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)
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)
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
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 Bizets opera, but rest assured: this is one sassy, seductive flick.
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
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!
Even though Spielberg won his second directing Oscar for Saving Private Ryan, which is now widely considered one of the masterpieces of WWII cinema, 1998s Best Picture Oscar went to Shakespeare in Love which is not coming to the Mayfair anytime soon.
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:
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
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.