Metro Cinema Guide Mar/Apr 2015

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MARCH / APRIL 2015

Hi-Def Hitchcock

Blade Runner

the final Cut

SPOTLIGHT ON STUDIO GHIBLI Two days, one night

MARY POPPINS REEL FAMILY CINEMA

fava fest

2014 world’s best

commercials Inner-Visions The Fountain VAMPanorama

Global Vampire Cinema

bye bye blues Hello Anne Wheeler metrocinema at the Garneau 8712 - 109 Street, Edm AB T6G 1E9 www.metrocinema.org

FAB Gallery

Timms Centre for the Arts

WHAT’S ON AT UALBERTA? The Music of Michael Colgrass Sunday, Mar 15 at 3 p.m.

Department of Music Winspear Centre

A Dream Play

By August Strindberg Adaptation by Caryl Churchill

Mar 26 - Apr 4 at 7:30 p.m.

U of A Studio Theatre Timms Centre for the Arts

Eine Kleine Night Serenade Sunday, Mar 29 at 3 p.m.

Department of Music Winspear Centre

BDes 2015 Grad show BFA 2015 Grad show Mar 31 - Apr 11

Apr 21 - May 2

FAB Gallery, 1-1 Fine Arts Building

FAB Gallery, 1-1 Fine Arts Building

ualberta.ca/artshows

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Admission

Adult $12 (Matinee $10) Student/Senior $9 (Matinee $6) Children 12 & Under $6

Passes

Adult Six Pack $60 Student/Senior Six Pack $50 Silver Screen $250

*please note that Friends of Metro has been phased out.

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At the 1968 Academy Awards Alfred Hitchcock received the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award in recognition of his contributions to cinema and his artistic achievements. Accepting the honour he delivered this stoic response: “Thank you…very much indeed.”

Then he left the stage. His lack of enthusiasm is understandable, given that he was receiving what was essentially a consolation prize. Among his 5 nominations for Best Director, he never once won the Academy Award, despite having created some of cinema’s most influential and enduringly popular films.

Throughout his prolific and accomplished career he established a film subgenre– the Hitchcock thriller, characterized by paranoid suspense and macabre moodiness, as well as a unique visual style marrying gothic, noir, and mod sensibilities with innovative cinematographic flare. He challenged cinematic conventions, invented a plot device – the MacGuffin – directed screen legends, worked with a host of auspicious artists in diverse media, and perfected the art of the cameo. In a history rife with instances of unrecognized talent, Hitchcock definitely belongs in the Oscar Snub Hall of Fame. Metro is doing our part to ameliorate this neglect by casting our spotlight on the cinema maestro. Presented in re-mastered high definition digital format, this is your chance to see masterpieces from Hitchcock’s Hollywood era in whole new dimensions. See the Hi-Def Hitchcock listing in the Series & Repertory section.

Meanwhile, Crime Watch and Metro Bizarro will expand the spotlight’s focus from one of Hitchock’s most iconic thrillers, Psycho, towards three fundamentally interrelated films spanning three decades from the 60s to the 80s, and created by three very different directors: William Castle, Richard Franklin, and Dario Argento. Together this terrible trio will illustrate some of the multifaceted interactions in which Hitchcock engaged with contemporaries, and his enduring impact on the medium. See the Series & Repertory section for all the chilling details.

When we’re not showcasing the work of an internationally renowned auteur, Metro will be looking closer to home at Alberta’s community of filmmakers and media artists. Throughout March and April we’re collaborating with some of our province’s pre-eminent media arts organizations and local filmmakers to celebrate the innovative work being produced by home-grown talents, from Prairie Tales 16, the Canadian premiere of Gurukulam, and Mostly Water Theatre’s Metro Shorts season finale to the inaugural Screen to Screen: Metro Cinema Student Film Competition, presented in partnership with AMPIA, and FAVA Fest, the annual fundraiser and local filmmaking celebration, which this year will include the 25th Anniversary Party for the Albertan classic, Bye Bye Blues. See the Special Screenings & Events section to find out more about these and many more stimulating cinematic experiences.

Metro Cinema is a community-based non-profit society. We believe that film, video, and digital media are significant art forms and means of communication, and that many innovative films, videos, and digital media are overlooked by conventional theatres, including Canadian, international, and independent film, video, and digital media. We are devoted to the exhibition and promotion of this work in Edmonton. To this end, Metro exhibits an eclectic blend of film, video, and digital media that are not screened anywhere else in the city. Metro’s focus is on presenting a broad selection of educational, cultural, and innovative works. The Society operates with the ongoing assistance of a large volunteer base. We regularly distribute a program, facilitate discussion, and bring in artists to enhance the experience and understanding of film, video, and digital media.

Metro Cinema is grateful for the support of these funders

Metro is also grateful for the support of the following: Alberta Media Arts Alliance, CJSR, The Tomato, and VUE Weekly

SINGING

THE BLUES WITH ANNE

WHEELER The resilience of the creative spirit in the face of seemingly insurmountable obstacles is a central theme in Bye Bye Blues, Anne Wheeler’s ‘creative non-fiction’ portrait of her mother’s experiences in an Albertan dance band during WWII. It’s also an apt description of the award-winning film’s fortunes after its 1989 debut.

While Bye Bye Blues received relatively wide distribution in the United States, it only appeared in seven Canadian cities for a short period when it was first released before disappearing from public distribution and entering an interminable period of copyright litigation.

Blues premiered so close to home – I feel rather nostalgic. I remember the night of the premiere very clearly. My whole family was there; I sat beside my Mother.

Metro: You were able to work directly with your mother. How did that affect the production process and what was it like to watch the final product with her?

Wheeler: She had decided she didn’t want to read a script, see the rushes, hear the music, or be involved in any way with the film. She did not meet [lead actress] Rebecca Jenkins until we had been ‘green lit’ and ready to shoot. She In the years that followed, Wheeler conwanted me to have the liberty to tell “a tinued to develop her diverse repertoire good story.” When I told that I was going of films and television projects. Meanto make this film, she said –“sweetheart, while, the film that helped establish her you’d better dress it up a little, because early reputation as one of Alberta’s fore- waiting for your husband for almost four most filmmakers languished in a bureau- years…even though I had the band and cratic limbo, until copyright lawyer Joel kids to raise…could be a bit bland don’t Bakan entered the fray to help launch the you think? You’d better add a little spice!” film back into the public eye.

Metro: What qualities were you lookNow, after 25 years of public obscurity, ing for in your lead actors and what in Bye Bye Blues has come full circle, reparticular compelled you to cast Rebecca turning to the theatre where it debuted.

Jenkins in the lead role?

This April, the Alberta Film and Video Arts Society (FAVA) and Metro Cinema Wheeler: There was a huge interest in will welcome Anne Wheeler and her film the film and we had the most amazing home to the Garneau Theatre for a special auditions for all the parts…. Rebecca had screening of an original 35mm print of the the grace and the passion for music that film on April 17th, during FAVA’s annual was perfect for the film… she had the warmth and determination that was Daisy FAVA Fest, which will run April 14th through 18th. Metro seized the occasion Metro: Bye Bye Blues’s subject matter is to speak with Wheeler about her landquite personal, but it’s also a universal mark film and their mutual homecoming. story. Was it difficult to strike a balance?

Metro: How does it feel to return to Wheeler: This movie has made friends the very theatre where Bye Bye Blues all over the world. It was a gift to make debuted? and I think speaks for a generation of people who lived through a Depression, Wheeler: I grew up on 109th street and followed by a World War. It is history, saw my first movie at the Garneau, so told from the heart, made with devotion it was auspicious for me that Bye Bye

by all the actors and crew.

Metro: Music is an important dimension of the characters’ lives; how would you describe the significance and process of integrating the music in the film?

Wheeler: For me one of the strongest themes is how people make it through the hard times. Where do they find the strength? For Daisy, for my Mom, music was an escape, a comfort and a source of strength and community. Everyone needs to find a way to express who they are and a way to lighten their burdens.

Metro: As an accomplished Albertan filmmaker, do you have any advice from your professional and creative experiences for other local filmmakers?

Wheeler: I hope the film helps people realize that the role of a storyteller is truly important. If you have a story that will be lost if you don’t tell it, then it is up to you to save it. We all know stories worth saving. It’s an ancient role and has given me a sense of purpose.

To read the full interview visit the Bye Bye Blues 25th Anniversary Party listing on our website, www.metrocinema.org.

Anne Wheeler, lead actress Rebecca Jenkins, and copyright lawyer Joel Bakan will be in attendance for a discussion and audience Q & A at FAVA Fest’s Bye Bye Blues 25th Anniversary Party, presented in association with Metro Cinema, AMPIA, and the Edmonton Social Planning Council on April 17th. See the FAVA Fest listing in the Special Screening & Events section for full information about the screening and the weeklong celebration.

--- Sam Sheplawy

march 2015 SCHEDULE new releases

The Duke of Burgundy UK 2014, 104 min, Dir: Peter Strickland 6, 8, & 12 @ 9PM, 9 @ 9:30PM, 11 @ 7PM

Two Days, One Night (Deux jours, une nuit) Belgium/France/Italy 2014, 95 min, Dirs: Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne FEB 27 @ 7PM, 28 @ 4PM & 9:30PM, MAR 1 @ 2PM, 2, 5, 6, & 8 @ 7PM, 3 & 4 @ 9:30PM, 10 @ 9PM

Sandra is a depressed mother who faces the axe from her minimum-wage job at the solar panel plant. Her cash-strapped colleagues have sold her out. Her only hope is to persuade a majority of her co-workers to forgo their bonuses ahead of an official vote on Monday morning. Her fellow employees are similarly overstretched, working illicit weekend jobs, while the real villain is behind the scenes in the form of modern management and business culture. Two Days, One Night is a socialist epic in miniature, heartfelt and humane.

