June 19th, 2013 11:58 p.m.
Director: Shawney Cohen
Canada
2013,
80 min,
Digital
- Jun 14, 16 & 20 @ 9pm
- Jun 15 @ 3pm
- Jun 15 & 19 @ 7pm
Shawney calls himself a filmmaker, but he’s been a strip-club manager for longer. When he was six his father bought _The Manor_, a small-town strip club. Thirty years later, the family’s lifestyle has got the better of them. While his...
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Director: Ken Loach
UK/ France/ Belgium/ Italy
2012,
101 min,
Digital
- Jun 14 & 20 @ 7pm
- Jun 15 @ 4:45pm
- Jun 15 & 18 @ 9:30pm
- Jun 16 @ 2pm
- Jun 19 @ 9pm
Winner of the 2012 Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize.
Opting for community service over jail time after he is charged for an assault, the rough-hewn Robbie (Paul Brannigan) befriends three fellow layabouts and petty crooks. After meeting an expert in Scotch...
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Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
USA
1923,
67 min,
35mm
- Jun 21, 23 & 26 @ 7pm
- Jun 22 @ 9pm
- Jun 23 @ 2pm
- Jun 24 @ 9:15pm
The comic genius of silent star Harold Lloyd is eternal. Chaplin was the sweet innocent, Keaton the stoic outsider, but Lloyd - the modern guy striving for success - is us. And with its torrent of perfectly executed gags and...
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Director: Justin Ludwig
Canada
2012,
74 min,
Digital
- Jun 21 & 23 @ 8:30pm
- Jun 22 @ 7pm
- Jun 23 @ 4pm
- Jun 25 @ 9:15pm
_ChristCore_ is an inside look at the explosive subculture of Christian hardcore music which is surging across North America. Filmmaker and atheist punk rocker Justin Ludwig goes on tour with two evangelical hardcore bands -- driven newcomers Messengers and Christcore...
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Director: Alex Cox
USA
1984,
92 min,
Digital
What do UFO’s, a ‘64 Chevy Malibu, and Harry Dean Stanton have in common? They were all integral parts of the black comedy-punkbuddy- road movie: _Repo Man_. Otto (Emilio Estevez) is a punk with a lot of problems, he’s got...
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Director: Joss Whedon
USA
2005,
119 min,
Digital
Join the best damn crew in the universe. Watch the big damn movie in a theatre on the big screen. _Can’t Stop the Serenity_ is a global series of charity screenings of the film _Serenity_. Proceeds from the Edmonton event...
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Director: Huai-en Chen
Taiwan
2006,
108 min,
Digital
Ming-Hsang is an aurally handicapped college student who grabs his bike, backpack, and guitar and goes on a 7-day, 6-night round-the-island tour. On the way he discovers the natural and cultural beauty of Taiwan and during his encounters with different...
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Programmer's Blurb June 2013
By : metro
Hi everyone,
We have a great selection of world cinema this month. Ken Loach’s latest film The Angels' Share is about a Scotch heist, while Australia brings us The Sapphires (including a dash of Irish from Chris O’Dowd), and from the Philippines comes the powerful thriller Graceland.
As well, guest curators Matt Bowes and Brendan Brown have assembled four films from the 60s by Japanese director Seijun Suzuki. The series starts this month with Tokyo Drifter and Gate of Flesh, and continues in July with Youth of the Beast and Branded to Kill.
Some of our partner screenings ...
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