunday, January 11 / 2 pm “The all-time great talking-pig movie, a British director Richard Lester captured a Introduced by Kevin McDonald, co-founder of Kids lovely, intelligent gem... also rib-tickling great moment in time when the British rock In The Hall funny.” — San Francisco Chronicle group The Beatles invaded North America by In this classic horror spoof, the boys play storm in the mid 1960’s. With a pristine new Academy Award winner and Best Picture shipping company employees charged 50th Anniversary restoration we see John nominee, Babe is the inspirational story of a shy with handling the delivery of Dracula & Paul, George and Ringo on the road, in the TV Yorkshire piglet who doesn’t quite know his Frankenstein’s monster artifacts to Frank studio and running from their screaming fans. place in the world. But when farmer Hogget Ferguson’s museum. Abbott is upset that wins him at the county fair, Babe discovers Plays With Maiden Indian / Dir. The Costello has a beautiful girlfriend who only that he can be anything he wants to be – Ephemerals, 2011, Canada, 3:25 min / Curious really wants the dimwit’s brain. She and even an award winning sheep dog. about the recent popularity of mukluks and Dracula have a plan to restore the monster. feathered headbands, three friends begin sifting The Wolf Man warns the duo but has through racks of new trends collecting fashionable problems of his own given the full moon. signifiers of Indigenous identity.

8 special events The Secret Garden Nocturna Directed by Agnieszka Holland Directed by Adrià García & Víctor Maldonado 1993, USA, 102 min 2007, Spain, 80 min

Sunday, January 25 / 2 pm Sunday, February 15 / 2 pm

A young girl orphaned in India in the early Tim finds an unusual discovery on the rooftop years of this century is sent home to England of his orphanage which plunges him into to live on the vast estate of an uncle. There is the secret world of Nocturna. He discovers little for her to do in the mansion but explore, the world is in danger: the stars in the sky and soon she finds secret passageways and are disappearing and a mysterious shadow even the bedroom of her late aunt - and in creature is haunting the empty streets, the bedroom, a key to a secret garden. She extinguishing anything that gives off light. Tim makes friends with a boy and helps him and the Cat Shepherd try to set things right discover the world. and learn that nighttime isn’t so scary after all. The Secret of Kells Directed by Tomm Moore & Nora Twomey Plays With Le Dernier Soir / Dir. Kayla The Witches 2009, Ireland, 75 min Jeanson, 2011, Canada, 5:48 min / A woman in a Directed by Nicolas Roeg mask leads a group of children through an evening 1990, USA, 91 min Sunday, February 8 / 2 pm of fun and fantasy, crafting masks and projecting animated unicorns onto houses. Sunday, February 1 / 2 pm Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Brendan lives in a medieval Based on a children’s story by writer Ronald Mousehunt outpost under siege from barbarian raids. Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and Directed by Gore Verbinski Adventure beckons when a celebrated master featuring amazing effects by Jim Henson. 1997, USA, 98 min illuminator arrives with an unfinished book, While staying in a hotel with his grandmother, brimming with secret wisdom and powers. To a young boy named Luke stumbles upon a Sunday, February 22 / 2 pm help complete the magical book, Brendan takes witch conference, where they reveal their plan on a quest that goes into the enchanted forest “A virtuoso comedy of chaos in the Home to turn all of the children in England into mice. where mythical creatures hide. Will Brendan’s Alone tradition, but funnier and more The witches turn Luke and his pal Bruno into determination and artistic vision illuminate the disarming.” — THE TELEGRAPH mice and together, the unlikely duo does their darkness and show that enlightenment is the best to foil the evil witches’ plans. * Please note Two brothers inherit their father’s mansion best fortification against evil? this film may not be appropriate for young children only to discover the place is ruled by a Plays With COmotion@Art City / Dir. A. crafty, determined mouse. Their attempts Plays with The Mysterious Case of Megan Turnbull, 2013, Canada, 2 min / This to renovate are foiled as the mouse outwits Calvert Wander / Dir. Curtis L. Wiebe, video is the result of five days of creative crafty them at every turn. 2014, Canada, 6:54 min / Wiebe and his puppet chaos by the participants of Art City, who built sets, sidekicks go on a quest to find Calvert Wander, a Plays with Primiti too taa / Dir. Ed designed characters, and then animated them. mysterious cowboy balladeer from the 1960s. Ackerman and Colin Morton, 1986, Canada, The Secret of Kells is presented as part 2:45 min / A delightful animated poem made with of Mongrel Media’s 20th Anniversary only a typewriter and simple vocal messages. Based on the 1920s sound poem by the German avant- garde artist Kurt Schwitters.

The Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!

Saturday, January 31 / 10 am – 1 pm

Admission: $10 / $8 for members

Curator Kier-La Janisse presents a three hour trip down memory lane with a tribute to the eye-popping, brain-addling Saturday morning cartoons of yore, complete with a smorgasbord of delicious sugary cereals (and yes, we have soy milk too!). You’ll see both favourites and obscurities spanning the 60’s through the 80’s, all punctuated with vintage commercials and PSAs! The lineup is always a secret, so get ready for a sugar rush and an explosion of nostalgia all wrapped up in one candy-coated package.

Feel free to wander in a bit late if you sleep in! Blankets, slippers and pajamas are also encouraged!

special events 9 Special Events Secrets, Lies and Betrayal: Part of the 100th Anniversary celebrations of L’Alliance Française du Manitoba

From Quai des Orfèvres to Jeune & Jolie to Le Confessionnal, this francophone film festival is an invitation to discover films from different times and places and surrender to the power of “Secrets, Lies and Betrayal”. All films are in French with English subtitles.

The Alliance Française du Manitoba was born in 1915 of the passion of Manitobans for the French language and francophone cultures. It has been growing for a century and has been nurtured by it’s will to create a community beyond the boundaries of language where everyone is welcome.

Torment (L’Enfer) Directed by Claude Chabrol 1993, France, 100 min

Thursday, January 22 / 7 pm

“Actress Emmanuelle Beart does better work here than in anything else I’ve seen. As a character study of the horrific way jealousy can ravage a man’s soul, L’Enfer is not to be missed.” — Austin Chronicle

This gripping film based on a rediscovered screenplay by Henri Georges Clouzot is the story of a country hotel owner named Paul who becomes suspicious of his wife. Little by little his suspicions take shape and jealousy plunges him into an unfathomable purgatory of doubt and dementia.

Contempt (Le Mépris) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard 1963, France, 105 min

Thursday, January 22 / 9 pm

“Magnificently shot… a dazzling fable.” — TIME OUT

Godard’s subversive foray into commercial filmmaking is a star-studded Cinemascope epic which stars Michel Piccoli as a screenwriter torn between the demands of a proud European director (played by legendary director Fritz Lang), a crude and arrogant American producer (Jack Palance), and his disillusioned wife, Camille (Brigitte Bardot), as he attempts to doctor the script for a new film version of “The Odyssey”.

From top to bottom → Torment (L’Enfer) / Contempt (Le Mépris) / Golden Helmet (Casque d’Or)

10 special events Golden Helmet (Casque d’Or) Directed by Jacques Becker 1952, France, 96 min

Friday, January 23 / 7 pm

Jacques Becker, former assistant to Jean Renoir created one of the great classics of French cinema. After killing a man in a knife fight, a simple carpenter attempts to start a new life with a prostitute that he has fallen for, but when an old friend is implicated in the killing he feels obliged to turn himself in, leaving his beloved Marie in the hands of the duplicitous gangster who orchestrated the whole sordid affair. Beautifully photographed, expertly acted, and a thoroughly compelling fatalistic gem.

Le Confessionnal Directed by Robert Lepage 1995, Canada, 100 min

Friday, January 23 / 9 pm

Pierre Lamontagne travels to his hometown in Quebec after his father dies. There, he runs into his adoptive brother who desperately wishes to uncover the mysterious identity of his own biological father. They begin to investigate, which leads them back to 1952, with Alfred Hitchcock filming I Confess in the area amid a complex scandal involving the Lamontagne family, Marc’s pregnant mother and the Catholic Church.

