Metro Cinema Guide - April 2020

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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

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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.

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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 APR.1, 8, 15, 22 & 29

april Listings Seeing the Unseen

Iceland 2019, 82 min, Dir: Kristján Kristjánsson, Bjarney Lúðvíksdóttir Icelandic with subtitles The documentary looks into the lives of 17 Icelandic women who all have one thing in common: a diagnosis on the autistic spectrum. It aims to shed light on the role that autism plays in their daily lives.

World Autism Awareness Day. Free admission. Panel discussion following the screening.

APR 1 @ 7PM

Cats

UK/USA 2019, 110 min, Dir: Tom Hooper A tribe of cats called the Jellicles must decide yearly which one will ascend to the Heaviside Layer and come back to a new Jellicle life.

Is it good? Is it bad? Find out for yourself this April Fool’s Day! APR 1 @ 9:30PM

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No Man’s Land Film Festival

No Man’s Land Film Festival is an all-female adventure film festival highlighting women in pursuit of the radical. The goal of this festival is to connect like-minded individuals who are action-oriented, wish to support a shared vision of gender equality, have a desire to experience their passions and environments through a uniquely female lens, and above all, love adventure.

Advance tickets are $20 in-store at Track ’N Trail or online at shop. track n trail.ca. Tickets at the door are $25.

APR 2 @ 7PM

Los Adioses (The Eternal Feminine)

PANORAMA

LATIN AMERICAN

C I N E M A

Mexico 2017, 85 min, Dir: Natalia Beristáin Spanish with subtitles Rosario Castellanos, a shy university student, becomes a voice for the feminist movement in 1950s Mexico.

APR 3 @ 7PM, APR 8 @ 9:15PM

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The Room

The Whistlers

The Room 100th Screening!

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’s-good cinema. You’re our favourite customer. Thanks a lot! Bye. Presented on 35mm.

APR 3 @ 9:30PM Kubo and the Two Strings

USA/Japan 2016, 101 min, Dir: Travis Knight A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armour worn by his late father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past. Free admission for kids 12 & under.

APR 4 @ 1PM

The Whistlers

Romania/France/Germany/ Sweden 2019, 97 min, Dir: Corneliu Porumboiu Romanian with subtitles Not everything is as it seems for Cristi, a policeman who plays both sides of the law. Embarking with the beautiful Gilda on a high-stakes heist, both will have to navigate the twists and turns of corruption, treachery, and deception.

Opens April 4

La Casa Lobo (The Wolf House)

PANORAMA

LATIN AMERICAN

C I N E M A

Chile/Germany 2018, 75 min, Dir: Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña Spanish & German with subtitles Maria, a young woman, finds refuge in a house in the south of Chile after escaping from a sect of German religious fanatics. She is welcomed into the home by two pigs, the only inhabitants of the place.

Like in a dream, the universe of the house reacts to Maria’s feelings.

APR 4 @ 9:15PM

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Another Void: A Paul Clipson Retrospective

USA, 48 min, Dir: Paul Clipson Presented in 16mm.

In early February 2018, the prolific San Francisco based experimental filmmaker Paul Clipson unexpectedly passed away at the age of 52.

Another Void is a retrospective celebration of a small selection of some of the most visually stunning 16mm films that exist.

APR 5 @ 1PM

La Rutas en Febero (Roads in February)

PANORAMA

LATIN AMERICAN

Sweden 2019, 58 min, Dir: Carl Abrahamsson To sum up the life and work of British artist Genesis Breyer POrridge is close to impossible. POrridge is a romantic existentialist and a cultural engineer. Everything is both work as such and seed for cultural and behavioural change.

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Female Trouble

USA 1974, 89 min, Dir: John Waters A spoiled schoolgirl runs away from home, gets pregnant while hitchhiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes. Featuring a live drag performance before the screening.

APR 9 @ 9:30PM

C I N E M A

Canada 2018, 84 min, Dir: Katherine Jerkovic French & Spanish with subtitles After the death of her father, a young woman travels to Uruguay to visit with her paternal grandmother, who she hasn’t spoken to since she immigrated to Canada. She is received coolly, and the village she grew up in now seems mundane and unfamiliar.

