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Graphic Content: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Director: Steve Barron

USA/ Hong Kong 1990, 93 min, Digital

Jun 19 (2012) @ 7pm
Jun 24 (2012) @ 12:30pm

After an accident involving a canister of toxic waste, four ordinary turtles from the pet store are transformed into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Leonardo is the leader, Raphael is the rebel, Michelangelo is the party dude, and Donatello does... view more

Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope

Director: Morgan Spurlock

USA 2011, 88 min, 35mm

Jun 22 & 24 (2012) @ 7pm
Jun 23 (2012) @ 5:30pm
Jun 23, 25 & 27 (2012) @ 9:30pm
Jun 24 (2012) @ 2:30pm

Have you ever imagined a place where Vulcans and vampires get along? Where wizards and wookies can be themselves? Welcome to Comic-Con San Diego. What started as a fringe comic book convention for 500 fans has grown into the pop... view more

Red Desert

Director: Michelangelo Antonioni

Italy/France 1964, 117 min, 35mm

Jun 22 (2012) @ 8:45pm
Jun 23 (2012) @ 7:15pm
Jun 24 (2012) @ 4:30pm
Jun 24 (2012) @ 9pm
Jun 26 (2012) @ 7pm

Michelangelo Antonioni’s panoramas of contemporary alienation were decade-defining artistic events, and Red Desert, his first color film, is perhaps his most epochal. This provocative look at the spiritual desolation of the technological age - about a disaffected woman, brilliantly portrayed... view more

The Bike Heist

Director: Curtis Cleveland

Canada 2012, 87 min, Digital

Jun 25 (2012) @ 7pm

Shot entirely in Edmonton! with local cast & crew, Bikeology presents the World Premiere of this comedy bromance & bikemance. Mike and Barry are lifelong friends going in two separate directions. When Mike has both his own beloved bike &... view more

Cult Cinema: Songs from the Second Floor

Director: Roy Andersson

Sweden 2000, 98 min, 35mm

Jun 26 (2012) @ 9:30pm

Composed of a series of immaculately staged tableaux, _Songs From The Second Floor_ is a stylized black comedy-turned-nightmare. A mysterious urban landscape is home to: a hapless office worker, unceremoniously fired after not missing a day of work in 14... view more

FAVA Main Course Screening

Director: Various

Canada 2012, Digital

Jun 27 (2012) @ 7pm

The Film and Video Arts Society – Alberta (FAVA) is serving up some hot new entrees at the Main Course screening. This premiere screening showcases the work of our intermediate film class. These emerging filmmakers bring their newly acquired skills... view more

The McDades - Brother Brother Sister Making Music

Director: Yvonne DuBourdieu

Canada 2012, 93 min, Digital

Jun 28 (2012) @ 7pm

A special screening of the recently completed feature length documentary:_ The McDades - Brother Brother Sister Making Music._ The screening will be hosted by Peter North. This event is now open to the public. It’s a screening to honour those who... view more

Turkey Shoot: Staying Alive

Director: Sylvestor Stallone

USA 1983, 93 min, Digital

Jun 28 (2012) @ 9:30pm

Somewhere between _First Blood_ and _Rhinestone_, Stallone dreamed of making it big on Broadway. So he resurrected Travolta, buffed him up and greased him down. Lost in the Miami Vice 80s and without any formal dance training beyond neighborhood disco... view more

Marley

Director: Kevin Macdonald

USA/UK 2012, 144 min, 35mm

Jun 29, Jul 1, 4 & 7 (2012) @ 6:45pm
Jun 30 & Jul 2 (2012) @ 4pm
Jun 30 & Jul 2 (2012) @ 8:45pm
Jul 1 (2012) @ 2pm
Jul 5 (2012) @ 9pm
Jul 8, 9 & 11 (2012) @ 9:15pm

Bob Marley's universal appeal, impact on music history and role as a social and political prophet is both unique and unparalleled. _Marley_ is the definitive life story of the musician, revolutionary, and legend, from his early days to his rise... view more

Turn Me On, Goddammit!

Director: Jannicke Systad Jacobsen

Norway 2011, 76 min, 35mm

Jun 29, Jul 1 & 4 (2012) @ 9:30pm
Jun 30 & Jul 2 (2012) @ 7pm
Jul 1 (2012) @ 4:45pm
Jul 2 (2012) @ 2:15pm

_Turn Me On, Goddammit!_ is a whimsical and refreshingly honest coming of age story about the blossoming sexuality of a teenage girl. 15-year-old Alma (Helene Bergsholm) is consumed by her out-of-control hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images... view more

Bikeology Food Bank: Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Director: Tim Burton

USA 1985, 90 min, Digital

Jun 29 (2012) @ 11pm

Pee-Wee Herman in Tim Burton’s quintessential bike film. Free Admission with donation of a non-perishable food item (or money) to Edmonton's Food Bank.

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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