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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

Cult: Clerks

Director: Kevin Smith

USA 1994, 92 min, 35mm

Sep 25 (2012) @ 9pm

Dante Hicks is a slacker who works at a New Jersey Quick Stop, while his best friend Randall works at the video store around the corner. Their apathy for their jobs is equaled only by the absurdity of their customers,... view more

Opera: Cleopatra

Director: Joseph L Mankiewicz

UK 1963, 192 min, Digital

Sep 26 (2012) @ 7pm

Cleopatra (Elizabeth Taylor) attempts to secure her power as Queen of Egypt by charming Julius Caesar (Rex Harrison) and Mark Antony (Richard Burton) with whom she has a stormy love affair, but Egypt is finally integrated into the Roman Empire...... view more

Coast Modern

Director: Gavin Froome & Mike Bernard

Canada 2012, 55 min, Digital

Sep 27 & 29 (2012) @ 7pm
Sep 29 (2012) @ 1pm
Sep 30 (2012) @ 5pm
Sep 30 (2012) @ 9:15pm
Oct 2 (2012) @ 9:30pm

Travelling along the Pacific Northwest coastline from LA to Vancouver, the film showcases the pioneers of West Coast Modernist Architecture, and the homes that have become their legacies. Stepping inside the most inspired dwellings on the west coast, we feel... 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

Tabu

Director: Miguel Gomez

Portugal 2012, 118 min, Digital

Sep 28, 30 & Oct 4 (2012) @ 7pm
Sep 29 (2012) @ 2:15pm
Sep 29 & Oct 1 (2012) @ 9pm
Sep 30 (2012) @ 1pm

Inspired from the directors own life, and influenced by F. W. Murnau, _Tabu_ is a tale of paradise lost and found. When an elderly neighbour dies, Pilar (Teresa Madruga) reconnects with an old lover. and learns of an episode from... view more

Universal: The Incredible Shrinking Man

Director: Jack Arnold

USA 1957, 81 min, 35mm

Sep 28 (2012) @ 9:15pm
Sep 29 (2012) @ 4:30pm
Sep 30 (2012) @ 3:15pm
Oct 1 (2012) @ 7pm
Oct 11 (2012) @ 1pm

Not merely the best of Jack Arnold’s classic science fiction films of the 1950s, but one of the finest films ever made in that genre. After being contaminated by what may or may not be nuclear waste, Grant Williams finds... 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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