Domestic Arrivals: Canadian Film at Museum London

Last Thursday of the Month
Films begin at 7:30 pm
Admission is $10
Tickets may be purchased at Museum London in advance with a credit card, or at the door. To reserve tickets call 519.661.0333.

The 2009 short films have been released! Join us for the latest in features and shorts presented each month in our Canadian Film series. We team up with the Toronto International Film Festival's Film Circuit to screen the hottest in national cinema. We are proudly the only place in London dedicated to Canadian film.

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Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

SEPTEMBER 30
Michele Hozer, 2009, 109 min, 14A

This film sets aside Gould�s groomed public persona and explores the incongruities between his private reality and his larger image that came to dominate his life. Through a series of interviews, Mark Kingwell, Petula Clark and various close friends offer insights to his affair with painter Cornelia Foss, his substance use and how his public fa�ade took over his existence. The documentary also unearths unseen footage that makes it stand alone as a record of a key moment in Canadian cultural history.

Preceded by the short film Vive la Rose Bruce Alcock, 2009, 6 min, 14A
This multi-layered short is a visual treat of rich colour and beautiful animation. Alcock uses a rustic writing desk as his tableau to bring a Newfoundland love song to life with stop-motion animation of found maritime objects and oil paintings.


Reel Injun

OCTOBER 28
Neil Diamond, 2009, 85 min, PG

Director Neil Diamond will be in attendance for a Q&A after the screening. Diamond�s documentary tackles the inaccurate depictions of Aboriginal people in Hollywood films, and addresses the impact they have had on our perception. The journey consists of interviews with native actors, directors, writers, journalists and comedians as they discuss their experiences. Also featured is footage of films authored by Aboriginal people around the world. Diamond�s film is optimistic about Aboriginals finally being able to tell their stories in their own languages, and sharing their voices onscreen.

All Fall Down

NOVEMBER 25
Philip Hoffman, 2009, 95 min, 14A

Director Philip Hoffman will be in attendance to introduce his film, and lead a Q&A afterwards. His debut feature takes place in an abandoned farm house in Grey/Bruce County in Southern Ontario. He discovers that pioneering Native Peoples activist Nahneebahweequa (aka Catherine Sutton) had lived there before her death in 1865. As Hoffman digs into her history as an Ojibwe, he finds himself confronted with the present-day crises of poet George Lachlan Brown, the father of his stepdaughter, and a man slipping further into mental illness and poverty.
 

Due to scheduling and shipping conflicts films are subject to change without notice.