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The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye

Director: Marie Loser

USA 2011, 65 min, Digital

May 25 (2012) @ 9:15pm
May 26 (2012) @ 2pm
May 26 (2012) @ 7pm
May 27 (2012) @ 1pm
May 27 (2012) @ 9pm

Genesis P-Orridge has been one of the most innovative and influential figures in music and fine art for the last 30 years. A link between the pre-and post-punk eras, he is the flounder of the legendary groups COUM Transmissions (1969-1976),... view more

Weekend

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

France/Italy 1967, 105 min, 35mm

May 25 (2012) @ 7pm
May 26 (2012) @ 4pm
May 27 (2012) @ 2:30pm
May 29 (2012) @ 9pm

Jean-Luc Godard’s scathing late-sixties satire is one of cinema’s great anarchic works. Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a petit-bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous... view more

65_Red Roses

Director: Eva Markvoort

Canada 2009, 70 min, Digital

May 27 (2012) @ 4:30pm

This personal and touching journey takes an unflinching look into the lives of Eva Markvoort and her two online friends who are all battling cystic fibrosis (CF) - a fatal genetic disease affecting the lungs and digestive system. When Eva... view more

Keyhole

Director: Guy Maddin

Canada 2012, 94 min, 35mm

May 18, 20, 22 & 27 (2012) @ 7pm
May 19 (2012) @ 4:15pm
May 19 (2012) @ 9:15pm
May 21 (2012) @ 2pm
May 21 & 26 (2012) @ 9pm
May 23 (2012) @ 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

Special Event

May 28 (2012) @ 7pm

Legend

Director: Ridley Scott

USA 1985, 94 min, Digital

May 29 (2012) @ 7pm

Tom Cruise stars as the mischievous, pure-of-heart boy bent on rescuing ethereal heartthrob Mia Sara from the sensual snares of demon Tim Curry and his goblin horde. A master of the otherworldly, Scott creates one of his most intoxicating fantasy... view more

Dreamspeakers: Dreamspeakers Film Festival

May 30 (2012) @ 6pm
May 30, Jun 1 & 2 (2012) @ 9pm
May 31 & Jun 1 (2012) @ 4pm
May 31 (2012) @ 6:45pm
May 31 (2012) @ 9:30pm
Jun 1 & 2 (2012) @ 7pm
Jun 1 (2012) @ 11pm
Jun 2 (2012) @ 1pm
Jun 2 (2012) @ 3pm

When the first Dene filmmaker returned home to Canada’s Northwest Territories, his people had no words for his new art. They called it “Dreamtalking”. When you make films a Dene elder said, you are speaking your dreams. Edmonton, Alberta becomes... 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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