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SEPTEMBER 28-29, 2013 « AT THE NORTHLANDS PARK The Edmonton Comic & Entertainment Expo is once again bringing the best in pop culture to the City of Champions! Headlining the 2013 show will be Back to the Future’s own Doc Brown - Christopher Lloyd with the DeLorean. Also attending the convention will be Chad Coleman (The Walking Dead), Garrett Wang (Star Trek Voyager), Joe Flanigan (Stargate), John Barrowman (Doctor Who, Arrow), Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite), Robert Englund (Nightmare on Elm Street), Stephen Amell (Arrow) and many artists and creators! There will be over 200 exhibitors and vendors ranging from comic book and collectible retailers, to professional and aspiring artists, writers, and more! The Edmonton Expo offers a variety of workshops and panels for those interested in film, television, comics, video games, sci-fi, horror, and other genre related topics. Tickets are available at Ticket Master and at the door. For more information visit:
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august 2013 SCHEDULE Provincial Archives Pre-show/// This month, the Provincial Archives of Alberta (PAA) proudly presents scenes of wrestling and wrestlers from its audiovisual collections. Our clips include extracts from “Super Stars of Wrestling” (an early Canadian WWF), “Wrestling at Ringside” (an Edmonton version of Stampede Wrestling), and home movies of families spontaneously wrestling each other (which is more common than you’d think). For more information about these clips or the PAA, please contact us at paa@gov.ab.ca or (780) 427-1750. Enjoy the show!
Blancanieves Spain/ France/ Belgium 2012, 104 min, Digital, Dir: Pablo Berger 2, 4, 8 @ 7PM, 3 @ 4:15PM, 3, 5 @ 9:15PM, 4 @ 2PM
A wildly imaginative re-invention of the Brother’s Grimm fairy tale, Blancanieves brings Snow White to life silent movie style in gorgeous monochrome. Antonio, a famous matador, is gored by a bull, loses his wife during childbirth. Now crippled and a widower, he marries his wicked nurse, who confines him to an upstairs room and treats his daughter, Blancanieves, like a lowly servant. Eventually Blancanieves escapes and joins up with a clan of dwarfs. When they discover her talent as a bullfighter she becomes a sensation, but her stepmother quickly starts plotting to bring her down... a visually dazzling, unique film experience, turbo-charging the language of silent film with thrilling music and dance sequences and effortlessly shifting in tone from comedic to tragic, knowingly campy to genuinely frightening. (VIFF)
The Room USA 2003, 99 min, 35mm, Dir: Tommy Wiseau 2 @ 11:30PM
Oh hi Johnny, I didn’t know it was you. Join us for our popular monthly screening of Tommy Wiseau’s masterpiece, The Room, widely agreed to be the “Citizen Kane of bad movies”. You’re my favourite customer! Thanks a lot! Bye. Audience Participation is Encouraged. Please Respect the Theatre and Fellow Patrons.
Triple Feature Mon. Aug 5
Experience the evolution of a relationship that spans almost two decades by attending the first two films, Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, along with director Richard Linklaters’ latest, Before Midnight. A truly unique trilogy in film history. All 3 films: Adults, $20 Students/Seniors: $15. Single or 2 films: regular admission
Before Sunrise USA/ Austria/ Switzerland 1995, 105 min, Digital, Dir: Richard Linklater 5 @ 3:30PM
Where it all started. Gen-Xer Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and French beauty (Julie Delpy) meet on the Eurail and he convinces her to join him in exploring Vienna and their mutual attraction before he heads back to the States in the morning. The two exchange life experiences and philosophies in the typical Linklater conversational fashion ... Cinematographer Daniel captures the Old World with finesse, especially in the inevitable “first kiss” atop the Ferris wheel made famous in Orson Welles’ The Third Man . (Videohound)
The Big Lebowski USA 1998, 117 min, Digital, Dir: Joel Coen 4 @ 9:30PM
Metro Cinema’s first screening at the Garneau theatre returns for what has now become an annual celebration featuring our ever - popular Lebowski drink specials! When “The Dude” Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, he seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies Walter Sobchak (John Goodman) and Donny (Steve Buscemi) to help get it. This case of mistaken identity gets complicated by extortion, double-crosses, deception, embezzlement, sex, pot, and gallons of White Russians, and it soon seems that everyone from porn empire tycoons to nihilists want something from The Dude. “The Dude abides. I don’t know about you but we still take comfort in that.” Drinks start at 9PM, Film at 9:30PM
Before Sunset USA 2004, 80 min, Digital, Dir: Richard Linklater 5 @ 5:30 PM
The sequel reunites Jesse (Hawke) and Celine (Delphy) nine years after their Viennese fling, on the sidewalks of Paris. He’s a writer promoting his book about their brief affair. She, a Parisian, shows up at his book signing. The two have only a few hours to catch up before Jesse has to fly back to America. In real time, they walk through Paris together, just talking. But what talking! They start off awkwardly polite and impersonal, but as the minutes slip away their questions and responses take on more urgency. Hawke and Delpy co-wrote the screenplay (with Hawke using his real-life divorce as inspiration) and there’s genuine chemistry between them.
