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Payback

Director: Jennifer Baichwal

Canada 2011, 90 min, Digital

Apr 27, 28 & May 1 (2012) @ 7pm
Apr 28 (2012) @ 1:30pm
Apr 29 (2012) @ 1pm
May 3 (2012) @ 9:30pm

Based on Margaret Atwood’ s best-selling book _Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth_, _Payback_ offers a fascinating look at debt, tracing how it influences relationships, societies, governing structures and the very fate of the planet. The film explores... view more

Goin' Down the Road

Director: Don Shebib

Canada 1970, 90 min, Digital

Apr 29 (2012) @ 2:45pm
Apr 30 (2012) @ 7pm

Pete (Doug McGrath) and his pal Joey (Paul Bradley) are two wistful roustabouts from the Maritimes who head to Toronto in a battered old Chevy looking for a better life. <...> This first feature by Don Shebib – produced in... view more

Down the Road Again

Director: Don Shebib

Canada 2011, 84 min, 35mm

Apr 28 (2012) @ 9pm
Apr 29 (2012) @ 4:30pm
Apr 30 (2012) @ 8:45pm

In 1970, Joey and Pete left Nova Scotia to try life in the big city in the Canadian classic _Goin’ Down the Road_. Now, some forty years later, Joey has died, and Pete must fulfill his last wish: to take... view more

World on a Wire

Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

West Germany 1973, 212 min, 35mm

Apr 27 (2012) @ 8:45pm
Apr 28 (2012) @ 3:15pm
Apr 29 & May 2 (2012) @ 7pm

A dystopic science-fiction epic, _World on a Wire_ is German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s gloriously cracked, boundlessly inventive take on future paranoia. With dashes of Kubrick, Vonnegut, and Dick, but a flavor entirely his own, Fassbinder tells the noirspiked tale... view more

Music Docs: Better Than Something: Jay Reatard w/ Grow Your Own Fucking Mustache, Asshole

Canada

May 1 (2012) @ 9pm

The latest screening in our Music Docs series is _Better than Something: Jay Reatard_, accompanied by a music video for _Grow Your Own Fucking Mustache, Asshole_.

Science in the Cinema: The Painted Veil

Director: John Curran

China /USA/ Canada 2006, 125 min, Digital

May 3 (2012) @ 6:30pm

Set in 1920's China, a British medical doctor trapped in a loveless marriage uncovers his wife's infidelity. In an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village ravaged by a deadly cholera epidemic, and takes her along.... view more

Boy

Director: Taika Waititi

New Zealand 2010, 87 min, 35mm

May 4 & 10 (2012) @ 7pm
May 5 (2012) @ 1pm
May 5, 6 & 8 (2012) @ 9pm
May 6 (2012) @ 3:30pm

It’s 1984, and Michael Jackson is king-even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). Shortly... view more

Hard Core Logo II

Director: Bruce MacDonald

Canada 2010, 85 min, Digital

May 4, 7 & 10 (2012) @ 9pm
May 5 (2012) @ 4:45pm
May 6 (2012) @ 7pm

Bruce MacDonald’s post-modernist, wryly self-conscious _Hard Core Logo II_, the sequel to his celebrated punk-rock faux doc, doesn’t so much mock the notion of sequels as take a blow torch to it. Protagonist is “Bruce” (McDonald), the director in the... view more

The Room (May 2012)

Director: Tommy Wiseau

USA 2003, 99 min, 35mm

May 4 (2012) @ 11pm

Can one man make a film so awful the only thing it’s good for is ridicule, film a sex scene so repulsive you’d rather have it star your grandparents, and make a film so beautiful it has “the passion of... view more

Hard Core Logo

Director: Bruce MacDonald

Canada 1996, 92 min, 35mm

May 5 (2012) @ 3pm
May 6 (2012) @ 5:15pm

This seminal Canadian road-trip/mockumentary follows the fictional punk band Hard Core Logo on a harrowing last-gasp reunion tour throughout Western Canada for what they believe is a one-time only benefit concert for front man Joe Dick’s musical idol, Bucky Haight.... view more

This Is Not a Film

Director: Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb

Iran 2011, 75 min, Digital

May 5 & 7 (2012) @ 7pm
May 6 (2012) @ 2pm
May 9 (2012) @ 9pm

Jafar Panahi, the fifty-one-year-old Iranian film director, is a maker of nonpolitical films. Nevertheless, he has been sentenced by the Iranian authorities to six years in prison, and has been banned from directing, writing screenplays, or giving interviews for twenty... 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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