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Abbas Kiarostami Tribute
Gun Runners
Little Men
The Rocky Horror
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Metro Operations Dan Nielsen – President Rebecca Swanson – Vice President Randal Pruss – Treasurer Nicola Simpson-Khullar – Secretary Alex Dimitroff, Paul Matwychuk, Heather Noel, Brad Stromberg – Directors David Cheoros – Executive Director (on sabbatical) Dan Smith – Interim Executive Director Jennifer Jenkins – Consulting Director Pete Harris – Programming Manager Katie Sowden – Communications Director Allan Mulholland – Facility Manager Brad Sime – Booth Manager/ Head Projectionist Lauren Busheikin – Financial Officer Talicia Dutchin – Communications Specialist/ House Manager Nic Keating, Bailey Richards – Operations Assistants/House Managers Owen Armstrong, Lindsey Campbell, Joseph Hartfeil – Projectionists Tola Adeshina, Ryn Climenhaga, Erica Livsey, Kelly McLean - House Managers Maddy Dube, Fia Friske, Emily Nokes, Tim Rechner, Jessica Watson - Front of House Nicole Boychuk - Marketing Assistant Intern
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, Capital FM , CJSR, FAVA , The Tomato, VUE Weekly, the Canada 150 Fund, and the Harper-Kennedy Fund at Edmonton Community Foundation
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New Releases
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The Witness The Wailing The Innocents Gun Runners Little Men Angry Inuk
Series & Repertory
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Kubo & the Two Strings
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Tommy Wiseau’s The Room Kiwi Kino - Hunt for the Wilderpeople - Tickled - What We Do in the Shadows Reel Family Cinema - Whale Rider - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - My Neighbor Totoro - Kubo and the Two Strings - Castle in the Sky - Young Frankenstein Abbas Kiarostami Tribute - Taste of Cherry - Certified Copy HOMO-cidal - Paris is Burning Music Docs - The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble - AC/DC: Let There Be Rock Metro Bizarro - Video Blood French Animation - April and the Extraordinary World - Phantom Boy Quote-A-Longs - Quote-A-Long Grease - Quote-A-Long Ghostbusters Afternoon Tea - Love & Friendship - A Room with a View Turkey Shoot - Twilight Sci-Fi Cinema - Heavy Metal Metro Shorts
Staff Pics - Gorgo Science in the Cinema - Contagion Zootopia Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Multiple Maniacs The Godfather Ringu Suspiria
Special Screenings & Events
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FAVA - Video Kitchen - Main Course - Gotta Minute Film Festival Awards Ceremony Greenpeace - Catching the Sun Blue Revue Saturday Morning Cartoon Cereal Party Metro Gallery Launch Art Docs - Eva Hesse CJSR FunDrive - Superman – The Movie Dreamspeakers International Indigenous Film Festival REEL Learning Pecha Kucha GDC Alberta North & Ad Club Edmonton - Design Disruptors Reel Rock Film Festival Skier’s Sportshop Film Festival Litfest - Shrill - Canadaland DEDfest Film Festival The Rocky Horror Picture Show 3rd Annual Metro Halloween Mash - House on Haunted Hill (1959) - The Tingler
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Come and experience the best in Alberta short film!
The Edmonton Short Film Festival presents:
A Hollywood-inspired red carpet gala! Saturday, October 1, 2016 Doors open at 6:00 PM Royal Alberta Museum Theatre (12845 102 Ave)
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September & october 2016 SCHEDULE There’s always something new at Metro. Visit metrocinema.org to find all our new releases, and the most up to date film listings, show times, and other information.
new releases
The Witness USA 2015, 89 min, Dir: James D. Solomon SEPT 16 @ 7PM, SEPT 17 @ 3:45PM, SEPT 18 @ 3:45, SEPT 19 @ 9PM, SEPT 21 @ 9:30PM
Bill Genovese’s decade-long journey to unravel the truth about the mythic death and littleknown life of his sister, Kitty, who was reportedly stabbed in front of 38 witnesses and became the face of urban apathy. The Witness begins in 2004 when The Times questions its original story: the number of witnesses, what they observed, the number of attacks. None was more affected by the story than Bill. Breaking his family’s half-century of silence, Bill seeks to find the truth confronting the witnesses, the killer, their families and his own.
The Wailing (Goksung) South Korea 2016, 156 min, Dir: Hong-jin Na Korean & Japanese with subtitles SEPT 16 @ 9PM, SEPT 18 @ 9:30PM, SEPT 20 @ 9:30PM
A foreigner’s mysterious appearance in a quiet, rural village causes suspicion among the locals - suspicion which quickly turns to hysteria as the townspeople begin killing each other in brutal outbursts for seemingly no reason. As the investigating officer watches his daughter fall under the same savage spell, he agrees to consult a shaman for answers - unknowingly escalating the situation into something far more dangerous. 6
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Little Men The Innocents France/Poland 2016, 115 min, Dir: Anne Fontaine French, Polish, Russian with subtitles. SEPT 30 @ 7PM, OCT 2 @ 1:30PM, OCT 3 @ 9:30PM, OCT 5 @ 7PM, OCT 6 @9:30PM
Poland, winter of 1945. Mathilde Beaulieu is a young intern working with a branch of the French Red Cross. They are on a mission to find, treat and repatriate French survivors of the German camps. One day, a Polish nun arrives in the hospital. In very poor French, she begs Mathilde to come to her convent. Mathilde life and beliefs change when she discovers the advanced state of pregnancy that affect several of the Sisters of the convent just outside the hospital where she performs.
