metroguide cinema
January 2019
Where community meets cinema
We’ve got a new look!
metro cinema at the Garneau ¡ 8712 109 St. Edmonton
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About Us Metro Cinema is a community-based not-for-profit society devoted to creating and fostering opportunities for the exhibition of diverse and unique shared cinematic viewing experiences in Edmonton. metrocinema at the Garneau 8712 - 109 Street, • TEL 780 425 9212 www.metrocinema.org FACEBOOK /metrocinema TWITTER & INSTAGRAM @themetrocinema
Ticket Prices:
Adults - $13 Students/Seniors - $10 ($8 matinee) Children (12 & under) - $8
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Metro Cinema Passes*: Night at the Movies - $30 (2 regular admission, 2 medium drinks, 1 medium popcorn) Six-Pack Adult - $60 Six-Pack Student/Senior - $50 Silver Screen - $300 (Unlimited admission for 1 year) *Passes may not apply to special event rentals, festivals, or premium priced events.
Metro Cinema is grateful for the support of the Alberta Media Arts Alliance, Alberta Media Production Industries Association, CJSR, FAVA, EYESIGHT PUBLISHING and the Harper-Kennedy Fund at the Edmonton Community Foundation. Metro Cinema wishes to recognize that we work and live on Treaty No. 6 territory of the First Nations – the Cree, Cree-Iroquois, Nakoda Sioux, Saulteaux and Stony – and on the traditional lands of Aboriginal peoples including the Métis, with holdings beyond the official treaty with the Crown.
This guide is published by
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SAVE THE DATE
THE EDMONTON POETRY FESTIVAL PRESENTS
HOMEWORD APRIL 22 TO APRIL 28, 2019
HEADLINERS INCLUDE: CANISIA LUBRIN, NATALIE WEE, ARLEEN PARE, ANNA MARIE SEWELL & EDMONTON'S POET LAUREATE, AHMED KNOWMADIC
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Queer City Cinema presents
QALEIDOSCOPE QUEER F IL M ON T OUR JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2019 VICTORIA | YELLOWKNIFE | EDMONTON | SASKATOON | THUNDER BAY
February 1 + 2 @ Latitude 53 (10242 106 St NW) for more info: WWW.QUEERCITYCINEMA.CA
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Roma
Mexico/USA 2018, Dir: Alfonso Cuarón Spanish with subtitles Shot on 65mm in black and white, Alfonso Cuarón’s semi-autobiographical Roma chronicles a year in the life of a middle-class family in Mexico City in the early 1970s.
Burning
South Korea 2018, Dir: Chang-dong Lee Korean with subtitles “Desire, ravenous and ineffable, shudders through Burning, the latest from the great South Korean director Lee Chang-dong.” – The NYTimes www.metrocinema.org
JANUARY 2019 SCHEDULE SUNDAY
MONDAY
TUESDAY
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1:30PM Mirai Subtitled 3:30PM Roma 7PM Free Solo 9:15PM Roma
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Mirai
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7 12:30PM Roma 3:30PM At Eternity’s Gate 6:30PM Roma 9:15PM Free Solo
13 11AM Garneau Ghost Light Tour 1:30PM Banff Mountain Film Festival 7:30PM Banff Mountain Film Festival
20 1PM The Woman Who Loves Giraffes TBA 6:15PM Edmonton Movie Club 9:30PM Inception
27
1PM Letter from Masanjia 3:30PM Sherlock Jr. - Silent Sundays 6:30PM Burning 9:30PM Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
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6:30PM Scott Pilgrim vs. the World – Direct Play 9PM Edge of Tomorrow – Direct Play
9 7PM Straight into a Storm
9:15PM Roma
15
14 Customer Appreciation Day! 7PM Won’t You Be My Neighbor? – Free 9:30PM Sorry to Bother You – Free
21
7:30PM Banff Mountain Film Festival
22
7PM The Great Buster TBA
28
7PM The Woman Who Loves Giraffes 9:30PM Free Solo
29 7PM Letter from Masanjia 9PM Castle in the Sky - Subtitled
6:45PM Silver Linings Playbook - Reel Learning 9:30PM Jacob’s Ladder (1990)
7 Wo Lov
9:3
16
7:3 Mou
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7PM
