BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO

UK | Dir: Peter Strickland

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Tue. Oct 9, 9:30 pm, Granville 1

Both an homage to Italian horror films and a psychological thriller reminiscent of Polanski, Peter Strickland’s (Katalin Varga) entertaining work has a mild English sound technician (Toby Jones) working on a horror film in a run-down Italian movie studio when things start getting weird… "An idiosyncratic, impeccably crafted mindbender… Playful and provocative…"—Screen

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TWO JACKS

USA | Dir: Bernard Rose

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Thu. Oct 4, 3:45 pm, Granville 2

Fuelled by idealism and egotism, director Jack Hussar (Danny Huston) blows through 90s Hollywood, bedding starlets and butting heads. Twenty years later, his son (Jack Huston) faces the unenviable challenge of following in his footsteps. Bernard Rose’s inspired Tolstoy adaptation is a "piquant addition to the tradition of Hollywood eulogising its monstres sacré."—Sight & Sound

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PERSISTENCE OF VISION

USA/UK/Canada | Dir: Kevin Schreck

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World Premiere

Thu. Oct 4, 6:00 pm, Granville 4
Sun. Oct 7, 3:00 pm, Granville 4
Fri. Oct 12, 10:45 am, Cinematheque

Stupendous! After toiling on his masterpiece The Thief and the Cobbler for 28 years, top British animator Richard Williams—famous for Who Framed Roger Rabbit—saw it wrested from his control and savagely recut. Pairing unreleased scenes from Williams’ virtuoso fairytale with horror stories of creativity falling prey to commerce, Kevin Schreck takes us inside "the greatest animated film never made."

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ROOM 237

USA | Dir: Rodney Ascher

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Sun. Oct 7, 9:45 pm, Granville 2
Thu. Oct 11, 4:00 pm, Granville 2

Perhaps no film in Sundance gained the kind of impassioned following that Rodney Ascher’s Room 237 managed… Built on the arguments of a wide swathe of thinkers, writers and maybe a few crackpots about their working theories of meanings in Kubrick’s The Shining, Ascher’s project becomes a giddy funhouse of possibilities, an Overlook Hotel of cinema readings.—Film Comment

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SIDE BY SIDE: THE SCIENCE, ART AND IMPACT OF DIGITAL CINEMA

USA | Dir: Christopher Kenneally

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Canadian Premiere

Sun. Oct 7, 4:00 pm, Vancity

Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, The Wachowskis, Christopher Nolan, Ellen Kuras, James Cameron, David Fincher, Lena Dunham, Danny Boyle, David Lynch and Michael Ballhaus are just some of the artists interviewed in Keanu Reeves (host and producer) and Christopher Kenneally’s thorough and fascinating documentary.

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