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Scarlett Johansson Laura Dern Adam Driver Descriptions below are for films playing at BEETLEJUICE THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI Dir. • 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 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. 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 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 () 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 “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.”- OCTOBER 18 & 20 every step of the way. - LA Times OCTOBER 15-20 18 FREE PARKING SPOTS IN PLAYHOUSE LOT NEXT DOOR! 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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. refused to stay in her lane.” - Phillip Martin MISSION IMPOSSIBLE THE SOUND OF MY VOICE the VOC Harmonic Orchestra THE KNOW IT 8:15PM •R• 9:05PM •R• 9:30PM •PG• 9:15PM •PG• Brilliantly bizarre and overflowing with ideas, BIG LEBOWSKI LINDA 9:10PM •STC• Beetlejuice offers some of Michael Keaton's Rosemary’s most deliciously manic work - and creepy, 9:15PM •14A• RONSTADT THE SOUND OF MY VOICE Roman Polanki's funny fun for the whole family. 1968 film can 9:05PM •STC• still pack a scare! Baby

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 3 MONDAY NOVEMBER 4 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 5 WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 6 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 7 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 8 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 9 2:10PM •STC• 4:20PM •STC• 4:20PM •STC• 4:50PM •STC 4:20PM •STC• 2:05PM •STC• TIFF 2019 OPENIGN NIGHT GALA FILM Hamilton “Satire morphs into a savage From backing up Bob Dylan, to becom- morality lesson that recalls the 4:50PM •STC• 7:00PM •STC• ing one of the most influential groups 7:30PM •R• Film Festival home invasion tales of Michael 4:45PM •STC• ONCE WERE BROTHERS of their era, the history of The Band 6:30PM The Last Haneke and .”- Toronto Star ROBBIE ROBERTSON & THE BAND ONCE WERE ONCE WERE MARGARET 7:00M •STC• BROTHERS BROTHERS Big Save ATWOOD: LINDA 8:00PM 7:00PM •STC• A WORD AFTER A WORD ROBBIE ROBERTSON & THE BAND ROBBIE ROBERTSON & THE BAND Making a AFTER A WORD IS POWER 9:10PM •STC• 6:30PM •STC• 6:45PM •STC• RONSTADT “An exhilarating and furious MARGARET Pedro Almodóvar draws on his own life THE SOUND OF MY VOICE Deal with and honors his craft as only a 9:05PM •STC• indictment of class struggle, ATWOOD: master filmmaker can Parasite might be the masterpiece 9:10PM •STC• the Devil A WORD AFTER A WORD South Korea's Bong Joon-ho 9:30PM AFTER A WORD IS POWER (Snowpiercer) has been working The Last 9:00PM •STC• toward his entire career.” - Globe & Mail Porno Show 9:10PM •STC• For more info visit: hamiltonfilmfestival.com

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 10 MONDAY NOVEMBER 11 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 12 WEDNESDAY NOV 13 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 14 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 15 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 16 1:00PM Hamilton 4:35PM •STC• 4:45PM •STC• 4:20PM •STC• 5:00PM •STC• 8:00PM 1:30PM •STC• Film Festival MARGARET Downton Abbey LOCAL SHORTS MARGARET 7:00PM •STC• ATWOOD: 3:30PM •STC• ALL SEATS $14.95 4:45PM •STC• ATWOOD: A WORD AFTER A WORD MARGARET ATWOOD: 7:00PM •STC• A WORD AFTER A WORD A WORD AFTER A WORD MARGARET AFTER A WORD IS POWER AFTER A WORD IS POWER AFTER A WORD IS POWER 7:00PM •PG• MARGARET 6:45PM •STC• ATWOOD: 6:45PM •STC• A WORD AFTER A WORD GARNET ROGERS PRESENTS ATWOOD: AFTER A WORD IS POWER A WORD AFTER A WORD 9:00PM •STC• 60TH “ gives the GALAXY ANNIVERSARY AFTER A WORD IS POWER performance of his career playing the 9:10PM •STC• 9:00PM •STC• 9:10PM •STC• director who discovered him...one of 7:00PM •STC• Almodovar's greatest films.” - Rolling Stone QUEST MONOS 9:10PM •14A• 9:10PM •STC• SNOWPIERCER

