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The Cinematheque / Ways of Seeing: short short films by Gordon Payne Gordon Payne’s three short films, made in the late 1960s and early ’70s, unfold as tactile meditations on vision, ritual, and the restless politics of seeing.

DIM Cinema!
Ways of Seeing: short short films by Gordon Payne is screening Monday Nov 3rd 7pm @thecinematheque.bsky.social. Featuring 3 x 16mm films from the archive and a short doc about the artist by Zsofin Sheehy:
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Film Noir 2025 opens tonight!

A detailed overview from Criterion Daily of our eight mainline titles and two sidebars (Arcand & Kurosawa)

The Cinematheque’s annual Film Noir series explores the genre’s shadowy margins — Stir The big-city sins of Sweet Smell of Success mingle with the small-town nightmares of Moonrise in this year’s darkly adventurous lineup

A look at some of the highlights of @thecinematheque.bsky.social's gritty-cool #filmnoir summer series:
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Poster for the traveling series of new 4K restorations of Akira Kurosawa classics.

New 4K restorations of Akira Kurosawa classics open Friday at Film Forum in NYC and then head to @austinfilm.bsky.social, @amcinematheque.bsky.social, and @thecinematheque.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...

Our Tsui Hark series opens tonight with a sold-out screening of Green Snake! (Encore added on July 22)

Series trailer and more details below:

vimeo.com/1098903325

Kiyoshi Kurosawa shows Masaki Suda how and where to shoot on the set of CLOUD (2024)

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s excellent summer:

#JAPANCUTS Cut Above Award @japansociety.org

CLOUD @filmlinc.bsky.social

PULSE @wexarts.bsky.social

3 films @thecinematheque.bsky.social

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KUROSAWA: A RETROSPECTIVE - Official Trailer U.S. Premieres of New Restorations of THRONE OF BLOOD, STRAY DOG, RED BEARD, HIGH AND LOW, THE HIDDEN FORTRESS, IKIRU, YOJIMBO, and SANJURO.

New Akira Kurosawa restorations are heading to NYC’s Film Forum, the Austin Film Society, @amcinematheque.bsky.social, and @thecinematheque.bsky.social ! vimeo.com/1098238959

The Cinematheque / Dimensional Excursions: Innovation in 3D Cinema Curated by stereoscopic filmmaker Blake Williams, these programs of films can make you feel in ways you never imagined, and that effect is inextricable from their 3D presentation.

Vancouver area: A portion of my TIFF series "Dimensional Excursions" will screen at The Cinematheque on July 17, including the pure heroin version of the 3D shorts programme.

www.thecinematheque.ca/series/innov...

“One Hundred Years of Obsession: The Films of Mai Zetterling,” our centenary-marking retrospective of the Swedish actor, writer, and filmmaker’s directorial works, opens tonight, introduced by novelist Anakana Schofield!

Series trailer and page below:

vimeo.com/1082990560

The Cinematheque / Tsui Hark: Everything Is Unreal The Cinematheque is excited to present Tsui’s films in Vancouver. Many will screen from recent restorations including, for this Year of the Snake, Green Snake on opening night.

The Cinematheque in Vancouver has a month-long Tsui Hark series this summer. Shanghai Blues, Peking Opera Blues, Green Snake, the first two Once Upon a Time in China films, and more.

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The Cinematheque spotlights Robert Bresson in Secret Laws of the Cinematograph, to July 2 — Stir Series includes all 13 of the French director’s films, including A Man Escaped , Pickpocket , Au hasard Balthazar , and more

The Cinematheque is honouring Bresson’s career, which spanned 13 features across four decades, with Secret Laws of the Cinematograph now underway and continues to July 2.

More details in linked story:
www.createastir.ca/articles/the...

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The Cinematheque / Loving Couples Mai Zetterling’s feature debut Loving Couples is so ambitiously crafted that it earned comparison to Citizen Kane upon its release.

Save the date Vancouver: June 12, 2025 7pm
I will be introducing the opening night screening of Mai Zetterling's 1964 debut Loving Couples for the retrospective series of her films at @thecinematheque.bsky.social
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“Robert Bresson: Secret Laws of the Cinematograph,” our complete retrospective of the director’s feature films, opens tonight with The Devil, Probably, introduced by filmmaker Antoine Bourges.

Trailer and coverage below!

vimeo.com/1082989010

As @dwhdaily.bsky.social notes, Vancouver audiences can expect to see Naruse Mikio films—admired by Edward Yang, and Kurosawa Akira, among others—on our screen next year, for the first time since the last major touring retrospective of his films in 2006.

More news to come!

The Cinematheque / Belfast, Maine Frederick Wiseman’s artistic project is cumulative; each film builds upon the others, a progression that reaches its possible apotheosis in Belfast, Maine.

