Current & Upcoming Shows

Claudio Simonetti's Goblin - Performing the Live Score to Suspiria - Poster

Claudio Simonetti's Goblin - Performing the Live Score to Suspiria

Synopsis:

The Calgary Underground Film Festival Presents: Claudio Simonetti's Goblin - Performing the Live Score to Suspiria


Claudio Simonetti's Goblin performs a live score to Dario Argento's SUSPIRIA (1977) alongside a screening of the film. Following the screening there will be a 45 minute "Best Of" add-on performance.

Composer Claudio Simonetti has written, recorded and performed some of the most influential scores and soundtracks in horror, including DAWN OF THE DEAD, DEEP RED / PROFONDO ROSSO, DEMONS, TENEBRE and many others, with his seminal work still informing the genre to this day. This year, Simonetti's Goblin celebrates Dario Argento's 1977 classic, SUSPIRIA by performing Goblin's iconic score to a special screening of the film. 48 years after its release, SUSPIRIA and Goblin's masterpiece of a score are both the stuff of legend and laid the framework for a myriad of horror scores to come.

SHOW DETAILS
Dates: October 8 & 9, 2025

Doors: 7:00 pm
Screening / Show Begins: 8:00 pm
Intermission: 9:35 pm - 9:45 pm
Best of Set: 9:45 pm - 10:30 pm (45 min)

Location: Globe Cinema, Upper
Tickets: Tier 1 $100 (first 8 rows) / Tier 2 $80
(There is no CUFF membership discount for this performance)
Tickets are on sale now!


ABOUT THE FILM: SUSPIRIA (1977)
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
Following the film and live score (90 minutes), there will be a 15-minute intermission followed by a 45-60 minute live set.

* This show will take place in the upper cinema *




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Upcoming Showtimes
  • October 8 - 8:00pm
  • October 9 - 8:00pm
Eyes Without a Face - Poster

Eyes Without a Face

Synopsis:


Globe Cinema Presents: Eyes Without a Face (1960)

After causing a car accident that left his daughter Christiane severely disfigured, the brilliant surgeon Dr. Génessier works tirelessly to give the girl a new face. He does so, however, by abducting young women and attempting facial skin transplants. He has been woefully unsuccessful to date. The doctor's world begins to collapse around him when his daughter discovers exactly what he has been doing, both to herself and to others.

Genre: Drama, Horror

Director: Georges Franju
Stars: Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel            
Running time: 1 hr 30 min 
Rating: 14A (Gory Scenes) 


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Upcoming Showtimes
  • September 7 - 3:30pm
  • September 7 - 6:00pm
  • September 10 - 7:30pm
  • September 12 - 10:00pm
  • September 13 - 10:00pm
Perfect Days - Poster

Perfect Days

Synopsis:


Globe Cinema Presents: Perfect Days (2023)

A perfect song that hits at just the right moment, the play of sunlight through leaves, a fleeting moment of human connection in a vast metropolis: the wonders of everyday life come into breath­taking focus in this profoundly moving film by Wim Wenders. 

In a radiant, Cannes-award-winning performance of few words but extraordinary expressiveness, Koji Yakusho plays a public-toilet cleaner in Tokyo whose rich inner world is gradually revealed through his small exchanges with those around him and with the city itself. Channeling his idol Yasujiro Ozu, Wenders crafts a serenely minimalist ode to the miracle that is the here and now.

Genre: Drama

Director: Wim Wenders
Stars: Kôji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano              
Running time: 2 hr 04 min 
Rating: PG 


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Upcoming Showtimes
  • September 11 - 7:30pm
  • September 12 - 7:30pm
  • September 13 - 10:45am
  • September 14 - 10:45am
  • September 14 - 1:15pm
  • September 14 - 3:45pm
  • September 14 - 6:15pm
CIFF 2025 - Poster

CIFF 2025

Synopsis:

The Calgary International Film Festival (CIFF), presented by Servus Credit Union, is back for its 26th year, running from September 18 to 28, 2025 at various venues across the city. Over the course of the ten days, CIFF will screen over 200 films and host events, parties, Q&As, panels and more. Whether you’re a cinephile or a casual movie-goer, there’s something for everyone at CIFF this year.


