January / February 2019 Canadian & International Features NEW WORLD DOCUMENTARIES special Events THE GREAT BUSTER CABIN FEVER: FREE FILMS FOR KIDS! www.winnipegcinematheque.com January 2019 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 closed: New Year’s Day Roma / 7 pm Roma / 7 pm & 9:30 pm Roma / 7 pm & 9:30 pm Roma / 3 pm & 7 pm cabin fever: Coco 3D / 3 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Anthropocene: Anthropocene: The Human Epoch / 9:30 pm The Human Epoch / 5 pm Roma / 7 pm 8 9 10 11 12 13 The Last Movie / 7 pm Roma / 7 pm Jean-Pierre Melville: Black Lodge: Secret Cinema Roma / 2:30 pm cabin fever: The Big Bad Dial Code Santa Claus / 9 pm Le samouraï / 7 pm with the Laundry Room / 7 pm Jean-Pierre Melville: Fox and Other Tales… / 3 pm Roma / 9 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Léon Morin, Priest / 5 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Anthropocene: Canada’s Top Ten: Anthropocene: The Human Epoch / 7 pm Anthropocene: The Human Epoch / 5 pm Roma / 9 pm The Human Epoch / 7:15 pm Genesis / 7 pm Genesis / 9 pm 15 16 17 18 19 20 The Last Movie / 7 pm Jean-Pierre Melville: Canada’s Top Ten: Jean-Pierre Melville: The Great Buster / 3 pm & 7 pm cabin fever: Buster Keaton’s Dial Code Santa Claus / 9 pm Léon Morin, Priest / 7 pm Anthropocene: Le doulos / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Classic Shorts / 3 pm The Human Epoch / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Anthropocene: The Great Buster / 5 pm Roads in February / 9 pm Anthropocene: The Human Epoch / 5 pm Jean-Pierre Melville: The Human Epoch / 9 pm Roads in February / 9 pm Le samouraï / 7 pm 22 23 24 25 26 27 The Last Movie / 7 pm The Great Buster / 7 pm Jean-Pierre Melville: The Great Buster / 7 pm Jean-Pierre Melville: Remembering Siberia / 12:30 pm Dial Code Santa Claus / 9 pm Bob le flambeur / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Le doulos / 3 pm cabin fever: Canada’s Top Ten: Edge of the Knife / 9 pm Canada’s Top Ten: The Last Starfighter / 3 pm Edge of the Knife / 9 pm Edge of the Knife / 5 pm & 9 pm Jean-Pierre Melville: The Fireflies Are Gone / 7 pm Bob le flambeur / 5 pm Canada’s Top Ten: The Fireflies Are Gone / 7 pm 29 30 31 The Last Movie / 7 pm WINNIPEG DREAMERS: Architecture+Film: Dial Code Santa Claus / 9 pm Part One / 7 pm The Price of Everything / 7 pm Part Two / 9 pm Canada’s Top Ten: The Fireflies Are Gone / 9 pm February 2019 TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1 2 3 Jean-Pierre Melville: Canada’s Top Ten: Cabin Fever: The Goonies / 3 pm Army of Shadows / 7 pm Mouthpiece / 3 pm & 7 pm The Great Buster / 5 pm Canada’s Top Ten: The Fireflies Are Gone / 5 pm & 9 pm Jean-Pierre Melville: Mouthpiece / 9:30 pm Army of Shadows / 7 pm 5 6 7 8 9 10 Wanda / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Comedy Fest: Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda / 7 pm The Saturday Morning All- Cabin Fever: Mouthpiece / 7 pm Winnipeg’s Golden Boys of Comedy Fest: You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Mary and the Witch’s Flower / The Fireflies Are Gone / 9 pm The Golden Age / 7 pm Dancey-Dancey Doggies Party / 10 am 1 pm Commercials, Kubasa, Meet Chilly Winnipeg / 9 pm Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda / 3 pm Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda / 3 pm Birds, Bees and Dating In Winnipeg / 9 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Wildlife / 5 pm Mouthpiece / 5 pm & 9 pm El Toro / 7 pm El Toro / 7 pm 12 13 14 15 16 17 Wanda / 7 pm jean-Pierre Melville: Wildlife / 7 pm Wildlife / 7 pm El Toro / 3 pm Cabin Fever: Le cercle rouge / 7 pm El Toro / 9 pm Beyond Climate / 9 pm Beyond Climate / 5 pm Experimental Films for Kids! / 3 pm El Toro / 9 pm Black Lodge: Cream of the Crap: Beyond Climate / 5 pm Crappy Valentine’s Day / 7 pm Wildlife / 7 pm Wildlife / 7 pm jean-Pierre Melville: Le cercle rouge / 9 pm 19 20 21 22 23 24 Wanda / 7 pm McDonald at the Movies: Afro Prairie Film Festival / Afro Prairie Film Festival / Afro Prairie Film Festival / Cabin Fever: Ghostbusters / 7 pm Showtimes TBA Showtimes TBA Showtimes TBA Ruby Bridges / 1 pm Wildlife / 9 pm Afro Prairie Film Festival / Showtimes TBA 26 27 28 Wanda / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: What Walaa Wants / What Walaa Wants / 7 pm & 9 pm 7 pm & 9 pm Canadian & International Features Roma Restoration Tuesdays: Directed by Alfonso Cuarón Wanda (Restoration) 2018, Mexico, 135 min Directed by Barbara Loden Spanish & Mixteco with English subtitles 1970, USA, 102 min Wednesday, January 2 / 7 pm Tuesday, February 5 / 7 pm Thursday & Friday, January 3 & 4 / 7 pm & 9:30 pm Tuesday, February 12 / 7 pm Saturday, January 5 / 3 pm & 7 pm Tuesday, February 19 / 7 pm The