Deckchair Cinema 2024 Lineup
You are invited to enjoy classic films under the stars on Cates Deck in front of the Gallery. Now in its third year, Deckchair Cinema treats audiences to a summer of al fresco film screenings. Hosted for 10 Thursdays beginning June 27, the screenings commence at sunset, and will be complemented by music and entertainment leading up to curtain time. Attendees are encouraged to arrive early and make themselves comfortable by bringing their own blankets or low chairs. A concession stand will feature drinks from local breweries, which can be enjoyed on Cates Deck, a public zone for alcohol consumption. Admission to Deckchair Cinema is by donation, courtesy of BMO Financial Group, and includes access to the Gallery’s summer exhibitions.
June 27
Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains
Starring Diane Lane and Laura Dern alongside members of the Clash and Sex Pistols, this Vancouver-shot cult favourite inspired a generation of female musicians. Corinne Burns (Lane) is a typical frustrated teenager living in a nowhere town until she catches punk band the Looters. Bewitched by the whole punk scene, she and her fledgling band, the Stains, join the tour, and in no time at all become media magnets. The band forms a rabid following of young women, while Corrine begins a relationship with the Looters singer. As the Stains get bigger and bigger, however, Corinne’s ambition gets the better of her.
Music by Katayoon Yousefbigloo begins at 7pm
Beer by Beere Brewing Company
Film starts at 9:30pm
July 4
The Harder They Come
Reggae superstar Jimmy Cliff is Ivan, a rural Jamaican musician who journeys to the city of Kingston in search of fame and fortune. Pushed to desperate circumstances by shady record producers and corrupt cops, he finally achieves notoriety—as a murderous outlaw. Boasting some of the greatest music ever produced in Jamaica, The Harder They Come brought the catchy and subversive rhythms of the Rastas to the U.S. in the early 1970s.
So Much To Say: A Bob Marley Celebration with DJ Leroy Hikwa starts at 7pm
Beer by North Point Brewing Co
Film starts at 9:15pm
July 11
Stop Making Sense
The greatest concert film of all time, Stop Making Sense brings to the screen Talking Heads at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater in December 1983: David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison, alongside an ecstatic ensemble of supporting musicians, capturing the iconic band at their exhilarating best. Directed by Academy Award Winner Jonathan Demme and newly restored to celebrate its 40th anniversary.
Opening Night for Anti-Icon Apokalypsis
Music by Niña Mendoza begins at 7pm
Beer by Shaketown Brewing
Film starts at 9:15pm
July 18
Night Raiders
A compelling and propulsive dystopian thriller grounded in an allegory for the residential school system, Night Raiders is the story of Niska (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers), a Cree mother in an impossible situation. As she travels across a war-torn Turtle Island, she is caught in a desperate attempt to save her daughter from a state-run forced re-education camp. With the world against her, Niska joins forces with a group of underground resistance fighters seeking to free their children and save their future.
Anchored by an incredible lead performance from Tailfeathers along with a stellar supporting cast, this powerful and heartfelt debut feature from Danis Goulet premiered at TIFF in 2021 and was nominated for eleven Canadian Screen Awards, winning six, including Best Original Screenplay.
Beer by Strange Fellows
Film starts at 9:15pm
July 25
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
As bass guitarist for a garage-rock band, Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) has never had trouble getting a girlfriend; usually, the problem is getting rid of them. But when Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) skates into his heart, he finds she has the most troublesome baggage of all: an army of evil exes who will stop at nothing to eliminate him from her list of suitors.
Music by Paisley Eva starts at 7pm
Beer by Strathcona Beer Company
Film starts at 9:00pm
August 1
Death Becomes Her
Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis, and Isabella Rossellini are all that the top of their game in this gothic-comic romp, which won an Oscar winner for best visual effects. When a novelist loses her man to a movie star and former friend, she winds up in a psychiatric hospital. Years later, she returns home to confront the now-married couple, looking radiant. Her ex-husband’s new wife wants to know her secret, and discovers that she has been taking a mysterious drug which grants eternal life to the person who drinks it. The actress follows suit, but discovers that immortality has a price.
North Shore Pride Night
Beer by Beere Brewing Company
Film starts at 9:00pm
August 8
Close-Up
Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and Close-up is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf—as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in which the real people from the case play themselves. With its universal themes and fascinating narrative knots, Close-up has resonated with viewers around the world.
Beer by North Point Brewing Co
Film starts at 8:45pm
August 15
Supercop
Jackie Chan and Michelle Yeoh team up and blend hand-to-hand combat with breathtaking stunts and slapstick comedy. To infiltrate a drug cartel, police Inspector Chan Ka Kui (Jackie Chan) goes undercover in a Chinese prison. There, he earns the trust of a cartel member, by breaking him out of prison. With the help of another undercover agent (Michelle Yeaoh), they travel to Hong Kong and join up with Panther’s gang. Ka Kui is accepted by the gang’s leader, but his operation is jeopardized when his girlfriend accidentally reveals his true identity.
Beer by Shaketown Brewing
Film starts at 8:45pm
August 22
Phantom of the Paradise
Would you sell your soul for rock ‘n’ roll? This wonderfully bizarre rock opera is loosely based on Faust and The Phantom of the Opera. Starring the legendary Paul Williams, and featuring an Oscar-nominated soundtrack that Williams also created. In it, a gifted rock composer plots revenge after a devious record producer (Williams) steals both his music and his girl.
Beer by Strange Fellows
Film starts at 8:30pm
August 29
The Warriors
Sometime in the future, a charismatic gang leader named Cyrus calls a meeting of New York’s gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city, pointing out there are 60,000 of them and only 20,000 officers in the NYPD. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for the murder. Before you know it, the cops and every gang member in town is hot on the Warriors’ trail in this stylish and poetic thriller.
Music by RHEK begins at 7pm
Beer by Strathcona Beer Company
Film starts at 8:30pm