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metrocinema MARCH / APRIL 2018 guide WHERE COMMUNITY MEETS CINEMA SPOTLIGHT ON GUILLERMO DEL TORO EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL WOMen’S FESTIVAL LEPRECHAUN FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL SATURDAY MORNING ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT- CEREAL CARTOON PARTY! WALK WITH ME FAVA FEST SING-A-LONG JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR BEST F(R)IENDS MARCH 30 – APRIL 3 AFTER 15 YEARS, GREG SESTERO AND TOMMY WISEAU ARE FINALLY BACK ON SCREEN TOGETHER... metrocinema at the Garneau 8712 - 109 Street, Edm AB T6G 1E9 LIKE YOU’VE NEVER SEEN THEM BEFORE. www.metrocinema.org metrocinema.org 1 METRO CINEMA .ORG METRO RETRO Page: 15 MUSIC DOCS PagE: 8 metrocinema at the Garneau 8712 - 109 Street, Edm AB T6G 1E9 TEL 780 425 9212 www.metrocinema.org FACEBOOK /metrocinema TWITTER & INSTAGRAM @themetrocinema SERIES HIGHLIGHTS ADMISSION Adult $13 Student/Senior $10 (Matinee $8) Children 12 & Under $8 PASSES Night at the Movies $30 Adult Six Pack $60 SUNDAY CLASSICS Student/Senior Six Pack $50 AFTERNOONPage: 10 TEA PagE: 16 Silver Screen $300 METRO OPERATIONS Dan Nielsen – President Heather Noel – Vice President Randal Pruss – Treasurer Alex Dimitroff – Secretary JD Crookshanks, Anthony Dionigi, METRO CINEMA is a community based not for profit society devoted to creating and fostering Steve Grubich, Sandy Hoye, Chris Provins, opportunities for the exhibition of diverse and unique shared viewing experiences in Edmonton, Brad Stromberg, Hitomi Suzuta, Alberta Canada. We believe that film and media art are significant art forms; a means of commu- Connie Zimmerman – Directors nication, discussion, and education. Metro Cinema believes in providing opportunities for diverse community and programming. David Cheoros – Executive Director Dan Smith – Operations Manager Pete Harris – Programming Manager Katie Sowden – Communications Director Allan Mulholland – Facility Manager Brad Sime – Booth Manager/Head Projectionist Bill Samoil – Financial Officer Talicia Dutchin – Communications Specialist/ House Manager Nic Keating – Operations Assistant/House Manager Ryn Climenhaga – Programming Assistant/ House Manager Owen Armstrong, Joseph Hartfeil METRO CINEMA IS GRATEFUL FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE ALBERTA MEDIA ARTS ALLIANCE, – Projectionists ALBERTA MEDIA PRODUCTION INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION, CJSR, FAVA, VUE WEEKLY Tola Adeshina, Robyn-Lynn Toll AND THE HARPER-KENNEDY FUND AT THE EDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION. – House Managers Jennifer Fehr, Lucy Ford, William Latham, METRO CINEMA RECOGNIZES OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND WISHES TO Tim Rechner, Shania Taylor ACKNOWLEDGE THE PAPASCHASE FIRST NATION ON WHOSE UNCEDED LAND THE GARNEAU – Front of House Reps THEATRE OCCUPIES. metroguidecinema NEW RELEASES Page 6 Metro Shorts – Season Finale Revolting Rhymes Kink on Screen A Fantastic Woman - The Notorious Bettie Page Loving Vincent Staff Pics Faces Places - Buffalo ‘66 Mom and Dad The Hooping Life Call Me by Your Name Leprechaun – St. Patrick’s Day Walk With Me Mind Game Coco Reefer Madness – 4:20 Best F(r)iends In the Fade SPECIAL SCREENINGS Page 17 Loveless & EVENTS The Edmonton International Women’s Festival Mary and the Witch’s Flower - The Rape of Recy Taylor 24 Frames - Wind River Foxtrot - Hysteria The Green Fog City of Edmonton – Change for Climate Have a Nice Day - Catching the Sun SERIES & REPERTORY