(The Guardian) METRO CINEMA’S TGIF: THANK GARNEAU IT’S FILM. See the SPECIAL SCREENINGS & EVENTS section for more information. FEB 27 @ 7PM: METRO CINEMA’S TGIF CLUB

When we first meet butterfly professor Cynthia, she seems like a cruel, patrician employer to her maid, Evelyn. As their moves lead toward the bedroom in the manner of Emmanuelle-esque soft core fare, we learn that their relationship is sexual. Despite appearances, Evelyn is submissive by choice and the architect of the increasingly peculiar and deviant sex acts Cynthia unleashes.

Peter Strickland, the highly stylized film fetishist behind Berberian Sound Studio, keeps his bizarre fantasy of a May-December lesbian S&M relationship laced-up in a peculiar corset of his own design. More than just a filthy movie, this is a considerable work of art that touches on a rarely discussed side of human sexuality without judgement. (The Guardian)

On the Trail of the Far Fur Country Canada 2014, 80 min, Dir: Kevin Nikkel 12 @ 7PM

In 1919, a film crew set out on an epic journey across the Canadian North to capture the Canadian fur trade in a silent feature documentary. The Romance of the Far Fur Country was released in 1920, two years before the legendary film Nanook of the North. Rediscovering the documentary, another film crew takes the lost film to the northern communities where the film was originally shot and something special happens. Images come to life and people recognize the shadows of their history, providing an intimate portrait of Canada and the evolving life of its Aboriginal people.

Song of The Sea

Inherent Vice USA 2014, 148 min, Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson FEB 27 @ 9PM, MAR 1 & 7 @ 9:30PM, 2 & 5 @ 9PM Gordita Beach, 1970. Larry “Doc” Sportello runs his private-eye business and spends a considerable amount of time scoring grass between cases. In walks Doc’s ex, the obligatory woman in trouble who sets the psychedelic Raymond Chandler plot in motion with her claims of a conspiratorial plot involving her current lover, and then promptly vanishes along with him. The ensuing plot trail snakes across the Southland, as Doc digs into the thickening plot until he becomes a suspect in his own case. Freely but faithfully adapted from Thomas Pynchon’s 2009 detective novel – the first of the legendary author’s works to reach the screen – the film is both a sympathetic portrait of wayward souls clambering for solid ground in war-torn America, and anunapologetically weird, but delightful stoner noir. (Variety)

Ireland/Denmark/Belgium/Luxembourg/ France 2014, 93 min, Dir: Tomm Moore, English/Irish/Scottish Gaelic w/ Subtitles 13 & 16 @ 7PM, 14 @ 2PM, 14 & 17 @ 9:15PM, 15 @ 4PM

Ben is the smart-aleck son of a lighthouse keeper on an island off the Irish coast. His mother died giving birth to his kid sister, Saoirse, who has never spoken a word, but has inherited a special gift: she’s a “selkie,” a seal-child who becomes human when on land and, with a special coat, can turn back into a seal in the water.

Things start to go haywire when the kids’ bossy grandmother whisks them away to Dublin. Fortunately, their mother gave the siblings a special shell that can help them find their way back home.

Along the way Ben and Saoirse discover that many of the creatures from their mother’s tales actually exist. Song of the Sea uses Irish folklore to transform a familiar story about youths venturing into an enchanted world. MAR 14 @ 2PM presented

by REEL FAMILY CINEMA. 13 @ 7PM: METRO CINEMA’S TGIF CLUB

Provincial Archives Pre-show The Provincial Archives of Alberta (PAA), in partnership with Metro, is pleased to present short films and excerpts taken from their extensive holdings. This content from the PAA vaults highlights the recent digitization work and is carefully selected from more than 50,000 film, video and audio recordings, including home movies, government productions, feature length films, advertising and commercial materials, and television broadcasts. To learn more visit: provincialarchives.alberta.ca.

The Voices USA 2014, 103 min, Dir: Marjane Satrapi 13, 15, & 19 @ 9:30PM, 14 @ 7PM, 16 @ 9PM

Jerry Hickfang is a happy yet damaged factory worker who wants desperately to fit in, especially in the romance department, but his dog Bosco and cat Mr. Whiskers have divided opinions on the matter, which they express to Jerry in distinct accents. They also function as his super ego and id, narrating Jerry’s mental turn toward the homicidal. The fourth film from Paris-based Iranian director and comic book artist Marjane Satrapi, The Voices is a thriller-horror-comedy hybrid about a likable schizophrenic murderer, both candy-coloured and shiny with fresh wet blood.

(Indiewire).

MAR 13 @ 9:30PM presented by DEDFEST

Keep On Keepin’ On USA 2014, 84 min, Dir: Alan Hicks 14 @ 4PM, 15 @ 2PM

Clark Terry is more than just a jazz legend who mentored Quincy Jones, and who Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis thought was the greatest trumpet player. Terry is something greater than just a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner; he’s an inspiration with lessons to teach about craft, dedication, and resilience. Alan Hicks’ documentary chronicles his enduring inspirational power, focusing on his work with an incredibly talented blind piano player named Justin Kauflin, and an homage to the mentorprotégé relationship.

2014 Cannes Lions Awards: The World’s Best Commercials World-Wide 2014, 120 min, Dirs: Various MAR 27 & 30 @ 9:15PM, 28 @ 4PM, 29 @ 7:15PM, 31 @ 7PM, APR 5 @ 7PM

The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity Awards are some of the most prestigious honours in the advertising and communications industry. This annual compilation presents some of the world’s best commercials including a selection of the past year’s prizewinners.

Presented by the Globe & Mail.

series & repertory

Hi-Def Hitchcock

Music Docs

Alfred Hitchcock is an icon in the purest sense.

His profile is an immediately recognizable symbol. His name has been absorbed into the popular lexicon to signify: a) a peculiar narrative formula featuring stylized paranoia and suspense; b) a heightened aesthetic style loaded with moody significance; c) a peculiarly playful sense of the macabre; and d) a proclivity for blondes. Whether you’ve seen all or none of his films, you’ve probably heard his name.

In a career that spanned decades, continents, genres, cinematic paradigms – from silent to sound, black and white to colour – and screens big and small, Hitchcock gained universal renown as one of cinema’s most prolific and eccentric geniuses. While he was not an “auteur” in the strict sense that he did not write, photograph, or edit the films he directed, he was the quintessential auteur in a broader sense, as the guiding force infusing each of his projects with his singular, signature vision.

Throughout March and April Metro will be transmitting Hitchcock’s vision with unprecedented intensity, as we present some of the most iconic films in gloriously remastered high definition digital format.

A monthly series featuring music documentaries, from classic to contemporary. Curated by Time Rechner, and co-presented with CJSR and Blackbyrd Myoozik.

Heaven Adores You USA 2014, 104 min, Dir: Nickolas Dylan Rossi 3 @ 7PM

Heaven Adores You is an intimate, meditative inquiry into the life and music of Elliott Smith. By threading Smith’s music through the dense, often isolating landscapes of the three major cities in which he lived – Portland, New York City, and Los Angeles – Heaven Adores You presents a visual journey and an earnest review of the singer’s prolific song writing and the impact it continues to have on fans, friends, and fellow musicians.

With special Live Music Performance by local folk pop phenom, Jessica Jalbert.

Music at 6:30PM. Film at 7PM. Co-presented w/ Winter Roots Roundup VI. go to For more information fwalive.ualberta.ca/home/.

Shadow of a Doubt

Rear Window

USA 1943, 108 min, Dir: Alfred Hitchcock MAR 7 @ 7PM, 8 @ 1PM, 11 @ 9:15PM

USA 1954, 112 min, DIr: Alfred Hitchcock MAR 21 @ 7PM, 22 @ 1PM, 25 @ 9:15PM

Shadow of a Doubt was purportedly Hitchcock’s personal favourite of his American films. The cynical, noirish, wartime film was shot on location in a storybook town. Behind its wholesome, middle American values, dark corruption lies hidden within a family. Uncle Charlie is a psychotic killer whose namesake niece is emotionally excited by her worldly uncle, but her opinion of him slowly changes as she probes into his evil, murderous secrets.

Psycho

Jeff is laid up in his apartment with a broken leg. His only two regular visitors are Stella, who predicts trouble, and his fiancée, Lisa Fremont.

Jeff’s apartment window shares a courtyard with many other windows (all built on a single set by Hitchcock). As the days pass, he becomes familiar with the other tenants, including Thorvald, a man whose bed-bound wife makes his life miserable.

One day the wife vanishes, and Jeff begins to suspect there has been a murder as he sits in his wheelchair with his camera and a telephoto lens.

The pictures he sees all add up to a montage of suspicion. (Roger Ebert)

USA 1960, 109 min, DIr: Alfred Hitchcock MAR 17 @ 7PM

After stealing $40 000 from her employer in Phoenix to free her lover from the pangs of alimony, Marion Crane heads west for California.

But when the elements and exhaustion get the better of her, she takes refuge at the Bates Motel. Thus begins her brief but fateful association with its proprietor, Norman Bates, who quickly takes centre stage in Hitchock’s adaptation of Robert Bloch’s novel. What begins as a taut story about a blond on the lam veers into the shadowy territory of a twisted murderer plagued by macabre fantasies, to become a surreal portrait of psychosis. Part thriller, part horror story, Psycho shocked audiences by challenging narrative conventions and undermining moral and aesthetic rules, while the twist ending still makes the uninitiated jump.

The film marked Hitchcock’s return to black and white and smaller-scale noir sensibilities after finishing a series of big Technicolor studio projects. It also illustrates the kind of creative exchanges in which Hitchcock engaged with other filmmakers and pop culture icons, like a contemporary master of B-movie chills, William Castle. Presented by CRIME WATCH.

Don’t be left in suspense! Get the Hi-Def Hitchcock pass and catch all 6 thrilling classics in our series for a very Hitchcockian deal.

Hi-Def Hitchcock Series Pass: $39 Available online at shop@metrocinema. org and at our box office.

