Picks of the week - September 26, 2012

 

 
 
 
 
The 31st annual Vancouver International Film Festival blazes across local theatre screens Sept. 27 to Oct. 12. It’s another doozy with more than 380 films from 75 countries, including Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children, Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winner Amour, Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt and Matteo Garrone’s satirical follow-up to Gomorrah and Grand Prix winner at Cannes, Reality. For more info, go to viff.org.
 

The 31st annual Vancouver International Film Festival blazes across local theatre screens Sept. 27 to Oct. 12. It’s another doozy with more than 380 films from 75 countries, including Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children, Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winner Amour, Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt and Matteo Garrone’s satirical follow-up to Gomorrah and Grand Prix winner at Cannes, Reality. For more info, go to viff.org.

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The 31st annual Vancouver International Film Festival blazes across local theatre screens Sept. 27 to Oct. 12. It’s another doozy with more than 380 films from 75 countries, including Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children, Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winner Amour, Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt and Matteo Garrone’s satirical follow-up to Gomorrah and Grand Prix winner at Cannes, Reality. For more info, go to viff.org.
 

The 31st annual Vancouver International Film Festival blazes across local theatre screens Sept. 27 to Oct. 12. It’s another doozy with more than 380 films from 75 countries, including Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children, Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winner Amour, Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt and Matteo Garrone’s satirical follow-up to Gomorrah and Grand Prix winner at Cannes, Reality. For more info, go to viff.org.

Photograph by: submitted , for Vancouver Courier

 
The 31st annual Vancouver International Film Festival blazes across local theatre screens Sept. 27 to Oct. 12. It’s another doozy with more than 380 films from 75 countries, including Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children, Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winner Amour, Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt and Matteo Garrone’s satirical follow-up to Gomorrah and Grand Prix winner at Cannes, Reality. For more info, go to viff.org.
Music on Main’s annual Modulus Festival blows minds with its “post classical” delights Sept. 27 to 30 at Heritage Hall and the Roundhouse. Highlights include Los Angeles-based Calder Quartet and Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry performing music for Heart and Breath (a duet, quartet and sextet with amplified heart sounds) and Drones/Revelations (15 people on bikes with ghetto blasters). For info and tickets, got to musiconmain.ca.
Genre-bending American author Michael Chabon (Wonderboys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union) discusses and reads from his latest book, Telegraph Avenue. Presented by the Vancouver International Writers Festival, the literary love-in takes place Sept. 26, 8 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Wesley United Church. For tickets, go to vancouvertix.com, or call 604-629-8849.
Brief Encounters is back with another batch of interdisciplinary mash-ups that sees artists from an array of genres paired up and given two weeks to create something special. See for yourself when shadow puppeteer Chloe Z and astrophysicist Jaymie Matthews, filmmaker Kate Kroll and dance artist Kat Single-Dain, dance artist James Gnam and visual artist Patrick Cruz, actor Jeff Gladstone and DIY media producer Laura Lee Schultz, hip hop artist Ostwelve and jazz vocalist Jennifer Scott, and drag queen/theatre artist Isolde N. Barron and humorist Sam Mullins reveal the fruits of their labour, Sept. 27 to 29 at Performance Works. For tickets or more information, go to briefencounters.ca.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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