On Thursday, June 30, the 7pm screening ($6) is A Nos Amours (1983), a French drama about a troubled 15-year-old girl. Next week, Wednesday July 6 and Thursday July 7 (both 8pm, $10/$12), as a fundraiser for the weekly cinema they’re screening the silent classic The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (Wednesday) and Dziga Vertov’s 1929 […]
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The Howling at Carbon Arc
7pm Thursday at Carbon Arc (in the Khyber, 1588 Barrington Street), a screening of Joe Dante’s 1981 werewolf classic The Howling, starring Dee Wallace and Patrick Macnee. Witness:
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Attenburg by Athina Rachel Tsangari screens
Attenburg by Greek filmmaker Athina Rachel Tsangari will show On Thursday, June 16 at Carbon Arc at the Khyber (1588 Barrington Street), the independent film series. It starts at 7pm and is $6. It’s a Greek drama about a woman bereft of love and maybe dying of loneliness, living in a failed and decaying architectural […]
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The Agronimist shows at Carbon Arc
Instead of the usual Thursday night fare, indie cinema series Carbon Arc is hosting this week’s film on Wednesday night, June 8, at The Khyber (1588 Barrington Street). On the slate is The Agronomist, Jonathan Demme‘s excellent 2003 documentary on Jean Dominique, the Haitian activist and broadcaster who was assassinated in 2000. Screening time is […]
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Carbon Arc hosts CFAT and WIFT this week
The Centre for Art Tapes animated celebration Animation With Love: Home Sweet Home takes place this Thursday at 7pm at the Carbon Arc (1588 Barrington Street). It features local animation by a swath of talented folks, including Andrea Dorfman, Tara Wells, Eva Madden-Hagen, and Jess MacCormack. And speaking of CFAT, we’ve learned that like AFCOOP […]
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J’ai Tué Ma Mère (I Killed My Mother) screens
[image-1] The French, they love this guy. Xavier Dolan taken two features to Cannes, and they are ready to anoint him as Canada’s great filmmaking hope, even if he’s only in his early 20s. This is Dolan’s first film, which he wrote, directed, produced and acted in at age 19. That kind of talent and ambition makes you almost want to kill the guy, you know? It screens at 7pm Thursday at Carbon Arc, 1588 Barrington Street, third floor of the Khyber.
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Carbon Arc’s three weeks
Carbon Arc Cinema (at the the Khyber, 1588 Barrington Street) has a few things planned in the near future. Speaking in Code, directed by Amy Lee Grill, captures the lives of people brought together by a passion for music. Grill follows the creators, including her techno-loving husband, for several years, watching them get whisked away by music, parties and unknown destinations. Some strive to succeed, while others hold on. This screening is tonight, April 14 at 7pm. Next Thursday is an award-winning story The Band’s Visit by Eran Kolirin. A band of Egyptian policemen, arrive in Israel to play a
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Brenda Longfellow at Carbon Arc
[image-1] Tonight at the Carbon Arc Cinema in the Khyber (1588 Barrington Street), filmmaker and York University film studies professor Brenda Longfellow will be showing three of her many films followed by an audience Q & A. On the docket will be Our Marilyn (1987), the very short Carpe Diem (2010) and Tina in Mexico (2002). The latter has done well critically, winning multiple film festival awards in Canada and the States. Tina in Mexico is an hour-long documentary chronicling avant-garde photographer and silent film star Tina Modotti. The setting is Mexico in the 20s and includes reenactments and pictures
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Cool Aid
Japan’s earthquake and tsunami has been devastating, prompting many to reach out and help. Haligonian musicians and artists have responded by organizing fundraisers and raising awareness for the tragedy. This Saturday, April 9, the Khyber ICA hosts a fundraiser for Japan, which brings together the music community and Japanese citizens of Halifax in a thoughtful […]
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Four Eyed Monsters screens at Carbon Arc this week
Something for lovers of adorably nerdy love stories and online romance, Carbon Arc is showing Four Eyed Monsters (2005), and describes it thusly: “Arin and Susan met online and fell in love through emails, notes, videos, and pictures. As their intimacy grew, so did their fears. Neglect, cheating and jealousy force the couple to question […]
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Transistor mister
Nostalgia is complicated. Not just because our economy is very good at selling our past back to us. It’s also that nothing deceives quite like a good memory. Just how awesome was that favourite concert of yours anyways? That long-lost boyfriend/girlfriend? That one summer? Is anything about our recollections objective at all? See? Complicated. Shotgun […]
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Long Weekends off
Long Weekends is gaining ground fast. Comprised of guitarist/vocalist Noel Macdonald, drummer Adam Hartling and bass player Devin Peck, the band recorded its first EP, Warmer Weather, at Echo Chamber just a month after getting together and released it earlier this month. “We didn’t want to start playing shows until our music came out.” “It […]