Metro Cinema Guide May 2013 by PostVue Publishing

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MAY 2013 SCHEDULE The Room USA 2003, 99 min, 35mm, Dir: Tommy Wiseau 3 @ 11PM

Ginger & Rosa UK/ Denmark/ Canada/ Croatia 2012, 90 min, Digital, Dir: Sally Potter 3, 5, 9 @ 7PM, 4 @ 2:30PM, 4 @ 9PM, 5 @ 12:45PM, 6, 7 @ 9:15PM, 12 @ 12:15PM

Cutting class to engage in passionate discussions about politics, gender, sex, religion and hairstyles, Ginger (Elle Fanning) and Rosa (Alice Englert) seem to be inseparable companions, growing up in London in the 1960s. But their friendship falters when Rosa falls under the spell of Ginger’s father, Roland, a charismatic freethinker. Ginger assuages her sense of betrayal by involving herself in the antinuclear movement as the Cuban Missile Crisis seizes the world in the grip of nuclear anxiety. The obliteration of her home life and treasured camaraderie is mirrored in the threat of total annihilation. In both cases, the personal and the global, the world doesn’t end. But nothing will ever be quite the same again. “Potter strikes a perfect balance with her two central characters, making Ginger & Rosa at once emblems of Cold War youth and precisely defined individuals in their own right.” (TIFF Cameron Bailey)

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. Please note: Audience Participation is encouraged, within reason.

The Greenest Building USA 2011, 57 min, Digital, Dir: June Turville 6 @ 7PM

Presented by the Alberta Chapter YEG Emerging Green Builders. Is demolition in the name of sustainability really the best use of natural, social, and economic resources? Or, like the urban renewal programs of the 1960’s, will this well-intentioned planning result in devastating environmental and cultural consequences? Through five prototype projects, ranging in scope from a tenant improvement, to a Main Street America project to a highly successful renovation the film explores the myth that a “green building” is necessarily a new building and demonstrates how renovation and adaptive reuse of existing structures fully achieves the sustainability movement’s “triple bottom line” economic, social, and ecological balance. FREE ADMISSION

Silver Linings Playbook USA 2012, 122 min, Digital, Dir: David O. Russell 8 @ 7PM

Life doesn’t always go according to plan… Pat (Bradley Cooper) has lost everything -- his house, his job, and his wife. He now finds himself living back with his parents after spending time in a state institution on a plea bargain. Pat is determined to rebuild his life, remain positive and reunite with his wife, but when he meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), a mysterious girl with problems of her own, things get complicated. CMHA – Edmonton, invites you to celebrate Mental Health Week (May 6 – 12). Visit edmonton.cmha.ca for more info or call 780-414-6300. Admission is free, but donations are welcome.

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.

Love, Marilyn USA 2012, 107 min, Digital, Dir: Liz Garbus 10, 13 @ 7PM, 11 @ 9PM, 12 @ 2PM, 12 @ 9:30PM, 14 @ 9:15PM

Beware of Mr. Baker Wrong France/ USA 2012, 94 min, Digital, Dir: Quentin Dupieux 3, 5, 9 @ 9PM, 4 @ 12:30PM, 4 @ 7PM, 5 @ 2:30PM, 8 @ 9:30PM

From electronic musician-turned-director/ writer/editor/cinematographer/composer Quentin Dupieux (Rubber, Steak) Wrong is a willfully surreal comedy, which made its world premiere at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, about a man’s frantic search for his kidnapped dog and the strange characters he encounters along the way. Dolph Springer wakes up one morning to realize he has lost the love of his life, his dog, Paul. During his quest to get Paul (and his life) back, Dolph radically changes the lives of others. In his journey to find Paul, Dolph may lose something even more vital – his mind.

