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Film review: A Compassionate Spy documentary deepens the historical discourse around Oppenheimer

Filmmaker Steve James tells the story of atomic physicist Ted Hall, who passed secrets to the Soviets

SCREENJanet SmithAugust 3, 2023VIFF, Vancouver International Film Festival

VIFF’s Back to the 80s film screenings and talks continue to August 31

Flicks coming up on the program include Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing and David Lynch’s Blue Velvet

SCREENStir VancouverAugust 2, 2023Partner Content, VIFF

The Cinematheque hosts this year's film noir event from August 3 to September 4

This year’s round-up features 12 masterpieces of the era, opening with The Maltese Falcon

SCREENStir VancouverJuly 31, 2023Partner Content, The Cinematheque

North of Normal brings Cea Sunrise Person's memoir of free-range childhood to big screen

Film release has author reflecting on the bad and good that came with the ‘60s and ‘70s counterculture movement that brought her to the BC wilderness

SCREENJanet SmithJuly 28, 2023VIFF, VIFF Centre, Cea Sunrise Person

Top Gun: Maverick kicks off a purely popcorn-flavoured Sunset Cinema series, August 2 to 30

Vancouver Civic Theatres hosts the free outdoor movies on a giant inflatable screen outside the Queen Elizabeth Theatre

SCREEN, WHAT'S STIRRINGJanet SmithJuly 23, 2023Vancouver Civic Theatres, Sunset Cinema, Summer 2023

Film reviews: Toy guns and Gallic courtship at The Cinematheque's ode to France's peerless Jean Eustache

The uncomfortably honest The Mother and the Whore and the autobiographical coming-of-age movie Mes petites amoureuses were the late, great director’s only two feature-length films

SCREENJanet SmithJuly 19, 2023The Cinematheque, Summer 2023

Make time for Making Time if you're intrigued by the meticulous art of horology, at VIFF Centre to July 6

Life stories and lingering shots of a craft that falls somewhere between engineering, art, history—and possibly obsession

SCREENJanet SmithJune 30, 2023VIFF, VIFF Centre, Vancouver International Film Festival

VIFF blasts off its summer-long ode to the '80s with Back to the Future and a costume party, June 29

Pull out your most obnoxious neon for a night of plutonium-powered nostalgia—and get ready for Back to the 80s’ summer-long lineup of classics

VIFF hosts its Back to the 80s series Opening Night Party on June 29

Evening at VIFF Centre features a screening of Back to the Future, live music, trivia, and more

SCREENStir VancouverJune 13, 2023Partner Content, VIFF, VIFF Centre

Film review: Dalíland captures the late-career circus that surrounded the surrealist

Ben Kingsley hands in a compelling performance in a film that emphasizes the party over the person

SCREENJanet SmithJune 9, 2023VIFF Centre

Fearful Symmetry salutes the deeply human films of South Korean auteur Lee Changdong, at The Cinematheque June 8 to July 2

Burning, Poetry, Secret Sunshine, and more exquisite portraits of pain

WHAT'S STIRRING, SCREENJanet SmithJune 7, 2023The Cinematheque, Korean

Film review: White Balls on Walls takes behind-the-scenes look at a gallery grappling with diversity

Documentary profiles the sleek Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, where administrators try to change an institution built around white-male artists

National Indigenous History Month 2023 is being celebrated through the arts

On the unceded, traditional territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, several public events are taking place throughout June

Bones of Crows launches in movie theatres across Canada, starting June 2

Dene/Métis writer-producer Marie Clements’s film is inspired by a Cree matriarch’s true life story

Stir Cheat Sheet: Unexpected love and laughs in four flicks at the Vancouver Short Film Festival

Woman Meets Girl and Stay put new spins on romance, while Not For Us and Damn Supper send up horror genre

FESTS, SCREENJanet SmithMay 30, 2023VSFF, Vancouver Short Film Festival, Spring 2023, Homepage feature

Upcoming Boca del Lupo show features two immersive VR pieces from June 21 to 24

Karen Hines’s Pochsy at the Airport Hotel makes a comeback, and Yvette Nolan’s Reconciling premieres

SCREEN, THEATREStir VancouverMay 30, 2023Partner Content, Boca del Lupo

VIFF showcases Dutch documentary White Balls on Walls from June 7 to 11

Film by Sarah Vos follows Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam’s battle for artistic diversity

SCREENStir VancouverMay 29, 2023Partner Content, VIFF, VIFF Centre

Film reviews: Vancouver Greek Film Festival highlights female directors and emerging talents

Works profile a divinely gifted teen, an Athens sex worker, and a bracingly candid Olympia Dukakis

FESTS, CULTURE, SCREENJanet SmithMay 26, 2023Greek Film Festival, The Cinematheque, Spring2023, Spring 2023

Stir Cheat Sheet: 5 things to know about Boca Del Lupo's new VR Salon

Tilda Swinton narrates Goliath, while The Man Who Couldn’t Leave travels to a former Taiwanese jail

SCREEN, THEATREStir VancouverMay 25, 2023VR, Boca del Lupo, BOCA DEL LUPO, Spring 2023

Second Annual Vancouver Greek Film Festival comes to The Cinematheque from June 1 to 4

Hellenic Canadian Congress of BC-run event focuses on sharing contemporary Greek culture

SCREEN, FESTSStir VancouverMay 25, 2023Partner Content, The Cinematheque

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