Vancouver Week in Widescreen: Black History Month rolls along

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      Maya Angelou and Still I Rise  Bob Hercules and Rita Coburn Whack's fine portrait of the activist-writer-performer, filmed right up until her death in 2014, gets an encore screening courtesy of DOXA at the Richmond Cultural Centre Performance Hall (7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond, B.C.) on Thursday (January 26).

      Crazy 8s 18 Year Anniversary Screening  A fundraising program of classic works from the insanest (by far) of short film competitions comes to the Rio on Thursday (January 26), followed by a Q&A.  

      Tampopo  The world's first and also its last ever Ramen Western returns restored but not reheated to the Cinematheque for a week long run starting Thursday (January 26). 

      Illuminating La La Land  Fresh off its sweep of the Oscar noms, La La Land gets a clip-happy Michael van den Bos deconstruction at the Vancity Theatre on Sunday (January 29)—expect to see Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Liza Minnelli, Ginger Rogers, and Frank Sinatra, among others—followed by screenings of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg and New York, New York. Phew!

      Shepherds and Butchers  Steve Coogan gets very serious as a Brit lawyer seeking to defend a heavily traumatized South African prison guard from a certain death sentence in this courtroom drama, copresented by the Vancouver Foreign Film Society at the Vancity Theatre on Monday (January 30) 

      Daughters of the Dust  In celebration of Black History Month, Julie Dash's luminous classic from 1991 gets two must-see screenings at the Vancity Theatre on Wednesday (February 1) and next Sunday (February 5).

      Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened...   Mandy Patinkin, Jason Alexander, New York Times critic Frank Rich, and Stephen Sondheim himself are among those telling the legendary story of 1981's Broadway musical, Merrily We Roll Along, which closed in the wake of a fusillade of brutal reviews after only 16 performances... but really shouldn't have. Screening at the Vancity Theatre on Tuesday (January 31) and Thursday (February 2).

       

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