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Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

Director: Jon Foy

USA 2011, 86 min, Digital

Nov 25, 26 & 30 (2011) @ 9pm
Nov 26 (2011) @ 4pm
Nov 27 (2011) @ 2pm
Nov 27 & 28 (2011) @ 7pm

Strangeness is afoot. Most people don't notice the hundreds of cryptic tiled messages about resurrecting the dead that have been appearing in city streets over the past three decades. But Justin Duerr does. For years, finding an answer to this... view more

Le Havre

Director: Aki Kaurismaki

Finland/ France/ Germany 2011, 103 min, Digital

Nov 25, 26, 29, 30 & Dec 1 (2011) @ 7pm
Nov 26 (2011) @ 2pm
Nov 27 (2011) @ 4pm
Nov 27 & 28 (2011) @ 9pm
Nov 29 (2011) @ 9am

Marcel Marx, a former author and a well-known Bohemian, has retreated into a voluntary exile in the port city of _Le Havre_, where he feels he has reached a closer rapport with the people serving them in the occupation of... view more

Cult Cinema: Wild at Heart

Director: David Lynch

USA 1990, 125 min, 35mm

Nov 29 (2011) @ 9pm

Nicholas Cage and Laura Dern set the screen on fire as Sailor and Lula, young lovers on the road in a nightmarish American landscape and high on love. When Sailor is released form a stint in prison Lula picks them... view more

Mostly Water: Metro Shorts (Dec 2011)

Director: Various

Canada 2011, Digital

Dec 1 (2011) @ 9pm

Metro Shorts is a chance for independent short filmmakers to have their work (5 mins & under) professionally screened, adjudicated by industry members and be forced to make more films. All films selected for inclusion will receive $50 CARFAC screening... view more

A Legend of Whitey

Director: Dave Lawrence

Canada 2011, 85 min, Digital

Dec 2 & 4 (2011) @ 7pm
Dec 3 (2011) @ 4pm
Dec 3, 5, 7 & 8 (2011) @ 9:15pm

It’s 1885 and wild bison are scarce in the North West Territories. Luther (Paul Spence), a scout of mixed blood returns to the buffalo ranch where he was born to reunite with his half brother, William (Dave Lawrence). Greeted by... view more

Wiebo's War

Director: David York

Canada 2011, 93 min, Digital

Dec 2 (2011) @ 9:15pm
Dec 3 & 16 (2011) @ 2pm
Dec 4 (2011) @ 4pm
Dec 6 (2011) @ 7pm

Metro is bring back encore screenings of this film, which tells the story of a Christian community at war with the oil and gas industry. Wiebo Ludwig is the prime suspect in a recent string of pipeline bombings. The bombings... view more

The Room

Director: Tommy Wiseau

USA 2003, 99 min, 35mm

Dec 2 (2011) @ 11pm

Dubbed ‘The Citizen Kane of Bad Movies’, Tommy Wiseau’s bizarro cinematic masterpiece is now a regular monthly late night screening at Metro. Whether you’re an avid fan or a Wiseau virgin: you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll inexplicably throw plastic spoons!... view more

The Rules of the Game

Director: Jean Renoir

France 1939, 106 min, 35mm

Dec 3 & 7 (2011) @ 7pm
Dec 4 (2011) @ 2pm
Dec 4 & 6 (2011) @ 9pm

At la Colinière, the deceptively idyllic country estate of a wealthy Parisian aristocrat, a selection of society’s finest gather for a rural sojourn and shooting party, and over the course of the weekend reveal themselves to be absurdly, almost primitively,... view more

7th May, 2013

Programmer's Blurb May 2013

By : metro

Hi everyone,

The cinema exhibition industry has spent the last few years converting to Digital Cinema presentation, and Metro Cinema has now fully entered this brave new world, with the installation of the last part of our Digital Cinema system, we are now able to screen DCPs (Digital Cinema Packages).
Some of our DCPs this month include new titles like Ginger & Rosa by Sally Potter, Wrong by Quentin Dupieux and Spring Breakers by Harmony Korine; alongside classics like The Tin Drum, Taxi Driver and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the Canadian theatrical premiere of Unclaimed, by Edmonton filmmaker Michael Jorgenson. All are screening from DCP.

However, what sets Metro Cinema apart from most ...

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