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Old Joy

Dir. Kelly Reichardt
73 min

Kelly Reichardt's moving and exquisite debut feature stars Will Oldham and Daniel London as old friends who reunite for a weekend camping trip in the Cascades outside of Portland. Reichardt's new movie, The Mastermind, screens at VIFF.

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5:40 pm
Mon Sep 08
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Wed Sep 10
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Sat Sep 13
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Inherent Vice

Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
148 min

PTA's most underrated movie is a melancholy stoner comedy set in 1970 about a hippie private detective (Joaquin Phoenix) drawn into multiple conspiracies (which may all be the same one).

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8:00 pm
Mon Sep 08
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Tue Sep 09
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Down By Law

Dir. Jim Jarmusch
107 min

In this slowburn comedy from Jim Jarmusch, Tom Waits and John Lurie are surly jailbirds who share a cramped cell with Roberto Benigni's Italian tourist, with transformative results. Jarmusch is back at VIFF this year with Father, Mother, Sister, Brother.

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5:20 pm
Tue Sep 09
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Thu Sep 11
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Mon Sep 15
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Mystery Train

Dir. Jim Jarmusch
110 min

Three oddball tales centered on a single seedy Memphis hotel, this may be the most accessible and purely enjoyable Jarmusch movie, a bittersweet evocation of crumbling Americana, haunted by the ghosts of rock n roll.

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7:30 pm
Tue Sep 09
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Thu Sep 11
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Mon Sep 15
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Phantom Thread

Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson
130 min

Dressmaker Daniel Day-Lewis meets his muse and his match in waitress Vicky Krieps, in this immaculately tailored battle of the sexes black comedy from Paul Thomas Anderson.

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8:00 pm
Tue Sep 09
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Wed Sep 10
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Sex

Dir. Dag Johan Haugerud
125 min

Two chimney sweeps living in heterosexual marriages find their views on sexuality and gender challenged by a series of unexpected events. In a set of sharply scripted conversations, both men confront heretofore unexplored aspects of their identity.

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1:30 pm
Fri Sep 12
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Fri Sep 12
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Right Now, Wrong Then

Dir. Hong Sangsoo
121 min

A visiting filmmaker arrives a day early for a festival screening. He meets and courts a painter (Kim Minhee) and spends the evening with her. Halfway through, the movie starts over: Same people, same places, significantly different outcomes.

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2:00 pm
Fri Sep 12
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Sat Sep 13
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8:15 pm
Mon Sep 22
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Love

Dir. Dag Johan Haugerud
119 min

This warm, thoughtful piece offers shrewd comic observations on modern dating as it trains a quizzical eye on the trysts of a female doctor, Marianne (Andrea Bræin Hovig), and her colleague, a gay male nurse, Tor (Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen).

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4:10 pm
Fri Sep 12
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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On the Beach At Night Alone

Dir. Hong Sang-soo
101 min

Kim Minhee (The Handmaiden, Right Now, Wrong Then) plays Younghee, an actress reeling in the aftermath of an affair with a married film director (an echo of her relationship with Hong in real life.)

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4:30 pm
Fri Sep 12
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Sat Sep 13
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Mon Sep 22
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No Bears

Dir. Jafar Panahi
106 min

Dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi plays himself in this ingenious meta-fiction about the making of a film, and the unmaking of love story.

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7:00 pm
Fri Sep 12
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Sun Sep 14
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Thu Sep 18
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3 Faces

Dir. Jafar Panahi
100 min

Iranian filmmaker Panahi and actress Behnaz Jafari, both playing themselves, receive a video in which a distraught teenaged girl, whose acting dreams have been quashed appears to kill herself. Panahi and Jafari decide to investigate...

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9:10 pm
Fri Sep 12
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Sun Sep 14
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Thu Sep 18
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Kit Eakle’s Jaz’n’theViolin String Band

Dir. Terry Zwigoff
150 min

Kit Eakle's 'Jaz'N'theViolin' String Band pay tribute to Louie Bluie, one of many fiddle players who gave birth to the new sounds of jazz and blues at the beginning of the twentieth century, followed by Terry Zwigoff's documentary portrait.

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2:00 pm
Sun Sep 14
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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