Before Midnight USA 2013, 109 min, Digital, Dir: Richard Linklater 2, 8 @ 9:15PM, 3 @ 2PM, 3, 5 @ 7PM, 4 @ 4:15PM, 11 @ 12:30PM
Nearly twenty years after they first won audiences’ hearts during their night in Vienna in Before Sunrise and ten after their beautifully bittersweet Parisian reunion in Before Sunset, Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Céline (Julie Delpy) return to the screen in the closing chapter of Linklater’s Before... trilogy. Now in their early forties and finally living together in Paris, Jesse and Céline have become parents to twin girls and have decisively passed from youthful infatuation to enervated middle-aged couplehood. Catching them at the tail end of a Greek vacation, Before Midnight patiently observes as the duo struggle to maintain the dying embers of romance in the face of everyday problems, the demands of parenting, and a painful store of built-up anger and resentment against each other. (TIFF)
Charles Bradley: Soul of America
Blackfish USA 2013, 83 min, Digital, Dir: Gabriela Cowperthwaite 9, 15, 19 @ 7PM, 10 @ 4PM, 10 @ 9PM, 11 @ 2:30PM, 13 @ 9:15PM, 17 @ 2PM
USA 2012, 75 min, Digital, Dir: Poull Brien 5 @ 1:30PM, 7 @ 9:30PM
Back by popular demand! For decades he’s been Black Velvet, a soul singer scraping by in Brooklyn’s projects with small club gigs in the evenings and odd jobs by day. But 62-year-old Charles Bradley has an impossible dream: he wants to make it in the music industry as …himself… When Bradley is noticed by the soul maestros at Daptone Records, it seems as though he just might have a chance. With lyrics that draw directly from the anguish and hardship of his life, his electrifying performances transform pain and sorrow into an experience of sublime transcendence. (Gisèle Gordon, Hot Docs)
Music Docs/// A monthly film series featuring music documentaries, from classic to contemporary. Curated by Tim Rechner, and co-presented with CJSR and Blackbyrd Myoozik.
Woodstock (The Director’s Cut) USA 1994, 225 min, Digital, Dir: Michael Wadleigh 6 @ 7PM
Woodstock (the film) is an intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of National Guard helicopters with food and medical assistance for the impromptu city of 500,000. (Dan Hartung) The director’s cut adds over 40 minutes of new material, including performances by Canned Heat, Jefferson Airplane and Janis Joplin that were omitted from the original release. Jimi Hendrix’s set at the end of the film is also extended with two additional numbers. Some of the crowd scenes in the original film are replaced by previously unseen footage. Special live music performance by Young Diana. Music at 6:30PM, Film @ 7PM
Sharkwater Canada 2006, 89 min, Digital, Dir: Rob Stewart 7 @ 7PM
For filmmaker Rob Stewart, exploring sharks began as an underwater adventure, but became a beautiful and dangerous journey into the balance of life on earth. Driven by passion fed from a life-long fascination with sharks, Stewart debunks historical stereotypes and media depictions of sharks as bloodthirsty, man-eating monsters and reveals the reality of sharks as pillars in the evolution of the seas. Filmed in visually stunning, high def video, Sharkwater explores the world’s richest shark habitats, exposing the exploitation and corruption surrounding the world’s shark populations in the marine reserves of Cocos Island, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Proceeds to Fin Free Edmonton. For info: facebook.com/FinFreeEdmonton
Reel Family Cinema/// Saturday matinees for the whole family! Curated by Erin Fraser and Laura O’Connor.
