Metro Cinema Guide November 2012

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Encounter the Extraordinary in EDO: Arts of Japan’s Last Shogun Age EDO: Arts of Japan’s Last Shogun Age is organized and circulated by the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria with assistance from the Canadian Department of Heritage, Museum Assistance Program and curated

by Barry Till, Curator of Asian Art, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

Weight in the form of a Skull surmounted by a Snake, Edo period, early – mid 19th century. Image courtesy of the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.

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NOVEMBER 2012 SCHEDULE THe feSTIVAL of neW SPAnISH CIneMA: no Rest for the Wicked NOVEMBER 2 TO 12 (no Habrá Pas Para los Malvados) Now in its second year at Metro, the 2012 Festival of New Spanish Cinema consolidates itself as the most important itinerant festival of contemporary Spanish Cinema in North America. The Festival, presented

by Pragda and The Spanish Embassy of Canada, will screen some of the most popular, innovative and risky Spanish films of the year.

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Spain 2011, 104 Min, Digital, DIr: enrique Ubizu

Inspector Santos Trinidad, a veteran policeman, drinks too much and works too little. Events turn sour one night and Santos finds himself implicated in a triple homicide. As he runs from the accusations, he starts the hunt for the one witness who managed to escape and discovers a complicated and sordid network of prostitution and drug trafficking that serves to finance a far more sophisticated criminal plan. No Rest for the Wicked took home an impressive six Goya Awards in 2012, including Best Film, Director, and Actor. oPenInG nIGHT ReCePTIon on noV 2.

Carmina or Blow Up (Carmina o Revienta) Spain 2012, 71 Min, Digital, Dir: Paco León 7 @ 9PM, 12 @ 7PM

Famous comedian Paco León drags us to the surreal and wild world of Carmina, a 58 year old woman who manages a bar in Sevilla. The film’s charming protagonist has not only seduced the audience, as the film has set records in Spain, but the critics as well, taking the 3 awards at the Málaga Film Festival.

Madrid, 1987 Spain 2011, 104 Min, Digital, Dir: David Trueba 3 @ 7PM, 4 @ 2PM

Madrid, 1987 is an intelligent, witty, and sensual new film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim. On a hot summer day in a vacant Madrid during a period of social and political transition in Spain, a pair of strangers, who represent polarized generations, are pitted in an unevenly matched duel involving age, intellect, ambition and experience.

Sleep Tight (Mientras Duermes) Spain 2011, 101 Min, Digital, Dir: James Balaguero 9, 11 @ 9PM

Toiling silently amongst the residents of a Barcelona apartment building, doorman Cesar harbors a dark secret: his sole desire in life is to make others unhappy. From the creators of [REC] and [REC] 2, delves into the perverse fantasies of a man on the brink, and delivers an unnerving tale of obsession and torment that is nonstop thrills right up to its shocking conclusion.

The Ambassador

The Double Steps (Los Pasos Dobles)

Denmark 2011, 93 mins, Digital, Dir: Mads Brugger 2 @ 9:30PM, 3 @ 2PM, 4, 5 @ 9PM

Spain 2011, 86 Min, Digital, Dir: Isaki Lacuesta 10 @ 7PM, 11 @ 2PM

A strange, enigmatic and decadent white diplomat arrives in central Africa, looking like a mixture of Henry Stanley and Karl Lagerfeld. He has recently bought an ambassadorship and claims to be a do-good rich business man, who has come to spearhead a diplomatic mission.

Officially he is there to start a factory that produces matches - this, to employ locals and teach them how to make this simple piece of fire-making equipment.

Unofficially he is really there to gain access to vast reserves of diamonds. The Ambassador is a genrebreaking, tragic comedy about the bizarre world of African diplomacy.

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 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.

Many years ago, French artist François Augiéras painted every inch of the walls of a military bunker in the desert and let it sink into the sand so that no-one would find it till the 21st Century. Cut to present day & the film guides us through the Mali desert in search of more frescos in this gorgeous film that won the Best Film at the San Sebastian International Film Festival.

