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aug 9 & 10 (7:00 only)

SAINT LAURENT Director: Bertrand Bonello France, 2014, 151 min; French with subtitles; PG“Saint Laurent” transports you into the workshops where Yves Saint Laurent designed his couture collections of the late 1960s and early ’70s. You follow the designer, in the company of friends, lovers and the hangers-on, to Paris nightclubs and cruising areas, to Morocco and to bed. It’s a giddy, intoxicating, decidedly decadent feeling, but more than merely seductive. Director Bonello offers a perspective on his subject — played in his prime by Gaspard Ulliel — that is at once intimate and detached. Beginning in 1974, flashing back to the glory days of 1967 and later jumping ahead to Saint Laurent’s final years, the film is a swirl of moods and impressions. —The New York Times

AUG 14 & 15 (7:00 & 9:20)

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Director: George Miller Australia/USA, 2015, 121 min; 14A Having set the high bar for the modern action movie with “The Road Warrior” in 1981, George Miller surpassed himself (at age 70!) with this “revisiting” of his iconic post-apocalyptic action hero (Tom Hardy, ably stepping in for Mel Gibson), here paired with a formidable female ally in Charlize Theron’s Furiosa — arguably the greatest female action hero since Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley. Dizzyingly kinetic, color-saturated, wall-to-wall chase sequences! —Variety

AUG 12 & 13 (7:00 & 9:00)

A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE Director: Roy Andersson Sweden, 2014, 101 min; Swedish with subtitles; PG This brilliantly odd black comedy from Sweden’s Roy Andersson is like nothing you’ve ever seen before (unless you’ve seen his “Songs from the Second Floor”). “Pigeon” feels like a series of Monty Python sketches written by an existentialist philosopher. Excruciatingly funny and streaked with coal-black humor, there are images here that lodge in the part of the brain where dreams are forged. For a film posing the heaviest questions, “Pigeon” soars with the birds. —Time Out New York“A GENUINE, MINDBLOWING MASTERPIECE OF PURE ACTION CINEMA!” –Austin Chronicle

“A WORK OF QUIET, CRYSTALLINE EMPATHY.” –Boston Globe

“LANGOUROUS, LUXURIOUS!” – Seattle Times

“BLYTHE DANNER HAS GOTTEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHOW WHAT SHE CAN DO, AND SHE IS SIMPLY JAW-DROPPING, JUST WONDERFUL.” –San Francisco Chronicle

aug 6, 7 & 8 (7:00 & 9:00)

I’LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS Director: Brett Haley USA, 2015, 97 min; PGBlythe Danner plays Carol, a seventy-something retired teacher, widowed for twenty years, who feels vaguely lonely but isn’t sure she’s interested in dating. Urged on by her friends (the audacious Rhea Perlman, Mary Kay Place, and June Squibb), she tries speed-dating, with ridiculous results. Practically out of nowhere, the most radiant of silver foxes appears —played by the almost criminally appealing Sam Elliott — and sparks a romance that just might be the something Carol has been half-hoping for. “I’ll See You in My Dreams” is only partly a movie about romance post-70, and perhaps more a picture about friendships…. This isn’t just a nice little movie for older people: There’s some real bite to the way it deals with the life questions that come with aging. —Village Voice

aug 11 (7:00 & 9:15)

YAKONA Paul Collins & Anlo Sepulveda

USA, 2014, 85 minRapturous, passionate and eye-popping, this is a beautiful record of nature that stands with the best. If you loved “Baraka,” rush to this film, which documents the San Marcos River through stunning imagery. The filmmakers’ concept is to tell the story of the river from its own perspective. —Vancouver International Film Festival

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aug 4 & 5 (7:00 & 9:00)