Quai des Orfèvres Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot 1947, France, 106 min

Saturday, January 24 / 3 pm

Set within the vibrant dance halls and crime corridors of 1940s Paris, the film follows an ambitious performer, her covetous husband and their devoted confidante as they attempt to cover one another’s tracks when a high-society acquaintance is murdered. Enter the Inspector whose seasoned instincts lead him down a circuitous path in this classic whodunit murder mystery.

Young and Beautiful (Jeune et Jolie) Directed by François Ozon 2013, France, 94 min

Saturday, January 24 / 7 pm

Acclaimed director François Ozon (Swimming Pool, 8 Women) has created an erotic tale of sexual awakening. After losing her virginity, 17-year-old budding beauty Isabelle takes up a secret life as a call girl, meeting her older gentlemen clients for sleazy hotel room trysts. Throughout, she remains curiously aloof, showing little interest in the encounters themselves or the money she makes, while Ozon slyly refrains from offering easy answers.

From top to bottom → Le Confessionnal / Quai des Orfèvres / Young and Beautiful (Jeune et Jolie)

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Mongrel Media 20th Anniversary Film Series Founded in 1994 by Hussain Amarshi, Mongrel Media is a leading Canadian independent film distributor focused on bringing the best of local and world cinema to Canadian audiences. Cinematheque has screened much of their best work and in its honour we present a tribute to their success.

Into Great Silence * A Girl Is a Girl Only Lovers Left Alive Directed by Philip Gröning Directed by Reginald Harkema Directed by Jim Jarmusch 2005, Germany, 164 min 1999, Canada, 89 min 2013, USA, 123 min * French and Latin w/English subtitles Saturday, February 7 / 7 pm Saturday, February 7 / 9 pm Saturday, February 7 / 3 pm Veteran independent film editor Reginald Set against the romantic desolation of The first film ever made chronicling life inside Harkema (Goon, Hard Core Logo) made his Detroit and Tangier, an underground the Grande Chartreuse, nestled deep in the feature directorial debut with this terrific musician, deeply depressed by the direction stunning French Alps. Founded in 1084, it is film about a 20-year-old graphic design of human activities, reunites with his considered one of the world’s most ascetic student named Trevor searching for the resilient and enigmatic lover. Their love monasteries and home to the Catholic perfect girlfriend in the Vancouver art scene. story has already endured several centuries Church’s strictest order. Here the monks Imagine High Fidelity as directed by Jean-Luc at least, but their debauched idyll is soon dedicate themselves entirely to the service of Godard and you’ve basically got the gist disrupted by her wild and uncontrollable God and to spiritual life, in permanent silence. of A Girl Is a Girl. In addition to featuring a younger sister. Can these wise but fragile One of the most mesmerizing and poetic soundtrack full of local indie rock, it wears outsiders continue to survive as the modern chronicles of spirituality ever created, this film its cool locations like a comfy old sweatshirt, world collapses around them? is a rare, transformative experience for all. the same way Austin, Texas is intrinsic to Richard Linklater movies.

This series is generously sponsored by Mongrel Media

12 special events The Passenger The Great Beauty * The Lunchbox * Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni Directed by Paolo Sorrentino Directed by Ritesh Batra 1975, Italy, 126 min, Rare 35mm Print 142 min, 2013, Italy 2013, India, 104 min * Italian w/English subtitles * Hindi and English w/English subtitles Sunday, February 8 / 7 pm Wednesday, February 11 / 7 pm Thursday, February 12 / 7:30 pm “A major cinematic work. Antonioni, who established his own identity with landmark Best Foreign Film at last year’s Academy “It’s an intimate, quiet and slow-paced films such as L’Avventura, L’Eclisse and Blow- awards, The Great Beauty has won over romance, a simple, richly rewarding movie in Up in the 1960s, returned to form in The 42 major awards. The charming story of the classic style of India’s greatest filmmaker, Passenger… one of Jack Nicholson’s classic ‘70s journalist Jep Gambardella charms and the late Satyajit Ray.” — Roger Moore performances.” — San Francisco Chronicle seduces his way through the lavish nightlife Lonely housewife Ila decides to try adding of Rome as a permanent fixture in the city’s David Locke is a world-weary American some spice to her stale marriage by preparing literary and social circles. However, when his journalist who has been sent to cover a a special lunch for her neglectful husband. 65th birthday coincides with a shock from the conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little Unfortunately, the delivery goes astray and past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking progress with the story. When he discovers winds up in the hands of Saajan, an irritable stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on the body of a stranger who looks similar to widower. Curious about her husband’s lack himself and his contemporaries, and looking him, Locke assumes the dead man’s identity. of response, Ila adds a note to the next past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and However, he soon finds out that the man was day’s lunchbox, and thus begins an unusual cafés to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless an arms dealer, leading Locke into dangerous friendship in which Saajan and Ila can talk landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. situations. Aided by a beautiful woman, Locke about their joys and sorrows without ever attempts to avoid both the police and criminals meeting in person. out to get him.

