Metro Cinema Guide - January 2020

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January 2020

Where community meets cinema

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January 18 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 ($6 Matinee)

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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, Telefilm Canada, 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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At Welcome Wednesdays we extend a warm 8FMDPNF welcome to people who feel uncomfortable in an ordinary 8FEOFTEBZT cinema environment. These relaxed screenings are open to ANYONE who would benefit from a gentler, non-judgemental atmosphere including (but not limited to) people living with dementia; people with an Autism Spectrum condition; people with learning difficulties; people with sensory or communication difficulties; parents with young babies; and anyone who feels they would benefit from a more supportive and inclusive experience. Check out our calendar for the films screening, which will be at 2PM on JAN 8, 15, 22 & 29.

january Listings Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

USA 1986, 103 min, Dir: John Hughes Ferris Bueller has an uncanny skill at cutting classes and getting away with it. Intending to make one last duck-out before graduation, Ferris calls in sick, “borrows” a Ferrari, and embarks on a one-day journey through the streets of Chicago. On Ferris’ trail is high school principal Rooney, determined to catch him in the act.

JAN 1 @ 4PM

Moonlight

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--2019 USA 2016, 111 min, Dir: Barry Jenkins The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and the beauty of falling in love, all while grappling with his own sexuality.

JAN 3 @ 6:45PM

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The Room

USA 2003, 99 min, Dir: Tommy Wiseau The film widely considered the “Citizen Kane of bad movies” screens monthly! Be sure to catch Tommy and his friends with a screening of this classic piece of so-bad-it’sgood cinema. You’re our favourite customer. Thanks a lot! Bye. JAN 3 @ 11:30PM

Paddington 2

UK/France/USA 2017, 103 min, Dir: Paul King 2010-Paddington, now happily --2019 settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy’s 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen. Free admission for kids 12 & under.

JAN 4 @ 1PM

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The Florida Project

Promare

The Florida Project

2010--

--2019 USA 2017, 111 min, Dir: Sean Baker Set over one summer, the film follows precocious six-year-old Moonee as she courts mischief and adventure with her ragtag playmates and bonds with her rebellious but caring mother, all while living in the shadows of Walt Disney World.

JAN 4 @ 9:30PM

Force Majeure

2010--

--2019 Sweden/France/Norway/ Denmark 2014, 120 min, Dir: Ruben Östlund Swedish with subtitles A man’s selfish reaction to the danger posed by an avalanche causes cracks in his marriage and relationships with his children.

JAN 5 @ 3:30PM

Promare

Japan 2019, 111 min, Dir: Hiroyuki Imaishi 30 years ago, a cataclysmic event destroyed half the world in a fire and caused a mutation that created a new race of people called Burnish, who are able to create and control fire. The film centers on the members of the “Burning Rescue” fire squad, who put out fires caused

by Burnish, and their battle against a new terrorist group called the Mad Burnish.

JAN 5 @ 7PM - Subtitled, JAN 9 @ 9:15PM - Dubbed

The Act of Killing

2010--

--2019 UK/Denmark/Norway 2012, 117 min, Dir: Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn A documentary which challenges former Indonesian death-squad leaders to reenact their mass-killings in whichever cinematic genres they wish, including classic Hollywood crime scenarios and lavish musical numbers.

JAN 6 @ 9:30PM

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Where Does a Body End?

Mad Max: Fury Road - Black & Chrome

Where Does a Body End?

Canada 2019, 121 min, Dir: Marco Porsia An examination of the worldview of Michael Gira, through his life as a globetrotter and his four decades leading Swans, a group that he founded in the noisy and iconoclastic New York underground of the early ‘80s and that keeps reinventing itself today. With a live music performance by Pigeon Breeders @ 6:30PM JAN 7 @ 7PM

Mad Max: Fury Road

2010--

--2019 - Black & Chrome Edition Australia/USA/South Africa 2015, 120 min, Dir: George Miller In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshiper, and a drifter named Max. JAN 7 @ 9:30PM

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Stories We Tell

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople

2010---2019

--2019 Canada 2012, 108 min, Dir: Sarah Polley 8FMDPNF Through a series of reveal- 8FEOFTEBZT ing interviews, filmmaker Sarah Polley investigates the truth about her family history.

JAN 8 @ 2PM - Welcome Wednesday

New Zealand 2016, 101 min, Dir: Taika Waititi A boy and his foster father become the subjects of a manhunt after they get stranded in the New Zealand wilderness.

JAN 9 @ 7PM

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JANUARY 2020 SCHEDULE SUNDAY

MONDAY

TUESDAY

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2PM 4PM Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

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TBA 3:30PM Force Majeure

Varda By Agnes

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7PM Promare – Subtitled TBA

1:30PM Banff Mountain Film Festival 7:30PM Banff Mountain Film Festival

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TBA 9:30PM The Act of Killing

2010---2019

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2010---2019

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9:30PM Mad Max: Fury Road – Black and Chrome

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13 CUSTOMER APPRECIATION NIGHT 7PM Booksmart 9:30PM Midsommar: Director’s Cut

Light History Tour 1PM Cleo From 5 to 7 – Agnès Varda Tribute TBA 7PM Midnight Family 9PM The City of Lost Children – 25th Anniversary 1PM The SUNDAY Maltese Falcon CLASSICS 3:30PM 63 Up 7PM The Twentieth Century 9PM The Queen (1968)

7PM Where Does A Body End?

