Metro Cinema Society: Cult Cinema 2011/12

Cult Cinema 2011/12

Metro Cinema's monthly series of eccentric classics and unusual treasures. Featuring the original, the challenging, and the just plain weird. Curated by Jeff Noel.

Cult Cinema: A Hard Day's Night

Director: Richard Lester

UK 1964, 87 min, 35mm

Sep 20 (2011) @ 9pm

The Beatles play themselves in this masterpiece of rock n' roll cinema, produced in the weeks following the Fab Four's return from their triumphant first trip to the US. Intended to cash in on the sudden worldwide outbreak of Beatlemania,... view more

Cult Cinema: Manhattan

Director: Woody Allen

1979, 96 min, 35mm

Oct 25 (2011) @ 9pm

Woody Allen's cinematic prowess reached it's apex with this black & white love-letter to New York City. Here he plays Isaac Davis, a successful middle-aged comedy writer who is dating a precocious 17-year-old just about to finish high school, while... view more

Cult Cinema: Wild at Heart

Director: David Lynch

USA 1990, 125 min, 35mm

Nov 29 (2011) @ 9pm

Nicholas Cage and Laura Dern set the screen on fire as Sailor and Lula, young lovers on the road in a nightmarish American landscape and high on love. When Sailor is released form a stint in prison Lula picks them... view more

Cult Cinema: Die Hard 2

Director: Renny Harlin

USA 1990, 124 min, 35mm

Dec 21 (2011) @ 9:15pm

Yipee Ki-Yay moviegoer! Bruce Willis returns as John McClane, the working man's James Bond, for his second straight Christmas vs.Terrorists. This time it's ex-CIA operatives who take control of Washington's Dulles airport on Christmas Eve in an attempt to free... view more

Cult Cinema: The Killing

Director: Stanley Kubrick

USA 1956, 85 min, 35mm

Jan 24 (2012) @ 9pm
Jan 29 (2012) @ 4pm

At 27, Stanley Kubrick received studio backing for the first time to make his third feature, a heist film told in an inventively non-linear style. Sterling Hayden plays Johnny Clay, an ex-con who puts together a crew of misfits to... view more

Cult Cinema: Brazil

Director: Terry Gilliam

USA 1985, 131 min, 35mm

Feb 28 (2012) @ 9pm

_Brazil_ is Terry Gilliam’s masterpiece. The film, co-written by Gilliam, playwright Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown, is set in a futuristic society laden with red tape and bureaucracy. When a bug, literally, gets in the system, an innocent man is... view more

Cult Cinema: Reservoir Dogs

Director: Quentin Tarantino

USA 1992, 99 min, 35mm

Mar 27 (2012) @ 9:15pm

A heist film that neglects to show the heist, Tarantino's extremely assured debut instead lingers in the aftermath, the preparation, and the conversation surrounding it, but not necessarily in that order. Harvey Keitel gives a standout performance as Mr. White,... view more

Cult Cinema: Harold and Maude

Director: Hal Ashby

USA 1971, 91 min, 35mm

Apr 24 (2012) @ 9:15pm

Hal Ashby’s cult classic tells the story of Harold (Bud Cort), an affluent but depressed young man whose primary interests include faking suicides for the benefit of his indifferent mother, and attending funerals. He recognizes seventy-nine- year-old Maude (Ruth Gordon)... view more

Cult Cinema: Mulholland Dr.

Director: David Lynch

USA 2001, 147 min, 35mm

May 22 (2012) @ 9pm

A bright-eyed young actress (Naomi Watts) travels to Hollywood only to be ensnared in a dark conspiracy involving a woman who was nearly murdered, and now has amnesia because of a car crash. Eventually, both women are pulled into a... view more

Cult Cinema: Songs from the Second Floor

Director: Roy Andersson

Sweden 2000, 98 min, 35mm

Jun 26 (2012) @ 9:30pm

Composed of a series of immaculately staged tableaux, _Songs From The Second Floor_ is a stylized black comedy-turned-nightmare. A mysterious urban landscape is home to: a hapless office worker, unceremoniously fired after not missing a day of work in 14... view more

Cult Cinema: Do the Right Thing

Director: Spike Lee

USA 1989, 120 min, Digital

Jul 24 (2012) @ 9pm

Spike Lee's racial and political filmmaking bent is given the full treatment with this simmering exposé of racial tensions in a New York City neighbourhood one scorching summer day. The film, written by Lee (and nominated for an Oscar), follows... view more

Cult Cinema: Nashville

Director: Robert Altman

USA 1975, 159 min, 35mm

Aug 28 (2012) @ 9pm

With America's bicentennial and presidential elections fast approaching, the rebellious Robert Altman turned his lens to Nashville as a microcosm of the nation to tell the story of a few days in the lives of dozens of characters as they... view more