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Everybody’s neglectful parents, Antoine spends Everything his days with his best friend, Rene, USA 2019, 116 min, trying to plan for a better life. Dir: Sebastian Jones, Ramez Silyan When one of their schemes goes Creating a unique mix of punk, awry, Antoine ends up in trouble emo, and trap, Lil Peep was set with the law, leading to even more to bring a new musical genre to conflicts with unsympathetic au- the mainstream when he died of a thority figures. drug overdose at just 21 years old. DEC 4 @ 2PM - Welcome Wednesdays From the streets of Los Angeles to studios in London and sold out Atlantics tours in Russia, the artist born France/Sengal/Belgium 2019, Gustav Ahr touched countless lives 105 min, Dir: Mati Diop through his words, his sound, and French & Wolof with subtitles his very being. Everybody’s Every- Along the Atlantic coast, a soon- thing is an intimate, humanistic to-be-inaugurated futuristic tower portrait that seeks to understand looms over a suburb of Dakar. Ada, an artist who attempted to be all 17, is in love with Souleiman, a things to all people. young construction worker. But she DEC 3 @ 6:45PM has been promised to another man. One night, Souleiman and his co- The 400 Blows workers leave the country by sea, France 1959, 99 min, Dir: François in the hope of a better future. Truffaut, 60th Anniversary Opens December 6 French with subtitles & English For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situa- tion after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his 6 www.metrocinema.org In Fabric Deconstructing the UK 2018, 118 min, Dir: Peter Strickland Beatles: Abbey Road English & French with subtitles USA 2019, 90min each, In Fabric is a haunting ghost story set Dir: Scott Freiman against the backdrop of a busy winter In Deconstructing Abbey Road, sales period in a department store Beatleologist Scott Freiman has and follows the life of a cursed dress created one of his most in-depth as it passes from person to person, “deconstructions.” Freiman takes with devastating consequences. the audience on a journey track-by- Opens December 6 track explaining the inspiration for the songs and their evolution in the The Room studio. Programmed to celebrate USA 2003, 99 min, Dir: Tommy Wiseau Abbey Road’s 50th Anniversary, the The film widely considered the “Cit- deconstruction is told in two parts, izen Kane of bad movies” screens Side One & Side Two. Double Bill monthly! Be sure to catch Tommy All Tickets $13 / Single Show - and his friends with a screening of Regular Admissions. this classic piece of so-bad-it’s- SIDE ONE - DEC 7 @ 2PM, DEC 11 @ good cinema. You’re our favourite 2PM - Welcome Wednesdays customer. Thanks a lot! Bye. SIDE TWO - DEC 7 @ 4PM, DEC 11 DEC 6 @ 11:30PM @ 4PM - Welcome Wednesdays
Saturday Morning All-You- Bring It On Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon USA 2000, 98 min, Party: Holiday Edition! Dir: Peyton Reed 120 min, Curator: Kier-La Janisse A champion high school cheerlead- It’s that special time when kids ing squad discovers its previous and kids-at-heart get to relive the captain stole all their best routines exciting Saturday Morning ritual of from an inner-city school and must non-stop retro cartoons, and binge scramble to compete at this year’s on the multi-colored sugary cere- championships. With a live drag als! The cartoon lineup is always a performance before the screening. mystery, but you’ll see both Holiday DEC 7 @ 9:30PM faves and obscurities spanning the 40s through the 80s, all punctuated Fight Club with vintage commercials and PSAs! USA 1999, 139 min, Adults: $16, Students/Seniors: $14, Dir: David Fincher, 20th Anniversary Children (12&under): $12. Admis- An insomniac office worker and a sion includes cereal. devil-may-care soapmaker form an Metro passes: only Silver Screen pass- underground fight club that evolves es accepted (subject to availability). into something much, much more. DEC 7 @ 10AM DEC 8 @ 9:30PM www.metrocinema.org 7 New Jack City White Snake
