Movies
56 Up
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION, DOC NY Every seven years since the participants were seven years old, director Apted has examined the lives of a group of Britons from across the class spectrum. The subjects are now 56 years old, and the series continues, in the words of Roger Ebert,
SPARTA produced by 72 Hour Films
FUNDRAISER FOR LOCAL INDIE FILMMAKERS This is the multi-movie premiere screening for all the shorts created during the SPARTA 72-Hour Filmmaking Challenge. Come out and see how much cinema can happen in just three days! Jan 27 | 6:00 PM | Learn more at 72hourfilms.ca
Beauty is Embarrassing
Raised in the Tennessee mountains, Wayne White started his career as a cartoonist in NYC. He quickly found success as one of the creators of the Pee-wee’s Playhouse TV show which soon led to more work design some of the most arresting and iconic images in pop culture. Recently his
Carbon Rush
OTTAWA PREMIERE Penetrating the PR smokescreen that surrounds the multi-billion-dollar carbon offset industry, this defiant doc travels the world to see what impact carbon credits really have and who really pays the price. An intelligent and relentlessly critical look at an under-reported aspect of the earth’s environmental problems. (Rabble.ca)
Hooper
SATURDAY NIGHT SINEMA | FREE FOR MEMBERS MOVEMBER FUNDRAISER Burt Reynolds risks mussing his moustache as Sonny Hooper, the best stuntman in Hollywood, whos forced to team with and up-and-comer (Jan Michael Vincent), who wants to take his place. Directed by former stuntman Hal Needham, this movie gives a helluva
Schlock Around the Clock: The 24 Hour Trash Film Festival
Settle in as we present a 24-hour marathon of trash cinema all presented on glorious VHS! We advise all those brave enough to attend to get caffeinated and get comfy! Its going to be a looooong night! 1:oo PM, Saturday November 17 | All tickets $20
Looper
Listen, I don’t want to talk about time travel because if we start talking about it then we’re going to be here all day talking about it, making diagrams with straws. Suffice to say that this atemporal film noir is something you should see before you come face to face
Searching for Sugar Man
WINNER, SPECIAL JURY PRIZE, SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2012 This doc, about the attempt to track down 70s folk singer Sixto Rodriguez who, despite flopping in America, was bigger than the Beatles in South Africa goes searching for the truth, and finds something stranger than fiction. Introduce[s us]
Seven Psychopaths
Acclaimed writer-director McDonagh (In Bruges) returns with this meta-crime-comedy about a struggling screenwriter who gets dragged into a twisty plot to kidnap a gangsters beloved Shih Tzu. A goofy, tormented near masterpiece [with] moments of real brilliance and pathos [it] isnt like anything else youll see this year, or any