7PM 9:1

2010---2019

19 11AM Garneau Ghost 20

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The Last Unicorn

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21 TBA 9:30PM Midnight Family

27 TBA 9:30PM Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

2P 7 M

7:30PM Banff Mountain Film Festival

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7PM Withnail & I

Deliv -S 7PM 9:30PM Varda By Agnès – Agnès – Agn 9:3 Varda Tribute 7

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TBA 9:30PM Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood T HE UN IV ER S IT Y OF ALB ERTA’S S T UD EN T JOUR N ALIS M S OCIET Y

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WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

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3 TBA 9:30PM Parasite

M Fantastic Fungi Ferris Bueller’s Day Off M The Lighthouse 15PM Parasite

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7PM Hunt For The Wilderpeople

2PM Stories We Tell 8FMDPNF 8FEOFTEBZT

2010---2019

2010---2019

TBA TBA

9:30PM Promare – Dubbed

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PM TBA 7:30PM Banff Mountain Film Festival

FRIDAY

6:45PM Moonlight

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2PM Kiki’s very Service TBA Subtitled 9:30PM Juice Varda By Agnès BOOM BAP nès Varda Tribute CinemA 30PM Midnight Family

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1PM Paddington 2 2010---2019

TBA TBA 9:30PM The Florida Project

TBA 11:30PM The Room

2010---2019

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7:30PM Banff Mountain Film Festival

7PM Varda

By Agnès – Agnès Varda Tribute 9:30PM Midnight Family

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1:30PM Banff Mountain Film Festival 7:30PM Banff Mountain Film Festival

18 1PM Kiki’s Delivery

Service - Dubbed 3:30PM The Great Disconnect 7PM Gleaners & I – Agnès Varda Tribute 9PM This Is Spinal Tap! MIDNIGHT Gamera: The Giant Monster

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8FMDPNF 8FEOFTEBZT

2PM 63 Up

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2010---2019

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7:30PM Banff Mountain Film Festival

SATURDAY

7PM The Twentieth Century TBA

1PM The Last Unicorn TBA TBA 9PM Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound 11PM Eraserhead

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TBA 9:30PM The Twentieth Century

TBA TBA

TBA TBA The Twentieth Century11

Booksmart

Midsommar

Banff Mountain Film Festival Midsommar: Director’s Cut January 10 to 16 Track N Trail has brought you the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour for over 20 years. Don’t forget, there are two different programs: the Track program, and the Trail programs! Both will feature an eclectic mix of heart, humour, and spectacle in mountain sports and culture films. Get your tickets online or in-store at Track N Trail (10148-82 Ave): $22 in advance, $25 at the doors (subject to availability).

Booksmart

- Customer Appreciation Night USA 2019, 102 min, Dir: Olivia Wilde On the eve of their high school graduation, two academic superstars and best friends realize they should have worked less and played more. Determined not to fall short of their peers, the girls try to cram four years of fun into one night. Free admission.

JAN 13 @ 7PM

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- Customer Appreciation Night USA/Sweden/Hungary 2019, 171 min, Dir: Ari Aster A couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown’s fabled midsummer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult. Free admission.

JAN 13 @ 9:30PM

Varda by Agnès

France 2019, 115 min, Dir: Agnès Varda French with subtitles Agnès Varda, photographer, installation artist, and pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague, is an institution of French cinema. In pure Varda fashion, the film is punctuated by humour as she dives into unexpected realms, tracing her career and life, and the ways they intertwined.

Screening as part of our Agnès Varda Tribute.

Opens January 17

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Kiki’s Delivery Service

The Gleaners & I

The Great Disconnect

Midnight Family

Mexico 2019, 81 min, Dir: Luke Lorentzen Spanish with subtitles In Mexico City’s wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a for-profit ambulance, competing with other unlicensed EMTs for patients in need of urgent care. In this cutthroat industry, they struggle to keep their financial needs from compromising the people in their care.

Opens January 17

Kiki’s Delivery Service

Japan 1989, 103 min, 8FMDPNF 8FEOFTEBZT Dir: Hayao Miyazaki A young witch, on her mandatory year of independent life, finds fitting into a new community difficult while she supports herself by running an air courier service.

JAN 18 @ 1PM - English dubbed / Free admission for kids 12 & under JAN 22 @ 2PM - Welcome Wednesdays - Japanese with subtitles / Regular admission

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USA/Canada 2018, 60 min, Dir: Tamer Soliman, Rob Tyler The Great Disconnect uncovers why, in a world seemingly more connected than ever before, people are feeling more and more socially isolated – and the true cost this has on our lives and communities.

It was written, directed, and produced by passionate people wanting to make a difference in the lives of those who live in their communities, neighbourhood and abroad.

JAN 18 @ 3:30PM

The Gleaners & I

France 2000, 82 min, Dir: Agnès Varda French with subtitles Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris. Screening as part of our Agnès Varda Tribute.

