Metro Cinema Guide February 2019

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February 2019

Where community meets cinema

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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.

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February Listings Vox Lux

USA 2018, 114 min, Dir: Brady Corbet An unusual set of circumstances brings unexpected success to a pop star.

OPENS ON FEB 1

Widows

UK/USA 2018, 129 min, Dir: Steve McQueen Four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.

OPENS ON FEB 1

The Room

USA 2003, 99 min, Dir: Tommy Wiseau The film widely considered the “Citizen Kane of bad movies”! Be sure to catch Tommy and his friends the for a screening of this classic piece of so-bad-it’s-good cinema.

FEB 1 @ 11:30PM

Groundhog Day

USA 1993, 101 min, Dir: Harold Ramis A weatherman finds himself inexplicably living the same day over and over again. Free admission for kids 12 & under.

FEB 2 @ 1PM

BlacKkKlansman

USA 2018, 135 min, Dir: Spike Lee Based on real events, Ron Stallworth is an African American police officer that successfully infiltrates the local Ku Klux Klan branch with the help of a Jewish surrogate, who eventually becomes its leader.

FEB 2 @ 6:30PM

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

– 50th Anniversary metro USA 1969, 110 min, retro Dir: George Roy Hill Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are the leaders of a band of outlaws, but after a train robbery goes wrong they find themselves on the run with a posse hard on their heels.

FEB 3 & 5

Milford Graves Full Mantis

USA 2018, 91 min, Dir: Jake Meginsky, Neil Young Milford Graves Full Mantis is a portrait of renowned percussionist Milford Graves, exploring his kaleidoscopic creativity and relentless curiosity. With a live music performance by TBA @ 6:30PM. FEB 5 @ 7PM

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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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FEBRUARY 2019 SCHEDULE SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

Vox Lux

3 12PM Butch Cassidy

4

L’Avventura

5 7PM Milford Graves Full Mantis

and the Sundance Kid – 50th Anniversary

9:30PM Widows

2:30PM Spirit 7 Film Fest 7PM Widows 9:30PM Vox Lux – 50th Anniversary SUNDAY CLASSICS

3:30PM FAVA Video Kitchen 6:15PM TBA – Edmonton Movie Club

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6

7PM Our 9:30

13

7PM PhotoEd 7PM Magazine – 6:30PM L’Avventura Photo Inspiration Befo Pecha Kucha 9:30PM Minding the Gap 9:30PM Minding the Gap

18

11AM Garneau Ghost Light Tour 3PM What Walaa Wants 9:30PM Akira

9:30PM Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid – 50th Anniversary

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10 12:30PM Hello, Dolly! 11

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12:30PM Back to the Future

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20

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3PM Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki 4:30PM Spirited Away – Subtitled FAMILY DAY

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25 5PM Oscars at the Garneau

7PM Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki 8:30PM Ponyo – Subtitled

26

7PM Festival of (In)appropriation #10 9:30PM A Star Is Born THE UNI V ER SI TY OF ALB ERTA’S STUDENT JOUR NALI SM SOC I ETY

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WEDNESDAY

Footsteps of r Ancestors 0PM Widows

M The World ore Your Feet

30PM Akira

THURSDAY

FRIDAY

1

SATURDAY

2

6:30PM Vox Lux 9PM Widows 11:30PM The Room

9:30PM Vox Lux

BlacKkKlansman

7

8

6:45PM Daughters of the Dust

7PM The Princess Bride

9 1PM Isle of Dogs

7PM Minding the Gap

9:30PM Vox Lux

14

1PM Groundhog Day 3:15PM Burning 6:30PM BlacKkKlansman

15

3:30PM Minding the Gap 9:30PM Minding the Gap

16

1PM Spirited Away – Dubbed MIDNIGHT Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song

MOVIE PARTY

9:30PM Bound

VALENTINE’S DAY

21

22

7PM Malcolm X

23 1PM Ponyo – Dubbed

REEL REVOLUTION

3:30PM Private Rental

28 7PM Krush Groove BOOM BAP

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Krush Groove

Daughters of the Dust

UK/USA 1991, 112 min, Dir: Julie Dash At the dawn of the 20th century, a family in an island community struggle to maintain their cultural heritage and folklore while contemplating a migration to the mainland, even further from their roots.

FEB 7 @ 6:45PM

Minding the Gap

USA 2018, 93 min, Dir: Bing Liu Three young men bond together to escape volatile families in their Rust-Belt hometown. As they face adult responsibilities, unexpected revelations threaten their decadelong friendship.