Gun Runners Canada 2015, 89 min, Dir: Anjali Nayar OCT 7 @ 7PM, OCT 8 @ 9PM, OCT 9 @ 2PM, OCT 11 @ 9PM, OCT 12 @ 7PM
Gun Runners follows two of the most notorious warriors and cattle rustlers in Northern Kenya who trade in their weapons for sneakers, as part of a government-sponsored program, to pursue their dream of becoming professional marathon runners. Filmed over eight years, Matanda and Arile face financial challenges, fierce competition, and family pressure as they struggle to put their violent pasts behind them. A National Film Board of Canada Production.
USA/Greece 2016, 85 min, Dir: Ira Sachs OCT 7 @ 9:30PM, OCT 8 @ 7PM, OCT 9 @ 12:15PM, OCT 10 @ 9PM, OCT 11 @ 7PM, OCT 13 @ 9:30PM
Jake is a quiet, sensitive middle schooler with dreams of being an artist. He meets the affably brash Tony at his grandfather’s funeral, and the unlikely pair soon hit it off. The budding friendship is put at risk, however, when a rent dispute between Jake’s parents, Brian and Kathy, and Tony’s mother, Leonor, threatens to become contentious.
Angry Inuk Canada 2016, 82 min, Dir: Alethea Arnaquq-Baril Inuktitut with subtitles SEPT 28 @ 7PM Premiere, OCT 27 @ 7PM, OCT 29 @ 4:15PM & 9:30PM, OCT 30 @ 2PM & 7PM, NOV 2 @ 9:30PM
Anti–seal hunting campaigns have attracted high profile supporters, and with them, hefty financial contributions. Meanwhile, seal hunters are unjustly targeted for traditional practices that have supported them for centuries. How does a culture that exercises understated anger and finds peaceful ways to resolve conflict compete with animal activist groups that rely on antisealing sentiment they aggressively cultivate to underwrite their other causes? Alethea ArnaquqBaril uses her filmmaking skills to organize and embolden a new tech-savvy generation of Inuit to stand up for their rights. Establishing #sealfie on Instagram and skillfully employing social media, they lobby legislators and expose misinformation while staying true to their values in their fight for survival. The Sept 28 premiere is presented by The Dreamspeakers Film Festival (see page 21), the NFB, & the new Metro Film Series “Reconciliation in Focus” - A bi-monthly series hosted by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta to reflect on the University’s ongoing responsibilities the Truth and Reconciliation’s Calls to Action and to broader responsibilities to community and place
SERIES & REPERTORY Abbas Kiarostami Tribute
Tommy Wiseau’s The Room
The Room
Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016) was an Iranian filmmaker whom many believe to be not only amongst the best from Iran, but also one of the best filmmakers of his era. Kiarostami made over 40 films during his career, and he won over 20 awards at Festivals around the world. The Metro’s tribute is focused on his breakthrough film and one of his last works: Taste of Cherry won the Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997 and Certified Copy (2010) was his first film made outside of Iran.
USA 2003, 99 min, Dir: Tommy Wiseau SEPT 2 @ 11:30PM, OCT 7 @ 11:30PM
The film widely considered the “Citizen Kane of bad movies” is back! Be sure to catch Tommy and his friends the first Friday of the month for a late night screening this classic piece of so-badit’s-good cinema. You’re our favourite customer. Thanks a lot! Bye. Audience participation is encouraged. Please respect the theatre and fellow patrons.
Kiwi Kino New Zealand’s relatively small but talented cinematic community echoes Canada’s in many ways and as a fellow Commonwealth country deserves a film showcase. From the 1990s onward, a steady flow of New Zealand made films have had international success. This spotlight focuses on two films by one of the country’s more recent successful filmmakers, Taika Waititi (Hunt for the Wilderpeople & What We Do in the Shadows). Rounding out the series is the stranger than fiction Film Festival documentary favourite, Tickled & the 2002 award-winning Whale Rider (see page 8).
Tickled New Zealand 2016, 92 min, Dir: David Farrier, Dylan Reeve SEPT 10 @ 9:30PM, SEPT 11 @ 9:30PM, SEPT 14 @ 9:30PM Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction.
Taste of Cherry (Ta’m e guilass) Iran/France 1997, 95 min, Dir: Abbas Kiarostami Persian with subtitles SEPT 4 @ 1:30PM, SEPT 5 @ 7PM
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry is an emotionally complex meditation on life and death. Middle-aged Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) drives through the hilly outskirts of Tehran— searching for someone to rescue or bury him.
Hunt for the Wilderpeople New Zealand 2016: 101 min, Dir: Taika Waititi SEPT 2 @ 7PM, SEPT 3 @ 9:30PM, SEPT 4 @ 7PM, SEPT 5 @ 4:30PM, SEPT 6 @ 9:30PM
Raised on hip-hop and foster care, defiant city kid Ricky gets a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside. He quickly finds himself at home with his new foster family: the loving Aunt Bella, the cantankerous Uncle Hec, and dog Tupac. When a tragedy strikes that threatens to ship Ricky to another home, both he and Hec go on the run in the bush. As a national manhunt ensues, the newly branded outlaws must face their options: go out in a blaze of glory or overcome their differences and survive as a family.
What We Do in the Shadows New Zealand 2014, 86 min, Dir: Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi SEPT 13 @ 9:30PM
This mockumentary follows a group of undead gentlemen from central Europe that have escaped the old country to 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.
Certified Copy (Copie conforme) France/Italy/Belgium/Iran 2011, 106 min, Dir: Abbas Kiarostami French, Italian, & English with subtitles SEPT 11 @ 4PM, SEPT 12 @ 7PM
This is the story of a meeting between one man and one woman, in a small Italian village in Southern Tuscany. The man is a British author who has just finished giving a lecture at a conference. The woman, from France, owns an art gallery. This is a common story that could happen to anyone, anywhere. metrocinema.org
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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 & under.
