January / February 2018 Canadian & International Features New world documentaries The Square Bombshell: special Events Cabin Fever: The Hedy Lamarr Story Free Films for Kids! www.winnipegcinematheque.com January 2018 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 3 4 5 6 7 Lucky / 7 pm Lucky / 7 pm Blue Velvet / 7 pm Lucky / 3 pm Cabin Fever: Blue Velvet Revisited / 9 pm Blue Velvet Revisited / 9:15 pm Blue Velvet / 7 pm Hugo 3D / 2 pm Blue Velvet Revisited / 9:15 pm Lucky / 7 pm 10 11 12 13 14 Bombshell: Bombshell: Bombshell: Lucky / 3 pm Cabin Fever: The Hedy Lamarr Story / 7 pm The Hedy Lamarr Story / 7 pm The Hedy Lamarr Story / 7 pm Bombshell: The Circus / 2 pm Blue Velvet Revisited / 9 pm Canada’s Top Ten: The Hedy Lamarr Story / 7 pm Bombshell: Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked Canada’s Top Ten: The Hedy Lamarr Story / 7 pm the World / 9 pm Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World / 9 pm 17 18 19 20 21 Bombshell: The Square / 7 pm Architecture+film: Canada’s Top Ten: Cabin Fever: The Hedy Lamarr Story / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Moshe Safdie: Shorts Part One / 3 pm The Decolonizing Lens / 2 pm Allure / 9:30 pm The Power of Architecture / 7 pm The Square / 7 pm The Square / 7 pm Lucky / 9 pm Blue Velvet Revisited / 9:30 pm 24 25 26 27 28 The Square / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Cabin Fever: Allure / 7 pm Our People Will Be Healed / 7 pm Shorts Part Two / 3 pm The Muppets / 2 pm The Square / 9:15 pm The Square / 9 pm Our People Will Be Healed / 7 pm The Square / 7 pm Luk’Luk’I / 9 pm 31 Canada’s Top Ten: Never Steady, Never Still / 7 pm February 2018 WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 1 2 3 4 My Friend Dahmer / 7 pm Bill Morrison in Conversation / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: Cabin Fever: Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Student Shorts / 3 pm The Princess Bride / 2 pm The Ravenous / 9:15 pm The Ravenous / 9:15 pm Ava / 7 pm Canada’s Top Ten: My Friend Dahmer / 9 pm Ava / 7 pm 7 8 9 10 11 Canada’s Top Ten: Canada’s Top Ten: Hothouse Award: Canada’s Top Ten: Cabin Fever: Ava / 7 pm The Little Girl Who Was The Films of Cecilia Araneda / 7 pm Adventures in Public School / 3 pm The Friendly Giant / 2 pm Too Fond of Matches / 7 pm My Friend Dahmer / 9 pm The Little Girl Who Was Jane / 7 pm My Friend Dahmer / 9 pm Too Fond of Matches / 7 pm My Friend Dahmer / 9 pm 14 15 16 17 18 Valentine’s Day Dinner & A Movie: Jane / 7 pm Mia / 7 pm The Saturday Morning All-You-Can- Cabin Fever: Desert Hearts / 7 pm My Friend Dahmer / 9 pm Jane / 9 pm Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party! / 10 am King Kong / 2 pm Jane / 3 pm & 7 pm Jane / 7 pm Mia / 9 pm 21 22 23 24 25 Jane / 7 pm Jane / 7 pm Afro Prairie Film Festival: Afro Prairie Film Festival: Afro Prairie Film Festival: Mia / 9 pm Ouvrir la voix / 7 pm Black Canadian Shorts / 3 pm Akeelah and the Bee / 1 pm Developing Film Projects Pariah / 4 pm as Black Artists / 5 pm To Sleep with Anger / 7 pm Unarmed Verses / 7 pm Black Cop / 9:30 pm 28 McDonald at the Movies: After Hours / 7 pm Canadian & International Features Lucky Blue Velvet: 2K Restoration Directed by John Carroll Lynch Directed by David Lynch 2017, USA, 88 min 1986, USA, 120 min Wednesday & Thursday, January 3 & 4 / 7 pm Friday & Saturday, January 5 & 6 / 7 pm Saturday, January 6 / 3 pm “The seamless blending of beauty and horror is remarkable, the Sunday, January 7 / 7 pm terror very real, and the sheer wealth of imagination virtually Lucky Saturday, January 13 / 3 pm unequalled in recent cinema.” — Geoff Andrew, Time Out Friday, January 19 / 9 pm In many respects the film upon which David Lynch built his “An outstanding comedy… Everything Harry Dean Stanton has reputation, Blue Velvet is one of the darkest explorations of Middle done in his career, and his life, has brought him to his moment America ever to grace the silver screen. After he discovers a of triumph.” — Joe Leydon, Variety severed human ear in a field, college student Jeffrey Beaumont Veteran character actor Harry Dean Stanton gives the (Twin Peaks star Kyle MacLachlan) teams up with a police performance of his career in this beautifully made story of a man lieutenant’s high-school daughter (Laura Dern) to unravel the facing old age. His daily routine involves yoga exercises, afternoon mystery. Their investigation leads to a beautiful nightclub singer TV and a full pack of smokes. It’s impossible to take your eyes (Isabella Rossellini) and a group of psychotic criminals, led by