Movies

Landsdowne Follies III: Folly Harder

Enjoy the music of Ian Tamblyn, Amanda Rheaume, Tara Holloway, and the Just Voices community choir while supporting transparency and accountability from our local government. All proceeds will be used to support the Friends of Lansdowne legal challenge. Learn more at letsgetitright.ca. Sunday, Apr. 15 | 4:00 PM

Doppelganger Paul

OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION, TIFF 2011 When Karl’s manuscript (A Book About How Much I Hate Myself) is stolen, he meets Paul, who seems to be his doppelganger — despite the fact they look nothing alike. The kind of “meta-comedy that we’ve come to expect from Charlie Kaufman… [with

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 Yemen’s Civil War) and The Fight Against Typhus (about the ICRC’s work in Poland in the wake of WWI). For more

Everything is Terrible presents “DoggieWoggiez! PoochieWoochiez!”

Everything Is Terrible! (everyone’s favorite found footage chop shoppe) returns with a move composed entirely of dog-related found footage — that is also, somehow, a remake of Jodorowsky’s 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 Hellman’s (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 King’s Speech — the torrid love affair that led to Edward VIII’s 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 he’s George Clooney, he convincingly plays an average guy whose wife would cheat on him. See it to believe it!

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