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 17 MONDAY NOVEMBER 18 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 19 WEDNESDAY NOV 20 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 21 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 22 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 23 2:30PM •STC• 4:45PM •STC• 4:30PM •STC• 4:45PM •STC• 4:30PM •STC• 3“T:0he0 PIrMish &m a7n:00PM •STC• 1:45PM •STC• Downton Abbey Downton Abbey Downton Abbey isn't the last word 4:30PM •STC• 6:45PM •STC• 6:45PM •STC• on gangsters, but this involving and extremely well-made epic seems to be an appropriate capstone 7:00PM •STC• for Scorsese - as 7:00PM & 9:00PM •STC• well as De Niro, Downton Abbey Pesci, and Pacino 4:00PM •STC• 9:15PM •STC• 9:00PM •STC• 9:15PM •STC• - at this late stage 7:00PM •STC• Depeche in their careers.” Mode - Salon.com MONOS 8:00PM •STC• 9:10PM •14A• SPiRiTS IN SNOWPIERCERMONOS THE FOREST SUNDAY NOVEMBER 24 MONDAY NOVEMBER 25 TUESDAY NOVEMBER 26 WEDNESDAY NOV 27 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 28 1:15PM •STC• 3:00PM •STC• 3:00PM •STC• 3:00PM •STC• 3:00PM •STC• An epic gangster drama... The Irishmanfinds revisiting familiar themes to poignant, funny, and profound effect.

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DEPECHE MODE, SPIRITS IN THE FOREST GREENER GRASS Dir. • UK • 2019 • 95min • Rated STC. Dir. Jocelyn DeBoer & Dawn Luebbe • USA • 2019 • 95min • Rated STC. BRINGS THE BAND AND THE FANS STORIES TOGETHER ABURDIST HUMOUR ABOUT SUBURBAN COMPETITION “, Spirits in the Forest, traces the stories of six of the “Greener Grass is an odd and wonderfully upbeat absurdist take group’s fans who live all over the world, as they journey to a concert on the American dream from improv comedians turned independent by the band in . It mixes the fans’ stories, shot in each of their filmmakers Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe, who’ve imagined an hometowns, with footage of the concert in order to show what people upper-middle-class community where domestic bliss always seems to from diverse backgrounds have in common and the effect being a fan be just one lifestyle tweak away. of the group has had on their lives. The title is a reference to both the “Cheerily competitive best friends Lisa and Jill live just down the band’s most recent , Spirit, and the venue the band played in street from one another in a manicured suburban community not so JUDY , the Waldbühne (Forest Stage)”. - Rolling Stone NOV 21 dissimilar from Stepford — with its pastel-pink golf carts and white- picket fences — only these housewives have minds of their own. JUDY DOWNTON ABBEY “Drawing from their sketch work with the Upright Citizens Brigade, Dir. Rupert Goold • UK • 2019 • 118min • Rated STC. Dir. Michael Engler • UK/USA/China • 2019 • 122min • Rated STC. DeBoer and Luebbe have conceived a place of almost inexhaustible RENE ZELLWEGER SHINES AS JUDY GARLAND EVERYTHING YOU LOVE ABOUT THE SHOW, ON THE BIG SCREEN satire potential. Like a mid-century sitcom gone terribly awry, or the “Judy isn’t a biopic; it takes place over only a few months, in the “Downton Abbey is a big old comfort blanket of a movie stitched ultimate queering of Emily Post’s rules of etiquette, Greener Grass final year of Judy Garland’s life. Broke, divorced and deeply in debt in together from vignettes involving a problematic ball gown and an doesn’t tolerate rudeness, but finds endless inspiration in the ways 1968, Garland reluctantly agreed to leave her children and travel to unfortunate outbreak of rain. This is a movie that knows what its core well-meaning people go out of their way not to offend” - Variety London to perform a series of concerts at a swanky nightclub. Things audience wants and provides it in spades. Everyone gets their NOVEMBER 2-5 didn’t go terribly well, but every now and then, a bit of that Over the moment to shine, and Maggie Smith’s acid-tongued Dowager Rainbow magic peeked through. Countess gets about 17 of them. Her snarky asides and catty rivalry