Metro Cinema: the week of Sun, November 26th to Sat, December 2nd

All screenings @ Zeidler Hall in the Citadel Theatre, 9828 - 101A Ave

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Whooping Cough

Director: Péter Gcrdos

Hungary 1987, 90 min, 35mm

Nov 24 (2006) @ 9pm
Nov 26 (2006) @ 7pm

In this child's-eye view of the 1956 Hungarian uprising, there is gunfire in the streets, school is closed and life for the children is a holiday. Rarely leaving their apartment, the adults are terrified, except Grandma who returns from shopping... view more

The Midas Touch

Director: Geza Beremenyi

Hungary 1988, 100 min, 35mm

Nov 25 (2006) @ 7pm
Nov 26 (2006) @ 9pm

The Midas Touch is an ambitious period film, which spans the period from the end of World War II to the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, and is largely set in Budapest's Teleki Square fleamarket. Sandor Monori is a black-market trader... view more

The Unburied Man

Director: Mcrta Mészcros

Hungary 2004, 127 min, DVD

Nov 25 (2006) @ 9pm
Nov 27 (2006) @ 7pm

"What we can do, though, is remember the hurt, reluctant, hesitant man who nonetheless soaked up anger, delusion and a whole nation's blind hope." (György Petri) The life of Imre Nagy, here dramatized by acclaimed director, Marta Meszaros, is one of... view more

Time Stands Still

Director: Peter Gothar

Hungary 1982, 103 min, 35mm

Nov 24 (2006) @ 7pm
Nov 27 (2006) @ 9:15pm

The movie opens at the time of the Hungarian uprising of 1956, when a family is separated forever. The husband has a clandestine escape route prepared, via the Red Cross, to Vienna, but his wife decides to stay in Budapest,... view more

Living With Slim & Their Brothers' Keepers

Dec 1 (2006) @ 7pm
Dec 3 (2006) @ 9pm

A Common Compassion: AIDS Film Weekend Dec 1 is World AIDS Day. In honor of this event, and in partnership with HIV Edmonton and the Ainembabazi Children's Project, Metro Cinema is pleased to present this weekend of films about the global... view more

A Closer Walk

Director: Robert Bilheimer

USA 2003, 85 min

Dec 1 (2006) @ 9pm
Dec 3 (2006) @ 7pm

A Closer Walk depicts humankind's confrontation with the global AIDS epidemic. The film's director and producer, Robert Bilheimer, is an Academy Award nominee for his film Cry of Reason, a profile of the South African anti-apartheid leader Beyers Naude. A... view more

The Event

Director: Thom Fitzgerald

Canada/USA 2003, 110 min, 35mm

Dec 2 (2006) @ 7pm
Dec 4 (2006) @ 9pm

Canadian filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald (_The Hanging Garden_) directs the sentimental ensemble drama The Event. Nick (Parker Posey) is a district attorney investigating several deaths in the gay community of New York City's Chelsea District. It seems that many AIDS sufferers... view more