WORKING White Snake 24 City HARD China/USA 2019, 99 min, 2008, 112 min, Dir: Zhangke Jia Dir: Jiakang Huang, Ji Zhao Mandarin with subtitles Mandarin with subtitles / English dubbed 24 City is a documentary about the One day a young woman named transformation of Factory 420 in Blanca is saved by Xuan, a snake Chengdu from the secret manufac- catcher from a nearby village. She ture of military aircraft engines in has lost her memory, and together 1958 to a downsized and remodeled they go on a journey to discover facility producing consumer prod- her real identity, developing deeper ucts, after the Vietnam war, and feelings for one another along the then, more recently, into a privately way. But as they learn more about owned real-estate development her past, they uncover a darker plot called “24 City”. of supernatural forces vying for DEC 12 @ 7PM power, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance. New Jack City BOOM BAP Opens December 13 USA 1991, 97 min, CinemA Dir: Mario Van Peebles A crime lord ascends to power and The Lighthouse becomes megalomaniacal while a Canada/USA 2019, 109 min, maverick police detective vows to Dir: Robert Eggers stop him. The hypnotic and hallucinatory tale DEC 12 @ 9:30PM of two lighthouse keepers trying to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s. Opens December 13
8 www.metrocinema.org 9 DECEMBER 2019 SCHEDULE SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10AM Saturday Morn- 6:45PM ing All-You-Can-Eat- 2PM The 400 Blows 6:45PM Everybody’s 8FMDPNF Cereal Cartoon Party! 8FEOFTEBZT Atlantics 2PM Private Rental Everything 7PM The 2PM Deconstructing the 7PM The Irishman 6:45PM Camp fYrefly 9PM In Fabric Beatles: Abbey Road - Side 1 7PM The Irishman Irishman 4PM Deconstructing the Fundraiser 11:30PM The 9:15PM The Room Beatles: Abbey Road - Side 2 Irishman 9:15PM The Irishman 7PM In Fabric 9:30PM Bring It On 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2PM Deconstructing 1PM A 7PM 24 City 7PM White the Beatles: Abbey 8FMDPNF Christmas Story 1PM Atlantics 8FEOFTEBZT WORKING HARD Snake - Subtitled Road - Side 1 3:30PM Dosed TBA 7PM The Condor & 7PM Atlantics 9:15PM The 4PM Deconstructing TBA 7PM In Fabric The Eagle 9:30PM Private 9:30PM New Lighthouse the Beatles: Abbey 8FMDPNF 9:15PM Die Hard 9:30PM Fight Club 9:30PM In Fabric Event 8FEOFTEBZT Jack City 11:30PM Plan Road - Side 2 MIDNIGHT Night BOOM 9 From Outer 7PM In Fabric BAP Gallery TV: Tribute to CinemA Space 9:30PM Atlantics Rod Serling 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 11AM 7PM Garneau Ghost 2PM White Snake - National Light History Tour Lampoon’s 4PM Klaus 1PM Klaus 7PM White Dubbed 1PM The Carol Project Christmas 6:45PM TBA Snake - Subtitled 8FMDPNF TBA 8FEOFTEBZT Vacation Parasite (2019) TBA 9:15PM The 3:15PM The Lighthouse 7PM The Lighthouse 9:30PM 9:30PM Lighthouse 7PM The Lighthouse TBA 9:30PM White Snake - White Snake - Gremlins TBA 9:30PM Parasite (2019) Dubbed Subtitled