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GoDZILLA AT THe GARneAU!

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

Stop Making Sense Beasts of the Southern Wild presented with

USA 2012, 93 min, 35mm, Dir: Benh Zeitlin 3 @ 9:15, 4 @ 4:15PM, 8, 14 @ 7PM, 10 @ 9PM, 11 @ 4PM, 12 @ 8:30PM

King Kong vs. Godzilla

The staggeringly ambitious and stylistically bold first feature by Benh zeitlin, Beasts of the Southern Wild took the Sundance Film Festival by storm with its eccentric, wholly unique vision of ecological apocalypse. Hushpuppy (an astonishing debut by Quvenzhané Wallis) is a six-year-old girl living with her boozing father Wink (Dwight Henry) in a Louisiana shantytown called “The Bathtub,” so named because its location in a valley will cause it to be totally wiped out in the event of a flood. When the rains do in fact come and the town is duly washed away, Hushpuppy and Wink embark on an increasingly bizarre odyssey to restart their lives, and the world itself. Unforgettable, indescribable and unmissable. (TIFF)

Japan/USA 1963, 35mm, english dubbed, Dir: Ishirô Honda 3 @ 4:30PM, 6 @ 7PM, 8 @ 9PM

We are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists

After a long absence, Godzilla comes roaring back to Metro’s big screen. Metro Cinema is pleased to present two films (one never before seen on Edmonton screens) from the twenty eight that comprise the series. Hero, villain, or force of nature, Godzilla is one of the most popular characters ever created. Don’t miss this rare opportunity to see Godzilla as the directors intended! Local Godzilla historian and Grant MacEwan University professor Mike Perschon will be giving lectures on each of the two films before the Tuesday screenings.

After the sombre tone of the first two Godzilla films, Toho took the series in a more “family friendly” direction. King Kong vs. Godzilla is pure schlocky monster movie fun at it’s finest.

As Godzilla once again heads towards towards Japan, King Kong is discovered on mysterious Faro Island. After battling a giant octopus and getting wasted on berry juice, King Kong is captured and ends up in Japan. Fate brings him face to face with Godzilla, and it’s on!

After an indecisive first round the two are brought together for a final match on Mt. Fuji.

Who will triumph?!

Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-out Attack Japan 2001, Digital, Japanese with english subtitles, Dir: Shûsuke Kaneko 10 @ 4:30PM, 13 @ 7PM, 15 @ 9PM

Widely considered one of the best of the series, this “reboot” finds Godzilla returning to his villainous roots. With a complex plot and top notch special effects, this is a must see film for true Godzilla fans. Set in 2004, it has been fifty years since Godzilla last ravaged Japan and he is back with a vengeance! Three “Guardian Beasts” (Baragon, Mothra and King Ghidorah) are summoned to battle Godzilla and protect Japan from his fury. Featuring perennial “bad guy” King Ghidorah as a hero, this entry turns the Kaiju world upside down.

Now we just have to fit the title on the marquee somehow...

USA 2012, 93 min, Digital, Dir: Brian Knappenberger 5 @ 7PM, 9 @ 7PM, 12 @ 2PM, 13 @ 9:30PM, 14 @ 9PM

We are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, takes us inside the complex culture and history of Anonymous. The film explores early hacktivist groups like Cult of the Dead Cow and Electronic Disturbance Theater, and then moves to Anonymous’ own raucous and unruly beginnings on the website 4Chan. Through interviews with current members – some recently returned from prison, others still awaiting trial – as well as writers, academics and major players in various “raids,” We are Legion traces the collective’s breathtaking evolution from merry pranksters to a full-blown, global movement, one armed with new weapons of civil disobedience for an online world.

