Vancouver Week in Widescreen: Chaplin channels Cheeto Mussolini

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      Here's what to see—and where to see it on the big screen in Vancouver—for the week of January 19 to 25, 2017.

      The Great Dictator

      We all saw this one coming, right? Directly following the inauguration of Cheeto Mussolini on Friday (January 20), the Vancity Theatre revives Charlie Chaplin’s unforgettable takedown of a certain German chancellor, screening Saturday (January 21) and again—double-billed with Ernst Lubitsch’s no less pertinent 1942 classic, To Be or Not To Be—on Sunday (January 22). 

      Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! As the theme song says, “Pussycat, she’s living reckless, pussycat, she’s riding high, if you think that you can take her, well… just you try.” Starring the terrifying Tura Satana, Russ Meyer’s cult classic comes to the Rio Theatre on Friday (January 20).

      That Cold Day In The Park Legendary filmmaker Robert Altman’s love affair with Vancouver began with the shooting in 1968 of this abundantly strange tale. Sandy Dennis stars, and so does Tatlow Park, when That Cold Day… screens at the Cinematheque on Monday (January 23).

      Born In 1987  Things go horrifically wrong—don’t they always?—when a young couple blag their way into Tehran’s high society in Majid Tavakoli’s film, coming to the Vancity Theatre on Wednesday (January 25) courtesy of the Vancouver Iranian Film Society.

      Canada’s Top Ten: Werewolf

      The deeply gritty tale of two Cape Breton junkies, Ashley McKenzie’s microbudgeted Werewolf might be the most emblematic work in a still emerging Canadian film renaissance that also includes director Kevan Funk’s Hello Destroyer. Naturally, both titles come to the Cinematheque as part of the Canada’s Top Ten series, with Werewolf screening Friday (January 20), followed by Hello Destroyer on Saturday (January 21).

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