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JUly 2013 SCHEDULE Provincial Archives Pre-show/// The Provincial Archives of Alberta (PAA) is pleased to present a pre-show of short films and clips that were originally projected as part of Fedoruk’s Travelling Show, a touring cinema run by Trifon Fedoruk in the interwar period. At that time, these kinds of shows were part of the rural landscape across North America and Alberta was no exception.

Well-equipped travelling showmen such as Fedoruk would tour with tents, tent poles, projectors, make-shift screens, and film reels. The films in this month’s pre-show include music shorts, cartoons, and clips from the low-budget Western, Trigger Fingers. Enjoy the show!

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.

Charles Bradley: Soul of America This is What Democracy Sounds Like Canada 2013, 45 min, Digital, Dir: Tom Radford 4 @ 7PM

What do Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges, Wild Rose, the Koch Brothers, union busting, the United Farmers of Alberta, the Montreal Student Protests,and Occupy Wall Street have in common? The battle over the future of democracy. Public institutions stand up to the barbarian at the gate, the privatization agenda of global capital. Last summer’s strikes at seniors’ care facilities in Edmonton and Calgary sound a warning of what’s to come: the “capture” of government by big business; the fight for the hearts and minds of Albertans.

A special presentation and discussion of the future of our fragile democracy. With filmmaker Tom Radford, AUPE President Guy Smith, and activists from the film.

Presented by AUPE, CBC and DocTalks.

Admission: All tickets: $10

This is Elvis USA 1981, 110 min, Digital, Dir: Malcolm Leo, Andrew Solt 2 @ 7PM

This is Elvis combines documentary footage intercut with dramatic reconstructions. Easy to overlook the risible ‘dramatised’ inserts: a substantial proportion of the footage is for real, and it includes numerous gems. Shadow kinescopes of early TV appearances point an almost obscene contrast with the close-up coverage of Presley at the end, mumbling through the ironies of My Way; while in between, such socialising agents as Sullivan, Sinatra, the US Army, and MGM are seen contributing to the taming of a legend.

The Room USA 2003, 99 min, 35mm, Dir: Tommy Wiseau 5 @ 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.

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Sightseers UK 2012, 88 min, Digital, Dir: Ben Wheatley 5, 11 @ 7PM, 7 @ 4PM, 7, 8 @ 9:15PM

Chris (Steve Oram) wants to show Tina (Alice Lowe) his world and he wants to do it his way - on a journey through the British Isles in his beloved Abbey Oxford Caravan. Tina’s led a sheltered life and there are things that Chris needs her to see - the Crich Tramway Museum, the Ribblehead Viaduct, the Keswick Pencil Museum and the rolling countryside that accompanies these wonders in his life. But it doesn’t take long for the dream to fade. Litterbugs, noisy teenagers and pre-booked caravan sites, not to mention Tina’s meddling mother, soon conspire to shatter Chris’s dreams and send him, and anyone who rubs him up the wrong way, over a very jagged edge...

USA 2012, 75 min, Digital, Dir: Poull Brien 5 @ 9PM, 6, 7 @ 2PM, 9 @ 9:15PM

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. As if that weren’t challenge enough, he’s also supporting the mother who abandoned him as a child, struggling to pay his own bills, and, in his spare time, learning to read. When Bradley’s 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)

FAVA Video Kitchen Screening 6 @ 4PM

FAVA is proud to present new works from their introductory digital film course, Video Kitchen, which runs twice a year and is taught by accomplished and versatile media artists.

With a healthy mix of theory and practice, the course 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. Filmmakers: Naveed Bakhsh, Dariel Bennett, Zanne Cameron, Spencer Croteau, Brandon Girard, Mark Glass, Jean-Pierre Marchant, Leanne Olson, Andrew Paul, Frank Schlapansky, Samuel Sir, Troy Woodbeck.

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Goynat Baksho India 2013, 141 min, Digital, Dir: Aparna Sen, Bengali w/ subtitles 7 @ 6:15PM

Secret Disco Revolution Canada 2012, 90 min, Digital, Dir: Jaimie Kastner 6, 10 @ 7PM, 13 @ 4PM

The disco era, long dismissed as a time of hedonistic excess, has been gravely misunderstood.

Revisionist historians now argue the era was in fact an important time of protest: liberating gays, blacks and women. The Secret Disco Revolution juxtaposes disco revisionists against revealing new interviews with the era’s biggest stars: The Village People, Gloria Gaynor, Kool and the Gang... A goldmine of rarely seen stock footage, and enough disco hits to shake your booty straight back to 1978.

