Movies
Stone Killer, The
SATURDAY NIGHT SINEMA | FREE FOR MEMBERS One year before Death Wish, director Winner teamed with Charles Bronson to tell this story of a detective out to stop a Mafia assassination plot that uses Vietnam veterans as the killers! Probably the best violent big-city police movie since Dirty Harry.
Carleton University History Department presents: The Humanitarians: A (Very) Short History in Two Documentary Films
The Carleton University History Department presents a FREE screening of two documentaries on humanitarian aid: Humanitarian Citadel (about the International Committee of the Red Cross work during Yemens Civil War) and The Fight Against Typhus (about the ICRCs work in Poland in the wake of WWI). For more
Everything is Terrible presents DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez!
Everything Is Terrible! (everyones favorite found footage chop shoppe) returns with a move composed entirely of dog-related found footage that is also, somehow, a remake of Jodorowskys The Holy Mountain. Are you dog enough? Then go fetch! Mar. 28 | 9:15 PM | $6 members | $10 general |
Into The Abyss
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION, TIFF 2011 The pane of glass separating Werner Herzog from his interview subject death row inmate Michael Perry becomes a window into the death penalty debate in this challenging doc, which never suggest[s] that there’s a black-and-white simplicity to the [issue]. Herzog looks
West Wind: The Vision of Tom Thomson
The Globe and Mail’s Roy MacGregor in attendance March 22! From the directors of Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould, this documentary portrait unravels many of the mysteries surrounding this brilliant, beloved artist (including his contested cause of death), and features never-before-seen Thomson paintings. As gorgeous as the
Road to Nowhere
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION, SXSW 2011 Legendary director Hellmans (Two-Lane Blacktop) first feature in 21 years treads the white line between fiction and reality, following a filmmaker working on a true-crime movie who finds the crime creeping out of his script and into his life. Starring Shannyn Sossamon (The
W./E.
Writer/director Madonna reveals a previously undisclosed penchant for over-punctuation as she draws parallels between a modern-day romance and the other half of the story from The Kings Speech the torrid love affair that led to Edward VIIIs abdication of the throne.
The Descendants
OSCAR WINNER, BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY Why did George Clooney get nominated for best actor for this damn near perfect (Rolling Stone) film? Because in spite of the fact that hes George Clooney, he convincingly plays an average guy whose wife would cheat on him. See it to believe it!
The Secret World of Arrietty
PRESENTED BY MRS. TIGGY WINKLES Executive produced by the legendary Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro), this adaptation of Mary Nortons classic kid-lit series about little people who live beneath the floorboards stands in stark contrast to the shrill, saccharine CGI cartoons live-action included that pass for
We Need to Talk About Kevin
PALME DOR NOMINEE, CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2011 It took Scottish auteur Ramsay (Ratcatcher) to get to the empty heart of this uniquely American story about a mother (Tilda Swinton) dealing with the aftermath of a horrific crime committed by her son. With We Need to Talk About Kevin, she has