Our June 2024 Calendar is now here! You can download one here, or pick one up at the box office.
This summer, the Dave Barber Cinematheque presents Female Perversions: The Films of Catherine Breillat, featuring four explicit, transgressive and emotionally ambiguous works – Romance (1999), Fat Girl (2001), Anatomy of Hell (2004), and Last Summer (2023).
Over the last three decades, Catherine Breillat has clinically charted sexuality and its intersections with power and intimacy. In her films, she treats sexual politics as philosophical and coldly analytical, confronting the viewer with the explicit taboos around the body. Her films explore the adolescent obsession with the loss of virginity, masochism, misogyny, and female sexuality. For Breillat, there is always an element of power involved in pleasure.
Transgressive and challenging, Female Perversions aims to explore the career of a singular and unapologetic filmmaker whose films examine the meaning of bodies from social, political and personal angles.
Female Perversions: The Films of Catherine Breillat opens June 5.
Join us on June 5 for an introduction by Saffron Maeve, a Toronto-based critic, academic, and film curator. She is a contributor to Film Comment, The Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, MUBI Notebook, Cinema Scope, Screen Slate, Le Cinéma Club, as well as a member of the Toronto Film Critics Association and GALECA, the Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics. Saffron also moderates film talks at the TIFF Lightbox and is a series programmer at Paradise Theatre, where she curates and hosts CONTOURS, a bimonthly screening series which examines films that deal in the world of visual art. Presently, Saffron is pursuing an MA at the University of Toronto’s Cinema Studies Institute.
Presented in partnership with Alliance Française du Manitoba. Generously sponsored by the Ambassade de France au Canada.
This month’s Trash Cult Tuesdays features films of the Gay Girls Riding Club, including What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, All About Alice and more! These pioneering DIY movies are an essential snapshot of mid-century drag culture that would feel right at home with the dreamy work of Mike and George Kuchar.
Nathan and David Zellner’s absurdist, epic, hilarious, and ultimately poignant Sasquatch Sunset opens June 5.
Comedian Kevin McDonald returns with The End on June 6 for McDonald at The Movies.
Jane Schoenbrun’s surreal and fantastic I Saw The TV Glow opens June 7.
Cinematheque Projectionist and Box Office staff Mulikat Sanni presents The Devil Wears Prada as part of our Staff Picks series on June 13.
The new 4K Restoration of One Hand Don’t Clap opens June 14 as part of our Jazz on Film series, presented in partnership with TD Winnipeg International Jazz Festival.
Astral Projection celebrates Cancer season with Paul Verhoeven’s unhinged camp classic Showgirls on June 20.
Lisa Jackson’s documentary Wilfred Buck opens June 21. In celebration of National Indigenous Peoples Day, join us on June 21 for a free screening featuring an introduction and Q&A with Wilfred Buck and Lisa Jackson, moderated by Justin Bear L’Arrivée. Presented in partnership with Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art.
Joanna Arnow’s slacker-style romantic comedy The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed opens June 21.
The new 4K Restoration of Horace Ové’s fiction-film debut, Pressure, opens June 27.
Marusya Bociurkiw traces the rise and fall of analogue feminist communications networks with Analogue Revolution: How Feminist Media Changed the World, playing June 28. Presented in partnership with MAWA and CKUW.