And if your appetite for Alfred still hasn’t been slaked, have no fear – there are yet more Hitchcockian delights in which to partake. After bringing you Hitchcock’s seminal shocker Psycho in March, CRIME WATCH presents a contemporary, closely-related film in April, the weird crime classic, Homicidal, from macabre master, William Castle. Meanwhile METRO BIZARRO will put Psycho’s legacy on display in March with Richard Franklin’s Psycho II, the sequel that spun Hitchcockian conventions through the cuisinart of eighties horror – and in April, with Four Flies on Grey Velvet, the giallo from the “Italian Hitchcock,” Dario Argento. See CRIME WATCH and METRO BIZARRO in March and April’s SERIES & REPERTORY sections.

Vertigo USA 1958, 128 min, Dir: Alfred Hitchcock APR 4 @ 7PM, 5 @ 1PM, 8 @ 9:15PM

A mesmerizing suspense/thriller about a macabre, doomed romance – a desperate love for an illusion – Vertigo follows a troubled man’s obsessive search for an elusive ideal.

John “Scottie” Ferguson is a retired police detective with crippling acrophobia. When he’s asked by a tycoon friend to follow his wife, whom he fears is suicidal, Scottie is drawn into a strange and circuitous plot. Based upon the 1954 mystery novel D’entre les morts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, it is a film noir that unfurls into a masterful study of romantic longing, identity, voyeurism, fatal sexual obsession, and the feminine “ideal.”

The Birds North By Northwest USA 1957, 136 min, Dir: Alfred Hitchcock MAR 28 @ 7PM, 29 @ 1PM, APR 1 @ 9:15PM

A glamourous espionage thriller, North By Northwest involves the tongue-in-cheek odyssey of a light-hearted and complacent Manhattan advertising executive who suddenly finds himself caught up in an unexplainable series of events and subterfuge, pursued across the country, and forced to assume another man’s identity while confronting murder, mayhem, a world of spies and counterspies, a domineering mother, and an untrustworthy, mysterious blonde. It all comes literally to a head on the Presidential faces of Mount Rushmore.

USA 1963, 120 min, Dir: Alfred Hitchcock APR 25 @ 7PM, 26 @ 1PM, 29 @ 9:15PM

Loosely adapted from a Daphne du Maurier short story, The Birds is the tale of a pristine city woman who comes undone in a rustic seaside town. A wealthy socialite, Melanie Daniels, arrives in Bodega Bay to play a prank on a cocky lawyer, only to be taken down a peg or two herself. Before long the birds are everywhere – no one is safe. Why is this happening? How will it end? What does it all mean?

The Birds is generally regarded as the last great Hitchcock movie, juggling shrill B-movie histrionics with chill art house gloss in a film that provides no answers and no escape. (The Guardian)

the room

STAFF PICS

TuRkEy SHOOT

uSa 2003, 99 min, Dir: tommy Wiseau 6 @ 11:30pm

Have you ever wondered what your favourite cinema’s fine staff watch when they’re not at work? From the front of house to behind the scenes, each month one Metro staff member will present their must see film!

A monthly celebration of aesthetically challenged films, hosted by Dave Clarke and featuring live comedic commentary.

The film widely considered the “Citizen kane of bad movies” is back! Be sure to catch Tommy and his friends the first Friday of every month for a late night screening this classic piece of so-badit’s-good cinema. you’re my favourite customer.

Thanks a lot! Bye. auDience participation iS encouraGeD. pleaSe reSpect tHe tHeatre anD felloW patronS, anD refrain from uSinG profane lanGuaGe.

REEl FAMIly CInEMA Metro Cinema offers family friendly classic and contemporary movies most Saturday afternoons. Come early and enjoy themed lobby activities before films. free aDmiSSion for cHilDren 12 anD unDer!

a.i. artificial intelligence uSa 2001, 146 min, Dir: Steven Spielberg 9 @ 6:45pm

Originally envisioned by Stanley kubrick, later undertaken by Spielberg, A.I. is set in the radically reshaped near future. A corporation has designed a robot to resemble a human child and display love for human parents. David is the test robot given to one of the corporation’s employees. “A.I. is a film about having been programmed emotionally— something that the cinema does to us all. [...] As a profound meditation on the difference between the human and the mechanical, A.I. constitutes one of the best allegories about cinema that I know.” (Jonathan Rosenbaum) Jonathan Stonehouse is a robot from the future programmed, if not to love, then at least to grudgingly respect. Elevating small talk to medium talk and putting the ‘ick’ in esoteric since at least 1815. He’s still not sure how he got here.

the Dark crystal muppets take manhattan uSa 1984, 94 min, Dir: frank oz 7 @ 1pm

After setting Hollywood alight, the Muppets take on Broadway – or Frogway, in this case.

The musical, written and starring kermit the Frog, has only one flaw: there aren’t enough frogs. During this delightful adventure, the Muppets graduate from college, hit new york, and are parted only to be reunited minutes before show time, the day saved by a right hook from Miss Piggy.

uSa 1982, 93 min, Dirs: Jim Henson & frank oz 28 @ 2pm

As it was prophesied, the three suns have aligned for the first time in 1000 years. Finally the chance to find the missing shard of the Dark Crystal and end the chaotic rule of the evil Skekses has arrived. It is the tiny Gelfling, Jen, the last of his race eradicated by the cruelty of the Skekses, who sets out on the dangerous quest.

DEDFEST DEDfest’s monthly DEDsploitation series. learn more at DEDfest.com.

the Voices uSa 13 @ 9:30pm

See tHe neW releaSeS Section for tHe full liStinG.

CRIME WATCH From thriller to comedy and classic to contemporary, Crime Watch offers a diverse and provocative glimpse into the cinematic criminal world.

Curated by laura O’Connor and Sam Sheplawy.

See Hi-Def HitcHcock for tHe full liStinG.

GATEWAy TO CInEMA Presented by The Gateway, official student newspaper at the university of Alberta.

See tHe neW releaSeS Section for tHe full liStinG.

See SpotliGHt on StuDio GHiBli in tHe SerieS & repertory Section for tHe full liStinG.

Commence St. Paddy’s Day celebrations a week early with the fourth film featuring the murderous sprite. Why is the leprechaun in space? We at Turkey Shoot don’t have a clue. All we know is the luck o’ the Irish doesn’t extend to this sequel, which has earned a stunning 0% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. yes, that is Professor Filius Flitwick of Harry Potter fame bursting from a Space Marine’s groin. yup, that’s beloved Willow himself performing unspeakable acts in pursuit of his gold. We’re guessing it’s going to take more than a four-leaf clover and a catapult to dispatch him this time.

uSa 1960, 109 min, Dir: alfred Hitchcock 17 @ 7pm

ireland/Denmark/Belgium/ luxembourg/france 2014, 93 min, Dir: tomm moore, english, irish, & Scottish Gaelic w/ Subtitles 14 @ 2pm

Japan 2013, 137 min, Dir: isao takahata, english audio Dub 21 @ 2pm

uSa 1996, 95 min, Dir: Brian trenchard-Smith 10 @ 7pm

psycho

Song of the Sea

the tale of princess kaguya (kaguyahime no monogatari)

leprechaun 4: in Space

reservoir Dogs metro: the Gathering – the Dark crystal

Collect your weapons and talismans and join fellow spellcasters at the axis of cinematic alchemy at a Magic Card Event. Beginning with gameplay and card swapping in our lobby, your journey will continue through the mystical portal of the big screen into the enchanted realm of film fantasy. maGic carD eVent BeGinS at 12:30pm

uSa 1992, 99 min, Dir: Quentin tarantino 18 @ 7pm

legendary tough guy lawrence Tierney leads a stellar cast, as an experienced criminal who has assembled a team of crooks for a big diamond heist. unfortunately, the team members are no good at handling themselves in desperate situations. A stripped down structure with idiosyncratic embellishments, Tarantino names his characters off a colour chart, puts them through a disastrous stickup, and dwells on the bloody aftermath.

StuDentS free WitH ValiD iD.

Metro Bizarro A monthly foray into the weird, wild, and wonderful world of fringe cinema. Curated by Maggie Hardy.

Psycho II USA 1988, 113 min, Dir: Richard Franklin 18 @ 9PM

After 22 years of confinement, Norman Bates (reprised by Anthony Perkins) is declared sane and returns to his family home. He gets a job and befriends a young waitress (Meg Tilley), but then Mother creeps back into his life. Written by Tom Holland (Child’s Play & Fright Night) and directed

by Richard Franklin (Road Games), Psycho II is a remarkable film in that it pays respects to the original and continues the story in a respectful and intriguing way. Metro Bizarro is proud to present one of the best horror sequels ever made and a fine tribute to Hitchcock.

HI-DEF HITCHCOCK

science in cinema

Tales From The Organ Trade Canada/USA 2013, 82 min, Dir: Ric Esther Vienstock 19 @ 6:30PM

Science in the Cinema looks at the international trafficking of human body parts and its motivations with this documentary. Dr. Lori West, Professor of Pediatrics, Surgery and Immunology at the University of Alberta, will introduce the movie and lead a discussion about organ donation and transplantation in Alberta and Canada. Dr. West also holds the Canada Research Chair in Cardiac Transplantation at U of A. She is Director of the Alberta Transplant Institute and Director of the Canadian National Transplant Research Program. Science in the Cinema is presented by Alberta Innovates: Health Solutions. ADMISSION IS FREE & INCLUDES A SMALL POPCORN.

Blade Runner: The Final Cut USA 1982, 117 min, Dir: Ridley Scott 21 & 26 @ 9:30PM, 22 @ 3:30PM

Based on Philip K Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, the film follows Deckard, a “blade runner” assigned to track down and kill six rebel replicants – androids who are “more human than human” – through a future Los Angeles. Although the film met with popular and critical acclaim upon its original release, Ridley Scott was dissatisfied with elements supposedly imposed by the studio, including the voice-over narration and the ambiguous happy ending. On its 25th anniversary, Scott took his dystopian sci-fi masterpiece back into post-production to create his Final Cut, the only version over which he had complete artistic control. The result is an immersive experience that is at once bleaker and more wonderful in the truest sense.

