January / February 2013 PROGRAM
THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED CONTINUED ON PAGE 9
New World Documentaries THE WAITING ROOM
CANADIAN & INTERNATIONAL FEATURES BLOOD PRESSURE
Shorts & Artist Talks THE FILMS OF WINSTON WASHINGTON MOXAM
SPECIAL EVENTS Cabin Fever: Free Films For Kids
www.winnipegcinematheque.com New World Documentaries
THE WAITING ROOM
YOU’VE BEEN TRUMPED 56 UP THE WAITING ROOM DIR. ANTHONY BAXTER DIR. MICHAEL APTED DIR. PETER NICKS 2011 | USA | 95 MIN 2012 | UK | 143 MIN 2012 | USA | 81 MIN FRI JAN 4 - 9:00 PM WED JAN 23 - 7:00 PM SAT JAN 26 - 2:00 PM & 7:00 PM SUN JAN 6 - 2:00 PM THU JAN 24 - 9:15 PM SUN JAN 27 - 7:00 PM FRI JAN 25 & SAT JAN 26 - 9:00 PM WED JAN 30 - 7:00 PM This is the film Donald Trump doesn’t want you to see. The real life situation in this remarkable THU JAN 31 - 9:00 PM One of the boldest documentary experiments in documentary bears strong resemblance to Bill television history, the idea of the "Up" series was Join us for a panel discussion on health care after Forsyth’s 1983 classic Local Hero where an oil to interview several children from different social the Jan 26 afternoon screening executive moves to Scotland in order to purchase classes to see how their future unfolded. Every a town, except this story is real. In this David seven years, renowned director Michael Apted, America's controversial health care system is and Goliath tale, a group of proud Scottish has been back to talk to them, examining the broken and nowhere is it more evident than in homeowners confront Donald Trump as he gets set progression of their lives. It is now seven years The Waiting Room. This composite 24 hour period to destroy the crown jewels of Scotland’s national since the release of 49 Up. From cab driver Tony at Highland Hospital in Oakland, one of the heritage in order to build a luxury golf resort. to schoolmates Jackie, Lynn and Susan and the nation's busiest emergency rooms, offers a raw, “A compelling film that will have your heart-breaking Neil, as they turn 56 more life- intimate, and even uplifting look at how patients, blood boiling angry” changing decisions and surprising developments staff and caregivers each cope with disease, are revealed. bureaucracy and choices. – VANCOUVER OBSERVER “Astounding and moving. This movie will stay with you.” – SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
cinema on weekends at the NFB theatre filmmakers and a diversity of programming Cinema Main in January of 1983. A choices. It is as necessary now as it was move into Artspace in 1986 soon led then. Throughout the year we will host a to the addition of 35mm projectors, series of special programming events to digital projection and new seats, which recognize our achievements. Join us in the 2013 marks the 30th Anniversary of the allowed us to expand our programming. celebration and thank you for supporting Winnipeg Film Group’s Cinematheque. The theatre is now recognized for its us for 30 years. All anniversary screenings The theatre began programming outstanding commitment in supporting will be accompanied by a draw for prizes! independent, classic and Canadian the work of Winnipeg and Canadian
1 JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2013 Beauty is embarRassing
PING PONG MEET THE FOKKENS RADIO UNNAMEABLE BEAUTY IS Embarrassing DIR. HUGH HARTFORD DIRS. ROB SCHRODER & DIRS. PAUL LOVELACE & DIR. NEIL BERKELEY 2012 | UK | 76 MIN GABRIELLE PROVAAS JESSICA WOLFSON 2012 | USA | 91 MIN 2011 | NETHERLANDS | 75 MIN 2012 | USA | 87 MIN SAT FEB 9 - 2:00 PM FRI FEB 22 - 9:30 PM FRI FEB 15 & SAT FEB 16 - 9:00 PM SAT FEB 9 & SUN FEB 10 - 7:00 PM (Dutch w/ English subtitles) SAT FEB 23 - 9:00 PM THU FEB 21 - 8:30 PM THU FEB 14 - 9:00 PM FRI FEB 15 TO SUN FEB 17 - 7:00 PM THU FEB 28 - 9:00 PM WED FEB 20 - 7:00 PM In 1963, one man radically Come down and test your Beauty is Embarrassing is a funny, transformed the FM dial. Radio ping pong skills 45 minutes Should you ever wonder what the irreverent, joyful and inspiring Unnameable tells the story of the before each screening in word spitfire means look no further documentary featuring the life and groundbreaking New York disc the lobby of Artspace than Martine and Louise