Category: Directors
We’re Back! Schedule for Saturday November 7th – Thursday November 12th!
We’re back! Here’s the schedule for November 6th – 12th (though, an anomaly for this week, things start up on Saturday instead of Friday). The Untouchables – Sean Connery Tribute! Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor award winner for Sean Connery, plus nominations for: Art Direction, Costume Design, & Original
Update on David Lynch Tribute Film Festival: Dreams of an Eagle Scout
Update! Bad news and good news for our David Lynch Tribute Film Festival: Dreams of an Eagle Scout. Bad news…The Elephant Man isn’t available. Good news…Mullholland Drive is available! (movie distribution is a strange and complicated beast) So, still 9 out of 10 movies.
Tommy Wiseau's The Room gets a dubstep remix
Via The AV Club. If you think The Room is funny in film form, wait until you see it in dubstep music video remix form. The Room returns to the Mayfair November 20.
Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero Return!
“The Citizen Kane of bad movies!” (Entertainment Weekly) Tickets NOW on sale in the Mayfair box office for Tommy Wiseau and Greg Sestero’s grand return to The Room’s favourite movie theatre and fan-base! Prepare yourself for the interactive motion picture event that you will never forget! Two screenings
Thursday November 10 – Friday November 16!
-The Persian Version -Anatomy Of A Fall -The Room- Screening 164! -Stop Making Sense- 40th Anniversary! -The Postman Always Rings Twice- Noirvember! -Messiah Of Evil -Coffee To Cocktails- Canadian Premiere! -Saturday Night Sinema- Free for Members/Members Only!
Thursday February 21 – Thursday February 27!
-Universal Language- Cannes: Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award winner! -5 Stars! (Winnipeg Free Press) -I’m Still Here- Academy Awards: Best Motion Picture, International Feature, Lead Actress nominee! -4/4 Stars! (The Seattle Times) -Babygirl- 2nd Week! 5 Stars! (The Telegraph) -5 Stars (The Skinny) -Blue Velvet- David Lynch Tribute
The Ottawa Adventure Film Festival
For more info on the Ottawa Adventure Film Festival, which includes screenings hosted at the Mayfair, click on over to the Ottawa Adventure Film Festival website! The OAFF features films from around the world highlighted in two programs. Mountains & Water is featured on November 16th & 23rd.
The Interview Unleashed!
It’ll be a Happy New Year indeed, with Seth Rogen and James Franco up on our screen in The Interview! Starts on Friday January 2nd at 9:00pm! Take that hackers!
Shadows & Light
Meet Gary Warner Kent, stuntman, actor, writer, director, and survivor of the 50s/60s and 70s era of Hollywood low budget filmmaking. Kent has written a very entertaining and revealing book about his experiences rubbing broken elbows with the likes of Warren Oates, Jack Nicholson, Lee Marvin, and directors
Passage To Freedom – free screening, donations accepted
Passage To Freedom – Saturday May 20 at 2:30pm! Unforgettable stories of terror, escape, courage, and resilience are captured in this new documentary film about refugees from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos who found a new home in Canada in the aftermath of the Vietnam war. The director will be