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Faces Magazine 2022 Ottawa Awards nomination for the Mayfair!
The Mayfair Theatre has been nominated in the Faces Magazine 2022 Ottawa Awards, under the Events & Entertainment / Event Venue category! You can vote for the Mayfair Theatre right now (and once a day if you’d like) through January 31. https://facesmag.ca/awards/#//
EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED…HE DOES
Buckaroo Banzai is a renaissance man, a top neurosurgeon, particle physicist, race car driver, rock star and comic book hero. He and the Hong Kong Cavaliers, his super team of sidekicks / band-members, must save the world by defeating inter-dimensional aliens called Red Lectroids from Planet 10. Like a
Exiles 2 Days only!
The Exiles out of exile Hailed as a `masterpiece of indie cinema’ The Exiles is finally released into theatres. By Jay Stone, Canwest News ServiceFebruary 23, 2009 The exiles in The Exiles are a group of American Indians who have left their reserves in the Southwestern United States
Ernest Borgnine (1917-2012)
Oscar winning actor Ernest Borgnine passed away today at the age of 95. The Mayfair salutes one of cinema’s warmest and most likable character actors, who had over 200 film and TV credits to his name. He even shot a film here in Ottawa back in 2000 called
Embrace Your Inner Demon
An 11th hour schedule change as the bizarre horror comedy ‘Bad Milo!’ makes it’s Ottawa Premiere on January 10 at 9:30pm, 11 at 9:00pm, 15 at 9:30pm & 16 at 9:15pm.
Ebert on Conan doc
The documentary CONAN O’BRIEN CAN’T STOP, is an exciting new film which chronicles Coco’s difficult time after leaving The Tonight Show and NBC and putting together his Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television live tour before returning to the tube on TBS. It makes it’s Ottawa
Drawing a blank
Following up on yesterday’s Mann-centric post, here’s a link to Film the Blanks, “an ongoing experiment to abstract and/or reduce film posters. Some are famous, others are not so famous but they all have one thing in common – they’re pretty cool.” New blanks are posted Mon-Fri at
Don't you forget about he
In the September Mayfair guide, we quoted from Molly Ringwald's NY Times eulogy for John Hughes - but only a small excerpt. Now, you can read the entire article.
Don't Miss Metropolis! with Live Music
Saturday is your last chance to catch Metropolis with a live band… this will probably never happen again! “Metropolis” at the Mayfair, accompanied by live, improvised music Saturday, February 21 – 9 p.m. (120 min) $5 for Mayfair members; $9 non-members (membership $10) Mike Dubue – keyboards
Don't Miss El Topo!
Mayfair Theatre to screen the original midnight movie – Alejandro Jodorowsky’s El Topo – Apr 17 and 18 Special midnight screenings bring one of cinema’s most infamous underground films