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Travelling Picture Show
Since 1974, Pacific Cinémathèque has organized a provincial film tour which circulates Canadian and international cinema to smaller communities throughout British Columbia. The Travelling Picture Show provides access to independent and international cinema not otherwise available in the regions.
If you would like Pacific Cinémathèque's Travelling Picture Show to screen in your community, or would like more information, call us at (604)688-8202 or e-mail the Cinémathèque info@cinematheque.bc.ca
Sites Schedule
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LOVERS OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE
Spain 1998. Director: Julio Medem
A Spanish language film about two children who meet at school and fall in love with each other. Through the years, the two manage to carry out a relationship even as their respective parents marry each other and outside forces try to separate them. Breathtakingly shot by cinematographer Gonzalo Berridi, director Medem makes a very special effort to make this film visually memorable. Lovers of the Arctic Circle will remain in your memory long after the credits have rolled. 108 mins.
Fernie, Wednesday, September 15, 1999 7:00 pm
Smithers, Sunday, September 19, 1999 7:30 pm
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BESIEGED
Italy 1998. Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
Shandurai, a Kenyan woman whose husband, Winston, has been arrested for opposing the military government, moves to Rome to study medicine. In exchange for lodgings she cleans the house of an English composer and pianist named Kinsky who ultimately proclaims his love for her. He offers to do anything to win her love and she asks him to get her husband out of jail. Bertolucci's favoured genre has always been melodrama in which feelings are vehicles for meanings and Besieged establishes a triangle between Shandurai, Winston and Kinsky that develops throughout the film. The viewer is not kept at an observer's distance from what is photographed and the slow motion, stop-action cinematography is part of the attempt to communicate feeling. Sound is also used rhetorically to create a perspective for the viewer. 93 mins.
Fernie, Wednesday, October 13, 1999 7:00 pm
Smithers, Sunday, October 17, 1999 7:30 pm
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NO
Canada 1998. Director: Robert Lepage
Set in Montreal and Osaka (Japan) during the 1970 World's Fair, the film focuses on a young Quebec nationalist, Sophie, an actress from Montreal who is not particularly pleased to be appearing in a Feydeau farce directed by a Parisian and staged at the Canadian Pavilion! On October 15, 1970, her life is turned upside-down by a series of unexpected and ironic events which make Sophie's experience akin to the 1980 referendum which ends the film - everything and nothing has changed. Robert Lepage's third feature, "based on 'the words' taken from the play The Seven Branches of the Ota River" is a thoroughly entertaining and intelligent comedy. The film is able to take on nationalist issues in a gentle, thoughtful and self-reflective manner, and visually is nothing short of stunning with a vibrant retro look and feel. 85 mins.
Fernie, Wednesday, October 27, 1999 7:00 pm
Smithers, Sunday, October 31, 1999 7:30 pm
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SUCH A LONG JOURNEY
Canada/Great Britain 1998.
Director: Sturla Gunnarsson
An intricately layered, wryly-humorous story set in the Parsi community of Bombay in 1971 (the year India went to war with Pakistan) which is based on the award-winning novel by Rohinton Mistry. The story revolves around Gustad Noble, a dedicated bank clerk and devoted family man who sees his life unraveling when he agrees to do a favour for a mysterious old friend. He soon finds himself drawn into a dangerous network of deception while at the same time his rebellious son leaves home, his daughter becomes ill and his wife comes under the spell of the neighbourhood witch who lives in the apartment upstairs. Gustad's quiet dignity and sense of moral order are sorely tested as everything around him falls apart. 113 mins.
Fernie, Wednesday, September 29, 1999 7:00 pm
Smithers, Sunday, October 3, 1999 7:30 pm
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RUN LOLA RUN
Germany 1998. Director: Tom Tykwer
"Best German suspense and action film ever made." Run Lola Run is 79 minutes of brilliantly shot action that will keep the viewer enthralled with the love story of Manni and Lola who have to fight against time: 20 minutes to be exact. It is 11:40 am and Manni, who is into smuggling diamonds across Eastern European borders, has to turn over 100,000 DM at 12 noon sharp to Ronni, a gangster par excellence who would kill anyone for stealing a bottle of beer from him. Unfortunately, Manni left the money on the tram and is now absolutely desperate. He calls the one person who has always taken care of him: the love of his life, Lola. She tells him to wait for her as he is about to rob the money from one of the shops in town. Lola starts running, immediately thinking of a million different ways to help the man who is the most important person in her life and she runs and runs 79 min.
Fernie, Wednesday, November 10, 1999 7:00 pm
Smithers, Sunday, November 14, 1999 7:30 pm
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THREE SEASONS
USA/Vietnam 1999. Director: Tony Bui
In his directorial debut, Vietnam-born, U.S.-raised Tony Bui has fashioned a gorgeous, humanistic look at the interlocking stories of five characters living in bustling Ho Chi Minh City (referred to as Saigon throughout the film). The film introduces and then traces the steps of a cyclo driver, a prostitute, an American G.I., a young girl and a little boy whose lives are
intertwined as they try to find happiness or just get by. 109 mins.
Fernie, Wednesday, November 24, 1999 7:00 pm
Smithers, Sunday, November 28, 1999 7:30 pm
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RED VIOLIN
Canada/Italy 1998. Director: Francois Girard
"The film, as its title suggests, revolves around a violin. It begins in Cremona, Italy, with a demanding artisan struggling to make the perfect violin, an instrument with just the right pitch and tone; in the hands of an artist it will make music of transcendent beauty. We are then transported forward in time to an art auction in present-day Montreal, the now famous 'red violin' being one of the violins for sale. Between these two moments the birth of an extraordinary instrument and its sale in the open market place, Girard takes us on a magical journey through time. "Filmed on an epic scale, the story
takes place in five countries and over three centuries, never [losing] sight of the intimate nature of the [film's] heartrending tale" (Toronto International Film Festival). 130 mins.
Quadra Island, Friday, September 24 7:45 pm
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ELIZABETH
Great Britain 1998. Director: Shekhar Kapur
Kapur has chosen to focus more on the unrest and violence that preceded the golden years of triumph of Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603). He approaches his subject with fresh eyes that give the film a dynamism rooted in difference. His [Kapur's] sensuous visual style is fascinated with the extremes of sixteenth-century court life. This society is propelled by conflict and instability exemplified by Elizabeth and Dudley's amour fou; the dangerous and corrupt papal court; Norfolk's seething obsession with power; and ultimately Elizabeth's sacrificial offering of herself to her country. 124 mins.
Quadra Island, Friday, November 5 7:45 pm
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ELECTION
USA 1998. Director: Alexander Payne
A dark, insidiously funny satire that posits Reese Witherspoon as a win-at-all-costs candidate for student council and Matthew Broderick as a teacher who recognizes her amorality and sets out to thwart her, with disastrous results. Director Payne scores again with his intelligent wit and bracing nastiness, making Election smart, sophisticated filmmaking. 103 mins.
Quadra Island, Friday, November 26 7:45 pm
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LAST NIGHT
Canada 1998. Director: Don McKellar
Last Night is a subtle, picaresque and ultimately humane reflection on the end of civilization as the clock strikes midnight (Toronto time, of course) on December 31, 1999. As hysterical nay-sayers run around announcing the end of the world with the approach of the new millenium, McKellar calmly asks a simple question: What would you do for your last night on earth? The answers take his characters and the audience through a rich emotional spectrum, from the quirky to the inspirational. 93 mins.
Quadra Island, Friday, December 10 7:45 pm
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