Movies
Ottawa International Writers Festival presents: Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest with Wade
Check writersfestival.org for the most up-to-date listings. Book launch: Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest, by award-winning author, photographer and filmmaker Wade Davis (host TBA) $15 general | $10 students/seniors | Free for festival members Check writersfestival.org for the most up-to-date listings,
Moneyball
This true story of how the Oakland As used stats and algorithms to build a winning team on a bargain-bin budget as told by director Miller (Capote) and writers Sorkin (The Social Network) and Zaillian (Schindlers List) is, to use the only baseball metaphor I know, a home
Last Waltz, The
NEW 35 MM PRINT WITH REMIXED DIGITAL SOUND | PRESENTED BY DAWG FM Robbie Robertson. Levon Helm. Eric Clapton. Neil Diamond. Bob Dylan. Joni Mitchell. Neil Young. Emmylou Harris. Ringo Starr. Dr. John. Van Morrison. Ronnie Hawkins. Muddy Waters. And Martin Scorsese. And don’t forget to listen to
Vigilante Vigilante : The Battle For Expression
OTTAWA PREMIERE | PRESENTED BY LOST MARBLES When anti-graffiti vigilantes paint over, peel or otherwise buff street art, do they become as bad as the art criminals they oppose or worse? This doc sets out to expose the buffers and uncovers a much larger battle for expression.
While You Were On Facebook
PRESENTED BY ANTIQUE, TOP OF THE WORLD, EQ AND CHUO Finally, a skate thriller featuring all of Ottawas top riders Seb Labbe, Richard Sarrazin, Aaron Cayer, Sam Lind, Jon Pie, Austin Fyfe, Matt Klein, Matt Canadien, the Bahd Brains Crew and many, many more. Plus, extra skate video madness!
An Insignificant Harvey
OTTAWA PREMIERE | FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE Harvey a janitor at a ski resort, who also happens to be an orphan and a little person lives a lonely life, until he takes in a stray huskie, an act which leads to him meeting an exotic dancer (Kristin Adams, Where
Ottawa Folklore 35th Anniversary Concert
A celebration of music and community with an all-star lineup including Terry Gillespie, Ana Miura, Sheesham and Lotus, Jesse Greene and harp sensation Marc Seguin, Folk legend Doug McArthur, Alicia Borisonik, Don Gibbons, Missy Burgess, the Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG), local clawhammer banjo legends Mary Gick, Paul Hornbeck and Anne Downey,
Dark Crystal, The
When single shines the triple sun What was sundered and undone Shall be whole, the two made one By Gelfling hand or else by none.
Strange Shadows in an Empty Room
SATURDAY NIGHT SINEMA | FREE FOR MEMBERS Shot and set in Ottawa and Montreal, this maple-flavoured giallo follows a hard-boiled Ottawa cop on the trail of his sister’s murderer, a trail that leads to car chases, shootouts and kung-fu fights with transvestites — all right here in the nations capital!
Restless
When terminally ill teen Mia Wasakowska (Jane Eyre) meets death-obsessed Henry Hopper (son of Dennis), its love at first sight (and last breath) in this surprisingly touching and funny look at the innocence and power of first love juxtaposed against the painful realization that everything ends. (Exclaim)