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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

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

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

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

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

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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