APR 5 @ 3:30

Change Itself: An Art Apart - Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

With a live music performance by Rhythm of Cruelty at 7PM. APR 7 @ 7:30PM

The Last Unicorn

UK/France/West Germany/ Japan/USA 1982, 92 min, Dir: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. A unicorn learns she is the last of her kind and embarks on a journey to find the rest of the missing unicorns, during which she finds new friends, faces dangers beyond her imagination, and becomes forever changed. Free admission for kids 12 & under.

APR 10 @ 1PM

Bright Star

UK/Australia/France 2009, 119 min, Dir: Jane Campion The three-year romance between 19th-century poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne near the end of his life. Co-presented with the Writers Guild of Alberta and Edmonton Poetry Festival.

APR 10 @ 3:30PM

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APRIL 2020 SCHEDULE SUNDAY

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1PM Another Void: A Paul Clipson Retrospective 3:30PM La Rutas en Febero TBA TBA

Female Trouble

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PANORAMA

LATIN AMERICAN

C I N E M A

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11AM Ghost Light Tour 12PM SUNDAY Harvey CLASSICS 7PM Private Event 9:30PM Donnie Darko

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TBA 9:30PM The Whistlers

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Donnie Darko 7:30PM Change Itself: An Art Apart - Genesis Breyer P-Orridge

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7PM 9:15

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13 1PM The Booksellers 3:30PM Sing-A-Long Jesus Christ Superstar TBA TBA

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TBA 9:30PM Pom Poko – Subbed

EASTER

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20 7PM Dazed and Confused 9:15PM Pineapple Express

Dreamspeakers International Film Festival

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TBA 3:30PM Les cordilleres des songes TBA TBA

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27 PANORAMA

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6:30PM Come and See (1995) 7

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LATIN AMERICAN

C I N E M A

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7PM Poetry Slam – Live Event 9:30PM The Climb

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WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY

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2PM The Booksellers PM Seeing The Unseen 9:30PM Cats

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7PM No Man’s Land 9:30PM The Booksellers

PRIL FOOL’S DAY 8FMDPNF 8FEOFTEBZT

FRIDAY

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4 7PM Los Adioses PANORAMA

LATIN AMERICAN

C I N E M A

9:30PM The Room - 100th Screening

10 1PM The TBA 9:30PM Female Trouble

TBA M The Whistlers 5PM Los Adioses PANORAMA

LATIN AMERICAN

C I N E M A

Last Unicorn 3:30PM Bright Star TBA 9:30PM Monty Python & the Holy Grail GOOD FRIDAY

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1PM Kubo and The Two Strings 3:30PM Private Event 7PM The Whistlers 9:15PM La Casa Lobos PANORAMA

LATIN AMERICAN

C I N E M A

11 10AM Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!

2PM Abou Keyss 4:15PM Pom Poko – Dubbed 7PM Clueless TBA

18 Dreamspeakers International Film Festival MIDNIGHT Kilink: Strip & Kill

7PM Safe (1995)

TBA TBA

TBA

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2PM Baraka PM Open Your outh and Say… Mr. Chi Pig PM Crash (1996)

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7PM First Reformed

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7PM Temblores (2019) PANORAMA

LATIN AMERICAN

C I N E M A

TBA

9:30PM The Climb

1:30PM Coronation St. with Roy & Brian - Live Event 7PM The Climb 9:15PM Bixa Travesty PANORAMA

LATIN AMERICAN

C I N E M A

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TBA TBA 9:30PM Bixa Travesty PANORAMA

7PM Design and Game Awards 2020 9:30PM Kiss of the Damned

LATIN AMERICAN

C I N E M A

Pom Poko

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail

45th Anniversary UK 1975, 91 min, Dir: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table embark on a surreal, low-budget search for the Holy Grail, encountering many, very silly obstacles. Terry Jones tribute.

APR 10 @ 9:30PM

Saturday Morning All-YouCan-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party!

150 min, Curator: Kier-La Janisse The cartoon lineup is always a mystery, but you’ll see both faves and obscurities spanning the 40s through the 80s, all punctuated with vintage commercials and PSAs! Adults: $16, Students/Seniors: $14, Children (12&under): $12.

Admission includes cereal.

Metro passes: only Silver Screen passes accepted (subject to availability).