VALENTINE’S DAY DINNER AND A MOVIE

Back by popular demand, Cinematheque and Peasant Cookery present a romantic evening full of great cuisine and film. Why not beat the rush of Valentine’s Day and enjoy this special evening with your loved one a few days before!

Date: Thursday, February 12 / Price: $90 includes dinner for two, wine and a film! Menu to be determined. Film selection is The Lunchbox (description above). To purchase, please call 204-925-3456 ext 106 or visit www.winnipegcinematheque.com

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From Novel to Screen: The Writer’s Imagination To explore the creative challenges of translating a book or short story to screen, Cinematheque, McNally Robinson, and the Manitoba Writer’s Guild present a series of successful book to film adaptations on Wednesday evenings, once a month from January to June. Films will include Paul Newman’s Rachel, Rachel, Stephen Frears’ High Fidelity and David Cronenberg’s Crash as well a panel discussion on the subject of adapting novels for screen with writer and Professor George Toles and author David Bergen. Participants are encouraged to read the book in advance (available at McNally Robinson) and join Winnipeg Free Press pop culture columnist Alison Gillmor for a discussion in the Burns Classroom at the Manitoba Writer’s Guild on the 2nd floor of Artspace after each screening (space is limited to 30 people).

↑ Photo by Mike Deal To register for the discussion and screenings please sign up in advance at 204-925-3456 ext 106.

Away From Her The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz Directed by Sarah Polley Directed by Ted Kotcheff 2006, Canada, 110 min 1974, Canada, 121 min

Wednesday, January 28 / 7 pm Wednesday, February 25 / 7 pm

“One of the most remarkable and moving love stories the movies have Adapted by the novel of the same name by Mordecai Richler and recently given us.” — Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune winner of many awards, this film is one of the biggest commercial successes in Canadian cinema. 18-year-old Duddy (Richard Dreyfuss), A man coping with the institutionalization of his wife due to Alzheimer’s the son of a Jewish Montreal cabbie, is a relentlessly scheming disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to a opportunist who will stop at nothing to gain fame and fortune; he wheelchair-bound mute who is also a patient at the nursing home. wants it all — and he wants it now. Inspired by his grandfather, Duddy Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie give brilliant performances as a is determined to acquire a piece of land. In his relentless pursuit of couple facing the issues of aging and loneliness. Based on the short property and a big-time reputation, the cynical dreamer lies, cheats, story The Bear came Over the Mountain by Alice Munro. and hurts everyone who loves him.

Community Screening CANADIAN SPORT FILM FESTIVAL Friday, February 6 / 7 pm & 9 pm

The Canadian Sport Film Festival presents Manitoba premieres of two engaging docs on February 6. Red, White, Black & Blue (7 pm) follows boys’ and girls’ rugby teams from south Los Angeles on tour in New Zealand. Next Goal Wins (9 pm) profiles the American Samoan soccer team’s efforts to just win a single game.

14 special events Architecture+Film Architecture+Film is an ongoing series of films which focus on RED CARPET LOUNGE architecture and design, co-presented by the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation – a charitable organization dedicated to advancing the awareness and appreciation of Winnipeg’s built environment through Sunday, February 22 / 6 pm public education. YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN US FOR THE 87TH ACADEMY AWARDS!

