Movies
Monkey Warfare
Don McKellar stars in this tale of the counter-culture (or what remains of it), which won a Special Jury Prize at TIFF 2006. Accompanied by a special screening of the slice-of-life short Work, Bike, Eat (1971), with co-director Keith Lock in attendance! CANADIAN CULT REVIEW DOUBLE BILL with Waydowntown |
Mean Streets
Mean Streets – 50th Anniversary screenings on February 18, 22, 23! Advance tickets now available for Mean Streets! A small-time hood tries to keep the peace between his friend Johnny and Johnny’s creditors. National Film Preservation Board, USA: Added to the National Film Registry in 1997! New York
Parenthood
In 1985 (during the filming of Gung Ho), Ron Howards four-year-old daughter vomited on him. Most people would clean up and carry on, but he took it as a sign that he should do a film about the comic, heroic, and life-changing business of being a parent. So he did.
Prodigal Sons
OTTAWA PREMIERE When documentarian Kimberly Reed returns home following her gender-reassignment surgery, her transgender revelation is overshadowed by her adopted brothers discovery that hes the grandchild of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth. Truth: still stranger than fiction after all these years.
Prophet, A
Grand Jury Prize, Cannes 2009 | OSCAR NOMINEE BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM Did the Cannes jury and the Academy get it right? Why not see this tough, absorbingly intricate account of a young French-Arab thug’s improbable education behind bars (Variety) and decide for yourself?
Sixty Million Dollar Man
The Drunken Masters Dojo mixes some slapstick into the chopsocky as Wong Jing (City Hunter) directs Stephen Chow (Kung Fu Hustle) as a rich jerk who gets blown up, then rebuilt as bionic man with the ability to transform into household appliances. What?
Soviet Story, The
Sure to excite controversy, this documentary sheds light on the real USSR, offering an alternative history of an Allied power that collaborated with the Nazis and slaughtered its own people on an industrial scale. Director Edvins Snore in attendance! Presented by the Free Thinking Film Society | $15 at the
Shutter Island
EXTRA SHOW ADDED MAY 28! We round out our month-long Scorsese-fest with his latest, a Val Lewton-esque thriller about a mans inward-spiralling search for a missing patient at a hospital for the criminally insane. Count the movie references and drink in Robbie Robertsons crazy-quilt score.
Spring Break
Director Cunningham pioneered the art of slashing teens in Friday the 13th, but he treats them slightly better in this accurately-titled flick that Roger Ebert described as a a sex-and-sand epic about the annual mating rituals in Fort Lauderdale.
Chocolat
PAGE TO SCREEN Indulge your sweet tooth with this story of a woman who opens a chocolate shop in a French village and, in so doing, opens the community to a world of guilt-free pleasures. Presented in association with the Ottawa International Writers Festival. Joanne Harris, author of the novel