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VIFF 2011 Opening Gala
CityReels staffers snagged some shots from last Thursday's opening gala at The Rocky Mountaineer hangar. A great time was had by all - recognize anyone here? Drop us a line so we can add the appropriate name tags!
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MMA Fighter Looking for Film Investors
“If I don’t believe strongly in myself and everything I do, am I going to achieve my goals?” muses the handsome, beguiling young gentleman across the table from me. Continued…
Festival Cinemas:
Potiche
In French, a potiche is a vase or decorative object of little value and no real practical use that you put on a shelf or a mantel. Continued…
Vancity Theatre:
Sons of Perdition
Big Love gets real messy in this emotionally wrenching documentary about young runaways from a Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) community on the Utah-Arizona border. Continued…
Vancity Theatre:
A Drummer’s Dream
A rare and unique assembly of some of the greatest drummers in the world. Explosive talent, passion, humour and irresistible personality come together in a magical setting when seven diverse drummers create a profound and unforgettable experience. Continued…
Vancity Theatre:
Birdwatchers
A group of indigenous people face off against the modern day owners of their ancestral homeland in this drama from Italian filmmaker Marco Bechis. Continued…
Festival Cinemas:
Barney’s Version
The picaresque and touching story of the politically incorrect, fully lived life of the impulsive, irascible and fearlessly blunt Barney Panofsky. Continued…
Festival Cinemas:
True Grit
Following the murder of her father by hired hand Tom Chaney, 14-year-old farm girl Mattie Ross sets out to capture the killer. To aid her, she hires the toughest U.S. marshal she can find, a man with "true grit," Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn. Mattie insists on accompanying Cogburn, whose drinking, sloth, and generally reprobate character do not augment her faith in him. Continued…
Vancity Theatre:
Breathless
A bitter and abusive debt collector finds some relief when he meets a high school girl. Continued…
Vancity Theatre:
McCabe and Mrs Miller
A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene. Continued…
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