Tickets: $20 / $15 Members Available online at www.winnipegfilmgroup.com Cash Bar & Snacks Available

This event is a fundraiser for the WFG and is not sponsored by or affiliated with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The Competition Directed by Angel Borrego Cubero 2013, Spain, 99 min

Wednesday, February 18 / 7 pm

This film follows the trials and tribulations of five stellar practices (Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, and Dominique Perrault) competing in a doomed bid to build a new national museum for Andorra back in 2009. There is an air of desperation throughout, as the competing teams grasp blindly for novelty forms, trying to second-guess the desires of a client they have never met, in a context they have never seen, for imaginary future users they will never know. — THE GUARDIAN

This screening is generously sponsored by the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation January 2015 wednesday thursday friday saturday Sunday 1 2 3 4 CLOSED FOR new year’s day Rome, Open City / 7 pm Rome, Open City / 3 pm & 7 pm Cabin Fever: Babe / 2 pm Love Is Strange / 9 pm Love Is Strange / 9 pm Rome, Open City / 7 pm

7 8 9 10 11 Rome, Open City / 7 pm Love Is Strange / 7 pm Love Is Strange / 7 pm Love Is Strange / 3 pm & 7 pm Cabin Fever: Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein / 2 pm Listen Up Philip / 9 pm Listen Up Philip / 9 pm Listen Up Philip / 9 pm Listen Up Philip / 7 pm

14 15 16 17 18 Listen Up Philip / 7 pm FM Youth / 7 pm Love Is Strange / 7 pm Love Is Strange / 3 pm & 7 pm Cabin Fever: A Hard Day’s Night / 2 pm Listen Up Philip / 9 pm FM Youth / 9 pm FM Youth / 9 pm FM Youth / 7 pm 21 22 23 24 25 FM Youth / 7 pm Secrets, Lies and Betrayal: Secrets, Lies and Betrayal: Secrets, Lies and Betrayal: Cabin Fever: The Secret Garden / 2 pm Torment / 7 pm Golden Helmet / 7 pm Quai des Orfèvres / 3 pm Heartbeat / 7 pm Contempt / 9 pm Le Confessionnal / 9 pm Young and Beautiful / 7 pm FM Youth / 9 pm 28 29 30 31 from novel to screen: MTS Tales from Force Majeure / 7 pm The Saturday Morning All-You-Can- Away from Her / 7 pm the Neighborhood / 7 pm Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party! / 10 am Heartbeat / 9:15 pm Life After Death From Heartbeat / 9:15 pm Force Majeure / 3 pm & 7 pm Above 1979 / 9 pm Heartbeat / 9:15 pm February 2015 wednesday thursday friday saturday Sunday 1 Cabin Fever: The Witches / 2 pm Force Majeure / 7 pm

4 5 6 7 8 Force Majeure / 7 pm Heartbeat / 7 pm CLOSED FOR Private Rental Mongrel Media 20th Anniversary: Cabin Fever: The Secret of Kells / 2 pm Into Great Silence / 3 pm Force Majeure / 9 pm Mongrel Media 20th Anniversary: A Girl Is a Girl / 7 pm The Passenger / 7 pm Only Lovers Left Alive / 9 pm

11 12 13 14 15 Mongrel Media 20th Anniversary: Valentine’s Day Dinner and a Movie: Monsoon / 7 pm Force Majeure / 3 pm & 9 pm Cabin Fever: Nocturna / 2 pm The Great Beauty / 7 pm The Lunchbox / 7:30 pm Force Majeure / 9:15 pm Monsoon / 7 pm Monsoon / 7 pm 18 19 20 21 22 Architecture + Film: Sagrada: The Mystery of Cyber-Seniors / 7 pm Sagrada: The Mystery Cabin Fever: Mousehunt / 2 pm The Competition / 7 pm Creation / 7pm of Creation / 3 pm & 9 pm Sagrada: The Mystery Red Carpet Lounge / 6 pm Enduring Favourite Favourites: of Creation / 9 pm Cyber-Seniors / 7 pm Best of EFF Portland / 9 pm 25 26 27 28 1 from novel to screen: Cyber-Seniors / 7 pm Cyber-Seniors / 7 pm Leviathan / 3 pm & 7 pm Leviathan / 3 pm & 7 pm The Apprenticeship of Duddy Sagrada: The Mystery Leviathan / 9 pm Kravitz / 7 pm of Creation / 9 pm

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