Movies
Monthly movies @ The Film House
Main Street Landing, 3rd Floor
Screenings are Thursday @ 7 PM unless otherwise noted.
The People’s Joker
Thursday, May 9
Main Street Landing, Film House
Strictly as a legal undertaking, The People’s Joker is fascinating just for the fact of its existence – IndieWire accurately calls it “one of the most impressive and subversive stretches of fair use law ever put to film.”
Weekly movies at the Screening Room @VTIFF
VTIFF’s Office, 60 Lake Street, 1st Floor
Screenings have been selling out. Order your tickets online in advance to guarantee your seat.
Bushman
Friday, May 10 | 7:00 pm
The Screening Room @VTIFF
Using a docu-fictional style reminiscent of Cassavetes’ Shadows, the film observes the foibles of late 1960s African-American culture with an outsider’s incisive eye.
Chameleon Street
Saturday, May 11 | 7:00 pm
The Screening Room @VTIFF
Wendell B. Harris wrote, directed and starred in this edgy, hilarious deep-dive into the mind of a brilliant African-American, William Douglas Street, a man who seeks to adopt any identity – baseball player, journalist, Harvard grad student, even surgeon – other than his own.