EMPIRE ESPLANADE 6
200 West Esplanade, North Vancouver 604-983-2762
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3D (14A) - Fri-Thur 12, 4, 8 p.m.
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (14A) - Fri-Thur 1, 5, 9: 15 p.m.
Django Unchained (14A) - Fri-Thur 11: 45, 4: 30, 8: 30 p.m.
The Guilt Trip (PG) - Fri-Thur 12: 15, 3: 15, 6: 45, 9: 45 p.m.
Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Away 3D (G) - Fri-Thur 12: 15, 4: 15, 7: 10, 9: 40 p.m.
Monsters, Onc. 3D (G) - Fri-Thur 12: 45, 3: 30, 6: 30, 9: 20 p.m.
PARK & TILFORD
333 Brooksbank Ave., North Vancouver, 604-985-3911 This is 40 (14A) - Fri 7: 10, 10: 20; Sat-Sun, Wed-Thur 1, 4: 05, 7: 10, 10: 20; Mon 1: 00, 4: 05, 7: 10; Tue 4: 05, 7: 10, 10: 20 p.m.
Les Misérables (PG) - Tue 3: 10, 6: 40, 10: 05; Wed-Thur 11: 40, 3: 10, 6: 40, 10: 05 p.m.
Skyfall (PG) - Fri 7, 10: 10; Sat-Sun, Wed-Thur 12: 30, 3: 40, 7, 10: 10; MON 12: 30, 3: 40, 7; Tue 3: 40, 7, 10: 10 p.m.
Argo (PG) - Fri 6: 50, 9: 50; Sat-Sun 1: 10, 4: 10, 6: 50, 9: 50; MON 1: 10, 4: 10, 6: 50 p.m.
Jack Reacher (PG) - Fri 7: 20, 10: 30; Sat-Sun, Wed-Thur 1: 20, 4: 20, 7: 20, 10: 30; Mon 1: 20, 4: 20, 7: 20; Tue 4: 20, 7: 20, 10: 30 p.m.
Parental Guidance (G) - Tue 5: 10, 7: 35, 10: 10; Wed-Thur11: 30, 2: 10, 5: 10, 7: 35, 10: 10 p.m.
Life of Pi 3D (G) - Fri 7: 05, 10; Sat-Sun 1, 4, 7: 05, 10; Mon 1, 4, 7: 05; TUE 4: 00, 6: 50, 9: 45; Wed-Thur 12, 4, 6: 50, 9: 45 p.m.
Rise of the Guardians 3D (G) - Fri 7: 15, 9: 40; Sat-Sun 4: 45, 7: 15, 9: 40; Mon 4: 45, 7: 15 p.m.
Rise of the Guardians (G) - Sat-Mon 12, 2: 20 p.m.
? The Toronto International Film Festival established Canada's Top Ten Film List in 2001. Pacific Cinémathèque will screen this year's Top 10 films and Top 10 shorts Jan. 18-20, 25-26 and Feb. 1-4, 2013. For more information go to thecinematheque. ca/canadas-top-ten-2012.
Canada's Top 10 Films 2012 in alphabetical order
- Cosmopolis (Director David Cronenberg)
- The End of Time (Director Peter Mettler) - Goon (Director Michael Dowse)
- Laurence Always (Director Xavier Dolan)
- Midnight's Children (Director Deepa Mehta)
- My Awkward Sexual Adventure (Director Sean Garrity)
- Rebelle (Director Kim Nguyen)
- Still (Director Michael McGowan)
- Stories We Tell (Director Sarah Polley)
- The World Before Her (Director Nisha Pahuja)
Canada's Top 10 Shorts 2012 in alphabetical order
- Bydlo (Director Patrick Bouchard)
- Chef de meute / Herd Leader (Director Chloe Robichaud)
- Crackin' Down Hard (Director Mike Clattenburg)
- Kaspar (Director Diane Obomsawin)
- Ne Crâne pas sois modeste / Keep a Modest Head (Director Deco Dawson)
- Lingo (Director Bahar Noorizadeh)
- Malody (Director Phillip Barker)
- Old Growth (Director Tess Girard)
- Reflexions (Director Martin Thibaudeau)
- Paparmane / Wintergreen (Director Joëlle Desjardins Paquette)
Members of this year's feature panel were: Toronto documentary filmmaker Barri Cohen; Kerri Craddock, senior manager of festival programming at TIFF; Now magazine film critic and Toronto programmer Paul Ennis; Matt Galloway, host of CBC Radio One's Metro Morning in Toronto; Judy Gladstone, for 15 years the director of the Bravo!FACT production grant program for Canadian short films and videos; Montreal actor-writer-director Jacob Tierney (The Trotsky); and Elizabeth Yake, president of B.C.-based True West Films.
Panellists for this year's selection of short films were: Eileen Arandiga, former director of the Worldwide Short Film Festival in Toronto; Laura Good, programming coordinator and short film programmer for TIFF's Film Circuit; Matthew Hays, Montreal-based journalist, author, and Concordia University instructor; Jennifer Jonas, president of Toronto-based New Real Films; and Greg Klymkiw, film producer and Senior Creative Consultant and Producer-in Residence at the Canadian Film Centre.
PACIFIC CINEMATHEQUE
1131 Howe St., 604-688-FILM, cinematheque.bc.ca.
VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM CENTRE
1181 Seymour St. (at Davie), vifc.org Castles in the Sky: Miyazaki, Takahata, and the Masters of Studio Ghibli Until Jan. 3, 2013.
JOHN GOODMAN
Top 10 Films
1. Berberian Sound Studio (U.K. 2012,
Director Peter Strickland) 2. A Man Vanishes (Japan 1967/2012 DVD, Director Shohei Imamura)
3. Chasing Ice (U.S. 2012, Director Jeff Orlowski)
4. Amour (Austria/France 2012, Director Michael Haneke)
5. Holy Motors (France 2012, Director Leos Carax)
6. Charlie is My Darling (U.K. 1966/2012 DVD, Director Peter Whitehead)
7. The Dark Knight Rises (U.S./U.K. 2012, Director Christopher Nolan)
8. Ornette Coleman: Made in America (U.S. 1984/2012, Director Shirley Clarke)
9. The Island President (U.S. 2012, Director Jon Shenk)
10. The Imposter (U.K. 2012, Director Bart Layton)