MAGICIAN: The Astonishing Life & Work of Orson Welles Director: Chuck Workman USA, 2014, 92 min; PGYoung people should know Orson Welles, and Chuck Workman’s fine, brisk and thoroughly entertaining overview easily makes the case why. In brilliant strokes, Workman captures the “boy genius,” who revolutionized theater in his teens. Then there was radio, which he conquered by Martian invasion, leading to Hollywood. That’s where he reinvented the movies. The man was a master at playing to his audience. And then there are the films, every one — from “Citizen Kane” and “The Stranger” through “Touch of Evil” and “Chimes at Midnight” — a masterpiece. —Movie Nation

“AN EXTRAORDINARY PERFORMANCE BY

CHARLIZE THERON!” – New York Magazine

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“ONE OF THE BEST FILMS YOU’LL SEE THIS YEAR!” – The Telegraph

“A LIVELY AND ENTERTAINING DOCUMENTARY!” – Screen International

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aug 25, 26 & 27 (7:10 & 9:15) SEE DAVID GULPILIL IN “WALKABOUT” AUG 24

CHARLIE’S COUNTRYDirector: Rolf de Heer Austraila, 2013, 108 minutes Ever since his first appearance in “Walkabout”, David Gulpilil (see Aug. 24) has been the defining face onscreen of the Indigenous Australian. Now 60, the Aboriginal actor teams for the third time with director Rolf de Heer (“The Tracker”, “Ten Canoes”). Equal parts ethnographic and poetic, this eloquent drama’s stirring soulfulness is laced with the sorrow of cultural dislocation but also with lovely ripples of humor and even joy.

While Charlie (Gulpilil) helps the cops track white drug dealers, he gets little in return. Charlie decides to “go bush.” He returns to the old ways, hunting and gathering food. The widescreen cinematography is hypnotic in the gaze it casts over the untamed bushland, it’s also magnificent in extended closeups on Gulpilil’s face. His sense of himself is what gives this melancholy story its haunting beauty. —The Hollywood Reporter

AUG 23 (4:30 & 7:00)

LOVE & MERCYDirector: Bill Pohlad USA, 2014, 122 min; PG Cast: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul Giamatti

AUG 28 & 29 (7:00 & 9:20)

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWDDirector: Thomas Vinterberg UK, 2015, 119 min; PGCast: Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge Thomas Hardy’s classic Victorian tale about one woman’s dueling desires for feminist independence and fiery passion. Danish director Thomas Vinterberg’s latest film ver-sion is the best yet. With a steely resilience burning beneath her delicate, creamy complexion, Carey Mulligan brings remarkable nuance to the role of Bathsheba Everdene, an English country girl who inherits her late uncle’s farm, leading to a trio of romantic suitors: the earthy shepherd (Matthias Schoenaerts), the rich landowner next door (Michael Sheen), and the rakish bad boy in uniform (Tom Sturridge). Mulligan refuses to play the helpless, hapless victim. She’s strong and smart and sensual. —Entertainment Weekly

SEPT 8 (7:00 ONLY)

CLASS DISMISSEDJeremy Stuart USA, 2015, 90 min

A film about learning outside of the class-room. Parents are becoming increasingly dissatisfied with the state of public educa-tion. The current state of our educational system & economy shines a spotlight on problems with traditional schools. Class Dismissed showcases a growing trend in alternative education strategies that are working for many families.

SEPT 6 (5:00 & 7:00)

INFINITELY POLAR BEARDirector: Maya Forbes USA, 2015, 89 min; PGMark Ruffalo is one of the best actors on the planet. He proves it again in this hilarious and heartbreaking tale of a family on the ropes. Set in Boston in the late 1970s, the film casts Ruffalo as Cam, a manic depressive whose antics and chronic unemployment have alienated his blueblood relatives. It’s no picnic for those closest to Cam — wife Maggie (Zoë Saldana) and their mixed-race daughters. A crisis approaches when Maggie decides to pursue an MBA at Columbia. She’ll have to be in New York, coming home on week-ends only, leaving Cam in charge of the girls. Maya Forbes, makes a fine feature debut as writer/director by telling her own story. The movie is a small miracle. Refusing to soften the edges when Cam is off his meds, Ruffalo is a powerhouse. —Rolling Stone

