Movies
Promised Land
Co-stars Matt Damon and John Krasinski also co-wrote this drama that drills deep into the economic benefits and environmental consequences of natural gas fracking to tell the story of a moral conflict in which there are no true villains or heroes a true reflection of the way the
Pink Floyd The Wall
All in all, this film is without question the best of all serious fiction films devoted to rock It combines wickedly powerful animation with a surrealistic trip through the memory and hallucinations of an overdosing rock star [to create ] a bold, relentless visualization. (Roger Ebert)
Inch’Allah
A Canadian doctor working in a clinic in Palestine while living in Israel befriends women on both sides of the security wall in this examination of Middle East conflict that is smart to leave politics aside instead focus[ing] on framing the bloodshed through a humanist perspective [and making
The Fruit Hunters
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION, TIFF 2012 Award-winning documentarian Yung Chang (Up the Yangtzee, China Heavyweight) returns with a look into the little-known subculture of people (including, oddly enough, Hollywood actor Bill Pullman) who scour the world in search of rare, endangered and exotic fruit. Its a feast for the
Field of Dreams
PRESENTED BY TRACY ARNETT FREE ADMISSION WITH A DONATION TO THE HOSPICE AT MAY COURT Tracy Arnett presents a special FREE SCREENING with a FREE SMALL POPCORN and DRINK for every audience member of this modern classic about the redemptive power of one last turn at bat. If
Chasing Ice
OSCAR NOMINEE | AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER, HOT DOCS 2012 If this visually breathtaking (Variety) doc which follows National Geographic photographer James Balog as he uses specially-designed cameras to capture changes in the worlds glaciers has a message, its this: see them before theyre gone.
Amélie
FEB 14, THE MAYFAIR IS FOR LOVERS | NOMINATED FOR 5 OSCARS Jeunets magically romantic tale of Amelie a (literally) wide-eyed innocent who helps those around her while struggling with her own isolation was nominated for five Oscars, and popularized the traveling garden gnome phenomenon. Fabuleux. English subtitles
Argo
NOMINATED FOR 7 OSCARS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE Ben Affleck doesnt just direct this dramatization of the 1980 joint CIA-Canadian rescue of American diplomats from revolutionary Iran he directs the hell out of it, nailing the quickening pace, the wayward humor [and] the nerve-frying suspense There’s no doubt he’s crafted
The Suicide Shop
A city where suicide is the only growing business. A shop where you can get everything to cater this urge. In the hand of one family for centuries.. till they get a happy baby. And he has to power to make all around him happy as well.
Hyde Park on Hudson
The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret Stuckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.