Blackfish tells the story of Tilikum, a performing killer whale that killed several people while in captivity. Along the way, director-producer Gabriela Cowperthwaite compiles shocking footage and emotional interviews to explore the creature’s extraordinary nature, the species’ cruel treatment in captivity, the lives and losses of the trainers and the pressures brought to bear by the mulit-billion dollar sea-park industry. This emotionally wrenching, tautly structured story challenges us to consider our relationship to nature and reveals how little we humans have learned from these highly intelligent and enormously sentient fellow mammals.
Computer Chess USA 2013, 92 min, Digital, Dir: Andrew Bujalski 9, 15, 19 @ 9PM, 10 @ 7PM, 11 @ 4:15PM, 11 @ 9:15PM
Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, Computer Chess transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human sp–irit seemed a little more up for grabs. We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed of the vision to teach a metal box to defeat man, literally, at his own game, laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence as we know it and will come to know it in the future.
Edmonton Movie Club/// A Boy Named Charlie Brown USA 1969, 86 min, Digital, Dir: Bill Melendez 10 @ 2PM
Join Reel Family Cinema for The Peanuts’ Gang first movie! Fed up with his baseball and kite flying fiascoes. A Boy Named Charlie Brown follows Charlie (voiced by Peter Robbins) on his quest to find his talent. After winning the class and then the school spelling bees, the gang rallies around Charlie encouraging him to enter the National televised competition in New York. Now that the pressure is on, will Charlie compete or choke? Good Grief! Free Admission for Children 12 and under!
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Kevi Rite Jaish India 2013, 128 min, Digital, Dir: Abhishek Jain, Guarati w sub-titles 11 @ 6:15PM
A satire on the fascination and obsession of the Patels - a Gujarati farmer community – of migrating to the USA. Over the last half a century millions of Patels have migrated to the USA and have come to dominate its motel industry by dint of hard-work and persistence. The story revolves around one such Patel family and its uncounted tries to immigrate to the USA.
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Crime Watch/// A new monthly series that explores the diverse range of approaches within the crime genre. Curated by Laura O’Connor.
A Fish Called Wanda USA 1988, 108 min, Digital, Dir: Charles Crichton 12 @ 7PM
The perfect heist becomes bloody brilliant farce when the equally beautiful and ambitious con artist Wanda (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her secret lover Otto (Kevin Kline) decide to double-cross their partners; Wanda’s lover George (Tom Georgeson) and Ken (Michael Palin) by ratting George out to the cops. When they realize that George has betrayed them first by moving the loot before he was arrested. Wanda sets out to seduce his Barrister Archie (John Cleese) to find the new hiding spot. Meanwhile Ken is tasked with “taking care” of the prosecutions only eyewitness. A sweet older lady who spotted George on one of her many dog walks. Netting Kevin Kline an Oscar for best supporting actor, join Crime Watch for this delicious comic caper.
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From Russia with Love UK 1963, 115 min, Digital, Dir: Terence Young 12 @ 9:15PM
James Bond (Sean Connery) is sent to Istanbul to scoop up a beautiful Russian defector... Her attack on Bond with a pair of killer heels is an iconic piece of villainy, but a gadget-free fight on the Orient Express is as spectacularly choreographed and genuinely brutal as any in cinema. These are just two of the many excellent set-pieces that enliven the otherwise leisurely pace of what is arguably the best film of the series. Chosen to follow Dr No partly because newly-installed JFK had named Ian Fleming’s book as one of his top ten reads, From Russia with Love would set the tone for successive films. It remains Connery’s favourite Bond and still looks fresh as a daisy to this day. (Time Out) Presented by the Fringe Theatre Festival
Something in the Air (Après mai) France 2012, 122 min, Digital, Dir: Olivier Assayas, French w subtitles 16, 20 @ 9PM, 17 @ 4PM, 18, 21 @ 7PM
At the beginning of the 1970s, Gilles, a high school student in Paris, is swept up in the political fever of the time. Yet his real dream is to paint and make films, something that his friends and even his girlfriend cannot understand. For them, politics is everything, the political struggle all consuming. But Gilles gradually becomes more comfortable with his life choices, and learns to feel at ease in this new society. “Smart, sensitive and sophisticated, Something in the Air is a loving yet clear-eyed paean to a time when unprecedented change still seemed to be just around the corner. “ (TIFF)
Metro Bizarro/// A monthly foray into the weird, wild, and wonderful world of fringe cinema. Curated by Maggie Hardy.
