June 19th, 2013 02:34 a.m.
Director: Russ Meyer
USA
1965,
83 min,
35mm
- Jul 27 (2012) @ 11:15pm
- Jul 28 (2012) @ 4pm
- Jul 29 (2012) @ 9pm
- Jul 31 (2012) @ 9:30pm
- Aug 2 (2012) @ 7pm
It doesn’t get any better than this! Three sexy-but-tough go-go dancers: savage karate expert Varla (Tura Satana), vicious Rosie, and girl-next-door gone bad Billie, get their afterwork kicks by hot-rodding in the California desert. They soon find themselves enveloped in...
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Director: David Cronenberg
France/ Canada/ Portugal/ Italy
2012,
108 min,
35mm
- Jul 27, 30 & Aug 2 (2012) @ 9pm
- Jul 28 (2012) @ 7pm
- Jul 29 (2012) @ 2:15pm
David Cronenberg continues his tradition of adapting difficult-to-adapt novels to the screen, this time Don Delillo’s eponymous novel from 2003. New York City, the not-too-distant-future: Eric Packer (Robert Pattinson), a 28 year-old finance golden boy dreaming of living in a...
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Director: Jonathan Demme
USA
2011,
87 min,
Digital
- Aug 3, 5 & 6 (2012) @ 7pm
- Aug 4 (2012) @ 4pm
- Aug 4 & 9 (2012) @ 9pm
- Aug 8 (2012) @ 9:15pm
In May of 2011, Neil Young drove a 1956 Crown Victoria from his idyllic hometown of Omemee, Ontario to downtown Toronto’s iconic Massey Hall where he intimately performed the last two nights of his solo world tour. Along the drive,...
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Director: Carlos Saura
Spain
2010,
96 min,
Digital
- Aug 3 & 7 (2012) @ 9pm
- Aug 4 & 9 (2012) @ 7pm
- Aug 5 (2012) @ 2pm
- Aug 6 (2012) @ 4pm
Another generation. Another flamenco. And Carlos Saura is always taking it a little step further. Sixteen years after his groundbreaking film _Flamenco _Saura thinks "there is a really mighty new flamenco; a flamenco of young talents," and introduces these newcomers,...
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Director: Tommy Wiseau
USA
2003,
99 min,
35mm
Oh hi Johnny, I didn’t know it was you. Join us for our monthly screening of Tommy Wiseau's masterpiece, The Room, widely agreed to be the “Citizen Kane of bad movies”. You're my favourite customer! Thanks a lot! Bye!
Director: Don Bluth
USA
1988,
69 min,
Digital
After a tragic earthquake, two dinosaurs, a young Longneck named Littlefoot and his Three-horns friend Cera are separated from their families. To reunite with them they must embark on a long and perilous journey to The Great Valley. Along the...
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Director: Kevin Macdonald
UK/USA
2012,
144 min,
35mm
- Aug 4 (2012) @ 2pm
- Aug 6 (2012) @ 8:45pm
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...
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Programmer's Blurb June 2013
By : metro
Hi everyone,
We have a great selection of world cinema this month. Ken Loach’s latest film The Angels' Share is about a Scotch heist, while Australia brings us The Sapphires (including a dash of Irish from Chris O’Dowd), and from the Philippines comes the powerful thriller Graceland.
As well, guest curators Matt Bowes and Brendan Brown have assembled four films from the 60s by Japanese director Seijun Suzuki. The series starts this month with Tokyo Drifter and Gate of Flesh, and continues in July with Youth of the Beast and Branded to Kill.
Some of our partner screenings ...
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