Whale Rider New Zealand/Germany 2002, 101 min, Dir: Niki Caro SEPT 3 @ 2PM
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea’s direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief, but her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny. Screening as part of Kiwi Kino.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles My Neighbor Totoro USA/HONG KONG 1990, 93 min, (Tonari no Totoro) Dir: Steve Barron SEPT 10 @ 2PM
Through contact with a mysterious substance, called Ooze, 4 little turtles in the canalization of New York mutate to giant turtles. They can speak, walk upright and love pizza. The wise rat Splinter becomes their mentor and educates them to Ninja fighters. Their arch-enemy is the bad, bad guy Shredder, who struggles to gain power over the world. Of course the ninja turtles will do everything to stop him.
Castle in the Sky (Tenkû no shiro Rapyuta) Kubo and the Two Strings USA 2016, 98 min, Dir: Travis Knight OCT 1 @ 2PM
Kubo lives a quiet, normal life in a small shoreside village until a spirit from the past turns his life upside down by re-igniting an age-old vendetta. This causes all sorts of havoc as gods and monsters chase Kubo who, in order to survive, must locate a magical suit of armour once worn by his late father, a legendary Samurai warrior. 8
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Japan 1986, 125 min, Dir: Hayao Miyazaki OCT 15 @ 2PM, OCT 16 @ 3:30
A young boy stumbles into a mysterious girl who floats down from the sky. The girl, Sheeta, was chased by pirates, an army, and government secret agents. In saving her life, they begin a high flying adventure that goes through all sorts of flying machines, eventually searching for Sheeta’s identity in a floating castle of a lost civilization. Oct 15 – Reel Family Cinema – English dubbed Oct 16 – Regular admission – Japanese with subtitles
Japan 1988, 86 min, Dir: Hayao Miyazaki SEPT 17 @ 2PM, SEPT 19 @ 7PM
Two young sisters, Satsuki and Mei relocate to the countryside with their father to be close to their mother while she is recovering in the hospital. They soon discover that magical creatures inhabit the nearby forest. Befriending the Totoros, the girls experience several enchanted episodes that reveal to them the power of nature and the preciousness life. Sept 17 – Reel Family Cinema – English dubbed Sept 19 – Regular admission – Japanese with subtitles
Young Frankenstein USA 1974, 106 min, Dir: Mel Brooks OCT 29 @ 2PM
An American grandson of the infamous Victor Frankenstein, struggling to prove that he is not as insane as people believe, is invited to Transylvania, where he discovers the process that reanimates a dead body.
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HOMO-cidal
Music Docs
The House of HOMO-CIDAL is a cult filminspired drag troupe hell bent on serving cinema, female impersonation and debauchery in one nasty bundle. This horde of devious mavens will provide entertainment before, during, and after your movie-viewing experience, twisting your minds for the better and hopefully the worst!
Music Docs is a monthly film series featuring music documentaries, from classic to contemporary. Curated by Tim Rechner, and co-presented with CJSR, Blackbyrd Myoozik, and Steamwhistle.
The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble USA 2015, 95 min, Dir: Morgan Neville SEPT 6 @ 7PM
Paris Is Burning (1990) USA 1990, 71 min, Dir: Jennie Livingston SEPT 4 @ 9:30PM
This is a documentary of ‘drag nights’ among New York’s underclass. Queens are interviewed and observed preparing for and competing in many ‘balls’. The people, the clothes, and the whole environment are outlandish.
This documentary follows an ever-changing lineup of performers drawn from the ensemble’s more than 50 instrumentalists, vocalists, composers, arrangers, visual artists and storytellers as they gather in locations across the world, exploring the ways art can both preserve traditions and shape cultural evolution. Through moving individual stories, the filmmakers paint a vivid portrait of a bold musical experiment and a global search for the ties that bind. Live music performance by The Edmonton Cello Guys at 6:30. Film at 7:00.
AC/DC: Let There Be Rock USA/France 1980, 95 min, Dir: Eric Dionysius, Eric Mistler OCT 4 @ 7PM
The film features AC/DC live at the Pavillion De Paris on December 9, 1979, during the tour that would be singer Bon Scott’s last. He died two months after the filming. After almost ten minutes of glimpses at the backstage life, the real movie starts as the band is introduced playing live on stage. Although the band is still in their ‘70s minimalist era with few stage effects and pyrotechnics, the live performance is considered one of the best and most energetic of their career. Live music TBA at 6:30. Film at 7:00.
Metro Bizarro
French Animation
Metro Bizarro is a foray into the weird, wacky and wonderful world of fringe cinema. It explores the twisted underbelly of Hollywood and beyond, screening filmic gems that literally need to be seen to be believed. Curated by Maggie Hardy.
The history of French animation in cinema is one of the longest in the world, as France created some of the earliest animated films dating back to the late 19th century. Currently many feel France offers a far richer variety of feature-length animation than any other national cinema.
Video Blood 90 min, curated and compiled by Maggie Hardy Various languages with subtitles SEPT 8 @ 9:30PM
This September Metro Bizarro presents 2 all new video mixtapes: Video Blood & Musical Atrocity. Video Blood is a descent into splatter films with some of the most brutal scenes ever etched into celluloid brought together in an all-out gore extravaganza. Everything from Cat III Hong Kong films to shoestring German horror will be present. A must-watch for horror fans. Musical Atrocity is the mind bleach for Video Blood; it features the worst in TV and movie musicals for your viewing pleasure. Bizarre mutilations and Burt Reynolds (attempting to sing) await you on this trip through mixtape hell. 18+, no minors. 10
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April and the Extraordinary World (Avril et le monde truqué) France/Belgium/Canada 2015, 105 min, Dir: Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci French/English with subtitles SEPT 9 @ 7PM, SEPT 11 @ 1:30PM, SEPT 12 @ 9:15PM, SEPT 17 @ 9:30PM
Paris, 1941. A family of scientists is on the brink of discovering a powerful longevity serum when all of a sudden a mysterious force abducts them, leaving their young daughter April behind. Ten years later, April lives alone with her dear cat, Darwin, and carries on her family’s research in secret. But she soon finds herself at the center of a shadowy and far-reaching conspiracy, and on the run from government agents, bicycle-powered dirigibles and cyborg rat spies.
