In the Fade was absolutely shredded by critics at the festivals last fall, but there are numerous smart people who really like it, too, so… I dunno? Carbon Arc have picked it as this Friday’s screening, so that is at least a promising sign.

Speaking of divided opinions, the new Wes Anderson stop-motion animated opus Isle of Dogs is here, and it has set off quite a discussion of the continuing acceptance of Orientalism in Western media. I haven’t had a chance to take it in yet, but when I do I will update this post with my own view.

I mentioned last week that I quite enjoyed A Quiet Place, but this dissenting view is very much worth a read.

• • In theatres, seen & recommended:
    • A Quiet Place, John Krasinski, USA, 2018, 95 minutes [82] — Halifax showtimes
  • In theatres, new & notable:
    • Isle of Dogs, Wes Anderson, USA/Germany, 2018, 101 minutes [82] — Halifax showtimes
  • Halifax screenings this week:
    • Friday (Apr 20) — In the Fade, Carbon Arc Cinema @ the Museum of Natural History, 7pm, $8.75. Fatih Akin, Germany/France, 2017, 106 minutes.

The two local-ish screenings coming up this week that have most sharply piqued my interest aren’t in Halifax—they’re in Wolfville. Commence logistical planning…

Ava is the “not so delicate” debut feature by Iranian-Canadian director Sadaf Foroughi that won best first feature film at the Canadian Screen Awards. It’s only had two Halifax screenings (that I can recall), both at festivals, but this Sunday it’s playing twice in Wolfville at Fundy Cinema. Before that, this Wednesday Fundy has a screening of Australian director Jennifer Peedom’s documentary Mountain, replete with “staggering shots” of the mountains that humans climb in search of the sublime, and narration by Willem Dafoe.

Carbon Arc this Friday also has a feature by a woman director, in this case Japan’s Atsuko Hirayanagi, with Oh Lucy!, “an against-the-odds charmer about a woman, a tragic wig and an improbable journey.”

I don’t always take note of short film showcases in this column, but you gotta sit up and take notice when Black Cop director Cory Bowles curates two hours’ worth of some of the best recent shorts by Black directors. The Dal Art Gallery is co-presenting this Thursday’s free  “Black on Both Sides” program with Halifax Public Libraries at the Central Library, where the films will be introduced by local actor, filmmaker, and activist Koumbie.

I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the latest horror-genre sensation, maybe the first since Get Out, to garner uniformly positive critical reviews as well as big box office. I’m referring of course to John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place, which arrived on Cineplex screens this past Friday, and which impressed Jeanette Catsoulis of the NY Times: “You may go in jaded, but you’ll leave elated or I’ll eat my words.” Absolute top-drawer genre picture with nicely curated reference points—War of the Worlds, 28 Days Later, Aliens, The Descent—but very much does its own thing.

• • In theatres, seen & recommended:
    • A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio, Chile/Germany/Spain/USA, 2017, 104 minutes [87] — Halifax showtimes
    • A Quiet Place, John Krasinski, USA, 2018, 95 minutes [82] — Halifax showtimes
  • In theatres, new & notable:
    • The Death of Stalin, Armando Iannucci, UK/France, 2017, 107 minutes [88] — Halifax showtimes
  • Halifax screenings this week:
    • Thursday (Apr 12) — Black on Both Sides, Central Library, 6pm, free. Various directors, 10 short films, total running time 121 minutes.
    • Friday (Apr 13) — Oh Lucy!, Carbon Arc Cinema @ the Museum of Natural History, 7pm, $8.75. Atsuko Hirayanagi, USA/Japan, 2017, 95 minutes.
  • Wolfville screenings this week:
    • Wednesday (Apr 11) — Mountain, Acadia Cinema’s Al Whittle Theatre (450 Main Street, Wolfville), 7pm, $9. Jennifer Peedom, Australia, 2017, 74 minutes.
    • Sunday (Apr 15) — Ava, Acadia Cinema’s Al Whittle Theatre (450 Main Street, Wolfville), 4pm & 7pm, $9. Sadaf Foroughi, Iran/Canada/Qatar, 2017, 102 minutes.

