Violent  To celebrate Art House Theatre Day, which is a real thing, the Vancity Theatre is making a full night out of its screening of Andrew Huculiak’s astonishing 2014 debut. Cohosted by the Directors Guild of Canada, the event features a reception, behind-the-scenes footage, a Q&A with Huculiak and actor Tor Halvor Halvorsen, and a lot more besides. Violent screens on Saturday (September 24).

Blazing Saddles  We’d like to offer the Rio a laurel and hardy handshake for bringing Mel Brooks’s blockbuster western spoof back to the big screen, in tribute to the late, great Gene Wilder. Screening with the no less essential The Producers on Thursday (September 22).

Class Enemy  A classroom of Slovenian teens go to war with their authoritarian German substitute teacher in Rok Bicek’s impressive drama, released in 2014 and copresented by the Vancouver Foreign Film Society at the Vancity on Friday and Sunday (September 22 and 25).

For the Love of Spock  Leonard Nimoy’s 100-percent human son Adam Nimoy goes in search of the complex man with the pointy ears, in a film described by the Straight ’s Doug Sarti as “a bittersweet yet eminently intriguing profile”. At the Rio on Monday (September 26).

Funny Games  Released in 1997 and a masterpiece of sorts, Michael Haneke’s devastating home-invasion flick put the cap on a decade that had already seriously brutalized audiences with endurance tests like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Man Bites Dog, and the director’s own Benny’s Video—which accompanies Funny Games for a weekend of spiritual uplift (not really!) at the Cinematheque, starting Saturday (September 24).