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>>LET IT RAIN Fri July 3 - Mon July 6 BUY TICKETS
>>CINEMA SALON
Max Reimer presents DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
Tuesday July 7 // 7:00 pm NOTE EARLY START TIME! BUY TICKETS
>>BRAZILIAN FILM FESTIVAL Weds July 8 - Sun July 12
>>GUNS, SPATS & GANGSTERS Mon July 13 - Thurs July 16
>>KATYN Fri July 17 - Thurs July 23 BUY TICKETS
>>EMPIRE OF THE SUN Sun July 19 BUY TICKETS
>>SUMMER OF SOUND: MUSIC ON FILM July 24-August 18
SUMMER OF SOUND
ALL ACCESS PASS - $50! Click for details
LET IT RAIN
Parlez-moi de la pluie
Fri July 3 – Mon July 6
Fri: 6:30 pm, Sat: 2:00, 4:00 & 6:30 pm, Sun: 2:00, 4:00 & 6:30 pm, Mon: 8:45 pm
Dir: Agnes Jaoui // France 2008 // 95 min // 35mm // In French with English subtitles // BUY TICKETS
The third film from the husband-and-wife, actor-writer-director team Agnes Jaoui and Jean Pierre Bacri, this gentle, rather sad ensemble comedy negotiates similar terrain to The Taste of Others (Le gout des autres) and especially their previous VIFF favourite, Look At Me (Comme une image)...more info + tickets
CINEMA SALON
Max Reimer presents DOCTOR ZHIVAGO
Tuesday July 7 // 7:00 pm NOTE EARLY START TIME!
Dir: David Lean//USA 1965 //197 minutes
Cast: Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger, Tom Courtnay, Alec Guinness, Ralph Richardsonn.
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Presented by MAX REIMER
Based on the controversial novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago follows its characters from the decadence of fin de siècle Russia, through the revolution of 1905, World War I, the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 until the purges of Stalin’s government...more info + tickets
BRAZILIAN FILM FESTIVAL
July 8-12
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GUNS, SPATS AND GANGSTERS
July 13-16
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KATYN
Fri July 17 - Sat July 18
& Mon July 20-Thurs July 23 // 6:15 & 8:30 pm
Sun July 19 // 2:30 & 5:00 pm
Director: Andrzej Wajda // Poland 2007 // 121 minutes // 35mm
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Over a long and distinguished career Wajda (Ashes and Diamonds; Man of Iron; Danton) has repeatedly forged powerful cinema from political upheaval. Now, at the age of 82, Poland's greatest filmmaker confronts the most painful episode in modern Polish history: the massacre of more than 20,000 men at the hands of the Soviet army in the spring of 1940. Ordered by Stalin, the action seems to have been designed to wipe out the country's best and brightest: leaders, teachers, and thousands of officers – among them, the director's own father...more info + tickets
RELATED LINKS
Read an article by Anne Applebaum in the New York Review of Books
REVIEWS
New York Times review
EMPIRE OF THE SUN
Sun July 19 // 7:30 pm
Director: Steven Spielberg // USA 1987 //153 min //35mm // BUY TICKETS
“Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark…” wrote JG Ballard, contemplating the painful excavation of his childhood wartime experiences for his autobiographical novel, Empire of the Sun. It was this book more than any that confirmed Ballard's immense literary stature; it also furnished Steven Spielberg with the basis for his own artistic coming of age. He produced one of his toughest and most enduring films...more info + tickets
SUMMER OF SOUND: MUSIC ON FILM
July 24-AUGUST 18
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