Metro Cinema Guide December 2012

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DECEMBER 2012 SCHEDULE United in Anger: A history of AcT UP USA 2012, 93 min, Digital, Dir: Jim hubbard 1 @ 7PM

The world Before her canada 2012, 90 min, Digital, Dir: nisha Pahuja, hindi with Subtitles nov 30 @ 9:30, 1 @ 2:15, 2 @ 12:15, 2, 6 @ 7, 4, 5 @ 9:30

On the surface, Nisha Pahuja’s fast-moving, thought-provoking documentary is a story about the rise of beauty pageants in India and the Hindu fundamentalists who protest them. She alternates between two women: in the countryside, Prachi runs militaristic boot camps for the fundamentalists as a way to empower herself; in Mumbai, Ruhi struts the catwalks to try to win the Miss India title and her ticket out of poverty. But, ultimately, both are victims of a woefully patriarchal society, whether it’s Prachi suffering her father’s beatings or Ruhi submitting to the almost comical indignities of the so-called progressive, westernized contests (Georgia Straight). winner of Best Documentary awards at both the 2012 Tribeca & Toronto International Film Festivals.

United in Anger: A History of ACT UP is a featurelength documentary about how ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), a small group of people, came together to change the world and save each other’s lives. The film takes the viewer through the planning and execution of exhilarating major actions with additional information about these historic events that forced the U.S. government and mainstream media to deal with the AIDS crisis. United in Anger reveals the group’s complex culture while also exploring the profound grief, sexiness, and incredible energy of ACT UP. in PARTnERShiP wiTh hiv EDMonTon foR woRlD AiDS DAY

Bill w.

USA 2012, 104 min, Digital, Dir: Dan carracino & kevin hanlon 1 @ 12:15PM, 2 @ 2PM, 3 @ 7PM, 6 @ 8:45PM

Bill w. tells the story of william G. wilson, cofounder of Alcoholics Anonymous, a man included in TIME Magazine’s “100 Persons of the 20th Century.” Interviews, recreations, and rare archival material reveal how Bill wilson, a hopeless drunk near death from his alcoholism, found a way out of his own addiction and then forged a path for countless others to follow. with Bill as its driving force, A.A. grew from a handful of men to a worldwide fellowship of over 2 million men and women – a success that made him an icon within A.A., but also an alcoholic unable to be a member of the very society he had created. A reluctant hero, Bill wilson lived a life of sacrifice and service, and left a legacy that continues every day, all around the world.

laurence Anyways canada/france 2012, 168 min, 35mm, Dir: Xavier Dolan, french with Subtitles nov 30 @ 6:30, 1 @ 9:30, 2 @ 4PM, 2 @ 8:45PM, 3 @ 9PM, 5 @ 6:30

Monty Python and the holy grail Uk 1974, 91 min, Digital, Dir: Terry gilliam & Terry Jones nov 30 @ 11:30, 1 @ 4PM

And now! At Last! Another film completely different from some of the other films which aren’t quite the same as this one is. King Arthur (Graham Chapman) and his knights Sir Galahad the Pure (Michael Palin) , Sir Lancelot the Brave (John Cleese), the wise Sir Bedevere (Terry Jones), and Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as- Sir Lancelot (Eric Idle) embark on a low-budget search for the Grail, encountering many very silly obstacles.

Classic film comedy on the big screen...costumes and coconuts encouraged!

Director Xavier Dolan delivers a striking love story set in 1990’s Montreal. A man, Laurence (Melvil Poupaud), has just told his girlfriend, Fred (Suzanne Clément), that he wants to become a woman. what follows is a tumultuous, decadelong odyssey during which the couple fights passionately to salvage their relationship. In spite of the odds and in spite of each other, they confront the prejudices of their friends, ignore the council of their families, and brave the phobias of the society they offend. … As epic visually as it is in scope, from its first frame Laurence Anyways is rendered with Dolan’s signature panache. Certainly his most ambitious film to date, it is a monumental tale about relationships and identity—a story of impossible love that once experienced, can never be fully relinquished. (VIFF)

MUSIC DOCS/// A monthly film series featuring music documentaries, from classic to contemporary. Curated by Tim Rechner, and co-presented with CJSR.

