What's On
LIZA: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story
Even if you think you know about Liza Minnelli, you're guaranteed to glean unexpected insights into this admiring portrait of pizzazz personified.
Come Home, My Child
Filmed over ten years, Come Home, My Child narrates the American Dream through the lens of three women -- including Taiwanese immigrant Mama Yang -- and their bond with prison inmates in America. Rated: PG
Picnic
After a surprise visit from her friend Geum-sun, Eun-sim is headed to her hometown with Geum-sun. There, she catches up with Tae-ho who had feelings for her when they were teenagers. Her long-lost memories come to life one by one. Rated: PG
Throne of Blood
In this week's Film Studies talk, filmmaker and educator Patricia Gruben considers how Shakespeare's dramas have been translated to feudal Japan (in Kurosawa's Throne of Blood), New York gangs in the 1950s, and to occupied Kashmir, among other examples.
Soundtrack to a Coup D’Etat
In January 1961, seven months after Congolese independence, Patrice Lumumba is assassinated. In excavating the history of this political murder, this essay-film traces the complex and unlikely intersections of American jazz and Cold War geopolitics.
Mami Wata + Drexciya
Fiery Obasi's tremendous, dreamy fable, shot in inky, lustrous black and white, is an elemental tale of magic, devotion, and generational unease set in a traditional Nigerian village.
The Return
Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche are reunited in this probing, somber take on Homer's Odyssey.
The Room Next Door
Reunited with an old friend, Martha (Tilda Swinton) has a peculiar favour to ask Ingrid (Julianne Moore); the last favour she will ever ask... Almodóvar's latest is a bittersweet testament to the importance of how we say goodbye.
Porcelain War
In Canada we cannot truly comprehend a scenario in which our country is invaded and civilians compelled to take up arms. Yet for Ukrainians, this is the reality. In Porcelain War, three artists elect to stay and fight -- with cameras, yes, and with guns.
Arthur Erickson: Beauty Between the Lines
This new documentary offers the most complete account so far of the life and work of Canada's greatest architect, the man responsible for several of the finest buildings in Vancouver -- including the Museum of Anthropology and the SFU Campus.
Tribute to David Lynch | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
It's no exaggeration to say that Fire Walk With Me is the most bizarre, intense and heartrending American movie of the past 30 years. Tracing the last week in the doomed life of Laura Palmer, this is a harrowing journey into the heart of darkness.
Black Box Diaries
A first person true crime story, Shiori Ito's Black Box Dairies chronicles her long, difficult campaign to hold a veteran journalist (a friend of the Prime Minister) to account for rape.