Fokken. times of one of America's most jockey Bob Fass and his innovative Louise recently retired because of important artists, Wayne White. Hugh Hartford’s film follows eight use of the airwaves to inform, arthritis; Martine, however, still Starting his career as a cartoonist octogenarians as they compete in entertain and encourage dialogue turns tricks, flagging down men in New York City, he quickly found China to be the World’s Oldest amongst listeners. His program is sporting dominatrix duds. Louise success as one of the creators of ping pong champion. Hailing from entirely free form, there’s no telling and Martine Fokkens are identical the TV show, Pee-wee's Playhouse, around the globe, the one thing what might happen next. It is a place twins. For over 50 years they were which led to more work designing all have in common is the fire to to hear great music, conversations working as prostitutes. They freed some of the most iconic images in win. Players like Dallas based Lisa with artists and activists and themselves from the control of pop culture. Whether he’s parading and British powerhouse Les D’Arcy audio experiments. proudly show off their stacks of their pimps, ran their own brothel, a 20 foot tall puppet through the medals without hesitation. Ping Pong and set up the first informal trade Radio Unnameable is presented in hillside or romping around the plays out like a traditional sports film union for prostitutes. Though partnership with CKUW's Fundrive Hollywood Hills dressed in his LBJ complete with heroes and villains... they’ve encountered their share puppet suit, the film is a reminder a testament to how hard work and of hardships—abusive husbands, that we should all follow our passion. determination can cause you to societal scorn, the sheer labor of It is those creative impulses that will succeed regardless of your age. entertaining upwards of ten clients lead us to where we need to go. Filled with engaging characters, per day for almost half a century— and several funny moments, Ping the sisters wear their accumulated Pong is a film that will leave you experiences remarkably well. smiling from ear to ear. – TIME OUT – COURTNEY SMALL “Thoroughly enjoyable...raunchy, hilariously uninhibited." – VARIETY
2 JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2013 CANADIAN & INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILMS
THE MASTER DIR. PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON 2012 | USA | 137 MIN SAT JAN 5 & SUN JAN 6 - 7:00 PM WED JAN 9 & THU JAN 10 - 7:00 PM Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams
To watch the work of Paul Thomas Anderson is to watch movies at their most alive. In a return to the big screen, Joaquin Phoenix plays a troubled soldier in post WWII America…he rages through life like an animal, unable to keep a job, to attract a woman, to live in his own skin. By chance one night he jumps on board a docked ship and stows away. He soon discovers the ship belongs to Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic founder of a new religion. In scenes of sometimes shocking soul-baring, the two forge a primal bond – until the disciple begins to question his master.
– TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2012
THE FIRST WINTER DIR. RYAN MCKENNA 2012 | CANADA | 72 MIN FRI JAN 11 TO SUN JAN 13 - 7:00 PM WED JAN 16 - 7:00 PM Starring Rob Vilar, Eve Majzels and Alek Rzeszowski Director Ryan McKenna and lead actors will be present opening night
Premiering at Montreal's prestigious Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, director Ryan McKenna has created a dryly-funny gem about unrequited love. Vilar gives a beautiful deadpan performance as a DJ living in Portugal who learns that an affair with a woman named Sophie has led to her pregnancy. He flies back to Winnipeg to be by her side only to encounter an icy reception and a forbidding city. McKenna has captured Winnipeg in all its mid winter darkness with beautiful cinematography and a bleak sense of humour reminiscent of Finnish master Aki Kaurismaki and Jim Jarmusch. Created under the rules of the seven point “Brutalism in Cinema Manifesto” whereby the new cinema of Winnipeg is stark, austere, brutal and cold...but told with jokes.