Phantom Boy France/Belgium 2015, 84 min, Dir: Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol Oct 8 @ 2PM. OCT 9 @ 7PM, OCT 10 @ 4:30PM, OCT 12 @ 9PM
Leo has a secret. A mysterious illness has transformed him into a phantom boy, able to leave the confines of his body and explore the city as a ghostly apparition. While in the hospital, he befriends Alex, a New York City cop injured while attempting to capture a nefarious gangster who has taken control of the city’s power supply, throwing the metropolis into chaos. Now they must form an extraordinary duo, using Leo’s phantom powers and Alex’s detective work to foil the plot and save New York from destruction. Oct 8 – Reel Family Cinema – free admission for kids 12 & under - English dubbed Oct 10 – English dubbed Oct 9/12 – French with subtitles
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september 2016 SCHEDULE sunday
monday
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Love & friendship
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2Pm Taste Of Cherry Abbas Kiarostami Tribute 4Pm Zootopia 7Pm Hunt For The Wilderpeople – Kiwi Kino 9:30Pm Paris Is Burning – Homo-cidal 18+
12:30Pm Zootopia 4Pm Hunt For The Wilderpeople - Kiwi Kino 7Pm Taste Of Cherry – Abbas Kiarostami Tribute tBa
7Pm The Music Of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma And The Silk Road Ensemble – Music Docs 9:30Pm Hunt For The Wilderpeople – Kiwi Kino
1:30Pm April and the Extraordinary World – French Animation 4Pm Certified Copy – Abbas Kiarostami Tribute tBa 9:30Pm Tickled – Kiwi Kino
18 1Pm Love & Friendship - Afternoon Tea 3:45Pm The Witness tBa - Edmonton Movie Club 9:30Pm The Wailing
25 dreamspeakers film festival
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7Pm Hunt For The Wilderpeople – Kiwi Kino tBa 11:30Pm The Room
2Pm Whale Rider – Reel Family Cinema / Kiwi Kino tBa - Iranian Film Series tBa 9:30Pm Hunt For The Wilderpeople – Kiwi Kino
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12 7Pm Certified Copy - Abbas Kiarostami Tribute 9:15Pm April and the Extraordinary World – French Animation
19 7Pm My Neighbor Totoro 9Pm The Witness
26 dreamspeakers film festival 7Pm tBa - Reel Learning 9:30Pm Heavy Metal – Sci-Fi Cinema
7 7Pm FAVA Video Kitchen 9Pm FAVA Main Course
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7Pm Catching the Sun – Greenpeace 9:30Pm What We Do In The Shadows – Kiwi Kino
7Pm Blue Revue 18+ 9:30Pm Tickled - Kiwi Kino
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6:45Pm Superman – The Movie (1978) – CJSR FunDrive 9:30Pm The Wailing
27 dreamspeakers film festival 7Pm Design Disruptors 9:30Pm Heavy Metal – Sci-Fi Cinema
tBa 9:30Pm The Witness
28 dreamspeakers film festival 7Pm Angry Inuk Premiere – Dreamspeakers / Reconciliation In Focus / NFB
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7Pm April and the Extraordinary World – French Animation 9:30Pm TBA – DEDfest 18+
2Pm Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) - Reel Family Cinema tBa 7Pm Grease QuoteA-Long 9:30Pm Tickled – Kiwi Kino
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15 7Pm tBa - Northwestfest
22 6:30Pm Perfume: The Story of a Murderer – U of A Film Studies 9:30Pm Twilight - Turkey Shoot 18+
29 7Pm Pecha Kucha
7Pm The Witness 9Pm The Wailing
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10am Saturday Morning AllYou-Can-Eat Cereal Cartoon Party! 2Pm My Neighbor Totoro – Reel Family Cinema 3:45Pm The Witness 6Pm Metro Gallery Launch 7Pm Eva Hesse – Art Docs 9:30Pm April and the Extraordinary World – French Animation
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30 7Pm The Innocents tBa
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1 2PM Kubo & the Two Strings - Reel Family Cinema TBA - Iranian Film Series 7PM Reel Rock Film Fest TBA Love – Hungarian Film Festival
Castle in the Sky
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1:30PM The Innocents 4PM FAVA Gotta Minute Film Fest Awards TBA TBA
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12:15PM Little Men 2PM Gun Runners 4:30PM Private Event 7PM Phantom Boy – French Animation 9PM Multiple Maniacs
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1PM The Godfather 4:30PM Phantom Boy – French Animation 7PM Gorgo – Staff Pics 9PM Little Men
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1PM A Room With A View - Afternoon Tea 3:30PM Castle in the Sky TBA - Edmonton Movie Club 9:30PM Multiple Maniacs
23 30 2PM Angry Inuk 4PM Love – Hungarian Film Festival 7PM Angry Inuk 9PM Ringu
7PM Little Men 9PM Gun Runners
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7PM House On Haunted Hill (1959) – 3rd Annual Halloween Mash 9PM The Tingler (1959) – 3rd Annual Halloween Mash HALLOWEEN
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7PM The Innocents TBA
7PM Metro Shorts 9:30PM The Innocents
7PM Gun Runners 9:30PM Little Men 11:30PM The Room
2PM Phantom Boy – Reel Family Cinema / French Animation TBA 7PM Little Men 9PM Gun Runners
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7PM Gun Runners 9PM Phantom Boy - French Animation
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25 7PM Angi Vera – Hungarian Film Festival 9:30PM Ringu
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6:30PM Contagion - Science In Cinema 9:30PM Little Men
20 DEDfest Film Festival
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6PM Shrill 8PM Canadaland
7PM Whooping Cough – Hungarian Film Festival 9:30PM Suspiria
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7PM AC/DC: Let There Be Rock - Music Docs TBA
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26 TBA 9:30PM Lovefilm – Hungarian Film Festival
7PM Skier’s Sportshop Film Festival
21 DEDfest Film Festival
27 7PM Angry Inuk 9:30PM Suspiria
DEDfest Film Festival
28 6:30PM The Lover of the Soil – Hungarian Film Festival 9:30PM The Rocky Horror Picture Show
15 2PM Castle in the Sky – Reel Family Cinema TBA 7PM Skier’s Sportshop Film Festival
22 DEDfest Film Festival 11:59PM The Rocky Horror Picture Show
29 2PM Young Frankenstein – Reel Family Cinema 4:15PM Angry Inuk 7PM Quote-A-Long Ghostbusters 9:30PM Angry Inuk
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Quote-A-Longs
Turkey Shoot! Metro Cinema’s celebration of aesthetically challenged films. A live show hosted by Dave Clarke (with special sarcastic guests). 18+ licensed, no minors.
