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Glory

Dir. Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valchanov
101 min

In this timely Bulgarian satire, a railway linesman discovers millions of banknotes beside the train tracks. When he reports the money rather than pocketing it, it sets off a darkly hilarious chain of events.

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11:00 am
Tue Jul 28
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Clueless

Dir. Amy Heckerling
97 min

Riffing on Jane Austen's Emma, Amy Heckerling's satiric portrait of California rich kids has oodles of charm and wit, and a winning performance from Alicia Silverstone as 15-year-old mall rat Cher.

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6:30 pm
Tue Jul 28
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Trainspotting

Dir. Danny Boyle
94 min

Danny Boyle's blistering movie was a sensation in 1996: a kick in the teeth of old school British kitchen sink realism, it fearlessly transformed the dire circumstances of Edinburgh heroin addicts into an experience by turns exhilarating and devastating.

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6:30 pm
Fri Jul 31
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:45 pm
Thu Aug 06
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Crash

Dir. David Cronenberg
100 min

Sex drive, David Cronenberg-style. The car-crash fetishists who orbit Cronenberg's metrosexual Toronto (they include James Spader, Holly Hunter, and Deborah Unger) obsessively seek a fusion of metal and flesh... Fender bender as the ultimate orgasm.

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8:40 pm
Fri Jul 31
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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7:30 pm
Sun Aug 02
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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6:30 pm
Thu Aug 06
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Fargo

Dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen
100 min

Have the Coen brothers ever made a more satisfying movie than Fargo? This grisly comedy pits one of cinema's most pure-hearted cops (Frances McDormand's pregnant cop, Marge Gunderson) against the machinations of weak and mercenary men.

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6:20 pm
Sat Aug 01
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:30 pm
Tue Aug 04
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Set It Off

Dir. F. Gary Gray
120 min

If you love boosters, you'll love Set It Off, in which four Black women (Jada Pinkett, Vivica A. Fox, Queen Latifah, Kimberly Elise) repurpose their office-cleaning operation to clean out a bank.

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8:00 pm
Sat Aug 01
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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8:40 pm
Tue Aug 04
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:10 pm
Thu Aug 06
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Lone Star

Dir. John Sayles
135 min

John Sayles's modern day Western is a murder mystery which draws sheriff Chris Cooper to investigate two of his predecessors, the notoriously corrupt Charlie Wade (Kris Kristofferson), and his own father, Buddy (Matthew McConaughey).

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8:30 pm
Sat Aug 01
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:00 pm
Sun Aug 02
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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4:00 pm
Tue Aug 04
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Secrets & Lies

Dir. Mike Leigh
142 min

Mike Leigh's bittersweet tearjerker won the Palme d'Or in 1996. When a 27 year old adopted child reaches out to her birth mother they're both in for a shock.

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2:00 pm
Sun Aug 02
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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3:30 pm
Tue Aug 04
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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5:20 pm
Thu Aug 06
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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90s Mystery Movie + Trivia Night

135 min

And now for a shot in the dark... We're not announcing the Mystery Movie in advance, so you'll have to take a leap of faith. We can say it was released between January 1990 and January 2000, and it's not already showing elsewhere in this series. As an added enticement we're going to throw in a 90s movie trivia night with your ticket — plus prizes!

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7:00 pm
Mon Aug 03
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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L.A. Confidential

Dir. Curtis Hanson
138 min

James Ellroy's complex novel about police corruption and sleaze in 1950s Hollywood spawned this modern neo-noir classic featuring career-making performances from Russell Crowe and Guy Pierce.

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5:30 pm
Fri Aug 07
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:10 pm
Thu Aug 13
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Princess Mononoke

Dir. Hayao Miyazaki
134 min

A mystical fight between humans and the Animal Gods of the forest. Ashitaka, the last prince of a dying race, struggles to find a way for both sides to co-exist. But the fighting only becomes more and more bloody and all hope seems to be lost…

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8:20 pm
Fri Aug 07
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:00 pm
Sun Aug 09
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Titanic

Dir. James Cameron
197 min

James Cameron's romantic disaster movie spent 17 weeks topping the box office charts on its way to a $2 billion gross and 11 Academy Awards. Not too shabby for such a harrowing experience (and that's just the love scenes).

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7:30 pm
Sat Aug 08
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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3:00 pm
Tue Aug 11
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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