3 JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2013 Holy MOTORS
REBELLE (WAR WITCH) HOLY MOTORS Blood Pressure DIR. KIM NGUYEN DIR. Léos Carax DIR. SEAN GARRITY 2012 | CANADA | 90 MIN 2012 | FRANCE | 116 MIN 2012 | CANADA| 95 MIN (French w/ English subtitles) (French w/ English subtitles) FRI FEB 22 TO SUN FEB 24 - 7:00 PM FRI JAN 11 - 9:15 PM SAT FEB 2 - 7:00 PM & 9:00 PM WED FEB 27 - 7:00 PM SAT JAN 12 - 9:00 PM SUN FEB 3 & WED FEB 6 - 7:00 PM Starring Jonas Chernick, Judah Katz, Michelle Giroux. Panel discussion to follow with director THU JAN 17 - 9:00 PM THU FEB 7 & SAT FEB 9 - 9:00 PM Sean Garrity and members of Red Czarina Canada’s entry to the 2013 Academy Awards Holy Motors is a love letter to the City of Lights Acclaimed Winnipeg director Sean Garrity for Best Foreign Film, Rebelle is an extraordinary as embodied by one of the most mischievously (Inertia, Zooey & Adam) has a new feature with portrait of survival. Kidnapped and forcibly original screen protagonists in memory. Join a sense of mystery at the heart of its story. Nicole inducted into a rebel army, 14 year old Kamona Monsieur Oscar on his rollicking, soulful journey begins a long relationship with an anonymous finds herself haunted by premonitory visions in this by limousine through the streets of Paris as he letter writer, who sends her letters that change heartfelt and helplessly moving portrait of a child transforms into multiple characters for a series her life, but ultimately threaten everything that soldier as she recounts the past two years of her of mysterious “appointments”. Melding monster has meaning for her. life to her unborn child. Director Kim Nguyen spent movie, film noir, romantic drama, musical, crime ten years bringing this story to the screen, basing thriller and anime, Léos Carax’s mirthful, mind- "Sean Garrity has demonstrated that he can wear his script on the stories of actual child soldiers and bending masterwork is a ravishing fever dream of many colours as one of Canada’s most interesting shooting entirely on location in the Democratic becoming, unraveling and starting all over again. directors. In Blood Pressure, he offers up a taut and Republic of the Congo. intriguing film noirish thriller that keeps you guessing for much of its running time." – TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2012 – WHISTLER FILM FESTIVAL 2012
Thu JAN 24 at 5:45 PM Dinner and a Movie is back with dinner at Peasant Cookery To purchase tickets, followed by a screening of Ping Pong (pg 2)! please call Kristy at 925-3456 For $45 you will enjoy a three course meal and admission to the film.
4 JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2013 Shorts & Artist Talks
ROMAN KROITOR: PRAIRIE GENIUS FRI JAN 4 - 7:00 PM FREE ADMISSION Curated and introduced by Matthew Rankin
When pioneering filmmaker Roman Kroitor passed away recently at age 85, Canada lost one of its most inventive filmmakers. A renowned technical innovator, co-creator of IMAX, brilliant editor and pioneering director, his body of work is matchless for its influence on direct cinema and documentary filmmaking in Canada. Film scholar and independent filmmaker Matthew Rankin will introduce this special screening of, former Winnipegger, Kroitor's finest work including his classicsLonely Boy, a terrific cinema vérité portrait of teen heartthrob Paul Anka,Paul Tomkowicz: Street rail-way Switchman and Universe an incredible film which won 23 awards for its realistic depiction of outer space which influenced Stanley Kubrick in creating 2001: A Space Odyssey.
STEPPING THROUGH HEAVEN: THE STRANGE DREAMS OF THE PERSONAL FILMS OF DANIELLE STURK ALAIN DELANNOY FREE ADMISSION FREE ADMISSION FRI JAN 25 - 7:00 PM FRI FEB 8 - 7:00 PM Featuring a Q&A with Stéphane Oystryk and Danielle Sturk Featuring a Q&A with Shawna Dempsey and Alain Delannoy Reception to follow in Platform Gallery Reception to follow at Video Pool
Franco Manitoban filmmaker and multi-disciplinary artist Danielle Alain Delannoy is one of Winnipeg’s finest animators. Currently Sturk has only made a handful of films but each work is defined by teaching a multimedia course at the Université de Saint-Boniface he a strong sense of vulnerability and creative vision. All of her films has created an excellent body of hand crafted animated works over reveal a rare sense of intimacy and visual movement clearly the last 17 years. They reveal a creative mind which is restless, enhanced by her background as a dancer. These works reflect philosophical and searching. her unerring eye for the truth. The program begins with some rare student work from the 1990s This evening will feature four of her works – her poetic filmReeds featuring Jack in the Box and Blue Noise which reflect his restless created for WNDX’s One Take Super 8 Event; ciel(s), a moving urge to create. With a deepening artistic maturity, Monument is the documentary where several individuals of all ages reflect on the story of a boy who embarks on a journey which leads to his own meaning of death and their personal vision of the afterlife; and identity and destiny. It was produced over a span of five years with Farandole, a documentary that captures the vibrancy of a culture. 4,000 hand crafted drawings. Created in 35mm, the film fills the The evening will conclude with the premiere of her newest work Kyden in 7 Movements, a deeply personal profile of a five year screen with wonder. Fraction is a beautifully animated story of an old named Kyden who lives with a rare form of muscular dystrophy elderly artist who, caught in a battle of time struggles to complete and the unique bond he shares with his mother and sister. his body of work. This special retrospective chronicles his unique development as an artist.
