Vancouver Week in Widescreen: Oasis turns the big screen into a Wankerwall
Oasis: Supersonic
The ‘90s would have been a much duller place without Definitely Maybe, although that’s only a small part of the story (morning glory) in Mat Whitecross’s history of Oasis, described as “riotously enjoyable” by Variety. Vancouverites get one chance to see the film at the Park Theatre on Thursday (October 27), unless somebody throws something at the screen, in which case Supersonic will call you a cunt and storm out of the building.
The Hunger
David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve get it on in Tony Scott’s kinky vampire flick, a.k.a. the most ‘80s movie ever made, screening alongside The Fearless Vampire Killers and Near Dark at the Cinematheque’s Bite Nite on Saturday (October 29).
Rosemary’s Baby
Roman Polanski’s adaptation of the Ira Levin novel continues to offer a timeless point-by-point guide to anyone impregnated by Satan in the building where John Lennon would eventually be shot. Screens at the Rio on Sunday (October 30).
Blood Lions
In South Africa, the “canned lion” industry exists to breed and provide lions for hunting and bone-trading, among the other unsavoury practices captured in this doc, getting a matinee screening at the Rio Theatre on Sunday (October 30).
NotFilm
UCLA film preservationist Ross Lipmann has made a (not) documentary about Samuel Beckett’s “Film”, the writer’s silent 1965 short starring a perfectly cast, if bemused, Buster Keaton. Praised by the L.A. Times as “gossipy and philosophical by turn”, Notfilm begins a short run at the Cinematheque, double-billed with “Film”, on Thursday (October 27).
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