Lynn Shelton built her career directing comedy films that embody some of the worst tendencies of American indies—”the kind of movie that prides itself on its dialogue—but then relies on a montage set to gentle strumming to begin the healing.” But then a successful swerve into television altered her approach and now she’s back with… an actually good film? “I’m a completely different filmmaker than I was,” she tells Anne Thompson of IndieWire. “I felt so at ease, and so confident. I didn’t have the same angst. I don’t want to diss my other films, but the process of making them was much more anxiety producing because I hadn’t put in the hours.” The fruit of her labours, Outside In, a post-prison rehabilitation drama, plays at Carbon Arc this Friday.

• • In theatres, seen & recommended:
    • A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio, Chile/Germany/Spain/USA, 2017, 104 minutes [87] — Halifax showtimes
    • The Party, Sally Potter, UK, 2017, 71 minutes [73] — Halifax showtimes
  • In theatres, new & notable:
    • The Death of Stalin, Armando Iannucci, UK/France, 2017, 107 minutes [88] — Halifax showtimes
    • Meditation Park, Mina Shum, Canada, 2017, 94 minutes — Halifax showtimes
  • Halifax screenings this week:
    • Friday (Apr 6) — Outside In, Carbon Arc Cinema @ the Museum of Natural History, 7pm, $8.75. Lynn Shelton, USA, 2017, 109 minutes.

The Death of Stalin seems like a timely comedy for the dark Trumpian timeline we currently find ourselves on, but the Village Voice’s Bilge Ebiri says it “would be a brilliant, harrowing film even without all that contemporary resonance.” I’m just delighted that it’s arrived in Halifax.

“In a fairer world, Portrait of Jason would have done what [Shirley Clarke’s] earlier works didn’t—it would have launched her, turned her into one of the most sought-out, most admired, and busiest directors of the time,” writes Richard Brody in The New Yorker.  “In director Shirley Clarke’s daring and ground-breaking documentary,” says the Dal Art Gallery’s note for this Tuesday’s screening, “would-be cabaret performer, hustler, and gender preference pioneer Jason delivers an electrifying monologue about what it is like to be black and gay in mid-Sixties USA.” This is the latest in the Gallery’s Women Filmmakers 1931-1969 series of free screenings, rescheduled from two weeks ago for nor’easter reasons.

Carbon Arc this Friday is showing the sexual-assault-themed The Light of the Moon, and they are doing it in partnership with the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre, which seems to me like a really creative and responsible way to handle such a screening. “The film’s concerns are profoundly therapeutic, but it nimbly avoids every therapy-drama cliché,” says Sheri Linden of the LA Times.

Speaking of filmmakers and responsibility around themes of sexuality and violence—Steven Soderbergh’s new shot-on-iPhone suspenser Unsane is on a couple of Cineplex screens in Halifax, but I can’t bring myself to add it to my “recommended” list. From a strictly film-technique point of view, there’s much that’s praiseworthy, but too much of the content is awkwardly written or just out of place in 2018.  It has, however, inspired a very thoughtful take by the New York Times’ Manohla Dargis.

• • In theatres, seen & recommended:
    • A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio, Chile/Germany/Spain/USA, 2017, 104 minutes [87] — Halifax showtimes
    • The Party, Sally Potter, UK, 2017, 71 minutes [73] — Halifax showtimes
    • The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro, USA, 2017, 123 minutes [87] — Halifax showtimes
  • In theatres, new & notable:
    • The Death of Stalin, Armando Iannucci, UK/France, 2017, 107 minutes [88] — Halifax showtimes
    • Meditation Park, Mina Shum, Canada, 2017, 94 minutes — Halifax showtimes
  • Halifax screenings this week:
    • Tuesday (Mar 27) — Portrait of Jason, MacAloney Room, 4th floor, Dalhousie Arts Centre, 7pm, free. Shirley Clarke, USA, 1967, 105 minutes.
    • Friday (Mar 30) — Mary and the Witch’s Flower, Cineplex Park Lane, 4:30pm, regular pricing. Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Japan, 2017, 117 minutes.
      — The Light of the Moon, Carbon Arc Cinema @ the Museum of Natural History, 7pm, $8.75. Jessica M. Thompson, USA, 2017, 90 minutes.

