INDEPENDENT MOVIES
NOW PLAYING
Cafe De Flore
7pm: Feb 1
9pm: Feb 2
2011 • CANADA / FRANCE
Dir: Jean-Marc Vallee
98min • Rated PG
French with ENGLISH SUBTITLES
It’s never easy to say goodbye to loved ones, to achieve this, it may
take a lifetime – or two.
Between Paris and the 1960 Montreal of today unfolds a love
story with broad accents; epic, both light and dark, disturbing and
yet full of hope. Film-tinged fantasy, bathed in light at times almost
supernatural Café de Flore tells the destinies of a young Parisian
mother of an only child – Montreal DJ Antoine – and the women
around him. What links them: love, disturbing, awkward, imperfect
and incomplete people.
“You end up guessing at the plot twists. That is the fun part. You marvel at the characters. That is when the film is more challenging.” – Bruce Kirkland, Jam Movies
Revenge of the Electric Car
7pm: Feb 2, 4, 6
9pm: Feb 1, 9, 7
2011 • USA
Dir: Chris Paine
90min • Rated PG-13
In 2006, as many as 5,000 electric cars were destroyed
by the major car companies that built them. Revenge of the Electric Car
presents the recent resurgence of electric vehicles as seen through the
eyes of four manufacturing pioneers.
Director Paine (Who Killed the Electric Car? 2006) had unprecedented access to the electric car research and development programs at General Motors, Nissan, and Silicon Valley’s Tesla Motors. We follow these auto makers as they race each other to create the first, best, and most publicly accepted electric cars for the new car market.
Paine’s film offers an inspiring, entertaining and definitive account of this revolutionary moment in human transportation.
www.revengeoftheelectriccar.com
Monsieur Lazhar
7pm: Feb 3, 7, 13, 15
9pm: Feb 4, 6, 12, 14, 16
2011 • FRANCE
Dir: Philippe Falardeau
94min • Rated PG-13
French with ENGLISH SUBTITLES
On an ordinary morning at a Montreal school, a young
student arrives to find the door locked to his classroom.
Peering through the window, he sees his teacher hanging by
a rope from the ceiling. Alerted to the situation, the staff act
quickly to keep the other students outside but not before a
lone little girl happens upon the horrific site.
A kind and unassuming Algerian man named Bachir Lazhar volunteers his services as a replacement teacher. His attempts to teach the kids are difficult but what results is a very touching film about the relationship between this formal teacher and his young students who struggle with their loss.
Official submission from Canada – Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2011
FILM CLUB: Feb 16, 9pm
Cave of
Forgotten Dreams
7pm: Feb 12, 14, 16
9pm: Feb 13, 15
2011 • USA
Dir: Werner Herzog
90min • Rated PG
In 1994, a group of scientists discovered a cave in Southern
France perfectly preserved for over 20,000 years and
containing the earliest known human paintings. Knowing the
cultural significance that the Chauvet Cave holds, the French
government immediately cut off all access to it, save a few
archaeologists and paleontologists.
Documentary filmmaker Werner Herzog was given exclusive limited access, and now we get to go inside to examine this beautiful artwork. Herzog questions various historians and scientists about what these humans would have been like and tries to build a bridge from the past to the present.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JduzM2_G9GS
PERMACULTURE presents "Sustainable Gardening"
7pm: Feb 17
60min
Discussion to follow
No Charge
Join Rob Avis of Verge Permaculture, a Calgary-based Permaculture
design company, for a presentation and discussion on Sustainable
Gardening. Permaculture is the use of ecology as the basis for
designing integrated systems of housing, energy, water, waste,
food production and community. For every climate, continent and
culture, from the smallest balcony garden to the largest broad acre
farm, permaculture can – and has – created low input and highly
productive systems. In this presentation, learn how incorporating
principles from natural ecologies into the design of your home,
garden & community can create spaces that use less fossil energy,
reduce water consumption, clean pollution, build topsoil and make
the world a better place overall.
The presentation is free of charge, and there will be an opportunity
to buy memberships from the Permaculture Research Institute of
Saskatchewan for $20.