Movies
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)
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)
Anguish
Famed director Luna brings us a Spanish take on the Italian giallo genre featuring that woman from the Poltergeist movies (Zelda Rubinstein) forcibly collecting human eyeballs from cinema patrons during a horror movie. You might not make it out of the Mayfair alive!
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
SUNDAY NIGHT GEEK NIGHT Mike Judge broke all the rules when he stretched Bevis and Butt-Heads 15-minute episodes (and 15 minutes of fame) into a feature-length adventure, but this is the most highly acclaimed and smartest comedy about a couple of dumb guys youll ever see.
Please Give
The New Yorker called director Holofcener the true heir apparent to Woody Allen, and Roger Ebert says she pays close attention to women. She doesn’t define them by their relationships with men; they actually have their own reasons for doing things. Do yourself a favour. Please see this. 0
Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould
For a public figure, Glenn Gould was an intensely interior person, but Genius Within digs deep, interviewing members of Gould’s intimate circle and unearthing rare footage of the man at work and play [making this] the most complete portrait yet of this complex artist. (Toronto Star) 0
Savage Beach
The Mayfair is now Ottawas official home of Andy Sidaris, offering a new film from the accidental love child of Russ Meyer and Ed Wood every month in 2010! This month, join the ladies from L.E.T.H.A.L. on a hunt for Japanese gold that begins on Savage Beach!
Goodfellas
Goodfellas – Screening on September 10, 13, 15! Advance tickets now available for Goodfellas! The story of Henry Hill and his life in the mob, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the Italian-American crime syndicate. Academy Awards:
Schindler’s List
Five great films (The Fugitive, In the Name of the Father, The Piano, Remains of the Day and Schindlers List) were up for the Best Picture Oscar in 1993 the last time the most deserving film actually won. BTW, Spielberg was editing Jurassic Park in Poland while shooting Schindlers
Neil Young Trunk Show
OTTAWA PREMIERE Rock-doc master Demme (Silence of the Lambs) returns with the second chapter of a projected trilogy of Neil Young concert films an installment he calls a “ferocious response” to his own sublimely gentle Neil Young: Heart of Gold. (Variety) Well be playing this one LOUD.