USA 2012, 92 min, Digital, Dir: Jay Bulger 7 @ 7PM (Special live music set by Gary Debussy @ 6:30PM)

Very few films can say their opening scene involves the main character breaking the director’s nose, but as this film’s title suggests Ginger Baker is a man to approach with caution. A madman and a genius best known for his work with Cream and Blind Faith, Baker is often lauded as the inventor of rock ’n’ roll drumming. Beware of Mr. Baker now finds him living in his fortified compound in South Africa, desperate for cash... living with his 29-year-old internet bride and 39 polo ponies. Featuring interviews with his ex-wives, his children and many of the greatest living musicians who know him (such as Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Charlie Watts, Mickey Hart, Carlos Santana, Femi Kuti, Neil Peart and Marky Ramone) this is a look back at a tumultuous career through explosive interviews with one of rock’s greatest characters. (Charlotte Cook) Encore May 11 @ 4PM

Marilyn Monroe invented her public persona at the expense of concealing a private side known only to her close confidants. Fifty years after her death, her creation still blazes brightly in our cultural imagination, while the creator continues to lurk in the shadows. Drawing on never before seen personal papers, diaries and letters, director Liz Garbus worked with acclaimed actresses to evoke the multiple aspects of the real Marilyn passion, ambition, soul - searching, power and fear - in an absorbing and astonishing portrait. These documents, brought to life in this film by some of our contemporary icons and stars, give us a new and revelatory understanding of Monroe, revealing her carefully guarded inner life. “A heady cocktail of journalistic rigor and show business flair ... just right for its blazingly famous, endlessly enigmatic subject.” (The NY Times) MOTHER’S DAY 2-for-1: COME TO A MOVIE ON SUN, MAY 12, AND BRING SOMEBODY’S MOTHER ALONG FOR FREE! INCLUDES ONE SCREENING EACH OF GINGER & ROSA, STEVIE NICKS: IN YOUR DREAMS, AND LOVE, MARILYN.

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Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams USA 2013, 112 min, Digital, Dirs: Stevie Nicks, David A Stewart 12 @ 4PM, 13 @ 9:15PM, 14 @ 7PM

The Lords of Salem USA/ UK/ Canada, 101 min, Digital, Dir: Rob Zombie 10 @ 9:30PM

DEDfest is proud to present the Edmonton premiere of Rob Zombie’s latest film for one night only! A mysterious wooden box containing a vinyl record arrives for Heidi, a local radio DJ. As Heidi and her co-workers play the Lord’s record it starts playing backwards and Heidi experiences a flashback to a past trauma. Later they play the record normal, dubbing them The Lords of Salem and to their surprise it is a massive hit with listeners. Later, mystery tickets show up at the station along with records and posters as the band will be having a gig in Salem. But soon enough they realize this is no ordinary band as the original Lords Of Salem arrive and are out for blood!

Decadent rock star, ’70s survivor, gypsy songbird, white-winged dove - the inimitable Stevie Nicks has entranced millions of fans worldwide with her poetic lyrics, sultry singing and feather and-lace style. In 2010 Nicks embarked on the recording of a new solo album, In Your Dreams , produced by former Eurythmics mastermind Dave Stewart. With cameras in tow, documentarian Stewart and diva Nicks set up shop in her home studio and reveal their collaborative creative process. Shifting dynamically among video formats, painstaking recording sessions and revealing interviews, this magic-tinged musical journey is a loving and tuneful portrait of the eternally bewitching Gold Dust Woman. MOTHER’S DAY 2-for-1: COME TO A MOVIE ON SUN, MAY 12, AND BRING SOMEBODY’S MOTHER ALONG FOR FREE! INCLUDES ONE SCREENING EACH OF GINGER & ROSA, STEVIE NICKS: IN YOUR DREAMS, AND LOVE, MARILYN.

Eating Garlic and Shoes: Two Films by Les Blank

USA 1979, 22 min, Digital, Dir: Les Blank

This film documents a wonderfully strange moment in the history of documentaries: Werner Herzog vowed to eat his shoe if Errol Morris completed his film Gates of Heaven; this film by Les Blank documents Herzog’s entire shoe-eating visit, to keep his promise. First, Herzog stews his shoes for five hours at Chez Panisse, then eats one onstage to accompany a screening. Throughout, Herzog comments on cinema and culture, including his famous assertion: if you want to make a film, steal a camera!

