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The Long Day Closes

Director: Terence Davies

UK 1992, 85 min, 35mm

May 11 & 17 @ 7pm
May 12 @ 9:30pm
May 13 @ 4pm

The second feature by Terence Davies, one of the great poets of British cinema (and director of the new _Deep Blue Sea_...) is a gorgeous, visually elaborate paean to his sometimes difficult boyhood in 1950s Liverpool - and to the... view more

Mostly Water: Metro Shorts

Director: Various

Canada 2012, Digital

May 17 @ 9pm

The final installation of this Metro Shorts season is upon us! Who will win our mystery grand prize (rhymes with shmamera)? Who’ll be the next big ‘thing’? And who’ll learn a new swear word? Be there to be part of... view more

Keyhole

Director: Guy Maddin

Canada 2012, 94 min, 35mm

May 18, 20, 22 & 27 @ 7pm
May 19 @ 4:15pm
May 19 @ 9:15pm
May 21 @ 2pm
May 21 & 26 @ 9pm
May 23 @ 9:30pm

A gangster and deadbeat father, Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric), returns home after a long absence. He is toting two teenagers: a drowned girl, Denny, who has mysteriously returned to life; and a bound-and-gagged hostage, who is actually his own teenage... view more

A Little Bit Zombie

Director: Casey Walker

Canada 2012, 87 min, Digital

May 18 @ 9:30pm

_A Little Bit Zombie_ follows the adventures of Steve, a mild-mannered HR manager who becomes infected with a virus during a weekend get-away with his sister, best friend and fiancée. He must elude the obsessed zombie hunter hot on his... view more

Lola

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

West Germany 1981, 113 min, 35mm

May 19 @ 2pm
May 19 @ 7pm
May 20 @ 9pm
May 21 @ 4pm

Part of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s trilogy The Entire History of the German Federal Republic, _Lola_ stars Barbara Sukowa in the title role, a seductive cabaret singer and dancer in the 1950s who is romantically involved with Von Bohm (Armin Mueller-Stahl),... view more

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Director: Jim Sharman

USA 1975, 100 min, Digital

May 19 @ 11:59pm

Let’s do the time-warp again! There isn’t much need to describe the all-time Midnight Cult Favourite. It’s the weird and wonderful as newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter a problem when their car halts in the rain. They both... view more

Queen's Diamond Jubilee: The Queen

Director: Stephen Frears

UK/ France/ Italy 2006, 103 min, 35mm

May 20 @ 1:30pm

Here playing Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II , the redoubtable Dame Helen Mirren is a revelation; she literally buries herself in the part, iconic hairdo and all, but her portrayal of the Queen is neither a parody, nor a pantomime.... view more

Pina 2D

Director: Wim Wenders

Germany/ France/ UK 2011, 103 min, 35mm

May 12 & 20 @ 4pm
May 13 @ 2pm
May 13 @ 9:15pm
May 14, 16 & 21 @ 7pm

Dance, dance, or we are lost.” Pina Bausch’s final words summarize her life and provide the inspiration for acclaimed director Wim Wenders’ breathtaking tribute to the legendary choreographer. Bausch and her Tanztheater Wuppertal elevated dance into brilliantly subversive new expressive... view more

Cult Cinema: Mulholland Dr.

Director: David Lynch

USA 2001, 147 min, 35mm

May 22 @ 9pm

A bright-eyed young actress (Naomi Watts) travels to Hollywood only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into a... view more

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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