The Song Remains the Same USA 1976, 137 min, Digital, Dir: Peter clifton & Joe Massot 4 @ 7PM

The Song Remains the Same is a concert film by the English rock band Led Zeppelin. The recording of the film took place during three nights of concerts at Madison Square Garden in New york City, on the band’s 1973 concert tour of The United States. Promotional materials stated that the film was “the band’s special way of giving their millions of friends what they had been clamouring for and a personal and private tour of Led Zeppelin. For the first time the world has a front row seat on Led Zeppelin.”

highway gospel canada 2011, 90 min, Digital, Dir: Jaret Belliveau, craig Jackson 7, 9, 16, 20 @ 7PM, 8 @ 4PM, 9 @ 2PM, 15 @ 9:15

A coward dies a thousand deaths, a brave man dies but once. B.C. renegades race down mountain highways on customized longboards, while a middle-aged skateboarder fights to keep his Ottawa skate park and creaky knees operational. what starts out as a gonzo skate movie turns into a surprisingly heartfelt documentary that bears witness to the power of community, dedication and the DIy spirit. with intimate and candid moments that may lead you to think this is a mockumentary, Highway Gospel is a humorous and at times heartbreaking multi-character documentary that strikes an intricate balance between rowdy and insightful while serving as a reminder that heartfelt stories can also be hilarious.

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Holy Motors France/Germany 2012, 115 min, 35mm, Dir: Leos Carax, French with Subtitles 7, 9 @ 9PM, 8, 10, 17 @ 7PM, 12, 19 @ 9:15PM, 15 @ 4:30PM

Join Monsieur Oscar on his rollicking, soulful journey by limousine through the streets of Paris as he transforms into multiple characters for a series of mysterious “appointments”. Melding monster movie, film noir, romantic drama, musical, crime thriller, anime, Leos Carax’s mirthful, mindbending masterwork is a ravishing fever dream of becoming, unraveling and starting all over again.

“Leos Carax’s unholy odyssey into the dreamy marvels of cinema itself is an exhilarating hybrid of comedy, melodrama, science fiction, crime thriller, and musical romance. Wholly mysterious and impossibly lovely, this mad hatter’s monsterpiece may be the best film of the year.”

(The Village Voice)

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The Polar Express USA 2005, 100 min, Digital, Dir: Robert Zemeckis 8 @ 2PM

In 1950s Michigan, a young boy struggles with his belief in Christmas and its champion, Santa Claus.

On Christmas Eve a magic train arrives to whisk the boy off to the North Pole and bring him face to face with Saint Nick himself. Along with other young pajama-clad skeptics, the boy is taken on an extraordinary journey that not only restores his faith in the holidays, but in the power of belief itself. Beautifully rendered in motion capture animation, The Polar Express is a modern Christmas classic that moves all ages. Adapted from the classic Caldecott Medal winning children’s book

by Chris Van Allsburg.

All children 12 and under get in for free!

Who Cares?

Canada 2012, 80 min, Digital, Dir: Rosie Dransfeld 9 @ 4PM

Locally based award-winning filmmaker of vérité cinema, Rosie Dransfeld enters the gritty and dangerous world of Edmonton’s sex trade workers to craft a powerful new film about women caught in a heartbreaking cycle of addiction, violence and prostitution. Taking the documentary camera to where the unthinkable is a gruesome reality, Who Cares? takes us into our city’s rough Norwood neighbourhood, home to a shadowy world where help is not easy to find.

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An Evening With Robert Bateman 11 @ 7PM

Robert Bateman - artist, environmentalist, author. Celebrate the United Nations’ International Day of the Mountain with one of Canada’s most celebrated artists for a keynote titled, “Thinking Like A Mountain.”Bateman’s realistic painting style featuring wildlife in it’s habitat encourages examination of the natural world. He is a well-known naturalist and spokesperson for many environmental issues.

Part of the U of A’s Interdisciplinary Mountain Studies Confrence - mountains.ualberta.ca.

Admission: $10 at the door; Advance tickets at Mountain Equipment Co-op: (780) 488-6614.

