Sue Foley plays the Rio
By Steve Newton
MONDAY: screening at the Cinematheque of Face/Off director John Woo‘s 1992 action-thriller Hard Boiled, starring Chow Yun-fat as a vengeful Hong Kong cop on the trail of a vicious gangster.
TUESDAY: British indie-rock quintet High Vis plays the Rickshaw Theatre, with guests Cold Gawd, A Mourning Star, and Juice.
TUESDAY: screening at the Rio Theatre of The Toxic Avenger, writer-director Macon Blair’s new reimagining of Troma Entertainment’s campy 1984 splatter-comedy about a horrible toxic accident that transforms a downtrodden janitor into a new kind of hero.
The Who plays Rogers Arena
TUESDAY: British rock legends The Who, featuring guitarist Pete Townshend and singer Roger Daltrey, perform at Rogers Arena on their final farewell tour. Here’s my review of the Who from 1996.
WEDNESDAY TO FRIDAY: Star Witnesses, running at the Polygon Gallery until September 28, assembles works by 11 artists whose observations of the cosmos bring new understandings of exploratory and migratory movements on Planet Earth.
FRIDAY: late-night screening at the Rio Theatre of a 40th anniversary restoration of director Stuart Gordon’s gory horror-comedy Re-Animator.
The Kraken is in town
FRIDAY: the Vancouver Canucks take on the Seattle Kraken in National Hockey League preseason action at Rogers Arena.
FRIDAY: Canadian blues guitarist-vocalist Sue Foley performs material from her latest album One Guitar Woman at the Rio Theatre. Here’s my interview with Sue Foley from 1992.
FRIDAY: the BC Lions take on the Toronto Argonauts in Canadian Football League action at BC Place.
Clearcut screens at the VIFF Centre
FRIDAY: screening at the VIFF Centre of a 4K restoration of Polish director Ryszard Bugajski’s 1991 environmental thriller Clearcut, starring the late Graham Greene as a militant Indigenous activist on a rampage against a mill encroaching on his people’s land.
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