This year’s winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, Sebastián Lelio’s A Fantastic Woman, is finally playing Halifax, at Park Lane, and it isn’t guaranteed to be here after Thursday, so I think you know what to do.

If you’re like me and the recent screenings of Faces Places were a strong reminder that you can never have enough Agnès Varda in your life, well, the Dalhousie Art Gallery has us both covered. This Tuesday’s free screening in the Women Filmmakers 1931-1969 series is Lions Love (…and Lies), Varda’s most ambitious American film, “a staged documentary about a performance of events and ideas and attitudes that were very real to 1968.”

Speaking of films at Dal, this Thursday, Dalhousie Students for Partners in Health (DSPIH) hosts a pay-what-you-can screening of Bending the Arc, the extremely well-reviewed documentary released just five months ago, “about a group of advocates who sought to improve access to quality healthcare around the world.”

Carbon Arc returns from March Break with two films this weekend. Friday, In Between, from the Hungarian-born Palestinian Israeli film director Maysaloun Hamoud, tells the story of three young Palestinian women sharing an apartment in Tel Aviv—the “three bright actresses bring such a sense of authenticity to their roles that this all feels new.” Saturday, it’s the Metric concert film Dreams So Real, about which it’s impossible to find a review, so your level of interest is probably best matched to your level of interest in the band.

On Thursday, an unusual night for Fundy Cinema in Wolfville, there’s an equally unlikely choice of documentary—A lovasíjász (The Horse Archer), which screening apparently includes a demonstration of the eponymous horse archery. I have to assume this will be minus the horse.

• In theatres, seen & recommended:
  • The Party, Sally Potter, UK, 2017, 71 minutes [73] — Halifax showtimes
  • The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro, USA, 2017, 123 minutes [87] — Halifax showtimes
• In theatres, notable:
  • A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio, Chile/Germany/Spain/USA, 2017, 104 minutes [87] — Halifax showtimes
• Halifax screenings this week:
  • Tuesday (Mar 20) — Lions Love (…and Lies), MacAloney Room, 4th floor, Dalhousie Arts Centre, 7pm, free. Agnès Varda, France/USA, 1969, 110 minutes.
    — Call Me By Your Name, Cineplex Park Lane, 4:40pm, regular Tuesday pricing. Luca Guadagnino, Italy/USA/Brazil/France, 2017, 132 minutes.
  • Wednesday (Mar 21) — Call Me By Your Name, Cineplex Park Lane, 4:40pm, regular pricing. Luca Guadagnino, Italy/USA/Brazil/France, 2017, 132 minutes.
  • Thursday (Mar 22) — Bending the Arc, Room 1020, Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building, 6100 University Ave, 6pm, donations accepted. Kief Davidson & Pedro Kos, USA, 2017, 102 minutes.
  • Friday (Mar 23) — In Between, Carbon Arc Cinema @ the Museum of Natural History, 7pm, $8.75. Maysaloun Hamoud, Israel/France, 2016, 103 minutes.
  • Saturday (Mar 24) — Metric: Dreams So Real, Carbon Arc Cinema @ the Museum of Natural History, 7pm, $8.75. T. Edward Martin & Jeff Rogers, Canada, 2017, 110 minutes.
• Wolfville screenings this week:
  • Wednesday (Mar 21) — A Fantastic Woman, Acadia Cinema’s Al Whittle Theatre (450 Main Street, Wolfville), 7pm, $9. Sebastián Lelio, Chile/Germany/Spain/USA, 2017, 104 minutes.
  • Thursday (Mar 22) — A lovasíjász (The Horse Archer), Acadia Cinema’s Al Whittle Theatre (450 Main Street, Wolfville), 7pm, $10. Géza Kaszás & Dániel Tiszeker, Hungary, 2016, 115 minutes.
  • Sunday (Mar 25) — Molly’s Game, Acadia Cinema’s Al Whittle Theatre (450 Main Street, Wolfville), 7pm, $9. Aaron Sorkin, USA, 2017, 140 minutes.

