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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 05/08/2026
Hard-boiled, dazzling Japanese film at @thecinematheque.bsky.social: www.createastir.ca/articles/mai...
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Maiku Hama trilogy still buzzes with ’90s-era wit, corruption, and cool at The Cinematheque — Stir
Hayashi Kaizo’s hard-boiled trio moves from cheerful spoof to disturbing violence in a distinctly Japanese play on old Mickey Spillane stories
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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 28/07/2026
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At The Cinematheque’s Film Noir 2026, Niagara’s Marilyn Monroe conjures a full-colour femme fatale — Stir
Set on the edge of Horseshoe Falls, the stunningly shot crime thriller with the dangerous femme fatale deserves a new look on the big screen
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Iris @irisfilmcollective.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
“What I like in film is precision, slightness, economy of means, delight, inference, and a kind of motion that can be followed but not tagged, and makes seeing intelligent.” Notes in Origin: The Films of Ellie Epp Monday June 15th @thecinematheque.bsky.social www.thecinematheque.ca/films/2026/e...
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The Cinematheque / Notes in Origin: The Films of Ellie Epp
The Iris Film Collective is thrilled to present this retrospective featuring Ellie Epp’s four 16mm films (1975–1996) in new digital restorations and five more recent digital video works never before s...
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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 12/05/2026
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Kunsang Kyirong’s 100 Sunset peers into hidden daily lives of Tibetan-Canadian community — Stir
With influences including Hideaki Anno and Alfred Hitchcock, debut feature by Surrey-raised director builds uncanny atmosphere as a quiet young woman points her camera into neighbours’ windows
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Iris @irisfilmcollective.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Tomorrow! Short films and expanded-cinema works by LA-based, Taiwanese artist Erica Sheu (徐璐). This includes films with 2 and 3 16mm projectors! #Vancouver
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Iris @irisfilmcollective.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
DIM Cinema is back, Monday Feb 23 7pm @thecinematheque.bsky.social “Erica Sheu portraits an attempt to the perpetual, as an impulse of desire that arises to grasp life and love in a condensed light phenomena.” -Ivonne Sheen, Desistfilm www.thecinematheque.ca/films/2025/e...
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The Cinematheque / collect, release, fall, rise: The Films of Erica Sheu
In this program, Iris Film Collective presents eight short films and expanded-cinema works by LA-based, Taiwanese artist Erica Sheu (徐璐).
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Anvil Press @anvilpress.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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Nothing But Time launches in Vancouver and Edmonton, accompanied by screenings — José Teodoro
Nothing But Time , along with some of Peter Mettler’s finest films, is on the road. There will be an Edmonton book launch on February 11 at Audreys. A Vancouver launch will follow on February 24 a...
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Anvil Press @anvilpress.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Feb 19–March 1, 2026 Nothing But Time: Three Films by Peter Mettler @thecinematheque.bsky.social Series curator & author of "Nothing But Time: Three Films by Peter Mettler" (Anvil), José Teodoro, will attend Feb 19, as will the filmmaker. Books available. www.thecinematheque.ca/series/peter...
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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Vancouver look at this epic Naruse Mikio series opening this week @thecinematheque.bsky.social thecinematheque.ca/films/2025/f... Get involved with these films…
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The Cinematheque / Floating Clouds
A tale of amour fou set in the ruins of postwar Tokyo, Floating Clouds is ranked by many as master Naruse Mikio’s pinnacle achievement, and was his greatest popular success in Japan.
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arbelosfilms.bsky.social @arbelosfilms.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Béla Tarr (1955 – 2026) RIP to an uncompromising, master filmmaker. We were beyond honored to collaborate with him on the massive 4K restoration of SÁTÁNTANGÓ, and distribution of DAMNATION. He'll be dearly missed, even as his work continues to speak volumes.
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Iris @irisfilmcollective.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
DIM Cinema! Ways of Seeing: short short films by Gordon Payne is screening Monday Nov 3rd 7pm @thecinematheque.bsky.social. Featuring 3 x 16mm films from the archive and a short doc about the artist by Zsofin Sheehy: thecinematheque.ca/films/2025/g... #Vancouver
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The Cinematheque / Ways of Seeing: short short films by Gordon Payne
Gordon Payne’s three short films, made in the late 1960s and early ’70s, unfold as tactile meditations on vision, ritual, and the restless politics of seeing.
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The Cinematheque @thecinematheque.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Film Noir 2025 opens tonight! A detailed overview from Criterion Daily of our eight mainline titles and two sidebars (Arcand & Kurosawa)
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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 29/07/2025
A look at some of the highlights of @thecinematheque.bsky.social's gritty-cool #filmnoir summer series: www.createastir.ca/articles/the...
