Metro Cinema Society: Graphic Content: A Comic Book Film Series 2011/12

Graphic Content: A Comic Book Film Series 2011/12

Graphic Content is a film series new to the programming slate at Metro Cinema. With comic books and other examples of “geek culture” becoming more prominent in the mainstream, Graphic Content has as its aim to promote and explore the relationship between film and sequential art. The idea is to promote cross-media literacy, showing films and pairing them with examples from comic books, graphic novels, and manga. Curators Matt Bowes, of Warp One Comics and Games, and Erin Fraser, of Metro Cinema, will introduce each screening, attempting to place the film in context with the greater geek culture canon. They will also curate a book list of thematically relevant titles, which will be available at Warp One. We hope that you’ll be able to join us for an evening of fun and adventure, and learn about the wide world of graphic literature! GRAPHICCONTENT.ORG

Batman: The Movie

Director: Leslie H. Martison

USA 1966, 104 min, 35mm

Sep 16 (2011) @ 11pm
Sep 18 (2011) @ 4pm

With all the excitement surrounding Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film The Dark Knight Rises, we at Graphic Content decided to go back to the character’s roots for our inaugural outing. Starring the classic team of Adam West as Batman and Burt... view more

Graphic Content: Superman

Director: Richard Donner

USA 1978, 143 min, 35mm

Oct 18 (2011) @ 6:45pm

One of the most well-regarded superhero films of all time, Superman was a box-office smash when it rocketed to Earth in 1978. The last son of the dead planet Krypton, Kal-El (Christopher Reeve) is found as a baby by Jonathan... view more

Graphic Content: V for Vendetta

Director: James McTeigue

USA 2006, 132 min, Digital

Nov 22 (2011) @ 9pm

It is the near future in England, and the fascist “Norsefire” party has risen to power after a mysterious global cataclysm. A young woman, Evey (Natalie Portman) is saved from an assault by a mysterious Guy Fawkes-masked man who refers... view more

Graphic Content: Akira

Director: Katsushiro Otomo

Japan 1988, 125 min, Digital

Dec 20 (2011) @ 9:15pm

Neo Tokyo, 2019: Two best friends, Kaneda (Mitsuo Iwata) and Tetsuo (Nozomu Sasaki) are the leaders of the Capsule motorcycle gang, battling for control over the neon-soaked city streets. When the pair come into contact with a decommissioned military experiment,... view more

Graphic Content: The Rocketeer

Director: Joe Johnston

USA 1991, 108 min, Digital

Jan 17 (2012) @ 7pm

In Pre-War Los Angeles, Cliff Secord (Billy Campbell) is a stunt pilot/barnstormer who comes into possession of an experimental rocket pack designed by Howard Hughes and then stolen by mobster Eddie Valentine. With the help of his best friend, mechanic... view more

Graphic Content: Scott Pilgrim vs the World

Director: Edgar Wright

USA 2010, 112 min, 35mm

Feb 14 (2012) @ 9:30pm

Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera), slacker Torontonian and the best fighter in all of Ontario, seems like he has it all. He’s dating a high schooler named Knives Chau and plays bass in a band called Sex Bob-omb. Everything changes, though,... view more

Graphic Content: American Splendor

Director: Shari Springer, Robert Pulcini

USA 2003, 101 min, 35mm

Mar 20 (2012) @ 9:15pm

In the mid 1970s, Harvey Pekar (Paul Giamatti) started writing comics that were radically different from anything being published at the time. _American Splendor_ was unlike other indie comics, which were usually the product of a single writer-artist, the equivalent... view more

Graphic Content: Ghost World

Director: Terry Zwigoff

USA 2011, 111 min, Digital

Apr 17 (2012) @ 9pm

Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) are two alienated young women surviving life in a nameless, hellish American town. The two pseudo-intellectual outcasts connect with society in small yet profound ways: Rebecca finds out that she could become a... view more

Graphic Content: A History of Violence

Director: David Cronenberg

USA 2005, 96 min, 35mm

May 15 (2012) @ 9:15pm

Tom Stall (Viggo Mortensen) is an average, middle class diner owner who is suddenly thrust into the public eye after stopping a brutal attack at his restaurant. The media attention he receives for this heroic action has an unintended consequence;... view more

Graphic Content: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Director: Steve Barron

USA/ Hong Kong 1990, 93 min, Digital

Jun 19 (2012) @ 7pm
Jun 24 (2012) @ 12:30pm

After an accident involving a canister of toxic waste, four ordinary turtles from the pet store are transformed into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Leonardo is the leader, Raphael is the rebel, Michelangelo is the party dude, and Donatello does... view more