double Feature Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould Canada 1993, 98 min, Digital, Dir: François Girard 13 @ 7PM
One of the most imaginative portraits of a classical musician ever created. Screenwriters Don McKellar and Francois Girard capture Gould’s eccentric but brilliant talent through a series of 32 vignettetes of his life. “Gould was born in Toronto and could play and read music before he was 4 years old. Taught only by his mother until he was ten, he was soon giving concerts in Canada and the United States, where Leonard Bernstein was one of his admirers. He became one of the great concert pianists of his time, and then on April 10, 1964, without advance notice he gave his last concert and refused to perform in public ever again. (Roger Ebert) $2 off for AGA members
Wrap up your summer with an old-school, weirdo-horror-chiller double feature! Metro Bizarro offers you something to chill your blood: Carnival of Souls and Freaks. Come one, come all the Circus is only in town for the night. Double Bill: $15, Single film: Regular Admission.
Carnival of Souls USA 1962, 78 min, Digital, Dir: Herk Harvey 14 @ 7PM
Mary Henry (Candace Hilligoss) has just been in a horrific accident, she needs time to recoup and takes a job as a small town church organist. In spite of her sabbatical Mary gets no rest as strange ghouls seem to accost her at every turn and a mysterious carnival pavilion haunts her every thought. An amazing sleeper film turned cult classic, Carnival of Souls is proof you don’t need a big budget to make a great film. Encore Screening: Aug 18 @ 9PM
Freaks USA 1932, 64 min, Digital, Dir: Tod Browning 14 @ 8:45PM
Enter the strange and wonderful world of the sideshow freak and find out what terrors await the uninitiated. Shot with real circus performers, the film shocked and astounded audiences for decades and was even banned in the UK for thirty years; yet still has the power to amuse and horrify. Watch what happens when a “freak” falls in love with a “normal” trapeze artist and tries to accept her into his ranks. Discover who is the real monster when the twisted web of lies and deceit falls apart. Will you be the same after seeing the spectacle that is FREAKS? Encore Screening: Aug 16 @ 11PM
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The Art Gallery of Alberta’s Piano Film Series wraps up this month with the classic Canadian film, Thirty Two Short Films about Glenn Gould. As well, the western series Best of the West saddles up it’s final screenings of The Searchers, The Wild Bunch and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Be sure to catch one of them!
We’re presenting a number of fine documentaries, including Blackfish, a riveting film about the issues surrounding a killer whale in captivity. There will also be a screening of Sharkwater, presented by Fin Free Edmonton. Free the Mind explores the power of meditation through the work of a leading brain scientist and it’s effect on war veterans and children. The acclaimed film Dirty Wars follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill as he journeys into the hidden aspects of America’s covert wars.
The summer has flown by and it’s hard to believe that August is already here! The Fringe Theatre Festival is this month and Accidental Humour returns to the Garneau with their show Happy Whackin’ Jim McCrackin. To celebrate the festival’s James Bond theme, we’ll be screening From Russia with Love and Goldfinger, both with Sean Connery from the 60s. As well, with a serious tone throughout, Turkey Shoot will present Octopussy, with Roger Moore from the 80s.
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Howdy partner! As we reach the end of our journey down this dusty trail of Western greats, we have the three iconic directors whose work in the genre not only defines their filmmaking, but also the genre itself: John Ford, Sergio Leone, and Sam Peckingpah. All three leave their mark on film history with these cowboy pictures; and all three lay bare criticisms of the deeply rooted Western project. So hold on to your horses and enjoy the show!
The Searchers USA 1956, 119 min, Digital, Dir: John Ford 17, 22 @ 7PM, 18 @ 4PM
After his niece is abducted in a Comanche raid, Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards (John Wayne) sets out to find her. Travelling with his one-eighth Indian nephew, Martin (Jeffrey Hunter) Ethan embarks on an odyssey that spans the West. As the search wears on, Ethan’s hatred for the Indians grows, leading Martin to wonder if they are on a mission to reclaim the girl, or kill her. John Ford’s masterpiece remains not just one of the greatest Western ever made, but also one of the greatest films ever made, currently ranking seventh in the iconic Sight & Sound poll. With its majestic scope and conflicted heroes, Ford explores both the ugly and harsh side of the American dream, as well as its beauty and redemption.
