Bret Easton Ellis considered his controversial novel unfilmable but boy did writer-director Mary Harron prove him wrong. David Cronenberg, Stuart Gordon, and Oliver Stone, among others, were each separately eyeing the project before Harron stepped in and made it her own. And basically every hot young late-’90s leading man was considered for the titular psycho […]

VTIFF celebrates the holidays with this annual tradition: a festive screening of Wong Kar-wai’s sumptuous yuletide masterpiece, In the Mood for Love.   Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. VTIFF celebrates the holidays with this annual tradition: a festive screening of Wong Kar-wai’s sumptuous yuletide masterpiece, In the Mood for Love.   Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung) and […]

1. See Citizen Kane.  2. Have you seen Citizen Kane yet?  So should begin the list of New Year’s Resolutions for any so-called film lover who has somehow escaped the transformative experience of Orson Welles’ 1941 masterpiece. So here’s a chance to make good on a resolution just two days into the new year, and […]

A seminal moment in Black American cinema, Gordon Parks’ Shaft gave audiences something they hadn’t seen before: a strong Black action hero anchoring a mainstream Hollywood action movie. A huge financial success, Shaft proved that there was a large audience for (in Parks’ words), “a Saturday night fun picture which people go to see because […]

Where would you rather be? On a truck full of nitroglycerine in the South American mountains or on a raft on the totally unexplored Amazon with greedy religious fanatics in the 16th century? One of the all-time white-knuckle tension-fests in cinema history, Wages of Fear drops us into a very remote and mountainous region of […]

Where would you rather be? On a truck full of nitroglycerine in the South American mountains or on a raft on the totally unexplored Amazon with greedy religious fanatics in the 16th century? Werner Herzog’s none-too-subtle but incredibly effective broadside against the hubris of colonialism, Aguirre, the Wrath of God is one of the German […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. Here’s the scoop: My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow, the monumental new documentary from director Julia Loktev (The Loneliest Planet), is, as its title suggests, a […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. Here’s the scoop: My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow, the monumental new documentary from director Julia Loktev (The Loneliest Planet), is, as its title suggests, a […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. Here’s the scoop: My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow, the monumental new documentary from director Julia Loktev (The Loneliest Planet), is, as its title suggests, a […]

This screening is sold out. We will start an in-person waitlist one hour before the screening in case we are able to release last-minute tickets. Here’s the scoop: My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow, the monumental new documentary from director Julia Loktev (The Loneliest Planet), is, as its title suggests, a […]

Based on a fantastically successful, Tony-winning 1975 Broadway hit, with a cast that includes Richard Pryor, Michael Jackson, Lena Horne, and Diana Ross, and behind-the-scenes talent including Berry Gordy, Quincy Jones, and Sidney Lumet… what could go wrong? Well, we wouldn’t say things “went wrong,” exactly. Let’s just say they “went weird.” An eccentric, dazzling, […]

The film that made a star of Jimmy Cliff and brought reggae to the world, Perry Henzell’s The Harder They Come remains A-list cinema, a swaggering cops-robbers-and-reggae epic fueled by one of the great soundtracks in movie history.  Ivanhoe Martin (Cliff) leaves the rural life for the big city of Kingston, Jamaica, where he is […]

New Screening Added Here’s the scoop: My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow, the monumental new documentary from director Julia Loktev (The Loneliest Planet), is, as its title suggests, a story that is still unfolding. “Part I” is an acclaimed 5.5 hour movie now playing in select theaters, including VTIFF. Loktev is […]