CIFF is the largest film festival in Alberta and among the largest in Canada. CIFF has nearly quadrupled in size since the first festival in 2000, now seeing approximately 30,000 attendees for the expanded 10-day festival.

Our new All-Access Passes get you into unlimited regular screenings, Industry events, and parties you’ll never forget. 

Ticket bundles and passes are on sale now at ciffcalgary.ca! 


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Upcoming Showtimes
  • September 18 - 6:00pm
  • September 18 - 6:30pm
  • September 18 - 9:00pm
  • September 19 - 6:00pm
  • September 19 - 6:30pm
  • September 19 - 8:45pm
  • September 19 - 9:15pm
  • September 20 - 12:00pm
  • September 20 - 12:30pm
  • September 20 - 3:15pm
  • September 20 - 4:00pm
  • September 20 - 6:00pm
  • September 20 - 6:45pm
  • September 20 - 8:30pm
  • September 20 - 9:30pm
  • September 21 - 11:30am
  • September 21 - 12:00pm
  • September 21 - 2:15pm
  • September 21 - 3:30pm
  • September 21 - 5:00pm
  • September 21 - 5:45pm
  • September 21 - 8:00pm
  • September 21 - 8:30pm
  • September 22 - 6:00pm
  • September 22 - 6:30pm
  • September 22 - 9:00pm
  • September 22 - 9:30pm
  • September 23 - 6:30pm
  • September 23 - 6:45pm
  • September 23 - 9:00pm
  • September 23 - 9:30pm
  • September 24 - 6:15pm
  • September 24 - 6:30pm
  • September 24 - 9:15pm
  • September 24 - 9:30pm
  • September 25 - 6:15pm
  • September 25 - 6:45pm
  • September 25 - 9:00pm
  • September 25 - 9:30pm
  • September 26 - 6:15pm
  • September 26 - 6:45pm
  • September 26 - 9:00pm
  • September 26 - 9:30pm
  • September 27 - 12:00pm
  • September 27 - 1:30pm
  • September 27 - 2:45pm
  • September 27 - 4:00pm
  • September 27 - 6:45pm
  • September 27 - 9:00pm
  • September 27 - 9:30pm
I Saw the TV Glow - Poster

I Saw the TV Glow

Synopsis:


A League of Their Own Presents: I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs, when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show-one which conveys a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen's view of reality begins to crack.

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Director: Jane Schoenbrun
Stars: Justice Smith, Jack Haven, Ian Foreman                        
Running time: 1 hr 40 min 
Rating: 14A  

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Upcoming Showtimes
  • October 15 - 7:30pm
Faces Places - Poster

Faces Places

Synopsis:

Calgary Cinematheque Presents: Faces Places (2017)


Described by critic Amy Taubin as “an unassuming masterpiece,” Faces Places is an ideal launch point for the series’ focus on late and last works. The film frames an unlikely creative collaboration, bringing together Agnes Varda, titan of French cinema, and the much younger street photographer, J.R. 

What results is a buoyantly good-humoured road trip across the French countryside, mapping large-format photographs of ordinary citizens on its rural surfaces. Completed two years before Varda’s death in 2019, Faces Places presents an extended and affectionate dialogue between the two artists that retains Varda’s radical edge, still pursuing, in the filmmaker’s words, “the essence of the medium.” 

The film’s journey is punctuated by a memorable visit to the home of Jean-Luc Godard, posing acute questions about creative collaboration and friendship. 

Genre: Documentary

Director: Agnès Varda, JR 
Stars: Agnes Varda, JR, Jeannine Carpentier                          
Running time: 1 hr 34 min 
Rating: PG  




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Upcoming Showtimes
  • October 2 - 7:00pm
The Other Side of the Wind - Poster

The Other Side of the Wind

Synopsis:

Calgary Cinematheque Presents: The Other Side of the Wind (2018)


Orson Welles’ final film, The Other Side of the Wind, has a certain notoriety: messy and ambitious, shot over a six-year period between 1970-1976 with his partner Oja Kodar, the sprawling production was never completed. Three decades after Welles’ death and an extended legal battle, 100 hours of footage was retrieved from a Paris vault and painstakingly reconstructed, led by Welles’ friend and collaborator, director Peter Bogdanovich. 

