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The Balconettes

Dir. Noémie Merlant
105 min

In this flamboyant black comedy set in Marseille during a heatwave, writer-director-star Noémie Merlant and her two besties have to cover up the unpleasant evidence of a disastrous night partying with the hunk across the way.

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2:00 pm
Fri Aug 29
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Fri Aug 29
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Sat Aug 30
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Monk in Pieces

Dir. Billy Shebar & David C Roberts
95 min

A playful and engaging portrait of the avant-garde singer, composer, choreographer and performance artist Meredith Monk. Philip Glass, David Byrne and Bjork share their observations.

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4:20 pm
Fri Aug 29
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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2:45 pm
Sat Aug 30
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Sun Aug 31
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Last Breath

Dir. Costa-Gavras
100 min

At the age of 91 the revered filmmaker Costa-Gavras (Z) has made a gentle, curious, hopeful film about life on a palliative ward.

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5:50 pm
Fri Aug 29
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Petite Maman

Dir. Céline Sciamma
72 min

This "small" film from the director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire speaks volumes. It's a poetical modern fairy tale about an 8-year-old girl who meets a new friend her own age in the woods behind her late grandmother's house.

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6:30 pm
Fri Aug 29
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:30 pm
Sun Aug 31
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Magnolia

Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
188 min

This deeply personal 1999 California opus is ripe for rediscovery. Mapping the emotional traumas of half-a-dozen major characters as they criss-cross the San Fernando Valley in search of either recognition or reconciliation, it's PTA's riskiest gamble.

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8:10 pm
Fri Aug 29
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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2:20 pm
Sat Aug 30
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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4:45 pm
Sat Sep 06
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Lady Bird

Dir. Greta Gerwig
94 min

Greta Gerwig's first film as writer-director is a delightful, painful comedy about "Lady Bird" McPherson (Saoirse Ronan), a Sacramento teen on the point of swapping high school for college, and her hard-working mom, Marion (Laurie Metcalf).

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6:00 pm
Sat Aug 30
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Dir. Céline Sciamma
120 min

Céline Sciamma's queer costume drama -- about a painter covertly studying a young noblewoman who refuses to sit for her portrait -- was voted 30th Greatest Film Ever Made in a 2022 poll, the highest ranking film of the past decade.

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7:00 pm
Sat Aug 30
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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7:00 pm
Sun Aug 31
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Synecdoche, New York

Dir. Charlie Kaufman
124 min

Charlie Kaufman wrote Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind -- all great, all successful -- then turned director with Synecdoche, which is a masterpiece and which basically went unseen. It's overdue rediscovery.

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8:00 pm
Sat Aug 30
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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7:15 pm
Sun Aug 31
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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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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2:00 pm
Sun Aug 31
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley

Dir. Amy Berg
106 min

Oscar-nominated documentarian Amy Berg resurrects the tragic story of the sublime singer Jeff Buckley, whose 1994 record Grace is one of the greatest albums of the modern era.

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4:30 pm
Sun Aug 31
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Boogie Nights

Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
155 min

Being the rise and fall of a prodigiously-endowed performer on the seventies porno scene. Paul Thomas Anderson's flamboyant 1997 calling card movie revels in the wild success of xxxcess, before crashing to earth with a bump.

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2:30 pm
Mon Sep 01
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Punch-Drunk Love

Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
95 min

Anderson's surreal screwball romantic comedy has a wildly experimental edge, not least in Jon Brion's audacious score, but there's something euphoric about the entire irresistible project.

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5:40 pm
Mon Sep 01
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:20 pm
Sat Sep 06
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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