Ghostbusters Quote-A-Long USA 1984, 105 min, Dir: Ivan Reitman OCT 29 @ 7PM
Grease Quote-A-Long USA 1978, 110 min, Dir: Randal Kleiser SEPT 10 @ 7PM
I got chills…they’re multiplyin! Metro presents a quote-a-long Grease! Capture the innocence and fun of this beloved musical, join in your favourite tunes, and share in the zingers, the zowies and even the dance moves. Spiked punch in the lobby is strictly optional.
If, by now, you don’t know who you gonna call, we can’t help you. Spectre-destroyers Murray, Aykroyd, Ramis and the vastly under-appreciated Hudson collectively defined everything we enjoy in ‘80s cinema, unleashing a supernatural adventure that busts funny bones as well as ghosts. But we CAN offer you an evening shouting your favourite lines from the film, and marshmallow treats to follow. Proton packs are available in the lobby, but don’t cross the streams!
Afternoon Tea Do you like your accents plummy and your passions refined? Afternoon Tea presents an array of costume dramas past and present, along with delectables from Whimsical Cakes, a selection of fine teas and stirring conversation. Host David Cheoros will be At Home to all visitors.
Twilight USA 2008, 122 min, Dir: Catherine Hardwicke SEPT 22 @ 9:30PM
Turkey Shoot has been Metro’s monthly celebration of aesthetically challenged films since killer bee classic THE SWARM in 2007, but it’s time for a break. Thanks to Metro, our audiences, and sorry to the projectionists. We’ll be back with one-off presentations, keep an eye out! What better end than TWILIGHT? Virginal lovelies have had the hots for movie bad boys forever. But vampires are misunderstood. They don’t burn in the sun, they glitter. Bella (Kirsten Stewart) meets gaunt hottie Edward (Robert Pattinson) and he wants to chomp her neck. Yay, abstinence! Live commentary from Dave Clarke, James Hamilton and Cat Walsh, trivia & prizes!
Sci-Fi Cinema
Love & Friendship Ireland/Netherland/France/UK/USA 2016, 92 min, Dir: Walt Stillman SEPT 18 @ 1PM
David admits that (sorry) he doesn’t always like Jane Austen adaptations. But, as A.O. Scott said in the N.Y. Times: “Love & Friendship is a reminder that Austen was not only a brilliant architect of screen-friendly plots but also a very funny writer. Mr. Stillman’s script accordingly abounds in rapid-fire sallies of verbal wit that require and reward maximum alertness … The lavish costumes and lovely real estate — requirements of the genre — are offset by a fizzy, giddy mood of spirited preposterousness.” 14
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A Room with a View UK 1985, 117 min, Dir: James Ivory OCT 16 @ 1PM
This is Merchant/Ivory at their most passionate, and Forster balancing social commentary and romance beautifully. Ill-advised proposals, Italian scenery and Helena Bonham Carter. Maggie Smith at her most delightfully condescending. Julian Sands at his most scrumptiously bad-boy. If it feels like you’ve seen this a thousand times, it’s because A Room with a View did it so well that it became the gold standard for period dramas.
Heavy Metal Canada 1981, 86 min, Dir: Gerald Potterton SEPT 26 @ 9:30PM, SEPT 27 @ 9:30PM
A sweeping story of the battle of good against evil is told through an anthology of short animated films about a glowing green orb (the Loc-Nar) that is the personification of ultimate evil in the universe. Based loosely on the American magazine “Heavy Metal,” and the French magazine “Métal Hurlant”.
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Metro Shorts
Metro Shorts Hosted by Mostly Water Theatre Canada 2015, Dir: Various OCT 6 @ 7PM
Metro Shorts is a quarterly adjudicated short film event, hosted by Mostly Water Theatre and produced by Metro. Metro Shorts gives local filmmakers an opportunity to screen their work in front of a live audience, get priceless insights from industry professionals, and network with likeminded artists. Filmmakers whose films are selected for inclusion receive a $50 screening fee, with an additional $100 cash prize given to the winner of each event. A grand prize is presented at the end of the season. The winner is decided by accumulating points per event.
Staff Pics Have you ever wondered what your favourite cinema’s fine staff watches 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! Allan is officially titled Facilities Manager, but he’s a man of many jobs around the Metro. “My father took me to my first drivein movie in the late sixties. The main feature was “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” but they ran the trailer for “Gorgo” before it played. It would be many years until it finally played on TV and I was not disappointed. Gorgo was AWESOME! This is one of the finest examples of the “guy in a monster suit” genre and I urge you to take this rare opportunity to see it on the big screen.”