HAMILTON FILM FESTIVAL 2019 “Rene Zellweger as Garland adds a physicality; her Judy perpetual- Dir. Various • 95min • Rated STC. are a highlight. David Haig is also quite fun as a controlling royal but- ly slouches, like she’s trying to make herself smaller, with her head ler. King George V is coming to the mansion for a visit, setting all in a CELBRATE LOCAL FILMMAKING ON THE INTERNATIONAL STAGE jutting forward as if it’s heavy. Her smile is that of a sad clown; her spin; nothing less than the house’s reputation is at stake.” - Time Out The 14th annual Hamilton Film Festival is Hamilton's largest and voice, in the concerts, has an almost desperate abandon. NOVEMBER 16-20 longest running film festivals with roots that go back 20 years. We are “But what’s most appealing about Zellweger’s portrayal is the a film festival in the truest sense, screening undiscovered local and EXPO 67: MISSION IMPOSSIBLE brightness that peeps out from the clouds: her deep love for her chil- international works. We connect filmmakers and give them another dren, her sly wit. You get a sense, in this skilled and splendid perform- Dir. Michel Barbea, Gulaine Maroist, Eric Ruel • Canada • 2017 • 68min • Rated G voice. We celebrate the art of movie making from concept to comple- In French with English subtitles. ance, not of an icon, but a person; one terribly damaged by her past tion. From the budding filmmaker to the pro, we are always working and valiantly struggling to remain in her present.” - The Seattle Times ART, DESIGN, & ARCHITECTURE to move the film industry in Hamilton a little further each year. NOVEMBER 17-21 “The title may seem grandiose but it’s surprisingly apt. Montreal Select screenings at the Playhouse, visit hamiltonfilmfestival.com lost its bid to hold a World’s Fair in March 1960 to Moscow, only to be NOVEMBER 7 & 10 LINDA RONSTADT: THE SOUND OF MY VOICE awarded it in November 1962 when the Russian capital withdrew. Dir. Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman • USA • 2019 • 95min • Rated STC. Montreal had to pull together something in less than five years that HUMAN NATURE A MOVING LOOK AT THE LIFE OF A LEGENDARY SINGER Dir. Adam Bolt • USA • 2019 • 107min • Rated STC. took previous cities anywhere from 8-10 years. “Astutely chronicling an amazing musical career that ended prema- “Relying on the National Archives — where films, pictures and doc- EXPLORING THE NEW WORLD OF GENETIC EDITING WITH CRISPR turely due to Parkinson's disease, this doc will delight the singer's old uments have lain untouched for decades — and interviews with a few “CRISPR, a recently discovered molecular cleaver that revolution- fans and likely make her many new ones as well. of surviving members of the original Expo 67 team, the trio of direc- ized genetic editing, could end genetic diseases as we know them— “The documentary delves into her past, and personal topics, most tors achieve a remarkable feat. but it could also usher in a new era of eugenics and designer babies. movingly, the Parkinson's disease that robbed her of the ability to per- “They outline the enormity of the task, including the political Human Nature doesn’t shy away from either of these extremes and form. For someone who loved singing above almost all else, it was a squabbles and build real tension as the countdown proceeds to April offers no easy answers to the ethical minefield of tinkering with our devastating blow. Ronstadt appears only briefly in the film, at the 28, 1967. Canadians can be justifiably proud. But put the flags down DNA. Far from a dry science seminar, the beautifully shot documen- beginning and end. Fortunately for us, Ronstadt did enough singing and just watch an engrossing and well-executed documentary.” tary uses a clever combination of simplistic genetic animations and during her career to make her voice one that will be heard for as long - Toronto Star OCTOBER 28 compelling characters to convey the power of this discovery and why as people listen to music. - Hollywood Reporter OCT 28-NOV 