70 min, Live Show, Dir: Accidental Humour 16, 23 @ 7PM, 17, 22 @ 9:30PM, 18 @ 2PM, 24 @ 5PM
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Italy/ Spain/ West Germany 1966, 161 min, Digital, Dir: Sergio Leone, Italian w subtitles 31, Sept 4 @ 7PM, Sept 2 @ 3:30PM
After coming upon a horse carriage filled with dead bodies, a nameless gunslinger (Clint Eastwood) and a wanted outlaw learn of a potential fortune hidden in a cemetery from the carnage’s sole survivor before he passes. The men form an uneasy alliance to track down the gold before a bounty hunter (Lee Van Cleef) beats them to it. One of the most beloved Westerns of all time, Sergio Leone made himself and Clint Eastwood a star by bringing a ruthless European sensibility to his favourite American movie myth. With its virtuoso cinematography and iconic score, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly came to both change and define the genre, proving that the Western is so foundational to movie making, that you don’t need to be American or in America to make one of the best.
The Wild Bunch USA 1969, 145 min, Digital, Dir: Sam Peckinpah 24 @ 7PM, 25 @ 4PM, 29 @ 9:30PM
As the heyday of the West is coming to an end, Pike Bishop (William Holden) and his gang prepare for one last big score. When it turns out they’ve been double-crossed, Pike, Dutch Engstrom (Ernest Borgnine) and the rest of the Wild Bunch head south across the Rio Grande to recuperate. There they confront their destiny at the hands of the Federales and at the end of a Browning M1917 machine gun. Peckinpah’s anarchic tour de force is the film that put an end to the classic age of Hollywood westerns. The Wild Bunch showed audiences brutality on a scale never dreamed of in previous eras, and pointed the way forward for later films.
Hitman Jim McCrackin kills people for a living, and he is good at his job, really good. Unfortunately all good things must come to an end… Accidental Humour Co, the creators of, Son of a Dwarf! are back at Metro Cinema for the Fringe Festival. The company brings film and live theatre together like never before. Do not miss what critics call “…a wildly exuberant romp, as sold an hour of light entertainment as you’re likely to find…” Sorry, No Metro passes. For more info: accidentalhumour.com Fringe ticket info: fringetheatreadventures.ca/festival.php
turkey shoot/// A monthly celebration of aesthetically challenged films, hosted live by Dave Clarke and Jeff Page (with special sarcastic guests).
Octopussy USA 1983, 131 min, Digital, Dir: John Glen 21 @ 9PM
Where to begin, Miss Moneypenny? First off, while there is much debate as to who is the best Bond, there is absolutely no question that Roger Moore is not. This epitome of 80s weirdness begins with a murdered agent cradling a Faberge egg and climaxes with Roger Bond dressed as a clown. Secondly, the title offers us all many opportunities for aesthetically challenged jokes. Prizes will be awarded to the creepiest clown make-up.
Berberian Sound Studio UK 2012, 92 min, Digital, Dir: Peter Strickland 23 @ 9PM, 24 @ 9:45PM, 25 @ 7PM, 28 @ 9:30PM
Frances Ha USA 2012, 86 min, Digital, Dir: Noah Baumbach 20, 27 @ 7PM, 24 @ 12:45PM, 25 @ 2PM, 25 @ 9PM
Frances (Greta Gerwig) lives in New York, but she doesn’t really have an apartment. Frances is an apprentice for a dance company, but she’s not really a dancer. Frances has a best friend named Sophie, but they aren’t really speaking anymore. Frances throws herself headlong into her dreams, even as their possible reality dwindles. Frances wants so much more than she has, but lives her life with unaccountable joy and lightness. Critically acclaimed Frances Ha is a modern comic fable in which Noah Baumbach explores New York, friendship, class, ambition, failure, and redemption.
Equal parts paranoid thriller and loving tribute to the disappearing art of analog sound recording, Berberian Sound Studio takes us on a nightmarish voyage behind the scenes of 1970s Italian horror ( giallo ) cinema. Summoned to an Italian studio to record the audio effects for a bloody horror opus, meek British sound engineer Gilderoy (Toby Jones) quickly finds his genteel disposition clashing with that of his alternately boisterous, genial and hostile Italian hosts. As Gilderoy becomes unhealthily submerged in his work, the simulated aural violence (snapping celery stalks standing in for cracking bones, pulverized watermelons for squishing craniums) starts to take on a cruel edge... A Kafkaesque meta-horror tale set in the lost annals of cinematic history, the film plunges us into the blurry meeting point between waking life and nightmares. (TIFF)
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The Sheepdogs Have at It Canada 2013, 85 min, Digital, Dir: John Barnard 30 @ 11PM, Sept 2 @ 1:30PM
Dirty Wars Burlesque Assassins Canada 2012, 96 min, Digital, Dir: Jonathan Joffe 23 @ 11PM, 24 @ 2:30PM
The Burlesque Assassins: they’re beautiful, deadly, and a vital weapon in the war on communism that threatens our freedom! Set in the 1950s, this tale of cold war espionage and intrigue follows Johnny Valentine, Katarina Molotov, and a trio of sexy super-spies as they seduce their way within killing distance of a group of villains hell bent on global domination. Their mission, SEDUCE AND DESTROY!