9:30P
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7 Cont
9:30
WEDNESDAY
30PM Roma :15PM At rnity’s Gate
7PM The oman Who ves Giraffes
30PM Roma
30PM Banff untain Film Festival
THURSDAY
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FRIDAY
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7PM Mirai 3:30PM Roma – English Dubbed Festival of Time 9:15PM Roma
10 6:30PM Whiplash 9:30PM Roma
17 7:30PM Banff Mountain Film Festival
24
M Destroyer
11 7:30PM Banff Mountain Film Festival
18 7PM The Woman Who Loves Giraffes TBA
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7PM The Woman 7PM Letter from Who Loves Masanjia Giraffes PM Inception 9:30PM Burning TBA
7PM First tact Canada - RISE 0PM Burning
SATURDAY
Festival of Time
12
1:30PM Banff Mountain Film Festival 7:30PM Banff Mountain Film Festival MIDNIGHT DIY Video Jukebox 2 – Night Gallery
19
1PM Smallfoot TBA 6:30PM Sophie Scholl: The Final Days - Reel Revolution 9:30PM The Great Buster
26 1PM Castle in the
Sky – English Dubbed TBA 6:30PM Burning 9:30PM Beat Street (1984) – Boom Bap
31 7PM The Breakfast Club 9:15PM Burning The Breakfast Club
Boom Bap Cinema is a new film series that chronicles
the genesis and subsequent rise of Hip Hop.
Beat Street
USA 1984, Dir: Stan Lathan Produced by Harry Belafonte, Beat Street focuses on the Kirkland Brothers as they navigate the South Bronx streets during the nascent age of Hip Hop.
Reel Revolution How can great films inspire action over apathy in the seemingly insurmountable challenges of the world?
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days
Germany 2005, Dir: Marc Rothemund German with subtitles Sophie’s powerful story and sacrifice in the name of truth, justice and freedom leaves all of us challenged: what are the ideas we are willing to die for? www.metrocinema.org
AUGUST 3, 4, 5 2019
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The Great Buster
USA 2018, Dir: Peter Bogdanovich The Great Buster celebrates the life and career of one of America’s most influential and celebrated filmmakers and comedians, Buster Keaton. See Also:
Sherlock Jr.
USA 1924, Dir: Buster Keaton A kindly movie projectionist longs to be a detective, and dreams that he is the great Sherlock Holmes. Screening as part of a new film series: Silent Sundays.
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MAKERS OF CRAFT BEER IN CENTRAL ALBERTA.
Thanks to all the employees, volunteers, and patrons at Metro Cinema. We wouldn’t have such an awesome movie house without you!
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NICE TO MEET YOU! DESIGN • PUBLISHING • EVENTS
EYESIGHT PUBLISHING is a new venture from previous long-time VUE WEEKLY staff Charlie Biddiscombe (Production) and James Jarvis (Sales). With over six-and-a-half years experience each with publications like this we will be focusing our attention on local arts-based projects such as, but not limited to, the production and publication of playbills and festival guides. EYESIGHT PUBLISHING stands for dedicated service and quality products. We are happy to be starting off our journey already working with organizations such as Metro Cinema, Festival Place, the Edmonton Poetry Festival Society, U of A Studio Theatre, and the Edmonton Pride Festival Society, to name a few. If you would like to work with us on your guide, publication, promotional product or event, email us at EYESIGHTPUBLISHING@GMAIL.COM Contact us: Production: 780.288.2485 Sales: 780.231.7511
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Customer Appreciation Day! Check out two free admission screenings as voted for by Metro’s fans.
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Sorry to Bother You www.metrocinema.org
January 14
Presents
2019
E DMON TON’S SE X IE S T F IL M F E S T I VA L
STILL COMING! DESIGN • PUBLISHING • EVENTS
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