3 it has the potential to change what it means to be human. THE EXORCIST: DIRECTOR’S CUT “What can CRISPR—Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short MARGARET ATWOOD: A WORD AFTER Dir. • USA • 1973 • 128min • Rated R. Palindromic Repeats, a gene-editing process—do for mankind? Cure A WORD AFTER A WORD IS POWER A MAN HAS BEEN CALLED AS A LAST RESORT...TO SAVE HER. disease? Alter the environment? Produce designer children? Explore Dir. Nancy Lang and Peter Raymont • Canada • 2019 • 92min • Rated STC. “Writer/producer has fought for this version the possibilities, and the debate, in this doc.” - The Stranger DOC COMPILED OVER A YEAR OF UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS since 1973. The running time is now generous, for the story is slight - OCTOBER 19-22 Margaret Atwood has never been more relevant than she is today. little girl starts acting crazy, mom gets desperate, and so calls in an Readers are turning to her work as they face the rise of authoritarian expert - but Blatty was right to stand firm. The effect is to enrich and THE IRISHMAN politics, rapidly evolving technologies, and the slow-motion disaster Dir. Martin Scorsese • USA • 2019 • 210min • Rated STC. deepen a movie which is all about atmosphere in the first place. of climate change. Her poetry and books are about survival, but they “What really makes this version worth catching on the big screen DENIRO, PACINO, AND PESCI IN SCORSESE’S LATEST GANGSTER PIC are also survival tools in and of themselves.The recent success of the is the enhanced print. Even better, the sound, which has always “Sinful and sorrowful. Those affecting words from a young priest's television adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale has made Atwood a obsessed Friedkin, now comes at you from all angles. The Exorcist, in prayer are loaded with contemplative weight when repeated by household name. Millions follow Atwood’s Tweets.Yet few know the any form, is not about cheap shocks or easy thrills. Give yourself over as Frank Sheeran, living out his days in the solitude of private Margaret Atwood. Who is the woman behind these stories? to it, believe, and you will be terrified.” - Empire OCT 19 & 22 a Catholic retirement home. He's a dinosaur whose mob cohorts have How does she always seem to know what is to come? been killed or died out and what's left of his family has detached For a year a film crew had exclusive access and kept pace with FLEABAG NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE themselves from him, his sadness matched by their bitterness. A Dir. Vicky Jones • UK • 2019 • 107min • Rated STC. Atwood as she jetted to speaking engagements around the world. melancholy sense of looking back also pervades the best parts of The She is enthusiastically welcomed by crowds of all ages. We accompa- SPECIAL PRESENTATION OF THE STAGE VERSION OF THE HIT TV SHOW Irishman, in which the elder statesman of organized crime in ny Atwood to the set of The Handmaid’s Tale.The film also delves into See the hilarious, award-winning, one-woman show that inspired American movies, Martin Scorsese, reunites with his most totemic Margaret Atwood’s “backstory”, growing up in the Canadian wilder- the BBC’s hit TV series Fleabag, captured live to cinemas from screen actor to tell a sprawling gangland saga that's by turns flinty, ness, her early days as a poet at Harvard. Atwood’s major works are London’s West End. Written and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge amusing, richly nostalgic and rueful. explored and threaded through the film, revealing the personal and (Fleabag, Killing Eve) and directed by Vicky Jones, Fleabag is a rip- “The Irishman is on many levels a beautifully crafted piece of societal factors that inform her stories. roaring look at some sort of woman living her sort of life. Fleabag deluxe cinema. It's full of sinuous tracking shots from cinematograph- A rare glimpse into the writer’s practice, as she writes on planes, may seem oversexed, emotionally