Category: Directors
Friday February 19th – Thursday February 25th!
-Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner?- Special screenings in honour of Black History Month! Best Actress, & Screenplay Oscar winner! 4/4 Stars! “a megnificent piece of entertainment” (Roger Ebert) -Some Kind Of Heaven- Ottawa Premiere! Philadelphia Film Festival: Best Documentary Feature – Jury Prize award winner! Sundance Film Festival: NEXT Innovator
Friday February 18 – Thursday February 24!
-Flee- Academy Awards: Best Documentary Feature, Animated Feature, and International Feature nominee! 5 Stars! “fantastically moving story…irresistibly moving and engrossing…What an extraordinary story.” (The Guardian) -Drive My Car- Academy Awards: Best Picture, International Feature, Directing, Adapted Screenplay nominee! 5 Stars! “a flawless melodrama” (The Arts Desk) 5 Stars! “It is
Friday February 17th – Thursday February 23rd!
Fences – 2nd Week! 4 Oscar nominations! A 1950’s sanitation worker who once dreamed of a baseball career tries to be a good husband & father. His lost dream of glory eats away at him, causing him to make a decision that threatens to tear his family apart. 20th Century
Friday February 17 – Thursday February 23!
-Kids Vs Aliens- From the director of Hobo With A Shotgun! “a deliriously fun work of gonzo nostalgia, a foulmouthed take on the fantasy and horror classics of the 1980s and ’90s that’s as heartfelt as it is delightfully gory.” (Philadelphia Film Society) -Mean Streets- 50th Anniversary! 5 Stars!
Friday February 16th – Thursday February 22nd!
Oscar nominees: Phantom Thread, I Tonya, and Darkest Hour, + Cannes Film Fest: Palme d’Or nominee Happy End Ottawa Premieres: The Final Year, and Black Hole Cage Special single screenings of The Sound Of Music (A Company of Fools Theatre fundraiser), The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a free Family
Friday February 15th – Thursday February 21st!
Vice – 8x Oscar nominee: Best Picture, Director, Original Screenplay, Actor (Christian Bale), Supporting Actress (Amy Adams), Supporting Actor (Sam Rockwell), Editing, and Makeup/Hairstyling! Can You Ever Forgive Me? – Held Over for a 6th Week! 3x Oscar nominee: Best Actress (Melissa McCarthy), Supporting Actor (Richard E. Grant), and Adapted
Friday February 14th – Thursday February 20th!
-Parasite- Held Over for a 13th Week! Winner of 4 Oscars: Best Motion Picture, International Film, Directing, and Original Screenplay! Also, 2 additional Oscar nominations: Best Production Design, and Film Editing! -Ford v Ferrari- From Sundance award winning director James Mangold! Winner of 2 Oscars: Film Editing, and Sound Editing!
Friday February 11 – Thursday February 17!
-House Of Gucci- 5 Stars! “made up entirely of good scenes…a great movie…a huge accomplishment for director Ridley Scott” (San Francisco Chronicle) 5 Stars! “Scott has delivered one of the greatest pieces of camp filmmaking in decades.” (Bullz-Eye) -Dune- AFI Awards: Movie Of The Year award winner! London Critics Circle
Friday February 10th – Thursday February 16th!
Fences – 4 Oscar nominations! A 1950’s sanitation worker who once dreamed of a baseball career tries to be a good husband and father, but his lost dream of glory eats away at him, causing him to make a decision that threatens to tear his family apart. 20th Century Woman
Friday February 10 – Thursday February 16!
-Living- Academy Awards nominee: Best Actor, Adapted Screenplay! 5 Stars! “Nighy has never been better than in this richly rewarding ’50s-set drama” (Time Out) -The Whale- Academy Awards nominee: Best Actor, Supporting Actress, Hair/Makeup! 10/10! “an astonishing piece of cinematic craftsmanship” (Film Threat) -The Rocky Horror Picture Show-