Kyden in 7 Movements Stepping Through The Strange Dreams of Alain Delannoy is has been produced for Heaven is generously generously sponsored by Radio-Canada MTS Stories From Home. sponsored by and Video Pool Media Arts Centre Radio-Canada
5 JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2013 NO MAN CAN DEFINE ME: THE FILMS OF WINSTON WASHINGTON MOXAM Curated & introduced by Scott Birdwise
The Winnipeg Film Group is pleased to present the first retrospective of the films of Winston Washington Moxam (1963-2011). Moxam is, to date, the most significant black filmmaker to emerge from Manitoba. His independent body of work spans almost two decades, from 1992 to 2010, and includes short fiction, documentary, and two features. All of these works address issues of race, racism and social justice, and significantly reflect the experience of living in Winnipeg and Manitoba. In order to present the depth and diversity of Moxam’s films, the retrospective is composed of two sets of screenings – the first highlights his shorter works and then we present his first feature length film Barbara James, a compelling fiction film about a single black woman in her early 30s who, in light of an unplanned pregnancy, must come to grips with her life. Barbara James is a strong example of Moxam’s oeuvre in its marriage of a concern with race and social justice, an emphasis on narrative, and a realist style with surreal flourishes. In addition to the screenings, this event also features the launch of an accompanying interpretive catalogue published by the Winnipeg Film Group. The catalogue contains contextual essays and personal considerations by Scott Birdwise, Daniel Eskin and Matthew Rankin, and includes a filmography and photographs of Moxam at work as well as stills from his films.
Program 1: Short Films Program 2: Feature FREE ADMISSION FREE ADMISSION FRI FEB 1 - 7:00 PM FRI FEB 1 - 9:00 PM From the Other Side barbara james 1992, Canada, 30 min 2001 | Canada | 80 min
The epidemic of homelessness in Toronto's multi-ethnic homeless community Barbara James is a 30 something, single, hip and opinionated is insightfully documented in this film. pregnant black woman. Her life takes an eventful twist of fate when, one particularly ordinary day, she wakes up and realizes that her The Barbeque unborn baby has stopped moving. On this particular day, Barbara 1993, Canada, 48 min James decides she must sort out her past, present and future. She must come to grips with 30 years of mistakes, miscalculations and A drama about a young black woman's bizarre encounter with her white misinterpretations, all bound up in a reality she has never faced boyfriend's sadly ignorant (and ridiculous) family. before. Dealing with a judgmental mother, an irresponsible father who abandons her, an overly protective best friend, no money, no career, no Sand place of her own and a ghost who haunts her, she must decide whether 1999, Canada, 16 min or not to keep her child. Barbara James represents and explores the transitions all of us must go through in our lives – always wondering Two black Canadian soldiers stranded on a desert island during WWII with only one canteen of fresh water between them. In order to survive they must face and where to go next and what to do when we get there. overcome not only the heat and thirst, but also their own doubts and fears.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, which last year invested $154 million to bring the arts to Canadians throughout the country. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien. L’an dernier, le Conseil a investi 154 millions de dollars pour mettre de l’art dans la vie des Canadiennes et des Canadiens de tout le pays.
6 JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2013 SPECIAL EVENTS
FREE FILMS FOR KIDS! Cinematheque returns with our 8th Annual series of free films for children every Sunday afternoon at 2:00 PM in January and February. Don’t miss Freeze Frame's hands-on animation workshops for kids of all ages (between 12:30 PM to 2:00 PM). With a different theme each week, Freeze Frame will teach you the basics of animation and give you the chance to make your own animated short film.
