The City of Vancouver's movie in the park has been rescheduled to Sept 5 due to high winds expected for tonight. They will be playing the The Creature from the Black Lagoon at 8pm next week. It's just outside 2nd beach by the firetruck. It's a pretty cool event for those that have never done it.
Also this seems pretty cool, looks like they will be holding drive ins on underused parkades in the evenings. I like how they've chosen movies in which Vancouver acutally gets to play Vancouver. Seems like a great concept, lets see how it does.
http://www.canada.com/vancouvercouri...8-4114e7e3925e
Arts society touts Gastown Drive In
Vancouver-shot movies to be shown atop Water Street parkade
Cheryl Rossi, Staff writer
Published: Friday, August 29, 2008
Downtown parkades at non-peak hours can be lonely and dismal places.
Now a new non-profit society wants to transform one of those parkades into a paradise for film fans. The Gastown Drive In will run on the rooftop of a Water Street parkade Sept. 3, 10 and 17.
"If you look at the space of a parkade, when you're looking for a parking spot it's great, it's wonderful to find one. But in non-peak hours it's really just a field of asphalt," said Peeroj Thakre, co-founder with Henning Knoetzele of the new Urban Republic Arts Society. "We're looking at trying to make the infrastructure double as a social and cultural resource for the city."
Gastown Drive In organizers (l-r) Henning Knoetzele, Peeroj Thakre and Cheyanne Turions hope to attract film fans to Water Street.
The society, which is composed of architects, artists and writers, has partnered with Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society to curate a film series in which Vancouver plays itself instead of filling in for an American city.
"The inspiration for the series Vancouver Stars as Itself really comes from the site itself," Thakre said. "The site has classic views of Vancouver--mountains, water, the downtown towers, and that really spawned the idea of showing Vancouver as itself."
With the help of Cineworks, Urban Republic picked feature films shot in part or wholly in Metro Vancouver. Cineworks then picked a short film to complement each feature.
The cult classic pseudo-rockumentary Hard Core Logo--for which director Bruce McDonald has just announced multiple sequels--will show Sept. 3. Alice and Martha, a short film that tells the tale of two women who work a tedious delivery job in Vancouver and try to escape their mundane lives, will precede it. Marina Roy and Natasha McHardy, who made the short film, will be at the informal gathering at The Lamplighter afterward, along with Christine Haebler, producer of Hard Core Logo.
Fetching Cody, a romantic comedy set in the Downtown Eastside, will play with Two Impossible Films, a short that is described as a witty meditation on Vancouver as Hollywood's most popular stand-in city, Sept. 10. The feature's writer and director, David Ray, and producer, Carolyn Allain, will be at the Irish Heather following the films.
On Sept. 17, the multiple-award winning Eve and the Fire Horse, will play with The Reincarnation of W, a short partially set at the Woodward's construction site. Its director, Yun Lam Li, will be at an informal gathering at Salt Tasting Room afterward.
The final event Sept. 30 is a Thought on Film discussion about how the city is represented when filmmakers set their films in Vancouver, including what aspects of the cultural, social and built landscapes they employ.
Entrance to the Gastown Drive In at the EasyPark parkade, 150 Water St., is free and the movies will roll rain or shine.
Drivers are recommended to reserve a parking spot, which will cost the regular $6, at
info@urbanrepublic.ca. Organizers will set up 100 "minimally protected" seats for visitors who don't drive, and pedestrians are welcome to bring chairs. That gates open at 7:30 p.m. and the films start at 8:30. Popcorn and drinks will be available by donation.
For more information, see
www.urbanrepublic.ca/drive.
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