Spotlight on Studio Ghibli Once upon a time, three uniquely gifted filmmakers – Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, and Toshio Suzuki – dreamt of establishing a magical kingdom of imagination and storytelling, where legend and fantasy would be drawn into animated life. Thus, our heroes founded an internationally celebrated film studio.

After more than thirty years, Studio Ghibli has established a reputation for its whimsical and universally affective animation and narrative style. Mami Sunada’s new documentary, The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, delves into the personalities and passions behind the Studio’s acclaimed films, while Metro’s Spotlight affords you the opportunity to see for yourself how the Ghibli magic is manifested in two of its acclaimed films: Spirited Away and The Tale of Princess Kaguya.

The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (Yume to kyôki no ôkoku) Japan 2013, 118 min, Dir: Mami Sunada, Japanese w/ Subtitles 20 @ 7PM, 21 @ 4:30PM, 22 & 23 @ 9:15PM Granted near-unfettered access to the notoriously insular Studio Ghibli, the film follows the eminent director Hayao Miyazaki, the producer Toshio Suzuki, and the elusive and influential “other director” Isao Takahata over the course of a year as the studio rushes to complete two films, Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises and Takahata’s The Tale of The Princess Kaguya.

NEW RELEASE

Spirited Away Japan 2001, 125 min, Dir: Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese w/ Subtitles 20 @ 9:15PM, 23 @ 7PM

10-year-old Chihiro and her parents are heading for a new home in the provinces. An only child, Chihiro is preoccupied by a creeping sense of loneliness – until her family gets lost in a secluded woods and are transported to a strange other world where a new friend, a boy called Haku, arrives to help Chihiro survive the adventure and save her parents. “Mind-bogglingly superb animation” adds to the hallucinatory fantasy, whose wit, playfulness, and charm are trademark’s of Miyazaki’s work. (The Guardian)

cult cinema A monthly series of eccentric classics curated by Jeff Noel.

UHF USA 1989, 97 min, Dir: Jay Levey 24 @ 9PM

George Newman is given control of a UHF station by his gambling Uncle Harvey. Under Newman’s guidance, the station becomes a powerhouse of original programming, but when it begins to threaten the ratings of a station affiliate, Channel 8, its sadistic head honcho plans to stomp on the competition. Written by Weird Al Yankovic with director Levey, UHF is packed with literally thousands of gags, and is essentially a vehicle for the God of Musical Parody to ply his satirical trade.

The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Kaguyahime no monogatari) Japan 2013, 137 min, Dir: Isao Takahata 21 @ 2PM English Audio Dub 22 @ 6:45PM Japanese w/ Subtitles

Discovered inside a bamboo stalk, a magical newborn transforms into a charming young lady. Kaguya captivates everyone she meets and bestows such bounty on her humble adoptive framily that they move to a city mansion, where she is courted by the most eligible bachelors.

But this “princess” yearns for the carefree life she once knew. Isao Takahata, bows out with a tender, joyful, and exquisitely crafted folk tale for all ages.

MAR 21 @ 2PM presented by REEL FAMILY CINEMA. ENCORE Double Feature Admission on back-toback screening in Metro’s Spotlight on Studio Ghibli: MAR 20 & 23: The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness with spirited away MAR 21 & 22: The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness with The Tale of Princess Kaguya Advance Double Feature Tickets available at shop@metrocinema.org Adults: $20 Evening Double Feature, $15 Matinee Double Feature Students/Seniors/Children 12 & Under: $15 Evening Double Feature, $10 Matinee Double Feature

Paula Simons Presents…

You can learn a lot from a person’s tastes, especially their cinematic palate. Get better acquainted with some of the most prominent personalities in the community and beyond through their unique film selections.

His Girl Friday USA 1940, 92 min, Dir: Howard Hawks 26 @ 7PM

Ace reporter Hildy Johnson is leaving journalism for married suburban bliss with her fiancé Bruce.

But Hildy’s ex-editor and ex-husband Walter hopes one big story will seduce Hildy back to the newsroom and back into his arms. After all, what could be more romantic than an execution – or a corrupt mayor?

It’s a Fedora-Fest, as Paula Simons, awardwinning City Columnist for The Edmonton Journal introduces Howard Hawks’ classic screwball comedy about a woman, a man, and a scoop. Afterwards, Jana Pruden, The Edmonton Journal’s Crime Bureau Chief, will join Paula for an audience Q&A. Dress like a 40s reporter, complete with killer hat, and be entered to win a fabulous prize!

march 2015 SCHEDULE sunday

1 2Pm Two Days, One Night 4Pm The Ballad Of Shovels and Rope – WINTER ROOTS & BLUES ROUNDUP VI 7Pm U of A Pride Night at the Movies 9:30Pm Inherent Vice

8

1Pm Shadow of A Doubt – HI-DEF HITCHCOCK 4Pm African Grandmothers Tribunal – GANG / INTERNATIONAL WOMENS DAY 7Pm Two Days, One Night 9Pm The Duke of Burgundy

15 2Pm Keep On Keepin’ On 4Pm Song of the Sea 6:15Pm TBA – EDMONTON MOVIE CLUB 9:30Pm The Voices

22

1Pm Rear Window – HI-DEF HITCHCOCK 3:30Pm Blade Runner: The Final Cut 6:45Pm The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Japanese w/ Subtitles) – STUDIO GHIBLI 9:15Pm The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness – STUDIO GHIBLI

29

1Pm North By Northwest– HI-DEF HITCHCOCK 4Pm Gurukulam PREMIERE 7:15Pm 2014 World’s Best Commercials 9:30Pm A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - VAMPANORAMA

monday

2 7Pm Two Days, One Night 9Pm Inherent Vice

9 6:45Pm A.I. Artificial Intelligence – STAFF PICS 9:30Pm The Duke of Burgundy

16 7Pm Song of the Sea 9Pm The Voices

23 7Pm Spirited Away – STUDIO GHIBLI 9:15Pm The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness – STUDIO GHIBLI

30 7Pm A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - VAMPANORAMA 9:15Pm 2014 World’s Best Commercials

tuesday

Wednesday

3

4

7Pm Heaven Adores You – MUSIC DOCS / WINTER ROOTS & BLUES ROUNDUP VI 9:30Pm Two Days, One Night

7Pm Rise & Shine: The Jay DeMerit Story – SOUTHWEST UNITED SPORTS CLUB 9:30Pm Two Days, One Night

10

11

7Pm Leprechaun 4: In Space – TURKEY SHOOT 9Pm Two Days, One Night

17 7Pm Psycho – CRIME WATCH / HI-DEF HITCHCOCK 9:15Pm Song of the Sea

24 7Pm Prairie Tales 16 9Pm UHF – CULT CINEMA

31 7Pm 2014 World’s Best Commercials 9:30Pm A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - VAMPANORAMA

7Pm The Duke of Burgundy 9:15Pm Shadow of A Doubt – HI-DEF HITCHCOCK

18 7Pm Reservoir Dogs – GATEWAY TO CINEMA 9Pm Psycho II – METRO BIZARRO

25 7Pm My Mother’s Garden – CMHA-ER 9:15Pm Rear Window – HI-DEF HITCHCOCK

song of the sea

thursday

5

friday

6

7Pm Two Days, One Night 9Pm Inherent Vice

12 7Pm On the Trail of the Far Fur Country 9Pm The Duke of Burgundy

19 6:30Pm Tales from the Organ Trade – SCIENCE IN THE CINEMA 9:30Pm The Voices

26 7Pm His Girl Friday – PAULA SIMONS PRESENTS… 9:30Pm Blade Runner: The Final Cut

7Pm Two Days, One Night 9Pm The Duke of Burgundy 11:30Pm The Room

13 7Pm Song of the Sea – METRO’S TGIF 9:30Pm The Voices – DEDFEST

20 7Pm The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness – STUDIO GHIBLI / METRO’S TGIF 9:15Pm Spirited Away – STUDIO GHIBLI

27 7Pm A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night – VAMPANORAMA / METRO’S TGIF 9:15Pm 2014 World’s Best Commercials

north By northwest

saturday

7

1Pm Muppets Take Manhattan – REEL FAMILY CINEMA 3Pm A Film About Coffee – YEG COFFEE WEEK 7Pm Shadow of A Doubt – HI-DEF HITCHCOCK 9:30Pm Inherent Vice

14 2Pm Song of the Sea – REEL FAMILY CINEMA 4Pm Keep On Keepin’ On 7Pm The Voices 9:15Pm Song of the Sea

21

2Pm The Tale of Princess Kaguya (English Dub) – REEL FAMILY CINEMA / STUDIO GHIBLI 4:30Pm The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness – STUDIO GHIBLI 7Pm Rear Window – HI-DEF HITCHCOCK 9:30Pm Blade Runner: The Final Cut

28

2Pm The Dark Crystal – REEL FAMILY CINEMA/ METRO: THE GATHERING 4Pm 2014 World’s Best Commercials 7Pm North By Northwest– HI-DEF HITCHCOCK 9:30Pm A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - VAMPANORAMA

april 2015 SCHEDULE sunday

monday

spirited away

tuesday fargo

Wednesday

1

2

7Pm Battlefield Earth – TURKEY SHOOT 9:15Pm North By Northwest– HI-DEF HITCHCOCK

5 1Pm Vertigo – HI-DEF HITCHCOCK 4Pm Stations of the Cross 7Pm 2014 World’s Best Commercials 9:30Pm It Follows

12 2:00Pm Taste of Iceland 2015 6:15Pm TBA – EDMONTON MOVIE CLUB 9:30Pm What We Do in the Shadows – VAMPANORAMA

