10/04/2026
Tonight! Celluloid Social Club is proud to be a Community Partner on the documentary 'Last Movies' at Vancouver International Film Festival on Oct 4 & 6.
More about the film:
Last Movies directed by Stanley Schtinter
"What would film history look like viewed not through the rise and fall of studios, actors, and directors, but according to a different organizing principle — the final movies watched by various cultural figures before they died? Moving from Franz Kafka (The Kid) and John Dillinger (Manhattan Melodrama) to Bette Davis (Waterloo Bridge) and Kurt Cobain (The Piano), British artist Stanley Schtinter embraces this simple concept to remap the entire history of the medium. Narrated by Jeremy Irons, the result is a dizzyingly detailed, mordantly funny, and deliberately skewed love letter to the movies.
Recalling the essay-films of Harun Farocki and Thom Andersen (Los Angeles Plays Itself), Last Movies is scrupulously researched, darkly humorous, and always entertaining. Like avant-garde artists from the Surrealists onward, Schtinter embraces chance as his organizing principle. Recognizing that all of us, too, will have our own last movies, it offers a scintillating twist on Tom Gunning’s concept of the cinema as “a machine for killing time.”"
Sunday, October 4, 8:30 pm, SFU-GCA
Tuesday, October 6, 4:15 pm, International Village 8
Tickets: https://viff.org/whats-on/viff26-last-movies/
Use Discount Code VF26CLDLM5OFF for $5 off.
