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Reel Rock Climbing Film Fest

Director: Various

Various Countries 2012, 90 min, Digital

Oct 23 (2012) @ 7pm

Reel Rock shows are exciting events where climbers and outdoors lovers come together to celebrate the ultimate in adventure filmmaking. For our seventh year, Sender Films and Big UP Productions are combining the biggest names in the sport with stories... view more

Cult: Punch-Drunk Love

Director: Paul Thomas Anderson

USA 2002, 94 min, 35mm

Oct 23 (2012) @ 9:30pm

Winner of the Best Director Award at Cannes, Paul Thomas Anderson’s fourth film is a unique portrait of a lonely soul finding strength in the power of love. Adam Sandler is Barry Egan, an isolated entrepreneur who is suddenly forced... view more

Doc Talks: The Avenue

Director: Jaimie Clements

Canada 2012, 93 min, Digital

Oct 24 (2012) @ 7pm

For years 118th Avenue in Edmonton has been synonymous with crime, drugs and prostitution. But now that image is changing. _The Avenue_ exposes the heart of the people residing around 118th Ave as they fight to reclaim their neighbourhood through... view more

Bubba Ho-Tep

Director: Don Coscarelli

USA 2002, 92 min, 35mm

Oct 22 & 24 (2012) @ 9:30pm

Elvis is in the building! Metro last screened this popular cult favourite back in 2004. Don't miss your chance to see it this time! Based on the Bram Stoker Award-nominated short story by acclaimed author Joe R. Lansdale, _Bubba Ho-tep_ tells... view more

Science: 28 Days Later

Director: Danny Boyle

UK 2002, 113 min, Digital

Oct 25 (2012) @ 6:30pm

Four weeks after a rogue virus erupts from a laboratory and spreads throughout the U.K. a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary from zombies with super-human strength. _28 Days Later_ will be introduced by Maya Shmulevitz PhD., a virologist... view more

Turkey Shoot: Waterworld

Director: Kevin Reynolds

USA 1995, 135 min, Digital

Oct 25 (2012) @ 9:30pm

Kevin Costner sprouts gills and secretly directs this damp epic about a chap known as Mariner who spends his days sailing around a world covered entirely in … wait for it … water. A love story and adorable child float... view more

Trishna

Director: Michael Winterbottom

UK 2011, 117 min, Digital

Oct 26, 28, 30 & Nov 1 (2012) @ 7pm
Oct 27 (2012) @ 4pm
Oct 27, 29 & 31 (2012) @ 9pm
Oct 28 (2012) @ 4:30pm

Based on Thomas Hardy’s classic novel _Tess of the D`Urbervilles_, Trishna tells the story of one woman whose life is destroyed by a combination of love and circumstances. Set in contemporary Rajasthan, Trishna (Freida Pinto) meets a wealthy young British... view more

Compliance

Director: Craig Zobel

USA 2012, 90 min, 35mm

Oct 26, 28, 30 & Nov 1 (2012) @ 9:15pm
Oct 27 (2012) @ 2pm
Oct 27, 29 & 31 (2012) @ 7pm

When a police officer tells you to do something, you do it. Right? Inspired by true events, _Compliance_ tells the chilling story of just how far one might go to obey a figure of authority. On a particularly busy day at... view more

Bizarro: Blacula

Director: William Crain

USA 1972, 93 min, Digital

Oct 26 (2012) @ 11pm

In the days before his reign as “The King of Cartoons”, William Marshall brought his soulful voice to bear in one the definitive works of the “blaxploitation” genre, Blacula. … In 1780, after visiting Count Dracula, Manuwalde is turned into... view more

Halloweeniors

Director: Paul Arnusch & aAron Munson

Canada 2012, 11 min, Digital

Oct 27 (2012) @ 12pm

A unique perspective on Hallows Eve, Halloweeniors follows a group of Edmonton Strathcona seniors as they celebrate the day of the dead in costume. While exploring their memories and thoughts, the film provides proof that this eerie holiday is not... view more

The Rocky Horror Picture Show - SOLD OUT

Director: Jim Sharman

USA 1975, 100 min, 35mm

Oct 27 (2012) @ 11:59pm

Let’s do the time-warp again! It’s the all-time weird and wonderful Midnight Cult Favourite! The newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter a problem when their car halts in the rain. They both look for help only to find themselves... 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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