An exploration of the extraordinary choices parents face whenTaxi Driver
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
Raging Bull
“A fusion of Hollywood genre with personal vision couched in images and sounds that are kinetic and visceral, and closer to poetry than pulp.”Summer Classics Series: Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro x 2
“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
Counterparts (Gegenüber)
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
The Forgiveness (El perdón)
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.
Can Go Through Skin (Kan door huid heen)
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 – 7:30pm
Netherlands 2009. Director: Esther Rots
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Ingrid Sochting
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.Ben: Diary of a Heroin Addict
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.
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.
0.9 Ampere
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 – 7:30pm VANCOUVER PREMIERE
Italy 2008. Director: Giotto Barbieri
Post-screening discussion with Dr. Michael Wilkins-Ho
Co-sponsored by Riverview Hospital Historical Society
Expressionistic, thought-provoking documentary addresses the use of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) — often referred to as “electroshock” — in psychiatry.
Boy Interrupted
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 – 7:30pm
USA 2008. Director: Dana Perry
Post-screening discussion with Judy Davies, Jude Paltzer and Dr. Jana Davidson.
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.”