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The Miracle Worker

Dir. Arthur Penn
107 min

Academy Awards went to Best Actress Anne Bancroft and Best Supporting Actress Patty Duke for their moving portrayals of Annie Sullivan and her remarkable blind and deaf pupil, Helen Keller. "A film that storms where most biopics respectfully tiptoe."

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Sun Jul 13
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Tue Jul 15
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Drop Dead City

Dir. Michael Rohatyn & Peter Yost
108 min

New York, 1975. The city is minutes away from bankruptcy and President Gerald Ford wants no part of it. Sanitation workers are on strike and cops are telling tourists it's not safe to visit. The town is going up in flames and they can't pay the firemen.

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6:30 pm
Sun Jul 13
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Fri Jul 18
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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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7:30 pm
Sun Jul 13
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Children of Men

Dir. Alfonso Cuarón
109 min

2027: 18 years since the last baby was born, disillusioned Englishman Theo (Clive Owen) becomes an unlikely champion of the human race when he is asked by his former lover (Julianne Moore) to escort a young pregnant woman out of the country.

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6:30 pm
Mon Jul 14
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Wed Jul 16
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Wed Jul 23
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The Gleaners and I

Dir. Agnès Varda
82 min

This lovely essay film about the art of foraging is also a self portrait of the artist at 72.

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6:10 pm
Tue Jul 15
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Wed Jul 16
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Sat Jul 19
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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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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Tue Jul 22
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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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Wed Jul 16
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sun Jul 20
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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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12:30 pm
Thu Jul 17
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Fri Jul 18
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Sat Jul 19
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Familiar Touch

Dir. Sarah Friedland
90 min

A loving portrait of an octogenarian transitioning into an assisted living facility, this award-winning first feature by choreographer Sarah Friedland has a simplicity and warmth that's exceptionally poignant.

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1:00 pm
Thu Jul 17
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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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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Fri Jul 18
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sat Jul 19
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Sun Jul 20
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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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Fri Jul 18
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Sat Jul 19
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Sun Jul 20
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blur: To the End

Dir. Toby L.
108 min

Now in their late 50s, Britpopsters blur (of Song 2 fame) do a celebratory lap of Great Britain culminating in their first ever Wembley Stadium show in this appealing observational doc. A companion piece to the concert film Live at Wembley Stadium.

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Fri Jul 18
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Sat Jul 19
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