6 1Pm Mary Poppins – REEL FAMILY CINEMA 3:45Pm National Gallery 7Pm Stations of the Cross 9:15Pm It Follows

13

20

26

27

1Pm The Birds – HI-DEF HITCHCOCK 3:30Pm Monsoon 7Pm Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter 9Pm Fargo

8

7Pm Monterey Pop – MUSIC DOCS 9Pm Stations of the Cross

7Pm Superbad – GATEWAY TO CINEMA 9:15Pm Vertigo – HI-DEF HITCHCOCK

7Pm Thirst – VAMPANORAMA 9:30Pm What We Do in the Shadows – VAMPANORAMA

7Pm Monsoon 9:15Pm Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

21 7Pm Homicidal – CRIME WATCH 9Pm Let The Right One In – VAMPANORAMA

28 7Pm Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter 9:15Pm Midnight Cowboy – CULT CINEMA

7Pm Spider-Man 2 – MARVEL vs. DC 9:30Pm The Dark Knight – MARVEL vs. DC

7Pm Metro Shorts Finale! – MOSTLY WATER 9:30Pm It Follows

16

22 7Pm What We Do in the Shadows – VAMPANORAMA 9Pm Four Flies on Grey Velvet – METRO BIZARRO

29 7Pm Marinoni: The Fire in the Frame – NATIONAL CANADIAN FILM DAY / GLOBAL VISIONS FILM FESTIVAL 9:15Pm The Birds – HI-DEF HITCHCOCK

23 7Pm Festival of (In) Appropriation 7 9:30Pm Thirst – VAMPANORAMA

saturday

4

1Pm Mary Poppins – REEL FAMILY CINEMA 3:45Pm National Gallery 7Pm Stations of the Cross 9:15Pm It Follows 11:30Pm The Room

10am Saturday Morning AllYou-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!

2:30Pm Stations of the Cross 4:45Pm A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night – VAMPANORAMA 7Pm Vertigo – HI-DEF HITCHCOCK 9:30Pm It Follows

10

11

7Pm Walking the Camino – Six Ways to Santiago 9:30Pm What We Do in the Shadows – VAMPANORAMA/ DEDFEST

17 FAVA FEST

FAVA FEST

friday

3

9

15 FAVA FEST

7Pm Beginners – STAFF PICS 9:15Pm What We Do in the Shadows - VAMPANORAMA

10am SATTVA Yoga Practice – INNER VISIONS 1Pm The Fountain – INNER VISIONS 4Pm Walking the Camino – Six Ways to Santiago 7Pm Let The Right One In - VAMPANORAMA 9:15Pm What We Do in the Shadows – VAMPANORAMA

19

7

14

thursday

Bye Bye Blues 25th Anniversary Party – FAVA FEST

2Pm Paddington – REEL FAMILY CINEMA 4Pm What We Do in the Shadows VAMPANORAMA 7Pm National Gallery 11:30Pm Kill Shakespeare

18 FAVA FEST GALA

24

25

7Pm Monsoon – METRO’S TGIF 9:15Pm Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter

2Pm Willow – REEL FAMILY CINEMA 4:30Pm Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter 7Pm The Birds – HI-DEF HITCHCOCK 9:30Pm Monsoon

30 7Pm Screen To Screen – STUDENT FILM COMPETITION 9:30Pm Monsoon

Walking the Camino

VAMPanorama Vampire cinema in a GloBal Vein Ever since Graf von Orlok crept out of Muranu’s seminal shadows, Vampires have been stalking screens around the world, feeding on collective cultural psyches. Monsters of metaphor, they absorb and project the preoccupations, fears, and anxieties of the times and places they inhabit in an occult process of cinematic transubstantiation. Thus, a VAMPanorama – a global pantheon of historically and geographically idiosyncratic celluloid bloodsuckers – has arisen. Two recent contributions to this international tradition of sanguine cinema will be stealing across Metro’s screen this spring: the “first Iranian Vampire Western,” A Girl Walks Home Alone at night, and new zealand’s merrily macabre horror comedy, What We Do In the Shadows, co-presented with DeDfeSt in April.

To set these fresh fiends in a near contemporary global context, Metro will be raising the recently undead from the Vampire vaults of Scandinavia and East Asia, with Sweden’s let the Right One In (låt den rätte komma in) and South korea’s Thirst (Bakjwi) as companions.

Vampanorama paSSport Get the Vampanorama passport to track your vampiric globetrotting when you see a Girl Walks Home alone at night and/or What We Do in the Shadows. present the passport at let the right one in and thirst to receive a $3 discount on one regular admission to one screening of each film – and be initiated into the pantheon of the cinematic undead!

What We Do in the Shadows new Zealand 2014, 86 min, Dirs: Jemaine clement, taika Waititi apr 10 @ 9:30pm, 11 @ 4pm, 12 & 20 @ 9:30pm, 13 & 19 @ 9:15pm, 22 @ 7pm

A group of undead gentlemen from central Europe who have escaped the old country share a house in Wellington, new zealand where they engage in domestic squabbles and face off with a rival gang of werewolves. They bite a faintly annoying guy, who duly turns into a vampire and brings along his non-vampire buddy, who becomes the object of a vampiric bromance crush.

Directed by its stars, Jemaine “Flight of the Conchords” Clement and Taika Waititi, the rigour with which their world is imagined, combined with top-quality gags, makes this mokumentary a treat from first to last. (The Guardian) apr 10 @ 9:30pm preSenteD By DeDfeSt neW releaSe

let the right one in (låt den rätte komma in) Sweden 2008, 115 min, Dir: tomas alfredson, Swedish w/ Subtitles apr 19 @ 7pm, 21 @ 9pm

Oskar is a melancholic 12-year-old, and a chronic schoolyard victim obsessed with violence. Although he may be a serial killer in the making, he also longs for the sympathy his estranged parents fail to give him. He meets his emotional counterpart with new next-door neighbour, Eli. The intense bond that develops between these two outsiders is more complex than the usual youth romance because Eli is a vampire. Though the film is predominantly a haunting, at times gruesome horror tale, it’s also a profound exploration of gender and child psychology, and a full-blooded coming-of-age love story in its own right. (Film Comment)

SPECIAl SCREEnInGS & EVEnTS METRO CInEMA’S TGIF: THAnk GARnEAu IT’S FIlM! love Metro? love Film and talking about film? looking for something to do on a Friday night?

Metro Cinema has all the answers: on feBruary 27 @ 7pm we launch a new film club. Most Friday’s when a new release screens at 7PM, you can see the movie and stay after for a guided discussion, snacks, and a chance to meet fellow movie lovers.

At your first TGIF you’ll receive your membership stamp card. At every TGIF you attend you’ll receive another stamp on your card. Attend 5 TGIFs and you’ll get into the 6th TGIF free! look for tHe metro cinema’S tGif cluB laBel tHrouGHout tHe GuiDe.

two Days, one night (Deux jours, une nuit) Belgium/france/italy 2014, 95 min, Dirs: Jean-pierre Dardenne & luc Dardenne feB 27 @ 7pm

u OF A PRIDE nIGHT AT THE MOVIES

a Girl Walks Home alone at night uSa 2014, 99 min, Dir: ana lily amirpour, persian w/ Subtitles mar 27 & 30 @ 7pm, 2 8, 29, & 31 @ 9:30pm, 4 @ 4:45pm Preying on men who take for granted the submissiveness of women, the titular Girl mobilizes her vampiric nature for her own brand of gender reformation. She’s disarmed, however, by Arash, a damaged young punk and a romantic who respects archaic Islamic codes of honour between men and women. A sly, slinky creeper set in an imaginary Iranian underworld, Amirpour’s debut feature blends elements of lynchian neo-noir and spaghetti Western with contemporary gender politics.

(Variety) neW releaSe. mar 27 @ 7pm: metro cinema’S tGif cluB

thirst (Bakjwi) South korea 2009, 133 min, Dir: park chan-wook, korean w/ Subtitles apr 20 @ 7pm, 23 @ 9:30pm

Thirst is many things; a bloodstained horror movie, a dark comedy, a noirish psychodrama of crime and punishment, a melodrama of mad love, a freehanded literary adaptation (of Émile zola’s Therese Raquin), and, of course, a vampire movie. Sang-hyun is a catholic priest, who, despite his vampirism, clings to a sense of righteousness and decency, even when he becomes infatuated with a young woman, Tae-ju.

She is the very image of girlish frailty, until she is receives Sang-hyun’s sanguinary initiation and transforms from ingénue to femme fatale to demon. Elegant servings of sex, gore, and creepy, winking humour, blend with moments of intense emotion, in a combination that is a hallmark of Park Chan-wook’s oeuvre.

1 @ 7pm

The Pride Alumni Chapter invites you to celebrate the start of university of Alberta Pride Week with an engaging night at the movies. Our evening features five acclaimed independent short films and expert speakers. Our topic is one being debated in the legislature and discussed in classrooms: Gay Straight Alliances. We will explore the need for GSAs, and the consequences when they are missing in the lives of our youth. Join us for an engaging conversation, entertaining films, and inspiring guest speakers.

See metrocinema.orG for a full proGram. aDVance ticketS aVailaBle at: alumni.ualBerta.ca/eVentS/eDmonton pre-purcHaSe online By feB 26 for a DiScount: aDult $10, StuDent/Senior $5 at tHe Door: $12 aDult, $9 StuDent/Senior of metro’S paSSeS, only SilVer Screen paSSeS Will Be accepteD.

ACTION ADVENTURE COMEDY COURTROOM DRAMA CRIME FAMILY MYSTERY EXPERIENCE A VARIETY OF THESE GENRES EVERY SHIFT.

