Movies
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!
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
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, 1998s Best Picture Oscar went to Shakespeare in Love which is not coming to the Mayfair anytime soon.
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