March / April 2015 new world documentaries A Good Madness special events The Dance of Rachel Browne shorts & artist talks Architecture+Design Wapikoni Mobile: Film Festival 10th Anniversary Retrospective www.winnipegcinematheque.com March/April Staff Picks ↑ Left to right: Cecilia Araneda, Dave Barber, Jaimz Asmundson, Kristy Muckosky. Photo by Leif Norman. This year’s Oscars nominations were revealed to have included no the prospect of losing her job. Susan Algie and her curatorial team female directors. My March/April picks are but a small effort to tilt have assembled a great line up of world-class documentaries in the the universe a little bit and draw attention to some of the many architectural world and design in the upcoming Architecture+Design immensely talented women directors working in film. A Girl Walks Film Festival. Finally, Cassandre Pérusse will be here from the Wapikoni Home Alone at Night by Ana Lily Amirpour (April 9-23) immediately organization to introduce a great collection of Aboriginal shorts jumps at you out off the page as “the first Iranian vampire western” and in the Wapikoni Mobile 10th Anniversary Retrospective (April 30), a with its excellent reviews considering it to be one of the best films of collaboration between Urban Shaman, Cinematheque and Wapikoni. the year. Sol by Marie-Hélène Cousineau & Susan Avingaq (March 21) — Dave Barber, Programming Coordinator reflects on the alarming youth suicide rate in the arctic. And finally, Winnipeg’s own Danielle Sturk reflects on the impact and legacy of Susan Algie at the Winnipeg Architecture Foundation works hard every Canadian dance icon and choreographer Rachel Browne in A Good year to bring together a great program of architecture and design films. Madness (April 22-25). — Cecilia Araneda, Executive Director During the Festival you’ll see me dreaming of Palm Springs life at The Nature of Modernism and Quiet Elegance (April 16) as well as Mon Oncle As you can see, our March/April program guide is jam-packed with (April 18). Not just documentaries, the festival includes locally made fantastic films from around the world and exclusive partner events shorts and a walking tour. Also, because I’ve been on a horror movie kick such as the Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival (March 6-21) which features lately, I’m strangely excited for The Babadook (March 20-28), however the best Canadian works at last year’s TIFF including two fantastic I will have my eyes closed for most of it. Lastly, I encourage you to short film programs (featuring my personal favourite short of last watch the Wapikoni Mobile 10th Anniversary Retrospective. It’s original year – Matthew Rankin’s labouriously intricate and handcrafted programming that you will see nowhere else. tribute to WWII hero Andrew Mynarski) and the return of the — Kristy Muckosky, Operations Manager Architecture+Design Film Festival (April 15-19). I’m also very curious to see The Last Pogo Jumps Again (April 25-May 2), Colin Brunton and The two films that have piqued my interest are Leviathan (March 1-5) Kire Paputts’ three-hour epic documentary of the early Toronto punk and The Babadook. They both look terrifying but for vastly different scene. Debbie Wall of Winnipeg’s first all-girl-punk band, The Wurst, reasons. Leviathan is an Oscar-nominated film about Russian will be introducing the screenings and on the opening night we’ll have corruption and one man’s attempt to stand up for what is rightfully a record sale across the hall at Platform Gallery starting at 6:30 pm his. This is a film that was almost banned in Russia because officials with music by DJ Ack! — Jaimz Asmundson, Programming Director claimed it to be too grim of a take on modern Russia. So, it must be good. The trailer for The Babadook gave me the chills, and I am Some of my highlights include Xavier Dolan’s electrifying film Mommy reasonably desensitized to the horror genre. This film is about a boy (March 6-12) which is a must see in addition to Corbo (March 20-22), with behavioural problems who discovers a “monster under the bed” the riveting thriller about how one young man was lured in into book that eventually wreaks havoc on his mom and her psyche. the militant Quebec, separatist group the FLQ. Luc and Jean-Pierre If you like the horror genre, watch the trailer then go see the film. Dardenne’s new film Two Days, One Night (March 26-April 5) features — Mark Borowski, Box Office a powerful performance by Marion Cotillard about a woman facing STAFF LIST DISTRIBUTION CENTRE CINEMATHEQUE PRODUCTION CENTRE Cecilia Araneda Monica Lowe Jaimz Asmundson Dave Barber Ben Williams Executive Director Distribution Director Cinematheque Programming Director Cinematheque Programming Production Centre Director [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Coordinator [email protected] Kevin Lee Burton Devon