Last Movie Sunday, January 6 / 7 pm Tuesday, February 26 / 7 pm Wednesday, January 9 / 7 pm “Now widely acknowledged as a masterpiece of independent Thursday & Friday, January 10 & 11 / 9 pm cinema, and also as a cornerstone of women’s filmmaking—a Saturday, January 12 / 2:30 pm burst of creative autonomy from a time when female directors Oscar buzz is strong for Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón were few and far between.” — Criterion Collection (Y Tu Mamá También, Gravity) who returns with his best film so With her first and only feature film—a hard-luck drama she far: a thrilling, engrossing and moving picture with a richly wrote, directed, and starred in—Barbara Loden turned in a personal story to tell. Beautifully and dynamically shot in black groundbreaking work of American independent cinema, bringing and white, and in his native language. Roma tells the story of to life a kind of character seldom seen on-screen. Set amid a soot- Cleo, a young woman of Mixteco heritage working as a live-in choked Pennsylvania landscape, and shot in an intensely intimate maid for a beleaguered upper-middle class family in Mexico vérité style, the film takes up with distant and soft-spoken Wanda City. With brilliant cinematography and a spectacular sound (Loden), who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, Wanda design, Cuarón has created a deeply personal memoir about and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and his childhood and the women who raised him. motels, and callously mistreated by a series of men—including a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme. Wanda Restoration Tuesdays: is a compassionate and wrenching portrait of a woman stranded The Last Movie (Restoration) on society’s margins. Directed by Dennis Hopper 1971, USA, 108 min Wildlife Directed by Paul Dano Tuesday, January 8 / 7 pm 2018, USA, 105 min Tuesday, January 15 / 7 pm Tuesday, January 22 / 7 pm Sunday, February 10 / 5 pm Tuesday, January 29 / 7 pm Thursday – Sunday, February 14 – 17 / 7 pm Wildlife Opening night Skype conversation with special guests from Arbelos Films. Wednesday, February 20 / 9 pm An inspired experiment, The Last Movie was considered by the late “Tender, gorgeous and exquisitely understated.” Dennis Hopper to be his lost masterwork. Given carte blanche by — David Ehrlich, IndieWIRE Universal after the tremendous commercial success of Easy Rider, In the impressive directorial debut from actor Paul Dano (There Hopper took the money and ran — literally — staging his next Will Be Blood, Love and Mercy), a carefully wrought adaptation directorial adventure at the farthest remove from the Hollywood of Richard Ford’s 1990 novel, a family comes apart one loosely beast. Featuring Kris Kristofferson, Peter Fonda, Michelle Phillips stitched seam at a time. We are in the lonely expanses of the and director Samuel Fuller, Hopper made his way to Cuzco, Peru, American west in the mid-60s. An affable man (Jake Gyllenhaal), to begin work on what would become a deeply personal, deeply down on his luck, runs off to fight the wildfires raging in the scarring journey. mountains. His wife (Carey Mulligan) strikes out blindly in search of security and finds herself running amok. It is left to their Restoration Tuesdays: young adolescent son Joe (Ed Oxenbould) to hold the center. Dial Code Santa Claus (Restoration) Co-written by Zoe Kazan, Wildlife is made with sensitivity and Directed by René Manzor at a level of craft that is increasingly rare in movies. McDonald 1989, France, 87 min at the Movies Tuesday, January 8 / 9 pm Tuesday, January 15 / 9 pm Tuesday, January 22 / 9 pm Once a month, comedian and co-founder of Tuesday, January 29 / 9 pm Kids in the Hall, Kevin McDonald will present a film handpicked from the archives of Thomas is a typical 1980s kid: he loves Rambo, computers, role- comic history. playing games and his dog. While mom’s away at the office on Introduced by Kevin McDonald. Xmas Eve, Thomas and his grandfather are left home alone — perfect timing for a disgruntled, perverted, bloodthirsty Santa Claus to come down the chimney and raid the home. But Hell Ghostbusters hath no fury like a mulleted ten-year-old with an arsenal of Directed by Ivan Reitman toys! Previously only available via VHS bootlegs, the film was 1984, USA, 105 min a huge audience smash at Fantastic Fest 2018. Dial Code Santa Claus Wednesday, February 20 / 7 pm After the members of a team of scientists (Harold Ramis, Dan Restoration Tuesdays / More and more there is essential work being done across the world on the front lines in the battle against losing Aykroyd, Bill Murray) lose their cushy positions at a university the history of film to the annals of time, ignorance, and neglect.