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Spanish: Madrid, 1987

Director: David Trueba

Spain 2011, 104 min, Digital

Nov 3 (2012) @ 7pm
Nov 4 (2012) @ 2pm

José Sacristán and María Valverde shine in David Trueba’s intelligent, witty, and sensual new film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim. On a hot summer day in a vacant Madrid during a period of social and... view more

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Director: Benh Zeitlin

USA 2012, 93 min, 35mm

Nov 3 (2012) @ 9:15pm
Nov 4 (2012) @ 4:15pm
Nov 8 & 14 (2012) @ 7pm
Nov 10 (2012) @ 9pm
Nov 11 (2012) @ 4pm
Nov 12 (2012) @ 8:30pm

The staggeringly ambitious and stylistically bold first feature by Benh Zeitlin, _Beasts of the Southern Wild_ took the Sundance Film Festival by storm with its eccentric, wholly unique vision of ecological apocalypse. Hushpuppy (an astonishing debut by Quvenzhané Wallis) is... view more

Spanish: No Rest for the Wicked

Director: Enrique Ubizu

Spain 2011, 104 min, Digital

Nov 2 & 4 (2012) @ 7pm

Inspector Santos Trinidad, a veteran policeman, drinks too much and works too little. Events turn sour one night and Santos finds himself implicated in a triple homicide. As he runs from the accusations, he starts the hunt for the one... view more

The Ambassador

Director: Mads Brugger

Denmark 2011, Digital

Nov 2 (2012) @ 9:30pm
Nov 3 (2012) @ 2pm
Nov 4 & 5 (2012) @ 9pm

A strange, enigmatic and decadent white diplomat arrives in central Africa, looking like a mixture of Henry Stanley and Karl Lagerfeld. He has recently bought an ambassadorship and claims to be a do-good rich business man, who has come to... view more

We are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists

Director: Brian Knappenberger

USA 2012, 93 min, Digital

Nov 5 & 9 (2012) @ 7pm
Nov 12 (2012) @ 2pm
Nov 13 (2012) @ 9:30pm
Nov 14 (2012) @ 9pm

_We are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists_, takes us inside the complex culture and history of Anonymous. The film explores early hacktivist groups like Cult of the Dead Cow and Electronic Disturbance Theater, and then moves to Anonymous’ own... view more

Godzilla: King Kong vs Godzilla

Director: Ishirô Honda

Japan / USA 1963, 99 min, 35mm

Nov 3 (2012) @ 4:30pm
Nov 6 (2012) @ 7pm
Nov 8 (2012) @ 9pm

After the sombre tone of the first two Godzilla films, Toho took the series in a more "family friendly" direction. _King Kong vs. Godzilla_ is pure schlocky monster movie fun at it’s finest. As Godzilla once again heads towards towards... view more

Music Docs: Stop Making Sense

Director: Jonathan Demme

USA 1984, 88 min, Digital

Nov 6 (2012) @ 9:15pm

The return of the big suit! _Stop Making Sense_ was the first feature-length documentary effort of filmmaker Jonathan Demme. The director’s subject is The Talking Heads, a new-wave/ pop-rock group comprised of David Byrne, Chris Franz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry... view more

Sita Sings the Blues

Director: Nina Paley

Canada 2008, 82 min, Digital

Nov 7 (2012) @ 7pm

Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully... view more

Spanish: Carmina or Blow Up

Director: Paco León

Spain 2012, 71 min, Digital

Nov 7 (2012) @ 9pm
Nov 12 (2012) @ 7pm

Famous comedian Paco León drags us to the surreal and wild world of Carmina, a 58 year old woman who manages a bar with Iberian products in Sevilla. Due to the lack of support from the insurance company following a... view more

Global Visions Youth Media Day

Nov 8 (2012) @ 10am

Global Visions Film Festival partners with FAVA once a year to present Global Visions Youth Media Day featuring _Future Visions_, which is a long standing program at FAVA facilitated by Tim Folkmann with Edmonton’s inner city youth. These youth take... view more

Spanish: Sleep Tight

Director: James Balaguero

Spain 2011, 101 min, Digital

Nov 9 & 11 (2012) @ 9pm

Toiling silently amongst the residents of an everyday Barcelona apartment building, doorman Cesar harbors a dark secret: his sole desire in life is to make others unhappy. When he sets his sights on Clara, one of his building’s cheeriest residents,... view more

DedFest: They Live

Director: John Carpenter

USA 1988, 93 min, Digital

Nov 9 (2012) @ 11:15pm

With another election happening down south, we couldn’t think of a better and more fitting film to screen. In John Carpenter’s classic, legendary wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper plays a drifter looking for work, who makes a horrifying discovery through the... view more

Reel Family : Annie

Director: John HUston

USA 1982, 128 min, Digital

Nov 10 (2012) @ 2pm

Annie, a young orphan living in New York City during the Great Depression, dreams of a better life beyond the walls of the miserable orphanage she’s grown up in. When Grace Farrell, secretary to billionaire Oliver Warbucks, comes to the... view more

Godzilla: Godzilla, Mothra & King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

Director: Shûsuke Kaneko

Japan 2001, 105 min, Digital

Nov 10 (2012) @ 4:30pm
Nov 13 (2012) @ 7pm
Nov 15 (2012) @ 9pm

Widely considered one of the best of the series, this "reboot" finds Godzilla returning to his villainous roots. With a complex plot and top notch special effects, this is a must see film for true Godzilla fans. Set in 2004,... view more

Spanish: The Double Steps

Director: Isaki Lacuesta

Spain 2011, 86 min, Digital

Nov 10 (2012) @ 7pm
Nov 11 (2012) @ 2pm

The best way to escape from your pursuers without leaving any traces behind you is to walk backwards over your own footprints. This is what French artist and author François Augiéras believed as he painted every inch of the walls... 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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