Featured Film:
Sofia Bohdanowicz at the Northwest Film Forum
The centerpiece of the Film Forum’s series of highlights from the Vancouver Film Festival’s Future//Present program of new Canadian cinema is a pair of features and a trio of shorts by Sofia Bohdanowicz, all of which are playing on Saturday only (with the director in attendance). The shorts, collected together as The Last Poems Trilogy are a Chantal Akerman-esque tribute to her grandmother and her grandmother’s house. The first feature, Never Eat Alone, is a fictionalization of events in the life of her other grandmother, while the second, Maison du bonheur, is a kind of diary of a month Bohdanowicz spent living in Paris with a friend’s mother. Working with very little in the way of budget but a great deal of ingenuity, Bohdanowicz creates warm, fascinating films that in their openness and depth mark her as one of the most interesting filmmakers to emerge in recent years.
Playing This Week:
Grease (Randal Kleiser, 1978) Weds Only
The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Stop Making Sense (Jonathan Demme, 1984) Fri-Thurs
Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli, 1984) Fri-Thurs No Shows Sat Our Podcast
Searching for Sugar Man (Malik Bendjelloul, 2012) Tues Only
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Leonard Nimoy, 1986) Fri-Mon
12 Monkeys (Terry Gilliam, 1995) Fri-Tues
A Nightmare on Elm Street (Wes Craven, 1984) Weds Only Shriek – A Women of Horror Film Class
The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Subedar Joginder Singh (Simerjit Singh) Fri-Thurs
Sajjan Singh Rangroot (Pankaj Batra) Fri-Thurs
Grease (Randal Kleiser, 1978) Sun & Weds Only
The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Leisure Seeker (Paolo Virzì) Fri-Thurs
The Cured (David Freyne) Sat Only
The Insult (Ziad Doueiri) Tues Only
Wolf Warrior 2 (Wu Jing) Thurs Only Our Review
The Workshop (Laurent Cantet) Fri-Thurs
Pyewacket (Adam MacDonald) Fri-Sun
ACORN and the Firestorm (Reuben Atlas, Sam Pollard) Sat, Sun, Mon & Weds
Blackmail (Abhinay Deo) Fri-Thurs
Baaghi 2 (Ahmed Khan) Fri-Thurs
Rangasthalam (Sukumar) Fri-Thurs
Hichki (Siddharth Malhotra) Fri-Thurs
Chal Mohan Ranga (Krishna Chaitanya) Fri-Thurs
Grease (Randal Kleiser, 1978) Sun & Weds Only
Itzhak (Alison Chernick) Fri-Thurs
Foxtrot (Samuel Maoz) Fri-Thurs
The China Hustle (Jed Rothstein) Fri-Thurs
LA 92 (Dan Lindsay & TJ Martin) Sat Only Director in Attendance, Free Event
Never Eat Alone with The Last Poems Trilogy (Sofia Bohdanowicz) Sat Only Our Review Director in Attendance
Maison du bonheur (Sofia Bohdanowicz) Sat Only Our Review Director in Attendance
Mass for Shut-Ins with There Lived the Colliers (Winston DeGiobbi/Nelson MacDonald) Sun Only
In the Waves with La pesca (Jacquelyn Mills/Pablo Álvarez-Mesa) Sun Only
Werewolf (Ashley McKenzie) Sun Only Our Review
Best of the 44th Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival Weds Only
Hacer Mucho con Poco (Do More with Less) (Katerina Kliwadenko & Mario Novas) Thurs Only
A Woman of the World (Malcolm St. Clair, 1925) Mon Only Live Score
Never Not Love You (Antoinette Jadaone) Fri-Thurs
Subedar Joginder Singh (Simerjit Singh) Fri-Thurs
The Leisure Seeker (Paolo Virzì) Fri-Thurs
My Perfect You (Cathy Garcia-Molina) Fri-Thurs
The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Gemini (Aaron Katz) Fri-Thurs
Young and Innocent (Alfred Hitchcock, 1937) Thurs Only
Dirtbag: The Legend of Fred Beckey (Dave O’Leske) Fri-Thurs
The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Grease (Randal Kleiser, 1978) Sun & Weds Only
Outside In (Lynn Shelton) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Ramen Heads (Koki Shigeno) Fri-Thurs
The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci) Thurs Only Our Review
Distant Sky – Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Live in Copenhagen (David Barnard) Thurs Only
Spinning Man (Simon Kaijser da Silva) Fri-Thurs
Grease (Randal Kleiser, 1978) Weds Only
In Wide Release:
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