Nighttime in Paris the cats come out to play. Dino is by day young Zoe’s pet, but by night he works with Nico (Steven Blum), a cat burglar with a surprisingly soft side. When Dino brings Zoe a bracelet from one of his nighttime adventures, her police detective mother, Jeanne (Marcia Gay Harden) becomes suspicious of the cat’s evening dalliances. It all comes to head one night when the city’s biggest criminal outfit are out for their biggest heist yet. Soon, Dino brings Zoe and Nico together and they are on the run through the streets of Paris from mob boss Victor Costa and his cronies. A Cat in Paris is a hand-drawn animated neo-noir fit for the whole family! With:

Canada 1988, 7 min, 35 mm, Dir. Cordell Baker

Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers USA 1980, 51 min, Digital, Dir: Les Blank

Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe

France 2010, 70 min, Digital, Dirs: Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol, English dubbed 11 @ 2PM

The Cat Came Back

11 @ 7PM

This duet of films is intended to honor the life and work of documentary filmmaker Les Blank, whose films celebrate the music and food of American regional cultures, from polka to the blues, from garlic to tea, and from Dizzy Gillespie to Lightnin’ Hopkins. Blank’s films are highlighted by his obvious affection for the individuals he follows, as well as the music they play and the food they eat. Les Blank passed away in early April. Please enjoy these films as much as we do, and roast some garlic and raise a glass for Les.

A Cat in Paris

Food culture today is broadly accepting, with hundred mile diets, celebrity chefs, omni-present cooking shows, and live-tweeting of meals. But this was not always the case. Les Blank’s 1980 film is a snapshot of American food culture in transition. Mainstream culture and mouthwash ads demonized ethnic foods as ‘smelly’, which prompted earnest hippies to put on garlic-shaped hats, macho Mediterranean men to sing loudly, and various cooks to cook joyfully in celebration of garlic, the stinking rose at the centre of flavourful cuisine. The cooking on display ranges from soul food, stir fry and Mediterranean cooking to the emerging California cuisine of Chez Panisse. Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers highlights Les Blank’s greatest gift: sharing the pure joy of life through cinema.

The Harry S. Miller folk song comes to life in this charming animated adaptation. Mr. Johnson tries to rid himself of a small yet destructive yellow cat that just will not leave his home. As he grows increasingly desperate, he takes increasingly destructive measures, but the cat just keeps coming back. Children 12 and under are free!

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FAVA Awards of Excellence Screening Following the resounding success of the inaugural FAVA FEST in 2012, FAVA rolled out the red carpet and celebrated our second annual FAVA FEST: Film and Video Arts Festival in March. With over 40 films in competition for our Awards of Excellence, FAVA gave over $10,000 worth of Awards of Excellence to local filmmakers and media artists. See these award-winning films on the big screen! Admission by donation

Shorts Programme 15 @ 7PM

Maud Mary & the Titanic 2012, 7 min, Dir: Geraldine Carr

Outstanding Short Documentary Film or Video Honourable Mention A short film about the filmmaker’s greatgrandmother and the idea that sometimes it’s great to be late!

High 2012, 5 min, Dir: Brett Hamilton

Outstanding Music Video Honourable Mention Music Video for the Sun City track High.

The Man That Got Away

Magnetic Reconnection

2012, 26 min, Dir: Trevor Anderson

2012, 13 min, Dir: Kyle Armstrong

Outstanding Short Documentary Film or Video Award A musical documentary that tells the true life story of Trevor’s great-uncle Jimmy in six original songs.

Outstanding Experimental Film or Video Award A short documentary film contrasting the Northern Lights with decaying manmade debris surrounding the Artic Canadian town of Churchill, Manitoba.

Now That I’ve Given Up Hope, I Feel Much Better

I Think I Do

2012, 6 min, Dir: Lyle Bell & aAron munson

Outstanding Music Video Award Official Music Video for the Shout Out Out Out Out track Now That I’ve Given Up Hope I Feel Much Better off of their Spanish Moss and Total Loss album.

Cities and Plains

15 @ 9:15PM 2013, 90 min, Digital, Dir: Dylan Pearce

Outstanding Long Form Narrative Film or Video Award I Think I Do is a romantic comedy about family ties, marriage and commitment, the importance of timing, and the hard learned lesson that, try as we might, life simply does not go as planned.

2013, 22 min, Dir: Dylan Rhys Howard

Outstanding Short Narrative Film or Video Award A young couple are pulled apart when a job opportunity comes up for one of them in another city.

Four Feet 2012, 8 min, Dir: Aerlan Barrett

Outstanding Short Narrative Film or Video Honourable Mention A young boy comes home to find his mother in tears and tries to help her in any way he can.

FIFA World Cup Brazil 2014 Coming Soon 2013, 4 min, Dir: Carlito Ghioni

Outstanding Animated Film or Video Award Brazil is about to host the 2014 soccer world cup, a perfect opportunity to increase business on the ground… the bad way.