USA 1984, 88 min, Digital, Dir: Jonathan Demme 6 @ 9:15PM

The return of the big suit! Stop Making Sense was the first feature-length documentary effort of filmmaker Jonathan Demme. The director’s subject is The Talking Heads, a new-wave/ pop-rock group comprised of David Byrne, Chris Franz, Tina Weymouth and Jerry Harrison. The film was made during a three-day concert gig at the Pantages Theater in Hollywood. What emerges on screen says as much about director Demme’s taste and sensitivity as it does about the group and its visionary leader Byrne.

Thousand faces festival of Mythic Art: Sita Sings the Blues Canada 2008, 82 min, Digital, Dir: nina Paley 7 @ 7PM

Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email.

Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920’s jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as “the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told.”

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Marriage & Chocolate Local filmmaker! Canada 2012, 12 min, Digital, Dir: Shreela Chakrabartty

An exploration of love, chance and a hallmark arranged marriage through a Hindu mythological vision quest.

FAVA & GLOBAL VISIONS/// Global Visions youth Media Day Local filmmakers! 8 @ 10AM

Global Visions Film Festival partners with FAVA once a year to present Global Visions Youth Media Day featuring Future Visions, which is a long standing program at FAVA facilitated by Tim Folkmann with Edmonton’s inner city youth. These youth take part in a Video Production Intensive with artist-mentors and learn the skills to create their own short, personal videos and then have the opportunity to present their short films on this day, while interacting with fellow students from various high schools across the city. Now in its tenth successful year, Future Visions is a unique opportunity to support the development of the individual voices of these students through media arts. The day will be filled with entertainment including: hip hop dancers, screenings, an artist Q & A, and feature film TBA. ADMISSIon: $10 STUDenTS, $12 PUBLIC

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DEDFEST/// They Live USA 1988, 93 min, Digital, Dir: John Carpenter 9 @ 11:15PM

With another election happening down south, we couldn’t think of a better and more fitting film to screen. In John Carpenter’s classic, legendary wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper plays a drifter looking for work, who makes a horrifying discovery through the use of special sunglasses: aliens have taken over the world! They have just disguised themselves as the upper class and rich of our planet. After finally convincing new friend Frank of this hidden invasion it’s up to them to enlighten the rest of us before they are silenced for good. Featuring the greatest one on one back alley fight scene from the 80s They Live is a must see on the big screen. So OBEY and come to the screening. And as always there will be adult beverages, so once again OBEY and BUY...

REEL FAMILY CINEMA/// Saturday matinees for the whole family!

Annie USA 1982, 128 min, Digital, Dir: John Huston 10 @ 2PM

Annie, a young orphan living in New York City during the Great Depression, dreams of a better life beyond the walls of the miserable orphanage she’s grown up in.

When Grace Farrell, secretary to billionaire Oliver Warbucks, comes to the Hudson Street Orphanage to adopt a boy for her employer, Annie charms her into adopting her instead. Soon she and her dog Sandy are off to the Warbucks’ mansion to learn about the good life, but Annie has just as much to teach the stubborn capitalist. Featuring a large ensemble cast of Hollywood and Broadway greats, including Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Tim Curry, and Bernadette Peters; as well as memorable musical numbers like “Tomorrow,” “It’s a Hard Knock Life,” “You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile,” and the fitting “Let’s Go to the Movies.”

Children 12 and under get in for free!

Paths of Glory USA 1957, 88 min, Digital, Dir: Stanley Kubrick 11 @ 7PM, 12 @ 4PM

One of the most biting, potent and eloquent anti-war films ever made. During WWI, French officer Kirk Douglas finds himself in a maze of Catch-22 contradictions when he decides to defend three of his men against charges of cowardice from insane general George Macready.

