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October 18 - November 28, 2019 Your Movie! Now Serving! Grab a Brew with October 18 - November 28, 2019 your Movie! Now Serving! 905-545-8888 • 177 SHERMAN AVE. N., HAMILTON ,ON • WWW.PLAYHOUSECINEMA.CA WINNER Highest Award! Atwood is Back at the Playhouse! Cannes Film Festival 2019! - Palme D’or New documentary gets up close & personal Tiff -3rd Runner - Up Audience Award! with Canada’ international literary star! This black comedy thriller is rated 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic re- MARGARET lationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan. ATWOOD: A Word After a Word “HHHH, “Parasite” is unquestionably one of the best films of the year.” After a Word is Power. - Brian Tellerico Rogerebert.com ONE WEEK! Nov 8-14 Playhouse hosting AGH Screenings! ‘Scorcese’s EPIC MOB PICTURE is HEADED to a Best Picture Win at Oscars!” - Peter Travers , Rolling Stone SE LAYHOU 2! AGH at P 27! Starts Nov 2 Oct 23- OPENS Nov 29th Scarlett Johansson Laura Dern Adam Driver Descriptions below are for films playing at BEETLEJUICE THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI Dir.Tim Burton • USA • 1988 • 91min • Rated PG. FEAT. THE VOC HARMONIC ORCHESTRA the Playhouse Cinema from October 18 2019, Dir. Paul Downs Colaizzo • USA • 2019 • 103min • Rated STC. through to and including November 28, 2019. TIM BURTON’S HAUNTED CLASSIC “Beetlejuice, directed by Tim Burton, is a ghost story from the LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT • CO-PRESENTED BY AGH haunters' perspective.The drearily happy Maitlands (Alec Baldwin and Iconic German Expressionist silent horror - routinely cited as one of Geena Davis) drive into the river, come up dead, and return to their the greatest films ever made - presented with live music accompani- Admission Prices beloved, quaint house as spooks intent on despatching the hideous ment by the VOC Silent Film Harmonic, from Kitchener-Waterloo. New York yuppie family which had usurped their property. Special Admission: Playhouse/AGH members $15 • Nonmembers $18 Members/under 12: $8 “The humour unfolds as the horrible Deetzes (Jeffery Jones and The most brilliant example of that dark and twisted film movement Catherine O'Hara) fill the house with revolting avant-garde art, bull- known as German Expressionism, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a Non-Members: $ 12 • Over 65/Students: $9 dozers, and camp interior designers spitting venom; while only their plunge into the mind of insanity that severs all ties with the rational mournful teenage daughter (Winona Ryder) seems either aware of or world. Director Robert Wiene and a team of designers crafted a night- Annual Membership: $10 in tune with the ghostly couple, whose failure to shine in the scare mare realm in which light, shadow and substance are abstracted, a Membership benefits: stakes finally drags them into the arms of Betelgeuse (Michael world in which a demented doctor and a carnival sleepwalker perpe- $4 o regular admission Keaton), a kind of demonic Clint Eastwood of the underworld trate a series of ghastly murders in a small community. OCT 30 Free film guide mailing “Off-the wall humour and some sensational sight gags make the Snack bar combo THE CAMINO VOYAGE movie a truly astonishing piece of work.” - Time Out OCTOBER 26 Dir. Donal O'Ceilleachair • Ireland • 2019 • 97min • Rated STC. THE BIG LEBOWSKI 4 MEN BUILD A BOAT AND SAIL IT 2500KM, HAVING ADVENTURES Dir. Joel and Ethan Coen • USA/UK • 1991 • 116min • Rated 14A. “Early on, writer, poet, adventurer Danny Sheehy says: ‘If you're THE DUDE ABIDES. DRESS UP! sensible all the time you'd never do anything.’ He is a man in his six- The plot of this Raymond Chandler-esque comedy crime caper ties sailing in a small boat from Ireland, along the west coast of from the Coen Brothers pivots around a case of mistaken identity France and down to Santiago with three friends: musician Brendan FRIDAY OCTOBER 18 SATURDAY OCTOBER 19 complicated by extortion, double-crosses, deception, embezzlement, Begley, stonemason Breandan Moriarty and artist Liam Holden. sex, pot (lots of it), and gallons of White Russians. Unemployed '60s “They built the boat themselves and over six weeks in three Mays, 4:45PM •STC• 2:30PM •STC• refugee Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski (Jeff Bridges) grooves into his laid- from 2014 to 2016, they sailed the 2,500km of the different stretches of BRITTANY RUNS back Los Angeles lifestyle. However, the Dude's life takes an alternate the journey. Along the way, they camp, meet people, play music and route the afternoon two goons break into his threadbare Venice, chat. Donal O'Ceilleachair directs what is, as the Camino is intended A MARATHON HUMAN California, bungalow, rough him up, and urinate on his living room to be, much more than just a physical journey. This is the story of an adventure based in Irish traditions and it's a