Cinematheque MArch / APrIL 2010 PROGRAM New world documeNtaries | caNadiaN shorts, artist talks & live Film PerFormaNces ciNema louNge: critical dialogue oN caNadiaN ciNema | the Films oF FraNk cole: liFe without DEATH Canadian + international Feature Films HIGH LIFe Dir. Gary yates | 2009 | CanaDa | 78 mins with Timothy Olyphant, rossif Sutherland, Joe Anderson, Stephen Eric McIntyre ››Sat apr 17 –›9›PM ››Sun apr 18 –›7›PM› ››Wed apr 21 –›9›PM› Internationally-acclaimed Winnipeg director Gary Yates (Seven Times Lucky) has created a great caper film about four wise cracking losers, all looking to score some quick cash in a downtown bank heist from ATM machines. The film features great use of Winnipeg locations and features standout performances, especially local actor Stephen McIntyre. Music score by Three Dog Night, April Wine, and Creedence Clearwater Revival. “High Life, based on Lee MacDougall’s play of the same name, is a brilliantly acted gangster flick of a bank heist that goes wrong, thanks to the absolute ineptitude of its drugged-out protagonists.” – the globe and mail $8 General | $7 stuDents & seniors | $6 Film Group & Cinematheque members $1 of each admission goes toward our capital members Pay Only $6.00 improvements, aimed at making your experience admissioN buy a membership! see paGe 8 For more inFormation... at the Cinematheque even more satisfying. PublicatioNs mail agreemeNt Number 40045468 inFoline: 204-925-3457 returN to : winniPeg Film grouP 100 arthur ST., in the exChanGe 304-100 arthur street winniPeg, MB r3b 1h3 www.winnipegcinematheque.com Canadian + new world international Feature Films doCumentaries PRECIOUS: based oN Antichrist. A grieving couple retreat to ’Eden’, their isolated cabin in the woods, America, The End of Poverty? features the Novel “Push” by where they hope to repair their broken THE YES MEN expert insights from: Nobel Prize saPPhire hearts and troubled marriage. But nature FiX THE WORLD winners in Economics, Amartya Sen Dir. lee Daniels | usa | 2009 | 109 mins takes its course and things go from bad Dirs. anDy biChlbaum anD mike and Joseph Stiglitz; acclaimed authors with Gabourey Sidibe, Mo‘Nique, to worse. bonanno | 2009 | usa | 87 mins Susan George, Eric Toussaint, John Mariah carey, Lenny Kravitz › The film was the talk of the 2009 cannes ›Fri Mar 5 –›9›PM› Perkins, chalmers Johnson; university Film Festival, where Gainsbourg took ››Sat Mar 6 –›11:30›PM› professors William Easterly and home the award for Best Actress. ››Wed Mar 10 & thu Mar 11 –›9›PM› Michael Watts; government ministers “A powerfully made film. The Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno such as Bolivia’s Vice President Alvaro performances by Willem Dafoe and are two guys who just can’t take “no” Garcia Linera and the leaders of social Charlotte Gainsbourg are heroic and for an answer. They have an unusual movements in Brazil, Venezuela, Kenya fearless. Von Trier’s visual command is and Tanzania. striking. And if you can think beyond what hobby: posing as top executives of he shows to what he implies, its depths * Panel discussion Fri Mar 12 following the 7 PM ››Fri Mar 5 - 7 pM corporations they hate. One day Andy, are frightening. IT IS A REAL FILM. Von purporting to be a Dow chemical screening (panel starts at 8:45 PM) ››Sun Mar 7 - 7 pM Trier has reached me and shaken me.” spokesperson, gets on the biggest ››Wed Mar 10 & thu Mar 11 –›7›PM› - roger ebert, chicago sun-times TV news program in the world and Acclaimed around the world, Gabourey announces that Dow will finally clean PROJECT GRIZZLY This film screening is sponsored by the Department of Sidibe gives an astonishing performance up the site of the largest industrial Sociology, Global Political Economy Program – University Dir. peter lynCh | 1996 | CanaDa | 72 mins as an overweight and illiterate harlem accident in history, the Bhopal of Manitoba teenager named claireece “Precious” catastrophe. The result: as people Jones who is subjected to constant abuse worldwide celebrate, Dow’s stock LA BELLE VISITE and humiliation by her mother and father. value loses two billion dollars. The (JOURNEY’s eNd) To escape this world of pain she conjures reality hits Andy and Mike like a ton Dir. Jean-FranCois Caissy | CanaDa up daydreams of being a fashion model of bricks: we have created a market | 2009 | 80 mins – FrenCh w/ enGlish and rock star. When she gives birth to a system that makes doing the right subtitles second child she is sent to an alternative thing impossible. The Yes Men act as Introduction and Q &A with Director school learning program where she finally ››Wed apr 21 –›7›PM› gonzo journalists, delving deep into Jean-Francois caissy discovers the light in her soul by learning the question of why we have given Years ago, Troy hurtubise, a canadian Free aDmission to read. the market more power than any other scrap-metal dealer and nature enthusiast, ››thu Mar 18 –›7›PM› institution to determine our