unfiltered and self-obsessed, but er Rodrigo Prieto that induce swoons; sumptuous period production on boats, on the road - whenever she can grab a moment in her busy that's just the tip of the iceberg. With family and friendships under and costume design that evoke not just a vanished America but a life. Atwood’s poetry and prose are read by Tatiana Maslany. strain and a guinea pig café struggling to keep afloat, Fleabag sud- near-extinct American movie realm; and fluid cutting from indispensa- NOVEMBER 8-14 denly finds herself with nothing to lose. Playing to sold-out audiences ble Scorsese collaborator Thelma Schoonmaker. The movie is never in New York and London, don’t miss your chance to see this ‘legiti- less than engaging and its milieu at all times vivid and alive.” mately hilarious show’ (New Yorker), captured live to cinema. - Hollywood Reporter NOVEMBER 22-28 NOVEMBER 23 & 24 GALAXY QUEST Dir. Dean Parisot • USA • 1999 • 102min • Rated PG. INTRODUCED BY SINGER-SONGWRITER GARNET ROGERS! “An inspired spoof of and tribute to Star Trek, Galaxy Quest stars Tim Allen as the one-time star of a long-canceled, cultishly adored sci- ence-fiction show whose crew now finds its steadiest employment signing autographs at conventions and store openings. “When space aliens who believe the series' episodes to be ‘histori- cal documents’ kidnap Allen and his crew, the group is forced to recall the lessons of its fictional past and band together to save the aliens' fragile civilization, which is founded on the principles of the series. “The cast is what makes Galaxy Quest great. This includes Sigourney Weaver as the series' token woman, Sam Rockwell as a minor player (who died in episode 82) swept along for the ride, and the especially good Alan Rickman and . It's a funny, fit- ting homage to Star Trek and its followers that's more entertaining than its inspiration.”- AV Club NOVEMBER 14 THE IRISHMAN

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MONOS THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING Dir. Alejandro Landes • Colombia/ • 2019 • 102min • Rated STC. Dir. Nathaniel Kahn • USA • 2019 • 99min • Rated PG. CHILD SOLDIERS IN THE UNTAMED LATIN AMERICAN WILDERNESS ART, DESIGN, & ARCHITECTURE • WHEN ART MEETS COMMERCE “Alejandro Landes’ astonishing Monos, seeps in through the skin “Rather than lament the pervasive influence of money on contem- like a sweet, druggy sickness — the kind that heightens and sharpens porary art, The Price of Everything examines the relationship between your dreams even as it scrambles them, making the brights brighter commerce and aesthetics from different angles.The sale and resale of and the darks darker, while keeping you feverishly uncertain about work by living and recently dead artists is a multibillion-dollar market, whether the next cut will bring rapture or nightmare. A sublimely which bothers some people more than others. crafted saga about child soldiers discovering their own hearts of dark- “The filmmaker chats with curators and critics, painters and auc- ness in an unnamed, untamed Latin American wilderness, Monos tion-house executives — an impressive cross-section of players with presents an ugly reality in terms so profoundly paradoxical it differing stakes in the game. But creation also receives a share of becomes surreality: an experience at once jagged and lyrical, brutal attention. We watch George Condo and Marilyn Minter at work, and beautiful, angry and abstract, scattered and wholly singular. approaching the human figure in radically different ways. We also visit SOMETIMES, ALWAYS, NEVER “These Lost Boys, some of them girls, whose raggedy clothes are with Jeff Koons, who is supervising a workshop where technicians accessorized with battered machine guns, slung across bony shoul- produce stroke-by-stroke replicas of well-known masterpieces. virtual opponent whose style he recognises – and who deploys the ders or dangling carelessly off thin arms, go by noms de guerre like “What makes a work of art great? Where does its value come controversial word ‘Zo.’ Is someone trying to get in touch?” Rambo, Boom-boom, Lady, Dog, Wolf and Bigfoot. On a misty moun- from? Why do we care about this stuff? Those are $56 billion ques- - The Guardian OCTOBER 18-22 taintop, these beasts of no nation occupy a militaristic-looking ruined tions. Even at a fraction of that price, they would be just as difficult to bunker and keep watch over a single prisoner, a white American engi- answer.” - NY Times OCTOBER 21 SNOWPIERCER neer they call ‘Doctora’, the duration of her captivity casually indicated Dir. Joon-ho Bong • South Korea/Czech Republic • 2013 • 126min • Rated 14A by the lengthening gray roots of her straggly red hair.” - Variety THE ROOM PARASITE DIRECTOR’S BREAKOUT SCI-FI ACTION THRILLER NOVEMBER 16-20 Dir. Tommy Wiseau • USA • 2003 • 99min. • Rated 14A. “You couldn’t ask for a better metaphor for hell on Earth than what THE MODERN CULT CLASSIC RETURNS AGAIN Bong Joon-ho has wrought with Snowpiercer: constant forward ONCE WERE BROTHERS: “Regardless of whether Tommy Wiseau intentionally shot his film momentum while getting absolutely nowhere, suffering all the while. ROBBIE ROBERTSON AND THE BAND as a “black comedy”, or if he's simply a completely inept filmmaker “That’s the track and plight for the title train and its mostly miser- Dir. Daniel Roher • USA • 2019 • 98min • Rated STC. (and actor) is utterly irrelevant. The Room will stand the test of time able passengers: the poor multitudes in the back and the rich few in OPENING NIGHT AT TIFF 2019! CELEBRATE THE BAND! as one of the most mind-bendingly and amazing offerings to the front. All are condemned to circle the planet non-stop or risk freez- “The documentary recounts the story of one of Canada’s musical ever drop from the celluloid heavens. ing from a new Ice Age caused by mankind’s own stupidity. legends — a man who served as both lead guitarist and primary “Completely financed and distributed by Mr. Wiseau, this divine “The audacious Korean genre director behind The Host and songwriter on a group that introduced the likes of ‘The Weight’ and piece of WTF-ery has built a cult following and solidified its place as Mother makes his grandest statement yet with this art house block- ‘The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down’ into the pop culture lexicon. an insanely unique phenomenon. The Guardian described it as a mix buster, rich in visual and thematic imagery. It’s a sci-fi thriller best “Once Were Brothers is directed by Daniel Roher (Ghosts of Our of ‘, Ed Wood and R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet.’ described, without diluting the director’s own brilliance, as a combina- Forest) and was inspired by Robertson’s 2016 memoir. The movie fea- That's about as apt a description as we could provide.” - Drafthouse tion of the home-restoring quest of The Wizard of Oz, the dystopian tures interviews with the likes of Martin Scorsese, the legendary OCTOBER 31 class struggles of George Orwell novels and the grotesque characters director who shot The Band’s 1976 performance at the Winterland of French fantasists Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro. Ballroom for ‘The Last Waltz,’ along with musical giants such as Bruce ROSEMARY’S BABY “Bong has assembled a star-studded international cast to illustrate Springsteen, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Taj Mahal, and Ronnie Dir. • USA • 1968 • 137min • Rated R. the last-humans-on-Earth scenario that he and co-screenwriter Kelly Hawkins.” - Variety NOVEMBER 3-5 CLASSIC HORROR THAT CHANGED THE FACE OF THE GENRE Masterson have energetically adapted from Le Transperceneige, a “Released at a time when horror mostly meant Vincent Price in a French graphic novel.” - Toronto Star NOVEMBER 16 & 17 PAIN AND GLORY goofy cape, Roman Polanski’s realistic supernatural drama was a Dir. Pedro Almodóvar • • 2019 • 113min • Rated STC. transfusion of thick, urbane blood. Much of the movie’s revolutionary THE TWILIGHT ZONE: ALMODOVAR