
Vancouver Mysteries Presents... Murder at the Movies

An immersive murder mystery at the VIFF Centre
Starts Jul 12
This summer, enter the world of film noir with a new immersive murder mystery blending elements of film with live performance and audience participation. This show turns the VIFF Centre into a crime scene and you, the audience, into detectives.
Getting Real: The Arc of American Screen Acting
Jun 11 – Aug 31
Getting Real charts the evolution of screen acting in American film from 1945-1980, diving into the psychological realism which took audiences somewhere deeper and more authentic than ever before.

21st Century Classics
Jul 9 – Aug 31
These movies speak to our times and push the boundaries of the art form — the true modern classics we’re confident will withstand the test of time.
Talking Pictures
Last Tuesday of the Month
Created for film lovers 55+, the Talking Pictures series offers films, refreshments and an open invitation to chat about our shared experience of the movie.

Woman at War
Jul 29
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!
Film Studies: 6 Takes on American Screen Acting
Every Other Wednesday | Jun 11 – Aug 20
Move through the changing fashions and styles in screen acting in the wake of World War II under the influence of The Method, certainly, but also wider social and political currents.
Nashville
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.
Raging Bull
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.
VIFF Live
Live performances that push the boundaries of traditional film programming, intersecting cinema culture with music, comedy, podcasting, and performance in unique, cinema-infused live shows.
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