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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

Cult Cinema: Nashville

Director: Robert Altman

USA 1975, 159 min, 35mm

Aug 28 (2012) @ 9pm

With America's bicentennial and presidential elections fast approaching, the rebellious Robert Altman turned his lens to Nashville as a microcosm of the nation to tell the story of a few days in the lives of dozens of characters as they... view more

The Story of Film: An Odyssey: Episode 15

Director: Mark Cousins

UK 2011, 60 min, Digital

Aug 26 (2012) @ 4:30pm
Aug 29 (2012) @ 7pm

15. Movies come full circle: They get more serious after 9/11, and Romanian films come to the fore. Meanwhile, David Lynch's _Mulholland Drive _becomes one of the most complex dream films ever made and _Inception_ turns film into a game. In... 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

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

Legend of a Warrior

Director: Corey Lee

Canada 2012, 78 min, Digital

Aug 31, Sep 2 & 5 (2012) @ 7pm
Sep 1 (2012) @ 2:30pm
Sep 1 & 3 (2012) @ 9pm
Sep 2 (2012) @ 2pm
Sep 3 (2012) @ 1pm

Frank Lee is more than just a celebrated martial artist; he’s practically a superhero, able to knock down evildoers before they know what hit them. Renowned for bringing White Crane kung fu to North America, Frank evolved his own style... view more

Iron Sky

Director: Timo Vuorensola

Finland/ Germany/ Australia 2012, 93 min, Digital

Aug 31 (2012) @ 9:30pm
Sep 1 (2012) @ 12:30pm
Sep 1, 3 & 4 (2012) @ 7pm
Sep 2 (2012) @ 4pm
Sep 2 (2012) @ 10:30pm
Sep 3 (2012) @ 2:45pm
Sep 5 (2012) @ 9pm
Sep 28 (2012) @ 11pm

In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During seventy years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive... view more

Enter the Dragon

Director: Robert Clouse

Hong Kong / USA 1973, 98 min, Digital

Aug 31 (2012) @ 11:15pm
Sep 2 (2012) @ 8:30pm
Sep 3 (2012) @ 4:45pm

Bruce Lee plays a practitioner of Shaolin style martial arts who gets invited to a fighting tournament run by a man named Han (Shih Kien) on a mysterious island. There he teams up with Roper and Williams (John Saxon and... view more

Private Event

Sep 1 (2012) @ 4:30pm

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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