Calgary Cinematheque

Calgary Cinematheque: Federico Fellini's Amarcord (1973)

Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:08:51 MDT

7:00pm, Thursday, May 20, 2010 /

A carnivalesque portrait of provincial Italy during the Fascist period, Federico Fellini's most personal film satirizes his youth and turns daily life into a circus of social rituals, adolescent desires, male fantasies, and political subterfuge, all set to Nina Rota's gorgeous, nostalgia-tinged score.

Calgary Cinematheque: Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978)

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:44:56 MDT

7:00pm, Thursday, April 22, 2010 /

Filmmaker-philosopher Terrence Malick has created some of the most visually stunning films of the twentieth century, and Days of Heaven is no exception. Set to the picturesque backdrop of the American west at the turn of the century, the film's brilliant cinematography—as shot in Alberta—is enough to earn it the title of "one of the most beautiful films ever made."

Calgary Cinematheque: Hou Hsiao Hsien's A City of Sadness (1989)

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:37 MST

7:00pm, Thursday, March 18, 2010 /

Winner of the Golden Lion at Venice in 1989, Hou's panoramic tale takes in the four tumultuous years from 1945, when Japan surrendered Taiwan to China at the end of World War II, to 1949, when Chiang Kai Shek established his Nationalist government on the island after fall of the mainland to the Communists.

Calgary Cinematheque: Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou (1965)

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:35:31 MST

12:00pm, Saturday, March 6, 2010 /

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."

(w/ 'Film School' lecture & discussion)

Calgary Cinematheque: Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le fou (1965)

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:31:45 MST

7:00pm, Tuesday, March 2, 2010 /

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."

Calgary Cinematheque: Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing (1989)

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:29:51 MST

7:00pm, Thursday, February 18, 2010 /

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.

Calgary Cinematheque: Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad aka L'année dernière à Marienbad (1961)

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:35:00 MST

12:00pm, Saturday, February 6, 2010 /

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.

(w/ 'Film School' lecture & discussion)

Calgary Cinematheque: Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad aka L'année dernière à Marienbad (1961)

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:34:00 MST

7:00pm, Tuesday, February 2, 2010 /

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.

Calgary Cinematheque: Derek Jarman's Caravaggio (1986)

Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:35:00 MST

7:00pm, Thursday, January 21, 2010 /

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.

Calgary Cinematheque: Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre sa vie aka My Life to Live (1962)

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:21:00 MST

12:00pm, Saturday, January 9, 2010 /

A simple tale told in twelve Brechtian tableaux, Vivre Sa Vie is one of Godard's most deeply felt films, anchored by Karina's astonishing lead performance and Nouvelle Vague favorite Raoul Coutard's breathtaking cinematography of street-level Paris.

(w/ 'Film School' lecture & discussion)