A Legacy of Whining

The second full-length feature from Vancouver’s indiest filmmaker, Ross Munro, plays like an adaptation of a particularly droll graphic novel. Munro stars as Mitch, the legacy whiner of the title, a 50-year-old nebbish locked in an eternal, if polite, conflict with life, the universe, and everything. When his old buddy Dunc (Robert David Duncan) shows up after 30 years, the two embark on a long, dark night of kvetching, with Dunc eventually forcing his constitutionally unhappy friend into a brothel run by right-wing Cuban exiles. Find out if that’s the midlife medicine Mitch really needs when Munro’s amiably gonzo flick screens at the Vancity Theatre on Tuesday (April 5).

The projector: What to see and where to see it

Blue Velvet
Pabst Blue Ribbon will presumably be on the menu when David Lynch’s sick little game-changer from ’86 gets a 30th-anniversary screening at the Rio Theatre on Thursday (March 31). Anyone caught with Heineken gets their ear lopped off.

Mustang
Made by Turkish-born, Paris-based Deniz Gamze Ergüven, this 2016 Oscar contender finally gets a screening or two in Vancouver. Think The Virgin Suicides, but way less precious. Mustang comes to the Rio Theatre on Sunday and Tuesday (April 3 and 5).

The Backward Class
“Genuinely moving and inspiring”, according to the Straight’s Craig Takeuchi, this acclaimed doc about a school for “untouchables” in Bangalore screens at the Vancity Theatre as part of UBC’s centennial celebrations on Saturday (April 2).