Rio Grind Film Festival

Oedipal conflict, pink turtlenecks, lard, nudity, and a general vibe of mental unwellness compete for your attention in The Greasy Strangler, a film dismissed by Variety for “stubbornly remaining on the peepee/caca level”, and therefore very welcome at the Rio Grind Film Festival this weekend (November 4 to 6). See the full lineup at www.riotheatre.ca. 

The Projector: What to see and where to see it 

The U.S. Presidential Election Live (and free!) 
Watch U.S. democracy dive faster than Sonny Liston when Cheeto Mussolini faces off against Syria’s worst nightmare, live at the Rio on Doomsd—sorry, Tuesday (November 8).

Owen Land (Fka George Landow) 
One of the greatest and easily most amusing tricksters of experimental cinema receives a one-night retrospective as part of the Cinematheque’s DIM Cinema series, on Wednesday (November 9).

Oasis: Supersonic 
You just can’t get enough of those lovable mop-tops from Manchester, Vancouver! Mat Whitecross’s documentary makes a return visit when Oasis: Supersonic screens at the Rio on Wednesday and Friday (November 9 and 11). 

Render Music Video Festival 2017  

There’s scant information about what we can expect to see at the third annual festival of the best in music videos, but based on the image above, we’ll take a shot in the dark and say that Paul Thomas Anderson’s promo for Radiohead’s “Daydreaming” will be in there somewhere. At the Vancity on Friday (November 4).