Movies

Ashes of American Flags: Wilco Live

OTTAWA PREMIERE | Sponsored by Wilco’s Solid Sound Festival and CKCU In this award-winning doc, which follows Wilco’s 2008 tour, “the performances are the focus, and as anyone who’s seen Wilco recently knows, they’ve never been hotter.” (Rolling Stone) So, great film? Roger. Prizes? Roger

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) We’ll be playing this one LOUD.

Schindler’s List

Five great films (The Fugitive, In the Name of the Father, The Piano, Remains of the Day and Schindler’s 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 Schindler’s

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:

Saving Private Ryan

Even though Spielberg won his second directing Oscar for Saving Private Ryan, which is now widely considered one of the masterpieces of WWII cinema, 1998’s Best Picture Oscar went to Shakespeare in Love – which is not coming to the Mayfair anytime soon.

Shark is Still Working, The

OTTAWA PREMIERE There’s an old Hollywood adage: the more fun a movie was to make, the worse it will be. Keep that in mind while watching this doc about the endless stress and hardship that was the making of Jaws. (See it with Jaws June 5!)

Savage Beach

The Mayfair is now Ottawa’s 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!

Thank You Girls, The

OTTAWA PREMIERE A group of drag queens and their entourage journeys from one small-town beauty pageant to the next in this glam-tastic outing that’s being called “the next Priscilla, Queen of the Desert!” In Visayan and Tagalog with English subtitles $12 | Advance tickets at eventbrite.com | Producer James

At Home by Myself… with You

OTTAWA PREMIERE Romy hasn’t left her apartment in six years. Why? Because she’s afraid. Of storms. Boxes. Kissing. And lobsters. So when a handsome new neighbour disrupts her life, it’s a classic story of girl-meets-boy-girl-falls-for-boy-girl-can’t-leave-her-apartment. Or can she?

Popeye

You know what I like about this movie? It is what it is. 0

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