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Melancholia

WINNER, BEST ACTRESS CANNES 2011 Sisters Justine (Kirsten Dunst) and Claire (Charlotte Gainsbourg) find their already strained relationship deteriorating even further under the stress of Justine’s wedding — oh, and the fact that the Earth is about to be destroyed by a rogue planetoid. Did I mention it’s a Lars

Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS

Exploitation movies don’t come much more exploitative than this tale of a warden in a P.O.W. camp who conducts vicious experiments (which mostly look like low-rent bondage fantasies) aimed at proving that women can endure more pain than men. Filmed on the sets of “Hogan’s Heroes,” if that helps.

Machine Gun Preacher

Forster (Quantum of Solace, Monster’s Ball) directs Gerard Butler in the based-on-a-true-story of Sam Childers, a biker-gang member and drug dealer who found grace under (gun)fire when he moved to Sudan to protect orphans threatened by the country’s civil war.

Le Havre

AWARD WINNER, CANNES 2011 A young Senegalese refugee is separated from his stowaway family and ends up in the French port city of Le Havre (“Haven”), where he’s befriended by an aging shoe-shiner in director Kaurismaki’s welcome return — an intelligent and emotional vision of Europe as it could be,

Gone With The Wind

If you don’t come see timeless tale of two people coming together as a country tears itself apart, how will you spend your evening? Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.

Dragonslayer (2011)

OTTAWA PREMIERE | WINNER, BEST DOCUMENTARY SXSW 2011 A punk-rock ode to waning youth and love during the decline of western civilization, this doc follows faded skateboard legend Josh “Skreech” Sandoval as he tramps across So-Cal from one low-rent skate competition to another. “Low-key and observant… a portrait of a

Dirty Girl

OTTAWA PREMIERE It’s 1987 and Danielle, who has a rep as her school’s “dirty girl,” ditches her judgmental classmates to take a road trip with her only real friend, overweight bully-bait Clarke. Star Juno Temple (Greenberg) “project[s] a real wit burning beneath the layers of makeup and dumb-blonde shtick her

What Is It?

DIRECTOR CRISPIN HELLION GLOVER IN ATTENDANCE! | CO-PRESENTED BY CKCU This bewildering, unnerving, surreal, blackly-comic film that tells the inner and outer struggles of a young man facing villains and demons on multiple planes does not advocate the assassination of Steven Spielberg in any way. Director Glover will be on

It Is Fine. Everything Is Fine!

CRISPIN HELLION GLOVER | 74 MIN. | US | 2007 | 35 MM | R DIRECTOR CRISPIN HELLION GLOVER IN ATTENDANCE | CO-PRESENTED BY CKCU Screenwriter Steven C. Stewart stars in this semi-autobiographical, psycho-sexual tale of a man with severe cerebral palsy and a fetish for girls with long hair.

Breakfast Club, The

FUNDRAISER FOR CANTERBURY HIGH SCHOOL Five strangers with nothing in common, except each other. This Brat Pack version of Twelve Angry Men has grown up, but its heart hasn’t died.

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