FrEE EVENT!

4th Annual Open House

Join us at our 4th Annual Open House and experience essential cinema with a free, all-ages screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey*, and a complimentary bag of the city’s best popcorn! Tour our projection booth, Film Reference Library, and West Coast Film Archives; then partake in fun activities with our Education Department. The Film Lover's Campaign is back: make a $2 donation and receive recognition on our donor wall; donate $10 or more, and you'll get a set of six exclusive, limited edition postcards featuring Pacific Cinémathèque artwork by designer Steve Chow.

Saturday, June 16 - 12pm-2pm. More Info.

Free screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey: 2pm
* Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis

 

DOUBLE BILL

Hard Core Logo vs. Jay Reatard

The opening act for this loud and energetic double bill is the cult fave and Canadian classic, Hard Core Logo. Famously championed by Quentin Tarantino, Bruce McDonald's faux doc chronicles the tumultuous reunion tour of once-legendary Vancouver punk band. Headlining is the Vancouver Premiere of Better than Something: Jay Reatard, a bittersweet and intimate portrait of the iconic garage-rock talent who was as prolific and productive as he was polarizing and self-destructive. Two nights only!

June 1+2
Hard Core Logo. More Info.
Better than Something: Jay Reatard. More Info.

 

RETROSPECTIVE

Alexei the Great: The Films of Alexei Gherman, Russian Master

A living legend of Russian cinema, Alexei Gherman found wide international attention in the 1980s as one of the major cinematic discoveries of glasnost. Prior to this, his career was repeatedly interrupted by official disapproval and censorship. This first complete North American retrospective of Gherman's directorial work includes new 35mm prints of the rarely-seen The Seventh Companion (1967) and the long-banned masterpiece Trial on the Road (1971), plus Kazakh director Ardak Amirkulov's magnificent epic The Fall of Otrar (1990), a film produced and co-written by Gherman, and released in North America by Martin Scorsese.

June 3-4, 6, 8-11, 13. More Info.

DOUBLE BILL

2001: A Space Odyssey + The Tree of Life

Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life are perhaps the only major mainstream feature films with comparative celestial ambition, scale, and vision. Although one is a big budget science fiction tale and the other is a disarming, poetic drama centered around a Midwestern family, both films tackle cosmological and existential questions, and together make for a massive, mind-blowing Big Bang of a double bill — in 35mm prints!

June 15-17. More Info.

 

RETROSPECTIVE

Alchemist of the Surreal: Jan Švankmajer,
Animator of Prague

One of animation’s greatest living maestros, Czech filmmaker Jan Švankmajer has been famously described by Milos Forman as "Disney + Buñuel" for his dark, delightfully subversive and painstakingly crafted films. Celebrated for their imaginative mix of stop-motion animation and live action, Svankmajer’s six feature-length films and a select program of his award-winning shorts are included in this first major retrospective of his work to be presented in Vancouver since 1995.

June 22-25, 27, 29-30. More Info.