NOW HIRING

Southwest United Sports Club The Southwest United Sports Club presents a fundraising evening of film and discussion about one of Soccer’s most inspiring figures. Proceeds from this event will go toward the Southwest United 2003 Girls Team’s spring training in Victoria, BC. The event will feature a screening of Rise & Shine: The Jay DeMerit Story, the true story of DeMerit’s journey from failing to make the professional leagues in the U.S. and leaving for Europe at the age of 21, to playing in the English Premier League and starting in the world’s greatest sports stage – the 2010 World Cup. The screening will be followed by a Skype Q&A session with Jay DeMerit himself. There will also be door prizes, raffles, and guest appearances.

Presented with the support FC Edmonton and Wok Box.

Int. Women’s Day: African Grandmothers Tribunal

USA 2011, 90 min, Dirs: Nick Lewis & Ranko Tutulugdzija 4 @ 7PM Individual Tickets: $22 per ticket Groups of 8 or More: $20 per ticket Each ticket purchased includes one free voucher to an FC Edmonton game.

Tickets are available through Southwest United 2003 Girls Soccer Team members and affiliated retail sponsors.

For More information visit: swu.ca No Metro Passes.

Yeg Coffee Week

A Film About Coffee USA 2014, 67 min, Dir: Brandon Loper 7 @ 3PM

Amateurs and industry professionals alike are invited to this special screening of A Film About Coffee, which follows the production of coffee to its global consumption through the stories of farmers, buyers, roasters, and baristas in coffee shops around the world. The film opens a window into the little-understood world of specialty coffee.

This will be an ideal introduction to the world of coffee. Several of Edmonton’s premiere cafes will be present to talk about and sell coffee beans, and brew coffee for sampling. After the film, there will be a panel discussion with industry professionals and community members about coffee culture in Edmonton. After the event, ticket holders are invited to a private function at Transcend Garneau.

Tickets $20, available at EventBrite.ca For more information about the event visit: yegcoffee.com No Metro’s passes – Only Silver Screen Passes Accepted.

My Mother’s Garden USA 2008, 70 min, Dir: Cynthia Lewis 25 @ 7PM

African Grandmothers Tribunal: Seeking Justice at the Frontlines of the AIDS Crisis Canada/Swaziland/Uganda 2014, 44 min, Dir: Neal Hicks 8 @ 4PM

Rise and Shine: The Jay DeMerit Story

CMHA-ER – My Mother’s Garden

March 8 is International Women’s day, when people around the world join in celebration of women’s achievements, and raise awareness about the struggle of women, young and old, around the world for equality, security, and hope.

The GANG (Grandmothers of Alberta for a New Generation) is a group of local grandmothers and grand-others formed in response to the needs of the grandmothers in sub-Saharan Africa who are raising over 17 million children orphaned by the AIDS pandemic. GANG, who directs its support to the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign under the Stephen Lewis Foundation, invites you to celebrate International Women’s Day 2015 by learning more about Africa’s courageous grand-women at this documentary screening and post-film Q & A. For More information visit: edmgrandmothers.org, granmotherscampaign.org, stephenlewisfoundation.org Tickets $10 Advance tickets at metrocinema.org No Metro’s passes – Only Silver Screen Passes Accepted.

Prairie Tales 16

Prairie Tales 16 Canada 2014, 73 min, Dirs: Various 24 @ 7PM

Prairie Tales is an annual touring collection of short films and videos made by Albertan artists and compiled by the Alberta Media Arts Alliance Society (AMAAS). This 16th edition offers a selection of some of the previous year’s best short Albertan works from highly celebrated veteran filmmakers to elementary-aged animation specialists. Prairie Tales 16 is available for screening in Alberta and elsewhere until August 31, 2015, while Prairie Tales 17 will become available September 1, 2015.

This screening is sponsored by Metro Cinema, the Edmonton Arts Council, and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. For more information visit: amaas.ca/prairie-tales/ Admission is free.

Canadian Mental Health Association – Edmonton Region (CMHA-ER) in collaboration with the Seniors Association of Greater Edmonton (SAGE) present My Mother’s Garden, which documents how one family comes together to cope with their mother’s disorder and regain a sense of family. The film will be followed by a hoarding disorder Q & A session, including local supports and resources. It will be facilitated by leading international expert, Dr. Christiana Bratiotis, LICSW. People living with hoarding disorder will share their experiences through a photo exhibit featured in the lobby. This event complements the 2015 Hoarding Interventions Conference, March 25-27th.

For more information visit edmonton. cmha.ca, and mysage.ca General Tickets: $5 Admission Free for those attending the 3rd Annual Hoarding Interventions Conference on March 25th.

Advance tickets available at edmonton.cmha.ca No Metro Passes – Only Silver Screen Passes Accepted.

Gurukulam - canadian Premiere

Gurukulam Canada/USA 2014, 108 min, Dirs: Jillian Elizabeth, Neil Dalal, English & Tamil w/ Subtitles 29 @ 4PM - Music at 3:30PM, Film at 4PM

A collaboration between local filmmaker Jillian Elizabeth and Neil Dalal, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alberta, this film follows a group of students and their teacher as they confront fundamental questions about the nature of reality and self- identity at a remote forest ashram in southern India.

Violinist Gautam Karnik will begin the event with South Indian Carnatic music. Following the film, there will be a dialogue, hosted by Doc Alberta’s Doc Talks, with the filmmakers and Andrew Gow, Director of the U of A’s Religious Studies Program. Afterwards, share chai and Indian snacks with the filmmakers. This will be a unique experience for everyone who finds themselves contemplating the nature of existence.

Gurukulam is supported by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the University of Alberta’s Religious Studies Program and Department of Philosophy, the Killam Foundation, and the Maanaw Seva Association.

For More information visit: gurukulamfilm.com Advance tickets available at metrocinema.org Metro Passes accepted.

april 2015 SCHEDULE

SERIES & REPERTORY

new releases

Battlefield Earth Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago USA/Spain 2013, 84 min, Dir: Lydia Smith 10 @ 7PM, 19 @ 4PM

Stations of the Cross (Kreuzweg) Germany 2014, 110 min, Dir: Dietrich Brüggemann, German/French/Latin w/ Subtitles 3 & 6 @ 7PM, 4 @ 2:30PM, 5 @ 4PM, 7 @ 9PM The painful story of Maria, a teenager from a conservative Catholic family who becomes convinced of her sacrificial destiny, is structured in an ingenious parallel with the stations of the cross (the traditional scenes associated with Christ carrying his cross to the crucifixion) and filmed in mostly static tableaux. The relentlessness of the narrative progression, underscored by its biblical intertitles paradoxically generates a kind of suspense. (The Guardian)

It Follows USA 2014, 100 min, Dir: David Robert Mitchell 3 & 6 @ 9:15PM, 4, 5, & 9 @ 9:30PM

“Something scary is stalking the young people in this WASP-y Detroit suburb…. The malevolent shape-shifter can take the form of anyone. The only certainty is that it won’t stop until you’re dead. And once you’re dead, it will go after the person who ‘gave’ it to you.” (Peter DeBruge, Variety) It Follows, which premiered at Cannes this year, is a “haunting evocation of adolescent anxiety and yearning,” and, more importantly, it’s just plain creepy.

The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, where, legend holds, the Apostle James is buried, has drawn pilgrims since the Middle Ages. Lydia B. Smith’s documentary follows six travellers as they make the trip along the 500mile Camino Francés through the Pyrenees. The trail, of course, is absurdly photogenic, but there are challenges too – after all, a pilgrimage is not supposed to be comfortable. As weights are shed … everyone is somehow changed. (New York Times) ENCORE

Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter USA 2014, 105 min, DIr: David Zellner, English & Japanese w/ Subtitles 24 & 27 @ 9:15PM, 25 @ 4:30PM, 26 & 28 @ 7PM

An alienated Japanese woman intent on discovering the buried treasure from the Coen brothers’ Fargo is the main protagonist in this weirdly touching character study. The titular heroine is trapped in a dead-end job and consoles herself by staying up late watching a dubbed VHS version of Fargo to determine the location of the movie’s suitcase full of money. Convinced of the authenticity of the treasure, Kumiko buys a oneway ticket to Minnesota and so begins a hypnotic travelogue. Her deluded certainty that the treasure will somehow improve her aimless life, and her inability to take advantage of the friendliness she encounters along her way is simultaneously tragic and uplifting. (Indiewire) Double Feature Admission for APR 26 Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter @ 7PM with Fargo @ 9PM. Advance Double Feature tickets available at shop@metrocinema.org Adults: $20, Students/Seniors/Children 12 & Under: $15

Monsoon National Gallery France/USA/UK 2014, 180 min, Dir: Frederick Wiseman 3 & 6 @ 3:45PM, 11 @ 7PM

It was only a matter of time before Frederick Wiseman cast his immersive gaze on a museum.

Turning his camera on works of art and the people who steer the distinguished London complex, the grand old man of hands-off documentaries spent twelve weeks in the National Gallery in 2012, where his focus rested on the paintings, the people who lecture before them, those who conserve them, and the staff dedicated to preserving the museum’s reputation as one of the greatest art collections in the world. (Variety)

Canada/France 2014, 108 min, Dir: Sturla Gunnarsson 24 & 27 @ 7PM, 25 & 30 @ 9:30PM, 26 @ 3:30PM

From “not much rain expected this year” to a record downpour that washes away his protagonists’ home in Kerala, prolific Canadian documaker, Sturla Gunnarsson demonstrates the power of weather to surprise even the meteorologists and change lives. This film has it all: a great subject, a vast scale (all over India), dramatic cinematography, and even a bit of humour.

This is a fascinating weather film somewhere between a disaster movie and a humble salute to the soul of India. (Hollywood Reporter) 24 @ 7PM: METRO CINEMA’S TGIF CLUB

turkey shoot USA 2000, 118 min, Dir: Roger Christian 1 @ 7PM

Turkey Shoot again honours this fan favourite, considered one of the worst movies ever made.

