2025 Season
In our 19th year we’re trying something new with our programming. We’ll transition from bi-weekly to weekly screenings for our series, running them one month on and one month off. During the off months, we’ll feature special screenings or Contemporary World Cinema screenings.
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girls just wanna have fun
Throughout film history, there has always been a lack of movies where women take center stage and their daily lives are the main focus. It was a minor miracle that, back in 1980, we got four of these girl-power films in the same year. Calgary Cinematheque proudly brings together these four hard-to-find and underappreciated films on their 45th anniversary for our Girls Just Wanna Have Fun series.
Previously programmed
Art by Dylan Nickolet
Surrealist Experimental Hallucinatory: Short Films of the 1920’s w/ Live Score
The Surrealist artistic movement was born in the aftermath of World War I, as shell-shocked nations strove to rebuild and artists began to explore the unconscious mind, seeking to synthesize an expression of the illogical world of dreams with the cold reality they found themselves in.The Calgary Cinematheque is excited to present a curated selection of these classic shorts, accompanied by live music.
Caligula: The Ultimate Cut (2024)
Caligula: The Ultimate Cut (2024)
In 2024, art historian Thomas Negovan undertook an ambitious project to “rescue” Caligula’s reputation. Using hours of previously unreleased footage, Negovan re-edited the film to restore Gore Vidal’s original vision of perverse power. Calgary Cinematheque proudly presents the latest incarnation of Rome’s most infamous tyrant: Caligula: The Ultimate Cut.
Art by Spencer Smith.
Lovers on the Run
In movies and in life, the desire for money and the desire for love can sometimes intertwine in unexpected ways. If every love story is a potential crime scene, then the romances depicted in Calgary Cinematheque’s Lovers on the Run series take this theme to the hilt.