“In a fairer world, Portrait of Jason would have done what [Shirley Clarke’s] earlier works didn’t—it would have launched her, turned her into one of the most sought-out, most admired, and busiest directors of the time,” writes Richard Brody in The New Yorker.  “In director Shirley Clarke’s daring and ground-breaking documentary,” says the Dal Art Gallery’s note for this Tuesday’s screening, “would-be cabaret performer, hustler, and gender preference pioneer Jason delivers an electrifying monologue about what it is like to be black and gay in mid-Sixties USA.” This is the latest in the Gallery’s Women Filmmakers 1931-1969 series of free screenings. Rescheduled to Tuesday March 27.

Wednesday in Wolfville, Fundy Cinema has Spettacolo, the well-reviewed documentary about a dying tradition in a dying town. Every year in Monticchiello, a Tuscan village with about 100 residents, the citizens stage a play about themselves. “One of the film’s most beautiful passages,” writes the Village Voice’s Bilge Ebiri, “is a montage of different townsfolk — a teacher, a woman hanging laundry, a clerk behind a desk — practicing their lines as they go about their day.”

This evening (Monday) at the Central Library, Novel Tech Ethics has lined up another excellent discussion panel for a mental-health-themed screening, this time for Sarah Silverman’s 2015 expectation-redefining portrayal of depression, I Smile Back, a film that, with its relentless darkness, has been more of a divider than uniter of critical opinion.

Carbon Arc is on hiatus this weekend to accommodate the Museum of Natural History’s March break programming.

• In theatres, seen & recommended:
  • The Party, Sally Potter, UK, 2017, 71 minutes [73] — Halifax showtimes
  • The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro, USA, 2017, 123 minutes [86] — Halifax showtimes
• In theatres, notable:
  • A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio, Chile/Germany/Spain/USA, 2017, 104 minutes — Halifax showtimes (starts Friday)
  • The Post, Steven Spielberg, USA, 2017, 116 minutes [83] — Halifax showtimes
• Halifax screenings this weekend:
  • Monday (Mar 12) — Mary and the Witch’s Flower, Cineplex Park Lane, 4:30pm, regular pricing. Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Japan, 2017, 117 minutes.
    — I Smile Back, Central Library, 6pm, free. Adam Salky, USA, 2015, 85 minutes.
    — The Dark Crystal, Cineplex Park Lane, 7:30pm, $6.99. Jim Henson & Frank Oz, USA/UK, 1982, 93 minutes.
    — Call Me By Your Name, Cineplex Park Lane, 9:40pm, regular pricing. Luca Guadagnino, Italy/USA/Brazil/France, 2017, 132 minutes.
  • Tuesday (Mar 13) — Portrait of Jason, MacAloney Room, 4th floor, Dalhousie Arts Centre, 7pm, free. Shirley Clarke, USA, 1967, 105 minutes.
    — To Kill a Mockingbird, Cineplex Park Lane, 7pm, $6.99. Alan J. Pakula, USA, 1962, 129 minutes.
    — The Dark Crystal, Cineplex Park Lane, 9:45pm, $6.99. Jim Henson & Frank Oz, USA/UK, 1982, 93 minutes.
  • Wednesday (Mar 14) — Call Me By Your Name, Cineplex Park Lane, 4:15pm, regular pricing. Luca Guadagnino, Italy/USA/Brazil/France, 2017, 132 minutes.
    — To Kill a Mockingbird, Cineplex Dartmouth Crossing, 7pm, $6.99. Alan J. Pakula, USA, 1962, 129 minutes.
    — Mary and the Witch’s Flower, Cineplex Park Lane, 9:45pm, regular pricing. Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Japan, 2017, 117 minutes.
  • Thursday (Mar 15) — The Dark Crystal, Cineplex Park Lane, 4:30pm, $6.99. Jim Henson & Frank Oz, USA/UK, 1982, 93 minutes.
    — Call Me By Your Name, Cineplex Park Lane, 7pm, regular pricing. Luca Guadagnino, Italy/USA/Brazil/France, 2017, 132 minutes.
  • Friday (Mar 16) — Mary and the Witch’s Flower, Cineplex Park Lane, 4:40pm, regular pricing. Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Japan, 2017, 117 minutes.
  • Sunday (Mar 18) — To Kill a Mockingbird, Cineplex Park Lane, 2:30pm, $6.99. Alan J. Pakula, USA, 1962, 129 minutes.
• Wolfville screenings this week:
  • Wednesday (Mar 14) — Spettacolo, Acadia Cinema’s Al Whittle Theatre (450 Main Street, Wolfville), 7pm, $9. Jeff Malmberg & Chris Shellen, USA, 2017, 91 minutes.
  • Sunday (Mar 18) — I, Tonya, Acadia Cinema’s Al Whittle Theatre (450 Main Street, Wolfville), 7pm, $9. Craig Gillespie, USA, 2017, 121 minutes.

