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Romeo and Juliet

Dir. Franco Zeffirelli
138 min

Franco Zeffirelli directed one of the most successful and beloved of Shakespeare films, casting teenagers Leonard Whiting and Oliva Hussey as his star-crossed lovers. This month's Premium Pick by Sandy Dowling.

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7:30 pm
Mon Jun 30
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Boxcutter

Dir. Reza Dahya
88 min

The first feature from former Toronto Flow OTA Live host and producer Reza Dahya is a boisterous, sometimes bruising day-in-the-life of wannabe rapper Rome (Ashton James), set on meeting megastar Richie Hill (Rich Kidd).

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7:00 pm
Tue Jul 01
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Fri Jul 04
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Sat Jul 05
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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The Fugitive Kind

Dir. Sidney Lumet
121 min

Sidney Lumet's movie brings together two of the greatest actors of the period, Brando and Anna Magnani, reason enough to check out this underrated poetical drama about a handsome musician who washes up in a small southern town.

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2:00 pm
Thu Jul 03
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:50 pm
Sat Jul 05
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Inedia

Dir. Liz Cairns
107 min

Liz Cairns makes a mesmerizing feature debut that sees a young woman suffering from mysterious food allergies join a remote island community practicing alternative healing methods. She soon realizes that not everything is as it seems.

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3:30 pm
Fri Jul 04
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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4:00 pm
Sat Jul 05
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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2:30 pm
Sun Jul 06
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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3:45 pm
Fri Jul 04
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Sat Jul 05
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Sun Jul 06
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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The Hustler

Dir. Robert Rossen
135 min

Prime Paul Newman as Fast Eddie Felson, a hungry pool shark who knows he's the sharpest guy in the room. Jackie Gleason and George C Scott have other ideas.

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5:50 pm
Fri Jul 04
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:00 pm
Mon Jul 07
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Hud

Dir. Martin Ritt
112 min

Landmark modern western with Brandon de Wilde from Shane worshipping the wrong hero, Paul Newman’s eponymous heel. According to Paul Schrader, this movie marks the birth of the cynical (anti-)hero in American cinema.

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8:30 pm
Fri Jul 04
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Mon Jul 07
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Julian Borkowski: Blues for Brando

Dir. Laszlo Benedek
140 min

The Julian Borkowski Quintet pays tribute to the emergence of bebop, in many ways a parallel artistic innovation to Method acting. A set of bebop classics will be followed by a screening of Marlon Brando in The Wild One.

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8:00 pm
Sat Jul 05
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Wild River

Dir. Elia Kazan
112 min

Tennessee Valley Authority man Montgomery Clift finds derision from the locals, love from the war widow Lee Remick, and obduracy from matriarch Jo Van Fleet, who just won’t leave that scheduled-to-be-flooded farm.

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2:00 pm
Sun Jul 06
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:30 pm
Thu Jul 10
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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The Exterminating Angel: Live Scored by Magazinist

Dir. Luis Bunuel
95 min

Using crystal singing glasses, resonant bowls, pepper grinders and other sound objects, experimental music duo Magazinist perform a unique live score alongside Luis Buñuel's surrealist masterpiece about a dinner party which becomes an inescapable prison.

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7:30 pm
Sun Jul 06
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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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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2:00 pm
Wed Jul 09
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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7:30 pm
Sun Jul 13
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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In the Heat of the Night

Dir. Norman Jewison
110 min

Sidney Poitier in an indelible role a Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs, pulled in as a murder suspect when changing trains in Mississippi. He allies with bigoted local sheriff (Rod Steiger) to solve the case.

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8:30 pm
Fri Jul 11
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Tue Jul 15
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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