SEPT 9 & 10 (7:00 & 9:20)

PITCH PERFECT 2Director: Elizabeth Banks USA, 2015, 115 min; PGCast: Anna Kendrick, Hailee Steinfeld, Brittany Snow, Alexis Knapp, Rebel WilsonActress and first-time director Elizabeth Banks’s follow-up to the smash about an all-girl college a cappella group lives up to its title. “Pitch Perfect 2” is a joyous harmony of bawdy humour, campus high jinks and crisp musical performances. —The Telegraph

SEPT 11 & 12 (3:00 MATINEE & 7:00 & 9:25)

SPYDirector: Paul Feig USA, 2015, 120 min; 14AMelissa McCarthy is bawdy, sharply funny and physically fearless. To call this joyfully zany movie a spy spoof is accurate but limiting. This crowd pleaser is a well-plotted (and well-shot) action pic. It’s also a specimen of inventive casting: along with McCarthy, Spy includes the British TV comedy star Miranda Hart and a pop-eyed Jason Statham as a useless fellow agent. And Spy sneaks smart gender commentary into the script’s blockbuster-appeal laughs. —Time Magazine

sept 16 & 17 (7:00 & 9:00)

SHE’S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE’S ANGRYDirector: Mary Dore USA, 2014, 92 minutesThose who bristle at the term “feminist,” might find this vibrant new documentary enlight-ening and inspiring. Mary Dore’s incisive portrait of so-called second-wave feminism of the late 1960s, is an exceptional chronicle, its mix of archival material and new interviews bristling with the energy and insight of one of the most important social movements of the 20th century. As the film makes clear, that movement changed the world. Dore spoke with more than two dozen women who were in the vanguard of women’s liberation, among them Susan Brownmiller, Kate Millett, Eleanor Holmes Norton and the late Ellen Willis. —Los Angeles Times

sept 18 & 19 (3:00 MATINEE & 7:10 & 9:15)

ME AND EARL AND THE DYING GIRLDirector: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon USA, 2015, 106 min; PGIt sounds like tear-jerking swill. Ha! The joke’s on us. “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl” deserves to be a sleeper hit. It’s that sharply funny, touching and vital. The terrific Thomas Mann (“Project X”) plays Greg, a shy teen. His mom gives him an “or else”: Visit Rachel (Olivia Cooke), a classmate he barely knows, who’s been diagnosed with leukemia. No, it isn’t the weepie hell of “The Fault in Our Stars”. Greg and Rachel don’t get it on. But they do kick the shit out of each other’s false bravado. Greg, an aspiring filmmaker, gets up the guts to show Rachel the parody films he makes with his friend Earl (RJ Cyler), featuring titles like “A Sockwork Orange” and “Senior Citizen Kane”. She gets it. So do we.—Variety

SEPT 4 & 5 (7:00 & 9:15)

JIMMY’S HALLDirector: Ken Loach UK/Ireland, 2014, 109 minutesKen Loach has taken a despicable episode of modern Irish history — the 1933 deporta-tion without trial of one of its own citizens, James Gralton (Barry Ward) — and made a surprisingly lovely, heartfelt film from it. A thematic sequel of sorts to his “The Wind That Shakes the Barley,” Loach’s 24th fiction feature finds the activist-minded director traf-ficking in familiar themes of individual liberties, institutional oppression and the power of collective organizing, here infused with a gentle romanticism that buoys the film without cheapening the gravity of its subject. All told, it’s a minor-key but eminently enjoyable work by a master craftsman. —Variety

“CAREY MULLIGAN IS MAGNIFICENT!” –Salon

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SEPT 7 (7:00 ONLY)

SEPT 13 (3:00 MATINEE & 5:15 & 7:00)

