In advance of the 92nd Academy Awards, our programmers take the opportunity to reflect on the Oscars, their perceived importance, and the year in cinema at large. Continue reading
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Test Drive a Subaru and Receive an Exclusive VIFF 2019 Festival Package!
Vancouver International Film Festival has partnered with Subaru Canada to give our followers a chance to be awarded one of 100 exclusive VIFF Festival Packages. Getting a Festival Package is easy as 1, 2, 3! 1. Call to book a test drive at any of the 6 participating Subaru dealership listed below: 2. At the … Continue reading
Environmental Films at Vancity Theatre
This month, VIFF Year Round is featuring a trio of diverse documentary films that highlight various ways in which our modern society comes into conflict with the natural world. Check out the trailers below, and be sure to visit viff.org for tickets and showtimes. Honeyland A visually ravishing glimpse of a dying way of life, … Continue reading
Shane Scott-Travis on The Night of the Hunter
A whirling pictorial dervish, Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter is also a beautiful traumatic fable about a brother and a sister set in the Dust Bowl era of the Great Depression. But this film is no history lesson. No, it’s a tale of two children, unloved and on the run, pursued by hysterical … Continue reading
Apocalypse Now Final Cut
by Ross Munro “I love the smell of classic 1970s movies in the morning….”- Col. Bill Kilgore from Apocalypse Now…well, actually I’ve taken the liberty to paraphrase a bit from that film’s most quoted scene by the surfing-loving, tough-as-nails American military leader played by Robert Duvall. With the 40 year anniversary release of iconic filmmaker … Continue reading
An interview with Mark Haney on the LITTLE CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES THAT COULD
On Sunday 28th July, VIFF Vancity Theatre presents Alexander Medvedkin’s fabled Soviet comedy, HAPPINESS, a silent film from 1935, with a brand new score performed live by the Little Chamber Music Series that could, led by composer Mark Haney. We checked in with Mark to get his thoughts on the process and the movie. What … Continue reading