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Gateway to Cinema///

USA 2003, 99 min, 35mm, Dir: Tommy Wiseau 7 @ 11:15 PM

Oh hi Johnny, I didn’t know it was you. Join us for our 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. Please note: Audience participation is encouraged.

Spaceballs USA 1987, 96 min, Digital, Dir: Mel Brooks 12 @ 7PM

Join Lone Starr and his sidekick Barf as they take on the biggest jerks in the universe: the Spaceballs. Owing a debt to Pizza the Hutt, Lone Starr agrees to retrieve the Princess Vespa, fleeing marriage to the aptly named Prince Valium, before Dark Helmet can ransom her for all the air of her home planet. It’s enough to get anyone’s Schwartz all in a tangle. Space! Puns!

Intrigue! And - the most important part - merchandising! Starring Mel Brooks, John Candy, Rick Moranis, and Bill Pullman, this classic sci-fi spoof takes parody to the final frontier.

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Saint Mick’s Muletide Extravaganza 13 @ 7PM

Everyone loves Christmas. Even the hardest of hearts get a little mushy and weird around the most wonderful time of the year. Jon Mick loves Christmas more than Cheetos (which is a bunch), so this year he has decided to put together an over the top christmas bonanza. Drawing from some of the most talented musicians, comedians and filmmakers in the city, Jon has put together a show that will leave you breathless, mostly because he plans on making the audience jog on the spot all night.

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Four Films by HAYAO MIYAZAKI Part 1 of the Studio Ghibli Collection This December, Metro Cinema is thrilled to present four films by animation master Hayao Miyazaki! In his homeland, Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli, iconic in Japan, is one of the most beloved film institutions of all time, breaking box office records and even spawning its own museum in Inokashira Park in Mitaka, just outside of Tokyo. Miyazaki’s films are known all over the world for their strikingly beautiful and inventive artistry, as well as their epic fantastical narratives and profound humanism.

The four films chosen here span Miyazaki’s career: from the forming of the acclaimed studio, with Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, to success and recognition in North America, with the Academy Award nominated Howl’s Moving Castle. They represent many of Miyazaki’s signature motifs, including strong female heroines, a fascination with flight, and a deep interest for the environment and humanity’s relationship with it. All films will be shown on brand new 35 mm prints, and we are pleased to have our monthly series Graphic Content present one of them. Stay tuned in the coming months for more films from the amazing Studio Ghibli collection!

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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Kaze no tani Naushika) Japan 1984, 117 min, 35mm, English dubbed, Dir: Hayao Miyazaki 18 @ 7PM

Howl’s Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro) Japan 2004, 119 min, 35mm, subtitled, Dir: Hayao Miyazaki 14 @ 7PM, 15 @ 2PM, 16 @ 4PM

In this charming fable based on the book by Diana Wynne Jones, a haberdasher named Sophie (voiced by Chieko Baisho) is transformed into an old crone by the Witch of the Waste, antagonist to the mysterious wizard Howl (voiced by Takuya Kimura). In order to get the spell reversed, old Sophie hitches a ride on the eponymous castle owned

by Howl, meeting a living scarecrow and a fire demon named Calcifer along the way, as the wizard attempts to stop the outbreak of war in the region.

A visually breathtaking film, an impassioned argument for pacifism influenced as much by steampunk as it is by the Baba Yaga story, Howl’s Moving Castle is like its director, a paean to the irrepressible spirit – regardless of age.

Kiki’s Delivery Service (Majo no takkyûbin) Japan 1989, 102 min, 35mm, English dubbed, Dir: Hayao Miyazaki 22 @ 7PM, 23 @ 4PM, 30 @ 2PM

Upon reaching the age of thirteen, it is customary for witches to spend a year living on their own. Once Kiki (voiced by Kirsten Dunst) reaches this momentous age, she moves to the big city of Koriko with her pet cat Jiji (voiced by the late Phil Hartman), where she uses the witch power she’s best at, flying, to her own advantage by starting a delivery service. Though beset by obstacles and her own insecurities about becoming a witch, Kiki succeeds in her new job through hard work, and with a little help from her friends.

One of the Miyazaki’s most beloved children’s films, Kiki’s Delivery Service is beautifully rendered and imaginative coming of age tale about the complexities of finding one’s place in the world.