I have been waiting a whole month + to see this film @thecinematheque.bsky.social
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YVR do get out and see the Frederick Wiseman series of documentaries at the Cinematheque. They’re incredible. Support your local art house cinema so we will still have one. The volunteers who staff that cinema are so fun. Had a great natter with them last night ❤️🧠
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Director Lou Ye applies lo-fi film-noir aesthetic to Shanghai at start of 21st century in Suzhou River - Pancouver Thee Cinematheque is screening Suzhou River, which stars Zhou Xun and Jia Hongsheng in a gritty tale of intrigue.

Three more screenings of Suzhou River at the The Cinematheque in downtown Vancouver. It's an early 21st-century Chinese-German co-production that has drawn comparisons to Hitchcock's Vertigo. More details @pancouver.bsky.social and @thecinematheque.bsky.social websites. pancouver.ca/director-lou...

The new restoration of Batang West Side will be coming to Vancouver as part of our May–June programming!

Nabila Zeitouni, dressed in white, stands on a beach in front of a semicircle of seated women in black burkas in the new poster for Heiny Srour’s Leila and the Wolves (1984)

New restorations of Heiny Srour’s THE HOUR OF LIBERATION HAS ARRIVED (1974) and LEILA AND THE WOLVES (1984) are coming to @bambrooklyn.bsky.social, @mezzaninefilm.bsky.social, @phillyfilmsociety.bsky.social, @thecinematheque.bsky.social …
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Our Frederick Wiseman series opens tonight with Central Park!

Trailer: vimeo.com/1056881463

Lads (Vancouver) TONIGHT is the first Frederick Wiseman film Central Park in the series @thecinematheque.bsky.social 6.30pm. Also showing same time March 16th, I thnk.

Documentarian Frederick Wiseman gets a big screen upgrade at The Cinematheque — Stir The series presents 14 titles by the master of non-fiction film, rarely seen in the cinema

A look at @thecinematheque.bsky.social's 14-film ode to one of the world's greatest documentary filmmakers.
www.createastir.ca/articles/fre...

A still from The Travelling Players (1975) dir. Theo Angelopoulos

A still from Between Salt and Sweet Water (1967) dir. Michel Brault

A still from though she never spoke, this is where her voice would have been. (dir. Lindsay McInyre) Photo Courtesy the artist.

A still from The Passenger (1975) dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

Plus:
• The return of the Greek Film Festival (incl. films by Angelopoulos and Angelidi)
• Anniversary screenings of Antonioni’s The Passenger
• Free screenings (Co Hoedeman in March, Michel Brault in April)
• In-person appearances from Tiziana La Melia, Holly Márie Parnell, and Lindsay McIntyre

A still from Shoeshine (1946)

A still from Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

A still from Leila and the Wolves (1984)

A still from The Burmese Harp (1956)

New Restorations
• Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica) [starts March 1]
• Picnic at Hanging Rock (Peter Weir) [March 1]
• The Burmese Harp (Ichikawa Kon) [March 2]
• Leila and the Wolves (Heiny Srour) [April 11]
• Los olvidados + Él (Luis Buñuel) [April 18]

A still from The Empire (2024)

A still from An Unfinished Film (2024)

A still from Việt and Nam (2024)

A still from Little, Big, and Far (2024)

Vancouver Premieres
• The Empire (Bruno Dumont) [starts March 14]
• An Unfinished Film (Lou Ye) [March 28]
• Việt and Nam (Trương Minh Quý) [April 3]
• Little, Big, and Far (Jem Cohen) [April 11]

A still from Central Park (1990)

A still from Model (1980)

A still from Welfare (1975)

A still from Belfast, Maine (1999)

Frederick Wiseman: The Choreography of Everyday Life
• March 6–April 30
• 14 films, all screening in restored versions
• Video introductions by Wiseman for Central Park (opening night) and Belfast, Maine

The Cinematheque's March-April guide, which features a still from Frederick Wiseman's Central Park on the cover. A number of people are seen rollerskating, in black and white.

Our March/April guide is now available at our theatre and online!

thecinematheque.ca/films/calendar

The 4K restoration of Umbrellas of Cherbourg is unbelievable. Go see it if you have a chance! Thank you @thecinematheque.bsky.social for bringing it to Vancouver.

A still from Ozu's Equinox Flower. Three women seated at a table. One, on the right, holds a piece of pottery, a cup, with a distinct design: a wide red stripe at the top, and underneath a blue section with three vertical strokes in white.

It appears in Equinox Flower (1958), Ozu's first film in colour, and comes from this Kyoto-based family, who created the original item used in the film and continue to make pottery today:
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The Cinematheque / Ozu 121 “Ozu 121” invites you to experience Ozu anew. This series takes its curatorial cues from Hasumi Shiguéhiko’s newly translated book and a string of high-profile restorations—both of which focus on the ...

thecinematheque.ca/series/ozu-121