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VAncouver Premieres • all ages welcome
The Extraordinary Georges Méliès
"Surely a cinematic highlight of the year, maybe the century" (A.O. Scott, New York Times). The rediscovered and restored hand-painted colour version of Georges Méliès's iconic 1902 film, A Trip to the Moon, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival to great delight last year, with an excerpt featured prominently in Martin Scorsese’s Hugo. This restoration makes its Vancouver Premiere with The Extraordinary Voyage, Serge Bromberg and Eric Lange’s new documentary about the Méliès masterpiece and its remarkable resurrection, after 109 years.
May 21, 23, 25-26. More Info.
VANCOUVER PREMIERE
Khrustalyov, My Car!
Alexei Gherman’s dazzling drama "resembles nothing else in cinema — although if Fellini, Tarkovsky, and Tati had pooled resources to update a Gogol story, they might have matched it" ( Guardian). Adapted from a story by poet and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Brodsky, the film follows a Red Army general and brain surgeon who is sent to a Gulag, convicted for participating in a conspiracy to assassinate Soviet leaders. Khrustalyov won Best Film and Gherman won Best Director at the 1999 Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards; the film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1998. Five more films by Alexei Gherman to come in our retrospective, Alexei the Great: The Films of Alexei Gherman, Russian Master.
May 24, 27, 30 – 7pm nightly. More Info.
DiverCiné 2012 showcases acclaimed French-language features from Africa, Europe, and Canada. This year's line up includes Nuit #1, the best Canadian Feature at VIFF; Viva Riva!, the first major motion picture from the Congo; The Kid With a Bike, the latest from the Dardenne brothers; and A Monster in Paris, a new family friendly animated feature from France.
ENTER TO WIN TICKETS for you and a friend to any DiverCiné screening, May 17-21, 25-26. Email your contact info and preferred screening to:
contest@cinematheque.bc.ca
Contest ends noon, MONDAY, MAY 14. Three winners will be selected at random. Good luck!
DIM CINEMA
Jem Cohen: New York
 Jem Cohen: New York presents six excerpts from the acclaimed filmmaker's recorded life in New York, from exploring a found notebook filled with listings of places, objects, and incidents in Lost Book Found; to listening in on an anonymous telephone confession hotline in Black Hole Radio. Cohen paints a picture of New York in compilations of film reels and audio recordings of his friends, neighbours, and the places they share — focusing his camera on the liminal spaces of the city, and the people who live and work on the margins. “I became invisible,” says Cohen. “And then I began to see things that had once been invisible to me.”
Monday, May 28 - 7:30pm. More Info.
CINEWORKS SPECIAL EVENT
Back Down the Highway:
A Celebration of Highway 61
 It's been 20 years since Pokey and Jackie hit the road with a frozen corpse in Bruce McDonald's Highway 61. Celebrate this legendary indie Canadian film with "Back Down the Highway", a Cineworks-sponsored short film showcase featuring up-and-coming filmmakers, followed by a screening of McDonald's rock n' roll road movie, and a reception (with cash bar). Join us for a drink and a chance to meet some of the evening's filmmakers. Tickets $10.50 regular / $9.00 seniors & students, good for one or both screenings:
Back Down the Highway: The Four Winning Short Films
Thursday, May 31 - 7:00pm More Info.
Highway 61
Thursday, May 31 - 8:30pm More Info.
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