APR 11 @ 10AM

Abou Keyss

Lebanon 2013, 80 min, Dir: Miled Abo Moussa Arabic with subtitles In the Lebanese village of El Merjan, a shop owner becomes annoyed by children playing in front of his shop and scares them with a story of Abou keyss, who will come and take them away in his bag.

When Abou keyss does come to the village with his bag one day, it is filled with a portable theater full 12

of puppets, to the delight of the children. When one of them suddenly disappears, the other children decide to start an investigation to find what really happened.

APR 11 @ 2PM

Pom Poko

Japan 1994, 119 min, Dir: Isao Takahata A community of magical shapeshifting raccoon dogs struggle to prevent their forest home from being destroyed by urban development.

APR 11 @ 4:15PM - English dubbed / Free admission for kids 12 & under APR 14 @ 9:30PM - Japanese with subtitles / Regular admission

Clueless

USA 1995, 97 min, Dir: Amy Heckerling, 25th Anniversary Cher, a high school student in Beverly Hills, must survive the ups and downs of adolescent life. At first seemingly superficial, she tries to use her wit, charm, and intelligence to help her deal with relationships, friends, family, school, and the all-important teenage social life, with mixed results.

APR 11 @ 7PM

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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.

APR 12 @ 11AM

Harvey

SUNDAY

CLASSICS USA 1950, 104 min, Dir: Henry Koster, 70th Anniversary Due to his insistence that he has an invisible six foot-tall rabbit for a best friend, a whimsical middleaged man is thought by his family to be insane, but he may be wiser than anyone knows. Seniors get 2-for-1 admission at the doors. Garneau Community League members get free admission and a free small popcorn with a valid membership.

APR 12 @ 12PM

Sing-A-Long Jesus Christ Superstar

Donnie Darko

USA 2001, 113 min, Dir: Richard Kelly A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after he narrowly escapes a bizarre accident.

APR 12 @ 9:30PM

Safe

UK/USA 1995, 119 min, Dir: Todd Haynes, 25th Anniversary An affluent and unexceptional homemaker in the suburbs develops multiple chemical sensitivity from Environmental Illness and seeks help from a New Age guru’s clinic in New Mexico.

APR 17 @ 7PM

Dreamspeakers International Film Festival The Dreamspeakers Festival Society supports Indigenous artists by providing platforms to show their work and resources to help craft their stories at a local, national, and international level. It offers a unique exploration into indigenous cultures from all parts of the globe and provides a venue for these filmmakers.

April 18 & 19

USA 1973, 106 min, Dir: Norman Jewison Catch the story of the final 6 days in the life of Jesus Christ through the troubled eyes of Judas Iscariot; join in for your favourite parts, and delight in bell-bottomed disciples and spectacular desert scenery. Loaves and fishes not included.

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Kilink: Strip & Kill

Turkey 1967, 93 min, Dir: Yilmaz Atadeniz Turkish with English subtitles Kilink faces off against 2 rival gangs, turning one against the other while fighting for possession of a roll of microfilm and some foreign loot. Kilink is his usual sadistic self, but in this film his role is a little more ambiguous, almost heroic at times. Action packed and full of plot twists, it is not to be missed!

Tickets only $6, screening in the Metro Lobby Gallery.

APR 18 @ MIDNIGHT

Dazed and Confused

USA 1993, 102 min, Dir: Richard Linklater It’s the last day of school at a high school in a small town in Texas in 1976. The upperclassmen are hazing the incoming freshmen, and everyone is trying to get stoned, drunk, or laid, even the football players that signed a pledge not to.

APR 20 @ 7PM

Pineapple Express

USA 2008, 111 min, Dir: David Gordon Green A process server and his marijuana dealer wind up on the run from hitmen and a corrupt police officer after he witnesses his dealer’s boss murder a competitor while trying to serve papers on him.

APR 20 @ 9:15PM

Come and See

7 Soviet Union 1985, 142 min, Dir: Elem Klimov, 35th Anniversary Russian and German with subtitles After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II. APR 21 @ 6:30PM

Baraka

USA 1992, 96 min, Dir: Ron Fricke Featuring no conventional narrative, this film presents footage of people, places and things from around the world. The production doesn’t shy away from the dark side of humanity, and ultimately shows how much of the world is interconnected by both the tragedy and the vibrancy of life. 50th anniversary of Earth Day. APR 22 @ 2PM

Open Your Mouth & Say...

