Movies
Prime Cut
This month, Saturday Night Sinema holds it breath as a mob enforcer (the great Lee Marvin) tries to settle a debt with a rancher (Gene Hackman). Before this unforgettable American nasty ends, people will be ground into sausage, and a young Sissy Spacek will wear a midriff t-shirt.
Runaways, The
Dakota Fanning is now old enough to play Cherie Currie (opposite Kristen Stewarts Joan Jett) in this coming-of-age biopic of groundbreaking girl-rock band The Runaways. Does that make you feel old, too?
Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam
Taqwa (Arabic for “higher consciousness) is at the heart of this doc, which explores a budding music scene that celebrates Islam while rebelling, in typical punk fashion, against the social and political constraints of the religion [and] proves every culture has at least one unexplored underbelly. (National Post) 0
GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords
SUNDAY NIGHT GEEK NIGHT Stuff your Transformers in a cube of energon, cause weve got a real sight for sore optical receptors: the GoBots, and their valiant struggle to save the noble Rock People. Starring the voices of Telly Savalas, Margot Kidder and Roddy McDowall? Yup.
Saturday Night Fever
Join us on Sunday, December 16th for a throwback to the ’70s! There will be prizes, beer, and of course, we’ll be showing Saturday Night Fever so come dressed to impress. There will be prizes for the best 70’s inspired costumes. Doors open at 6:00 pm and the movie will
Ghost Writer, The
Polanski knows how to make a hell of a genre film (Rosemarys Baby, anyone?), and this, his take on the political thriller, is no exception. Dont be surprised if you see the director accepting awards from his prison cell.
Cape Fear
June 18th and 19th – part of the Scorsese / De Niro Film Festival screening throughout June! A convicted rapist, released from prison after serving a fourteen-year sentence, stalks the family of the lawyer who originally defended him. Oscar nominee: Best Actor (Robert De Niro), and Supporting Actress (Juliette Lewis)!
Brooklyn’s Finest
Fuqua (Training Day) directs this interconnected police-procedural triptych like Robert Altman with a nightstick, and ensnares a first-rate cast [Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes and others] in a dramatic dragnet for a fugitive moral lesson. (Variety)
Birdemic: Shock and Terror
OTTAWA PREMIERE Watch out, Tommy Wiseau! The newly-anointed best worst movie finally wings its way to the Mayfair to claw at the eyes of Ottawa audiences. If this is a joke, its the Kennedy assassination of jokes. (Vice Magazine)
Danse Le ballet de l’Opéra de Paris, La
OTTAWA PREMIERE Master documentarian Wiseman (Titicut Follies) tracks seven Paris Opera Ballet productions simultaneously in this on-point doc that pirouettes around issues of commerce and art and jetés between moments mundane and profound to produce something astoundingly beautiful. (San Francisco Chronicle) English subtitles