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  • The Grub-Stake Revisited (Yukon Film Society/Nell Shipman, 2012) - CALGARY CINEMATHEQUE MOVIE POSTER
    May 01 Yukon Film Society/Nell Shipman's The Grub-Stake Revisited (2012)

    Calgary Cinematheque is proud to present an innovative silent film, theatre and music production, The Grub-Stake Revisited.

    Pre-dating Chaplin's classic film, Goldrush, by two years, Canadian silent screen iconoclast, Nell Shipman’s film Grub-Stake is an extraordinary feminist-adventure melodrama set in the Klondike. An innocent girl (Nell Shipman as Faith Diggs) journeys to the Klondike during …

  • The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986) - CALGARY CINEMATHEQUE MOVIE POSTER
    Apr 18 Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice aka Offret (1986)
    The Sacrifice, director Andrei Tarkovsky's (Andrei Rublev, Solaris, The Mirror, and Stalker) final film, begins in Bergmanesque fashion on a small, remote island, where friends and family gather for drama critic Alexander's (Erland Josephson) birthday celebration. The revelry is interrupted by a radio announcement: World War III has begun, and Mankind is only hours away from utter annihilation. Each …
  • Seven Beauties (Lina Wertmüller, 1975) - CALGARY CINEMATHEQUE MOVIE POSTER
    Apr 04 Lina Wertmüller's Seven Beauties (1975)

    When the opportunistic Pasqualino deserts the army during World War II, he does just about anything to survive in this black comedy complete with murder, lust and greed. Featuring an additional Film School screening—expand your knowledge as experts lecture on the significance of films that have shaped modern cinema.

    Lina Wertmüller (b. 1928) emblazoned her name into the pantheon of Italian …