Mr. Chi Pig

Canada/Costa Rica/USA 2009, 97 min, Dir: Sean Patrick Shaul, 10th Anniversary Born in Edmonton as Kendall Chinn, Mr. Chi Pig was the front man for one of the biggest names in the first wave of Canadian punk rock: SNFU. Like a lot of those original bands, they never found fame themselves but they influenced an entire generation of musicians from Jello Biafra and Moe Berg to Corb Lund, Matthew Good and Hot Hot Heat. Presented

by NorthwestFest for National Canadian Film Day. APR 22 @ 7PM

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The Climb

Crash

Canada 1996, 100 min, Dir: David Cronenberg After getting into a serious car accident, a TV director discovers an underground sub-culture of scarred, omnisexual car-crash victims who use car accidents and the raw sexual energy they produce to try to rejuvenate his sex life with his wife. National Canadian Film Day. Free admission.

APR 22 @ 9:30

USA 2019, 94 min, Dir: Michael Angelo Covino Kyle and Mike are best friends who share a close bond, until Mike sleeps with Kyle’s fiancée. The Climb is about a tumultuous but enduring relationship between two men across many years of laughter, heartbreak, and rage.

Opens April 24

First Reformed

Live Event Celebrating Corrie’s 60th anniversary, The Full English stars David Neilson, who plays Roy Cropper, and Peter Gunn, who plays Brian Packham, from the award-winning Coronation St. Hosted by Karl Wells, fans will get the scoop from these veteran cast members as they offer an insiders look into their characters, and their Corrie stories and secrets.

APR 25 @ 1:30PM

USA/UK/Australia 2018, 113 min, Dir: Paul Schrader A minister of a small congregation in upstate New York grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns and a tormented past.

APR 23 @ 7PM

Temblores (Tremors)

PANORAMA

LATIN AMERICAN

C I N E M A

Guatemala/France/Luxembourg 2019, 107 min, Dir: Jayro Bustamante Spanish with subtitles The coming out of an evangelical father shatters his family, his community and uncovers a profoundly repressive society.

APR 24 @ 7PM

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Coronation St.: The Full English with Roy & Brian

Bixa Travesty

PANORAMA

LATIN AMERICAN

Brazil 2018, 75 min, Dir: Kiko Goifman, Claudia Priscilla Portuguese with subtitles A documentary that follows Mc Linn Da Quebrada, a black trans woman, performer and activist living in impoverished São Paulo. Her electrifying performances brazenly take on Brazil’s hetero-normative machismo.

APR 25 @ 9:15PM, APR 29 @ 9:30PM

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PANORAMA La cordillere des songes (The Cordillera of Dreams)

LATIN AMERICAN

C I N E M A

Chile/France 2019, 84 min, Dir: Patricio Guzmán Spanish with subtitles The Andes are at once protective and isolating, magisterial and indifferent; the cordillera of mountains serves as the country’s “spine” and an enigmatic focal point around which to contemplate the enduring legacy of the 1973 military coup d’état.

APR 26 @ 3:30PM

Vagabond

France 1985, 105 min, Dir: Agnès Varda French with subtitles Staff: Heather A young woman’s body is found frozen in a ditch. Through flashbacks and interviews, we see the events that led to her inevitable death.

APR 27 @ 7PM

All-Star Poetry Slam!

Design and Game Awards Live Event Doesn’t matter how or what you play (board, video, social, or roleplaying games), just that you play! The second annual Design and Game Awards celebrates the diverse and exciting gaming culture by honoring the gamers that play the games we love, that band together to make an impact on communities and events, and that design the games we play today.

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APR 30 @ 7PM

Kiss of the Damned

USA 2012, 97 min, Dir: Xan Cassavetes The vampire Djuna resists the advances of Paolo, but soon gives in to their passion. When her troublemaking sister unexpectedly comes to visit, Djuna’s love is threatened, and the whole vampire community becomes endangered.

APR 30 @ 9:30PM

Live Event Join the Edmonton Poetry Festival for a competition between Edmonton’s favourite spoken word poets as they compete in an All-Star Slam! with 2 fast-paced rounds of poetry, featuring celebrated poet Valerie Mason-John. Tickets at the door are $10, or Pay-What-YouCan, and late entry is welcome.

APR 28 @ 7PM

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