Carbon Arc is on hiatus for a couple of weekends to accommodate the Museum of Natural History’s March break programming, but there are still some screenings of note this week. An all-time Czech New Wave favourite of mine, Daisies, the “radically mischievous” 1966 film by Věra Chytilová, is this week’s instalment of the Dal Art Gallery’s “Women Filmmakers 1931-1969” free screening series.

The 1982 Jim Henson creation The Dark Crystal is returning as a Netflix series, and in advance of that, the original film has returned to theatres, and is playing at Cineplex Park Lane on Wednesday. Speaking of timeless children’s entertainment, the film that offers to continue the legacy of Hayao Miyazaki’s work at Studio Ghibli, Yonebayashi Hiromasa’s Mary and the Witch’s Flower, has arrived at Park Lane as well.

This week’s reluctant/obligatory mention goes to this Sunday’s Cineplex Classic Films screenings of To Kill a Mockingbird. I’ve never been a huge fan of Gregory “The Human Jaw” Peck and possibly I resent the fact that he basically stole a best actor Oscar for this performance from the much more deserving Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia. But I am at your service and here to inform you of such screenings as this.

Cineplex Park Lane has a film that was a late add to this past September’s AIFF, English director Sally Potter’s brief (71-minute) dark comedy The Party, “like Buñuel meets Molière, grounded in Chekhov,” and also has a couple more screenings of Call Me By Your Name (features the perfect coupling of a James Ivory’s Oscar-winning script with Luca Guadagnino’s direction), late Tuesday and early Wednesday.

Fundy Cinema in Wolfville has Call Me By Your Name on Wednesday and Mina Shum’s Meditation Park on Sunday.

• In theatres, seen & recommended:
  • The Party, Sally Potter, UK, 2017, 71 minutes [73] — Halifax showtimes
• In theatres, notable:
  • The Post, Steven Spielberg, USA, 2017, 116 minutes [83] — Halifax showtimes
• Halifax screenings this weekend:
  • Monday (Mar 5) — Mary and the Witch’s Flower, Cineplex Park Lane, 4:15pm, regular pricing. Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Japan, 2017, 117 minutes.
  • Tuesday (Mar 6) — Daisies, MacAloney Room, 4th floor, Dalhousie Arts Centre, 7pm, free. Věra Chytilová, Czechoslovakia, 1966, 76 minutes.
    — The Dark Crystal, Cineplex Park Lane, 7:30pm, $6.99. Jim Henson & Frank Oz, USA/UK, 1982, 93 minutes.
    — Call Me By Your Name, Cineplex Park Lane, 9:40pm, regular pricing. Luca Guadagnino, Italy/USA/Brazil/France, 2017, 132 minutes.
  • Wednesday (Mar 7) — Call Me By Your Name, Cineplex Park Lane, 5pm, regular pricing. Luca Guadagnino, Italy/USA/Brazil/France, 2017, 132 minute
    — Mary and the Witch’s Flower, Cineplex Park Lane, 7:50pm, regular pricing. Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Japan, 2017, 117 minutes.
  • Thursday (Mar 8) — Mary and the Witch’s Flower, Cineplex Park Lane, 9:40pm, regular pricing. Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Japan, 2017, 117 minutes.
  • Friday (Mar 9) — Mary and the Witch’s Flower, Cineplex Park Lane, 4:15pm, regular pricing. Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Japan, 2017, 117 minutes.
    — Call Me By Your Name, Cineplex Park Lane, 7pm, regular pricing. Luca Guadagnino, Italy/USA/Brazil/France, 2017, 132 minutes.
    — The Dark Crystal, Cineplex Park Lane, 9:45pm, $6.99. Jim Henson & Frank Oz, USA/UK, 1982, 93 minutes.
  • Saturday (Mar 10) — Call Me By Your Name, Cineplex Park Lane, 9:50pm, regular pricing. Luca Guadagnino, Italy/USA/Brazil/France, 2017, 132 minutes.
  • Sunday (Mar 11) — To Kill a Mockingbird, Cineplex Park Lane & Dartmouth Crossing, 12:55pm, $6.99. Alan J. Pakula, USA, 1962, 129 minutes.
    — Call Me By Your Name, Cineplex Park Lane, 4pm, regular pricing. Luca Guadagnino, Italy/USA/Brazil/France, 2017, 132 minutes
• Wolfville screenings this week:
  • Wednesday (Mar 7) — Call Me By Your Name, Acadia Cinema’s Al Whittle Theatre (450 Main Street, Wolfville), 7pm, $9. Luca Guadagnino, Italy/USA/Brazil/France, 2017, 132 minutes.
  • Sunday (Mar 11) — Meditation Park, Acadia Cinema’s Al Whittle Theatre (450 Main Street, Wolfville), 7pm, $9. Mina Shum, Canada, 2017, 94 minutes.

