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Boyhood

Dir. Richard Linklater
165 min

A dozen years in the making, Richard Linklater's masterpiece chronicles the evolution of a boy into a young man, from six to 18. It is the ultimate coming-of-age movie, and one of the most audacious cinematic feats of the decade.

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7:10 pm
Mon Sep 01
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Tue Sep 02
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3:30 pm
Sun Sep 07
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21st Century Classics Audience Choice: Parasite

Dir. Bong Joon-ho
132 min

South Korean master filmmaker Bong Joon-ho delivers an unpredictable comic suspense thriller with his Palme d'Or and Academy Award-winning film, Parasite.

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7:30 pm
Mon Sep 01
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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4:40 pm
Tue Sep 02
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8:30 pm
Thu Sep 11
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School of Rock

Dir. Richard Linklater
108 min

With not one, but two new Richard Linklater movies at VIFF this year (Nouvelle Vague and Blue Moon), we thought it would be fun to revisit a choice cut from his rich back catalogue: the best Black and White movie ever made, School of Rock.

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5:00 pm
Tue Sep 02
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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4:30 pm
Sat Sep 06
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6:45 pm
Sun Sep 07
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There Will Be Blood

Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
158 min

Paul Thomas Anderson's lacerating epic about the birth of the oil age: Daniel Day-Lewis is extraordinary as the prospector entirely consumed with his own enterprise, a Trumpian figure of naked self-assertion; Paul Dano the evangelist who may be his nemesis.

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7:30 pm
Tue Sep 02
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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3:00 pm
Wed Sep 03
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Godland

Dir. Hlynur Pálmason
143 min

In the late 19th century, a Danish Lutheran priest is dispatched to a far corner of Iceland where a devout farmer has seen fit to build a church. The physical journey is arduous. His spriitual journey, more taxing still.

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3:15 pm
Wed Sep 03
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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8:50 pm
Sat Sep 06
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2:30 pm
Mon Sep 08
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Hard Eight

Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
101 min

Anderson's debut is a deceptively modest character piece about a veteran gambler (Philip Baker Hall) who takes a much younger man under his wing and teaches him how to play the system and win. Until things take a darker turn...

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6:20 pm
Wed Sep 03
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Master

Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
138 min

Joaquin Phoenix as WWII vet Freddie Quell falls into the orbit of Philip Seymour Hoffman's self-styled prophet Lancaster Dodd in this tremulous 1950s psychodrama from Paul Thomas Anderson.

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8:30 pm
Wed Sep 03
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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2:30 pm
Sun Sep 07
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The Road to Patagonia

Dir. Matty Hannon
90 min

A travelogue, an eco doc, an adventure movie and a love story, The Road to Patagonia chronicles filmmaker and ecologist Mayy Hannon's 50,000 km expedition from Alaska to the tip of Chile (via Vancouver Island), on motorbike, horse, and surfboard.

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2:00 pm
Fri Sep 05
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:40 pm
Fri Sep 12
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7:45 pm
Sat Sep 13
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A White, White Day

Dir. Hlynur Pálmason
109 min

In a remote Icelandic town, an off-duty police chief begins to suspect a local man of having had an affair with his late wife, who died in a tragic accident. Intense psychological drama from the director of Godland and The Love That Remains.

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2:15 pm
Fri Sep 05
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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6:45 pm
Sat Sep 06
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7:30 pm
Mon Sep 08
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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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7:00 pm
Sun Sep 07
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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First Cow

Dir. Kelly Reichardt
122 min

Set in Oregon, 1820 (and 100 years later), this is a Western unlike any you have seen before: the eponymous Jersey cow plays a pivotal role in the dreams of a baker (John Magaro) and his Chinese buddy (Orion Lee).

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3:00 pm
Mon Sep 08
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Wed Sep 10
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2:00 pm
Sat Sep 13
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Licorice Pizza

Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
133 min

PTA's oddball courtship comedy takes us to the San Fernando Valley in 1973. 15-year-old aspiring actor Gary Valentine has the hots for 25 year-old Alana. She's bemused but admires his self confidence. It's quirky, meandering, but it sneaks up on you.

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5:20 pm
Mon Sep 08
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Wed Sep 10
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