YELLOW SUBMARINE 20,000 LEAGUES THE IRON GIANT THE NEVERENDING STORY DIR. GEORGE DUNNING UNDER THE SEA DIR. BRAD BIRD DIR. WOLFGANG PETERSON 1968 | UK | 90 MIN DIR. RICHARD FLEISCHER 1999 | USA | 80 MIN 1984 | GERMANY | 92 MIN SUN JAN 13 - 2:00 PM 1954 | USA | 127 MIN SUN JAN 27 - 2:00 PM SUN FEB 3 - 2:00 PM SUN JAN 20 - 2:00 PM Once upon a time there was an Loosely based on the 1968 This time honored classic is the story unearthly paradise called Pepperland. This 1950s live action film and children's book by the late British of a lonely boy named Bastian who A place where happiness and music classic fantasy-adventure won several poet Ted Hughes, the film is a child's borrows a strange looking book and reigned supreme. But all that was Academy Awards for its art direction adventure story which focuses on a is transported into a fantasy world threatened when the terrible Blue and special effects. In 1868 a 9-year-old kid in small-town Rockwell, known as Fantasia. To save Fantasia Meanies declared war and sent in group of sailors are sent out to find Maine, who befriends a 100-foot-tall which is under threat, an ailing their army led by a menacing Flying a monster which is devouring ships. robotic man. empress sends for a young warrior Glove to destroy all that was good. from among the plains people, They encounter the mythical beast only PLAYS WITH Enter John, Paul, George and Ringo to discover it is actually a submarine, Atreyu to go on a quest to find a to save the day! the Nautilus, headed up by the Robot Adventures in Outer Space cure for her illness. dir. Marlon Wiebe, PLAYS WITH visionary scientist Captain Nemo. 2012, Canada , 2 min The Yodeling Farmer Tin-can robot LIF-TOR searches for dirs. Mike Maryniuk & John Scoles, his lost friend Space Robot in the far 2011, Canada, 6 min reaches of deep space in this slick The life and music of Manitoba science fiction comedy. cowboy yodeling legend Stew Clayton.
7 JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2013 FREE ADMISSION! The Winnipeg Film Group acknowledges the generous support of the Assiniboine Credit Union for our Cabin Fever series
ART CITY MONKEY BUSINESS IN SEARCH OF THE A CAT IN PARIS DIRS. SCOTT COLLINS & DIR. NORMAN MCLEOD CASTAWAYS DIRS. JEAN LOUP FELICIOLI ANITA LEBEAU 1931 | USA | 77 MIN DIR. ROBERT STEVENSON & ALAIN GAGNOL 2012 | CANADA | 45 MIN 2010 | FRANCE | 70 MIN Starring The Marx Brothers 1962 | USA | 98 MIN SUN FEB 10 - 2:00 PM & Thelma Todd SUN FEB 24 - 2:00 PM (French w/ English subtitles) Introduced by Josh Ruth, SUN FEB 17 - 2:00 PM SUN MAR 3 - 2:00 PM Managing Director of Art City A French man discovers a message Groucho, Harpo, Chico and in a bottle that a captain who has A cat leads a secret double life: The film documents Art City’s Body Zeppo spend four days living been presumed dead is still alive. He he spends his days with Zoe, the Movin’ Parade, as well as the history of inside four barrels as they stow searches out the captain’s two children daughter of a police commissioner, the cutting edge community arts center away on an ocean liner headed and embarks on a global search to but at night he accompanies a thief located in the heart of Winnipeg’s to America. find his whereabouts encountering on the rooftops of Paris. While Zoe`s West Broadway neighbourhood. jaguars and natural disasters mother investigates the burglaries With tons of archival photographs, along the way. at night, another criminal kidnaps lots of kids and interviews, including the girl. Wanda Koop, founder of Art City, this Please note this film is not documentary captures the essence of suitable for younger children the Art City legacy. PLAYS WITH A Chairy Tale dirs. Norman McLaren & Claude Jutra, 1957, Canada, 10 min In this Oscar® nominated short film, a chair refuses to be sat upon. The Sacred Seven dir. Jordan Molaro, 2010, Canada, 9 min An inspiring story about Melissa, a seven year old foster child who grounds herself with the seven sacred teachings.
