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Documentary offeers unguarded look at the world of backpackers
Whenever Brook Silva-Braga pulled a video camera out of his backpack while filming a documentary about his trip around the world, his fellow travellers thought the footage would never see the light of day. “The word documentary has been degraded in the Handycam era,” Silva-Braga said in a phone interview from New York. “That helped me because people didn’t feel that they were being captured for something to be seen by thousands of people.”
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Generation D.I.Y.
No, mumblecore is not the name dreamed up for a secret stash of porn movies starring Liv Tyler and Mark Ruffalo. But those two low-talkers could probably qualify if they joined the painfully self-aware unknowns dwelling in the no-budget territory of Generation D.I.Y.
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Splash raises cash for film programs
With La Dolce Vita, the nonprofit Whistler Film Festival Society celebrates the good life next Thursday (June 19) at the Sutton Place Hotel (845 Burrard Street). This gala and auction will benefit the society’s professional-development and training programs for B.C. filmmakers and youth, such as the Filmmaker Forum and the Get Reel Youth Film Program.
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Vancouver-Singapore Film Night
It seems that every country and culture is getting its own film festival in this city, and now you can add Singapore to the list. The inaugural Vancouver-Singapore Film Night will be held on Saturday (June 7) from 4:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the James Cowan Theatre in the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts (6450 Deer Lake Avenue, Burnaby). Three shorts and two features from and about the Southeast Asian island nation highlight the country’s culture.
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Sistahood Cinema: Exquisite Cinematic Corpse
By Vanessa Kwan
Working with the Sistahood festival’s theme of “re:birth and co-creation”, curators Claudia Medina and Helen Haig-Brown created Sistahood Cinema: Exquisite Cinematic Corpse, to be held at 7:30 p.m. on Friday (March 14) at Cinema 319 (319 Main Street; tickets $8/10, info www.sistahoodcelebration.com/).
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On the Knowledge Network at 8 p.m. Friday (April 29), the three-hour Nicholas and Alexandra looks at the last days of imperial Russia. Or, at 9:30 p.m. that night, you can turn to KCTS for Foreign Exchange With Fareed Zakeria, a new series introducing the progressive academic, author, and blogger and his insights into America's troubled relations with the Middle East and the world in general. A small classic from the '90s, Love and Death on Long Island, airs at 2 p.m.
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One-Offs
Friday and Saturday (April 29 and 30), you'll find POV 2005: The 16th Annual UBC Student Film Festival at the Ridge Theatre, starting at 7 p.m. each night. And Friday through Monday (April 29 to May 2), the Pacific Cinémathèque is hosting the Leo Awards Film Festival, a new event designed to give locals a chance to see items that have either fallen off the festival circuit or haven't arrived yet in theatres or on TV.
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Robert Downey Jr. turns in a must-see performance in Chaplin, an otherwise disappointing movie airing on the Knowledge Network at 9 p.m. Friday (April 22). The Rules of Attraction, a kind of Altman Lite tale set amongst youngsters in the troubled suburbs, is on Showcase Saturday (April 23) at 10 p.m. Or at 9 p.m.
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The Pacific Cinémathèque gives you eight chances this week, Friday through next Thursday (April 22 to 28), to see The Return. This truly stunning Russian film from 2003 is about what happens to two teenage brothers when their tough and autocratic father shows up suddenly after a long, unexplained absence. But is he really their father?
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The neo-Nam drama Tigerland, starring Colin Farrell as a U.S. soldier, airs at 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. on History Television Saturday evening (April 16). Catch up with an old friend (or two) when Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid airs on Bravo! Sunday morning (April 17) at 10:45 a.m. If you're up, tune in to Frontline at 1 a.m. Monday morning (April 18), for Karl Rove: The Architect, about the pudgy Svengali who turned lifelong loser George W. Bush into a winner.
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The 2005 Vancouver Jewish Film Festival wraps this weekend, with a second screening of the Argentine film Lost Embrace at 1 p.m. Friday (April 15) and the closing-night gala for the (mostly) SpanishOnly Human on Sunday (April 17), at 7 p.m. Both screen at the Norman Rothstein Theatre.
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A flash from the past comes in the form of Postcards From Canada, a 1967 look at this country's natural wonders narrated (in an updated 2000 version) by the late Peter Gzowski. It's on the Knowledge Network at 8 p.m. Thursday (April 7) and Wednesday (April 13) at 10 p.m. PBS's American Experience goes Canadian in a profile of cross-border sweetheart and silent-movie star number one, Mary Pickford, on KCTS at 1 a.m. Friday (April 8).
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Saturday and Sunday (April 9 and 10) at the Hollywood Theatre, there are matinees of The Polar Express and Finding Neverland, at 1:30 p.m. and 3:25 p.m., respectively. The Kira Muratova revival at the Pacific Cinémathèque continues with Vancouver premieres of her recent Three Stories, about a chilling variety of murders, and the unjustly overlooked Russian director's second effort, 1971's Long Farewells, double-billed on Monday (April 11) at 9:20 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., respectively.
