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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Dir. Mike Nichols
131 min

A young couple accept an invitation for a nightcap with history professor George (Richard Burton) and his wife Martha (Elizabeth Taylor). At first it's fun and games. But what passes for caustic wit soon degenerates into vicious mind games.

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2:00 pm
Wed Jul 09
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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7:30 pm
Sun Jul 13
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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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2:00 pm
Wed Jul 16
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:50 pm
Tue Jul 22
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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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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8:20 pm
Wed Jul 16
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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4:30 pm
Sun Jul 20
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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The Graduate

Dir. Mike Nichols
106 min

In The Graduate Benjamin (Dustin Hoffman, 30 playing 20 with masterly understatement) comes home from college and is surprised to be seduced by the wife of his father's business partner, Mrs Robinson (Anne Bancroft).

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6:20 pm
Fri Jul 18
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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7:30 pm
Sat Jul 19
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2:15 pm
Sun Jul 20
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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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8:30 pm
Fri Jul 18
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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4:45 pm
Sun Jul 20
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Wanda

Dir. Barbara Loden
103 min

Barbara Loden's vérité feminist masterpiece, a landmark in the history of women filmmakers -- and "the anti-Bonnie & Clyde". "Writer-director-actor Barbara Loden's 1970 feature has a wonderful, hard-won sense of everyday rapture," Chuck Bowen, Slant

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2:30 pm
Sun Jul 20
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:00 pm
Tue Jul 22
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Cool Hand Luke

Dir. Stuart Rosenberg
126 min

Paul Newman is the anti-authoritarian kicking against the system in this slick sixties chaingang movie.

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7:00 pm
Wed Jul 23
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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7:00 pm
Sat Jul 26
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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