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Happy artful New Year's Eve: Serve up streaming by Vancouver performers in the safety of your living room

From whacked-out theatre to edgy ballet to festive cantatas, here are ways to ring in 2022 and celebrate local arts

LIVESTREAM, THEATRE, DANCE, MUSIC, SCREENJanet SmithDecember 30, 2021livestream, New Year's Eve

Film review: The Tragedy of Macbeth builds a stark and gripping monochrome world

Joel Coen draws out note-perfect performances amid a bleak setting of archways, smothering fog, and cawing crows

SCREENJanet SmithDecember 24, 2021Shakespeare, Macbeth, Homepage feature

Hara Setsuko Centenary: The Noriko Trilogy screens three of Ozu Yasujirō’s greatest films, at The Cinematheque December 23 to January 3

Good things come in threes in legendary actor’s conflicted “Norikos”, in Late Spring, Early Summer, and Tokyo Story

The Royal Ballet's The Nutcracker glitters onscreen at VIFF Centre on December 23, 24, and 26

The sumptuous spectacle draws Londoners in droves each holiday

DANCE, WHAT'S STIRRING, SCREENJanet SmithDecember 22, 2021VIFF, VIFF Centre, Festive, Festive 1

Film review: Red Rocket takes an amusing trip into a forgotten corner of industrial America

Washed-up porn star meets donut shop in Sean Baker’s frequently funny and humanistic followup to The Florida Project

SCREENJanet SmithDecember 17, 2021

Film review: The Lost Daughter's brilliant performances paint a complex portrait of motherhood

Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley play an older and younger version of a woman torn between her children and her career

SCREENJanet SmithDecember 16, 2021VIFF, VIFF Centre, Homepage feature

Whistler Film Festival, Alliance of Women Film Journalists announce winners of AWFJ EDA Awards

Nouveau Quebec’s Sarah Fortin, $avvy’s Robin Hauser, and Fanmi’s female-directing team honoured at WFF, running online to December 31

NEWS, SCREEN, FESTSGail JohnsonDecember 15, 2021Whistler, Whistler Film Festival, women

Messiah/Complex gives Handel's holiday masterpiece a multilingual makeover, at The Cinematheque December 14

Diverse singers from across the country reinterpret the choral work amid spectacular Canadian settings

SCREEN, MUSICJanet SmithDecember 13, 2021The Cinematheque, Festive

Film review: By turns oblique and mesmerizing, Drive My Car takes a road trip through loss and uncertainty

A Japanese theatre artist deals with loss and pain while sitting in a bright red Saab

SCREENJanet SmithDecember 11, 2021VIFF, VIFF Centre, Homepage feature

Film reviews: Drinkwater, Tzoulahem, and Run Woman Run shine at Whistler Film Festival

Eric McCormack plays a doofus dad; a documentary shines a light on a Quamichan warrior chief; and a story of self-love is shot on Six Nations of the Grand River

SCREEN, FESTSGail JohnsonDecember 4, 2021whistler Film Festival, Homepage feature

FlyOver Canada soars from coast to coast with Santa at Canada Place, December 9 to January 3

With stunning footage of some of the country’s most iconic locations, the attraction is akin to a 4D film that gives you the feeling of flight

WHAT'S STIRRING, SCREENGail JohnsonDecember 4, 2021FlyOver Canada, Festive, screen

Film review: The Truth dissects the little lies that family members tell each other and themselves

French screen legends Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche star in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s subtle look at mother-daughter dynamics

SCREENJanet SmithDecember 3, 2021The Cinematheque

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 standout titles directed by women at Whistler Film Festival

Valerie Buhagiar’s Malta-set Carmen, Rebecca Campbell’s shocking egg-donor doc The Secret Society, and more

SCREEN, FESTSStir VancouverDecember 1, 2021Whistler Film Festival

Whistler Film Festival: Precious Leader Woman covers much more terrain than Spencer O'Brien's pro snowboarding career

The feature documentary by director Cassie De Colling explores the athlete’s Haida and Kwakwakw’wakw cultural awakening

SCREEN, FESTSGail JohnsonNovember 29, 2021Whistler Film Festival, Indigenous, Whistler

Film review: The Humans brings haunting new shades to offbeat family drama

In the play-turned-film, a rundown apartment’s heaving cracks and rumbling pipes take on a life of their own

SCREENJanet SmithNovember 28, 2021VIFF, VIFF Centre, The Rio Theatre

Greg Sestero takes a bold turn into '70s and '80s horror homage at the Rio Grind Film Festival

Miracle Valley is the latest stop on The Room actor-director’s strange and confounding journey

SCREENJanet SmithNovember 25, 2021Rio Theatre, Greg Sestero

Faya Dayi takes a hallucinatory look at Ethiopia’s khat crops, to November 24 at The Cinematheque

Poetic black-and-white imagery explores the intoxicating hold the green leaves have on a people

SCREENJanet SmithNovember 19, 2021The Cinematheque

Film review: Jane Campion's cleverly constructed The Power of the Dog reimagines the western

Set on a vast Montana ranch, the story takes an engrossing look at weakness and strength

SCREENJanet SmithNovember 16, 2021VIFF, VIFF Centre, Power of the Dog, Homepage feature

The Six explores untold story of Chinese men who survived Titanic sinking, via KDocsFF, November 17 to 19

Panel on November 19 features the director and lead researcher who uncover a lost history

SCREENJanet SmithNovember 16, 2021KDOCS, Kdocs, KDocsFF

VIFF Centre to bring Jane Campion's award-winning The Power of the Dog to the big screen

The Piano director turns the classic western on its head

SCREENStir VancouverNovember 15, 2021Partner Content, VIFF, ViFF Centre

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