In the far future after a devastating calamity known as the “Seven Days of Fire”, the Kingdom of Tolmekia, represented by Kushana (voiced by Uma Thurman) gets its hands on an ancient superweapon, threatening to begin the cycle of violence and destruction once again. The Valley of the Wind’s courageous Princess Nausicaä (voiced by Alison Lohman) must intervene before the short-sighted Tolmekians destroy the Toxic Jungle, a strange and wonderful place inhabited by large insectoid mutants.

Graphic Content is proud to present one of the greatest animated films ever made. Adapted from Miyazaki’s own epic manga series of the same name, Nausicaä is the visionary director’s second film and it ultimately launched Studio Ghibli itself. Often considered to be Miyazaki’s masterpiece, a distillation of his philosophy of environmentalism and heroism.

Encore Screenings: 21 @ 4PM, 27 @ 2PM

Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime) Japan 1997, 133 min, 35mm, English dubbed, Dir: Hayao Miyazaki 26 @ 7PM, 28 @ 4PM, 29 @ 2PM

In a fantasy version of Japan’s Muromachi Period (1337-1573), a small village is attacked by a demonic boar-god. Ashitaka (voiced by Billy Crudup), prince of the area, is the last survivor of the battle, cursed with unholy strength and agility that will eventually prove fatal unless treated; he travels deep in to the sacred Great Forest in search of a cure. Upon his arrival, he discovers a war waging between nature and man as the industrialized Iron Town exploits and kills the forest under the leadership of the determined Lady Eboshi. Deep in the forest, Ashitaka encounters a girl named San (voiced by Claire Danes), a member of a wolf pack that might hold the key to ending the war.

A landmark in animation, Princess Mononoke is an epic saga that was not only the highest grossing film in Japan upon its release, but also put Studio Ghibli on the map in North America.

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you can join us here on New year’s Eve to ring out the old with Shout Out Out Out Out. And the next day, if you’re up for it, you can also ring in the new: our annual New year’s Day triple feature is Alien, Aliens and Prometheus.

Then from December 14 to 30, we’ll be presenting Four Films by Hayao Miyazaki, considered by many (including us) to be the world’s greatest animation director. After you enjoy these newly struck 35mm prints, keep your eyes open in the coming months, when we’ll present more films by Miyazaki and his colleagues at Japan’s world-renowned Studio Ghibli.

To celebrate the season, we’ll be hosting It’s a wonderful Life for the Edmonton Food Bank; Reel Family Cinema is screening The Polar Express; DEDFest is showing the remake of Silent Night, and we’re hosting Saint Mick’s Muletide Extravaganza.

we begin the month by presenting this year’s Best Feature winners from Toronto’s two biggest film festivals: Xavier Dolan won Best Canadian Feature at TIFF with Laurence Anyways, and Nisha Pahuja won Best Canadian Doc at Hot Docs with The world Before Her. we follow those up with new films by Leos Carax (Holy Motors), and william Friedkin (Killer Joe), and encore screenings of who Cares?, about the Edmonton sex trade, and Bill w., about the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.

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BoXing DAY

2PM Casablanca 4PM Akira 7PM MIYAZAKI/// Princess Mononoke

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7PM CULT CINEMA/// Casablanca 9:15PM Holy Motors

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CINEMA/// Spaceballs 9:15PM Holy Motors

2PM MIYAZAKI/// Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind 4:15PM Samsara 6:45PM The Master 9:30PM Searching For Sugar Man

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7PM Highway Gospel 9:15PM Killer Joe

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Muletide Extravaganza

2PM Searching For Sugar Man 4PM MIYAZAKI/// Princess Mononoke 7PM Samsara 9PM The Master

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4PM MIYAZAKI/// Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind 7PM The Master 9:45PM METRO BIZARRO/// Akira

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Howl’s Moving Castle 9:30PM DEDFEST/// Silent Night

2PM MIYAZAKI/// Princess Mononoke 4:30PM Samsara 6:45PM The Master 9:30PM Searching For Sugar Man

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1:30PM The Master 4:15PM Samsara 7PM MIYAZAKI/// Kiki’s Delivery Service 9PM The Master