off Stanton: in his performance you see history, both that of Dennis Hopper’s iconic, inhalant-sniffing villain, Frank Booth. An his character and that of an actor with a lifetime of excellence unassailable classic of 1980s Hollywood, the seductive and sinister behind him. It’s a movie of superb monologues: David Lynch Blue Velvet provides the viewer with a nightmarish glimpse into on the loss of his pet tortoise, James Darren on the redemptive what lies on the other side of the white-picket fence. The Square power of love and Stanton on the meaning of life and death. Watch this one for a chance to see characters that sparkle, and for a long, loving look at one of America’s great performers. My Friend Dahmer The Square My Friend Dahmer Mia Directed by Ruben Östlund Directed by Marc Meyers Directed by Jeremy Guenette 2017, Sweden, 142 min 2017, USA, 107 min 2016, Canada, 91 min Swedish with English subtitles French with English subtitles Thursday, February 1 / 7 pm Thursday, January 18 / 7 pm Saturday, February 3 / 9 pm Friday, February 16 / 7 pm Saturday & Sunday, January 20 & 21 / 7 pm Thursday - Saturday, February 8–10 / 9 pm Saturday, February 17 / 9 pm Wednesday, January 24 / 7 pm Thursday, February 15 / 9 pm Thursday, February 22 / 9 pm Thursday, January 25 / 9:15 pm Jeffrey Dahmer was one of America’s most infamous serial Friday & Saturday, February 16 & 17 screenings introduced by director Friday, January 26 / 9 pm killers. This is the haunting, sad, funny, true story of Dahmer Jeremy Guenette and co-writer/cinematographer Gabriel Levesque. Sunday, January 28 / 7 pm in high school, based on Derf Backderf’s critically acclaimed Mia is the story of Alain, a private detective from Manitoba now “Like an onstage interview gone horribly awry and a performance 2012 graphic novel of the same name and Meyers’ own 2014 living in Montréal. Forced to leave Winnipeg ten years ago, he piece gone even more horribly wrong. The Square is worthy of Black List script. Jeff (Disney Channel’s Ross Lynch) is an is called upon by a local gang to return and find a missing girl. the great Spanish surrealist Luis Bunuel or Ostlund’s mentor awkward teenager struggling to make it through high school During his years away, Alain has had a troubled life and he is Roy Andersson.” — Steve Gravestock, TIFF with a family life in ruins. He collects roadkill, fixates on a haunted by his past. With his debts mounting, he thinks this job neighborhood jogger (Vincent Kartheiser, Mad Men), and copes Swedish provocateur Ruben Östlund, the director of Force could be the answer to his prayers. So, despite the demons he with his unstable mother (Anne Heche) and well-intentioned Majeure, returns with The Square, one of his most audacious left behind, he reluctantly accepts the case. Returning home, he father (Dallas Roberts). He begins to act out at school, and his pieces to date and winner of the Cannes prestigious Palme is reunited with Jeanne, the love he left behind, only to discover goofball antics win over a group of band-nerds who form The d’Or. A no holds barred satire of the post-modern art world, the young girl he must find is hers. Alain now faces a daunting Dahmer Fan Club, headed by Derf Backderf (Alex Wolff, Patriots the film follows Christian, the curator of Sweden’s most cutting- choice: help the criminals and accept their money to pay off his Day). Approaching graduation, Jeff spirals further out of control, edge art museum. Imperious, self centered, and hopelessly debts, or help Jeanne and Mia escape a terrible fate. inching ever closer to madness. befuddled, Christian’s attempts to promote his exhibits are deflected by personal misfortunes. The Square is full of brilliant and dazzling set pieces. New World Documentaries Blue Velvet Revisited Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story Directed by Peter Braatz Directed by Alexandra Dean 2017, Germany / Slovenia, 86 min 2017, USA, 90 min Canadian Premiere Wednesday - Sunday, January 10–14 / 7 pm Thursday, January 4 / 9 pm Wednesday, January 17 / 7 pm Friday & Saturday, January 5 & 6 / 9:15 pm “Genius. Maverick. Inventor. Feminist pioneer.” — Dallas Film Now Blue Velvet Revisited Thursday, January 11 / 9 pm Saturday, January 20 / 9:30 pm Hollywood wild-child, Hedy Lamarr, was infamous for her marriages and affairs with everyone from Spencer Tracy to “Raw footage of Isabella Rossellini singing Blue Velvet live, JFK. After inventing the movie sex scandal, she married a Nazi Lynch directing Laura Dern, or Dean Stockwell commenting collaborator, escaped him, and fled to Hollywood.