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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

Music Docs: Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Director: D.A. Pennebaker

UK 1973, 91 min, Digital

Sep 4 (2012) @ 9pm

On July 3, 1973, David Bowie played at London’s Hammersmith Odeon Theatre. Director D.A. Pennebaker, best known for the earlier rock films _Don’t Look Back_ and _Monterey Pop_, was on hand to document this legendary concert. Framed by a smattering... view more

Avenue's SCTV Retrospective

Sep 6 (2012) @ 7pm

Watch classic skits from the iconic SCTV episodes, while connecting with fellow hosers. Hear behind-the-scenes stories from people like Joe Flaherty and, if you’re lucky, he might just howl a la Count Floyd. Meanwhile, you’ll be helping raise funds for... view more

Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Director: Alison Klayman

USA 2012, 91 min, 35mm

Sep 7 & 9 (2012) @ 7pm
Sep 8 (2012) @ 4pm
Sep 8, 10 & 11 (2012) @ 9pm
Sep 9 (2012) @ 2pm

Ai Weiwei is China’s most famous international artist, and its most outspoken domestic critic. Against a backdrop of strict censorship and an unresponsive legal system, Ai expresses himself and organizes people through art and social media. In response, Chinese authorities... view more

Your Sister's Sister

Director: Lynn Shelton

USA 2011, 90 min, 35mm

Sep 7 & 9 (2012) @ 9pm
Sep 8 & 10 (2012) @ 7pm
Sep 9 (2012) @ 4pm

A year after his brother Tom’s death, Jack is still struggling emotionally. When he makes a scene at a memorial party, Tom’s best friend Iris (Emily Blunt) offers up her family cabin on an island in the Pacific Northwest so... view more

The Room (Sept 2012)

Director: Tommy Wiseau

USA 2003, 99 min, 35mm

Sep 7 (2012) @ 11pm

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.

Reel Family : Dumbo

Director: Ben Sharpsteen

USA 1941, 64 min, Digital

Sep 8 (2012) @ 2pm

A baby elephant delivered via stork to Mrs. Jumbo - a circus elephant - is cruelly nicknamed Dumbo for his incredibly large ears and separated from his overprotective mother. Along with his only friend Timothy Q. Mouse, Dumbo must find... 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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