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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

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

Music Docs & CJSR Fundraiser: Shut Up and Play the Hits w/ Short

Director: Will Lovelace & Dylan Southern

USA 2012, 108 min, Digital

Oct 2 (2012) @ 7pm

The Edmonton premiere is part of CJSR 88.5FM's Fundrive! On April 2nd, 2011, LCD Soundsystem played its final show at Madison Square Garden. LCD frontman James Murphy had made the conscious decision to disband one of the most celebrated and influential... view more

Greenwoods' Bookshoppe: David Suzuki & Jeff Rubin: The End of Growth Tour- SOLD OUT

Talk

Oct 3 (2012) @ 7pm

Join award-winning geneticist and broadcaster David Suzuki and award-winning, bestselling author and economist Jeff Rubin for an evening of discussion on how to create a truly sustainable future. The event will be hosted by filmmaker and anthropologist Niobe Thompson, co-founder... view more

Mostly Water: Metro Shorts (Oct 2012)

Director: Various

Canada 2012, Digital

Oct 4 (2012) @ 9pm

Want an audience to view your short films? Metro Shorts is a chance for filmmakers to have their work professionally screened and adjudicated by industry members. All films shown will receive a $50 CARFAC screening fee; in addition, a $100... view more

The Grub-Stake Revisited

Director: Daniel Janke, from original film by Nell Shipman & Bert Van Tuyle

Canada 2012, Silent Film with Live Score

Oct 5 (2012) @ 7pm

In this multidisplinary production, which combines film, theatre and music, Nell Shipman’s 1923 film _The Grub-Stake_ - a feminist romance-adventure set in the Klondike - is accompanied by a new music score performed live by the Longest Night Ensemble, and... view more

Sing-A-Long: The Sound of Music

Director: Robert Wise

USA 1965, 174 min, Digital

Oct 6 (2012) @ 1pm
Oct 6 (2012) @ 7pm

A new sing-a-long series comes to Edmonton starting with the classic Julie Andrews film, _The Sound of Music_. The film has subtitles so that the whole audience can sing along! Prior to the film, a host leads the audience through... 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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