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Programmed by TIFF 2021 (https://www.tiff.net/calendar?series=welcomeback&list)
70mm Print!
“The ultimate trip,” Stanley Kubrick’s science-fiction masterpiece has survived innumerable parodies, references, and rip-offs with its awe-inspiring power intact. Tracing a cosmic mystery from the dawn of humankind to the farthest reaches of time and space, 2001 chronicles an intergalactic mission to find the origin of a mysterious black monolith discovered by American astronauts on the moon — a mission complicated when the ship’s renegade computer HAL 9000 decides that its human cargo is inadequate to carry out such an important task. Featuring spectacular special effects by Douglas Trumbull, 2001 pointedly speculates on what it means to be human in an age dominated by technology, and what the next stage of human evolution could potentially be.
Print courtesy of the TIFF Film Reference Library Screening Collection.
Join us for this special screening of Abbas Kiarostami’s Certified Copy presented in memory of Carol Beaven, our longtime friend and supporter.
35mm Print!
Kiarostami’s sunny puzzler has an impeccable modernist pedigree, invoking both Rossellini’s Voyage in Italy and Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad. Set in radiant Tuscany, Certified Copy initially appears to be a highbrow rom-com, as a French antiques dealer (Juliette Binoche) attends a lecture given by an art historian (English opera star William Shimell, channelling George Sanders) in which he debates whether a copy of a painting can be considered as authentic and valuable as its original. The two, both professionally engaged with the history of art and objets, are soon flirting with each other as she drives him to a nearby village for lunch, where a waiter “mistakes” them for a bickering married couple. This (perhaps) misapprehension incites an ambiguous game that makes us doubt our assumptions about the two. Are they indeed husband and wife elaborating a ruse for their own amusement, or the strangers we first supposed? The director keeps intensifying this uncertainty as the couple plays out a scenario that calls into question what is real or artifice, authentic or a “certified copy.” “Fascinating, beautiful, and intentionally enraging: a brilliant return to form” (David Denby, The New Yorker).
Print courtesy of the TIFF Film Reference Library Screening Collection.
Content advisory: coarse language, mature themes, may frighten young children
35mm Print!
This screening marks the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, an annual event that aims to raise awareness of the need for film preservation and the conservation of our audiovisual heritage.
Jane Campion’s haunting, elegant, ultimately devastating adaptation of a Henry James novel long thought unfilmable stars Nicole Kidman as the tragically idealistic young American Isabel Archer. Suddenly wealthy from an unexpected inheritance, Isabel determines that her financial independence should also free her from societal convention, and sets out on a quest for art and experience in Europe. Like so many of James’s American innocents abroad, Isabel becomes ensnared in the stratagems of various schemers, including the brittle, blithely amoral Madame Merle (Barbara Hershey, relishing her every Machiavellian manoeuvre) and the cunning aesthete Gilbert Osmond (a heavy-lidded, louche John Malkovich). With a supporting cast that includes John Gielgud, Shelley Winters, Viggo Mortensen, and Mary-Louise Parker, and an exquisite period design seemingly based on John Singer Sargent paintings, Campion’s daring adaptation of one of the greatest of all novels “shares visual beauty and a tough-minded spirit with The Piano” (The New York Times).
Print courtesy of the TIFF Film Reference Library Screening Collection. This unique collection includes 35mm films that were previously distributed on the theatrical circuit. As a result, this print may exhibit minor signs of wear such as scratches, edge abrasions, and residue.
35mm Print!
After cutting his directorial teeth on a series of gonzo music videos for the likes of Björk, The Chemical Brothers, and the Beastie Boys, Spike Jonze selected an “unproduceable” script by first-time screenwriter Charlie Kaufman for his feature-film debut, and came out the other side with a critical cause célèbre and enduring cult favourite. John Cusack stars as Craig, a gifted but unappreciated puppeteer who (don’t ask how) discovers a portal that allows him to enter the mind and body of actor John Malkovich for 15 minutes at a time. The beleaguered Oscar nominee soon becomes the unwilling fourth point in a love quadrangle as Craig, his neglected wife, Lotte (Cameron Diaz), and his workplace crush, Maxine (Catherine Keener), repeatedly cop his corpus, the sexual and metaphysical fallout from their body-swapping forcing them to evaluate the nature of their love, their selves, and their Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich (Malkovich). Exploring concerns around voyeurism, gender identity, and personal agency during an era of growing social and technological control, Being John Malkovich is a complex, hilarious, and utterly bonkers testament to the absurdity of American life at the turn of the last century.
Print courtesy of the TIFF Film Reference Library Screening Collection.
Content advisory: coarse language, mature themes, may frighten young children
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Programmed by TIFF 2021 (https://www.tiff.net/calendar?series=welcomeback&list)