Masterfully shot in black and white and featuring stellar performances by Adolphe Menjou, Ralph Meeker and Joe Turkel. Timothy Carey’s dark and sympathetic portrayal of Private Maurice Ferol steals the show. (American Cinematheque)

It’s Such A Beautiful Day USA 2012, 71 min, Digital, Dir: Don Hertzfeldt 16, 20 @ 7PM, 18 @ 3PM, 18 @ 9PM

Cult animator and Academy Award nominee filmmaker Don Hertzfeldt has combined his recent “Bill” trilogy of short films into one seamless, beautiful, darkly comedic feature, blending traditional animation, experimental optical effects, trick photography, and new digital hybrids printed out one frame at a time. In the full feature, a series of dark and troubling events force Bill to reckon with the meaning of his life or lack thereof.

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BY DON HERTZFEL White Water, Black Gold Canada 2011, 65 min, Digital, Dir: David Lavallee 15 @ 7PM

An investigative point-of view documentary that follows David Lavallee on his three-year journey across western Canada in search of answers about the activities of the world’s thirstiest oil industry: the Tarsands. Over the past 15 years David has worked in the Columbia Icefields of the Canadian Rockies, and has noticed profound changes in the mountains: climate change is rendering these landscapes unrecognizable.

When he discovers that his province is ramping up growth in an extremely water intensive industry downstream of the icefields, he is surprised how little he knows about this industry. This necessitates a journey: from icefields…to oilfields. A sober look at the untold costs (to water and people) associated with developing the second largest deposit of “oil” in the world.

Bill W USA 2012, 104 min, Digital, Dir: Dan Carracino & Kevin Hanlon 16 @ 9PM, 17 @ 4PM, 18 @ 1PM, 18 @ 7PM, 19 @ 9:30PM

Bill W. tells the story of William G. Wilson, co-founder 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.

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Videodrome Canada 1983, 87 min, Digital, Dir: David Cronenberg 16 @ 11PM

Long live the new flesh! There’s nothing interesting on TV anymore and Max Renn (James Woods) has decided to do something about it. In his search for new programming he comes across a show called “Videodrome”, the likes of which no one has ever seen before and in his quest to track it down he discovers nothing is as it seems.

Fantasies and realities blur and things will never be the same again. In the year that brought us Cosmopolis, join us in stepping back and taking a look at Cronenberg’s body-horror roots with Metro Bizarro.

sing-a-long/// Grease USA 1978, 110 min, Digital, Dir: Randal Kleiser 17 @ 1PM, 7PM

The brand new sing-a-long version of the classic film starring John Travolta and Olivia NewtonJohn brought to you by the producers of Sing-A-Long Sound of Music.

The screening begins with your host leading a vocal warm-up before they show you how to use your free goody bag. You’ll even get a chance to learn how to hand jive. Then just sit back and watch Danny & Sandy and the gang, while singing and dancing along to the lyrics as shown on the screen. It couldn’t be easier...or more fun!

Dressing up is strongly encouraged and full audience participation essential.

Ticket Info: singalongcanada.com.

Sorry, no Metro passes.

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7PM We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists 9PM The Ambassador

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2PM SPANISH/// Madrid, 1987 4:15PM Beasts of the Southern Wild 7PM SPANISH/// No Rest for the Wicked 9PM The Ambassador

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7PM GODZILLA/// King Kong vs. Godzilla 9:15PM MUSIC DOCS/// Stop Making Sense

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7PM Beasts of the Southern Wild

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7PM 1000 FACES FEST OF MYTHIC ART/// Sita Sings the Blues 9PM SPANISH/// Carmina or Blow-Up

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10AM GLOBAL VISIONS/FAVA/// Youth Media Day 7PM Beasts of the Southern Wild 9PM GODZILLA/// King Kong vs. Godzilla

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7PM We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists 9PM SPANISH/// Sleep Tight 11:15PM DEDFEST/// They Live

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7PM SPANISH/// No Rest for the Wicked 9:30PM The Ambassador 11:30PM The Room

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2PM REEL FAMILY CINEMA/// Annie 4:30PM GODZILLA/// Godzilla, Mothra & King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack 7PM SPANISH/// Double Steps 9PM Beasts of the Southern Wild

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2PM The Ambassador 4:30PM GODZILLA/// King Kong vs. Godzilla 7PM SPANISH/// Madrid, 1987 9:15PM Beasts of the Southern Wild

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We’re also presenting a number of fine documentaries, including We are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, chronicling the culture and activities of the Anonymous collective; Bill W, about the life and work of Alcoholics Anonymous founder William G. Wilson; and David Lavallee’s in-depth look at the Alberta tarsands, White Water, Black Gold.

