To Celebrate Black History month, The Calgary Cinematheque is pleased to present a twentieth anniversary screening of Spike Lee's
Do The Right Thing. Lee's racial and political filmmaking bent is given the full treatment with this simmering exposé of racial tensions in a New York City neighborhood one scorching summer day.
This is no normal road trip: genius auteur Jean-Luc Godard's tenth feature in six years is a stylish mash-up of consumerist satire, politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent, zigzag tale of, as Godard called them, "the last romantic couple."
This is no normal road trip: genius auteur Jean-Luc Godard's tenth feature in six years is a stylish mash-up of consumerist satire, politics, and comic-book aesthetics, as well as a violent, zigzag tale of, as Godard called them, "the last romantic couple."

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Not just a defining work of the French New Wave but one of the great, lasting mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais' epochal
Last Year at Marienbad has been puzzling appreciative viewers for decades. Written by radical master of the New Novel Alain Robbe-Grillet, this surreal fever dream, or nightmare, gorgeously fuses the past with the present in telling its ambiguous tale of a man and a woman (Giorgio Albertazzi and Delphine Seyrig) who may or may not have met a year ago, perhaps at the very same cathedral-like, mirror-filled château they now find themselves wandering.

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Not just a defining work of the French New Wave but one of the great, lasting mysteries of modern art, Alain Resnais' epochal
Last Year at Marienbad has been puzzling appreciative viewers for decades. Written by radical master of the New Novel Alain Robbe-Grillet, this surreal fever dream, or nightmare, gorgeously fuses the past with the present in telling its ambiguous tale of a man and a woman (Giorgio Albertazzi and Delphine Seyrig) who may or may not have met a year ago, perhaps at the very same cathedral-like, mirror-filled château they now find themselves wandering.
Derek Jarman (1942-1994) the British artist, AIDS activist, writer, gardener and director, is arguably the most important gay filmmaker in the Anglo-American tradition. The film recreates the life of Caravaggio, creating a biography for him by restaging his most famous paintings. The film will be accompanied by the launch of a new book about Jarman,
Derek Jarman's Angelic Conversations. The author, Jim Ellis, will introduce the film and lead a discussion afterwards.