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The Cinematheque’s annual Film Noir series explores the genre’s shadowy margins — Stir
The big-city sins of Sweet Smell of Success mingle with the small-town nightmares of Moonrise in this year’s darkly adventurous lineup
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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
New 4K restorations of Akira Kurosawa classics open Friday at Film Forum in NYC and then head to @austinfilm.bsky.social, @amcinematheque.bsky.social, and @thecinematheque.bsky.social ! www.criterion.com/current/post...
Poster for the traveling series of new 4K restorations of Akira Kurosawa classics.
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The Cinematheque @thecinematheque.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Our Tsui Hark series opens tonight with a sold-out screening of Green Snake! (Encore added on July 22) Series trailer and more details below: vimeo.com/1098903325
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Tsui Hark: Everything Is Unreal
The Cinematheque is excited to present Tsui’s films in Vancouver. Many will screen from recent restorations including, for this Year of the Snake, Green Snake…
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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s excellent summer: #JAPANCUTS Cut Above Award @japansociety.org CLOUD @filmlinc.bsky.social PULSE @wexarts.bsky.social 3 films @thecinematheque.bsky.social www.criterion.com/current/post...
Kiyoshi Kurosawa shows Masaki Suda how and where to shoot on the set of CLOUD (2024)
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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
New Akira Kurosawa restorations are heading to NYC’s Film Forum, the Austin Film Society, @amcinematheque.bsky.social, and @thecinematheque.bsky.social ! vimeo.com/1098238959
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KUROSAWA: A RETROSPECTIVE - Official Trailer
U.S. Premieres of New Restorations of THRONE OF BLOOD, STRAY DOG, RED BEARD, HIGH AND LOW, THE HIDDEN FORTRESS, IKIRU, YOJIMBO, and SANJURO.
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Blake Williams @astrostic.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Vancouver area: A portion of my TIFF series "Dimensional Excursions" will screen at The Cinematheque on July 17, including the pure heroin version of the 3D shorts programme. www.thecinematheque.ca/series/innov...
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The Cinematheque / Dimensional Excursions: Innovation in 3D Cinema
Curated by stereoscopic filmmaker Blake Williams, these programs of films can make you feel in ways you never imagined, and that effect is inextricable from their 3D presentation.
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The Cinematheque @thecinematheque.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
“One Hundred Years of Obsession: The Films of Mai Zetterling,” our centenary-marking retrospective of the Swedish actor, writer, and filmmaker’s directorial works, opens tonight, introduced by novelist Anakana Schofield! Series trailer and page below: vimeo.com/1082990560
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One Hundred Years of Obsession: The Films of Mai Zetterling
On the occasion of Zetterling’s centenary, this near-complete retrospective, drawing from recent restorations by the Swedish Film Institute, is the first to…
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Sean Gilman @theendofcinema.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The Cinematheque in Vancouver has a month-long Tsui Hark series this summer. Shanghai Blues, Peking Opera Blues, Green Snake, the first two Once Upon a Time in China films, and more. thecinematheque.ca/series/tsui-...
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The Cinematheque / Tsui Hark: Everything Is Unreal
The Cinematheque is excited to present Tsui’s films in Vancouver. Many will screen from recent restorations including, for this Year of the Snake, Green Snake on opening night.
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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 27/05/2025
The Cinematheque is honouring Bresson’s career, which spanned 13 features across four decades, with Secret Laws of the Cinematograph now underway and continues to July 2. More details in linked story: www.createastir.ca/articles/the... @thecinematheque.bsky.social
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The Cinematheque spotlights Robert Bresson in Secret Laws of the Cinematograph, to July 2 — Stir
Series includes all 13 of the French director’s films, including A Man Escaped , Pickpocket , Au hasard Balthazar , and more
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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Save the date Vancouver: June 12, 2025 7pm I will be introducing the opening night screening of Mai Zetterling's 1964 debut Loving Couples for the retrospective series of her films at @thecinematheque.bsky.social thecinematheque.ca/films/2025/l... /1
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The Cinematheque / Loving Couples
Mai Zetterling’s feature debut Loving Couples is so ambitiously crafted that it earned comparison to Citizen Kane upon its release.
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The Cinematheque @thecinematheque.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
“Robert Bresson: Secret Laws of the Cinematograph,” our complete retrospective of the director’s feature films, opens tonight with The Devil, Probably, introduced by filmmaker Antoine Bourges. Trailer and coverage below! vimeo.com/1082989010
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Robert Bresson: Secret Laws of the Cinematograph
It has been 13 years since our last Bresson retrospective—it is due time for another. “Secret Laws of the Cinematograph” brings together all of…
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The Cinematheque @thecinematheque.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
As @dwhdaily.bsky.social notes, Vancouver audiences can expect to see Naruse Mikio films—admired by Edward Yang, and Kurosawa Akira, among others—on our screen next year, for the first time since the last major touring retrospective of his films in 2006. More news to come!