John Travolta battled for years to get L. Ron Hubbard’s sci-fi novel made into a film. $79 million later, we have Travolta in comic book villain mode on stilts, Kelly Preston’s tongue, shaggy cavemen piloting spaceships, and Forest Whitaker as the Cowardly Lion with dreadlocks.

Shot in Montreal in 1999, this gem is the most expensive movie made in Canada. And it has mucus guns! Ugh!

Marvel vs. DC The legendary houses of hero-dom go head to head in an all-out, no-holds-barred, knock-down, drag-out double bill. Marvel or DC – which team are you on?

Show your colours – dress up as your favourite character from the Marvel and DC universes and be entered for the chance to win a prize!

Spider-Man 2 USA 2014, 127 min, Dir: Sam Raimi 2 @ 7PM

Marvel’s Web Slinger returns! Dr. Otto Octavius, was a brilliant nuclear scientist until his attempt to create a sustainable fusion reaction results in a nuclear accident and is transformed into a cyborg with four intelligent mechanical arms and a thirst for revenge against Spider-Man, whom he believes is responsible for the disaster. Peter Parker must don his Spidey suit again to face off against not only Ock, but the forces of romantic and existential angst as well in what has been called the best of Raimi’s Spider trilogy.

The Dark Knight USA/UK 2008, 152 min, Dir: Christopher Nolan 2 @ 9:30PM

DC delves into the dark heart of the Batman.

The Joker is set on humiliating the forces for good and exposing Batman’s secret identity, showing him to be a poser and a fraud. However, this is not a simplistic tale of good and evil - the citizens of Gotham City call Batman a dangerous vigilante.

And the Joker is more than a villain - he’s a Mephistopheles who fiendishly poses moral dilemmas for his enemies. This is a haunted film and an engrossing tragedy. (Roger Ebert) Double Feature Admission Advance Double Feature Tickets available at shop@metrocinema.org Adults: $20, Students/Seniors/Children 12 & Under: $15

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Reel Family Cinema Metro Cinema offers family friendly classic and contemporary movies most Saturday afternoons. Come early and enjoy themed lobby activities before films. FREE ADMISSION FOR CHILDREN 12 AND UNDER!

Mary Poppins USA 1964, 139 min, Dir: Robert Stevenson 3 & 6 @ 1PM

Mary Poppins first charmed us in P.L. Travers’ 1934 book. Thirty years later, that wonderful English nursemaid came sailing back on an east wind as a cinematic icon in Disney’s 1964 musical. With umbrella in hand, she arrives to take on the care of the Banks children, Jane and Michael, and uplift the spirits of the patriarchal family. The enchantments of sparkling Technicolor, gleeful animated sequences, nimble dancing, and a spinning musical score make Mary Poppins an enduring classic.

Paddington UK/France 2014, 95 min, Dir: Paul King 11 @ 2PM

Since 1958, Michael Bond’s A Bear Called Paddington and its sequels have sold more than thirty-five million copies, and the hero has assumed many forms. In this most recent rendition, Paddington, armed with little more than impeccable manners and marmalade, is dispatched by his Aunt Lucy from “Darkest Peru” to London, where he is taken in by the Browns. There is a definite dash of Mary Poppins in this story, the idea being that Families are a puzzle, and it is the job of a Paddington, or a Mary, to solve them.

(The New Yorker)

Willow USA/New Zealand 1988, 126 min, Dir: Ron Howard 25 @ 2PM

A diminutive Nelwyn named Willow teams up with a wandering swordsman to protect a baby princess who has miraculously fallen into his care. It is foretold this baby girl will bring about the end of the rule of evil sorceress-queen Bavmorda. (Empire)

The Room USA 2003, 99 min, Dir: Tommy Wiseau 3 @ 11:30PM See MARCH for details.

Music Docs

Staff Pics

Monterey Pop

Beginners

USA 1968, 78 min, Dir: D.A. Pennebaker 7 @ 7PM

D.A. Pennebaker’s 1968 concert film documents the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967. Among the filmmaker’s several camera operators were fellow documentarians Richard Leacock and Albert Maysles. The painter Brice Marden has an “assistant camera” credit and Bob Neuwirth acted as stage manager. Illustrator Tomi Ungerer created the film’s titles. Meanwhile, the concert features legendary performers, including Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Hugh Masekela, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, The Mamas and the Papas, The Who, and a particularly memorable performance by The Jimi Hendrix Experience.

With Live Music Performance by Zebra Pulse.

Music at 6:30PM. Film at 7PM.

USA 2010, 105 min, Dir: Mike Mills 13 @ 7PM

Beginners follows Oliver Fields through a series of interconnected flashbacks as he reflects on the life of his recently deceased father, Hal. At the age of 75, shortly after the death of Oliver’s mother, Hal comes out and begins exploring life as an openly gay man, leading him to find love with a young man and build a stronger relationship with his son. After his father’s death, Oliver meets Anna, and inspired by his father’s transformed attitude towards life and love before his death, Oliver decides to pursue a relationship with her even though his own views on romance are sceptical.

Shania Taylor is a member of Metro’s Front of House staff. Now before you ask, yes, it is like Shania Twain and no, she will not (and more importantly can not) sing for you.

Gateway to Cinema

Superbad USA 2007, 113 min, Dir: Greg Mottola 8 @ 7PM

Superbad is a four-letter raunch-a-rama with a heart, and an inordinate interest in other key organs. The movie involves unpopular best friends Seth and Evan, and a sidekick named Fogell who is so unpopular he is unpopular even with them. To their wonderment, the trio is invited to a party by the uber-popular Jules, only to be faced with the ordeal of procuring alcoholic refreshments. Of course, much scheming and foul language ensues. Superbad remembers not only the agony, but the complete absence of the ecstasy. (Roger Ebert) Admission is free for students with valid ID.

metro shorts

Mostly Water: Metro Shorts Canada 2015, 90 min, Dirs: Various 9 @ 7PM

Join us for the 2014-2015 Season Finale of Metro Shorts, an adjudicated short film event hosted by Mostly Water Theatre and produced by Metro. It gives local filmmakers an opportunity to screen their work for a live audience and industry professionals, and the chance to be renewed. Filmmakers whose films are selected for inclusion receive a $50 screening fee, with an additional $100 cash prize given to the winner. A grand prize is presented at the end of the season. Films must be no longer than 4 minutes and all submissions done by an online file transfer site.

Submission Deadline: April 3. For more info: trentwilkie@gmail.com

dedfest DEDfest’s monthly DEDsploitation series. Learn more at DEDfest.com.

What We Do in the Shadows New Zealand 2014, 86 min, Dirs: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi 10 @ 9:30PM

See VAMPANORAMA in the MARCH SERIES & REPERTORY section for all the bloody details.

crime watch

Homicidal USA 1961, 87 min, Dir: William Castle 21 @ 7PM

Homicidal is a variation on the old-dark-housewith-a-family-secret formula coupled with a sex change twist, a perverse allusion to the then-current tabloids’ fascination with Christine Jorgensen, one of the first people to have gender reassignment surgery. Warren, the half-brother of Miriam Webster, has returned from Denmark and moved back into the family mansion with Helga, his childhood nurse, now a mute invalid, and Emily, Helga’s companion - or is she Warren’s wife? Miriam and her fiancé Karl sense all is not right in the Webster home and a series of strange incidents including the brutal slaying of the local justice of the peace convince them to alert the police. Unsatisfied with their investigation, Miriam decides to do her own sleuthing and visits the creepy Webster mansion alone, encountering something much worse than she imagined. (TCM) Although Castle rarely made forays the crime genre, he produced his rendition of cinematic madness just one year after Psycho’s release, and helped initiate the ‘slasher’ genre. Aesthetic similarities with Hitchcock’s Psycho are apparent, as are thematic parallels, from voyeurism to Freudian neuroses. Meanwhile, Psycho’s marketing campaign, was apparently influenced

by Castle’s notorious penchant for gimmicks in his films and their promotions. With Homicidal Castle upped the ante in that department, making viewing this shocker as much morbid fun as the story itself. HI-DEF HITCHCOCK

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metro bizarro

cult cinema

FAVA Fest

A monthly series of eccentric classics curated by Jeff Noel.

Midnight Cowboy

USA 1969, 113 min, Dir: John Schlesinger 28 @ 9:15PM

Four Flies on Grey Velvet Italy/France 1971, 104 min, Dir: Dario Argento, Italian w/ Subtitles 22 @ 9PM

Metro Bizarro continues to pay homage to Alfred Hitchcock with a film from the Italian Hitchcock; Dario Argento. The final film in Argento’s Animal Trilogy (including Bird with the Crystal Plumage and The Cat O’Nine Tails), Four Flies was for many years a notoriously difficult film to find, which is curious considering the success of its forebears and the fact that it was supposed to be Argento’s final Giallo. In the film a drummer gets caught up in a web of stalking, black-mail, and murder only to find out that nothing is as it seems. HI-DEF HITCHCOCK

Joe Buck is a Texas dishwasher without friend or family when he comes to New York to make his fortune as the rich ladies’ stud. Instead, he winds up a half-hearted 42nd Street hustler whose first and only friend, Ratso Rizzo, is a gimpy, verminous, yet eminently likeable con artist from the Bronx. Buck is a funny, dim-witted variation on the lonely, homosexual dream-hero who used to wander disguised through so much drama and literature associated with the 1950’s. Midnight Cowboy is a slick, brutal (but not brutalizing) movie version of James Leo Herlihy’s 1965 novel, so rough and vivid that it’s almost unbearable.

(New York Times)

SPECIAL SCREENINGS AND EVENTS Saturday Morning Cereal Cartoon Party!

Saturday Morning All-YouCan-Eat Cereal Cartoon Party!

World-Wide 1960s-70s, 150 min, Digital, Dirs: Various Curator: Kier-La Janisse 4 @ 10AM

Spring has sprung! Celebrate the end of the winter deep-freeze with another super-fun sugarfrosted cartoon event! Put on your best PJs and experience it all over again on the big screen!