OPENS ON FEB 9

Isle of Dogs

USA 2018, 101 min, Dir: Wes Anderson, Set in Japan, Isle of Dogs follows a boy’s odyssey in search of his lost dog. Free admission and a free small popcorn. Q & A following the screening.

FEB 9 @ 1PM

FAVA Video Kitchen

Hello, Dolly! – 50th Anniversary

USA 1969, 146 min, SUNDAY Dir: Gene Kelly CLASSICS Matchmaker Dolly Levi travels to Yonkers to find a partner for “half-a-millionaire” Horace Vandergelder, convincing his niece, his niece’s intended, and his two clerks to travel to New York City along the way.

Seniors get 2-for-1 admission at the doors.

FEB 10 @ 12:30PM

L’Avventura

Italy/France 1960, min, Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni, Italian, English, & Greek with subtitles A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip.

During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.

FEB 11 @ 6:30PM

PhotoEd Magazine - Photo Inspiration Pecha Kucha Live Event Details at photoed.ca/edmonton-2019.

FEB 12 @ 7PM

The Princess Bride

- Valentine’s Day USA 1987, 98 min, Dir: Rob Reiner While home sick in bed, a young boy’s grandfather reads him the story of a farmboy-turned-pirate who encounters numerous obstacles, enemies and allies in his quest to be reunited with his true love.

FEB 14 @ 7PM www.metrocinema.org

2018, Dir: Various Details at fava.ca Admission by donation.

FEB 10 @ 3:30PM

MOVIE

PARTY

What Walaa Wants

Bound

USA 1996, 109 min, Dir: Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski (as The Wachowski Brothers) Corky, a tough female ex con and her lover Violet concoct a scheme to steal millions of stashed mob money and pin the blame on Violet’s crooked boyfriend Caesar.

With a live drag performance at 9:30 before the screening.

FEB 14 @ 9:30PM

Spirited Away

Japan 2001, 125 min, Dir: Hayao Miyazaki During her family’s move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-yearold girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches, and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts.

FEB 16 - English dubbed - Free admission for kids 12 & under.

FEB 18 - Japanese with subtitles Regular admission

Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song

USA 1971, 97 min, Dir: Melvin Van Peebles After saving a Black Panther from some racist cops, a black male prostitute goes on the run from “the man” with the help of the ghetto community and some disillusioned Hells Angels. Screens in the Metro lobby Gallery.

FEB 16 @ MIDNIGHT

Canada/Denmark 2018, 89 min, Dir: Christy Garland, Arabic with subtitles Raised in a refugee camp in the West Bank, while her mother was in prison, Walaa is determined to survive basic training to become one of the few women on the Palestinian Security Forces.

FEB 17 @ 3:30PM

Akira

Japan 1988, 124 min, Dir: Katsuhiro Ôtomo, Japanese with subtitles A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.

FEB 17 & 20 @ 9:30PM

Back to the Future

metro USA 1985, 116 min, retro Dir: Robert Zemeckis Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a timetraveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.

FEB 18 @ 12:30

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AUGUST 3, 4, 5 2019

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Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki

Oscars at the Garneau

Japan 2016, 70 min, Dir: Kaku Arakawa, Japanese with subtitles A look at famous Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki following his retirement in 2013.

OPENS ON FEB 18

Malcolm X

USA/Japan 1992, 202 min, Dir: Spike Lee Biographical epic of the controversial and influential Black Nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster, to his ministry as a member of the Nation of Islam.

FEB 21 @ 7PM REEL

REVOLUTION

Ponyo

Japan 2008, 101 min, Dir: Hayao Miyazaki A five-year-old boy develops a relationship with Ponyo, a young goldfish princess who longs to become a human after falling in love with him.

FEB 23 - English dubbed - Free admission for kids 12 & under.

FEB 25 - Japanese with subtitles Regular admission

Live Stream Join us for the full Oscars broadcast with red carpet, with games and trivia during the commercials.

Admission by donation.

FEB 24 @ 5PM

Festival of (In)appropriation #10

2018, 75 min, Dir: Various Details at festivalofinappropriation.com FEB 26 @ 7PM

A Star is Born

USA 2018, 136 min, Dir: Bradley Cooper A musician helps a young singer find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral. Free admission for students with valid ID. FEB 26 @ 9:30PM

THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA’S STUDENT JOURNALISM SOCIETY

Krush Groove

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BAP USA 1985, 97 min, CinemA Dir: Michael Schultz Based on the early days of Def Jam Records, up-and-coming manager Russell Walker struggles to fund his new label Krush Groove, which features a stellar list of acts that includes Kurtis Blow and Run-D.M.C. FEB 28 @ 7PM

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