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Saturday Night Fever USA 1977, 118 min, Digital, Dir: John Badham 6, 10 @ 8:45PM

Living at home with his squabbling parents and trapped in a soul-killing job in a Brooklyn hardware store, the restless Tony leaves it all behind on Saturday night, donning a pristine white suit to catch fire on the flashing dance floor. ...A true popculture phenomenon - the Bee Gees soundtrack topped the charts seemingly forever, and the film made a deeply dimpled and pompadoured John Travolta a household name and (alas) fashion template - Saturday Night Fever now appears as a fascinating time capsule of the pre-AIDS disco scene, in which “stayin’ alive” meant something more than survival. Electrifying in its time and enthralling now, Fever is a certified classic. (TIFF) Double Bill with Secret Disco Revolution: $15, Single Film: Regular Admission Disco duds encouraged!

The film revolves around women of three generations and their lives and changing position of society, in relation to a jewellery box. The lead character is the matriarch of a Bengali Hindu family of landed gentry in East Bengal. After becoming a victim of ethnic cleansing during the partition of India, her family moves to the Republic of India, losing their ancestral lands in the process. She spends the remainder of her life, apparently as a chaste widow, hiding her wedding jewels from her greedy relatives in the joint family.

Kevi Rite Jaish India 2013, 128 min, Digital, Dir: Abhishek Jain, Guarati w/ subtitles 21 @ 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.

Crime Watch/// “A fascinating dichotomy between right and wrong has afforded the crime genre its enduring, somewhat twisted appeal.”(Zach Yusof) From thriller to comedy or classic to contemporary, crime films provide viewers with a provocative glimpse into the criminal world and mind by exposing them to characters or situations that, for the majority, are not part of everyday life.

Metro Cinema’s newest monthly film series Crime Watch, curated by Laura O’Connor, will explore the diverse range of approaches within the crime genre.

Badlands USA 1973, 94 minutes, Digital, Dir: Terrence Malick 8 @ 7PM

“He wanted to die with me and I dreamed of being lost forever in his arms.” Inspired by the Charles Starkweather and Caril-Ann Fugate murders in 1958. Badlands follows the romance, from chance encounter to subsequent murder spree, of disaffected twenty-something Kit Carruthers (Martin Sheen) and enigmatic fifteen-year-old Holly Sargis (Sissy Spacek).

Determined to be together Kit and Holly leave a trail of bodies in their wake as they venture to the Badlands of Montana to carve out a new life for themselves. Launching not only his own career but those of Sheen, Spacek and cinematographer Tak Fujimoto, Crime Watch is proud to start its’ series with Terrence Malick’s striking debut film.

Shoot the Piano Player (Tirez sur le pianist ) France 1960, 92 min, Digital, Dir: François Truffaut, French w/ subtitles 9 @ 7PM

Part thriller, part comedy, part tragedy, Shoot the Piano Player relates the adventures of mild-mannered Charlie Koller (Charles Aznavour), a former concert pianist reduced to playing honky-tonk rags in a side street bar. When his past catches up with him in the form of his wayward brother Chico (Albert Rémy), Charlie stumbles into the criminal underworld and a whirlwind love affair with admiring waitress Léna (Marie Dubois). Both a sly tribute to American film noir and a moving rethinking of its key tropes, Truffaut’s second feature is pure nouvelle vague.

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Getting Started Canada 1979, 12 min, Digital, Dir: Richard Condie

Our hero attempts to practice a piece of music on the piano, but distractions get in the way. When he finally sits down to play, pandemonium breaks loose. A hilarious animated short from the NFB. $2 Off for AGA Members

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M Highlander III Canada/ France/ UK 1994, 99 min, Digital, Dir Andrew Morahan 11 @ 9PM

There can be only one! So, we’ll host the third. Or is it the second? This is the disputed “alternate” sequel to Highlander. Christopher Lambert makes sword sparks with Mario Van Peebles, last seen as fun-loving Jamaican shark bait in Jaws: The Revenge. Being a Highlander goes a long way towards explaining how Van Peebles’ character survived being vivisected by a great white shark near the end of our last offering. Still, Connor MacLeod will have to make lots and lots of sword sparks to BE THE ONLY ONE left with superb hair and an unidentifiable accent.

Germany 1931, 99 min, Digital, Dir: Fritz Lang 12, 14, 17 @ 7PM, 13, 15 @ 9:15PM, 14 @ 2PM

Lang’s first sound film was based on the reallife manhunt for the Düsseldorf child-murderer (an extraordinary performance by Peter Lorre).