Programmed for all ages, the cereal will be allyou-can-eat and the cartoons (hand-picked from cartoons’ heyday) will last over 2 hours. You’d better not miss the snap-crackle-fun!

Adults: $14, Students/Seniors: $12, Children 12 & Under: $10 Admission includes cereal.

Advance tickets available online at metrocinema.org. No Metro passes – Only Silver Screen Passes Accepted.

Fargo USA/UK 1996, 98 min, Dirs: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen 26 @ 9PM

It may not necessarily be a map to a proverbial El Derado, as it is for the eponymous protagonist in Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter, but to the legendary Coen brothers’ devoted followers, their classic crime thriller is grisly, idiosyncratic gold.

Since we first visited the frigid mid-western town in the late 90s, Fargo has simultaneously – and somewhat ironically – gained both a cult and mass culture cache (the latter especially since its recent successful television resurrection). In recognition of Fargo’s enduring influence, Metro is bringing you back to the Coens’ Wisconsin, where the murder and mayhem began with an inept kidnapping plot, a pregnant police chief, and a wood chipper.

Double Feature Admission with Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter APR 26 @ 7PM. See the NEW RELEASE section. Advance Double Feature tickets available at shop@ metrocinema.org Adults: $20, Students/ Seniors/Children 12 & Under: $15

Kill Shakespeare

Kill Shakespeare Canada 2010, 100 min, Live Performance, Dirs: Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery 11 @ 11:30PM

Edmonton’s newest Shakespeare company creating innovative and immersive Shakespearean adaptations is now trying something even more exciting. Thou Art Here presents a live performance of the acclaimed graphic novel epic, Kill Shakespeare! Originally produced by the Young Centre for the Performing Arts, Toronto, ON, Kill Shakespeare is an interactive theatre experience combining live voice acting, music, and sound effects with projected comic book slides.

Sponsored by Happy Harbour Comics and AlleyKat Brewery.

For more information, visit: thouartheretheatre.com, killshakespeare.com Tickets $20 No Metro Passes – Only Silver Screen Passes Accepted.

FAVA FEST: Film and Video Arts Festival APR 14 to 18 @ Metro Cinema

FAVA’s 4th Annual FAVA FEST runs April 13 to18 (April14 to 18 at Metro Cinema). The festival includes: Best of FAVA screenings celebrating local talent; the Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour screening; the best in cinematic non-fiction from Cinema Eye Honours; the 25th Anniversary party of Bye Bye Blues with filmmakers in attendance; and the FAVA GALA - celebrating excellence in film, video and media art with cash awards, newly commissioned short works, a silent auction, and one big after party!

For a full schedule and details visit FAVA.CA Sponsors: Alberta Film, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, ATB Financial, Canada Council for the Arts, Edmonton Arts Council, Edmonton Film Office, Metro Cinema, VIA Rail All FAVA FEST events are admission by cash donation at the door except for the Bye Bye Blues 25th Anniversary Party.

No Metro Passes.

Bye Bye Blues 25th Anniversary Party Sponsored by FAVA, Metro Cinema, AMPIA, University of Alberta Archives, and the Edmonton Social Planning Council

Bye Bye Blues Canada 1999, 117 min, Dir: Anne Wheeler, 35mm print 17 @ 7PM

When Daisy Cooper discovers that her husband has been captured during World War II, she takes a job as a piano player with a local dance band to support herself and her children. While on tour with this ragtag outfit, Daisy begins a journey of self-discovery and the War becomes a bitterly ironic blessing by introducing her to a side of life and herself she might otherwise never have known. But when peace has been declared and her husband’s return assured, Daisy must face conflicting loyalties and desires.

Director Anne Wheeler, actress Rebecca Jenkins, and copyright lawyer Joel Bakan will be in attendance for a moderated conversation and Q&A after the screening.

Students & Seniors, FAVA/AMPIA/ESPC/ U of A Archives members, Metro Silver Screen Holders, Metro Board member: $15 General Public: $20 Advance Tickets available at metrocinema.org

Inner Visions

Yoga On Screen and In Practice APR 19

SATTVA Yoga Practice @ 10AM Film @ 1PM SATTVA Yoga is dedicated to inspiring practitioners to use the balance found from within their practice and to live from that place of inspired potential that exists within all of us. The SATTVA school of Yoga is a modern day school with ancient roots. Join us in exploring SATTVA’s tools for cleansing the body, the breath and the mind, to navigate Inner Visions, both in practice and on the screen. Whether creating or witnessing art, it is a process of self-enquiry, and whether on or off the mat, Yoga is a science for delving into the self.

The SATTVA School of Yoga in collaboration with Metro Cinema present Inner Visions, a cine-yogic experience. An all levels SATTVA Yoga practice, consisting of physical postures, breathing techniques, and meditation led by senior SATTVA instructor, Afsheen Peyrow, will begin the event, open to Inner Visions pass holders only. Afsheen will also lead a post-screening discussion and Q&A considering Darren Aronofsky’s, The Fountain, from a yogic perspective.

For More information about the SATTVA School of Yoga and Afsheen Peyrow visit: Sattvaschoolofyoga.com & afsheenpeyrowyoga.com.

Taste of Iceland

Taste of Iceland

National Canadian Film Day – Global Visions Film Festival

12 @ 2PM

Program 1 – Icelandic Shorts Iceland 2014, 108 min, Dirs: Various, Icelandic w/ Subtitles Program 2 – Icelandic Documentaries Iceland 2014, 50 min, Dirs: Various, Icelandic w/ Subtitles As part of the Taste of Iceland festival in Edmonton, Iceland Naturally is please to present the best in Icelandic film, specially curated by the Reyjavik Shorts & Docs Festival.

Sponsored by Iceland Naturally and the Taste of Iceland Festival For more information, visit: facebook.com/Icelandnaturally and metrocinema.org Free Admission – Tickets can be reserved through Eventbrite.com No Metro Passes.

The Fountain USA/Canada 2006, 96 min, Dir: Darren Aronofsky 19 @ 1PM

The Fountain tells the story of star-crossed lovers in three different eras, presented in a circular pattern that suggests a mandala or a Mayan calendar. Like a story by Jorge Luis Borges, The Fountain dispenses with everyday assumptions about time, space, and causality and replaces the prose of narrative cinema with a poetic language of rhyming images and visual metaphors. Entwined in this are nebulous ideas concerning the quest for immortality and its consequences, the tension between science and art, and the immortality of love.

(New York Times) Film and Post-Film Discussion are open to the public, as well as Inner Visions pass holders. Regular Admission.

Metro passes accepted.

Global Visions Film Festival Presents National Canadian Film Day at Metro Cinema

Marinoni: The Fire in the Frame Canada 2014, 90 min, DIr: Tony Girardin 29 @ 7PM

April 29 is National Canadian Film Day, the day to celebrate our country’s cinematic pastime and be exposed to the great screen stories we tell one another in this cold, vast country. Global Visions Film Festival invites you to commemorate this auspicious occasion by joining us for an “early kick-off” to our 2015 edition of the festival with the highly-anticipated Edmonton premiere of, Marioni: The Fire in the Frame.

In 1964, Giuseppe Marinoni left Italy for Canada, and went on to become one of the most trusted bicycle builders in the world. Now 75, Marinoni plans to break a world record. ATop 10 Audience Favorite at last year’s Hot Docs festival, Marinoni will delight, whether you’re passionate about cycling, or just great storytelling.

For more information visit globalvisionsfestival.com, and canadianfilmday.ca.

Advance Tickets available at Tickfly.com Global Visions 2015 Pass-Holders get in FREE! No Metro Passes.

Screen to Screen

Metro Cinema Student Film Competition 30 @ 7PM

SATTVA Yoga Practice @ 10AM

All levels of practitioner are welcome!

Come prepared for a Yoga practice. Dress appropriately and bring your mat. Mats will be provided for those who do not have their own for a $1.00 rental fee each. Practice space and admission is limited.

Yoga Practice is open to Inner Visions pass-holders only. No Metro Passes.

Inner Visions Pass: $30 Passes available at shop@metrocinema.org and at Metro’s box office.

Pass includes SATTVA Yoga Practice and Film Admission, with Post-Film Discussion.

Festival of (In)Appropriation # 7

Contemporary Experimental Found Footage Filmmaking: Fourteen Short Films Various 2014, 90 min, Dirs: Various 23 @ 7PM

The incorporation of pre-existing media into new artworks is a practice that generates novel juxtapositions and new meanings and ideas, often in ways entirely unrelated to the intentions of the original makers. Such new works are, in other words, “inappropriate.” The Festival of (In) Appropriation is a yearly showcase of contemporary, short audio-visual works that appropriate existing film, video, or other media and repurpose it in “inappropriate” and inventive ways.

Curator Jaimie Baron will be in attendance.

Visit metrocinema.org for more full program information.

In celebration of the next generation of filmmakers, Metro Cinema and the Alberta Media Production Industries Association (AMPIA) are pleased to launch the first annual Screen to Screen: Metro Cinema Student Film Competition. Submissions of original films from high school students from the greater Edmonton area will be screened at Metro Cinema at the historic Garneau Theatre.

The juried event will feature prizes, Q & A sessions, and networking opportunities for up and coming filmmakers.

For More information visit metrocinema.org and ampia.org Or contact screentoscreen@metrocinema.org Advance Tickets available at metrocinema.org Metro Passes Accepted.

JUNE 18-27, 2015 Book, Music and Lyrics by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows Music and Lyrics by Frank Loesser Production Dates: June 18-27, 2015 Timms Centre for the Arts, EDMONTON, AB Director: Jon Shields Music Director: Binaifer Kapadia Choreographer: Shelley Tookey Tickets available now at Tixonthesquare.ca Student/senior $22.50

plus service charge

Adult $27.50

plus service charge.

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Visit www.elopemusicaltheatre.ca for more details