Movies
Kill Zone 2
OTTAWA PREMIERE | MAY 14, 15, 16 & 17 a.k.a. SPL 2 Starring martial arts superstar Tony Jaa (Ong Bak) “A colossal, bombastic and brilliantly crafted action thriller with a strong script and multifarious characters.” – Daniel Goodwin, HeyUGuys Undercover cop Kit (Wu Jing) becomes a junkie in order to
Demolition
Grieving investment banker Davis Mitchell (Jake Gyllenhaal) returns to work after losing his beloved wife in a tragic car accident. After writing a letter to complain about a vending machine, Mitchell receives a phone call from Karen (Naomi Watts), a customer service rep from the company. Karen becomes moved by
Belladonna of Sadness
OTTAWA PREMIERE MAY 25 & 26 One of the great lost masterpieces of Japanese animation, never before officially released in the U.S., BELLADONNA OF SADNESS is a mad, swirling, psychedelic light-show of medieval tarot-card imagery with horned demons, haunted forests and La Belle Dame Sans Merci, equal parts J.R.R. Tolkien
Out of Print
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS JULY 2 “[Director] Julia Marcheses ode to the New Beverly Cinema, rep cinema and the 35mm format is an entertaining, nostalgic, informative documentary that does a fine job of encapsulating the importance of repertoire cinema and their ability to show films as originally intended.” – Ernie Trinidad,
Astrologer, The
OTTAWA PREMIERE JUNE 3 | ONE NIGHT ONLY! …its a movie that pushes auteurism to a whole other level. – Nicholas Winding Refn, Director of DRIVE A carnival con man discovers that he has genuine psychic powers and uses them to become an astrology bigwig. But the plot isnt necessarily
Hologram For The King, A
Cultures collide when an American businessman (Tom Hanks) is sent to Saudi Arabia to close what he hopes will be the deal of a lifetime. Baffled by local customs and stymied by an opaque bureaucracy, he eventually finds his footing with the help of a wise-cracking taxi driver (Alexander Black)
Lolo
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS JUNE 4 IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES Julie Delpy (Before Midnight) writes, directs and stars in this satirical comedy about fortysomething workaholic Violette, who finds romance while on a spa vacation but whose new beau soon has doubts when he discovers Violettes unusual relationship with
Private Event (Closed to the public)
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Miles Ahead
In the midst of a dazzling and prolific career at the forefront of modern jazz innovation, Miles Davis (Don Cheadle) virtually disappears from public view for a period of five years in the late 1970s. Alone and holed up in his home, he is beset by chronic pain from a
Little Prince, The
At the heart of it all is The Little Girl (Mackenzie Foy), whos being prepared by her mother (Rachel McAdams) for the very grown-up world in which they live only to be interrupted by her eccentric, kind-hearted neighbor, The Aviator (Jeff Bridges). The Aviator introduces his new friend to