A radical, analytical film that entertains many of Lang’s fascinations: innovative use of sound; the detail of police procedure; the parallels drawn between organised police behaviour and the underworld ... a construction which carries Lang’s own view of the arbitrariness of the Law. A subversive film, or more simply a movie brimming over with the ferment of Lang’s imagination at its height? You choose. (Time Out) “Riveting and frighteningly contemporary... cinematically dazzling. Lorre’s performance is unforgettable.” (Leonard Maltin)

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Maximum Overdrive USA 1986, 97 min, Digital, Dir: Stephen King 12 @ 11:15PM

In 1986, when Stephen King made his directorial debut with a film starring Emilio (Repo Man) Estevez and the entire AC/DC Who Made Who album as the soundtrack, how could it fail?

Well, fail it did and was panned heavily by critics everywhere. All these years later DEDfest believes Maximum Overdrive is one hell of a fun B-movie ride that you can’t help but enjoy in the right setting. For eight days in 1986, the earth passed through the tail of a mysterious Rea-M rogue comet and during that time, machines on earth suddenly came to life to terrorize their human creators. A small group of people in a truck stop, surrounded by “alive” semitrailers, set out to stop the machines before the machines stop them.

Labyrinth UK/USA 1986, 101 min, Digital, Dir: Jim Henson 13 @ 2PM

15-year old Sarah (Jennifer Connelly) is sick of being ignored for her baby half-brother Toby (Toby Froud). One night when her father and stepmother leave her alone to baby-sit, she fancifully wishes that goblins would come and take him away like they do in her beloved fairy stories. Unbeknownst to Sarah, goblins are watching her, and as soon as she says her wish aloud Jareth the Goblin King (David Bowie) swoops in to grant her request.

An 80s classic, Labyrinth continues to inspire children and adults alike with its imaginative story and important lesson: be careful what you wish for.

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To the Wonder USA 2012, 112 min, Digital, Dir: Terrence Malick 12, 14, 17 @ 9PM, 13 @ 7PM, 14 @ 4PM, 16 @ 9:30PM

The anticipated new film from renowned director Terrence Malick (Tree of Life, The New World), To the Wonder boldly and lyrically explores the complexities of love in all its forms. Parisian single mother Marina (Olga Kurylenko) and Midwestern tourist Neil (Ben Affleck) fall madly in love in France and relocate to Oklahoma with Marina’s young daughter to start a life together.

As their relationship wanes and her visa nears expiration, Marina makes the acquaintance of a priest and fellow exile (Javier Bardem) who is struggling with his faith, while Neil renews a relationship with his childhood sweetheart, Jane (Rachel McAdams).

Edmonton Gets Felt Up Canada 2013, Live Show & Digital, Dir: Simon Glassman 16 @ 7PM

Edmontonian’s embarrassing stories come to life in puppet form on the new show for BiteTV Felt Up. Metro will premiering 2 full episodes along with performances from Jill Pollock, Amy Shostak, Kory Mathewson, Mike Robertson, Craig Martell and Jon Mick all in puppet form for a night of comedy, music and maybe a bit of dance. Felt Up stars Simon Puppet and Joe Puppet will act as hosts with music from Doug Hoyer. Also, lots of weird surprises.

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on top of all that, we have everything from Truffaut to Kubrick, Elvis to disco, and Killer Klowns to Eraserhead, with new films from around the world, from Edmonton to indonesia.

July also kicks off our new monthly film series, Crime watch, curated by Laura o’Connor, which will feature both contemporary and classic films exploring the diversity and enduring appeal of the crime genre. The series starts in July with Terrence Malick’s Badlands.

we’ll follow that up with a western series, Best of the west, which begins in July with The Magnificent Seven and High noon, then continues into august with The Searchers, The wild Bunch and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

we’ve also got three new series to mention: Continuing from last month is our short series Shots To Kill: The Sixties Cinema of Seijun Suzuki. The final three films in that series are Gate of Flesh, Youth of The Beast and Branded To Kill.

we’ve got some great films this month, with a wide variety of titles and series. Starting on July 12th is Fritz Lang’s classic, M. Lang’s first sound film incorporates a haunting whistling leitmotif, beautiful cinematography, and a superb performance by Peter Lorre.