Gorgo UK 1961, 78 min, Dir: Eugene Lourie Staff Pics: Allan OCT 10 @ 7PM
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer Germany/France/Spain/USA 2006, 147 min, Dir: Tom Tykwer SEPT 22 @ 6:30PM
Jean-Baptiste Grenouille came into the world unwanted, expected to die, yet born with an unnerving sense of smell that created alienation as well as talent. Of all the smells around him, Grenouille is beckoned to the scent of a woman’s soul, and spends the rest of his life attempting to smell her essence again by becoming a perfumer, and creating the essence of an innocence lost. This screening is co-presented with the U of A, and will be hosted by Professor Jaimie Baron of the Film Studies department. It is held in association with the visit of UCLA Professor Emerita Vivian Sobchack, who will be lecturing about Perfume on Monday, Sept 26th at 3pm at the U of A Humanities Lecture Theatre 3.
Mysterious shipwrecks off the Irish coast lead to the discovery of a gigantic aquatic reptile. The creature is eventually captured and put on display in a London circus. Scientists study the monster and realize it is only a juvenile of the species, and the Mother is still out there somewhere.
Science in the Cinema Presented by the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta, Science in the Cinema aims to illuminate the science in popular cinema and provide a venue for the public to learn about current research happening in Alberta. Each screening includes a discussion with an Alberta researcher in a related field.
Contagion USA/United Arab Emirates 2011, 106 min, Dir: Steven Soderbergh OCT 13 @ 6:30PM 16
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Soon after her return from a business trip to Hong Kong, Beth Emhoff dies from what appears to be the flu. Her young son dies later the same day. Her husband Mitch, however, seems immune. Thus begins the spread of a deadly infection. For doctors and administrators at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, several days pass before anyone realizes the extent or gravity of this new infection. They must first identify the type of virus in question and then find a means of combating it, a process that will likely take several months. As the contagion spreads to millions of people worldwide, societal order begins to break down as people panic. Free Admission and small popcorn
Zootopia USA 2016, 108 min, Dir: Byron Howard, Rich Moore SEPT 4 @ 4PM, SEPT 5 @ 12:30PM
From the largest elephant to the smallest shrew, the city of Zootopia is a mammal metropolis where various animals live and thrive. When Judy Hopps becomes the first rabbit to join the police force, she quickly learns how tough it is to enforce the law. Determined to prove herself, Judy jumps at the opportunity to solve a mysterious case. Unfortunately, that means working with Nick Wilde, a wily fox who makes her job even harder.
The Godfather USA 1972, 175 min, Dir: Francis Ford Coppola OCT 10 @ 1PM
This Thanksgiving, Spend The Holidays With “The Family”. When the aging head of a famous crime family decides to transfer his position to one of his subalterns, a series of unfortunate events start happening to the family, and a war begins between all the well-known families leading to insolence, deportation, murder and revenge, and ends with the favourable successor being finally chosen.
Multiple Maniacs USA 1970, 96 min, Dir: John Waters OCT 9 @ 9PM, OCT 16 @ 9:30PM
John Waters’ gloriously grotesque, unavailablefor-decades second feature comes to theatres at long last, replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema’s most memorably blasphemous moments. Made on a shoestring budget in Baltimore, this gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of its era features the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling show put on by a troupe of misfits whose shocking proclivities are topped only by those of their leader: the glammer-than-glam, larger-than-life Divine, who’s out for blood after discovering her lover’s affair.
Suspiria Italy 1977, 98 min, Dir: Dario Argento Italian/ Russian/ English/ German/ Latin with subtitles OCT 24 @ 9:30PM, OCT 27 @ 9:30PM One stormy night, the American dancer Suzy Bannion arrives in Freiburg coming from New
York to join a famous and expensive ballet school for a three years training. On the next morning, she is informed by the direction of the school that a student she met leaving the place on the previous night was violently murdered and the police is investigating the crime. She becomes friend of another student, Sara, and she realizes that the house is indeed a coven of evil witches.
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Video Kitchen Ringu Japan 1998, 96 min, Dir: Hideo Nakata Japanese with subtitles OCT 25 @ 9:30PM, OCT 30 @ 9PM
Reiko Asakawa is a young journalist with a divorced husband, Ryuji, and a son, Yoichi. Upon learning that her niece and three friends died at the same time, after watching a disturbing videotape that is said to kill you seven days after watching it, Reiko comes into the possession of that same tape. Now, as time grows short, Reiko and Ryuji race to save their lives from impending doom and discover what the tape has to do with a tragedy-stricken volcanic island and a very strange little girl named Sadako.
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The Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta (FAVA) is proud to present new works from their introductory digital film course, Video Kitchen. Our students have been hard at work cooking up a fresh batch of short films and are ready to serve them up to an audience hungry for some piping hot, homemade media art. With a healthy mix of theory and practice, Video Kitchen offers aspiring film and video artists the opportunity to gain new skills and develop their own personal vision within a supportive and collaborative environment. The class culminates with each student shooting and editing their own short film. Admission by donation metrocinema.org
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Catching the Sun Main Course SEPT 7 @ 9PM
FAVA is thrilled to be premiering these brand new, local short films showcasing the work of their intermediate filmmaking class. These emerging filmmakers bring their newly acquired skills to their own short film through all stages of development and shoot on cameras like the SR3, Arri III, or EPIC. Students learn budgeting, scheduling, advanced camera and production technique, advanced post-production workflow including sound mix and colour correction. The class culminates at Metro where the audience gets a chance to dip into a diverse range of content and style. Admission by donation
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Gotta Minute Film Festival Awards Celebration OCT 2 @ 4PM
For one week in September, One Minute Silent Short Films light up platform screens throughout the Edmonton Transit LRT system, bringing media art to Edmontonians on the go! Running from September 26th - October 2nd, this program of public art includes dramatic, documentary, animated, and experimental work. Join us as we reveal the winning films selected by our jury, and present the filmmakers with cash prizes and awards! Proudly presented by PATTISON Onestop, and the Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta (FAVA).
