Library Screening Series
Calgary Cinematheque is excited to present free monthly screenings for the third year in a row in partnership with the Calgary Public Library. Hosted in the architecturally celebrated new Central Library, these screenings are a wonderful opportunity to spread the gospel of cinema to folks who might not be aware of our programming. Each library screening includes a pre- or post-film lecture, providing an in-depth learning opportunity to place the film and its series in context, and situating the collective experience of cinema within a meaningful community environment.
Series Films
Marnie (1964)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Dec 1, 2019
One of the last acknowledged masterpieces in Hitchcock’s career, Marnie stars Tippie Hedren as the eponymous character: a frigid woman with a mysterious past, a penchant for kleptomania and colour coordinated panic attacks. As her husband Mark (Sean Connery) gamely tries to manage and control Marnie’s aberrant and destructive drives, it slowly becomes clear that Mark may be harbouring as much pathological impulse as Marnie herself.
Madeline’s Madeline (2018)
Directed by Josephine Decker
Jan 19, 2020
Madeline (newcomer Helena Howard) has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director (Molly Parker) pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother (Miranda July) into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women’s lives.
Purple Noon (1960)
Directed by René Clément
Feb 16, 2020
René Clément’s Purple Noon (1960) sizzles with homoerotic subtext at a time when being overtly gay landed you in jail. Our next free screening at the Calgary Central Library will feature a short and engaging introductory lecture from Kevin Allen (Research Lead of the Calgary Gay History Project), who will share his passion for this cinematic masterpiece and its queer reflection of 1960s society.
2020 Library Screening Series Films To be announced
We’ll be making an exciting announcement about our Library Series later in the season. Stay tuned to our website and social media to see what’s in store for 2020!