The 2018 edition of the Halifax Black Film Festival is here, opening with the well-reviewed Jim-Crow-era sexual violence doc The Rape of Recy Taylor, and closing with Black Cop, the feature directorial debut from Nova Scotia’s own Cory Bowles, a film that has picked up a bag full of awards since debuting this past fall at TIFF and AIFF.

Meanwhile, Carbon Arc on Friday (at an atypical 8:30pm screening time) has the latest from one of my favourite directors, Lebanon’s Ziad Doueiri, The Insult, a film that had excellent notices at TIFF and is in the running for the Best Foreign Language Feature Oscar to be handed out on Sunday. On Saturday, there are two screenings of the Brett Morgen doc about Jane Goodall, Jane.

Cineplex Park Lane has a film that was a late add to this past September’s AIFF, English director Sally Potter’s brief (71-minute) dark comedy The Party, “like Buñuel meets Molière, grounded in Chekhov.”

• In theatres, seen & recommended:
  • Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino, Italy/USA/Brazil/France, 2017, 132 minutes [93] — Halifax showtimes
    
  • The Party, Sally Potter, UK, 2017, 71 minutes [73] — Halifax showtimes
• In theatres, new & notable:
  • The Post, Steven Spielberg, USA, 2017, 116 minutes [83] — Halifax showtimes
• Halifax screenings this weekend:
  • Friday (Mar 2) — The Rape of Recy Taylor, Spatz Theatre, 7pm, $20 [info]. Nancy Buirski, USA, 2017, 91 minutes.
    — The Insult, Carbon Arc Cinema @ the Museum of Natural History, 8:30pm, $8.75. Ziad Doueiri, France/Lebanon, 2017, 112 minutes.
  • Saturday (Mar 3) — Jane, Carbon Arc Cinema @ the Museum of Natural History, 7pm & 9pm, $8.75. Brett Morgen, USA, 2017, 90 minutes.
  • Sunday (Mar 4) — Black Cop, Cineplex Park Lane, 7pm, $15. Cory Bowles, Canada, 2017, 91 minutes.

Friends, I’ve got flu and laryngitis and am in no shape to research and post a full week of screening picks at the moment, so for now I will just call your attention to a couple of screenings tonight (Tuesday): the Dal Art Gallery’s screening of Mai Zetterling’s 1964 feature Loving Couples at 7pm, and the Thrillema’s screening of Takashi Miike’s 1999  gory classic Audition at the Museum of Natural History at 8pm.

I hope to update later in the week with some weekend picks.

• In theatres, seen & recommended:
  • Call Me By Your Name, Luca Guadagnino, Italy/USA/Brazil/France, 2017, 132 minutes [93] — Halifax showtimes
  • The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro, USA, 2017, 123 minutes [86] — Halifax showtimes
• In theatres, notable:
  • The Post, Steven Spielberg, USA, 2017, 116 minutes [83] — Halifax showtimes