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China/Germany/India/USA 2015, 75 min, Dir: Shalini Kantayya SEPT 13 @ 7PM
An unemployed American worker, a Tea Party activist, and a Chinese solar entrepreneur race to lead a renewable energy future. Through the stories of workers and entrepreneurs in the U.S. and China, Catching the Sun (presented by Greenpeace and Metro Cinema) captures the global race to lead the clean energy future and addresses one of the biggest questions of our time. With Alberta considering its own renewable moves the timing of this documentary couldn’t be better. It’s a must see!
Metro Gallery Launch On September 17, Metro Cinema celebrates the start of our 40th season, and the opening of our new Metro Gallery visual art and performance space, with a day of extraordinary programming. Everyone is welcome at the grand launch of the Metro Gallery at 6pm, followed by the premiere of our new Art Docs series at 7pm
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Blue Revue SEPT 14 @ 7PM
Vue Weekly presents the seventh-annual Blue Revue: Dirty Film Festival
Back for a seventh roll in the cinematic hay, the Blue Revue: Dirty Film Festival is a safe, sex-positive place to celebrate our naughty sides. It features fun and sexy DIY porn submitted from Edmonton and across Canada, which gets screened for and voted on by an adoring audience. Fanciful monetary prizes await the top three films, but adulation awaits every filmmaker who enters! Previous years’ have seen x-rated puppets, poetry, a canoe-based romp, windmilling dinks, and one very confident garden gnome. Plus: performances by River City Revue Burlesque and friends! If that doesn’t sound like an incredible night out, your life must be very exciting. 18+ Licenced, No Minors For more info:www.bluerevue.ca Sorry, no Metro passes
Saturday Morning All-YouCan-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party Various, Curator: Kier-La Janisse SEPT 17 @ 10AM
It’s the return of the Saturday Morning All-YouCan-Eat Cereal Cartoon Party, curated by film programmer, writer and pop culture connoisseur Kier-La Janisse! It’s that special time when kids and kids-at-heart get to relive the exciting Saturday Morning ritual of non-stop retro cartoons, and binge on the multi-colored sugary cereals that used to be a part of every “balanced” breakfast! The cartoon lineup is always a mystery, but you’ll see both faves and obscurities spanning the 40s through the 80s, all punctuated with vintage commercials and PSAs! Adult: $14, Student/Senior: $12, Child 12 & Under: $10 Admission includes cereal Metro passes: only Silver Screen passes accepted
Art Docs is a bimonthly series of documentaries about modern and contemporary art. Featuring guest speakers, short art history talks, and Q&As with filmmakers, curators, and artists. Presented and curated by Dr. Kristen Hutchinson.
Eva Hesse USA/Germany, 108 minutes Dir: Marcie Begleiter SEPT 17 @ 7PM
A superstar in the art world, but little known outside, why does Eva Hesse continue to excite passions? Along with creating a significant and deeply influential body of work during her short life, her story overlaps some of 20th century’s most intriguing moments: Germany in the 1930’s, New York’s Jewish culture of immigration in the 1940’s and the art scene in Manhattan and Germany in the 1960’s. Hesse, one of the most important 20th century artists, is finally revealed in this character-driven film that is an emotionally gripping and inspiring journey of an artist of uncommon talent, and a woman of extraordinary courage. metrocinema.org
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CJSR FunDrive
Superman – The Movie USA 1978, 143 min, Dir: Richard Donner SEPT 20 @ 6:45PM
Same old story: boy is born on the distant planet of Krypton, boy is sent to Earth to spare him from his home planet’s imminent demise, boy meets girl, boy passes as mild-mannered reporter while saving his adopted planet from a similar fate to Krypton. Christopher Reeve heads a stellar cast including Marlon Brando, Margot Kidder and Gene Hackman. Director Richard Donner and his team breathed new life into an old comic book, rejuvenating the big budget superhero movie subgenre with intelligence and wit. CJSR’s annual FunDrive takes flight with this Alberta-filmed classic. Admission for the preFunDrive screening is by donation (recommended $10). Superpower Your Radio is the theme of this year’s drive, running Sept 21-Oct 1. Catch a super flick and support CJSR in a single bound!
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Design Disruptors USA 2016, 75 min, Dir: Matt D’Avella SEPT 27 @ 7PM
The future of business is being written by companies and products that—intentionally or not— shake billion dollar industries. In Design Disruptors, enter the world of 15+ industry-toppling companies—valued at more than $1 trillion dollars combined—with one unifying secret advantage: the transformative power of design. Design Disruptors reveals a never-before-seen perspective on the design approaches of these companies and how they are overtaking billion dollar industries through design. Tickets at eventbrite.com Metro passes: only Silver Screen passes
Dreamspeakers International Indigenous Film Festival
Reel Rock
A New Reel SEPT 23 – 28
Join Dreamspeakers at Metro Cinema in celebrating Indigenous film as we look anew at our purpose, progress and media revival, relevance and resonance! Feel free to signup online for Artistic Workshops, Community Dialogues and/or Panel Discussions. Enter to win an All Access Pass to this year’s festivities by filling out the Dreamspeakers online survey contest today. Please visit Dreamspeakers.org for more information. All screenings are $12. All Access Festival Pass is $75. Thurs. Sept.28 @ 7PM – Dreamspeakers, NFB & Reconciliation In Focus Present the Edmonton Premiere of Angry Inuk – see Page 6
Reel Rock Film Festival OCT 1 @ 7PM
Founded in 2006 by filmmakers Josh Lowell (Big UP Productions) and Peter Mortimer (Sender Films), the REEL ROCK Film Tour brings the best climbing and adventure films of the year to live audiences throughout the world. The film tour is the definitive annual event for climbing communities globally. The Edmonton climbing community has been supporting the REEL ROCK film tour here in Alberta since 2010 Tickets: $20, available in advance from Track and Trail on Whyte Avenue
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Pecha Kucha 26 Live Event SEPT 29 @ 6:30PM
Edmonton’s NextGen is excited to present Pecha Kucha Night 26! Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the sound of “chit-chat”, Pecha Kucha Night was devised in Tokyo as a venue for young designers to meet, network, exchange ideas, and discuss their work in public. It rests on a presentation format that is based on a simple idea: 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds, for a total presentation length of six minutes and 40 seconds. Why this format? It keeps presentations concise, fast-paced, and entertaining No Metro passes
Skier’s Sportshop Film Festival OCT 14 @ 7PM, OCT 15 @ 7PM
The annual Skier’s Sportshop Film Fest showcases some of the newest productions in the ski industry. As the boundaries of the sport are continually being pushed, these movies highlight the latest talent and get us all stoked for the winter. Each screening is $20. Tickets available at Skier’s Sportshop (8605-109th St.)
