2024 Season
In our 18th year Cinematheque is back with exciting new series capturing our mission of bringing essential works of cinema art to Calgary.
We operate as a year-round season, with shows every two weeks. Our Contemporary World Cinema series will continue, as will our partnership with the public library.
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Art by Jeff Martin
MOVIES THAT BROKE HOLLYWOOD
Hollywood in 2024 can be defined as a largely risk averse industry. In the upcoming Movies that Broke Hollywood series, Calgary Cinematheque will take audiences back to a time where that was not the case. After Steven Spielberg broke the industry open with Jaws in 1975, the next 5 years in American filmmaking were defined by massive financial successes, often driven by an auteur in the director’s chair. Join us as we reassess Movies that Broke Hollywood.
Previously programmed
The Gold Rush (1925)
The Gold Rush (1925) with Live Score
Critically acclaimed upon release, The Gold Rush was the film Chaplin himself said he wanted to be remembered for. The Calgary Cinematheque is excited to present this masterpiece of physical comedy with a live score by Icarus 3.
Hundreds of Beavers (2022)
Hundreds of Beavers (2022)
A slapstick epic about a frostbitten battle between JEAN KAYAK and DIABOLICAL BEAVERS—hundreds of them—who stand between him and survival.In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become the greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
Art by Madison Armagost.
Foreign Fangs
This October, Calgary Cinematheque invites you for a month of vampiric horror cinema from around the globe! See this classic monster with new eyes through the reinterpretations of three cult classics of genre film.