Finally, the film was released posthumously as a ‘complete’ work via Netflix in 2018. The film’s self-reflexive structure follows the last day in the life of an aging Hollywood director Jake Hannaford (played by John Huston), set at his 70th birthday party. A fully hybrid work, The Other Side of the Wind is shot in a multi-camera documentary style, combining colour and monochrome across varied film formats. Interviews suggest that Welles intended the film as a satire of European art cinema and New Hollywood aesthetics. 

For contemporary viewers, it’s an intriguing project and production history that casts new light on Welles’ entire corpus. 

Genre: Drama

Director: Orson Welles 
Stars: John Huston, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich                            
Running time: 2 hr 02 min 
Rating: STC  




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Upcoming Showtimes
  • October 10 - 7:00pm
24 Frames - Poster

24 Frames

Synopsis:

Calgary Cinematheque Presents: 24 Frames (2017)


24 Frames (2017) is a final, elegiac work from Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami. The project was originally conceived as a collaboration with the Louvre, animating a series of iconic paintings by Bruegel, Picasso, Millet, and others by adding layers of digital imagery and sound elements. 

The concept eventually shifted from a focus on paintings to centre Kiarostami’s own photographic work, aiming to capture, via moving images, the moments before and after a photograph is taken. As the title suggests, the film comprises twenty-four discrete shots, held as lingering vignettes that unfold on screen for about four and half minutes each. 

The result is meditative and profoundly affirming, framing an extended encounter with the temporal and material character of the medium itself. 24 Frames is rewarding for viewers new to Kiarostami’s cinema, and also for those familiar with his acclaimed body of work. Critic and filmmaker James Slaymaker has called Kiarostami’s final production “one of the most ravishingly beautiful and aesthetically radical swansongs in cinema history.”

Genre: Drama

Director: Abbas Kiarostami 
Running time: 1 hr 54 min 
Rating: G 




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Upcoming Showtimes
  • October 15 - 7:00pm
Blue - Poster

Blue

Synopsis:

Calgary Cinematheque Presents: Blue (1993)


Perhaps the best-known monochrome film in the history of cinema, Derek Jarman’s Blue is a profound audiovisual experiment, foregoing conventional representation to offer a single, saturated frame of Yves Klein blue. Far from a static work, however, Jarman’s project is also an intricate and affecting auditory collage, combining voice-over narration (read by actors John Quentin, Nigel Terry, and Tilda Swinton, and the filmmaker himself), music, and ambient sound elements. 

Released four months before the filmmaker’s death from AIDS-related complications, Blue is a landmark achievement of the New Queer Cinema. As Jarman scholar Jim Ellis has observed, this closing work “raises the issue of art’s responsibility to life, and the potential of art to effect change.” Blue yields an experience of cinema like no other, formulating a rich reflection on life, loss, and the possibilities of the medium itself.

Genre: Drama

Director: Derek Jarman
Stars: Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, John Quentin    
Running time: 1 hr 19 min 
Rating: PG 




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Upcoming Showtimes
  • October 23 - 7:00pm
Family Plot - Poster

Family Plot

Synopsis:

Calgary Cinematheque Presents: Family Plot (1976)


The closing title of the series is the last work of cinematic master Alfred Hitchcock, a loose adaptation of Victor Canning’s The Rainbird Pattern, (1972) originally titled Deceit. With a witty script by Ernest Lehman and a John Williams score, Family Plot is a dark comedy set in sunny California, focused on a pair of grifters, spiritualist Blanche Tyler (Barbara Harris) and her unemployed actor boyfriend, George Lumley (Bruce Dern) as they pursue a missing heir for a cash reward. 

Film music scholar Jack Sullivan has described Family Plot as a “frenetic ballet of crisscrossing con artists,” which captures the film’s signature energies. In contrast to the violent set-pieces featured in Psycho (1960), and the later film Frenzy (1972), Hitchcock’s parting shot is a lighter work designed to amuse, calling back to earlier comedies like Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941) and The Trouble with Harry (1955).

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris      
Running time: 2 hr 00 min 
Rating: STC 




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Upcoming Showtimes
  • October 30 - 7:00pm