8 JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2013 BAD GIRL DIR. MARIELLE NITOSLAWSKA 2001 | FRANCE | 55 MIN FIGHTING THU FEB 21 - 7:00 PM
Bad Girl investigates alternative visions of female desire involving explicit WORDS: representations of female sexuality by women featuring Carole Schneeman, Catherine Breillat, Annie Sprinkle, Candida Royale and the Scandanavian NEW WORKS Puzzy Power Collective. FROM WOMEN FILMMAKERS THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED DIR. LOTTE REINIGER 1926 | GERMANY | 65 MIN THU FEB 28 - 7:00 PM THE BALLAD OF GENESIS AND LADY JAYE Featuring a live score by Julia Ryckman and friends DIR. MARIE LOSIER Special Event Pricing: $12/Non-Member | $10/Member 2010 | FRANCE | 72 MIN THU JAN 17 - 7:00 PM This enchanting film still stands as one of the great classics of animation - beautiful, mesmerizing and utterly seductive. Taken from The Arabian Nights, FRI JAN 18 & SAT JAN 19 - 9:00 PM the film tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse and sends the rider off on a flight to his death. Genesis P-Orridge has been one of the most innovative and influential figures But the prince foils the magician’s plan, and soars headlong into a series of in music and fine art for the last 30 years. A link between the pre-and post- wondrous adventures. punk eras, he is the founder of the legendary groups COUM Transmissions, Throbbing Gristle, and Psychic TV. In 2000, Genesis began a series of sex Julia Ryckman is a classically trained opera singer and piano player and is reassignment surgeries in order to more closely resemble his love, Lady Jaye, presently front-woman of post-punk rockers This Hisses, solo project Slattern, who remained his wife and artistic partner for nearly 15 years. and experimental duo Triunfo Do Gato.
PLAYS WITH Fighting Words has been generously Le Dernier Soir, dir. Kayla Jeanson, 2011, Canada, 5 min sponsored by the Academy of Motion A woman in a mask leads a group of children through an evening of fun and Picture Arts and Sciences fantasy, crafting masks and projecting animated unicorns onto houses. We also acknowledge the support of Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art
WE RISE ABOVE: SHORT FILMS ON HUMAN RIGHTS THU JAN 31 - 7:00 PM Curated by Alex Rogalski
WE RISE The films in this program focus on strong women whose lives are forever altered by human rights abuses. Collectively, this program highlights their courage, voice and will to reclaim their lives. They address powerful issues in hopes that their ABOVE: struggle and suffering will prevent further abuses and give hope to those who have fought similar injustices. Although all are Canadian-made films, the subjects NEW FILMS ON are as diverse as this country and the content is international. From young women who have taken up the sport of boxing in Afghanistan in a post-Taliban HUMAN RIGHTS society (Ariel Nasr’s The Boxing Girls of Kabul) to a South Asian female officer in Edmonton who was a victim of spousal abuse (Shazia Javed’s Namrata) these women have fought against oppression and are incredible role models. Alex Rogalski is a Short Cuts Canada Programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival. He also programs for the Hot Docs International Documentary Film THE INVISIBLE WAR Festival and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival in Toronto. DIR. KIRBY DICK 2011 | USA | 90 MIN SING YOUR SONG FRI JAN 18 TO SUN JAN 20 - 7:00 PM DIR. SUSANNE ROSTOCK 2012| USA | 104 MIN Audience award winner at Sundance, Oscar® and Emmy® nominated WED FEB 13 & THU FEB 14 - 7:00 PM filmmaker Kirby Dick has created a groundbreaking investigative documentary about one of America's most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of Sing Your Song is an up close look at a great American, Harry Belafonte. A rape within the U.S. military. The film paints a startling picture of the extent of patriot to the last and a champion for worldwide human rights, Belafonte is one the problem today; a female soldier in combat zones is more likely to be raped of the truly heroic cultural and political figures of the past 60 years. Among by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire. other things, the film presents a brief look at the Civil Rights Movement through “A must see.” the eyes of an insider, someone who despite his high profile, wasn’t afraid to spend time in the trenches. – THE GLOBE AND MAIL We Rise Above is generously sponsored by the Canadian Museum for Human Rights
9 JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2013 Architecture+Film Co-presented by Cinematheque and the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation, Architecture+Film is a bi-monthly series of films which focus on architecture and design. The Winnipeg Architecture Foundation is a registered charitable organisation dedicated to advancing the awareness and appreciation of Winnipeg’s built environment through public education.