Their Only Power Was Moral A History of Injured Workers Spring Breakers USA 2012, 94 min, Digital, Dir: Harmony Korine In Ontario Canada, 52 min, Digital, Producers: The Injured Workers History Project 16 @ 7PM

Presented by The Canadian Injured Workers Association Of Alberta (CIWAA) - In Pursuit Of Justice for all Workers. The feature documents WCB in Canada and CIWA’s ground-breaking Supreme Court victory over the Ontario WCB. Speakers in attendance include: Rachel Notley, NDP MLA for Edmonton Strathcona; Gil McGowan, President of the Alberta Federation of Labour, Kevin Flaherty - Executive Director of Alberta Workers Health Center; Brian Henderson, President of the Edmonton District and Labour Council. Advance Tickets: $10 at Earth’s General Store or at the door. For info visit: canadianinjuredworkers.com

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Four sexy college girls plan to fund their spring break getaway by burglarizing a fast food shack. But that’s only the beginning… During a night of partying, the girls hit a roadblock when they are arrested on drug charges. Hungover and clad only in bikinis, the girls appear before a judge but are bailed out unexpectedly by Alien (James Franco), an infamous local thug who takes them under his wing and leads them on the wildest Spring Break trip in history. Rough on the outside but with a soft spot inside, Alien wins over the hearts of the young Spring Breakers, and leads them on a Spring Break they never could have imagined. “... Director Korine challenges his impressive young cast in unexpected ways, with long, seemingly improvised takes and a demand for shifting tones of sweetness and menace.” (TIFF)

Unclaimed Canada/ Vietnam, 81 min, Digital, Dir: Michael Jorgensen 17, 19, 23 @ 7PM, 18 @ 4:15PM, 18 @ 9:15PM, 19 @ 1PM, 20 @ 5PM, 20 @ 9PM After enduring a traumatic childhood and two years in the Army during the Vietnam War, Tom Faunce made an oath to spend the rest of his life helping those in need. Four decades later, he discovers a man in Southeast Asia claiming to be an American special-forces soldier listed as ‘killed-in-action’. Working against forces inside the U.S. government, Tom struggles to prove lost soldier’s identity and reunite him with his family. Doc Talks presents the screening May17, with an intro and Q & A with Edmontonian director Michael Jorgensen. Canadian Theatrical Premiere!

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7PM Love, Marilyn 9:15PM Stevie Nicks:

7PM The Greenest Building 9:15PM Ginger & Rosa

12:15PM Ginger & Rosa

12:45PM Ginger & Rosa 2:30PM Wrong 4:30PM INDEPENDENT EVENT 7PM Ginger & Rosa 9PM Wrong

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7PM Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams

7PM MUSIC DOCS/// Beware of Mr. Baker 9:15PM Ginger & Rosa

Spirited Away

7PM FAVA AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE:

7PM CMHA/// Silver Linings Playbook 9:30PM Wrong

7PM CIWAA/// Their Only Power Was Moral

7PM Unclaimed 9PM GHIBLI///

7PM Love, Marilyn 9:30PM DEDfest/// The Lords of Salem

7PM Ginger & Rosa 9PM Wrong 11PM The Room

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2PM GHIBLI/// My Neighbors the

2PM REEL FAMILY CINEMA/// A Cat in Paris 4PM Beware of Mr. Baker 7PM Eating Garlic and Shoes with Les Blank 9PM Love, Marilyn

12:30PM Wrong 2:30PM Ginger & Rosa 4:30PM INDEPENDENT EVENT 7PM Wrong 9PM Ginger & Rosa

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Enjoy the films, Metro Cinema’s Programming Team

Also this month, a tribute to influential filmmaker Les Blank (1935 - 2013), the beginning of The Piano Film Series, in partnership with the Art Gallery of Alberta, screenings of the winners of the FAVA Awards of Excellence, and the annual Dreamspeakers Film Festival.

However, what sets Metro Cinema apart from most theatres, is our dedication to continue screening 35mm film. Our final installment of the Studio Ghibli Tour is a good example of the new realities of cinema exhibition: we’ll be presenting newly struck 35mm film prints of My Neighbors the Yamadas by Isao Takahata, and Spirited Away by Hayao Miyazaki. We’ll also be presenting the latest Studio Ghibli film, From Up on Poppy Hill by directed by Hayao’s son Goro Miyazaki, which will be screening from DCP.