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Saddle Up! Metro Cinema presents five classic Westerns that explore how the west was won. One of Hollywood’s most iconic genres, this short series showcases some of the best interpretations of the fundamental American myth. This month we enter on the sun baked side of Western optimism with two films that take us to a place where honour endured and the possibilities were promising. While next month we venture further down the dusty road to the corrupt side of the genre with three more films - The Searchers, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and The Wild Bunch – that critique the legacy of America’s western expansion.

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Pieta South Korea 2012, 104 min, Digital, Dir: Ki-duk Kim, Korean w/ subtitles 19 @ 7PM, 20 @ 10PM, 21 @ 4PM, 21, 23, 25 @ 9PM,

In this intense and haunting story, a brutal loan shark is living an isolated and lonely existence when a mysterious woman appears claiming to be his long-lost mother. Suspicious, he subjects her to a series of tests and humiliations, but cannot shake her adoration - a love that opens up the hope of redemption. However, it may be too late to escape the horrific consequences of his past. Violent and provocative, Pieta is nothing if not extreme, a film reveling in almost absurdist dichotomies of good and evil. But if you can stomach the challenging first hour, the pay off tells us something unexpectedly poetic and moving about the relative value of money and compassion in today’s capitalist society. (VIFF)

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Killer Klowns from Outer Space USA 1988, 88 min, Digital, Dir: Stephen Chiodo 19 @ 11PM

What says summer like the circus and what says Bizarro like space aliens? How about the unholy marriage of the two: Killer Klowns From Outer Space! Come out for some latenight summery fun (and cotton candy) and see the Chiodo Bros. B-movie classic. Give your coulrophobic friends a real reason to hate clowns. Join Slim, Fatso, Shorty, Rudy and Bibbo as they terrorize Crescent Cove and find out what horrors lay in the heart of the Klown Kathedral. A throwback to classic sci-fi painted in the neon gross-out colours of the eighties, Killer Klowns is not one to be missed.

High Noon

The Magnificent Seven USA 1960, 129 min, 35mm, Dir. John Sturges 20 @ 7PM, 21 @ 1:30PM, 24 @ 7PM

Seven American gunslingers – including Charles Bronson, Yul Brynner, and Steve McQueen – are hired by a remote Mexican village to protect it from regular bandit attacks. Each with their own reasons and motives, the seven ride into town and begin training the villagers to defend themselves and bond with the women. After successfully holding off their first bandit ambush, the gunslingers must prepare for further onslaught as the thieves’ leader, Calvera, gathers more men to help him take the town.

Despite being significantly outnumbered, the seven boldly continue to fight for the farmers and their town. Adapted from Akira Kurosawa’s The Seven Samurai, the film combines both the narrative and philosophical dimensions of its source material with the action audiences have come to expect from the Western.

Although it was at first unfairly compared to its precursor, The Magnificent Seven is now regarded as an American classic.

USA 1952, 85 min, Digital, Dir: Fred Zinnemann 27 @ 7PM, 28 @ 2PM, Aug 1 @ 7PM

Gary Cooper stars as Will Kane, a marshal who gives up his badge and renounces violence for his new bride Amy (Grace Kelly).

But on his wedding day, Will receives word that Frank Miller, a violent criminal he put away, has been released on a technicality and is headed in on the noon train to exact his revenge. Just as Kane is leaving his old life behind to start anew, he has to pick up the gun one last time to protect the people of Hadleyville, even as they turn against him and refuse to help. Controversial in its time, High Noon explores the morals of the west and the lone hero’s sense of duty and honour, while also featuring some of the best roles for women in the genre’s canon.

Room 237 USA 2012, 102 min, Digital, Dir: Rodney Ascher 19 @ 9PM, 20 @ 2PM, 22 @ 7PM, 24 @ 9:30PM

Many films lend themselves to dramatic interpretations, but none as rich and farranging as Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining.

In Room 237, we hear from people who have developed far -reaching theories and believe they have decoded the hidden symbols and messages buried in the late director’s film.

The film gives voice to the fans and scholars who espouse these theories, reworking the film to match their ideas and intercutting it with layers of dreamlike imagery to illustrate their streams of consciousness. Sometimes outrageous, sometimes mind-blowing, the words of the interviewees are given full-force

by Ascher’s compelling vision.