We’re screening the work of some local filmmakers this month, including Rosie Dransfeld’s documentary Who Cares? about Edmonton’s sex trade workers; and Eva Colmer’s Granny Baby, about a boy’s experience with a senior citizen in a hospital waiting room.

We’re bringing in a new 35mm print of the timeless classic To Kill a Mockingbird as part of Universal’s 100th year celebration. We’re also partnering with two new groups this month: On Spec Magazine are helping us present a pair of Godzilla films, curated by Allan Mulholland. And the Wirth Institute at the U of A are helping us bring in two films inspired by Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler: Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut and La Ronde by Max Ophüls.

For the second year now, we’re proud to be bringing in the Festival of New Spanish Cinema, with five engaging and innovative films from Spain. Please join us for a reception on opening night after the screening.

You’ve probably noticed that we have a brand new program design. Thanks to a new partnership with Vue Weekly, we are now able to present the program in full colour. (In upcoming issues, our cover images will be from films that are in colour, too!)

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TO THIS END, METRO PRESENTS A VARIED PALETTE OF INDEPENDENT, INTERNATIONAL AND CANADIAN CINEMA 7 DAYS A WEEK.

7PM INSPIRATIONS/// Eyes Wide Shut

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6:45PM INSPIRATIONS/// La Ronde 9PM GATEWAY TO CINEMA/// Network

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9PM We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists

7PM Mass Effect: Paragon Lost 9:30PM TURKEY SHOOT///The Wicker Man

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6:30PM SCIENCE IN CINEMA/// Happy 9PM MOSTLY WATER///Metro Shorts

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9PM GODZILLA/// Godzilla, Mothra & King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack

6:45PM Laurence Anyways 9:30PM The World Before Her 11:30PM This Is Spinal Tap

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7PM To Kill A Mockingbird 9:30PM The Imposter 11:30PM Manborg

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9PM Bill W 11PM METRO BIZARRO/// Videodrome

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1PM The World Before Her 3PM This Is Spinal Tap 4:45PM The World Before Her 7PM United In Anger 9:30PM Laurence Anyways

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12:30PM The Imposter 2:30PM To Kill A Mockingbird 5PM The Imposter 7PM The Imposter 9PM To Kill A Mockingbird

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4PM Bill W 7PM SING-A-LONG/// Grease

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7PM It’s Such A Beautiful Day 9PM GRAPHIC CONTENT/// Josie & the Pussycats

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King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack 9:30PM We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists

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2PM To Kill A Mockingbird 4:30PM The Imposter 7PM To Kill A Mockingbird 9:30PM The Imposter

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Hacktivists 4PM Paths of Glory 7PM SPANISH/// Carmina or Blow-Up 8:30PM Beasts of the Southern Wild

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1PM Bill W 3PM It’s Such A Beautiful Day 5PM Grannybaby 7PM Bill W 9PM It’s Such A Beautiful Day

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4PM Beasts of the Southern Wild 7PM Paths of Glory 9PM SPANISH/// Sleep Tight

THE THOUSAND FACES FESTIVAL Celebrating myths from around the world in performance and art.

October 28–November 11, 2012 Avenue Theatre 9030 118 Avenue Northwest www.thousandfaces.ca

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Granny Baby Local filmmaker! Canada 2012, 9 min, Digital, Dir: eva Colmers 18 @ 5PM

Young Jack is excited to pick up his new baby sister and Mom from the hospital. When he enters the busy waiting room, he notices an old Granny - confused and all alone. Nobody seems to notice her. Nobody seems to care. Jack wants to help her but how?