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1PM 1PM The Downton Abbey 1PM 3:30PM White Christmas Lighthouse TBA 1PM It’s a Downton Abbey 1PM Ponyo (1954) 3:30PM 3:30PM Klaus Wonderful Life CLOSED – TBA SUNDAY Parasite (2019) CLASSICS 6:45PM Parasite (2019) – Food Bank MERRY 6:45PM TBA TBA 9:30PM CHRISTMAS! 6:45PM Parasite (2019) Dial Code Santa Fundraiser Parasite (2019) 9:30PM She 6:45PM Parasite (2019) 4PM 9:30PM 9:30PM Black Christmas Claus Elf Never Died 9:30PM Dark Side of Oz (1974) Mad Max 29 30 31 12:15PM Ponyo 7PM Parasite 2:15PM Greed (1924) 7PM Brain Damage 7 (2019) 6:45PM The Piano 9PM Parasite (2019) HAPPY NEW Teacher YEAR! 9:30PM Parasite (2019) 10 Lighthouse Gremlins DECEMBER 2019 SCHEDULE SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 10AM Saturday Morn- 6:45PM ing All-You-Can-Eat- 2PM The 400 Blows 6:45PM Everybody’s 8FMDPNF Cereal Cartoon Party! 8FEOFTEBZT Atlantics 2PM Private Rental Everything 7PM The 2PM Deconstructing the 7PM The Irishman 6:45PM Camp fYrefly 9PM In Fabric Beatles: Abbey Road - Side 1 7PM The Irishman Irishman 4PM Deconstructing the Fundraiser 11:30PM The 9:15PM The Room Beatles: Abbey Road - Side 2 Irishman 9:15PM The Irishman 7PM In Fabric 9:30PM Bring It On 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 2PM Deconstructing 1PM A 7PM 24 City 7PM White the Beatles: Abbey 8FMDPNF Christmas Story 1PM Atlantics 8FEOFTEBZT WORKING HARD Snake - Subtitled Road - Side 1 3:30PM Dosed TBA 7PM The Condor & 7PM Atlantics 9:15PM The 4PM Deconstructing TBA 7PM In Fabric The Eagle 9:30PM Private 9:30PM New Lighthouse the Beatles: Abbey 8FMDPNF 9:15PM Die Hard 9:30PM Fight Club 9:30PM In Fabric Event 8FEOFTEBZT Jack City 11:30PM Plan Road - Side 2 MIDNIGHT Night BOOM 9 From Outer 7PM In Fabric BAP Gallery TV: Tribute to CinemA Space 9:30PM Atlantics Rod Serling 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 11AM 7PM National Garneau Ghost 2PM White Snake - Light History Tour Lampoon’s 4PM Klaus 1PM Klaus 7PM White Dubbed 1PM The Carol Project Christmas 6:45PM TBA Snake - Subtitled 8FMDPNF TBA 8FEOFTEBZT Vacation Parasite (2019) TBA 9:15PM The 3:15PM The Lighthouse 7PM The Lighthouse 9:30PM 9:30PM Lighthouse 7PM The Lighthouse TBA 9:30PM White Snake - White Snake - Gremlins TBA 9:30PM Parasite (2019) Dubbed Subtitled
22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1PM Downton Abbey 1PM The 1PM Lighthouse 3:30PM White Christmas 1PM Ponyo TBA 1PM It’s a Downton Abbey 3:30PM (1954) 3:30PM Klaus Wonderful Life CLOSED – TBA SUNDAY Parasite (2019) CLASSICS 6:45PM Parasite (2019) – Food Bank MERRY 6:45PM TBA TBA 9:30PM CHRISTMAS! 6:45PM Parasite (2019) Dial Code Santa Fundraiser Parasite (2019) 9:30PM She 6:45PM Parasite (2019) 4PM 9:30PM 9:30PM Black Christmas Claus Elf Never Died 9:30PM Dark Side of Oz (1974) Mad Max 29 30 31 12:15PM Ponyo 7PM Parasite 2:15PM Greed (1924) 7PM Brain Damage 7 (2019) 6:45PM The Piano 9PM Parasite (2019) HAPPY NEW Teacher YEAR! 9:30PM Parasite (2019) Lighthouse Gremlins 11 A Christmas Story Die Hard
Plan 9 from Outer Space Die Hard USA 1959, 79 min, USA 1988, 132 min, Dir: Edward D. Wood Jr., Dir: John McTiernan 60th Anniversary An NYPD officer tries to save his This low-budget sci-fi epic tells the wife and several others taken hos- chilling tale of space aliens who tage by German terrorists during come to Earth in flying saucers and a Christmas party at the Nakatomi raise the dead in hopes of overtak- Plaza in Los Angeles. ing the planet. The military knows DEC 14 @ 9:15PM about the invasion and struggles to keep the alien doings a secret. Night Gallery TV 50th Fortunately for the rest of humanity Anniversary : A Rod a courageous airline pilot teams up with a detective to stop them from Serling Tribute enacting the dreaded “Plan 9.” 90 min, Compiled by: DEC 13 @ 11:30PM Allan Mulholland Night Gallery presents a tribute A Christmas Story to the genius of Rod Serling and his groundbreaking show and our USA/UK 1983, 94 min, namesake “Night Gallery” which Dir: Bob Clark premiered in 1969. We will be In the 1940s, a young boy named featuring clips from the show as Ralphie attempts to convince his well as clips from “Twilight Zone” parents, his teacher and Santa that (celebrating its 60th anniversary). a Red Ryder BB gun really is the There will also be clips from his perfect Christmas gift. Free admis- other work, including a few sur- sion for kids 12 & under. prises along the way. Tickets only DEC 21 @ 1PM $6! Presented in the Lobby Gallery. DEC 14 @ MIDNIGHT
