PROGRAM SCHEDULE JULY • AUGUST 2009 Infoline: 925-3457 100 Arthur St. IN THE EXCHANGE www.winnipegcinematheque.com TULPAN (see page 2 for details) NONSENSE! NONSENSE? FEATURING A POST SCREENING ACTING UP A STORM: ARTIST TALK BY DEIRDRE LOGUE AND SHAWNA DEMPSEY Fringe Actors Film Festival The Winnipeg Film Group is thrilled to welcome Toronto artist Deirdre Logue for an exclusive screening of her early work, paired with the work of prolific local artists Shawna Dempsey and July 24 – 29 • See page 3 for details Lorri Millan, followed by a post screening artist talk. Nonsense! Nonsense? has been curated for the Winnipeg Film Group by Jenny Bisch. Admission is free and all are welcome. See page 3 for details. TOKYO! An omnibus triptych examining the modern urban life of this www.winnipegcinematheque.com unforgettable city. 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Admission • $8.00 general • $7.00 students and seniors • $6.00 Film Group and Cinematheque Members $1.00 of each admission goes toward our capital improvements, aimed at making your experience at the Cinematheque even more satisfying Publications Mail Agreement Number 40045468 Return to : Winnipeg Film Group Members Pay Only $6.00 304-100 Arthur Street Buy a membership! See page 6 for more information... Winnipeg, MB R3B 1H3 with I MET THE WALRUS not initially divulged. His journey, paradoxically Dir. Jerry Leviathain | Canada | 2008 | 5 min. | both intently focused and dreamlike, takes him Animation not only across Spain but also through his own In 1969, a 14 year old Beatle fanatic named consciousness. Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape “Jim Jarmusch’s latest is his best since deck and a head full of questions, snuck into Dead Man (1995). The inspirations are crystal John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and clear: Everything from Jean Pierre Melville’s convinced John to do an interview. This was in existential noirs to Jacque Rivette’s heady the midst of Lennon’s “bed-in” phase, during conspiracy tales.” (Time Out / New York) world which John and Yoko were staying in hotel beds in an effort to promote peace. Thirty eight n Friday – Sunday, August 21 – 23 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it • 7:00 PM which has won accolades at festivals around n Wednesday & Thursday, August the world. 26 & 27 • 7:00 PM n Thursday, July 23 • 7:00 PM TULPAN IRON ROAD Dir. Sergey Dvortsevoy | Germany | Switzerland | Dir. David Wu | Canada | 2009 | 95 min | Drama Kazakhstan | Russia | Poland | 2008 | 100 min. Starring Sam Neill, Peter O’Toole, Sun Li, From Cannes to Reykjavik, Zurich to Tokyo, Luke MacFarlane London, New York, Dubai, India, Toronto ravishing and inimitable Tokyo. Triptych, INTRODUCED BY PRODUCER ARNIE ZIPURSKY and across the Asia Pacific, the verdict is cinerhapsody,ma psychogeography, omnibus, urban Iron Road is the story of the hard won triumph unanimous! Tulpan has bowled over critics, valentine, freak show, mindwalk and many of a Chinese street urchin whose quest for won an unrivalled collection of Best Film other things, Tokyo! is a fantasy in three her long lost father takes her from a fireworks awards and astonished audiences with its movements that will make you see one of the factory in China to a remote construction camp extraordinary imagery, humanism and charm. world’s greatest cities – if not any city – in in the Rockies. A tale of disguise and forbidden Tulpan takes on the age-old boy meets girl unpredictable new ways. love set against the building of the Canadian love story, but spins the narrative (and the From the directors of Eternal Sunshine of the National Railroad, this story is a window into audience) into a reverie set in an unseen – yet Spotless Mind, Polax, and The Host comes a the neglected history of Chinese workers who strangely familiar – world. film that addresses the timeless question of helped forge the railroad that brought the Our protagonist is Asa, a young sailor fresh Un baiser s’il vous plait whether we shape cities, or if cities shape us – nation together. from completing his military service in the n in the process revealing the rich humanity at Russian Navy, who arrives at the home of his Friday & Saturday, July 3 & 4 the heart of modern urban life. n Friday & Saturday, August 7 & 8 sister, deep in the windswept ‘hunger’ steppes • 7:00 & 9:00 PM “Tokyo! is a must see for the Gondry segment, • 9:00 PM of Kazakhstan. Asa is desperate for a farm n Sunday, July 