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Night Moves: Street Photography, Poetry and Music with Rodney DeCroo

120 min

To mark the publication of Night Moves, his first book of street photography (shot in and around Commercial Drive), singer-songwriter, poet and playwright Rodney DeCroo shares his images, stories and music, along with his band The Wise Blood.

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7:30 pm
Wed Apr 23
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Scarface

Dir. Howard Hawks
95 min

Our tour through Hollywood's pre-Code precinct takes a left turn into the dangerous district of organized crime with Scarface, starring Paul Muni in a ferocious performance as the ambitious low-level gangster, Tony Carmonte.

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2:00 pm
Mon Apr 28
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Freaks

Dir. Tod Browning
64 min

Beautiful circus trapeze artiste Cleopatra likes to flirt with one of the sideshow attractions, Hans, a dwarf. When she learns that Hans is a wealthy man she decides to marry him. It's a choice she will live to regret... An unforgettable 1932 shocker.

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2:00 pm
Mon May 05
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Trouble in Paradise

Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
83 min

Herbert Marshall and Miriam Hopkins play lovers and thieves attempting to fleece the chic owner of a French perfume company, played by Kay Francis. What ensues is a modern ménage à trois in the most elegant, innuendo filled film comedy of all time.

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2:00 pm
Mon May 12
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Bicycle Thieves

Dir. Vittorio De Sica
89 min

De Sica's film about a labourer desperate to track down the bike that has been stolen from him is a landmark in film history, the movie that cemented the impact of Italian neo-realism on world cinema.

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11:00 am
Sun May 18
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:30 pm
Tue May 20
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
93 min

RW Fassbinder's lop-sided love story (60 year old German widow and a Moroccan twenty years her junior) shines an unflattering light on social hypocrisies.

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11:00 am
Sun Jun 15
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:30 pm
Tue Jun 17
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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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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Portrait of a Lady on Fire

Dir. Céline Sciamma
120 min

Céline Sciamma's queer costume drama -- about a painter covertly studying a young noblewoman who refuses to sit for her portrait -- was voted 30th Greatest Film Ever Made in a 2022 poll, the highest ranking film of the past decade.

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11:00 am
Sun Aug 17
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:30 pm
Tue Aug 19
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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I Am Cuba

Dir. Mikhail Kalatozov
141 min

Infused with a palpable love for the country and a righteous anger at the injustices of the Batista era, I Am Cuba features some of the jaw-dropping camerawork ever filmed. A euphoric celebration of Cuba, the Revolution, and revolutionary cinema.

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11:00 am
Sun Sep 21
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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7:30 pm
Tue Sep 23
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Woman in the Dunes (35mm)

Dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara
147 min

Teshigahara's collaboration with novelist Kōbō Abe's is vividly strange, erotic and unsettling allegory about an amateur entymologist who is himself ensnared in a trap he only dimly understands.

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11:00 am
Sun Oct 19
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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7:30 pm
Tue Oct 21
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Colour of Pomegranates + The House Is Black

Dir. Sergei Parajanov
101 min

This month's Pantheon screening is a double-bill, Sergei Parajanov's extraordinary evocation of the life and work of C18th Armenian poet Sayat Nova, and, The House is Black (22 min), the only film directed by the great Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad.

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11:00 am
Sun Nov 16
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:30 pm
Tue Nov 18
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Fantasia

126 min

Walt Disney pushed the boundaries of animation and sound recording when he put together a movie concert: eight classical pieces by Bach, Beethoven, Stravinski et al, each animated in a different style. It's playful, sometimes cute, other times inspired.

Image: © Disney, 1940

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11:00 am
Sun Dec 14
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:30 pm
Tue Dec 16
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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