Vancouver Week in Widescreen: The Cinema of Cruelty is upon us

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      This is Going to Hurt: A Cinema of Cruelty  Inspired by French critic André Bazin’s notion of the Cinema of Cruelty, this monster (and marvellously titled) Cinematheque series brings together the work of Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel, Carl Dreyer, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Werner Herzog, Michael Haneke, Catherine Breillat, Lars von Trier, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and David Lynch in an almost monthlong celebration of filmdom’s greatest shockers, bummers, and mindfucks. Get the party started with Un Chien Andalou, Psycho, and maybe some uppers on Thursday (September 8). Stick around for titles including Mouchette, Fat Girl, and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me in the coming weeks.

      In the City of Sylvia  With The Academy of Muses opening this week, the Vancity Theatre brings Spanish filmmaker José Luis Guerín’s earlier masterpiece for a couple of not-to-be-missed screenings on Saturday and Monday (September 10 and 12).

      A Short Film About Love   Augmenting the return of The Decalogue to the Cinematheque, here’s Krzysztof Kieslowski’s expansion of Episode 6, in which a voyeur and the woman he watches make dark cinematic magic, on Monday and Tuesday (September 12 and 13).

      Barcode  Thanks to the Vancouver Iranian Film Society, this acclaimed comedy-thriller about two drug dealers in Tehran gets its Vancouver premiere at the Vancity Theatre on Wednesday (September 14). An interview with director Mostafa Kiayee follows.

       

       

       

       

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