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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

Women in Art: AGA: Guest of Cindy Sherman

Director: Paul H-O, Tom Donahue

USA 2008, 88 min, Digital

Sep 11 (2012) @ 7pm

_Guest of Cindy Sherman_ takes an eye-opening look at what happens when a skeptical outsider finds himself romantically involved with the ultimate insider. Paul H-O became a fixture of the New York art scene in the 1990s with his public... view more

Vue Weekly presents: Blue Revue Sexy Film Festival

Director: Various

Canada 2012, Digital

Sep 12 (2012) @ 7pm

If you’ve ever wanted to be a porn star for a night but not a lifetime, Blue Revue is the place to do it. Featuring fun and sexy DIY porn from Edmonton and across Canada, the third annual Blue Revue... view more

Boogie Nights

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

USA 1997, 155 min, Digital

Sep 12 (2012) @ 10pm

Epic tale covering the rise and fall of porn star Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg). The protege of director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), 17-year-old Eddie jumps in a hot tub at an industry bash, christens himself Dirk Diggler, and goes on... view more

Private Event

Sep 13 (2012) @ 7pm

Bump it at the Metro!

Director: Various

Canada 2012

Sep 14 (2012) @ 7pm

“Turn off your cell phones!” “Let’s all go to the lobby!” “Feature presentation!” The grand tradition of pre-show bumpers is alive and well at Metro Cinema. Come celebrate the first edition of Bump it at the Metro, where local filmmakers... view more

Universal: The Birds

Director: Alfred Hitchcock

USA 1963, 120 min, 35mm

Sep 14 & 17 (2012) @ 9pm
Sep 16 (2012) @ 2pm
Sep 16 & 19 (2012) @ 7pm

...Alfred Hitchcock’s legendary doomsday fantasia is cinema’s greatest disaster movie, and one of the director’s finest works. Tippi Hedren, in her screen debut, plays Melanie, a smitten San Francisco socialite who pursues bachelor lawyer Mitch (Rod Taylor) back to his... view more

DEDfest: The Lost Boys

Director: Joel Schumacher

USA 1987, 97 min, Digital

Sep 14 (2012) @ 11:30pm

A recent divorcee and her teenage sons, Mike and Sam, settle down in the California town of Santa Carla. At first, Sam (Corey Haim) laughs off rumours he hears about vampires who inhabit the small town. But after Mike meets... view more

Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party

Director: Various

USA, 180 min

Sep 15 (2012) @ 10am

Back by popular demand! It’s an All New program of cartoons! Remember Saturday morning? You’d wake up before anybody else, turn on the TV and watch cartoons for hours on end and gobble down something sugar-coated. Put on your best... view more

Moonrise Kingdom

Director: Wes Anderson

USA 2012, 94 min, 35mm

Sep 15 & 23 (2012) @ 2pm
Sep 16 (2012) @ 4:30pm
Sep 16 (2012) @ 9:30pm
Sep 17 (2012) @ 7pm
Sep 18 & 24 (2012) @ 9pm

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, _Moonrise Kingdom_ tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various... view more

Old Ugly CD Release Party: The Special

Canada 2012

Sep 15 (2012) @ 7pm

OLD UGLY Recording Co., CJSR , and Metro Cinema present The Special, an interdisciplinary evening with a select few of Edmonton’s bottomless talents. This event will play host to the release of three important new records from Field+Stream, Renny “Sugarglider”... 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

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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