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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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4:15 pm
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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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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The Headless Woman

Dir. Lucrecia Martel
87 min

The pictures tell the story -- and you better not blink -- when Veronica (the superb Maria Onetto) hits something on the road home. But what? She is too traumatized, or panic-stricken, to go back and look, and her fears are too terrible to acknowledge.

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3:20 pm
Sat Jul 19
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:15 pm
Wed Jul 23
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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4:30 pm
Fri Jul 25
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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The Cloud-Capped Star

Dir. Ritwak Ghatak
127 min

Ritwik Ghatak is the unsung genius of Bengali cinema. His best known film is a a brilliantly structured melodrama about the terrible demands of poverty and family on the prospects of a young woman.

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11:00 am
Sun Jul 20
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:20 pm
Tue Jul 22
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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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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Klute

Dir. Alan J Pakula
114 min

This acclaimed paranoia thriller stars Jane Fonda as Bree Daniel, a New York City call girl who becomes enmeshed in an investigation into the disappearance of a business executive. It's a role that won Fonda the Academy Award.

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2:00 pm
Wed Jul 23
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:30 pm
Fri Jul 25
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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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They Shoot Horses, Don't They?

Dir. Sydney Pollack
129 min

Horace McCoy's existential Great Depression novel is the basis for a brutally compelling movie, and the first performance where Jane Fonda could show her chops. She's one of many desperate souls competing in a dance marathon that lasts for days and weeks.

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4:00 pm
Fri Jul 25
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Sat Jul 26
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6:00 pm
Sun Jul 27
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Zodiac

Dir. David Fincher
157 min

David Fincher is the most exacting American filmmaker since Stanley Kubrick. It makes him the perfect director for this compelling procedural consumed by the unsolved mystery of the Zodiac killer.

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9:00 pm
Fri Jul 25
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Sun Jul 27
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Thu Jul 31
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