Some of our DCPs this month include new titles like Ginger & Rosa by Sally Potter, Wrong by Quentin Dupieux and Spring Breakers by Harmony Korine; alongside classics like The Tin Drum, Taxi Driver and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and the Canadian theatrical premiere of Unclaimed, by Edmonton filmmaker Michael Jorgenson. All are screening from DCP.

The cinema exhibition industry has spent the last few years converting to Digital Cinema presentation, and Metro Cinema has now fully entered this brave new world, with the installation of the last part of our Digital Cinema system, we are now able to screen DCPs (Digital Cinema Packages).

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6:45PM Hysteria 9:30PM Spring Breakers

Shorts Programme 9PM FAVA AWARDS OF EXCELLENCE: I Think I Do

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7PM Unclaimed 9PM TURKEY SHOOT/// Jaws: The Revenge

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6:30PM The Tin Drum 9:30PM GHIBLI/// From Up on Poppy Hill 11:15PM Taxi Driver

Spirited Away 11:30PM METRO BIZARRO/// Sexcula

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2PM GHIBLI///From Up on Poppy Hill 4PM AGA PIANO/// Thelonius Monk: Straight, No Chaser 7PM GHIBLI/// From Up on Poppy Hill 8:45PM The Tin Drum

Yamadas 4:15PM Unclaimed 6:45PM GHIBLI/// Spirited Away 9:15PM Unclaimed Midnight The Rocky Horror Picture Show

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Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli On Tour: Part 5 We’ve reached the end of our Studio Ghibli series with the Studio’s most popular film, an oft-overlooked comedic take on everyday family life, and the latest from the next generation of Ghibli masters. These three films embody different genres and aesthetic styles, not only showing the range of the great animation studio, but also the breadth of their beautifully astute reflections on their homeland. Join us as we discover the magic, humor, and history of Japan! Thank you for exploring the worlds of Studio Ghibli with us!

From Up On Poppy Hill (Kokuriko-zaka kara) Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi) Japan 2001, 125 min, 35 mm, Dir: Hayao Miyazaki, English dubbed 17 @ 9PM, 18 @ 6:45PM, 20 @ 1PM, 21 @ 9:30PM

When Chihiro’s (Daviegh Chase) parents are turned into pigs by a mysterious curse, she ends up working for a witch named Yubaba (Suzanne Pleshette) at a very strange bathhouse in the Japanese countryside. Renamed Sen, the young girl helps the mysterious patrons of the establishment, which include the enigmatic No-Face and a river spirit named Haku. Will Chihiro be able to save her parents from the slop? Potentially Hayao Miyazaki’s greatest work, Spirited Away smashed box office records in Japan upon its release, garnering the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Fest. An absolute visual feast, stuffed full with Japanese mythology and imagery, this film is not to be missed. MAY 20 SCREENING PART OF A DOUBLE BILL WITH FROM UP ON POPPY HILL.

My Neighbors The Yamadas (Hôhokekyo tonari no Yamada-kun) Japan 1999, 111 min, 35 mm, Dir. Isao Takahata, English dubbed 18 @ 2PM, 19 @ 2:45PM

Hey, remember the time the neighbors lost their youngest child at the mall for an entire afternoon? Or when their son accidentally wore his pyjamas to school? Or how they ended up singing to a motorcycle gang in order to avoid getting into a fight? Little moments make up the lives of the six members of the Yamada family (including a dog). From flights of fancy to the crushingly mundane, their triumphs and failures are chronicled in acclaimed director Isao Takahata’s My Neighbors the Yamadas. Atypical of Studio Ghibli’s signature output in both style and story, Neighbors recalls the feeling of reading through a collection of newspaper strips brought to life with flowing, simple line art and sophisticated watercolours. Come catch up with the neighbors, four comic book panels at a time.