Kerslake Kristy Muckosky Heidi Phillips Marcel Kreutzer Executive Assistant Distribution Coordinator Cinematheque Operations Manager Cinematheque Head Projectionist Technical Coordinator Mark Borowski Programs Coordinator 2 staff picks Canadian & International Features Leviathan * Two Days, One Night Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev (deux jours, une nuit) * 2014, Russia, 140 min Directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne * Russian w/English subtitles 2014, Belgium, 95 min * French w/English subtitles Sunday, March 1 / 3pm & 7 pm Wednesday & Thursday, March 4 & 5 / 7 pm Thursday & Friday, March 26 & 27 / 7 pm Saturday & Sunday, Winner of the Best Screenplay Award at Cannes March 28 & 29 / 3 pm & 7 pm last year, it is the story of Kolia who lives in Wednesday - Friday / April 1 - 3 / 7 pm Northern Russia. The town’s corrupt mayor Saturday, April 4 / 3 pm & 7 pm is determined to take away his business, his Sunday, April 5 / 7 pm house, as well as his land, but Kolia unflinchingly fights as hard as he can so as not to lose "A deeply lovable film that plays out like everything he owns. a thriller. The story of a broken woman’s journey back to herself couldn’t be more The Babadook uplifting and affecting, we left the theatre Directed by Jennifer Kent with our hearts nearly bursting." 2014, Australia, 93 min — The Playlist Another masterwork from the Dardenne Friday & Saturday, March 20 & 21 / 9 pm brothers (The Kid with a Bike, Rosetta) Thursday - Saturday, March 26 - 28 / 9 pm features a career-high performance from "One of the best horror movies we’ve seen in Oscar winner Marion Cotillard who was years… it will put you through the wringer. nominated for Best Actress at this year’s Emotionally, psychologically. You’ll be thinking Academy Awards. Sandra, recently off work about it for days. You can see why it was so with depression, realizes that her small solar popular at Sundance… the horror element is panel factory company can operate with full-on terrifying and insane by the end of the one fewer employee and management tells movie." — Charlie Jane Andrews, i09 her she is to be let go. After learning that her co-workers will vote to decide her fate Widely considered one of the creepiest on Monday morning, Sandra races against horror films of the year, this haunting debut time over the course of the weekend, to resembles subtle horror classics like Jack convince each of her fellow employees to Clayton’s The Innocents and The Exorcist. sacrifice their much-needed bonuses so Amelia, a widowed single-mom, is struggling she can keep her job. With each encounter, to raise her 10-year-old son alone. The Sandra is brought into a different world boy has behavioral problems that isolate with unexpected results in this powerful her from friends and family, but his new statement on community solidarity. obsession about monsters invading their home is pushing Amelia to the brink. canadian & International features 3 Canadian & International Features The Duke of Burgundy A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night * Directed by Peter Strickland Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour 2014, USA, 104 min 2014, USA, 99 min * Farsi w/English subtitles Thursday - Saturday, April 2 - 4 / 9 pm Sunday, April 5 / 3 pm Thursday, April 9 / 9:15 pm Wednesday, April 8 / 7 pm Friday & Saturday, April 10 & 11 / 9 pm Sunday, April 12 / 7 pm “A surreal and sublime knockout. Audaciously superb. It creates a spell Thursday, April 23 / 9 pm that has us hypnotized, immersed, and still awestruck... the kind of movie that has us falling in love with movies all over again.” “One of the best films of the year. A casual masterpiece fit to live — THE PLAYLIST beside the best work of David Lynch. This is a dream on your screen, British filmmaker Peter Strickland follows his eerie Festival hit Berberian absurd, languid and possessed by the calm of an inevitable beauty. Sound Studio with this dark melodrama about an amateur butterfly This is what cinema was invented for… profound.” — David Thomson expert whose wayward desires test her lover’s tolerance. Dripping with eroticism and dread, the film chronicles the increasingly intimate Dubbed the first Iranian vampire western, the film garnered a relationship between wealthy amateur lepidopterist Cynthia and her rapturous reception at last year’s Sundance Film Festival. Set in the newly hired housekeeper, Evelyn. As Cynthia’s demands begin to betray fictitious Bad City, it is a home to debauched drug users and other a sadomasochistic streak, Evelyn becomes less a domestic servant degenerates where a subdued vampire stalks the denizens. Our than an outright sex slave, submitting to her progressively extreme vampire girl only changes her ways upon being seduced by a debonair humiliations with a surprising relish. romantic named Arash.