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Arthur Erickson's Dyde House
Nestled among the aspen parkland of Alberta, a hidden masterpiece by one of Canada's most celebrated architects has been found. Arthur Erickson’s Dyde House tells the story of an undiscovered piece of history and the architects fighting for its future.
Studio Ghibli Part 3 | All Ages Welcome!
Dec 10 – 20
Dec 10 – 20
Our year of Ghibli draws to a close with the final four films of the complete retrospective and a special live music event.
Isabel Leong's Ghibli Jazz Orchestra Performs the Music of Joe Hisaishi
Groove to the sounds of Ghibli! Isabel Leong's Ghibli Jazz Orchestra is composed of musicians who share a love of Studio Ghibli films, video games, and anime. Their arrangements draw inspiration from big band, wind ensemble and orchestral music.
When Marnie Was There
A delicate, heartwarming story of a lonely child and the mysterious new friend she meets from across the bay... "Timeless... bursting with colour and detail... it arrives like a classic heirloom uncovered and restored for contemporary eyes." Variety
Earwig and the Witch
Earwig has no idea that her mother had magical powers. Her life changes dramatically when a strange couple takes her in, and she is forced to live with a selfish witch. The headstrong young girl discovers a world of spells and potions.
PANTHEON: The Greatest Films of All Time
PANTHEON, presented by MUBI, is a monthly series running throughout 2023. This selection of the “greatest movies of all time” is inspired by the mother of all film lists, the critics’ poll that has run once a decade in the UK’s Sight & Sound magazine since 1952.
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Citizen Kane
December 17
Orson Welles’s debut was the most sophisticated movie to come out of the Hollywood studio system to that time, and opened up the creative possibilities of the narrative feature film for generations. For nearly 50 years it was “the best ever made”.
The Wonders: Fairy Tales, Folklore & Fantasy
Dec 20 – Jan 4
Dec 20 – Jan 4
Magic mirrors… Enchanted kisses… Wolves and witches… One, two, three wishes…
In this holiday season we tap into the deepest wells of wonder: fairy tales, folklore and fantasy. These are the timeless tales, the Once-upon-a-times – a magic carpet transporting us across continents and centuries, yet always bringing us safely home again.
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Once Within a Time
Once upon a time... At 83 years young, Godfrey Reggio (Koyaanisqatsi) teams up with composer and longtime collaborator Philip Glass and editor Jon Kane for this unique film, a non-narrative fairy tale that takes the feverish pulse of the modern world. All proceeds of this event will be donated to the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Disney's first and purest feature film, adapted from the Brothers Grimm: a beautiful princess, the jealous stepmother who plans to have her murdered in the woods, and the homely refuge she finds there.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) © 1937 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved.
Wolfwalkers
In a time of magic, a young apprentice, Robyn Goodfellowe, journeys to Ireland with her father, a hunter, to wipe out the last wolf pack. While exploring, Robyn befriends a sprite like girl, Mebh... Another gem from the director of Song of the Sea.
Blancanieves
In this brilliant retake on the Grimm fairytale, Blancanieves (Snow White) escapes her wicked stepmother to become a famous matador. Propelled by the Flamenco rhythms of Alfonso de Villalonga's score, this is one tribute to silent film that has the verve and passion of a musical.
The Company of Wolves
A teenage girl's febrile dreams spell the tales in Neil Jordan and Angela Carter's ravishing The Company of Wolves, which revisits Little Red Riding Hood and other classic fairy tales with sensual Freudian fervor.
The Company of Wolves © 1984 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. All Rights Reserved.
Into the Woods
Mix and matching Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Rapunzel, Steven Sondheim and James Lapine's musical is like Shrek for grownups: smart, sophisticated, imbuing these characters with depth and emotional complexity.
Into the Woods (2014) © 2014 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved.
Edward Scissorhands
Johnny Depp, the monster to Vincent Price's Frankenstein, is an artificial boy with scissors for hands. "Adopted" by kindly suburban Peg (Dianne Wiest), Edward falls in love with her daughter (Winona Ryder), but his talent for topiary cuts both ways.
Edward Scissorhands (1990) © 1990 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.
The Wizard of Oz
Judy Garland is Dorothy, a Kansas farm girl swept by a tornado to the Technicolor world of Oz, where she is befriended by a cowardly lion, a brainless scarecrow and a tin man without a heart.
The Wizard of Oz © 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. All Rights Reserved.
The Red Shoes
Ballerina Vicky Page (Moira Shearer) is caught between the brilliant impresario Lermontov (Anton Walbrook) and her love for young composer Julian Crasner (Marius Goring) in this stunning ballet melodrama inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's tale.
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Spielberg's movie of a Stanley Kubrick script looks better today than ever. The film's assumptions about environmental collapse and the rise of AI are prescient, but its philosophical vision of the limits of human love cuts still deeper.
Beauty and the Beast
Spearheading a renaissance for Disney in the 1990s by marrying digital production with Broadway pizzazz, this 1991 Oscar-winner was the first Disney animated feature written by a woman (Linda Woolverton) and the first to be nominated for Best Picture.
Beauty and the Beast (1991) © 1991 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved.
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First Look Fridays
Enjoy $10 tickets + complimentary tea & coffee at the first Friday matinee screening of these films.
The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan
December 8
D’Artagnan arrives in Paris trying to find his attackers after being left for dead, which leads him to a real war where the future of France is at stake. He aligns himself with Athos, Porthos and Aramis, three musketeers of the King.
Immediate Family
December 15
Few rock docs are as fondly remembered as The Wrecking Crew, and fans will be thrilled at this follow up, which pays tribute to the crew’s 1970s counterparts, the session musicians who worked with Carole King, James Taylor, Neil Young, Stevie Nicks et al.
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