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"Selections from the program will screen at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (July 3 through December 21) and the Harvard Film Archive (July 5 through November 3) before heading up to the Cinematheques in Toronto and Vancouver next year. Separately, Alexander Jacoby and Johan Nordström have curated Sorrow and Passion: Prewar Mikio Naruse, a program for this year’s Il Cinema Ritrovato (June 21 through 29) that “focuses on a crucial five-year period in his career (1935–39), when he worked at the newly established P.C.L. film studio and its successor, Toho.”
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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I have been waiting a whole month + to see this film @thecinematheque.bsky.social thecinematheque.ca/films/2025/b...
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The Cinematheque / Belfast, Maine
Frederick Wiseman’s artistic project is cumulative; each film builds upon the others, a progression that reaches its possible apotheosis in Belfast, Maine.
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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
YVR do get out and see the Frederick Wiseman series of documentaries at the Cinematheque. They’re incredible. Support your local art house cinema so we will still have one. The volunteers who staff that cinema are so fun. Had a great natter with them last night ❤️🧠 @theCinematheque
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Pancouver @pancouver.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Three more screenings of Suzhou River at the The Cinematheque in downtown Vancouver. It's an early 21st-century Chinese-German co-production that has drawn comparisons to Hitchcock's Vertigo. More details @pancouver.bsky.social and @thecinematheque.bsky.social websites. pancouver.ca/director-lou...
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Director Lou Ye applies lo-fi film-noir aesthetic to Shanghai at start of 21st century in Suzhou River - Pancouver
Thee Cinematheque is screening Suzhou River, which stars Zhou Xun and Jia Hongsheng in a gritty tale of intrigue.
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The Cinematheque @thecinematheque.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
The new restoration of Batang West Side will be coming to Vancouver as part of our May–June programming!
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David Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
New restorations of Heiny Srour’s THE HOUR OF LIBERATION HAS ARRIVED (1974) and LEILA AND THE WOLVES (1984) are coming to @bambrooklyn.bsky.social, @mezzaninefilm.bsky.social, @phillyfilmsociety.bsky.social, @thecinematheque.bsky.social … www.criterion.com/current/post...
Nabila Zeitouni, dressed in white, stands on a beach in front of a semicircle of seated women in black burkas in the new poster for Heiny Srour’s Leila and the Wolves (1984)
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The Cinematheque @thecinematheque.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Our Frederick Wiseman series opens tonight with Central Park! Trailer: vimeo.com/1056881463
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Frederick Wiseman: The Choreography of Everyday Life
“Frederick Wiseman: The Choreography of Everyday Life” presents 14 of the director’s films from newly available director-approved restorations.…
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Anakana Schofield @anakanaschofield.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Lads (Vancouver) TONIGHT is the first Frederick Wiseman film Central Park in the series @thecinematheque.bsky.social 6.30pm. Also showing same time March 16th, I thnk.
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Stir Arts & Culture Vancouver @createastir.ca · 04/03/2025
A look at @thecinematheque.bsky.social's 14-film ode to one of the world's greatest documentary filmmakers. www.createastir.ca/articles/fre...
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Documentarian Frederick Wiseman gets a big screen upgrade at The Cinematheque — Stir
The series presents 14 titles by the master of non-fiction film, rarely seen in the cinema
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The Cinematheque @thecinematheque.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Our March/April guide is now available at our theatre and online! thecinematheque.ca/films/calendar
The Cinematheque's March-April guide, which features a still from Frederick Wiseman's Central Park on the cover. A number of people are seen rollerskating, in black and white.
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Eric Fell @ericfell.com · 22/12/2024
The 4K restoration of Umbrellas of Cherbourg is unbelievable. Go see it if you have a chance! Thank you @thecinematheque.bsky.social for bringing it to Vancouver.
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The Cinematheque @thecinematheque.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Thanks Anakana! After opening this past weekend, Ozu 121 continues tonight, tomorrow, and through the holidays and new year.
A screengrab of The Cinematheque's website, showing films playing today and tomorrow: Dorsky & Hiler: Program 2 at 6:30pm today (Monday), followed by Ozu's Record of a Tenement Gentleman at 8:15 PM. Then, tomorrow (Tuesday), A Hen in the Wind at 6:30 pm, followed by Early Spring at 8:20 pm.
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Devan Scott @dagscott.bsky.social · 13/10/2024
Introducing the Lubitsch retrospective @thecinematheque.bsky.social
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The Cinematheque @thecinematheque.bsky.social · 23/01/2024
Coming soon.
A still from Edward Yang's A Confucian Confusion (1994). A man wearing a suit, standing in a phonebooth at night with the receiver next to his ear. In the backdrop, a row of lit-up storefronts, including a McDonald's.
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