Jul 1
“I look for a thematic idea running through my movies, and I see that it is the outsider struggling for recognition.” MARTIN SCORSESE
“I’ve come to know De Niro fairly well down the years. He’s a very compassionate man. He’s basically a very good man and you can see that in him. So he can take on characters that are pretty disturbing and make them human because of that compassion. It’s taken me years to figure it out. He has an ability to make audiences feel empathy for very difficult characters because there is something very decent in him.” SCORSESE ON ROBERT DE NIRO
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Jun 28
Wednesday, July 21, 2010 7:30pm
USA 1980. Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto
Post-screening discussion with Michael van den Bos
"A fusion of Hollywood genre with personal vision couched in images and sounds that are kinetic and visceral, and closer to poetry than pulp."
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Jun 28
Wednesday, August 18, 2010 7:30pm
USA 1976. Director: Martin Scorsese
Cast: Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Albert Brooks
Post-screening discussion with Mark Harris
Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes, and nominated for four Academy Awards, Scorsese’s 1976 classic follows damaged anti-hero Travis Bickle
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Jun 1
Wednesday, June 16, 2010 7:30pm
Germany 2007. Director: Jan Bonny
Cast: Matthias Brandt, Victoria Trauttmansdorff, Wotan Wilke Moehring, Susanne Bormann, Anna Brass
Post-screening discussion with Don Wright
Co-sponsored by B.C. Society for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse.
"Counterparts is above all about dependencies, love and fear." - Director Jan Bonny
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May 1
Wednesday, May 19, 2010 7:30pm - Vancouver Premiere!
Spain 2009. Director: Ventura Durall
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Roy O’Shaughnessy
Cleverly unravels the case of a 19-year-old paranoid schizophrenic who killed his father.
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Apr 1
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 7:30pm
Netherlands 2009. Director: Esther Rots
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Ingrid Sochting
A hypnotic exploration of one woman’s struggle to regain both her strength and her sanity.
Colour, Digibeta video, in Dutch with English subtitles. 94 mins.Read more...
Mar 1
Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - 7:30pm
Great Britain 2008. Director: Olly Lambert
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Ian Forbes
Cosponsored by Richmond Hospital’s Dept of Psychiatry.
VANCOUVER PREMIERE - When Ben Rogers picked up a video camera in 2004, he didn’t think he’d be filming the final two years of his life. Ben was 32 at the time and had been a heroin addict for 14 years.
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Jan 1
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 - 7:30pm
USA 2008. Director: Dana Perry
Post-screening discussion with Judy Davies, Jude Paltzer and
Dr. Jana Davidson.
Co-sponsored by Mood Disorders Association of BC (MDA), The Josh Platzer Society, the Crisis Centre and the Child & Adolescent Response Team (CART), Vancouver Community Mental Health Services.
Every parent’s worst nightmare is, unquestionably, the death of their child — the very event experienced by Dana Perry in 2005 with the suicide of her 15-year-old son Evan. A documentary filmmaker by trade, Dana sought solace by creating a film to try to understand the mind of a boy who asked in his suicide note “only to be forgotten.”
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Dec 1
Wednesday, December 16, 2009 7:30 pm
USA 2009. Directors: Katie Cadigan, Laura Murray
Post-screening discussion with
Joan Nazif and
Susan Inman
Co-sponsored by the Family Advisory Committee, Vancouver Community Mental Health Services.
Directors Katie Cadigan and Laura Murray's hard-hitting documentary which provides historical context for our contemporary mental health care crisis.
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Nov 1
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 - 7:30pm
Canada 2008. Director: Philippe Falardeau
Cast: Antoine L'Écuyer, Suzanne Clément, Daniel Brière, Catherine Faucher, Gabriel Maillé
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Myles Blank
This fresh, fast-paced seriocomic gem is set in the summer of 1968 in suburban Montreal, where 10-year-old hellion Léon (newcomer Antoine L'Écuyer) embarks on a spree of destructive and self-destructive behaviour as his parents’ marriage crumbles.
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Oct 1
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 - 7:30pm
Sweden, 2008. Directors: PeÅ Holmquist and Suzanne Khardalian
VANCOUVER PREMIERE! This arresting documentary follows a young psychotherapist in Gaza as he struggles to provide therapy against a backdrop of armed clashes and his own family issues.
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Sep 1
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 8:00 PM
** Please note this one-time only special start time of 8:00 PM **
VANCOUVER PREMIERE! FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE!
USA 2009. Director: Mary Katzke
Post-screening discussion with Mary Katzke and Dr. Carolyn Steinberg
Co-sponsored by Richmond Hospital’s Department of Psychiatry.
A woman sets off to find her estranged mother, beginning what is a five-year journey towards healing and acceptance in this heartrending documentary.
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Aug 1
Wednesday, August 19, 2009 - 7:30pm
Great Britain 1965. Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Ian Hendry, John Fraser, Yvonne Furneaux, Patrick Wymark
Post-screening discussion with Brian Ganter
Presented in partnership with Pacific Cinémathèque's Education Department.
One of modern cinema's most masterful studies of mental breakdown, Catherine Deneuve stars as Carol, an isolated young woman who believes she has been sexually assaulted.
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Jul 1
Wednesday, July 15, 2009 - 7:30pm
France 1976. Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Shelley Winters, Melvyn Douglas, Jo Ann Fleet
Post-screening discussion with Ramon Kubicek
A macabre tale of insanity, claustrophobia and transposable identity starring the film's masterful director Roman Polanski.
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Expressionistic, thought-provoking documentary addresses the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) — often referred to as "electroshock" — in psychiatry.
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