James Bond Double Feature
USA 2013, 90 min, Digital, Dir: Rick Rowley 30, Sept 1 @ 7PM, 31 @ 4:30PM, Sept 1 @ 1PM (Engagement continues into Sept)
Dirty Wars follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, author of the international bestseller Blackwater, into the hidden world of America’s covert wars, from Afghanistan to Yemen, Somalia, and beyond. What begins as a report on a deadly U.S. night raid in a remote corner of Afghanistan quickly turns into a global investigation of the secretive and powerful Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). As Scahill digs deeper into the activities of JSOC, he is pulled into a world of covert operations unknown to the public and carried out across the globe by men who do not exist on paper and will never appear before Congress. He is forced to confront the painful consequences of a war spinning out of control, as well as his own role as an investigative journalist. Part action film and part detective story, Dirty Wars is a gripping journey into one of the most important and under reported stories of our time.
Goldfinger UK 1964, 110 min, Digital, Dir: Guy Hamilton 26 @ 7PM
Pinewood-produced Goldfinger is the first of four James Bond films Hamilton directed and the third to star Sean Connery as 007. Any kid growing up in the early ’60s will remember this one for several reasons: Birley Shassey’s screamer of a theme; Bond’s shocking use of a beautiful girl as a human shield; bullion-obsessed baddie Auric Goldfinger’s top hat-wielding henchman, Oddjob; Honor Blackman’s risquely monikered Pussy Galore; and, above all, Bond’s stupendous, gadget-infested silver Aston Martin DB5, the car that spurred a thousand Corgi purchases. (Time Out) Encore Screening Sept 1 @ 4:30PM
From Russia with Love 26 @ 9PM
(see description on Aug 12) Double Bill: $15, Single film: Regular Admission.
Free the Mind USA 2012, 80 min, Digital, Dir: Phie Ambo 30 @ 9PM, 31 @ 12:45 PM, Sept 1 @ 2:45PM
In 1992 Professor Richard Davidson, one of the world’s leading neuroscientists, met the Dalai Lama, who encouraged him to apply the same rigorous methods he used to study depression and anxiety to the study of compassion and kindness, those qualities cultivated by Tibetan meditation practice. The results of Davidson’s studies at the Center for Investigating Healthy Minds at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, are portrayed in Free the Mind as they are applied to treating PTSD in returning Iraqi vets and children with ADHD. The film poses two fundamental questions: What really is consciousness, and how does it manifest in the brain and body? And is it possible to physically change the brain solely through mental practices?
What an amazing rock ‘n roll success story for this great Saskatoon based band. Following on the relative success of a few independently released tracks, The Sheepdogs beat out fifteen other bands to win the Rolling Stone Magazine’s first ever Choose the Cover Competition (Aug 2011). They were the first band to ever grace the cover of the Rolling Stone without being signed to a major record label. Now signed to Atlantic Records, the film chronicles their efforts to live up to the hype as they record a new album and tour extensively to connect with their evergrowing fan base. (Whistler Film Fest) Catch the Edmonton premiere the night before the band plays Sonic Boom Fest!
The Iceman USA 2012, 105 min, Digital, Dir: Ariel Vromen 31 @ 2:30PM, 31 @ 10:15PM, (Engagement continues into Sept)
In the 1960s, Richard Kuklinski (Michael Shannon) is working as a porn film lab tech until his mob bosses persuade him to change his career into that of a contract killer. For years, Kuklinski gains a reputation for cold blooded professionalism even as he raises a family who are kept in the dark about his true career. Unfortunately, mob politics ultimately forces him to secretly work independently with the psychopathic Robert ‘Mr. Freezy’ Pronge. As much as Kuklinski tries to keep his lives separate, circumstances and his own weaknesses threaten a terrible collision as the consequences of his choices finally catch up to him.(Kenneth Chisholm)
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