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Seven

Dir. David Fincher
130 min

Brad Pitt is the young detective paired with world-weary partner Morgan Freeman to investigate a spate of grisly murders in David Fincher's literally dark neo-noir. Once seen, never forgotten.

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2:00 pm
Sat Jul 25
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:50 pm
Thu Jul 30
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Andrea Superstein Sings Burt Bacharach + Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery Film Screening

155 min

Local hero and Anglophile Mike Myers scored a massive comedy hit with this spot-on spoof of James Bond and his many imitators. Before the yucks, Andrea Superstein treats us to a set of timeless Burt Bacharach tunes.

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7:00 pm
Sat Jul 25
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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Ghost in the Shell

Dir. Mamoru Oshi
83 min

This seminal anime which inspired James Cameron and the Wachowskis, anticipates how AI technology encroaches on the human domain in ways we can scarcely comprehend. "A work of profound and melancholic beauty." Daily Telegraph

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3:00 pm
Sun Jul 26
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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8:40 pm
Tue Jul 28
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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6:00 pm
Thu Jul 30
VIFF Centre - Lochmaddy Studio Theatre
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Before Sunrise

Dir. Richard Linklater
101 min

An American backpacker (Ethan Hawke) meets a French girl (Julie Delpy) on the train to Vienna. They decide to spend the next 14 hours together until it's time for his flight. They walk and talk. This brief encounter will mark the rest of their lives.

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5:00 pm
Sun Jul 26
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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4:15 pm
Tue Jul 28
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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La Haine

Dir. Mathieu Kassovitz
97 min

This angry French thriller about alienated kids (a skinhead, an Arab, and an African) in the working class outskirts of Paris plays like a cross between Do the Right Thing and Mean Streets. French cops turned their backs on the red carpet at Cannes.

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7:30 pm
Sun Jul 26
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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4:30 pm
Wed Jul 29
VIFF Centre - VIFF Cinema
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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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