Pacific Cinémathèque — Experience Essential Cinema http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca Weekly Screenings (Fri-Thurs) at Pacific Cinémathèque, 1131 Howe Street, Vancouver mirabyte Feed Writer Secret Beyond the Door Expressionist and noir master Fritz Lang directs this unusual Freudian thriller starring Joan Bennett.

Showtimes:
Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 7:00pm
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 8:50pm

]]> http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/secrets-beyond-the-door-treasures-from-the-ucla-festival-of-preservation/secret-beyond-the-door Ruthless A tale of a sociopath’s remorseless drive for station and wealth, the film is often referred to as Edgar G. Ulmer’s Citizen Kane.

Showtimes:
Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 8:30pm

]]> http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/secrets-beyond-the-door-treasures-from-the-ucla-festival-of-preservation/ruthless The Prowler Before he fled McCarthy-era America to become an art-house auteur in Europe, Joseph Losey made this cool, stylish, nasty noir thriller exploring themes of class difference and duplicity.

Showtimes:
Friday, March 12, 2010 - 9:00pm
Monday, March 15, 2010 - 7:00pm

]]> http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/secrets-beyond-the-door-treasures-from-the-ucla-festival-of-preservation/the-prowler A Woman Under the Influence Gena Rowlands’s performance as Mabel Longhetti, wife and mother of three, stands as a virtually unmatched tour de force in this intense John Cassavetes feature.

Showtime:
Saturday, March 13, 2010 - 7:00pm

]]> http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/secrets-beyond-the-door-treasures-from-the-ucla-festival-of-preservation/a-woman-under-the-influence Gamperaliya A restored masterwork of Sri Lankan cinema! This moving saga of family and class conflict was made by Lester James Peries, his country’s foremost filmmaker and a director much admired by India’s Satyajit Ray.

Showtime:
Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 7:00pm]]> http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/secrets-beyond-the-door-treasures-from-the-ucla-festival-of-preservation/gamperaliya To Have and Have Not SILVER SCREEN matinée: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall star in Howard Hawks' World War II drama. ALL AGES! Seniors pay $6. No membership required. 

Showtime:
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 - 1:00pm

]]> http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/silver-screen/to-have-and-have-not Ben: Diary of a Heroin Addict FRAMES OF MIND presents a documentary about a heroin addict's final two years, as filmed through his own video camera. Post-screening discussion with psychiatrist Dr. Ian Forbes. Vancouver Premiere.

Showtime:
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 7:30pm

]]> http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/framesofmind/ben-diary-of-a-heroin-addict The Brother from Another Planet Joe Morton stars as "The Brother", an alien who crash lands in New York. Although he has telekinetic powers, he is unable to speak, and must navigate a cross-section of urban earthlings who read him—and the world—through a puzzling prism of race, class, and ethnicity.

SHOWTIME:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 7:00pm

]]> http://www.cinematheque.bc.ca/secrets-beyond-the-door-treasures-from-the-ucla-festival-of-preservation/brother-from-another-planet Return of the Secaucus Seven Made several years before Lawrence Kasdan’s better-known The Big Chill (1983), John Sayles’s directorial debut is a sometimes funny, sometimes melancholy look at the lives of a group of formerly radical friends who reunite after a ten year period.

Showtime:
Thursday, March 18, 2010 - 9:00pm

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