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The PBS series Freedom: A History of Us-which looks at American ideals before everything started falling apart-continues tonight (March 31) with Depression and War, exploring the Franklin D. Roosevelt era, and next Thursday (April 7) with Democracy and Struggles, which delves into the Cold War, unprecedented growth, and self-destructive red scares. Get your aeronautical thing on with broadcasts of The Right Stuff-Phillip Kauffman's entertaining look back at the origins of the U.S.
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He may not have been at his best "this decade", but Bill Murray's laconic title character is well worth catching again in The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, at the Hollywood Friday through next Thursday (April 1 to 7), with 3:20 p.m. matinees on the weekend (April 2 and 3). Those babies must have come from somewhere: find out at the Movies for Mommies matinee of Kinsey, 1:30 p.m. Tuesday (April 5) at the Ridge.
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The Pacific Cinémathèque's series of restored 35mm classics (and near-classics) continues with two little-seen efforts from Orson Welles, 1955's Confidential Report (better known as Mr. Arkadin) and F for Fake, a strange docudramatic entry from 1975. They are paired there Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday (March 27, 28, and 30).
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Canada's hot young Wailin' Jennies are the guests on this week's edition of @ Wood River Hall, at 10 p.m. Thursday (March 24). An intense letter-writing campaign by fans of the cancelled Farscape prompted the making of a two-part conclusion to the series, called Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars, airing on the Space channel Saturday and Sunday (March 26 and 27) at 6 p.m. each night. Five episodes of the show's final season will also play on the Friday (March 25), starting at 1 p.m.
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Video Patrol
The much-lauded Being Julia, with Annette Bening as a pushy London stage actor, comes to tape and disc this week. Fine work from Johnny Depp and Kate Winslet compensates for some less-than-truthful literary history in Finding Neverland. Over the top, and not in a good way, Bridget Jones 2: The Edge of Reason is back to demand more of that tepid love.
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Growth and its opposite are examined in Radical Attitudes: The Architecture of Douglas Cardinal, which airs Thursday (March 17) at 8 p.m. on the Knowledge Network. It repeats Wednesday (March 23) at 10 p.m. On the same station next Thursday (March 24) at 8 p.m., Death of a Skyline traces the disappearance of grain elevators from the Prairies, and what that might mean, at least symbolically.
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Here's one (or two, in fact) you've been waiting for: the special dual-disc edition of The Incredibles. What's it all about? Well, we couldn't find much else in Alfie except for the desire from contemporary filmmakers to cash in on a better movie from 40 years ago. Jude Law's not bad in the Michael Caine role, though. It's not your father's copy of Gray's Anatomy; it's The Anatomy of Hell, Catherine Breillat's unsparing tour of the human body and, more disturbingly, the human mind.
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The Satellite Short Film Festival, in which Cineworks brings locally made fillets to smaller communities around the province, is happening at Port Moody's Inlet Theatre Thursday through Sunday (March 17 to 20) and at the Beaver Point Community Hall on Salt Spring Island on Saturday (March 19).
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The good Dr. Kinsey returns for a week at the Hollywood, Friday through next Thursday (March 11 to 17). There might not be any hockey on TV, so maybe you should get your skates on and head down to the Pacific Cinémathèque on Wednesday (March 16) for When Hockey Came to Belfast, a documentary about Irish teens choosing sides for reasons other than religion. Director Linda Conway will introduce.
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Action director Antoine Fuqua brings his dramatic skills to bear on Lightning in a Bottle, an exceptionally good concert film devoted to such veteran bluesers as B.?B. King, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, and Ruth Brown. Claire Danes and Billy Crudup star in the overlooked period drama Stage Beauty. Apparently they still make movies like Ladder 49, about valiant firefighters (here including John Travolta and Joaquin Phoenix). And apparently very few people go to see them.
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What the folk? A new season of Wood River Hall, with host Connie Kaldor welcoming musical guests such as Shari Ulrich, Brice Cockburn, and Sylvia Tyson, starts tonight (March 10) at 10 p.m. on the Knowledge Network, repeating Sunday (March 13) at 2:30 p.m. Patsy Cline, George Jones, Johnny Cash, and many others step out of a black-and-white past in The Grand Ole Opry's Vintage Classics, airing on KCTS Saturday (March 12) at 5:30 p.m. and Tuesday (March 15) at 9 p.m.
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The Rowdyman himself is at the Pacific Cinémathèque Friday (March 4) at 7:30 p.m., when senior thespian Gordon Pinsent will be on hand to introduce a newly restored print of the Canadian classic from 1972. Chris Landreth's NFB-made "Ryan", fresh from winning the Academy Award for best animated short, screens that afternoon at 2 p.m. at the Roundhouse (and on Saturday [March 5] at 9 p.m.
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