VIFF 2009 — movie-going schedule

I’ve been so swamped with work, family matters and actual movie-going that I haven’t had a chance yet to post my tentative Vancouver International Film Festival movie-going schedule — but now that it’s Thanksgiving and I’m home with a cold, I might as well get around to it. As with the schedules I posted in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, this list is highly flexible and will be revised continually as the festival proceeds. 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

‘Preview: Vancouver film festival touches on spiritual, religious themes,’ BC Christian News, Oct 2009 — my monthly film column highlights Camino, Letters to Father Jacob, My Year without Sex, Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam and Defamation.

‘Film Fest offerings coming back to a theatre near you,’ BC Christian News, Nov 2009 — my monthly film column highlights Amreeka, Prom Night in Mississippi and Letters to Father Jacob.

SCHEDULE — LAST UPDATED OCT 16, 12:55AM.

FILMS I SAW IN ADVANCE:

Double Take (dir. Johan Grimonprez; Belgium, 80 min.)
In Search of Beethoven (dir. Phil Grabsky; UK, 138 min.)

THU OCT 1
13:30 — GR7 — Bluebeard (dir. Catherine Breillat; France, 78 min.)
16:00 — PAC — Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl (dir. Manoel de Oliveira; Portugal, 63 min.)
21:45 — GR7 — Antichrist (dir. Lars von Trier; Denmark, 109 min.)

FRI OCT 2
12:45 — GR7 — A Shine of Rainbows (dir. Vic Sarin; Canada/Ireland, 100 min.)
18:45 — GR7 — Excited (dir. Bruce Sweeney; Canada, 85 min.)
21:30 — GR7 — The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (dir. Terry Gilliam; Canada/UK, 122 min.)

SAT OCT 3
18:45 — PAC — Empire State Building Murders (dir. William Karel; France, 73 min.)

SUN OCT 4
21:15 — GR1 — Zooey and Adam (dir. Sean Garrity; Canada, 83 min.)

MON OCT 5
15:00 — GR3 — Shameless (dir. Jan Hrebejk; Czech Republic, 88 min.)

TUE OCT 6
14:00 — GR1 — It’s Not Anime (dir. misc.; misc., 101 min.)
16:15 — GR7 — It Might Get Loud (dir. Davis Guggenheim; USA, 97 min.)

WED OCT 7
11:00 — GR7 — The Young Victoria (dir. Jean Marc Vallée; Canada/UK, 100 min.)
13:30 — GR7 — Leslie, My Name Is Evil (dir. Reg Harkema; Canada, xx min.)

THU OCT 8
Busy with work and family.

FRI OCT 9
16:15 — GR7 — Cole (dir. Carl Bessai; 100 min.)
19:00 — GR7 — Amreeka (dir. Cherien Dabis; Canada/Kuwait/USA, 97 min.)
21:30 — GR7 — Tetro (dir. Francis Ford Coppola; USA, 127 min.)

SAT OCT 10
16:00 — GR7 — My Year without Sex (dir. Sarah Watt; Australia, 96 min.)
18:45 — GR7 — A Prophet (dir. Jacques Audiard; France, 150 min.)

SUN OCT 11
19:00 — RID — Letters to Father Jacob (dir. Klaus Härö; Finland, 75 min.)
21:00 — RID — The Eclipse (dir. Conor McPherson; Ireland, 88 min.)

MON OCT 12
Busy with work and family.

TUE OCT 13
13:30 — GR7 — Prom Night in Mississippi (dir. Paul Saltzman; Canada, 90 min.)
16:00 — GR7 — Broken Embraces (dir. Pedro Almodóvar; Spain, 127 min.)
19:00 — GR7 — Chloe (dir. Atom Egoyan; Canada/France, 99 min.)
21:30 — GR7 — The Damned United (dir. Tom Hooper; UK, 98 min.)

WED OCT 14
Busy with work and family.

THU OCT 15
19:15 — GR1 — I Remember (dir. André Forcier; Canada, 89 min.)
21:30 — GR7 — Ninja Assassin (dir. James McTeigue; USA, 99 min.)

FRI OCT 16
22:15 — GR7 — Queen to Play (dir. Caroline Bottaro; France, 101 min.)