Movies
World on a Wire
OTTAWA PREMIERE | NEW DIGITAL RESTORATION A dystopic sci-fi epic, Fassbinders gloriously cracked, boundlessly inventive take on future paranoia tells the noir-spiked tale of reluctant action hero Fred Stiller, a cybernetics engineer who uncovers a massive conspiracy. At risk? Our entire (virtual) reality as we know it. This long unseen,
Take Shelter
Plagued by apocalyptic visions, Curtis (Michael Shannon, Boardwalk Empire) builds a backyard storm shelter, over the objections of his wife (Jessica Chastain, The Tree of Life). But is he himself the real threat? Nuanced performances from both Chastain and Shannon propel this movie to a rare and intense level of
Skin I Live In, The
Doesnt invulnerable skin sound like the perfect metaphor for someone like Pedro Almodóvar to base a sci-fi thriller on? He thought so, too. A film youll tell your friends they absolutely must see. (Salon) English subtitles.
Scrooged
Scrooged – Screening December 17, 20, 21! Advance tickets now available for Scrooged! A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve. Academy Awards: Best Makeup nominee! Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA: Best Fantasy Film, Actor (Bill Murray),
Sarah’s Key
An American journalist (Kristin Scott Thomas) investigating the fate of a Holocaust survivor (10-year-old Mélusine Mayance) uncovers the shocking story of Vel dHiv, the Paris athletic stadium where thousands of Jews were rounded up in 1942. Moving gracefully across the decades and people’s hidden histories Sarah’s Key relates a highly
Santa Claus Conquers The Martians
Santa Claus Conquers The Martians – 60th Anniversary screenings on December 15, 16! Advance ticket info now available for Santa Claus Conquers The Martians! Walking in a winter weirdoland! Preserved from Something Weird’s colorful 16mm print and presented in a brand new Roadshow Edition with vintage ads and trailers.
Rum Diary, The
Its a good thing he kept a diary otherwise theres no way Hunter S. Thompson would have remembered the drug-and-alcohol-soaked details of this semi-autobiographical story of his time as journalist in Puerto Rico. From the director of Withnail & I.
Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles
In the early 80s, strange tiles bearing the phrase Toynbee Idea In Kubricks 2001 Resurrect Dead on Planet Jupiter began appearing embedded in sidewalks worldwide. This doc seeks out the man and the message behind the tiles, and in so doing, creates an uncommonly sensitive and layered portrait of outsider-dom.
Real Steel
Hugh Jackman teaches a robot how to box and audiences how to be less judgmental about a movies premise.
Paul Goodman Changed My Life
OTTAWA PREMIERE Paul Goodman was the guru of the New Left, a bestselling author and poet, a pacifist anarchist, an urban planner, an out, gay family man and even had a cameo in Annie Hall and yet today, hes all but forgotten. Get to know him in this doc