direction “A rare blend of pure entertainment and had an experience that would change as a society. This poignant new documentary about dark social commentary, this shockingly him forever. After being attacked by a raw, surprisingly irreverent and absolutely growing older recently premiered bear, hurtubise not only counted himself “Outrageously entertaining....this movie unforgettable story …should not be is glorious testimony to the moral at the prestigious 2010 Berlin Film missed.” - l.a. times lucky to be alive, but found himself filled power of satire.” – New york magazine Festival. In the far reaches of the with both a genuine surprise at the Quebec countryside, an abandoned aNTICHRIST situation and a need to relive it. he began THE eNd oF POVERTY? motel has been converted into a constructing a series of increasingly Dir. lars Von trier | Denmark, FranCe, Dir. phillipe Diaz | usa | 2008 | 104 min - retirement home and time in this sweDen & italy | 2009 | 104 mins elaborate bear-proof suits, designed to enGlish, spanish, FrenCh, w/ enGlish former travellers’ retreat seems to with Willem Dafoe and charlotte Gainsbourg withstand any onslaught. subtitles have ground to a halt. La belle visite warninG: this Film Contains expliCit Although it is unclear of what he is trying Narrated by Martin Sheen is an elegiac exploration of old age, ViolenCe anD sexual Content to prove, hurtubise sets off on an annual set in a place at once physical and research trip to the canadian rockies to allegorical. By sharing in the lives of find grizzlies and to test his suits. two dozen seniors over the course of this feature will be preceded by a five seasons, the viewer is drawn into reading from grizzlyville: adventures in the pace of old age and rather than bear country, by winnipeg writer Jake providing answers, the film elicits macdonald. ››Fri Mar 12 & Sat Mar 13 –›7›PM› reflection. The scenes unfold as a series of stand-alone but interlocking ››Fri Mar 12 –›10›PM› Over twenty-five years, MacDonald ››Sun Mar 14 –›4›PM› tableaux devoid of interviews, ››Sat Mar 13 –›9›PM› has produced ten books and hundreds ››Wed Mar 17 –›7›PM› narration or music. This rigorous ››Sun Mar 14 –›7›PM› of stories for various magazines and With so much wealth in the world, attempt to convey reality steadily ››Wed Mar 17 –›9›PM› newspapers, which have been recognized why is there so much poverty? builds the film’s tone, a mood between ››thu Mar 18 –›9:›15›PM› with national awards. Grizzlyville (harper consider that 20% of the planet’s despair and celebration. ››Fri Mar 19 –›9›PM› collins) part memoir, part natural history, population uses 80% of its resources co-Presentation with Les rendez-vous du cinéma ››Sun Mar 21 –›7›PM is MacDonald’s fascinating meditation and consumes 30% more than the québécoise on North America’s largest predators planet can regenerate. To maintain our Lars von Trier is back with the beautiful, and on the people who deal with them, lifestyle means more people will sink terrifying, and altogether engrossing sometimes on a daily basis. below the poverty line. Filmed in the slums of Africa and the barrios of Latin 2 | Cinematheque maRCh / aPRiL 2010 new world heNri-georges doCumentaries clouZot’s InferNo heNri-georges Upper Darby, Pennsylvania during the to light in this dynamic exploration of art, entertaining road journey in which he chrome Dreams II tour. Demme captures commerce and human emotion. interviews a broad range of Native clouZot’s InferNo the twin sides of Young – acoustic and actors, directors, writers, journalists The screening of this film has been generously sponsored by (l’Enfer de heNri– electric. Both electrifying and poignant, and stand up comics as they discuss INTERACTIVE georges clouZot) the concert includes a collection of rare TACTICA COMMUNICATIONS how these negative representations Dirs. serGe bromberG, ruxanDra song gems (Mexico and Kansas), crowd affected their own self image and how meDrea annonier | FranCe | 2009 | 94 favourites (Cinnamon Girl) and more key positive images inspired them. Reel mins – FrenCh w/ enGlish subtitles recent material (No Hidden Path). The THROW DOWN YOUR Injun features a revealing interview with feeling on the stage is of a place where HEART: BELA FLECK iN Sacheen Littlefeather, the Native actress Young is able to create his music exactly aFRICA who attended the Academy award as he wants and is supported by his long- Dir. sasCha palaDino | 2008 | usa | 97 ceremony in 1973 on behalf of Marlon time touring band and friends. Heart of mins Brando, who declined his award to Gold director Jonathan Demme (Silence ››Fri apr 9 –›7›PM protest discrimination against Aboriginal of the Lambs, Philadelphia), brought his people in the film industry. [Toronto ››Sat apr 10 –›9›PM veteran crew to shoot the two concerts International Film Festival] ››Sun apr 11 –›4›PM with mostly hand-held cameras in ››Fri Mar 19 –›7›PM› ››Wed apr 14 –›7›PM hDcam, hDV and Super-8mm formats.