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Japan 2011, 91 min, Digital, Dir. Gorö Miyazaki, English dubbed for all screenings except 28 @ 9PM: Japanese with subtitles 20 @ 3:15PM, 24 @ 9:30PM, 25 @ 2PM, 25, 26 @ 7PM, 28 @ 9PM

16 year-old high school student Umi Matasuki (Sarak Bolger / Masami Nagasawa) takes care of her two younger siblings and her family’s boarding house in the Port of Yokohama while her mother is studying abroad. Each morning, she raises flags to signal out to sea that she is praying for safe voyages. When a poem appears in the school newspaper and her morning ritual, Umi meets the author Shun (Anton Yelchin / Junichi Okada) and the two join forces to save the school’s clubhouse from demolition, discovering along the way stories from the past that link them together. Set against the backdrop of the preparations for the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics, From Up On Poppy Hill is a lovely reflection on Japan’s recent past. The first feature collaboration between Hayao Miyazaki, who wrote the film, and his son, director Gorö Miyazaki. MAY 20 SCREENING IS PART OF A DOUBLE BILL WITH SPIRITED AWAY.

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A monthly foray into the weird, wild, and wonderful world of fringe cinema. Curated by Maggie Hardy.

Curated by Matt Bowes and Erin Fraser, presented by Metro Cinema and Warp One Comics and Games. graphiccontent.org

Sexcula

The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec

Canada 1974, 87 min, Digital Dir: John Holbrook 17 @ 11:30PM

“I vant to suck your...” Metro Bizarro is proud to present in partnership with REAL Boogie Nights presents Return to Porno Chic - the one, the only, Sexcula! The only adult film made in Canada during porno’s golden age Sexcula is the best example of your tax dollars at work because it was produced with CFCD tax credits. Sexcula has everything from Dracula to Frankenstein, sex-robots to gorilla suits. Be sure to stick around after the show for a Skype Q & A with Return to Porno Chic presenter Dimitrios Otis.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show USA 1975, 100 min, Digital, Dir: Jim Sharman 18 @ Midnight

The all-time weird and wonderful favorite midnight cult film returns! The adventure begins as newly engaged couple Brad and Janet encounter a problem with their car in rainy weather. When they stop to look for help, they find themselves at the castle of the charming transvestite Dr. Frank-N-Furter. A place to stay is offered, but will they want to remain there? Edmonton’s Shadow Cast group will once again lead the audience participation in this musical tribute to B movie sci-fi/horror cinema. Get your tickets early as it usually sells out. Tickets: $12. Available in advance at the Metro Cinema box office, or online or in person at Tix on the Square. Tixonthesquare.com.

France 2010, 107 min, Digital, Dir: Luc Besson, French with subtitles 21 @ 6:45PM

When an ancient beast is awakened by a professeur’s experiments in advanced telepathy, who do the terrified citizens of 1910s Paris turn to? Adèle Blanc-Sec (Louise Bourgoin) is an author of much renown, whose knowledge of other countries is invaluable to the defense of the city from dark forces, like mummies, pterosaurs, and her devious nemesis Professor Dieuleveult, who has put her sister in a coma. Continuing on from last month’s The Fifth Element, Graphic Content brings you a recent film from French visionary director Luc Besson, an adaptation of works by the legendary bande dessinée master Jacques Tardi. And, as a special treat, “Steam Scholar” Dr. Mike Perschon is speaking before the film on The Steampunk Aesthetic.

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hysteria UK 2011, 100 min, Digital, Dir: tanya wexler 22 @ 6:45PM

What do women want? Well, science may debate that for years, but Hysteria provides a very entertaining answer in the form of a historical romp through early psychology. Based on the story of a young British doctor who essentially invented the first vibrator, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Felicity Jones play Victorian-era sisters, who are daughters of the prominent physician Dr. Dalrymple. Into their lives comes young doctor Mortimer Granville (Hugh Dancy) whose life work has become focused on women’s issues, including the all-encompassing diagnosis “hysteria,” for which he is experimenting with therapeutic “pelvic massage” treatments. Presented by The Traveling Tickle Trunk and Flurt! Magazine in celebration of Masturbation month. There will be a short panel discussion on the history of the vibrator after the film. ADMiSSiOn iS fRee, bUt A $5 DOnAtiOn iS APPReciAteD AnD wiLL GO tO the SeXUAL ASSAULt centRe Of eDMOntOn.

THE PIANO FILM SERIES Metro Cinema and the Art Gallery of Alberta are partnering together for another exciting film series! Featuring critically acclaimed films that revolve around the subject of the piano, this series coincides with the exhibition The Piano, which kicks off on Saturday, May 25. Upcoming films will screen the second Tuesday of each month until August and include: The Piano, Shoot the Piano Player, and Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould. $2 Off fOR AGA MeMbeRS.