JAN 18 @ 7PM

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This Is Spinal Tap

USA 1984, 82 min, Dir: Rob Reiner In 1982, the legendary English heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by a fan who is also a film-maker. The resulting documentary, interspersed with powerful performances of Tap’s pivotal music and profound lyrics, candidly follows a rock group heading towards crisis, culminating in the infamous affair of the eighteeninch-high Stonehenge stage prop.

JAN 18 @ 9PM

Gamera: The Giant Monster

Japan 1965, 81 min, Dir: Noriaki Yuasa A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it’s up to the scientists, assisted by a young boy with a strange sympathic link to the monster, to put a stop to Gamera’s rampage. Tickets $6.

JAN 18 @ MIDNIGHT

Garneau Ghost Light History Tour

Live Event Get a rare glimpse at the history and hidden spaces of Edmonton’s grand Art Moderne Garneau Theatre. Your host Dave Clarke takes you on a tour through the history

of the Garneau’s storied past and backstage passageways. We can only accommodate a few for the tour – book early to avoid disappointment. Tickets $5.

JAN 19 @ 11AM

Cleo 5 to 7

France/Italy 1962, 90 min, Dir: Agnès Varda French with subtitles Selfish pop singer Cléo has two hours to wait until the results of her biopsy come back. After an ominous tarot card reading, she visits her friends, all of whom fail to give her the emotional support she needs.

Wandering around Paris, she finally finds comfort talking with a soldier in a park. Screening as part of our Agnès Varda Tribute.

JAN 19 @ 1PM

The City of Lost Children

France/Germany/Spain/Belgium/ USA 1995, 112 min, Dir: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 25th Anniversary French with subtitles Old and decrepit Krank has lost his capacity for dreaming and is attempting to fight death by stealing the dreams of children.

Krank’s henchmen snatch 5-yearold Denree to subject him to the horrific dream-retrieval process, and so the boy’s father and his precocious 9-year-old friend must join forces to defeat Krank.

JAN 19 @ 9PM

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The Twentieth Century

The Last Unicorn

Withnail & I

7 UK 1987, 107 min, Dir: Bruce Robinson In 1969, two substance-abusing, unemployed actors retreat to the countryside for a holiday that proves disastrous.

Jan 21 @ 7PM

biopic of William Lyon Mackenzie King, which reimagines the former Canadian Prime Minister’s early life as a series of abject humiliations, both professional and sexual.

Screens with short film Docking (by Edmonton’s Trevor Anderson).

Opens January 24

Juice

The Last Unicorn

BOOM BAP

USA/UK 1992, 95 min, CinemA Dir: Ernest R. Dickerson 4 Harlem teens, Q, Bishop, Raheem and Steel, are out skipping school one day when they find out an old friend was killed in a shootout at a bar. After this, Bishop tells his friends that they have no respect, or juice. To get some, they rob a corner grocery store, but things take an unexpected turn. Only the four friends know what happened, but one of them is out for himself.

Jan 23 @ 9:30PM

The Twentieth Century

UK/France/West Germany/ Japan/USA 1982, 92 min, Dir: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. When a young unicorn learns that she’s in danger and that she may soon be the last of her kind, she leaves the safety of her protected forest and enlists the help of Schmendrick, a gentle, albeit clumsy, sorcerer. Together, they embark on a long and dangerous journey with one goal: to defeat King Haggard and save the unicorns from extinction. Free admission for kids 12 & under JAN 25 @ 1PM

Canada 2019, 90 min, Dir: Matthew Rankin Winnipeg’s Matthew Rankin doubles down on his signature mode of gonzo history films with this bizarro 16

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Eraserhead

Once Upon A Time... in Hollywood

Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

USA 2019, 94 min, Dir: Midge Costin An exploration of the history and emotional power of cinema sound, as revealed by legendary sound designers and visionary directors, via interviews, clips from movies, and a look at their actual process of creation and discovery.

Opens January 25

Eraserhead

USA 1977, 89 min, Dir: David Lynch Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

JAN 25 @ 11PM

The Maltese Falcon

SUNDAY

USA 1941, 101 min, CLASSICS Dir: Walter Huston A private detective takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar, and their quest for a priceless statuette. Seniors get 2-for-1 admission at the door. Sponsored by the Garneau Community League - free admission and a free small popcorn with a valid GCL membership.

JAN 26 @ 1PM 18

63 Up

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UK 2019, 180 min, Dir: Michael Apted Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subjects are interviewed as to the changes that have occurred in their lives during the last seven years. Opens January 26

The Queen

USA 1968, 68 min, Dir: Frank Simon The behind the scenes of a national drag queen contest in New York City, including the rehearsals leading up to the contest, the conversations in the dressing room and the jealousies that emerge before and after the competition.

JAN 26 @ 9:30PM

Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood

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USA/UK/China 2019, 161 min, Dir: Quentin Tarantino A faded television actor and his stunt double strive to achieve fame and success in the film industry during the final years of Hollywood’s Golden Age in 1969 Los Angeles. Free admission for students with valid ID. Jan 28 @ 9:30PM

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