TWO 4 ONEDirector: Maureen Bradley Canada, 2014, 77 minUVic Writing professor Maureen Bradley’s debut feature is a bittersweet romantic comedy with a transgender hero in an unimaginable predicament. Oddball cou-ple Miriam and Adam have an ill-advised one-night stand that sees them both wind up pregnant. Starring Gavin Crawford and Naomi Snieckus. —Georgia Straight

AUG 30 (4:30 & 7:00)

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWDDirector: Thomas Vinterberg UK, 2015, 119 min; PGCast: Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge

AUG 21 & 22 (7:00 & 9:20)

LOVE & MERCYDirector: Bill Pohlad USA, 2014, 122 min; PGCast: John Cusack, Paul Dano, Elizabeth Banks, Paul GiamattiEverything that goes right with “Love & Mercy” — it’s the best musical biopic in decades — begins and ends with the shadows lurking in the Beach Boys’ sunniest hit songs about little deuce coupes and summers with no end in sight. We witness the group’s fame and its near-mythological place in popular culture. But this is no routine rise-and-fall affair. “Love & Mercy,” i.e., the Brian Wilson story, captures the ache at the center of the group co-founder’s most revealing later songs. Wilson emerges as a dimensional creative soul, and the actors who play Wilson at different stages, Paul Dano and John Cusack, rise to the challenge with the strongest, subtlest work of their lives. —Chicago Tribune

“A SUMPTUOUS PERIOD PIECE!” –London Evening Standard

“MELISSA MCCARTHY’S WICKED TAKE ON 007 IS A JOY TO WATCH!” –Toronto Star

AUG 16 4:45 dubbed version & 7:00 subtitled version

WHEN MARNIE WAS THEREHiromasa Yonebayashi, Japan, 2014, 103 minGhibli’s latest release — a non-spooky ghost story set in a seaside fishing village — the Japanese animation house has once again created a world where magic and imagi-nation are transformative. Our reclusive 12-year-old orphan heroine Anna meets a mysterious blonde girl named Marnie..... —Washington Post

AUG 17, 18, 19 & 20 (7:00 & 9:00)

SUNSHINE SUPERMANDirector: Marah Strauch Norway/USA, 2014, 100 minutes Stunning footage of BASE jumping makes this fascinating documentary a thrill ride. Featuring exhilarating, petrifying footage of people hurling themselves off standing objects, this tells the story of Carl Boenish, the father of BASE jumping, a man of infectious exuberance, spiritual enthusiasm, no small set of testicles, and a deep devotion to filming everything he did – which helps make director Marah Strauch’s debut feature the remark-able thing it is. Reminiscent of “Man on Wire, “ this is a sports documentary defined by its wealth of archival footage -- which in this case is largely first-person. Boenish worked as a cinematographer before becoming intoxicated with parachuting from fixed launch points (BASE stands for Buildings, Antennae, Spans and Earth, a.k.a. cliffs). “Sunshine

Superman” is part thrill ride and part love story – the romance between Carl and Jean Boenish, who became mutually devoted to the movement. In addition to Jean, Boenish was in love with cinema; he ranked filming number one among his professional interests, followed by jumping. Everything in his footage actually happened. Boenish conjured up ways of making impossible shots. He and his team wore cameras on their helmets, and shot each other from the air as they plunged. But unexplained mystery surrounds Boenish’s last two jumps. They took place in different spots on Norway’s Trollveggen (Troll Wall), which provides an eerie, near-gothic backdrop to a story wrapped in existential mist. —Indie Wire

AUG 24 (7:00 & 9:10) SEE DAVID

GULPILIL IN “CHARLIE’S COUNTRY” AUG 25-26

WALKABOUTNicholas Roeg, Australia, 1971, 100 min; PG One of the most hauntingly beautiful films ever made! A young sister (Jenny Agutter) and brother (Lucien John) are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback. Along the way, they meet a young aborigine (David Gulpilil, see Aug. 25-26) on his rite of pas-sage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilder-ness alone. An unforgettable masterpiece.