This is the Edmonton premiere of the latest short film by award-winning, local filmmaker Eva Colmers. Come join the celebration and mingle with cast, crew and friends. Musicians Curtis Ross & Cayley Haug-Thomas will perform the two feature songs of Granny Baby. Lift a glass and support a local independent film as it ventures to festivals around the globe.

ADMISSIon: $6 ADULTS $5 STUDenTS/SenIoRS

A Place Called Los Pereyra

Josie and the Pussycats USA 2001, 98 min, Digital, Dirs: Harry elfont & Deborah Kaplan 20 @ 9PM

The Pussycats, Josie McCoy (Rachel Leigh Cook), Melody Valentine (Tara Reid), and Valerie Brown (Rosario Dawson), are struggling musicians in small-town Riverdale. That is until MegaRecords’ executive Wyatt Frame comes to town and signs them to a lucrative deal. Little do they know that the company intends to take their songs and hide subliminal consumerist messages within them.

Will Josie and The Pussycats unwittingly become another soulless corporate pop act, or will the girls band together to conquer the commercial machine? Adapted from the Archie Comics characters created by Dan DeCarlo. Join Graphic Content and special guests Comics! The Blog for this subversive and satirical comedy about fame, consumerism, and the importance of friendship.

Cat ears and bras optional, but highly encouraged.

Argentina/ Canada 2009, 82 min, Digital, Dir: Andres Livov-Macklin 19 @ 7PM

In the impoverished and extremely isolated region of Northern Argentina known as “The Impenetrable”, the children of a tiny elementary school eagerly await an annual visit from their “Godmothers”: a charity mission from the city of Buenos Aires. When the “Godmothers” arrive, life in the hamlet of Los Pereyra changes completely.

Both delighted and bewildered, the children learn many things from their cosmopolitan visitors, including a glimpse of privileged life and, perhaps, a realization of their own poverty.

PReSenTeD By U of A DePT. of enGLISH & fILM STUDIeS. SKyPe Q & A WITH fILMMAKeRS AfTeR THe SCReenInG

GATEWAY TO CINEMA/// network USA 1976, 121 min, Digital, Dir: Sidney Lumet 21 @ 9PM

When a corporate take-over and low ratings cause aging news anchor Howard Beale (Peter Finch) to lose his job, he responds by threatening to commit suicide on-air. Given a second chance to end his career with dignity, Beale uses his farewell address to rant against corporate hypocrisy, imploring his audience to join him by yelling “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” When ratings shoot through the roof, ruthless new VP of programming Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) gives Beale his own show, intending to turn him into the “mad prophet of the air-waves.” An insightful indictment of the rabid desire for ratings by the media, Network is more prescient with each passing year.

ADMISSIon IS fRee foR STUDenTS WITH VALID ID

SCIENCE IN THE CINEMA/// Happy USA 2011, 76 min, Digital, Dir: Roko Belic 22 @ 6:30PM

Are exams stressing you out? Has the looming holiday season got you grinding your teeth?

Science in the Cinema feels your pain! We think it just might be the right time to watch Happy - a documentary film which will take you on a world tour combining real life stories and interviews with leading scientists in search of the sense of well-being called “happiness”. Our special lobby guests will be service dogs (and their handlers) from Dogs with Wings. ADMISSIon IS fRee AnD InCLUDeS A SMALL PoPCoRn.

MOSTLY WATER/// Metro Shorts Local filmmakers! Canada 2012, Digital, Dir: Various 22 @ 9PM

Want an audience to view your short films? Metro Shorts is a chance for filmmakers to have their work professionally screened and adjudicated by industry members. All films shown will receive a $50 CARFAC screening fee; in addition, a $100 cash prize will be given to the winner of each event.

