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“If there was something like a sacred treasure of the cinema, then for me that would have to be the work of Ozu Yasujiro.” —Wim Wenders
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DIM Cinema 5 films
DIM Cinema is a monthly series that presents Canadian and international moving-image art in dialogue with cinema. The series was…
New Restorations (May & June) 13 films
New restorations screening at The Cinematheque during the months of May and June, 2025.
Film Club 11 films
Film Club is a family-friendly movie matinee series held at The Cinematheque on the third Sunday of each month. By…
Frames of Mind 4 films
The Cinematheque is pleased to with the Institute of Mental Health, UBC Department of Psychiatry, in presenting Frames of…
PELAN Presents 2 films
A bimonthly series organized in partnership with PELAN, a nonprofit and nonpartisan media organization spotlighting independent documentaries by Iranian and…
Our Stories to Tell 6 films
Our Stories to Tell is a monthly series dedicated to showcasing the new wave of inspired Indigenous storytelling in film,…
Recent reviews
The latest feature from Lou Ye is a poignant time capsule of China’s first surge of COVID-19, rendered in a sly, evasive formal approach befitting the surreality of the lived-through experience.
March 28–April 15
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Lou Ye, among the most controversial of the cohort, achieved acclaim abroad—and a two-year ban from filmmaking at home—for his sophomore feature Suzhou River, suppressed in China after its unauthorized Rotterdam premiere.
March 28–April 14
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In A Touch of Spice, Fanis Iakovidis (George Corraface), a successful professor of astrophysics in Athens, takes a trip down memory lane through everything he knows about spices and the art of cooking.
March 17 & April 2
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Directed by the legendary Elia Kazan (_America, America_), On the Waterfront is an immensely satisfying and inspirational work and one of the finest of American films—a masterpiece of poetic realism.
March 15, 23, 29
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Liked reviews
Glad I got to revisit this in a movie theatre. Ah, to be young again. All that intense ion!
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From InRO’s Best of 2024 feature:
As discursively, obsessively set piece-driven — set pieces of sounds, cuts, and camera movements — as 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eduardo Williams’s The Human Surge 3 is inextricable from its technical background. The warp of its lensing points to its source material: 360-degree footage re-directed via VR headset, a method that would be a mere gimmick if not for the ecstatically unruly, unpredictable, and oneirically suggestive performers that waypoint and wander through its frames,…
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Funny to revisit this after first seeing it when I was younger. Now that I’m close to the age of the characters in this film it’s interesting to take in some sort of new understanding of what Jesse and Celine is going through. It’s the fact that they seemingly make little attempt at skipping all the emotional beats that goes with knowing something, that truly touches me, just knowing what they’re hoping to grasp onto and yet not finding it.
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men are so insufferableeeee omg. worm grunting while that damn leather jacket kept squeaking … phone call LARP and phone booth scene gets me every time though. wish they went to the cow play i bet it was good asf
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