pleasure and privilege to 7:00PM •STC• rug. Why? Because Jackie Treehorn is owed money by the wife of a NATURE certain Jeff Lebowski. However, the goons grabbed the wrong Jeff get to see people who just do things.” - Irish Independant 4:45PM •STC• Lebowski. The Dude looks up his wealthy namesake, manages to get This is a SPECIAL PRESENTATION through DEMAND FILM. BRITTANY RUNS a replacement for his rug, and meets the millionaire's sexy young Advance tickets can ONLY be purchased through their website for wife Bunny. As events unravel, the Dude gets caught up in the $14.50 plus $1.50 Service charge. We will be selling tickets at the door A MARATHON schemes of Lebowski's daughter, erotic artist Maude, encounters both for $17.00. tickets.demand.film/event/8932 OCT 26 9:00PM“An impressive •14A• achievement, often suggesting an 7:00PM •STC• cops and bad guys, and drifts through an elaborate bowling fantasy expressionist blend of 2001, The Warriors, sequence titled Gutterballs. OCTOBER 31 Blade Runner and Forbidden Planet.”- TimeOut BRITTANY RUNS A MARATHON 9:10PM •R• Dir. Paul Downs Colaizzo • USA • 2019 • 103min • Rated STC. JILLIAN BELL SHINES AS HARD PARTYER CHANGING THIER WAYS THE EXORCIST “Written and directed by first-timer Paul Downs Colaizzo and star- DIRECTOR’S CUT ring Jillian Bell in a performance that defines breakout, Brittany not only goes places you won’t be expecting but it also manages to be AKIRA simultaneously sympathetic and unsentimental, a picture with a Dir. Katsuhiro Ôtomo • Japan • 1988 • 124min • Rated 14A. In Japanese with English subs. laugh-out-loud sense of humor that can be as real as hell. SOON TO BE LIVE ACTION HOLLYWOOD REMAKE! “Colaizzo is an award-winning playwright, and he puts his sharp, “There are certain science-fiction films, such as Blade Runner and on-point dialogue at the service of a story loosely inspired by his best 2001, that are so well realized that they can influence the genre for friend, Brittany, a hard partyer who decided to change her life by tak- decades. Now Akira sits comfortably alongside those other titles, and ing on the New York Marathon. Given this set-up, you might think you offers up something new or missed with every viewing. could guess the rest of Brittany’s story, but you really cannot. “The plot concerns a futuristic neo-Tokyo biker gang whose lives Brittany’s obstacles do not fade away as she sheds pounds, and are impacted after an accidental collision with a secret government- unlooked-for issues of intimacy, trust and belief in self come to the For AGH Film Festival screening information run project dealing with telekinetic powers in children. Style and sub- fore. Her battle is not so much to lose weight as to take control of her visit artgalleryofhamilton.com stance run neck and neck in this thrilling, bold landmark film that just life, and Brittany Runs a Marathon ensures that we’re rooting for her Programs available in the Playhouse lobby refuses to become dated.”- The Guardian OCTOBER 18 & 20 every step of the way. - LA Times OCTOBER 15-20 18 FREE PARKING SPOTS IN PLAYHOUSE LOT NEXT DOOR! PLUS 18 MORE SPOTS ACROSS THE STREET IN MUNICAPAL LOT! I OCT 18 - NOV 28 2019 SEE OCT 18 & 19 LISTINGS ON PAGE ONE MONDAY OCTOBER 21 TUESDAY OCTOBER 22 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 23 THURSDAY OCTOBER 24 FRIDAY OCTOBER 25 SATURDAY OCTOBER 26 SUNDAY OCTOBER 20 4:45PM •STC• A4 :p4r5oPvMo c•SatTiCv•e exploration of CRISPR's 2:00PM •STC• SPECIAL PRESENTATION See film description 2:45PM •STC• far-reaching gene editing implications THE for ticketing CAMINO info HUMAN V4:15OPM •YSTC•AGE 4:45M •STC• 6:45PM •PG• AGH FILM FESTIVAL HUMANNATURE NATURE 7:00PM •STC• 7:00PM •STC• 7:00PM •STC• 7:00PM •STC• 4:00PM •STC• SYNONYMS 7:15PM •STC• BRITTANY RUNS THE PRICE OF IT MUST THE WHISTLERS AGH FILM FESTIVAL A MARATHON HEATER 7:00PM •STC• EVERYTHING 9:00PM •STC• 9:15PM •14A• 8:55PM •STC• BE HEAVEN SORRY WE SWORD 9:00PM •STC• MISSED YOU 9:00PM •R• DEAD OF TRUST GHOST TOWN 9:00PM •STC• 9:15PM •PG• HUMAN THE EXORCIST ANTHOLOGY MAN ZEPHYR NATURE DIRECTOR’S CUT For AGH Film Fest info visit artgalleryofhamilton.com • Programs avail. in Playhouse lobby SUNDAY OCTOBER 27 MONDAY OCTOBER 28 TUESDAY OCTOBER 29 WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30 THURSDAY OCTOBER 31 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2 2:00PM •STC• 4:40PM •STC• 4:55PM •STC• 2:00PM •STC• 4:45PM •PG• 4:20PM •STC• 1:45PM •STC• ZONTA CLUB OF HAMILTON PRESENTS LUNAFEST 4:00M •STC• AGH FILM FESTIVAL LINDA RONSTADT THE SOUND OF MY VOICE 7:00PM •STC• 4:25PM •STC• ARAB BLUES 6:45PM •STC• 7:00PM •STC• 7:30PM •STC• “Takes us on a rich, nostalgic journey LINDA 7:00PM •STC• 7:00PM •14A• that will be received as a bittersweet RONSTADT AGH FILM FESTIVAL LINDA valentine by old fans and mightintroduce THE SOUND OF MY VOICE DRESS UP! newbies to a remarkable artist who 6:30PM •STC• BEFORE YOU EXPO 67: RONSTADT Feat.
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