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Blending 1950s talk show, re-enactments, and real personal reflections, Chase Joynt illuminates once-lost research transcripts
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Filmmaker Luca Guadagnino traces life from poor Italian village to Hollywood
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A Mexican filmmaker is visited by a series of vivid dreams, by old friends, ghosts, and his own uneasy conscience
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Florence Pugh is riveting as a 19th-century nurse sent to the Irish Midlands to observe a “fasting girl”
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The critically lauded exploration of science and faith is set in mid-19th-century Ireland
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What happens is flamboyantly disgusting and extremely funny, with Woody Harrelson in his element
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Appearing at VIFF with the VSO, the artist will talk about the diverse training that brought him to the films of Jordan Peele—as well as orchestral and operatic stages
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Animation, interviews, and archival footage bring to life the works that turn urban detritus into subversive, allegorical statements
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The pair play two hapless Laurel Canyon neighbours in a crazy-making cosmic-horror flick born out of the pandemic and apocalyptic wildfires
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The Mountain is simply lovely, Golden Delicious tender and genuine; The Grizzlie Truth drives into untold history of Vancouver’s NBA team
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An immigrant mother’s moving struggle to raise her son in suburban Vancouver, and the fractured relationship between parent and child in Japan
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Holy Spider, Pacifiction, and Other Cannibals are guaranteed to work their way under your skin
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The documentary’s writer-director Nisha Platzer was 11 years old when her older brother took his own life
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Marie Clements’s Bones of Crows opens, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker closes, Nosferatu gets a centenary live-score performance, and much more
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Terrence Malick’s infamously troubled production now ranks as one of cinema’s most beautiful masterworks
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Respected NFB documentarian Martin Duckworth opened his rambling Montreal duplex to filmmaker Jeremiah Hayes
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Application deadline extended to August 7 for annual program aimed at emerging composers and other artists, with emphasis on marginalized communities
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Summerlong curated series of nearly 70 films pays tribute to the birth of revolutionary “New Hollywood”
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Greek filmmaker Christos Nikou’s deadpan dystopia hits the screen at VIFF Centre
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The low-key new film has the French singer-actor-fashion icon thinking a lot about the 1980s, her famous parents, and motherhood
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