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Garneau Ghost Light never run smoothly for Clark, his History Tour wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark’s Live Event continual bad luck is worsened by Get a rare glimpse at the history his obnoxious family guests, but and hidden spaces of Edmonton’s he manages to keep going know- grand Art Deco Garneau Theatre. ing that his Christmas bonus is due Your host Dave Clarke takes you soon. Except that it isn’t. on a tour through the history of the DEC 19 @ 7PM Garneau’s storied past and back- stage passageways. We can only Klaus accommodate a few for the tour – Spain 2019, 96 min, book early to avoid disappointment. Dir: Sergio Pablos Tickets $5. DEC 15 @ 11AM A simple act of kindness always sparks another, even in a frozen, The Carol Project faraway place. When Smeerens- Canada 2006, 50 min, burg’s new postman, Jesper, be- Dir: Tim Folkmann friends toymaker Klaus, their gifts A ghost story with timeless lessons melt an age-old feud and deliver a of greed, love, loss and redemption. sleigh full of holiday traditions. Filmed in Edmonton, this special Opens December 20 Christmas screening is presented with filmmakers in attendance. Parasite DEC 15 @ 1PM South Korea 2019, 132 min, Dir: Joon-ho Bong National Lampoon’s Korean with subtitles Christmas Vacation Greed and class discrimination USA 1989, 97 min, Dir: Jeremiah threaten the newly formed sym- Chechik, 30th Anniversary biotic relationship between the It’s Christmas time and the Gris- wealthy Park family and the desti- wolds are preparing for a family tute Kim clan. seasonal celebration, but things Opens December 20 14 www.metrocinema.org Gremlins killer may be in the house. USA 1984, 106 min, Dir: Joe Dante, DEC 22 @ 9:30PM 35th Anniversary A boy inadvertently breaks three Dial Code Santa Claus important rules concerning his new France 1989, 87 min, pet and unleashes a horde of ma- Dir: René Manzor, 30th Anniversary levolently mischievous monsters French with subtitles on a small town. Thomas, a resourceful child, is left DEC 20 @ 9:30PM alone with his fragile grandfather on Christmas Eve. When a killer dressed Downton Abbey as Santa Claus breaks into their UK 2019, 122 min, home, Thomas does whatever it takes Dir: Michael Engler to defend his home and grandfather. The continuing story of the Crawley DEC 23 @ 9:30PM family, wealthy owners of a large estate in the English countryside in It’s a Wonderful Life the early 20th century. USA 1946, 130 min, Dir: Frank Capra, Opens December 22. Food Bank Fundraiser An angel is sent from Heaven White Christmas SUNDAY to help a desperately frustrated USA 1954, 120 min, CLASSICS businessman by showing him what Dir: Michael Curtiz, life would have been like if he had 65th Anniversary never existed. Free admission with A successful song-and-dance team a non-perishable food or monetary become romantically involved with donation at the door. a sister act and team up to save the DEC 24 @ 1PM failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general. Seniors get Elf 2-for-1 admission at the doors. USA 2003, 97 min, Dir: Jon Favreau DEC 22 @ 3:30PM Buddy was accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and Black Christmas raised to adulthood among Santa’s Canada 1974, 98 min, elves. Unable to shake the feeling Dir: Bob Clark, 45th Anniversary that he doesn’t fit in, the adult Buddy Barb and Jess are lonely sorority travels to New York in search of his sisters