The winner is chosen by the audience who acts as studio executives, voting to decide if the short is good enough to win it all. Hosted by Mostly Water and produced by Metro Cinema. All videos must be under 5 mins and adhere to copyright standards.

Submission deadline: Nov 16. foR DeTAILS: Info@MoSTLyWATeRTHeATRe.CoM oR 780 935 6532

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SCHnITZLeR – oPHÜLS – KUBRICK Arthur Schnitzler was an expert in revealing double moral standards and hypocrisy. This Austrian Fin de Siècle writer (1862-1931) inspired many artists and musicians: filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick and Max Ophüls created unforgettable movies based upon his works. In cooperation with the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies at the University of Alberta, Metro Cinema screens two masterpieces of film history: La Ronde, and Eyes Wide Shut. Professor Bill Beard, from the University of Alberta Film Studies Department, will give a brief introduction before each film.

eyes Wide Shut USA 1999, 159 min, Digital, Dir: Stanley Kubrick 28 @ 7PM

In his last film, Stanley Kubrick re-locates Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella Dream Story to contemporary New York. After a Christmas party, Bill (Tom Cruise) and Alice (Nicole Kidman) get more and more deeply involved in disturbing experiences of dreams, sexuality and drugs. As the difference between reality and fantasy blurs, the perfect facade of a successful couple breaks down under questions of infidelity and jealousy. It took Kubrick 30 years to realize this plot with strong psycho analytical emphasis. Controversies exploded after the movie’s release because of its sexual content.

InTRo @ 7, fILM SCReenS @ 7:15PM

La Ronde france 1950, 97 min, Digital, Dir: Max ophüls 21 @ 6:45PM

The carousel turns! In ten scenes of erotic encounters, lovers are passed repeatedly to the next partner, thus emphasizing the perishability of love and sexuality.

German-French director Max Ophüls finally brought Schnitzler’s forbidden drama to the screen half a century after it was written, revealing the revolutionary quality of the plot. Always about sex but never showing it, the movie demonstrates that love/sexuality does not equalize people. On the contrary, seduction and separation are strongly connected with social class or gender.

InTRo @ 6:45, fILM SCReenS @ 7PM

Alberta Aboriginal Arts

presents in association with

WWWWWW & PPrffffee

Waawwaaa FFFissss

Oct 30 - Nov 11 2012

@C103 (Catalyst Theatre) 8529 Gateway Blvd. Edm. For Info & Tickets:

780-477-5955 ext. 301 tickets@workshopwest.org

www.AlbertaAboriginalArts.com

To Kill a Mockingbird USA 1962, 129 min, new 35mm print, 50th Anniversary! Dir: Robert Mulligan 23, 25 @ 7PM, 24 @ 2:30, 24 @ 9PM, 25 @ 2PM

Universal Pictures’ sterling adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel mixes Southern Gothic eccentricity, lyrical coming-ofage tale, and powerful racial-injustice drama to memorable effect, and remains one of Hollywood’s most beloved movies. The film is set in a dusty, Depression-era Alabama town.

Gregory Peck, in perhaps the signature performance of his career, plays principled lawyer Atticus Finch, who agrees to defend a black man (Brock Peters) accused of raping a white woman. Events unfold through the eyes of Scout (Mary Badham) and Jem (Phillip Alford), Finch’s young children, who learn much about their community’s fears and prejudices as the trial proceeds - and much about their own fears and prejudices through their encounters with mysterious neighbour Boo Radley (Robert Duvall, in his film debut).