sept 14 (7:15 only)

NEURONS TO NIRVANA: Understanding Psychedelic MedicinesDirector: Oliver Hockenhull Canada, 2013, 85 minutesWhat if everything you thought you knew about drugs was wrong? What if society has misread - or been misled - about what science says about psychedelic substances? What if prohibition only exists to safeguard social inhibition (and big pharma profits)? Through interviews with the world’s foremost researchers, writers, psychologists and pioneers in psychedelic psychotherapy, Vancouver filmmaker Oliver Hockenhull explores the his-tory of five powerful psychedelic substances (LSD, Psilocybin, MDMA, Ayahuasca and Cannabis) and their now established medicinal potential. —Vancouver International Film Festival

AUG 31 & SEPT 1, 2 & 3 (7:00 & 9:00)

THE WOLFPACKDirector: Crystal Moselle USA, 2015, 90 min; PGMovies can change your life, but can they save it? For most people that probably sounds foolish, but the six brothers featured in the astonishing documentary “The Wolfpack” aren’t most people. For much of their lives, these six ingenious young men used the movies to imaginatively if not physically break out of their Lower Manhattan apartment. Even as their father all but imprisoned them, they made great metaphoric escapes by immersing themselves in the fictional realms created by directors like Francis Ford Coppola and Quentin Tarantino.

The Angulo brothers — now ages 23 to 16 — made their escapes the way many people do, by watching movies at home on VHS and DVD. But they also recreated favorites like “The Dark Knight” using handmade costumes. For them, movies were a form of self-expression as well as a kind of survival. That makes this warm, disarmingly optimistic documentary sound desperately sad when it’s anything but. Sometimes, all you need is a great subject to make a great documentary. A gifted editor helped in shaping a streamlined chronicle of love and resilience. —The New York Times

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SEPT 12 1PM KIDS MATINEE “WHEN MARNIE WAS HERE”

SEPT 19 1PM KIDS MATINEE TO BE ANNOUNCED

“IT’S A THRILL, AND ONE THAT SERIOUSLY REWARDS BIG-SCREEN VIEWING!” –The Hollywood Reporter

“THE BEST MUSICAL BIOPIC IN DECADES!” –Chicago Reader

“TENDER, DRAMATIC, FRAGILE AND BOLD, IT’S THE DEFINITIVE ADAPTATION.” –CineVue

“A LOVING TRIBUTE TO THE BEACH BOYS AND THE MAN RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR DISTINCTIVE SOUND, BUT IT GOES TO DEEPER AND STRANGER

PLACES THAN MOST MOVIES OF ITS KIND.” –The New York Times

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“UPROARIOUS!” –Washington Post

“DELIGHTFUL.” –San Francisco Chronicle

“RIOTOUS!” –Variety

“GOOFY!” –T ime Out London

“MARK RUFFALO IS YET AGAIN A REVELATION.” –Wall Street Journal

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Special Event!

On Sept 14, the film will be followed by a panel discussion on the use of psychedelics in psychotherapy, facilitated by Kevin Parker, MA, RCC, and creator of the Psychedelic Psychotherapy Forum www.psychedelicpsychotherapy.ca

“FUSES SCIENCE, ART AND SPIRITUALITY INTO A SEAMLESS WHOLE.” –Vancouver Courier “ONE OF THE YEAR’S BEST FILMS!” –Village Voice “AN INSTANT CLASSIC!” – Hitfix

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“ONCE YOU’VE MET THESE KIDS YOU WON’T FORGET THEM!” –Rolling Stone “ONE OF THE MOST INCREDIBLE DOCS I’VE SEEN ANYWHERE. HAS TO BE SEEN TO BE BELIEVED!” –Toronto Star

Winner! AUDIENCE AWARD

-Portland International Film Festival

SEPT 13 1PM “WHEN MARNIE WAS HERE”KIDS MATINEE