REEL Learning Catch an interesting flick, and then dig a bit deeper into related current events and research with an industry expert and faculty member. This four-part series—which will feature films about everything from fine art to Fosse—is a partnership between MacEwan University and Metro Cinema.
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Litfest
DEDfest Film Festival
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Shrill Live Event, 75 min OCT 17, 6PM
LitFest welcomes Lindy West to the stage to discuss her first book, Shrill, a memoir that examines what it means to be a loud and unapologetically funny woman in a world that expects girls to shrink and shut up. A regular contributor to This American Life, New York Times, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Vulture, Jezebel, and The Stranger, West has made a name for herself with hilarious and honest writing about feminism, online bullying, fat-acceptance, and social justice. Tickets $12 advance at litfestalberta.org.
Canadaland Live Event, 85 min OCT 17 @ 8PM
Nonfiction is everywhere, and it touches us every day through the media. LitFest is proud to present Canadaland, the nation’s only independent, crowd-funded news and media criticism organization. Live from Metro Cinema, Candaland’s notorious host and founder Jesse Brown will be joined by a panel of local media for a live taping of a Canadaland podcast episode, followed by an audience Q&A. Tickets $12 advance at litfestalberta.org.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show DEDfest Film Festival Oct 18 – 23
Celebrating their 9th year, DEDfest 2016 promises to pack one hell of punch with this year’s best alternative and genre bending flicks from all over the world. Over 6 days, a mix of horror, comedy, action, and sci-fi will fill Metro Cinema as DEDfest brings the movies to town that no one else will. Join us for a celebration of the twisted and outrageous world of films that deserve to seen with a loving movie crowd! All DEDfest events 18+ licensed, no minors. Metro passes: Silver Screen passes only For full schedule details and to buy festival passes visit: dedfest.com.
USA 1975, 100 min, Dir: Jim Sharman OCT 22 @ MIDNIGHT, OCT 28 @ 9:30PM
Let’s do the Time Warp again! The all-time weird and wonderful Midnight Movie cult favourite returns. The adventure begins where it always does, as newly engaged Brad and Janet encounter car trouble in rainy weather. When they stop to look for help, they find themselves at the castle of the charming transvestite, Dr. Frank-NFurter. They’re offered shelter for the night, but will they want to stay? Edmonton’s Shadow Cast will lead the audience in this classic musical tribute to B movie sci-fi horror cinema. Audience participation is encouraged. Dress up, bring props, and sing along! Tickets $14. Metro Passes: Silver Screen passes only
3rd Annual Metro Halloween Mash
House on Haunted Hill USA 1959, 75 min, Dir: William Castle OCT 31 @ 7PM
The Tingler USA 1959, 82 min, Dir: William Castle OCT 31 @ 9PM
This Halloween Metro Mash doubles down on the thrills with a terrifying double feature of Vincent Price and William Castle. The night starts out with our annual tradition of House on Haunted Hill, a bloodcurdling supernatural murder mystery with an appearance by a very special guest. Next up we have The Tingler wherein a scientist discovers a mysterious parasite that feasts on fear and lives in every human’s spine. In honour of Mr. William Castle’s films and the spirit of spookshows both films will be presented as they were meant to be seen in Emergo and Percepto! Please join us for an uncanny evening of spine-chilling scares.
HUNGARY 1956-2016 CULTURAL FESTIVAL FILMS OCT 24 – 30 - All Films Free Admission!
The Hungary 1956-2016 Cultural Festival commemorates the 60th anniversary of the Hungarian revolution and celebrates Hungarian traditional and contemporary culture and the contributions of Hungarian-Canadians to our local communities. The Festival is proud to partner with Metro Cinema in presenting this selection of Hungarian films to Edmontonians. The Festival is sponsored by the Hungarian Embassy in Ottawa, Canadian Hungarian Heritage Council, Hungarian Ministry of Human Resources, Bethlen Gabor Foundation, and Canadian Hungarian Cultural Society of Edmonton.
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Whooping Cough (Szamárköhögés) The Lover of the Soil Hungary 1987, 90 min, Dir: Peter Gardos (A Fold szeretoje) Hungarian w/ subtitles OCT 24 @ 7PM
Angi Vera Hungary 1979, 96 min, Dir: Pal Gabor Hungarian w/ subtitles OCT 25 @ 7PM
Lovefilm (Szerelmesfilm) Hungary 1970, 123 min, Dir: Istvan Szabo Hungarian w/ subtitles OCT 26 @ 9:30PM
Hungary 2010, 100 min, Dir: Zsolt Pozsgai Hungarian w/ subtitles OCT 28 @ 6:30PM – Director Zsolt Pazgai in Attendance!
Love (Szerelem) Hungary 1971, 88 min, Dir: Karoly Makk Hungarian & German w/ subtitles OCT 30 @ 4PM
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