Coming to the Civic (Mar. 28 – Apr. 2)

It’s EarthHour on Saturday March 29, 8:30-9:30pm!

Please consider bringing a flashlight if you attend our Saturday night movies! We will be turning off all power (except to the projector!) during EarthHour. Please consider Pledging to help our chances of winning $1000 from Nelson Hydro!

A farewell from a master of animation, a river of Turkish blood, a Canadian cult classic compendium to our celebration of local actress Sarah Allen and a fresh perspective on the paintings of Johannes Vermeer.

Miyazaki said through a translator that, “I would like to have Studio Ghibli to be like a wooden boat that journeys with sails.” His timeless films, My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away and Ponyo to name a few are all beautifully hand rendered in this age of digital animation. That boat will have to traverse a sea of Turkish blood before its sails transform into the elegant wings of Jiro Horikoshi beautiful airplanes in Miyazaki’s farewell film The Wind Rises (Rated G) splitting this week with the visceral 300: Rise of an Empire (Rated 18A).

For March’s Member Monday we chose to continue our celebration of Canadian independent cinema after our last week’s screening of Bruce McDonald’s The Husband starring Nelson’s own Sarah Allen with McDonald’s 1991 cult classic Highway 61. A naive Canadian barber (Don Mckellar) who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her “brother’s” corpse to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within. Free for members of the Civic

Is Vermeer a master painter or the seventeenth century version of techie geek? Tim Jenison, a Texas based inventor, (Video Toaster, LightWave, TriCaster) attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did 17th century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer (“Girl with a Pearl Earring”) manage to paint so photo-realistically – 150 years before the invention of photography?

See you there.

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