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Dreamspeakers Film Festival

May 30 @ 6pm
May 31 & Jun 1 @ 4pm
May 31 @ 6:45pm
May 31 @ 9:30pm
Jun 1 & 2 @ 7pm
Jun 1 & 2 @ 9pm
Jun 1 @ 11pm
Jun 2 @ 1pm
Jun 2 @ 3pm

When the first Dene filmmaker returned home to Canada’s Northwest Territories, his people had no words for his new art. They called it “Dreamtalking”. When you make films a Dene elder said, you are speaking your dreams. Edmonton, Alberta becomes... view more

Jiro Dreams of Sushi

Director: David Gelb

USA 2011, 81 min, Digital

Jun 3 @ 1pm
Jun 5 & 7 @ 7pm

_Jiro Dreams of Sushi_ is the story of 85 year-old Jiro Ono, considered by many to be the world’s greatest sushi chef. He is the proprietor of Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat, sushi-only restaurant inauspiciously located in a Tokyo subway station.... view more

Sisters & Brothers

Director: Carl Bessai

Canada 2011, 90 min, Digital

Jun 3 @ 2:45pm
Jun 3 & 6 @ 7pm

Carl Bessai’s third installment in his family trilogy is a bracingly funny look into the lives of four sets of siblings. Brimming with affection, hostility and a healthy dose of guilt, _Sisters & Brothers_ cleverly tills the volatile territory of... view more

The Raid: Redemption

Director: Gareth Evans

Indonesia 2011, 101 min, 35mm

Jun 3 @ 4:30pm
Jun 3 @ 7pm
Jun 4 @ 9:30pm
Jun 6 & 7 @ 9pm

As a rookie member of an elite special-forces team, Rama (Iko Uwais) is instructed to hang back during a covert mission involving the extraction of a brutal crime lord from a rundown fifteen-story apartment block. But when a spotter blows... view more

Mountain Bike Night in Canada

Jun 4 @ 7pm

A selection of Mountain Bike films & shorts.

Sonic Cinema: Sympathy for the Devil

Director: Jean - Luc Godard

France 1968, 100 min, Digital

Jun 5 @ 9pm

Jean-Luc Godard's _Sympathy for the Devil_, also known as One Plus One, uses both documentary and staged sequences, alternating between an inside look at a rock band's recording process and reflections on contemporary politics and aesthetics. One half of the... view more

1st June, 2012

Programmer's Blurb, June 2012

By : metro

Hi everyone,

Last month we talked about how proud we are that Metro Cinema continues to screen 35mm films, while so many movie theatres are transitioning to digital cinema. While we’re keeping pace with the majors, with our state-of-the-art digital cinema projector, we continue to hunt down increasingly elusive celluloid titles and bring in re-mastered prints that tour the continent. This month’s first run 35mm films include In the Family, Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan’s Hope, Marley and Turn Me On, Goddammit! Re-mastered prints include The Bride Wore Black and two films by Michelangelo Antonioni: Red Desert ...

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1st May, 2012

Programmer's Blurb, May 2012

By : metro

Hi everyone,

Wow, our film list this month reads like a veritable who's who of directors, with titles from David Lynch, Wim Wenders, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, David Cronenberg, Guy Maddin, Terence Davies, Stephen Frears and Jean-Luc Godard. We're also proud of the fact that all these films will be presented on 35mm!

Just as exciting are the various works from western Canadian filmmakers: from FAVA's Awards of Excellence screening, to the compilation film I Heart Regina, from Kyle Armstrong's "residual hauntings" work, shot on the set of Guy Maddin's Keyhole (also screening), to the finale ...

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