who are having a Christmas real father, who turns out to be Wal- party in their sorority house dur- ter Hobbs, a cynical businessman. ing the Christmas break. Peter is After a DNA test proves this, Wal- a mad-killer who terrorizes the ter reluctantly attempts to start a women by making threatening relationship with the childlike Buddy telephone calls. As the body count with increasingly chaotic results. mounts, the women realize that the DEC 24 @ 4PM www.metrocinema.org 15 Mad Max nyo’s wish to live on the surface that Australia 1979, 88 min, she breaks free, and in the process, Dir: George Miller, 40th Anniversary spills a collection of magical elixirs Taking place in a dystopian Austra- that endanger Sosuke’s village. lia in the near future, Mad Max tells DEC 28 @ 1PM - English dubbed / the story of a highway patrolman Free admission for kids 12 & under cruising the squalid back roads that DEC 29 @ 12:15PM - Japanese with have become the breeding ground subtitles / Regular admission of criminals foraging for gasoline and scraps. When his wife and child Dark Side of Oz meet a grisly end at the hands of USA 1939, 102 min, a motorcycle gang, Max sets out Dir: Victor Fleming across the barren wastelands in For years, members of Pink Floyd search of revenge. have denied that the band synchro- DEC 26 @ 9:30PM nized its landmark 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon with The She Never Died Wizard of Oz. The evidence, howev- Canada 2019, 89 min, er, suggests otherwise. Begin play- Dir: Audrey Cummings ing the album after the third roar of Lacey, a socially detached loner the MGM lion and listen as the cash is cursed with immortality and a register sounds of “Money” plink never-ending tedium of existence. out of your speakers the instant In her attempts to keep her com- Dorothy emerges into the world of pulsions in check, she seeks out color and first glimpses the Yellow the darkest souls humanity has to Brick Road. How do you explain offer. Lacey must now face her own that? (Slate) inner demons while simultaneously DEC 28 @ 9:30PM finding her next meal. DEC 27 @ 9:30PM Greed 1924, 240 min, 7 Ponyo Dir: Erich von Stroheim Japan 2008, 101 min, In this Silent Film Classic, house- Dir: Hayao Miyazaki wife Trina McTeague wins the During a forbidden excursion to see lottery and her comfortable life the surface world, a goldfish princess with her dentist husband is slowly encounters a human boy named So- destroyed, in part by her own in- suke, who gives her the name Ponyo. creasing paranoia and in part by the Ponyo longs to become human, and machinations of a villainous friend. as her friendship with Sosuke grows, DEC 29 @ 2:15PM she becomes more human-like. Po- nyo’s father brings her back to their ocean kingdom, but so strong is Po- 16 www.metrocinema.org working hard to bring you great beer
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The Piano Teacher Brain Damage Austria/France/Germany USA 1988, 84 min, 2001, 131 min, Dir: Frank Henenlotter Dir: Michael Haneke Staff: Jessica Manchak French & German with subtitles One morning, a young man wakes Erika Kohut, a piano teacher in her to find that a small, disgusting 40s, lives with her domineering creature has attached itself to the mother while her father is locked base of his brain stem. The crea- away in an insane asylum. While ture gives him a euphoric state of her life at home lays the basic happiness but demands human foundation for her psychology, it victims in return. isn’t until cocky young piano player DEC 30 @ 7PM Walter Klemmer manipulates his way into private lessons with Erika that the film veers into wildly com- pelling, and unsettling, territory. DEC 29 @ 6:45PM
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