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The Lady

Director: Luc Besson

UK/France 2011, 135 min, 35mm

Aug 10, 12 & 16 (2012) @ 6:45pm
Aug 11 (2012) @ 4pm
Aug 11, 13 & 14 (2012) @ 9pm
Aug 12 (2012) @ 1:45pm

_The Lady_ is the extraordinary story of Aung San Suu Kyi (Michelle Yeoh) and her husband, Michael Aris. It is also the epic story of the peaceful quest of the woman who is at the core of Burma’s democracy movement.... view more

The Story of Film: An Odyssey: Episodes 11 & 12

Director: Mark Cousins

UK 2011, 120 min, Digital

Aug 12 (2012) @ 4:30pm
Aug 15 (2012) @ 7pm

11. Innovation in Popular Culture: As well as creating the multiplexes, _Star Wars, Jaws_ and _The Exorcist_ were also innovative. The programme then travels to India, where the world's most famous movie star, Amitabh Bachchan, shows how Bollywood was doing new... view more

Oslo, August 31st

Director: Joachim Trier

Norway 2011, 96 min, Digital

Aug 10, 12 & 15 (2012) @ 9:30pm
Aug 11 (2012) @ 2pm
Aug 11 & 13 (2012) @ 7pm
Aug 16 (2012) @ 9pm

Anders will soon complete his drug rehabilitation in the countryside. As part of the program, he is allowed to go into the city for a job interview. But he takes advantage of the leave and stays on in the city,... view more

Women in Art: AGA: Wanda Koop w/ Ghost Noise

Director: Katherine Knight

Canada 2011, 52 min, Digital

Aug 14 (2012) @ 7pm

The film explores the importance of the Artist’s Studio, as a factory of the imagination. We meet Wanda in her newly renovated factory building where the multifaceted process of making, storing, archiving, marketing and selling her work occur. This is... view more

Fringe: Son of a Dwarf

Director: Jeremy Mason

Canada 2012, 70 min, Live Show

Aug 17, 19, 20 & 25 (2012) @ 7pm
Aug 18, 21 & 22 (2012) @ 5pm
Aug 23 & 24 (2012) @ 9pm
Aug 26 (2012) @ 1pm

From the makers of _Happy Whackin’ _and _Cowboy: A Cowboy Story_, enter a world of sword and sorcery as Accidental Humour Co. returns with their always-popular blend of theatre and film. Evil Sorcery. Hungry Giants. Annoying Gnomes. Fantasy gets kicked... view more

Jaws

Director: Steven Spielberg

USA 1975, 124 min, New 35mm print & Digital

Aug 17 & 19 (2012) @ 9:15pm
Aug 18 (2012) @ 2:15pm
Aug 21, 27 & 30 (2012) @ 7pm
Aug 25 (2012) @ 2pm

Is there such a thing as a perfect film? One that knows what it wants to achieve and does it, flawlessly, artfully and intelligently? If so, then _Jaws_ is as good a candidate as any. Thirty-seven years on, this tale... view more

Metro Bizarro: Frankenhooker

Director: Frank Henenlotter

USA 1990, 85 min, Digital

Aug 17 (2012) @ 11:30pm

Wanna date? Metro Bizarro is happy to provide one with Henenlotter’s (Basketcase) demented take on Frankenstein: _Frankenhooker_. When young genius Jeffrey Franken loses his girlfriend (former Penthouse Pet Patty Mullen) he decides to rebuild her bigger, better, sluttier. One problem... view more

Reel Family : Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory

Director: Mel Stuart

USA/ UK/ Germany 1971, 100 min, Digital

Aug 18 (2012) @ 12pm

When eccentric candy maker Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder) announces that he has randomly hid five golden tickets among his Wonka Bars that will the grant the finders admission to an exclusive tour of Wonka’s secretive candy factory, everyone starts buying... view more

A Place Called Los Pereyra

Director: Andres Livov- Macklin

Argentina/ Canada 2009, 82 min, Digital

Aug 18 & 23 (2012) @ 7pm
Aug 29 (2012) @ 9:15pm

In the impoverished and extremely isolated region of Northern Argentina known as "The Impenetrable", the children of a tiny elementary school eagerly await an annual visit from their “Godmothers”: a charity mission from the city of Buenos Aires. When the... view more

Fringe: The Haunted Reel

Director: Alan Smithee

Canada 2012, 60 min, Live Show

Aug 18 & 22 (2012) @ 9:30pm
Aug 19 (2012) @ 2pm
Aug 21 (2012) @ 9pm
Aug 23 & 25 (2012) @ 5pm
Aug 24 (2012) @ 11pm

What kind of hell have the Turkey Shoot guys unleashed on our beloved Garneau Theatre? In this “Village of the Fringed” BYOV, movies exact revenge on Dave Clarke and Jeff Page. An antique film reel has been unearthed in the... view more

3rd June, 2013

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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