The GOODS from The Cinematheque

Vancouver, BC | The feverish, fatalistic world of Film Noir returns to The Cinematheque with 12 hard-boiled classics from noir’s 1940s/1950s heyday, including The Blue Dhalia, In a Lonely Place, and The Big Heat on 35mm, plus two Noir sidebar programs: The Psycho Western and The Paranoid Conspiracy Thriller of the 1970s.

Opening Night is on Friday, August 7th. Head down to The Cinematheque to kick off a month of crime, corruption, and chaos with a courtyard reception, refreshments, live jazz, special introduction, and screenings of This Gun for Hire and Gilda. Doors at 6pm.

Screenings run August 7th to September 3rd.

DETAILS

1131 Howe Street | Vancouver, BC
Telephone: 604-688-8202
Website: www.thecinematheque.ca | Facebook | Twitter | Issu

GALLERY

Key People

Jim Sinclair – Executive + Artistic Director
Amber Orchard – Managing Director

About The Cinematheque

The Cinematheque is a charitable cultural organization that brings the Essential Cinema Experience to Vancouver audiences. Home to one of the largest and most extensive programs of curated films in North America, The Cinematheque presents over 500 screenings annually including retrospectives of great directors’ works, new features from Canada’s hottest young filmmakers, prestigious internationally touring exhibitions, plus guest appearances, lectures, special receptions, and much more.

The Cinematheque is also home to the West Coast Film Archive, a collection which holds 2000+ works on 16mm and 35mm film, the Film Reference Library, and an award-winning Education Department that works with youth, educators, and the community-at-large year-round to provide digitial filmmaking programs, critical media literacy workshops, and educational film screenings.

PRESS

“Going to The Cinematheque is the closest thing to visiting Manhattan without leaving Vancouver …. Its program is as innovative and entertaining as any you’ll find in New York.” David Spaner, The Province

“For the true cinema lover who appreciates foreign and independent retrospectives, restorations, experimental films, and rare or obscure works, the Cinematheque is a necessity.” Craig Takeuchi, The Georgia Straight

“Cinémathèques now take on a job parallel to what museums do with painting and sculpture.  They assemble, sort, analyze and exhibit the culture of the world.”  Robert Fulford, The Globe & Mail