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Sunrise

The consummate director of the silent era, Murnau was schooled in German Expressionism and embraced the fluidity and dynamism of the moving camera. Invited to Hollywood he prefigured film noir with this tale of a married villager seduced by a city vamp.

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11:00 am
Sun Jun 16
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Tue Jun 18
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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A Page of Madness: Live Score by SOMNUS

Experimental music duo SOMNUS premieres a new multi-instrumental live score to Teinsuke Kinugasa's expressionist horror masterpiece. An asylum janitor wants to help his beloved wife escape, but she doesn't want to leave...

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7:30 pm
Sun Jun 16
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Pather Panchali

Satyajit Ray's first film opened eyes in the West. It's a naturalistic portrait of the childhood of a Brahman child, Apu, growing up in a village far from twentieth century technology in West Bengal.

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11:00 am
Sun Sep 15
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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5:50 pm
Tue Sep 17
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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The Night of the Hunter

One of the strangest and most beguiling movies you'll ever see, from a poetic, nightmarish novel by Davis Grubb, a fable about two children fleeing from a psychotic evangelical preacher (Robert Mitchum). Charles Laughton's only film as director.

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11:00 am
Sun Oct 20
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Tue Oct 22
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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The Battle of Algiers

French Colonel Mathieu hunts for Algerian resistance leader Ali la Pointe in Pontecorvo's classic, which draws the battle lines between colonialists and Arab insurrectionists in a pulsating, "fly-on-the-wall" documentary style.

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11:00 am
Sun Nov 17
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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5:50 pm
Tue Nov 19
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Playtime

Jacques Tati was modernity's clown; technology his banana skin. Here his alter-ego Monsieur Hulot navigates a sterile Paris that seems designed to thwart his every wish.

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11:00 am
Sun Dec 15
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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Tue Dec 17
VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
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