Dead Man (1995)
Series: On The Road With Jim Jarmusch
Screening: Sunday, June 7, 2:30 pm
Screening: Tuesday, June 9, 7:00 pm | schedule
Speaker: Kevin McGuirk

Dead Man is Jim Jarmusch’s take on the western genre. But the dead man of the film is more the genre itself than Johnny Depp’s character. Dead Man’s point is that everything there is to tell about westerns has already been told. | synopsis

Series: On the Road with Jim Jarmusch
Screening: May - June, 2009 | schedule

Essentially, all of Jarmusch’s films are "road movies" and deal with journeys in which characters search – more or less successfully – for existential truths in a fragmented and de-romanticized world... | series

Night on Earth (1991)
Series: On The Road With Jim Jarmusch
Screening: Sunday, May 31, 2:20 pm
Screening: Tuesday, June 2, 7:00 pm | schedule
Speaker: Heiko Stang

In the lyrically funny and stunningly visualized Night on Earth, Jarmusch takes us on five taxi rides in five cities – Los Angeles, New York, Paris, Rome and Helsinki... | synopsis

Czech Dream (2004)
Screening: Sunday, May 24, 3:00 pm
Screening: Tuesday, May 26, 7:00 pm | schedule
Speaker: TBA
Special thanks to Petra Klobusiakova and the Embassy of the Czech Republic (Ottawa)
and Czech Presidency of the European Union


A provocative and darkly funny documentary about a consumer hoax on the grandest
of scales, and a biting take on consumer culture and its seductive power... | synopsis

Mystery Train (1989)
Series: On The Road With Jim Jarmusch
Screening: Sunday, May 10, 2:30 pm
Screening: Tuesday, May 12, 7:00 pm | schedule
Speaker: Patrick Faubert

The curious thing about this Jarmusch film is that although he is not considered to be strong on plots, the narrative line of Mystery Train is both brilliantly funny and subtle... | synopsis

Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Screening: Sunday, May 3, 2:30 pm
Screening: Tuesday, May 5, 7:00 pm | schedule
Speaker: Christopher Beckett (Sunday), Katherine Spring (Tuesday)

Hailed by critics as the greatest of all Hollywood musicals, Singin' in the Rain is perhaps best remembered for the image of Gene Kelly “dressed in a yellow slicker, hanging from a lamp-post... | synopsis

Mala Noche (1985)
New on 35mm: Poetic Wonderlands
Screening: Sunday, April 12, 2009 - 2:00PM
Screening: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 - 7:00PM | schedule
Speaker: TBA

So raw and authentically personal that it feels as if it were shot through a peephole. In some ways that's the look of the film too -- concentrated, partially obscured, captured on the sly... | synopsis

Children of Paradise (1945)
New on 35mm: Poetic Wonderlands
Screening: Sunday, March 29, 2009 - 1:00PM
Screening: Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 6:00PM | schedule
Speaker: Thomas Kay (Tuesday)

Marcel Carné's 1945 vox populi masterpiece Children of Paradise has often been called ‘the French Gone With the Wind.’... | synopsis

Archangel (1990)
New on 35mm: Poetic Wonderlands
Screening: Sunday, March 15, 2009 - 1:00PM
Screening: Tuesday, March 17, 2009 - 7:00PM | schedule
Speaker: Carl Simpson (WLU)

David Cronenberg once quipped, "You haven’t seen a truly foreign film until you’ve seen a Guy Maddin film."... | synopsis

Antonio Gaudí (1984)
Screening: Sunday, February 22, 2009 - 2:00PM
Screening: Monday, February 23, 2009 - 7:00PM | schedule
Speaker: Rick Haldenby (Monday)

One artist's silent homage to another: Antonio Gaudí designed some of the world’s most astonishing buildings; Japanese director Teshigahara constructed some of the most aesthetically audacious films ever made... | synopsis

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Screening: Sunday, January 18, 2009 - 2:00PM
Screening: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 - 7:00PM | schedule
Speaker: Victoria Lamont (Sunday), Kevin McGuirk (Tuesday)

An all-time classic, with Newman as his charming, roguish best and Redford exuding both sex appeal and danger. A whimsical Western that superbly blends action, humour and the power of myth making. | synopsis

PART I: French New Wave (1958-62)
Screening: November - December, 2008 | schedule

Impossible is not French. In the early 1950s a band of filmmakers were willfully rewriting the rules of the game... | programmes

Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962)
Screening: Sunday, November 30, 2008 - 2:00PM
Screening: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 - 7:00PM | schedule
Speaker: Katherine Spring

This exhilarating film by Agnès Varda, the preeminent female filmmaker of the New Wave, follows a self-obsessed pop singer through the streets of Paris... | synopsis

Jules et Jim (1962)
Screening: Sunday, November 23, 2008 - 2:00PM
Screening: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - 7:00PM | schedule

Set in the first half of the 20th century, Jules et Jim is about a two decade long triangular relationship between protagonists Jules, Jim and Catherine. | synopsis

Notes on Film: WFAC 2008
Not a Cinematheque Waterloo Event
Screening: November 13-16, 2008 | schedule
All Screening at the Gig Theatre

The 8th edition of the Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema will be running November 13-16, 2008 in Kitchener-Waterloo, Canada. | website

Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
Screening: Sunday, November 16, 2008 - 2:00PM
Screening: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 7:00PM | schedule

Francois Truffaut clearly represents the quest of New Wave directors for authenticity but also their rejection of the idea of real originality... | synopsis

The 400 Blows (1959)
Screening: Sunday, November 9, 2008 - 2:00PM
Screening: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 7:00PM | schedule

This is the first film of the French New Wave doing away with an obsolete French cinema that was oriented on commercial success only. | synopsis

The Phantom of the Cinémathèque (2004)
Cinematheque Waterloo Opening Event
Screening: Sunday, November 2, 2008 - 2:00PM
Screening: Tuesday, November 4, 2008 - 7:00PM
Tickets: Free Admission: Pay-What-You-Will
Speakers: Katherine Spring (Sunday)

The name of Henri Langlois - subject of "Henri Langlois: Phantom of the Cinémathèque, a long, Affectionate documentary directed by Jacques Richard. | synopsis

The Glass Box ,2008
Cinematheque Waterloo Sponsored Event
Screening: October 10, 2008 - 7:00PM
Tickets: Regular 8, Students 5
Speakers: Matt Finlin, Director | Katherine Spring

An enchanting tale of two young women, an American and a Taiwanese, whose cultures intersect as their lives intertwine in the Taiwanese port city of Kaohsiung, like common threads that connect humans together in the world. | synopsis | stills