June 18th, 2013 10:02 p.m.

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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

The Story of Film: An Odyssey: Episodes 13 & 14

Director: Mark Cousins
UK 2011, 120 min, Digital
  • Aug 19 (2012) @ 4:30pm
  • Aug 22 (2012) @ 7pm
13. Cinema around the world enters a golden age in the 90s: Starting in Iran, we meet Abbas Kiarostami, who rethought movie making and made it more real. This episode also meets Shinji Tsukamoto, who laid the ground for the bold... 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

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

Gerhard Richter - Painting

Director: Corinna Belz
Germany 2011, 97 min, Digital
  • Aug 24, 26 & 28 (2012) @ 7pm
  • Aug 25, 27 & 30 (2012) @ 9:15pm
The title says it all. Corinna Belz’s documentary is an unprecedented and oddly dangerous journey into the studios of Gerhard Richter, widely considered among the world’s most important living painters. Famously cranky and iconoclastic, Richter is an ideal subject to... 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

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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