Film Society opens another fall season Thursday with a Leonard Cohen biopic, ‘Hallelujah’
The story of a one-inch tall shell named Marcel. Documentaries exploring the musical lives of Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, and the little-known women of electronic music. An animated feature inspired by the life of German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon, and a fiery love story told through archival footage shot by late volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft. Plus feature films telling stories of inter-dimensional ruptures, three thousand year old genies, and the fate of a factory in a small Spanish town (starring the likes of Idris Elba, Tilda Swinton, Michelle Yeoh, and Javier Bardem.)
It’s all packed into the new fall season of the Sackville Film Society, opening this Thursday at the Vogue Cinema in downtown Sackville.
The Sackville Film Society has been a stalwart of the local cultural scene for decades, even continuing to offer programming through difficult early pandemic years. CHMA called up director Thaddeus Holownia to ask what’s new:
After two years operating on a seasons pass system, the Society will be opening its box office for individual ticket sales, in addition to offering full season and six-pack passes.
“We’re cautiously going to reopen the box office, under guidance from people in the community saying that there are people who can’t afford a six pack” says Holownia. “And I’m sensitive to that.”
Holownia is still hoping for strong year in full membership sales, to put the Society on a solid footing.… Continue