North Vancouver Community Arts Council presents
www.nvar tscouncil.ca
spring Series
2017
April 19
My American Cousin
North Shore International
Film Series
ing 12 Years of Film Excellence
Celebrat
!
May 3
i, daniel Blake
May 17
Maudie
May 31
A Quiet Passion
June 14
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Films screened at
Park and Tilford Cineplex
333 Brooksbank Ave, North Vancouver
my american cousin
Canada On Screen
I, Daniel Blake
Free screening tickets required
April 19, 7 pm
Canada, 1985
English
90 minutes
This film is part of Canada on Screen, a Canada150 project by TIFF,
featuring nation-wide screenings of Canadian films on April 19th.
Sandy Wilson’s charming feature debut – which premiered
at TIFF in 1985 – follows preteen Sandy (Margaret Langrick),
who lives with her family in the sleepy Okanagan Valley.
When her cousin Butch (John Wildman) arrives from
California in a flashy red convertible, Sandy’s life erupts.
Everything about Butch is slicker, louder, sexier, and
better than anything Sandy has ever encountered.
More than a bittersweet coming-of-age story, My
American Cousin is a meditation on the differences
between us and our neighbours to the south.
NORTH VANCOUVER COMMUNITY
ARTS COUNCIL
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A quiet passion
May 3
7 pm
May 31
7 pm
UK, 2016
English
100 minutes
UK/Belgium,
2016
English
124 minutes
Loach’s latest film is indeed one of his finest explorations
of social realism. Daniel is an affable 59-year-old carpenter
in Newcastle, England, fighting to collect government
benefits after falling ill. (Government illogic stipulates
that his benefits will be taken away unless he looks for
work, yet doctor’s orders prevent him from working.)
At the local Job Centre, Daniel befriends Katie, a
young single mother of two who is also being shoved
around by the vagaries of the system, having just
been relocated from a London homeless shelter to an
affordable council flat up north. A mutually beneficial
alliance, and makeshift extended family, is formed.
Now recognized as a genius who committed to paper
some of the most important verses in American
literature, 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson was
virtually unknown in her lifetime, with fewer than a
dozen of her nearly 1,800 poems published. A recluse,
Dickinson (Cynthia Nixon) explored her inner self in
great detail, and yet it is her encounters with her mother,
father, and sister that structure the film.
Stunning in its sumptuous photography, the film’s
beauty is also evident in the respect and love that it
brings to its subject. Director Terence Davies has created
an extraordinarily moving account of a particular genius.
Maudie
after the Storm
May 17
7 pm
June 14
7 pm
Canada/Ireland,
2016
English
115 minutes
Japan, 2016
Japanese with
English subtitles
117 minutes
Determined to prove her independence to herself and
her overprotective family, Nova Scotian Maud Dowley
(Sally Hawkins) answers an ad for a live-in housekeeper
for the solitary Everett Lewis (Ethan Hawke), despite
being challenged by the effects of juvenile rheumatoid
arthritis. Maud’s warmth and positivity breaks through
her new employer’s cold and reserved demeanour, but
her artistic skills quickly eclipse her domestic duties.
Director Aisling Walsh brilliantly captures Maud’s
growth into one of Canada’s most celebrated folk artists.
Touching and funny, Maudie is an inspirational,
based-on-fact tale and an unlikely love story.
Divorcee Ryota (Hiroshi Abe) is a failed writer, third-rate
detective, and hardened gambler who struggles to regain
his estranged family’s trust while sheltering them during
a typhoon. The broken family is forced to spend the night
together and the ensuing interaction, free of melodrama
and forced catharsis, is bittersweet and tender.
Gentle and melancholy, yet highly amusing, After the
Storm recalls the beauty of scenery after a summer rain,
and the feeling that everything seems different, even
though nothing has changed.