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Howl’s Moving Castle 4:30PM Holy Motors 7PM Killer Joe 9:15PM Highway Gospel

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Killer Joe USA 2011, 102 min, 35mm, Dir: William Friedkin 15 @ 7PM, 16, 17, 20 @ 9:15PM, 18 @ 9:30PM

When Chris (Emile Hirsch) finds himself in debt to a drug lord, he hires a hit man to dispatch his mother, whose $50,000 life insurance policy benefits his sister Dottie (Juno Temple). Chris finds Joe Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a creepy, crazy Dallas cop who moonlights as a contract killer. When Chris can’t pay Joe upfront, Joe sets his sight on Dottie as collateral for the job. The contract killer and his hostage develop an unusual bond. Like a modern-day, twisted fairy tale, “Killer Joe” Cooper becomes the prince to Dottie’s Cinderella. Based on the play by Pulitzer and Tony Award winner Tracy Letts, Killer Joe is a garish, provocative black comedy from Academy Awardwinning director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection).

DEDfest/// Silent Night Canada/ USA 2012, 100 min, Digital, Dir: Steven C Miller 14 @ 9:30PM

It’s that time of year again to bring some Christmas cheer and gory mayhem back to the big screen. DEDfest is proud to present this new reimagining of the 80’s classic Silent Night, Deadly Night! Starring genre legend Malcolm McDowell, it’s the story of a police force in a small midwestern town trying to hunt down a killer Santa who is picking off citizens in the most grizzly fashion on Christmas Eve. This will be your only chance to see this new slasher flick on the big screen so come on down and help celebrate the holiday season DEDfest style! Good friends, cheap drinks, and a maniac dressed as St. Nick swinging an axe!

Edmonton Food Bank///

The Master It’s a Wonderful Life USA 1946, 130 min, Digital, Dir: Frank Capra 16 @ 1PM

Director Frank Capra’s inspiring classic balances pathos and joy in the tale of distraught George Bailey (James Stewart at his finest), who is about to commit suicide on Christmas Eve - until helpful, elderly angel Clarence (Henry Travers) shows him how his death would affect those around him.

Featuring Donna Reed as the love of George’s life in the role that launched her to stardom, and a young, charming Gloria Grahame. If you’ve only seen it on TV, see it now on the big screen, the way it was meant to be seen! (American Cinematheque) Admission is free with a non-perishable food or monetary donation to the Edmonton food bank.

Cult Cinema/// A monthly series of eccentric classics and unusual treasures. Curated by Jeff Noel.

Casablanca USA 1942, 102 min, Digital, Dir: Michael Curtiz 19 @ 7PM

A perfect example of studio-era filmmaking, Casablanca went from box office success to best picture winner, and then transcended that claim by becoming one of the most iconic movies of the Twentieth Century. Set during the Second World War in neutral Morocco, Casablanca made a superstar of Humphrey Bogart as Rick, a mysterious nightclub owner who is forced to choose between his loyalty to himself and the good of the free world. When the lost-love of his life comes through town with her freedom fighting husband, only he can help them secure the letters of transit they need to escape persecution and flee to America.

Encore screening Dec 26 @ 2PM

USA 2012, 144 min, 35mm, Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson 21 @ 7PM, 22 @ 1:30PM, 22, 23, 28 @ 9PM, 27, 29 @ 6:45PM, 30 @ 4PM

In an arresting return to the big screen, Joaquin Phoenix plays a troubled soldier in post – WW II America. Stripped of every common civility, he rages through life like an animal, unable to keep a job, to attract a woman, to live in his own skin. By chance one night he jumps on board a docked ship and stows away as it sets sail. He soon discovers that the ship belongs to one Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the charismatic founder of a new religion. With his wife (Amy Adams), Dodd probes the unconscious minds of his subjects, driving them to reveal hidden vulnerabilities. The cerebral Dodd and his feral stowaway appear to be complete opposites, but they strike up a surprising friendship. In scenes of sometimes shocking soul-baring, the two forge a primal bond - until the disciple begins to question his master. (TIFF)

Metro Bizarro/// A monthly foray into the weird, wacky and wonderful world of fringe cinema.