AND BANDERAS TEAM UP ON A PERSONAL FILM impact should be credited to the city itself: The Dakota looms menac- A 60TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION “Pedro Almodóvar has found a more intensely personal register ingly, every bit the Gothic pile as any Transylvanian vampire’s man- Dir. Various • USA • 2019 • 180min • Rated STC. than ever for his tender new movie about an ageing in sion. A young couple, played by Mia Farrow (in a fashion-forward FEATURED HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CLASSIC TV SERIES AND A DOC retreat from his profession, facing ill health, depression and the NYC pixie cut) and , moves in—they’re recognizable “The Twilight Zone: A 60th Anniversary Celebration combines digi- decline of his powers. enough. But in another one of the film’s clever subversions, the tally restored versions of six quintessential episodes of the iconic TV “Antonio Banderas steps up to the role he was born to play. He is perennial lovable but nosy neighbor (Ruth Gordon) hides an evil show with a new documentary short, Remembering Rod Serling. Salvador Mallo, a movie director who has not made anything for intent. Weird obstetricians, mysterious night noises and even Farrow’s “After combing through 156 episodes of the mind-bending series, years but who has accumulated enough money to live in comfort improvised stroll into actual oncoming traffic add up to a bustling which originally ran from 1959-1964, CBS curated shows that were among expensive artworks, brooding on his various ailments – nightmare that’s spawned many a Black Swan since.” - Time Out noteworthy fan favorites. It's the first time any Twilight Zone episode headaches, backaches, a tendency to choke on any solid food – and OCTOBER 28 & 29 has been presented on the big screen. general depression; all of these having some mysterious cause-or- “The six episodes are Walking Distance; Time Enough at Last; The effect relationship with his creative block. Invaders; The Monsters are Due on Maple Street; Eye of the Beholder; “A chance meeting reconnects him with former star actor Alberto Dir. Brian De Palma • USA • 1983 • 170min • Rated R. and To Serve Man. The new documentary offers a look at the life expe- (Asier Etxeandia); they quarrelled decades ago while making his mas- ONE OF PACINO’S MOST NOTORIOUS GANGSTER PERFORMANCES riences that inspired Serling’s unique blend of thought-provoking and terpiece. Dishevelled Alberto introduces Salvador to heroin. “Director Brian De Palma and screenwriter cleverly visionary storytelling, from his time as a paratrooper in World War II “As ever, José Luis Alcane and production transpose the action to Fidel Castro's ‘Mariel’ expulsion of jailbirds to his early writing days in live television, and ultimately to the cre- designer Antxón Gómez give the film a wonderful richness and from Cuba in 1980 in Scarface. Among the dodgy flotsam winding up ation of the indelible TV series.” - Hollywood Reporter warmth, the colours swarming and popping. Pain and Glory leaves in Miami is Tony ‘Scarface’ Montana, ferociously played by Al Pacino, Special pricing: $14.95/ticket NOVEMBER 16 you with a sweet sadness, but a sharp appetite for the next film.” shrilly insisting on his anti-communist political status, but thirsting for - The Guardian NOVEMBER 8-13 sex, money and blood. YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN “Pacino's performance is always intensely watchable and his very Dir. • USA • 1974 • 106min • Rated PG. PARASITE first scene, under interrogation by US immigration cops, is a cracker. MEL BROOKS’ COMEDY CLASSIC Dir. Joon-ho Bong • South Korea • 2019 • 131min • Rated STC. The early career of Tony and his buddies in sunny, breezy Miami “Young Frederick Frankenstein, grandson of the count who started SOUTH KOREAN DIRECTOR BRINGS HIS SKILLS TOGETHER IN TRIUMPH Beach is nice to watch and De Palma's handling of Tony's first bungled it all, returns by rail to his ancestral home. As the train pulls into the “An exhilarating and furious indictment of class struggle, Parasite drug deal is tremendous: with the camera drifting enigmatically back station, he spots a kid on the platform, lowers the window and asks, might be the masterpiece South Korea's Bong Joon-ho has been and forth between the motel room carnage to the getaway car. ‘Pardon me, boy; is this the Transylvania Station?’ working toward his entire career. Mixing the social outrage of “There is something a little stately about the dramatic pace and “It is, and Mel Brooks is home with Young Frankenstein, his most Snowpiercer, the wild humour of Okja, the heartwarming family that 1980s synth score, and also a quaint sort of Kung Fu/Bond movie disciplined and visually inventive film. Young Frederick Frankenstein, drama of The Host, and the slow-boil vengeance of Mother, Bong's aesthetic to Scarface, with its lairs and spotlit country homes, its grandson of the count who started it all, is a professor in a New York latest work is a genre-hopping triumph. perimeter fences and its dozens of disposable henchmen fatally greet- medical school, trying to live down the family name. He is visited by “Focusing on two families – one a clan of con artists living in a ing Tony's ‘little friend.’” - The Guardian NOVEMBER 6 an ancient family retainer with his grandfather's will. cramped basement apartment, the other led by a tech mogul who “Frankenstein quickly returns to Transylvania and the old ancestral keeps his wife and two children safely ensconced in a modern-luxe SOMETIMES, ALWAYS, NEVER castle, where he is awaited by the faithful houseboy Igor, the volup- mansion – Parasite expertly plays with tension and expectations. Dir. Carl Hunter • UK • 2018 • 91min • Rated STC. tuous lab assistant Inga, and the mysterious housekeeper Frau “At first, it appears that Bong has created a sharp comedy, but then BRITISH COMEDY-DRAMA REVOLVES AROUND FAMILY AND SCRABBLE Blucher. The young man had always rejected his grandfather’s med- both families' lives become upended in the most peculiar of ways, “There’s a beguiling Englishness to this elegant, offbeat comedy- ical experiments as impossible, but he changes his mind after he dis- leading to a final hour that is sharp enough to draw blood.” drama, terrifically written by Frank Cottrell-Boyce and directed by fea- covers a book entitled How I Did It by Frederick Frankenstein. Now all - Globe and Mail NOVEMBER 1-14 ture debutant Carl Hunter. It has a wonderful syncopation in its writer- that’s involved is a little grave-robbing and a trip to the handy local ly rhythm and narrative surprises. The film positively twinkles with Brain Depository, and the Frankenstein family is back in business.” insouciance, and is performed with aplomb, particularly by Bill Nighy, - Roger Ebert OCTOBER 27, 30, 31 who brings a droll sprightliness and deadpan wit to the lead part, but shows how these mannerisms mask emotional pain. Sam Riley is ZONTA CLUB OF HAMILTON PRESENTS excellent as the character’s long-suffering son. LUNAFEST 2019 “Nighy plays Alan, a retired tailor. Long ago, Alan’s favourite son Dir. Various • 2019 • 85min left home, never to return. In the decades since, Alan has searched for SHORT FILMS BY, FOR, ABOUT WOMEN him, a quest that has sparked mixed feelings in the heart of his other, Since 2000, LUNAFEST has showcased the work of talented now grownup son Peter who feels that he was always second-best. women directors from all over the world. Discover the ground-break- “But Alan has fixated on one thing in particular: the fact that his ing women from prior seasons, along with the ones who are chang- son stormed out over an ostensible argument over Scrabble, and ing the industry with this year’s lineup. NOTE: Films featured in whether the two-letter word ‘Zo’ was admissible. Now Alan is LUNAFEST are not rated but we suggest age 13+ for this season's PARASITE obsessed with Scrabble. Playing Scrabble online, Alan encounters a lineup. OCTOBER 27 . t S MAILING ADDRESS: s

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