ALC – Available Light Cinema
The Yukon Film Society and Yukon Arts Centre have teamed up to screen new release films and cinema classics with state-of-the-art projection and excellent sound on the biggest screen in the Yukon. Available Light Cinema flickers brightly one Sunday a month from September to May for your movie enjoyment.
Sunday, January 15
2:00pm Kirikou and the Sorceress
Dir. Michel Ocelot, France/ Belguim, 1998, 74 min
In this beautiful animated film, a boy named Kirikou is born in a little village somewhere in Africa. He’s not a normal boy, because he knows what he wants very well. Also he already can speak and walk. His mother tells him how an evil sorceress has dried up their spring and devoured all males of the village except of one. Hence little Kirikou decides, he will accompany the last warrior to the sorceress. Due to his intrepidity and courage he may be the last hope of the village. English dubbed version. Appropriate for ages 4 and up if naturalized nudity is acceptable to parents.
4:00pm Beauty Day
Dir. Jay Cheel, Ontario, 2010, 90 min
An apt mix of humour and humanity, ‘Beauty Day’ is a feature length documentary which chronicles the life and times of cable television star Ralph Zavadil, AKA Cap’n Video. His cable access television show, The Cap’n Video Show, ran from 1990 to 1995, spawning a small but loyal cult following. Each week Ralph Zavadil performed a series of idiotic and occasionally dangerous stunts, challenging the sensibilities of his small Southern Ontario audience. With the advent of the internet and reality television still years away, his unique brand of gross-out stunt comedy was truly ahead of its time. All it took was a broken neck for him to get noticed. If you loved ‘American Movie’, ‘Anvil!’, ‘Jackass’ or ‘Fubar 1+2’ then don’t miss the documentary ‘Beauty Day.’
6:00pm Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Dir. Werner Herzog, Fra/Ger/UK/USA, 2010, 90 min
Werner Herzog gains exclusive access to film inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, capturing the oldest known pictorial creations of humankind in their astonishing natural setting. For over 20,000 years, the Chauvet caves of Southern France have been completely sealed off by a fallen rock face, its crystal-encrusted interior as large as a football field and strewn with the petrified remains of giant ice age mammals. In 1994, scientists discovered the caverns, and found hundreds of pristine paintings within, spectacular artwork dating back over 30,000 years.
8:00pm Fitzcarraldo
Dir. Werner Herzog, Germany/Peru, 1982, 158 min
Yes, the one and only where a mad rubber baron portages a steamship over a Peruvian mountain. Perhaps the documentary about the making of: ‘Burden of Dreams’ has eclipsed the mesmerizing spectacle of Klaus Kinski in a floppy straw hat coaxing a ship up a 40 degree slope in the Amazon rain forest in the early 1900s, but there’s only one way to know which film is better…see them both. Watch for Burden of Dreams in the spring.