(Jim Sinclair, Pacific Cinematheque)

Manborg Canada 2011, 60 min, Digital, Dir: Steve Kostanski 23 @ 11:30PM

Fresh off its DEDfest premiere and a festival hit at over 30 top genre gatherings Manborg! A soldier killed in battle against the forces of Hell is brought back to life as the futuristic titular warrior who must free the planet in this comedic homage to cheesy 1980s sci-fi films. From Winnipeg-based film troublemakers Astron-6 - who are “Experts at sampling and remixing your misspent youth, Kostanski and company are like the Mad Cow Disease of pop entertainment: you don’t know you are infected until the little prions have already eaten your brain.” (Dave Pace, Fangoria)

The Imposter UK 2012, 99 min, Digital. Dir: Bart Layton 23, 25, 27 @ 9:30PM, 24 @ 12:30PM, 24 @ 5PM, 24 @ 7PM, 25 @ 4:30PM

A gripping thriller straight out of real life, The Imposter is an original film experience that walks the razor’s edge between true-crime documentary and stylish noir mystery.

The twisting, turning tale begins with an unsettling disappearance – that of Nicholas Barclay, a 13 year-old Texas boy who vanishes without a trace. Three and a half years later, staggering news arrives: the boy has been found, thousands of miles from home in Spain, saying he survived a mind-boggling ordeal of kidnap and torture by shadowy captors. His family is ecstatic to have him back no matter how strange the circumstances – but things become far stranger once he returns to Texas.

CULT CINEMA/// A monthly series of eccentric classics and unusual treasures.

Curated by Jeff Noel.

Schindler’s List USA 1993, 195 min, 35mm, Dir: Steven Spielberg 26 @ 7PM

In 1939 Germany invaded Poland, setting off World War II, and immediately began relocating the countries Jewish population, first into ghettos, then to concentration camps. Steven Speilberg’s masterpiece follows the true story of the more than one-thousand Polish Jews who were successfully saved by one business man, industrialist Oskar Schindler (Liam Neeson), as well as many of those who weren’t. A cultural event upon its release, Schindler’s List is remembered not only as one of the most harrowing portrayals of the Holocaust, but also one of the most moving, finding a message of hope even in the most horrible corner of history.

TURKEY SHOOT/// A monthly celebration of aesthetically challenged films, hosted live by Dave Clarke and Jeff Page (with special sarcastic guests).

The Wicker Man USA 2006, 102 min, Digital, Dir: neil LaBute 29 @ 9:30PM

We heartily endorse any film that features neopagan women, all named Sister. Many elements, though, bring this turkey to the shooting gallery.

This questionable remake of the creepy 1973 classic features one of our most unpredictable and enigmatic actors. Never certain whether we’ll get brilliance or Con Air, we suspect that Nicholas Cage may be the Michael Caine of his generation - a great actor with greater bills to pay.

We don’t want to give anything away, but this not the friendly wicker found in festive chairs.

Mass effect: Paragon Lost USA/ Japan 2012, 84 min, Digital, Dir: Atsushi Takeuchi 29 @ 7PM

Based on the incredibly successful Mass Effect video games, this feature length animated film focuses on an untold chapter in the Mass Effect saga, following the early career of Alliance Marine, James Vega, as he leads a squad of elite special forces into battle against a mysterious alien threat known as The Collectors. Fighting valiantly for every life in his hands, Vega soon discovers the path of heroism comes with a heavy price; the end of innocence, the sacrifice of one’s ideals and ultimately, the loss of those closest to him. Exclusive Canadian screening.

DOC TALKS/// Who Cares?

Local filmmaker! Canada 2012, 80 min, Digital, Dir: Rosie Dransfeld 27 @ 7PM

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.

Edmonton Premiere with filmmaker in attendance. $2 off foR DoC ALBeRTA MeMBeRS

enD of THe MonTH fILMS Starting the weekend of noV 30:

Lawrence Anyways, Canadian wunder-kind Xavier Dolan’s third film is a transexual love story set in Montreal in the 1990s, and closes out a trilogy of sorts.

In honor of World AIDS Day, we present a screening of United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, the coalition of activists whose efforts changed the world and saved lives.

The World Before Her is a documentary about the controversial world of beauty pageants in India.

And finally, we’re turning it up to eleven with the classic rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap: Stonehenge, cucumbers, and Smell the Glove.

How can you leave this behind?

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