May / June 2017 Canadian & International Features The Lure special Events Architecture + Design Film Festival shorts & artist talks A Vision at the Margins: The Films of William D. MacGillivray www.winnipegcinematheque.com May 2017 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 3 4 5 6 7 Architecture+Design Film Festival: Architecture+Design Film Festival: Architecture+Design Film Festival: Architecture+Design Film Festival: Architecture+Design Film Festival: Harry Seidler: Modernist / 7 pm Watermark / 7 pm Linotype: The Film / 7 pm ArchiShorts Film Contest / 12 pm Citizen Lambert: Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Amphithéâtre / 9 pm Roger D’Astous / 8:30 pm Patema Inverted / 3 pm Joan of Architecture / 2 pm Saw the Future / 9 pm Frei Otto: Spanning the Future / 7 pm Citizen Jane: Battle for the City / 4 pm The Architect / 8:30 pm Windshield: A Vanished Vision / 7 pm 10 11 12 13 14 Elle / 7 pm A Vision at the Margins: A Vision at the Margins: A Vision at the Margins: Elle / 3 pm Danny / 7 pm Understanding Bliss / 7 pm Life Classes and Don Shebib’s A Vision at the Margins: Elle / 9:15 pm Elle / 9:15 pm Goin’ Down the Road Discussion / 1 pm The Man of a Thousand Songs / 7 pm Reading Alistair MacLeod / 3 pm Life Classes / 7 pm Elle / 9:30 pm 17 18 19 20 21 Elle / 7 pm Tales from The Neighbourhood: UFOs: The Secret History / 7 pm After the Storm / 7 pm After the Storm / 3 pm New and Used & Bayline / 7 pm David Lynch—The Art Life / 9:30 pm David Lynch—The Art Life / 9 pm David Lynch—The Art Life / 7 pm After the Storm / 9 pm 24 25 26 27 28 After the Storm / 7 pm 100 Short Stories / 7 pm The Apology / 7 pm After the Storm / 3 pm The Apology / 3 pm David Lynch—The Art Life / 9 pm David Lynch—The Art Life / 9 pm The Apology / 7 pm David Lynch—The Art Life / 7 pm David Lynch—The Art Life / 9 pm 31 Kedi / 7 pm June 2017 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1 2 3 4 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me / 7 pm Kedi / 7 pm Kedi / 3 pm & 7 pm Kedi / 3 pm The Lure / 9 pm The Lure / 9 pm The Lure / 7 pm 7 8 9 10 11 The Lure / 7 pm Kedi / 7 pm Kedi / 7 pm The Lure / 3 pm & 9 pm Kedi / 3 pm The Lure / 9 pm The Lure / 9 pm Kedi / 7 pm The Lure / 7 pm 14 15 16 17 18 Jazz Film Fest: Jazz Film Fest: Jazz Film Fest: Jazz Film Fest: Jazz Film Fest: Chasing Trane / 7 pm Mavis! / 7 pm King of Jazz / 7 pm Mavis! / 3 pm King of Jazz / 3 pm Chasing Trane / 9 pm I Called Him Morgan / 9 pm King of Jazz / 7 pm I Called Him Morgan / 7 pm I Called Him Morgan / 9 pm 21 22 23 24 25 Jazz Film Fest: McDonald At The Movies: Lesley Loksi Chan: Jazz Film Fest: Jazz Film Fest: Chasing Trane / 7 pm A Hard Day’s Night / 7 pm The Storyteller / 7 pm The Man Who Fell to Earth / 3 pm The Man Who Fell to Earth / 3 pm Jazz Film Fest: Jazz Film Fest: Citizen Jane: Citizen Jane: Battle for the City / 7 pm Chasing Trane / 9:15 pm The Man Who Fell to Earth / 9 pm Battle for the City / 7 pm & 9 pm 28 29 30 Citizen Jane: Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D / 7 pm Cave of Forgotten Dreams 3D / 7 pm Battle for the City / 7 pm Citizen Jane: Battle for the City / 9 pm The Mask 3D / 9 pm Canadian & International Features Elle After the Storm Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me Directed by Paul Verhoeven Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda Directed by David Lynch 2016, France, 130 min 2016, Japan, 117 min 1992 USA, 135 min French with English subtitles Japanese with English subtitles Thursday, June 1 / 7 pm Wednesday, May 10 / 7 pm Thursday, May 18 / 9 pm Twin Peaks fans rejoice—we are celebrating the return of the Thursday & Friday, May 11 & 12 / 9:15 pm Saturday, May 20 / 7 pm cult TV series with an evening of all things Lynchian, with prizes Saturday, May 13 / 9:30 pm Sunday, May 21 / 3 pm for best dressed and best Lynch impression. The end of Twin Sunday, May 14 / 3 pm Wednesday, May 24 / 7 pm Peaks left millions of viewers clamouring for more—what was to Wednesday, May 17 / 7 pm Saturday, May 27 / 3 pm become of Special Agent Dale Cooper, newly possessed by Bob? “ Elle is an expertly layered drama in which a successful woman “The film is smart, funny, beautiful and profoundly moving— The film purports to show what happened in the last seven days experiences a rather unconventional midlife awakening. Elle nothing less than what we’d expect from this master.” of Laura Palmer’s life. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me keeps the vein centers on Michele LeBlanc (Isabelle Huppert), an assertive and — Vancouver Film Festival of humour that ran through the original seasons, but ramps up accomplished executive who oversees a video game company the nightmarish tension and abstract imagery. “Are you who you wanted to be?” asks the young son of former with her longtime friend, Anna. Michele never seems fazed by the novelist and gambling addict Ryota. It’s one of the central In the folksy town of Deerfield, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond behavior of her male employees—nor does she appear particularly questions in this sweet-natured comedy about father/son (Chris Isaak) inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man shocked after a masked intruder breaks into her home and rapes relationships and the gifts and curses that are passed down who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, her. Sandwiched between the inciting incident and its ultimate through generations. Dwelling on his past glory as a prize- after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, conclusion are brilliant and darkly comedic layers that explore winning author, Ryota wastes the money he makes as a Agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) chillingly predicts that the typical familial discordance as well as female friendships and private detective on gambling and can barely pay child support. culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the similarly cozy those gender bonds that are often as unbreakable as they are After the death of his father, his aging mother and beautiful town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Lara Palmer (Sheryl Lee) unspoken.” —Britt Hayes, Screen Crush ex-wife both seem to be moving on with their lives. Renewing hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate. * Winner of the Golden Globe award for Best Foreign Film. contact with his initially distrusting family, Ryota struggles to take back control of his existence and to find a lasting place in the life of his young son—until a stormy summer night offers them a chance to truly bond again. From the director of Like Father, like Son and Our Little Sister. The Lure The Mask 3D Directed by Agnieszka Smoczynska Directed by Julian Roffman 2015, Poland, 92 min 1961, Canada, 83 min Polish with English subtitles Friday, June 30 / 9 pm Friday & Saturday, June 2 & 3 / 9 pm “The cinematography during the dream sequences is both Sunday, June 4 / 7 pm enchanting and haunting. Designed by legendary montage Wednesday, June 7 / 7 pm expert Slavo Vorkapich, the imagery is a brilliantly woven Thursday & Friday, June 8 & 9 / 9 pm nightmare display.”— Rebekah McKendry, Blumhouse.com Saturday, June 10 / 3 pm & 9 pm Sunday, June 11 / 7 pm The first feature-length Canadian horror movie and the first feature-length 3D film made in Canada, Julian Roffman’s 1961 “One enchanted evening in early ’80s Warsaw, Poland, famished cult classic has now been digitally restored. A psychiatrist comes heart-eating sister sirens Golden and Silver emerge from the sea into possession of an ancient tribal mask that, when worn, in search of prey. They soon find themselves joining an erotic assails him with nightmarish visions of monsters, occultists, discotheque act, enabling them to use their transformative and ritual torture. Believing that he has discovered a portal to The Lure mermaid skills as a rather ultimate dancer performance attribute. the deepest recesses of his mind, he continues to explore this The plan is to stay in human form temporarily in order to explore terrifying new psychic world—even at the risk of his sanity. earthly experiences, but things become complicated when Silver develops feelings for her act’s bass player. A poetic and visually extravagant exploration of femininity and girlhood steeped in a vibrant, magical atmosphere that veers from the carnivalesque to the kink-spiked carnal, exploding with song, sensuality, sea water and blood in a jaw-dropping, goth-popping menagerie of invention. You’ve never seen anything like it.” — Mitch Davis, Fantasia Film Festival The Mask 3D New World Documentaries UFOs: The Secret History David Lynch—The Art Life 100 Short Stories Directed by David Cherniack Directed by Jon Nguyen, Rick Barnes & Olivia Neergaard-Holm Directed by Neal Livingston 2010, Canada, 102 min 2016, USA, 90 min 2016, Canada, 68 min Friday, May 19 / 7 pm Friday, May 19 / 9:30 pm Wednesday, May 25 / 7 pm Saturday, May 20 / 9 pm Panel to follow with UFO expert Chris Rutkowski, Director David Introduced by Neal Livingston. Sunday, May 21 / 7 pm Cherniack, and Stan Michalak. Thursday – Saturday, May 25 – 27 / 9 pm Neal Livingston is Atlantic Canada’s Don Quixote: he not On May 20, 1967 Manitoba prospector Stefan Michalak was Sunday, May 28 / 7 pm only tilts at windmills, he makes them.