Music in Motion
JULY 22ND, 2009
Music in Motion
No need to install air-con to beat the heat, just step inside a cinema and watch classic Catherine Deneuve sing, not speak, all her lines in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg while sipping on chilled chardonnay.
The 1964 musical is one of the 23 music-minded films the Vancity Theatre (now 19 and older only thanks to a new permanent liquor license) is screening in its month-long Summer of Sound series starting Friday. Our picks on the program can be categorized from A to D:
A for Almost Famous and Across the Universe.
B for a bit of Bowie, both real life (Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars) and inspired-by (Velvet Goldmine).
C for Canadian icons captured on celluloid—32 Short Films about Glenn Gould, Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man, Neil Young: Heart of Gold.
D for that doc called Woodstock.
That's eight flicks—with drinks—to keep you cool. But if you're real roadie material, there's an all-access pass that gets you in to all 23 films for just $50. Rock on.
Summer of Sound: Music on Film runs July 24-August 18, 2009 at the Vancity Theatre, 1181 Seymour St., Vancouver, 604-683-3456, www.vifc.org