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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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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 am
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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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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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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