EMPIRE ESPLANADE 6 200 West Esplanade, North Vancouver 604-983-2762
J. Edgar (PG) - Fri-Sun 12, 6: 25; Mon-Thur 6: 25 p.m.
Anonymous (PG) - Fri-Sun 12, 6: 25; Mon-Thur 6: 25 p.m.
The Ides of March (14A) - Fri-Sun 12: 45, 4, 6: 50, 9: 15; Mon-Thur 6: 50, 9: 15 p.m.
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (18A) - Fri-Sun 12: 35, 3: 50, 7: 10, 9: 35 p.m.
The Way (PG) - Fri-Sun 12: 05, 3: 30, 6: 40, 9: 30; Mon-Thur 6: 40, 9: 30 p.m.
Paranormal Activity 3 (14A) - Fri-Sun 3: 15, 9: 20; Mon-Thur 9: 20 p.m.
Immortals 3D (18A) - Fri-Sun 12: 20, 3: 40, 7, 9: 40; Mon-Thur 7, 9: 40 p.m.
PARK & TILFORD
333 Brooksbank Ave., North Vancouver 604-985-3911
Jack and Jill (PG) - Fri-Sun 1: 10, 3: 40, 7, 9: 20; Mon-Thur 7, 9: 15 p.m. Thur 1 p.m.
Tower Heist (PG) - Fri 7: 10, 10; Sat-Sun 1: 40, 4: 30, 7: 10, 10; Mon-Thur 7: 10, 9: 4 p.m. Thur 1 p.m.
Puss in Boots 3D (G) - Fri-Sun 1: 30, 4: 10, 6: 30, 9: 10; Mon-Thur 6: 50, 9 p.m.
Moneyball (PG) - Fri-Sun 1, 3: 50, 6: 40, 9: 40; Mon-Thur 6: 30, 9: 30 p.m.
In Time (PG) - Fri-Sun 4: 30, 10; Mon-Thur 9: 40 p.m.
The Rum Diary (PG) - Fri, Sun 1: 20, 4, 6: 50, 9: 40; Sat 4, 6: 50, 9: 40; Mon-Wed 6: 40, 9: 20; Thur 6: 40 p.m.
Johnny English Reborn - Fri-Sun 1: 50, 7: 10; Mon-Thur 7: 10 p.m.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 - Thur 10 p.m.
The Metropolitan Opera: Anna Bolena - Sat 9: 55 a.m.
PACIFIC CINEMATHEQUE
1131 Howe St., 604-688-FILM www.cinematheque.bc.ca.
Recent Restorations:
Treasures from the UCLA Festival of Preservation Sleep, My Love (USA,1948. Director: Douglas Sirk) Cast: Claudette Colbert, Robert Cummings, Don Ameche, Rita Johnson, George Coulouris, Hazel Brooks. Screening Sat., Nov. 12, 7 p.m.
The great Douglas Sirk, master of the 1950s Hollywood melodrama, directs this vintage fi lm noir gem in the "terrorized wife" mode. Claudette Colbert heads the excellent cast as wealthy socialite Alison Courtland; Don Ameche is Richard, her apparently loving husband, who's actually conniving to drive her crazy; and Robert Cummings is Bruce, the charming friend-of-a-friend who falls in love with Alison. Hays Offi ce censors were concerned about potential sexual references between the married heroine and her new male friend, the costume of a sultry character played by Hazel Brooks, and the "unnamed strange powder" that fi gures in the plot. Sirk put up with a lot of nonsense to make his masterpieces.
VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM CENTRE
1181 Seymour St. (at Davie), www.vifc.org
Méliès, the Cinemagician
Méliès, the Cinemagician celebrates the life and work of Georges Méliès, the fi rst grand illusionist of the cinema. A disciple of Robert Houdin, Méliès was a magician who built his own cinématrographe machine when the Lumière brothers refused to sell him their invention in 1895. He went on to write, direct, design, photograph and perform in more than 500 short fi lms between 1896 and 1913 - all of them shot in his purpose-built studio-laboratory in the grounds of his home on the outskirts of Paris.
Among them the fi rst sci-fi movie, Voyage to the Moon (1902), a 14-minute epic recently revived in the hand-tinted colour tones in which it was fi rst shown. Live stage show and screenings Nov. 12 and 13.
