This year’s edition of the Vancouver International Film Festival kicks off in an hour or so, so it’s about time I posted the first draft of my movie-going schedule. As with the schedules I posted in 2006 and 2005, this list is highly flexible and will be revised continually often over the next two weeks, as I juggle family and work obligations and the Thanksgiving holiday and so on. Any films that I do not end up seeing will be deleted from this list. Any articles I write shall be linked to from here. And as I blog the films that I see, I shall link to those posts from the titles listed here.
ARTICLES
‘Christian ‘niche marketing’ an Almighty flop?,’ BC Christian News, Sep 2007 — my monthly film column highlights The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun, In Memory of Myself and One Hundred Nails.
‘VIFF films explore cults, homosexuality and forgiveness,’ BC Christian News, Oct 2007 — my monthly film column highlights Secret Sunshine, Join Us and For the Bible Tells Me So.
‘4 Months unflinching, Real Girl an endearing parable,’ BC Christian News, Nov 2007 — my monthly film column includes a review of a festival screening of 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days.
SCHEDULE — LAST UPDATED NOV 4, 12:54PM.
FILMS I SAW IN ADVANCE:
Atonement (dir. Joe Wright; UK, 123 min.)
THU SEP 27
Busy with work.
FRI SEP 28
10:00 — GR7 — My Kid Could Paint That (dir. Amir Bar-Lev; USA, 81 min.)
SAT SEP 29
18:20 — GR4 — You, the Living (dir. Roy Andersson; Sweden, 92 min.)
21:30 — GR7 — The Savages (dir. Tamara Jenkins; USA, 113 min.)
SUN SEP 30
Church, busy with work.
MON OCT 1
10:00 — GR7 — Persepolis (dir. Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud; France/Iran, 95 min.)
12:15 — GR6 — Shattered (dir. Mike Barker; Canada/UK, 91 min.)
TUE OCT 2
16:00 — GR7 — Redacted (dir. Brian de Palma; USA, 90 min.)
19:30 — GR1 — Jellyfish (dir. Etgar Keret, Shira Geffen; France/Israel, 78 min.)
21:15 — GR7 — Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead (dir. Sidney Lumet; USA, 123 min.)
WED OCT 3
Press screenings, busy with work.
THU OCT 4
Busy with work.
FRI OCT 5
Press screenings, busy with work.
SAT OCT 6
Thanksgiving with family. Watched Elijah (dir. Paul Unwin; Canada, 88 min.) at home.
SUN OCT 7
Thanksgiving with wife’s family.
MON OCT 8
19:00 — GR7 — 4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days (dir. Cristian Mungiu; Romania, 113 min.)
21:30 — GR2 — Operation Filmmaker (dir. Nina Davenport; USA, 95 min.)
TUE OCT 9
Busy with work.
WED OCT 10
Press screenings, busy with work.
THU OCT 11
Busy with work.
FRI OCT 12
Busy with work.
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