VFF 2024 Passes & Tickets Now on Sale!

Published: 15 July 2024

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Festival passes and single tickets are now on sale for this October’s Vintage Film Festival, with a fabulous program celebrating the Great Directors!

Follow this link to the Capitol Theatre’s events page, and click “On Screen”. Festival passes—which include all 13 of this year’s movies plus the Sunday lunchtime film talk—are still only $89, which represents a saving of nearly 50% over the cost of individual tickets! But single tickets to any of these great motion pictures are still just $12.50.

The directors represented in this year’s program are all “great” in so many different ways! They include actor-directors Buster Keaton and Orson Welles, screenwriter-directors John Huston and Preston Sturges, and producer-directors Robert Wise and Billy Wilder. They include Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and John Ford, three directors who exercised tremendous control over the look and feel of their movies. And they include two important foreign language filmmakers whom you may be encountering for the first time: Japanese “golden age” master Yasujirō Ozu, and French screenwriter-director Agnès Varda, whom Martin Scorsese called “one of the Gods of Cinema”.

The movies on this year’s program span more than half a century (from 1921 to 1974) and a range of genres: musical, suspense, comedy (including black comedy and screwball comedy), crime, melodrama, western and neo-noir. They include two silent films—Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. (1924) and Lois Weber’s The Blot (1921)—which will be accompanied live on the piano by VFF favourite Jordan Klapman.

As usual, there’ll also be a Sunday lunchtime film talk. Journalist, author and award-winning lecturer Mark Kearney will tell us all about the movie career of London, Ontario's own Al Christie, a forgotten Hollywood film pioneer who made more than a thousand short comedy films and features over the course of a 30-year directing and producing career. (You can pre-order a tasty box lunch to enjoy during the presentation while you’re buying your Festival passes or your single tickets to the talk.)

And, also as usual, single tickets to any of the movies are free for anyone age 25 or under; and there’s free popcorn all weekend!

Click on this link to go to the Capitol Theatre’s events page (capitoltheatre.com/events) to buy Festival passes and single tickets for the 2024 Vintage Film Festival – Friday, October 18^th through Sunday, October 20^th – at the beautiful Capitol Theatre, 20 Queen Street, Port Hope!