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Julia

Dir. Fred Zinnemann
118 min

Fred Zinnemann's meticulous film is based on account by playwright Lillian Hellman of a wealthy childhood friend who turned her back on privilege to follow her ideals and to support victims of the Nazi regime in Germany prior to WWII.

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1:00 pm
Sun Jul 27
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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4:30 pm
Wed Jul 30
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Stop Making Sense

Dir. Jonathan Demme
88 min

Universally acclaimed as one of the greatest concert films ever made, the Talking Heads at their peak -- as selected by VIFF+ Premium member Adam PW Smith.

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8:00 pm
Mon Jul 28
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:30 pm
Thu Jul 31
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Woman at War

Dir. Benedikt Erlingsson
101 min

This month's Talking Pictures screening is a rousing comedy about an Icelandic choirmaster waging a one-woman eco-war against the powers that be. Join us for free snacks and chit chat after the movie!

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11:00 am
Tue Jul 29
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The China Syndrome

Dir. James L Bridges
122 min

Jane Fonda is a lightweight local news anchor sent to film a puff piece about clean, limitless energy at a nuclear power plant with cameraman Michael Douglas. As luck would have it, they witness chaos in the control room and an emergency shutdown.

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2:00 pm
Wed Jul 30
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:00 pm
Sun Aug 03
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Little Big Man

Dir. Arthur Penn
139 min

Dustin Hoffman ages a century in Arthur Penn's epic picaresque anti-western, the tall tale of 121-year-old Jack Crabb, a white man rescued and raised by the Cheyenne, a one-time snake-oil salesman, gunslinger, and mule skinner under General George Custer.

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2:00 pm
Sun Aug 03
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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4:45 pm
Wed Aug 13
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Husbands

Dir. John Cassavetes
142 min

Men behaving badly: reeling from the death of a friend, three middle-aged buddies go on an epic drinking binge. It's not enough. They roll home, collect their passports, and take off for a weekend of gambling, women and booze in London.

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7:30 pm
Tue Aug 05
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:00 pm
Sun Aug 10
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Nashville

Dir. Robert Altman
159 min

With 26 actors getting more-or-less equal screen time and half of them singing their own tunes, Robert Altman's state-of-the-nation satire on bicentennial USA is a movie that repays multiple views.

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2:00 pm
Wed Aug 06
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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7:30 pm
Sun Aug 10
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Scarecrow

Dir. Jerry Schatzberg
112 min

A bittersweet, touching buddy movie with Gene Hackman as a volatile tramp, Max, and Al Pacino as "Lion", a drifter now set on returning to the wife and kid he abandoned years ago. Hackman's favourite of his own movies.

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9:00 pm
Fri Aug 08
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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2:30 pm
Sun Aug 10
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Bonnie Northgraves Quintet: To Louis with Love

Dir. Bert Stern
160 min

Join us for To Louis with Love, a joyful celebration of the legendary Louis Armstrong by Bonnie Northgraves and her band, followed by Bert Stern's legendary concert film Jazz on a Summer's Day, featuring Monk, Gerry Mulligan, and of course Satchmo.

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2:00 pm
Sun Aug 10
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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The Missouri Breaks

Dir. Arthur Penn
126 min

This exuberant, wild and wooly western from Arthur Penn features a brazenly transgressive performance from Marlon Brando, while Jack Nicholson underplays masterfully as the cattle rustler he's been hired to eliminate.

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2:00 pm
Wed Aug 13
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:50 pm
Tue Aug 19
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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Raging Bull

Dir. Martin Scorsese
129 min

In the throes of a near-fatal drug problem Martin Scorsese made what he believed could be his last movie. Its subject: the Bronx Bull, Jake La Motta, a graceless but indomitable boxer who never quits beating himself up. De Niro has never dug deeper.

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2:00 pm
Wed Aug 20
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:30 pm
Sun Aug 24
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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