5 • 7:00 PM and a strange, diverting pleasure for the rest.” n Wednesday & Thursday, August 12 & 13 of his own, but before his brother-in-law will n Wednesday, July 8 • 7:00 & 9:00 PM (Philadelphia Inquirer) • 9:00 PM entrust him, he must find a wife. Unfortunately, the only eligible girl for miles is the beautiful n Thursday, July 9 • 9:00 PM Tulpan (Tulip). And she has other plans… Tokyo! THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE SHALL WE KISS? Dir. Steven Soderbergh | 2009 | USA | 77 min. | Drama The challenges that the undeterred Asa faces Starring Sasha Grey, Glenn Kenny in his quest to fulfil his destiny – set in the (UN BAISER S’IL VOUS PLAIT) most extraordinary of landscapes – makes Dir. Emmanuel Mouret | France | 2007 | 101 min. | “Shot during the early days of the economic French w/ English subtitles crisis, Steven Soderbergh’s (Che, Sex, Lies for a cinema experience that is breathtaking, hilarious and moving in equal measure. Tulpan “Impossibly charming, Shall we kiss? is a and Videotape, Ocean’s 13) The Girlfriend will reinvigorate adventurous spirits as it comic romance full of rueful musings about Experience is a mysterious and arresting look transports you to another place; once there, fidelity and true love. Written, directed by and at how the culture of money turns love and you’ll never want to ever leave. starring Emmanuel Mouret, whose onscreen desire into something you want to control. persona is shaggy and shambling. The film The escort, Chelsea, is played by Sasha Grey, a real life adult-video star. The movie has the Tulpan follows a man and a woman who are closest n Friday – Sunday, July 17 – 19 • 7:00 PM of friends but whose friendship turns to sexual fascination of a documentary about a fictional desire.” (Philadelphia Inquirier) LET HIM BE – John and Yoko character. Chelsea, with her ambitious teasing “Emmanuel Mouret’s romantic comedies have th blankness, occupies the center of a crumbling 40 Anniversary mosaic of money, status, deception and often been compared to those of Woody Allen, Dir. Peter McNamee | Canada | 2008 | 82 mins. | but his aesthetic really owes more to the films manipulated lust. Soderbergh has captured an “Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in of Eric Rohmer and the what-if plots of English America in which the line between selling out the ground.” (John Lennon) writer Alan Ayckbourn. In Shall we kiss?, there and selling yourself has never been thinner.” are not one but two sets of protagonists. Emilie Peter McNamee’s debut feature introduces us (Entertainment Weekly) (Julie Gayet) and Gabriel (Michaël Cohen) are to undergrad film students Tim and Kathleen. “Girlfriend Experience” is a coolly crafted, two strangers who meet in Nantes. Although Tim is astonished to discover a rock icon, long ruthless little work from a filmmaker who both are already emotionally involved, the thought to be dead, actually alive and living in keeps seeking out new challenges at a career attraction between them is palpable. Nevertheless, a remote part of Canada. It all begins when he stage when most directors have settled into a n Friday – Sunday, August 28 – 30 when Gabriel puts some rather chaste moves discovers a clip of an old man playing guitar groove.” (Salon Magazine) on Emilie, she staves off his advances with the on a tape left inside an old video camera. The • 7:00 PM aid of the cautionary tale of Judith and Nicolas, man in the video bears a strong resemblance n Friday & Saturday, August 21 & 22 n Wednesday & Thursday, September two “best friends” who belatedly discover that to John Lennon – that is, John Lennon as • 9:00 PM 2 & 3 • 7:00 PM he might look today. Could it be him? Tim is they might be something more than that. (Mark n Wednesday & Thursday, August 26 & 27 Harris / Georgia Straight) excited to the point of obsession. Kathleen ONLY thinks the whole concept is ridiculous. Wasn’t • 9:00 PM Sponsored by: Directed and Written by Ingrid Veninger, Simon there some big “Paul is dead!” hoax that all THE LIMITS OF CONTROL Reynolds | Canada | 2008 | 74 min. | those years ago? But what if Lennon really Dir. Jim Jarmusch | USA | 2009 | 116 min. Starring Jacob Switzer, Elena Hudgins is still out there? Still singing? Still writing? Starring Isaach De Bankole, Tilda Swinton, Bill INTRODUCED BY SIMON REYNOLDS Imagine! (Vancouver Film Festival) Murray, John Hurt, Gael Garcia Bernal “Parry Sound provides the backdrop for this “A clever little what-if exercise..