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

Jaws: the Revenge USA 1987, 89 min, Digital, Dir: Joseph Sargent 23 @ 9PM

Turkey Shoot icon Michael Caine returns as Hoagie Newcombe, a Bahamas airplane pilot who falls for Ellen Brody. A sweet love story, except for the great white shark that has stalked Ellen all the way from Massachusetts. Yes, it’s that Ellen Brody, sexy wife of Chief Brody, who famously blew up a shark. Apparently, sharks have a highly developed sense of justice, and one can’t blow up a shark without his family paying the ultimate price – shark vengeance. Clearly, this movie wreaks revenge on evolutionary theory.

thelonious Monk: Straight, no chaser USA 1988, 90 min, Digital, Dir: charlotte Zwerin 25 @ 4PM

This documentary of the late jazz great Thelonius Monk (1917-1982) uses footage taken from 14 hours of European concert performances filmed in 1967-68 by Christian Blackwood. From his childhood in New York City’s San Juan Hill, Monk grew up to become one of the most innovative jazz pianists of all time. Monk ushered in the bebop era of the 1940s and influenced such contemporary greats as Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Interviews with Monk’s manager Harry Colomby and Monk’s son and namesake shed light on the character of the jazz giant. Executive producer Clint Eastwood got the idea for the project while researching the life of Charlie Parker for his film Bird. (Dan Pavlides, Rovi)

taxi Driver USA 1976, 113 min, Digital, Dir: Martin Scorcese 24 @ 11:15PM, 26 @ 9PM

“All the animals come out at night” -- and one of them is a cabby about to snap. In Martin Scorsese’s classic 1970s drama, insomniac ex-Marine Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) works the nightshift, driving his cab throughout decaying mid-’70s New York City, wishing for a “real rain” to wash the “scum” off the neon-lit streets. Chronically alone, Travis cannot connect with anyone. He becomes increasingly paranoid and begins to condition (and arm) himself for his imagined destiny, a mission that mutates from assassinating Betsy’s (Cybil Shepard) candidate, to violently “saving” teen hooker Iris (Jodie Foster) from her pimp. Travis’ bloodbath turns him into a media hero; but has it truly calmed his mind? (AllMovieGuide)

Dreamspeakers film festival May 29 - June 1

When the first Dene filmmaker returned to Canada’s Northwest Territories, his people had no word for his new art. They called it “Dreamtalking”. When you make films a Dene elder said you are speaking your dreams. In May and June the Metro Cinema becomes the site of an international gathering of our own Dreamtalkers: filmmakers and artists from around the world sharing their common bond, their stories and their dreams . This year’s festival features representations from seven countries, public workshops and panel discussions. For a full schedule visit: dreamspeakers.org.

the tin Drum west Germany 1979, 163 min, Dir: Vollker Schlöndorff, German w/ subtitles 24, JUne 2, 6 @ 6:30PM, 25 @ 8:45PM, 26 @ 12:45PM

Danzig, 1924. Oskar Matzerath is born with an intellect beyond his infancy. As he witnesses the hypocrisy of adulthood and society, he rejects both, and, at his third birthday, refuses to grow older. Caught in a state of perpetual childhood, Oskar lashes out with piercing screams and frantic poundings on his tin drum, while the unheeding world marches towards the madness and folly of WWII. Honored with the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Volker Schlöndorff’s The Tin Drum has now been restored to its director’s original vision, with twenty minutes of footage unseen since the film was cut at the behest of its distributor in 1979. The result is a visionary adaptation of Günter Grass’s acclaimed novel, an unforgettable fantasia of surreal imagery, striking eroticism, and unflinching satire. (Janus)

CULT CINEMA/// A monthly series of eccentric classics curated by Jeff Noel.

the beguiled USA 1971, 105 mins, Digital, Dir: Don Siegel 28 @ 7PM

In this Southern Gothic tale set in Civil War era Louisiana, Clint Eastwood stars as John McBurney, a Yankee soldier wounded in Confederate territory and taken in to mend by the residents of a boarding school for girls. While helping him evade capture the head mistress and her girls each become enamoured with him, leading to a deadly elixir of sexual tensions. Produced in the same year that frequent collaborators Don Siegel and Eastwood would find their biggest success in Dirty Harry, The Beguiled offers an entirely different and unique set of pleasures.