(www.winnipegarchitecture.ca)
UNFINISHED SPACES DIRS. ALYSA NAHMIAS & BENJAMIN MURRY 2011 | CUBA | 86 MIN THU FEB 7 - 7:00 PM FRI FEB 8 - 9:00 PM
In 1961, three young, visionary architects were commissioned by Fidel Castro and Che Guevara to create Cuba's National Art School on the grounds of a former golf course in Havana, Cuba. Construction of their radical designs began immediately and the school's first classes soon followed. Dancers, musicians and artists from all over the country reveled in the beauty of the schools, but as the dream of the Revolution quickly became a reality, construction was abruptly halted and the architects and their designs were deemed irrelevant in the prevailing political climate. Forty years later the schools are in use, but remain unfinished and decaying. Castro has invited the exiled architects back to finish their unrealized dream. Unfinished Spaces features intimate footage of Fidel Castro, showing his devotion to creating a worldwide showcase for art, and it also documents the struggle and passion of three revolutionary artists.
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10 JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2013 JANUARY 2013 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 3 4 5 7:00 PM Roman Kroitor: 7:00 PM The Master Prairie Genius 9:00 PM You've Been Trumped
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 2:00 PM You've Been Trumped 7:00 PM The Master 7:00 PM The Master 7:00 PM The First Winter 7:00 PM The First Winter 7:00 PM The Master 9:15 PM Rebelle 9:00 PM Rebelle
13 14 15 16 17 18 19 2:00 PM Cabin Fever: 7:00 PM The First Winter 7:00 PM The Ballad of Genesis 7:00 PM The Invisible War 7:00 PM The Invisible War Yellow Submarine AND Lady Jaye 9:00 PM The Ballad of Genesis 9:00 PM The Ballad of Genesis 7:00 PM The First Winter 9:00 PM Rebelle AND Lady Jaye AND Lady Jaye
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 2:00 PM Cabin Fever: 7:00 PM 56 UP 9:15 PM 56 UP 7:00 PM Stepping Through 2:00 PM The Waiting Room 20,000 Leagues Heaven 7:00 PM The Waiting Room Under the Sea 9:00 PM 56 Up 9:00 PM 56 Up 7:00 PM The Invisible War
27 28 29 30 31 2:00 PM Cabin Fever: 7:00 PM The Waiting Room 7:00 PM We Rise Above: The Iron Giant Films On Human Rights 7:00 PM The Waiting Room 9:00 PM The Waiting Room
FEBRUARY 2013 SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT 1 2 7:00 PM The Shorts of Winston 7:00 PM Holy Motors Washington Moxam 9:00 PM Holy Motors 9:00 PM BARBARA JAMES
3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2:00 PM Cabin Fever: 7:00 PM Holy Motors 7:00 PM Architecture+Film: 7:00 PM The Strange Dreams 2:00 PM Ping Pong The NeverEnding Unfinished Spaces OF Alain Delannoy 7:00 PM Ping Pong Story 9:00 PM Holy Motors 9:00 PM Architecture+Film: 9:00 PM Holy Motors 7:00 PM Holy Motors Unfinished Spaces
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 2:00 PM Cabin Fever: 7:00 PM Sing Your Song 7:00 PM Sing Your Song 7:00 PM Meet The Fokkens 7:00 PM Meet The Fokkens Art City 9:00 PM Ping Pong 9:00 PM Radio Unnameable 9:00 PM Radio Unnameable 7:00 PM Ping Pong
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 2:00 PM Cabin Fever: 7:00 PM Meet The Fokkens 7:00 PM Bad Girl 7:00 PM Blood Pressure 7:00 PM Blood Pressure Monkey Business 8:30 PM Radio Unnameable 9:30 PM Beauty is EmbarRassing 9:00 PM Beauty is EmbarRassing 7:00 PM Meet The Fokkens
24 25 26 27 28 2:00 PM Cabin Fever: 7:00 PM Blood Pressure 7:00 PM The Adventures of In Search of Prince Achmed THE Castaways 9:00 PM Beauty is EmbaRrassing 7:00 PM Blood Pressure
MARCH 3 2:00 PM Cabin Fever: A Cat In Paris
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