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Jul 1-7 2010
Cinema's silly season is upon us. Here are the big screen gleanings.
Agora
Granville 7 | Fri: 6:45, 9:30 | Sat, Sun: 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30 | Mon, Tue, Wed: 5:20, 8:10
Director Amenabar intriguing in Open Your Eyes, chilling and subtle in The Others, annoying and polemic in The Sea Inside - I'm afraid I'll find this story (nasty shenanigans as underground Christianity morphs into Holy Roman Empire) more Sea than Others/Eyes.
Morefield | the moral failings of Christian, pagan, scientist, and Jew alike make it hard for me to see the film as a plea for tolerance so much as a lament for the costs of intolerance.
Greydanus | Enlightenment myth... a work of anti-hagiography.
Chattaway
Amelie
Vancity Tue 7:30
Reed | endearing 'do unto others' fable
Babies
5th | 1:15, 3:00, 4:45, 7:25, 9:10
arty doc about worldwide babies
Denby | Cuts back and forth among four infants located on the red earth of Namibia, the open plains of Mongolia, and in apartments in the vertical cities of San Francisco and Tokyo as they crawl, eat mush, play, and so on, right up to their first words and steps . . . pleasing, but anodyne as a series of episodes from “America’s Funniest Home Videos.
Cyrus
5th 1:00, 3:05, 5:00, 7:20, 9:30
One of this summer's obligatory Sundance pix (though the big winner was Winter's Bone)
Cyrus
5th 1:00, 3:05, 5:00, 7:20, 9:30
One of this summer's obligatory Sundance pix (though the big winner was Winter's Bone)
Denby | creepy stay-at-home Cyrus tries to break up an affair between his mother (Marisa Tomei) and her new boyfriend (John C. Reilly), a forlorn, long-divorced fellow looking for love
Exit Through the Gift Shop [1:27]
G7 Thu: 5:25, 8:10
arty doc about street art - people recommending this one. prob final week
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [2:32]
Hollywood 7:30 through Thursday
G7 8:00 | Sat, Sun also 1:05, 4:25
arty foreign thriller from arty foreign best-seller. prob final week. first of a trilogy: #2 opens Friday at Fifth Ave
Denby | journalist hired by rich old man to probe disappearance of teen-age girl forty years before. Quest leads to further unearthings as forgotten crimes are dragged into the light. (So many, indeed, that the film runs longer than two and a half hours.) Hero’s gothic sidekick exudes throbbing air of resentment against the eternal cruelties of man; crow-black garb, inked and studded flesh, cuts a defiant figure in the wintry landscape, refusing to be deadened by the gloom.
Harry Brown [1:43]
G7 Thu: 5:20, 8:05
Gran Torino with better script, worse soul? prob final week
How to Train Your Dragon [1:38]
G7 Thu: 5:40
Surprising recommendations from highbrow movie buddies, theatre scenic designers (KMcA). prob final week
Mao's Last Dancer [1:57]
5th Thu: 1:45, 4:20, 6:50, 9:15 | Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed: 1:45, 4:15, 6:50
arty doc about dancers
METROPOLIS to Jul 6
Cinematheque Thu: 3:45 | Fri: 6:30 | Sat: 2:00, 3:45, 9:00 | Sun: 6:30 | Mon: 9:00 | Tue: 6:30
One of those "gotta see" flix, w/ long lost footage restored - complete with Soul Food content!
Red Shoes to Jul 6
Cinematheque Thu: 6:30 | Fri: 9:15 | Sat: 6:30 | Sun: 4:00, 9:15 | Mon: 6:30 | Tue: 9:15
Gotta dance, gotta see - has changed lives
Toy Story 3
everywhere including
2D @ RC Thu: 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 9:40 | Fri Mon Tue Wed 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 | Sat, Sun: 1:10, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35
3D @ SCRP 11:35am, 1:00, 2:15, 3:45, 4:50, 6:45, 7:30, 9:45, 10:15
Does the Pixar streak continue?
Chattaway's delightful pre-screening musings
Winter's Bone
Wow. Every critic I found on line considers this the film of the year, so far. I agree.
Exit Through the Gift Shop [1:27]
G7 Thu: 5:25, 8:10
arty doc about street art - people recommending this one. prob final week
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo [2:32]
Hollywood 7:30 through Thursday
G7 8:00 | Sat, Sun also 1:05, 4:25
arty foreign thriller from arty foreign best-seller. prob final week. first of a trilogy: #2 opens Friday at Fifth Ave
Denby | journalist hired by rich old man to probe disappearance of teen-age girl forty years before. Quest leads to further unearthings as forgotten crimes are dragged into the light. (So many, indeed, that the film runs longer than two and a half hours.) Hero’s gothic sidekick exudes throbbing air of resentment against the eternal cruelties of man; crow-black garb, inked and studded flesh, cuts a defiant figure in the wintry landscape, refusing to be deadened by the gloom.
Harry Brown [1:43]
G7 Thu: 5:20, 8:05
Gran Torino with better script, worse soul? prob final week
How to Train Your Dragon [1:38]
G7 Thu: 5:40
Surprising recommendations from highbrow movie buddies, theatre scenic designers (KMcA). prob final week
Mao's Last Dancer [1:57]
5th Thu: 1:45, 4:20, 6:50, 9:15 | Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed: 1:45, 4:15, 6:50
arty doc about dancers
METROPOLIS to Jul 6
Cinematheque Thu: 3:45 | Fri: 6:30 | Sat: 2:00, 3:45, 9:00 | Sun: 6:30 | Mon: 9:00 | Tue: 6:30
One of those "gotta see" flix, w/ long lost footage restored - complete with Soul Food content!
Red Shoes to Jul 6
Cinematheque Thu: 6:30 | Fri: 9:15 | Sat: 6:30 | Sun: 4:00, 9:15 | Mon: 6:30 | Tue: 9:15
Gotta dance, gotta see - has changed lives
Toy Story 3
everywhere including
2D @ RC Thu: 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 9:40 | Fri Mon Tue Wed 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 | Sat, Sun: 1:10, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35
3D @ SCRP 11:35am, 1:00, 2:15, 3:45, 4:50, 6:45, 7:30, 9:45, 10:15
Does the Pixar streak continue?
Chattaway's delightful pre-screening musings
Winter's Bone
Wow. Every critic I found on line considers this the film of the year, so far. I agree.
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COMING SOON
IKIRU | Cinematheque Jul 8 9:05 | Jul 10 8:50 | Jul 11 6:30
8 1/2 | Cinematheque Jul 16-18, 6:30 & 9:05
The Magnificent Seven | Cinematheque Jul 20 1:00
Man With A Movie Camera | Vancity Sun, Jul 25 7:30 (Alloy Orchestra score)
RAN | Aug 6-8 7:00
film noir series | Cinematheque | Aug 11 - Sep 2
Taxi Driver | Cinematheque | Aug 18 7:30
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