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The Shining UK/ USA 1980, 146 min, Digital, Dir: Stanley Kubrick 20 @ 4PM, 22 @ 9PM

A little bit Stephen King, a little bit Stanley Kubrick; Jack Nicholson gives one of the alltime insane performances as Jack Torrence, an alcoholic writer who takes a caretaker job at a mountain resort during the off-season and descends into a nightmare of writers block and insanity. One of the greatest of psychological horror films, Kubrick examines creative stasis and the isolation of the family unit while creating a genre classic. Double Bill with Room 237: Matinee: SAT $11, Mon: $15, Single Film: Regular Admission

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The Act of Killing Denmark/ Norway/ UK 2012, 115 min, Digital, Dir: Joshua Oppenheimer 26 @ 6:45PM, 27 @ 4:30PM, 28 @ 9:30PM, 29, aug 1 @ 9PM, 30 @ 7PM

Cry-Baby USA 1990, 85 min, Digital, Dir: John Waters 23 @ 7PM

In his first big-screen leading role, Johnny Depp plays “Cry Baby” Wade Walker, a greaser who falls for square Allison Vernon-Williams, who incidentally, is tired of being good.

Featuring Iggy Pop, Traci Lords, and a parade of Baltimore’s finest weirdos and regulars, John Waters take on the juvenile delinquent film of the 50’s is a loving tribute to rockabilly rebels and the films of his childhood, and one of the best musicals of the 90s.

In this chilling and inventive documentary executive produced by Errol Morris and Werner Herzog, The Act Of Killing examines a country where killers are celebrated as heroes and the filmmakers challenge unrepentant death squad leaders to reenact their real-life mass-killings in the style of the American movies they love. The hallucinatory result is a cinematic fever dream, an unsettling journey deep into the imaginations of mass-murderers and the shockingly banal regime of corruption and impunity they inhabit. Shaking audiences at film festivals, The Act Of Killing is an unprecedented film and according to CNN, “could well change how you view the documentary form.”

SHOTS TO KILL: The Sixties Cinema of Seijun Suzuki Guest curators Matt Bowes and Brendan Brown present the final two films in the exploration of the celebrated director’s iconic work from the sixties; indelible images and renegade cool!

Youth of the Beast Japan 1963, 92 min, Digital, Dir: Seijun Suzuki, Japanese w/ subtitles 25 @ 7PM, 28 @ 4PM

The delightful title cards found in the trailer say it all: “Those bastards messed up my life!” The inimitable Joe Shishido plays, you guessed it, Jo, a lone wolf who comes to Tokyo in search of revenge. In the storied tradition of Red Harvest, Yojimbo and many others, Jo plays two rival Yakuza factions off against each other to an explosive conclusion. With stark brutality and eye-catching composition, Suzuki’s talent for elevating B-movie material is on full display in this soon-to-be remade thriller, which was a breakout success on its first release.

Mud USA 2012, 130 min, Digital, Dir: Jeff Nichols 26, 31 @ 9PM, 27 @ 2PM, 28 @ 7PM, 30 @ 9:15PM

Mud is an adventure about two boys, Ellis and his friend Neckbone, who find a man named Mud (Matthew McConaughey) hiding out on an island in the Mississippi. Mud describes fantastic scenarios - he killed a man in Texas and vengeful bounty hunters are coming to get him. He says he is planning to meet and escape with the love of his life, Juniper, who is waiting for him in town. Skeptical but intrigued, Ellis and Neckbone agree to help him. It isn’t long until Mud’s visions come true and their small town is besieged by a beautiful girl with a line of bounty hunters in tow.

Branded to Kill Japan 1967, 91 min, Digital, Dir: Seijun Suzuki, Japanese w/ subtitles 27 @ 9PM, 31 @ 7PM

Hanada (Suzuki regular Joe Shishido again) has a life filled with peculiar obsessions.

Within his marriage, he can only become aroused by inhaling the scent of boiling rice; within his profession, he is the Number Three-ranked hired killer in the Underworld - with a consuming desire to become Number One. Shot in stark black and white CinemaScope, this “Cubist” gangster film is widely regarded as Suzuki’s masterpiece of deconstruction-as-demolition. Of course, it resulted in his blacklisting from the industry for a decade.

Eraserhead USA 1977, 89 min, Digital, Dir: David Lynch 26 @ 11:30PM, 29 @ 7PM

Filmed intermittently over the course of a fiveyear period, David Lynch’s radical feature debut stars Jack Nance as Henry Spencer, a man living in an unnamed industrial wasteland. Upon learning that a past romance has resulted in an impending pregnancy, Henry agrees to wed mother-to-be Mary and moves her into his tiny, squalid flat. .... An intensely visceral nightmare, Eraserhead marches to the beat of its own slow, surreal rhythm: Henry’s world is a cancerous dreamscape, a place where sins manifest themselves as bizarre creatures and worlds exist within worlds. “A dream of dark and troubling things.” David Lynch

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