We are pleased to partner with distributor and subtitler Matchbox Cine to present an updated version of the Tales From Winnipeg series they debuted earlier this year. This series features three features from Winnipeg directors as well as a number of shorts.
Matchbox Cine is an independent film exhibitor, specializing in the outcasts, orphans and outliers of cult cinema, and an award-winning subtitler, specializing in access provision for film exhibition & distribution. From Glasgow, Scotland, and currently based in Bristol, England, they program, curate and promote cult film events across the UK.
Matchbox Cine’s Tales From Winnipeg debuted as an online-only program in 2020, celebrating the work of renegade Canadian film co-op the Winnipeg Film Group. John Paizs’ seminal CRIME WAVE (1985) in its TIFF 2K restoration, Guy Maddin’s COWARDS BEND THE KNEE (2003) with new, director-approved score by Ela Orleans and Dave Barber and Kevin Nikkels’ documentary on the WFG, from inception to present day. All Films Will Be Screened With Subtitles.
CRIME WAVE
dir. John Paisz, 1985
80 mins. Canada.
In English.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10 – 7 PM – previously lost 16mm print! (this screening is $10)
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11 – 5 PM – previously lost 16mm print! (this screening is $10)
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15 – 10 PM – new restoration!
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23 – 10 PM – new restoration!
CRIME WAVE centers on an awkward loner, Steven Penny (John Paizs), who turns out bizarre scenarios for color crime movies. Steven wants to turn in the best colour crime movie ever, but he has a problem – he can only write beginnings and ends to his scripts. No middles! Living above a family garage in suburbia and befriended by the landlord’s ten-year-old daughter (Eva Kovacs), we see excerpts from a number of Steven’s scripts, zany ideas based on get-rich-quick schemes. Finally frustrated by his creative block, he sets out for Kansas to meet Dr Jolly (Neil Lawrie), the script doctor.
COWARDS BEND THE KNEE
dir. Guy Maddin, 2003
64 mins. Canada.
In English.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11 – 7 PM – Q&A with Guy Maddin and Rhayne Vermette! (this screening is $10)
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14 – 7:30 PM
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17 – 7:30 PM
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22 – 10 PM
NEW SCORE FROM ELA ORLEANS!
It’s time for hockey! There’s no telling what will happen when the Winnipeg Maroons’ own star player Guy becomes embroiled in the twisted lives of Meta, a vengeful Chinoise, and her hairdresser/abortionist mother Liliom. Innocent Veronica, caught in the middle, is treated to both services! Meanwhile poor, dithering, cowardly Guy can only stand by and watch.
“This wild, gorgeous and almost insane new score by Ela Orleans has completely reinvented COWARDS. She understood at musical levels the depths of shame, heights of hysteria, and quivering viscous ick I felt while shooting it; she drew out from the film every dark strand of soiled soul unravelling within and hung it in a new moonbeam for all the appalled to see.” – Guy Maddin
preceded by
DOMUS
dir. Rhayne Vermette, 2017
15 min. Canada.
In English.
“The block of marble is the most beautiful of all statues” – Carlo Mollino
This is the story of the godlike architect, Carlo Mollino, animated within the desk space of failed architect, Rhayne Vermette. Made, with love on 16mm, 35 and Super 8, this classic tale of Pygmalion investigates intersections between cinema and architecture.
and
CATTLE CALL
dirs. Matthew Rankin & Mike Maryniuk, 2008
3 mins. Canada.
In English.
A high-speed animated documentary about the art of livestock auctioneering, structured around the mesmerizing talents of 2007 Man-Sask Auctioneer Champion, Tim Dowle.
TALES FROM THE WINNIPEG FILM GROUP
dir. Dave Barber, Kevin Nikkel, 2017
85 mins. Canada.
In English.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10 – 10 PM – Introduction from Matchbox Cineclub! (this screening is $10)
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11 – 10 PM – Introduction from Matchbox Cineclub! (this screening is $10)
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14 – 10 PM
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23 – 10 PM
TALES FROM THE WINNIPEG FILM GROUP is the explosive story of how a stubborn band of independent filmmakers started a film co-operative that became the most highly respected film centre in Canada.
preceded by
WILL THE REAL DAVE BARBER PLEASE STAND UP?
dir. Dave Barber, 2014
4 min. Canada.
In English.
In April of 2013 long time Winnipeg Cinematheque programmer Dave Barber was invited to receive the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal. It was a remarkable occasion. The awards ceremony was in a packed hall at the Legislative Building. Everything was going fine until…