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The Chase

Dir. Arthur Penn
133 min

Bubba Reeves (Robert Redford) escapes from prison and the south Texas town where his wife (Jane Fonda) is carrying on with his best friend (James Fox) is in uproar. Sheriff Marlon Brando tries and fails to keep a lid on the unpleasantness.

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Midnight Cowboy

Dir. John Schlesinger
113 min

Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman are street hustlers on different ends of the innocence / experience spectrum who establish something more than a business partnership in the seedy world of late 60s New York City in John Schlesinger's New Hollywood classic.

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To a Land Unknown

Dir. Mahdi Fleifel
107 min

In this outstanding crime drama, two Palestinian cousins are exiled in Athens and in dire need of funds for fake passports to move their family to Germany. A slippery slope of moral compromise awaits as they resort to human smuggling and hostage-taking.

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blur: Live at Wembley Stadium

Dir. Toby L.
128 min

90,000 fans, 4 50-something men, and a set that includes Parklife; Tender; Girls & Boys; The Universal and Song 2. This 2023 concert film delivers the goods. (Check out the accompanying observational doc, To the End, for the run up to the show.)

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Sinners

Dir. Ryan Coogler
137 min

This year's unexpected box office sleeper is that rare beast, a genre movie full of bold invention and surprise. We are in Mississippi in the early 1930s, and the opening of a new blues joint on the edge of town is the signal for all hell to break out.

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Rachel, Rachel

Dir. Paul Newman
101 min

The story of a shy schoolteacher whose sexual awakening in her mid-30s leads to a deeper re-evaluation of her life, the film is sensitive and sympathetic, as well as a surprising directorial debut from Paul Newman.

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Vancouver Mysteries Presents... Murder at the Movies

Getting Real: The Arc of American Screen Acting

Jun 11 – Aug 31

Getting Real charts the evolution of screen acting in American film from 1945-1980, diving into the psychological realism which took audiences somewhere deeper and more authentic than ever before.

 

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21st Century Classics

Jul 9 – Aug 31

These movies speak to our times and push the boundaries of the art form — the true modern classics we’re confident will withstand the test of time.

 

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Pantheon: The Greatest Films of All Time

Pantheon is a monthly series showcasing a selection of the “greatest movies of all time,” 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.

Individual tickets $23

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Talking Pictures

Last Tuesday of the Month

Created for film lovers 55+, the Talking Pictures series offers films, refreshments and an open invitation to chat about our shared experience of the movie.

Film Studies: 6 Takes on American Screen Acting

Every Other Wednesday | Jun 11 – Aug 20

Move through the changing fashions and styles in screen acting in the wake of World War II under the influence of The Method, certainly, but also wider social and political currents.

Klute

Dir. Alan J Pakula
114 min

This acclaimed paranoia thriller stars Jane Fonda as Bree Daniel, a New York City call girl who becomes enmeshed in an investigation into the disappearance of a business executive. It's a role that won Fonda the Academy Award.

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Nashville
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Nashville

Dir. Robert Altman
159 min

With 26 actors getting more-or-less equal screen time and half of them singing their own tunes, Robert Altman's state-of-the-nation satire on bicentennial USA is a movie that repays multiple views.

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Raging Bull

Dir. Martin Scorsese
129 min

In the throes of a near-fatal drug problem Martin Scorsese made what he believed could be his last movie. Its subject: the Bronx Bull, Jake La Motta, a graceless but indomitable boxer who never quits beating himself up. De Niro has never dug deeper.

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VIFF Live

Live performances that push the boundaries of traditional film programming, intersecting cinema culture with music, comedy, podcasting, and performance in unique, cinema-infused live shows.

Bonnie Northgraves Quintet: To Louis with Love
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Bonnie Northgraves Quintet: To Louis with Love

Dir. Bert Stern
160 min

Join us for To Louis with Love, a joyful celebration of the legendary Louis Armstrong by Bonnie Northgraves and her band, followed by Bert Stern's legendary concert film Jazz on a Summer's Day, featuring Monk, Gerry Mulligan, and of course Satchmo.

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Oscar Peterson Centenary Tribute: Triology Plays Peterson

Dir. Daryl Duke
180 min

Celebrates Oscar Peterson's centenary with an evening of Canadian jazz and film. Triology — Jodi Proznick (bass), Bill Coon (guitar) and Miles Black (piano) — pays tribute to the legendary Oscar Peterson, followed by cult thriller The Silent Partner.

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Women in Blues: LJ Mounteney
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Women in Blues: LJ Mounteney

Dir. Robert Clem
180 min

Canadian blues vocalist pays LJ Mounteney pays tribute to the pioneering women of the blues and R&B (including Tina Turner and Irma Thomas). After LJ's set, enjoy the Canadian premiere of a new doc on Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton.

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Matt Grinke's Happiest Jazz Quintet Play Classic Disney Songs

Dir. Wolfgang Reitherman
160 min

Enjoy a set of beloved Disney movie tunes given the Matt Grinke treatment, and after the live music, groove to the original 1967 version of The Jungle Book, featuring songs like I Wanna Be Like You, The Bare Necessities and Trust In Me.

Image: © 1967, Disney

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Cory Weeds Plays Sonny Rollins
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Cory Weeds Plays Sonny Rollins

Dir. Robert Muge
150 min

Local sax legend Cory Weeds is joined by pianist Sharon Minemoto, bassist David Caballero and drummer Jesse Cahill to play music from Sonny Rollins' 1957 Riverside Records release The Sound Of Sonny, plus a screening of the acclaimed Saxophone Colossus doc.

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Kit Eakle’s Jaz’n’theViolin String Band

Dir. Terry Zwigoff
150 min

Kit Eakle's 'Jaz'N'theViolin' String Band pay tribute to Louie Bluie, one of many fiddle players who gave birth to the new sounds of jazz and blues at the beginning of the twentieth century, followed by Terry Zwigoff's documentary portrait.

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