Movies
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.
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.
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
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)!
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 Bizets 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, 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!