Movies

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)

Code of Silence

Pound for pound, this is the best Chuck Norris film of the 80s. Why? Because of director Andrew Davis, who would go on to helm Under Siege and The Fugitive! Norris plays tough-as-nails cop Eddie Cusack, who’s caught in the middle of a gang war, and ready to roundhouse-kick his

Carmen, Baby

This month, Saturday Night Sinema puts its finger on the racing pulse of the counter-culture with an ultra-rare treat. Master of Eurotic cinema Metzger suggests more than he shows in his hep-cat update of Bizet’s opera, but rest assured: this is one sassy, seductive flick.

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

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, it’s the Kennedy assassination of jokes.” (Vice Magazine)

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

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)!

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

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-Head’s 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 you’ll ever see.

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