BLACK BOX
German photographer and famed Berghain nightclub doorman Sven Marquardt visits North Vancouver’s waterfront tonight for a free performance at Polygon Gallery. The evening will feature a conversation between Marquardt and Attila Richard Lukacs at 9 p.m. followed by a Black Box performance at 9:30 p.m. with accompanying Berlin techno sound component supplied by Berghain resident DJ Marcel Dettmann. Talking Germany: bit.ly/2mfbFMx.
MARCEL DETTMANN
Berlin techno DJ performing tonight at Polygon Gallery in free event with Sven Marquardt. Marcel Dettmann trading off with Dr. Rubinstein at Sónar 2017: bit.ly/2tNRaMW.
WOLF PARADE
Reformed indie band (Spencer Krug, Dan Boeckner, Arlen Thompson and Dante DeCaro) plays tracks from their new album Cry, Cry, Cry at the Commodore Ballroom tonight. Wolf Parade live on KEXP, Sept. 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqta5UEHdYI.
NEVER STEADY, NEVER STILL
Vancouver Film Critics Circle named Kathleen Hepburn’s debut feature, Never Steady, Never Still top Canadian film of 2017. The film, featuring several Capilano University alumni in the crew including producer James Brown, screens tonight at The Cinematheque at 7:30 p.m. as part of the Canada’s Top Ten series. Trailer: bit.ly/2FqcNWn.
PUSH FESTIVAL
Vancouver’s annual PuSh International Performing Arts Festival kicks off this week with over three weeks of mid-winter entertainment highlighting groundbreaking acts from around the world: pushfestival.ca.
THE IMAGE BEFORE US
Harry Killas’ ongoing series at The Cinematheque, The Image Before Us: A History of Film in British Columbia - Take 4, begins again on Monday, Jan 15 at 7 p.m. with Potlatch + Our Voices, Our Stories: thecinematheque.ca/the-image-before-us-take-4/potlatch-our-voices-our-stories.
GLORIA GRAHAME
In anticipation of Paul McGuigan’s Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool opening on Jan. 26, Vancity Theatre screens two Gloria Grahame film noir classics this weekend, The Big Heat and In A Lonely Place. Elvis Costello supplied a brand new track for McGuigan’s flick, “You Shouldn’t Look at Me That Way” and appears in the film: youtube.com/watch?v=eVMPdFz43b0.
KENDRICK LAMAR, SZA
“All the Stars” from the soundtrack for Black Panther: The Album: youtube.com/watch?v=GfCqMv--ncA.
LANA DEL REY
Amanda Petrusich from the New Yorker’s Culture Desk ponders "Lana Del Rey, Radiohead, and the Difficulty of Making Original Music": newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/lana-del-rey-radiohead-and-the-difficulty-of-making-original-music. Lana Del Rey, "Get Free"; Radiohead, "Creep" and The Hollies "The Air that I Breathe." Bonus track: Prince's version of "Creep" from 2008 Coachella.
CURTIS MAYFIELD
“Superfly” from the soundtrack for Gordon Parks’ 1972 film airing on TCM Jan. 14 back-to-back with "Shaft in Africa": youtube.com/watch?v=DAh_4s_-tas.
