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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

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

Graphic Content: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm

Director: Eric Radomski & Bruce Timm

USA 1993, 76 min, Digital

Sep 18 (2012) @ 7pm

When a new vigilante known as the Phantasm arrives in Gotham City and begins executing underworld figures, Batman (Kevin Conroy) is falsely implicated in the murders. At the same time, Andrea Beaumont (Dana Delany), one of Bruce Wayne's old flames,... view more

Gateway to Cinema: Back to the Future

Director: Robert Zemeckis

USA 1985, 116 min, Digital

Sep 19 (2012) @ 9:15pm

Marty McFly, a dissatisfied teen in 1985, accidentally travels back to 1955 in a pimped out time machine, where Doc Brown has to help him return to the 80s - and play cupid for his own parents before his existence... view more

Prairie Tales 14

Director: Various

Canada 2011, 80 min, Digital

Sep 20 (2012) @ 7pm

For 14 years Prairie Tales has offered a selection of some of the year’s best short films and videos made by Albertan media artists in a feature length compilation. This anthology showcasing work from the shining lights of the Alberta... view more

Turkey Shoot: Hudson Hawk

Director: Michael Lehmann

USA 1991, 100 min, Digital

Sep 20 (2012) @ 9:30pm

Challenged as both an action and a comedy film, _Hudson Hawk_ does feature perhaps Bruce Willis’ finest hairpiece. Defenders claim the film has been savaged by critics who don’t get the absurd sense of humour. We claim we might actually... view more

Universal: Frankenstein

Director: James Whale

USA 1931, 71 min, 35mm

Sep 21 & 25 (2012) @ 7pm
Sep 22 (2012) @ 2pm
Sep 23 (2012) @ 4pm
Sep 23 (2012) @ 9pm

“It’s alive! It’s alive!” Mary Shelley’s classic Gothic tale had been brought to the screen before, and would be many times again, but Universal’s creepy 1931 adaptation is without doubt the enduring cinematic version. Colin Clive plays the titular mad... view more

The Redemption of General Butt Naked

Director: Daniele Anastasion & Eric Strauss

USA / Georgia / Liberia 2011, 85 min, Digital

Sep 21 & 27 (2012) @ 9pm
Sep 22 (2012) @ 4pm
Sep 23 & 24 (2012) @ 7pm

Joshua Milton Blahyi – aka General Butt Naked – was a ruthless and feared warlord during Liberia’s 14-year civil war. Today, he has renounced his violent past and reinvented himself as a Christian evangelist on a journey of self-proclaimed transformation.... view more

Bizarro: The Man Who Fell to Earth

Director: Nicolas Roeg

UK 1976, 139 min, Digital

Sep 21 (2012) @ 11pm

Coming to Earth from his dying home planet, Thomas (David Bowie) is soon caught up in the human lifestyle of crass consumption and fixation on image. In an attempt to gather the water his home desperately needs, he starts a... view more

An ACGC Evening Affair: Featuring the Yes Men

Sep 22 (2012) @ 7pm

Join Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano from The Yes Men with their riveting talk, “We All Must Be Revolting: Finding Your Place in the Global Revolution,” proposing bold ways citizens can reclaim public discourse. Pranksters, filmmakers, and unorthodox activists, The... 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

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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