Newt’s top 10 things to do in Vancouver this week, January 27 to 31

To Kill a Mockingbird screens at VIFF Centre

By Steve Newton

MONDAY: American indie-pop band Foster the People plays the Queen Elizabeth Theatre on its Paradise State of Mind Tour, with guests Good Neighbours.

MONDAY: screening at the VIFF Centre of director Robert Mulligan’s 1962 adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird, starring Gregory Peck in his Oscar-winning role as small-town lawyer Atticus Finch.

MONDAY TO FRIDAY: the annual PuSh Festival, running until February 9 at various Vancouver venues, features contemporary works of live art–dance, theatre, music, and multimedia–by local, national, and international performers.

Lynch/Oz screens at the Rio

TUESDAY: screening at the Rio Theatre of Lynch/Oz, Alexandre O. Philippe’s documentary about late director David Lynch’s fascination with The Wizard of Oz. Director Philippe will host the screening and discuss Lynch; partial proceeds will support the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation.

MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY TO FRIDAY: exhibition of paintings by New York City-based artist Firelei Báez, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, runs until March 16 at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

WEDNESDAY: American comedian John Hodgman brings his comedic pop-culture court show podcast Judge John Hodgman and its fake legal wisdom to the Hollywood Theatre.

The Wages of Fear screens at the Cinematheque

THURSDAY: screening at the Cinematheque of a new restoration of director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1953 thriller The Wages of Fear, about four outcasts who agree to drive two truckloads of nitroglycerine over treacherous jungle roads to an oil-well fire raging 350 miles away.

THURSDAY: screening at the Rio Theatre of From Ground Zero, in which 22 Palestinian filmmakers living through war capture their lives in Gaza over the past year. In Arabic with English subtitles.

FRIDAY: music director Otto Tausk leads the Vancouver Symphony and violinist Francesca Dego in a program at the Orpheum Theatre that includes Beethoven’s Violin Concerto and Tchaikovsky’s Sixth Symphony.

The Vaccines play the Hollywood

FRIDAY: British indie-rock quartet the Vaccines performs tunes from new album Pick-Up Full of Pink Carnations at the Hollywood Theatre, with guests Thus Love. SOLD OUT.

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