Akira Japan 1988, 125 min, Digital, Dir: Katsushiro Otomo 21 @ 9:45PM

Neo Tokyo, 2019: Two best friends, Kaneda (Mitsuo Iwata) and Tetsuo (Nozomu Sasaki) are the leaders of the Capsule motorcycle gang, battling for control over the neon-soaked city streets. When the pair come into contact with a decommissioned military experiment, Tetsuo is transformed into a powerful psychic who rivals the being named “Akira.” Kaneda must join forces with an underground rebel movement in a desperate attempt to save his friend and the city.

Upon its release in the late ‘80s, Akira was one of the first anime films to introduce the Japanese art form to North America. Superb animation, horrific violence and a great futuristic design sense make this adaptation of Otomo’s epic 2182 page manga into an instant classic. A surprise hit last December, Bizarro brings this audience favourite back, just as the original story celebrates it’s 30th anniversary.

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Samsara USA 2011, 102 min, Digital, Dir: Ron fricke 22, 27 @ 4:15PM, 23 @ 2PM, 23, 28 @ 7PM, 29 @ 4:30PM

Samsara is a Sanskrit word that means “the ever turning wheel of life” and is the point of departure for the filmmakers as they search for the elusive current of interconnection that runs through our lives. Filmed over a period of almost five years and in twenty-five countries, Samsara transports us to sacred grounds, disaster zones, industrial sites, and natural wonders. By dispensing with dialogue and descriptive text, Samsara subverts our expectations of a traditional documentary, instead encouraging our own inner interpretations inspired by images and music that infuses the ancient with the modern. The film illuminates the links between humanity and the rest of the nature, showing how our life cycle mirrors the rhythm of the planet.

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Searching for Sugarman Sweden/ Uk 2011, 86 min, 35 mm Dir: Malik Bendjelloul 27, 29 @ 9:30PM, 28 @ 2PM, 30 @ 7PM

In the late ‘60s, two celebrated producers, who were struck by his soulful melodies and prophetic lyrics, discovered a musician in a Detroit bar. They recorded an album that they believed was going to secure his reputation as one of the greatest recording artists of his generation. In fact, the album bombed and the singer disappeared into obscurity amid rumors of a gruesome on-stage suicide. But a bootleg recording found its way into apartheid South Africa and, over the next two decades, it became a phenomenon. Two South African fans then set out to find out what really happened to their hero. Their investigation led them to a story more extraordinary than any of the existing myths about the artist known as Rodriguez.

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NEw yEARS DAy TRIPLE FEATURE/// Aliens USA/ Uk 1986, 137 min, 35mm, Dir: James cameron 1 @ 4:30PM

Alien USA/ Uk 1979, 117 min, 35mm, Dir: Ridley Scott 1 @ 2PM

Alien’s plot is not a convoluted one but is linear and smart: a group of blue collar space “truckers” investigate an “alien” distress beacon on an unknown planet, pick up more than they bargain for and terror ensues. But what elevates Alien above B-movie schlock, which it unquestionably draws its roots from, is the level of artistry, design, suspense, horror and shock that Scott captured. It’s all in the details, and here his team, including noted surrealistic artist H.R. Giger, who is credited with creating the Alien’s biomechanical look, spared no effort in going for either a totally alien or a completely human, “used future” look, eschewing the stereotypically antiseptic space movies of the time (Star wars), and showing the contrast between the two in their wonderfully complex and intricate sets. (TIFF)

The bitch is back, some 50 years later. The popular sequel amounts to non-stop, ravaging combat in space. Contact with a colony on another planet has mysteriously stopped. Fresh from deep space sleep, Ripley and a slew of pulsar-equipped Marines return to confront the mother alien at her nest, which is also inhabited by a whole bunch of the nasty critters spewing for a fight. Something’s gotta give, and the Oscar-winning special effects are especially inventive (and messy) in the alien demise department. ...Ripley discovers maternal instincts lurking within her space suit while looking after a young girl, the lone survivor of the colony. (Videohound)

Prometheus USA/ Uk 2012, 124 min, 35mm, Dir: Ridley Scott 1 @ 7PM

33 years after the film that spawned the Alien franchise, Ridley Scott returns to the genre he helped define. with Prometheus, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe.

There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

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