"Not only is it an elegantly polished affair, with top notch performances all round, and magnificent camerawork and editing, it's also acutely aware of how class, money and sex shape desire and resentment." -Geoff Andrew
The Talented Mr. Ripley (Anthony Minghella, 1999, 139 minutes) | February 16 , 6:45 PM
Screening the Caribbean | A public film series organized by Wilfrid Laurier's Department of English and Film Studies and Department of Religion and Culture, invites you to view the diverse perspectives and languages that comprise the Caribbean. | Not a Cinematheque Waterloo Screening
Free Friday Night Film Series, Winter 2010 - January-April | Full Schedule
"In his first masterpiece, Lynch addresses social order and disorder, normal and abnormal sexuality, goodness and evil, while telling a classic American coming-of-age story set in a timeless small-town." - Emanuel Levy
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986, 122 minutes) | February 2, 6:45 PM
"With The Apartment, Billy Wilder somehow took a story about infidelity and suicide and made it into a comedy." - Jeffrey M. Anderson
The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960, 128 minutes) | January 26, 9:15 PM
"Love and Savagery touches nothing unfamiliar. Human love is a universal experience and the collapse of love is always savage. The film is about two people meant to meet and change each other, carry each other in their hearts forever." -Des Wash
Love and Savagery (John N. Smith, 2009, 85 minutes) | January 22 | Q&A with John N. Smith
Cinematheque Waterloo Members: please email info@cinemathequewaterloo.org for your tickets. (limited)
Under the Radar: 10 Classic Films You’ve Never Seen | The focus of the fall screening series is to introduce audiences to 10 films that embody crucial moments in the development of cinematic traditions, but that have been largely overlooked by critics, by the academy and by popular audiences. | Not a Cinematheque Waterloo Screening
Free Friday Night Film Series, WLU department of English and Film Studies | Full Schedule
"The only way to properly see Lean's overstuffed epic is on the big screen, the better to appreciate the glorious desert vistas, Maurice Jarre's soaring score and the glowing performance by then-unknown Peter O'Toole as a messianic T.E. Lawrence." -Thomas Delapa | Co-Presented with The Princess Cinema
Lawrence of Arabia (David Lean, 1962, 216 minutes) | November 23, 7:00 PM
"Welcome to the philosophical fun house that is F for Fake, stuffed full of questions about the nature of art and authorship, illusion and reality, lies and truth." -Glenn Abel
F For Fake (Orson Welles, 1973, 94mins.) | November 18, 7:00 PM
"With her feature 'Cairo Time', shot in Egypt this summer, Montreal's acclaimed director Ruba Nadda tells a story that will surprise us all." -Par Shyam Selvadurai
Cairo Time (Ruba Nadda, 2009, 88mins.) | November 13th, 7:00PM &9:15PM, 25 minute Q & A with Ruba Nadda
*Cinematheque Waterloo Members: please email info@cinemathequewaterloo.org for your tickets. (limited)
"One of Woody's most aesthetically gorgeous films as well as his classic love-hate letter to the city of his soul."-David Parkinson
Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979, 96 min., Recently Restored 35mm Print) | Tuesday, October 27, 7:00PM
3rd Annual Grand River Film Festival, to be held on the banks of the Grand River in Cambridge – Oct 22-25, throughout the cities of Cambridge and Kitchener. | Not a Cinematheque Waterloo Screening
3rd Annual Grand River Film Festival, October 22nd - 25th, 2009| Full Schedule & Website
"The Bicycle Thief is Every-man's search for dignity - as though the soul of a man had been filmed" -Arthur Miller
"A perfect work of art - I laughed, I cried, I sat on the edge of my chair."-Helen Mayes
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio de Sica, 1948, 94min., New 35mm Print) | October 13, 14, 7:00PM
"offers a time capsule view of Manhattan in a very different era. It also is a showcase of some of the filmmaking styles of the late 1960s."-A. O. Scott of The New York Times
Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger, 1979, 113 min., 35mm) | Tuesday, October 6, 7:00PM
The 8th film festival will feature film adaptations of popular plays, including Doubt, Curse of the Golden Flower, Tape, Closer, and Stage Beauty. The films will be screened at Kitchener City Hall in the Council Chamber at 7:00pm each day. | Not a Cinematheque Waterloo Screening
Eighth - Film Festival - Theatre on Film, September 29th to October 3rd, 2009| Full Schedule
"The truth about Rashomon - that it's one of the best movies ever - is beyond dispute." -A. O. Scott of The New York Times
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950, 110 min., New 35mm Print) | Screening: Tuesday, September 22, 7:00PM
"A fever dream of the future. At last we have the movie every would-be cinematic visionary has been trying to make since 1927." -A. O. Scott of The New York Times
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927, 123 min., 35mm) | Screening: Tuesday, September 15, 7:00PM
Amarcord (1974, 123 min.)
Series: The Sweet Life: Summer with Fellini
Screening: Sunday August 2, 2:30PM
Screening: Sunday August 4, 7:00 pm | schedule
"A ravishing memory film in which reminiscence, rumor, legend, local history and male sexual fantasies flow into one another with the ease and grace for which Federico Fellini was justly famous...” | synopsis
Series: The Sweet Life: Summer with Fellini
Screening: July - August, 2009 | schedule
Film critic Roger Ebert has written that Fellini’s films “are filled with joy, abundance, and creativity. You cannot call yourself a serious filmgoer and not know them.” | press release
La Dolce Vita (1960, 174 min.)
Series: The Sweet Life: Summer with Fellini
Screening: Tuesday July 21, 7:00PM | schedule
In one of his most famous performances, iconic Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni gives a stunning performance as Marcello Rubini | synopsis
La Strada (1956, 107 min.)
Series: The Sweet Life: Summer with Fellini
Screening: Sunday, July 5 - 2:30 pm
Screening: Tuesday, July 7 - 7:00 pm | schedule
In La Strada, Giulietta Masina shines in her role as Gelsomina, a clownish ragamuffin
sold to Zampanó, a brutish carnie strongman... | synopsis
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. |
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