Metro Cinema Guide January 2019

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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

© 2018 Eyesight Publishing All Rights Reserved, Reproduction in whole or in part is prohibited without the written consent of the publisher.

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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

6:3 9: Eter

Mirai

6

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)

8

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

30

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

3

FRIDAY

4

5

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

25

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

Follow us: @ EyesightPublishing @ EyesightPublishing

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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