Page 7 The French Film Festival Tommy Wiseau’s The Room - 120 battements par minute (120 BPM) Reel Family Cinema - Le cercle rouge BAD GIRLS MOVIE CLUB - The Breadwinner - Medecin de Campagne (Irreplaceable) - SUNSET BOULEVARD - The NeverEnding Story - Adama - The Secret of Kells – St. Patrick’s Day - Ridicule - Ferdinand - Le salaire de la peur (The Wages of Fear) - The Best of the NY International Children’s Do the Rights Thing film series Film Festival - Life Inside Out - Jumanji (1995) Hunting Film Tour - Paddington 2 Spotlight: Peter Lynch Music Docs - Project Grizzly - Play Your Gender - Birdland - Trouble No More Edmonton Premiere The Cinema of Psychedelia - Metric: Dreams So Real - Wake in Fright - Vista Afternoon Tea Canadian Council for Refugees Youth Network - Murder on the Orient Express - Newcomers Are Lit! Music Video Premiere - Moulin Rouge! and Showcase Sci-Fi Cinema The Fantasy and Horror of Guillermo del Toro - Thelma - The Devil’s Backbone - Westworld (1973) - Pan’s Labyrinth CINEMA OF PSYCHEDELIA Bad Girls Movie Club Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal - WAKE IN FRIGHT - Sunset Boulevard Cartoon Party! Science in the Cinema Alley Kat Cask and Keg Nights - Concussion - Monty Python and the Holy Grail – Cask Night! Night Gallery - An American Werewolf in London – Full - Starman: Invaders from Space Moon Keg Night! - Forbidden Transmission Provincial Archives of Alberta Metro Retro - Relics: CanCon Classics from the Provin- - Up in Smoke cial Archives of Alberta - Midnight Express Paths for People Reel Learning - A City for Life 2018 - The Martian FAVA FEST Gateway to Cinema - Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II – 35mm! - Lady Bird - Two Brothers, a Girl and a Gun – 35mm! HOMO-CIDAL Drag Show Litfest - Death Becomes Her - The Boy on the Beach: In Conversation Sunday Classics with Author Tima Kurdi - Easter Parade Paddling Film Festival - Vertigo – 60th Anniversary Edmonton Poetry Festival NIGHT GALLERY Quote-A-Long - Howl - Sing-A-Long Jesus Christ Superstar - Poetry Slam Finals - STARMAN- ADULT: INVAD CARTOONERS FROM PART SPACY E Art Docs CALENDAR Page 12 - Through the Repellent Fence 4 metrocinema.org MARCH & APRIL 2018 SCHEDULE There’s always something new at Metro. Visit metrocinema.org to find all our new releases, and the most up to date film listings, show times, and other information. NEW RELEASES Revolting Rhymes Faces Places UK 2017, 58 min, Dir: Jan Lachauer, France 2017, 89 min, Dir: JR, Agnès Varda Jakob Schuh, Bin-Han To French with English subtitles MAR 1 @ 2PM, MAR 2 @ 2PM MAR 3 @ 3PM Based on the much-loved children’s book written Kindred spirits, Varda and JR share a lifelong Walk With Me by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake, passion for images and how they are created, UK 2017, 94 min, Revolting Rhymes takes the classic fairy tales displayed, and shared. Together they traveled Dir: Marc J. Francis, Max Pugh of Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, The Three around the villages of France in JR’s photo truck Little Pigs, Jack & the Beanstalk, and Cinderella, meeting locals, learning their stories, and pro- MAR 29 @ 7PM, MAR 30 @ 4:30PM, then mixes them together and serves them with ducing epic-size portraits of them. Faces Places APR 2 @ 4:30PM a mischievous twist. Oscar Nominee. documents these heart-warming encounters as Walk With Me follows a community of Zen Bud- well as the unlikely, tender friendship the two dhist monks and nuns who have dedicated their formed along the way. Oscar Nominee. lives to mastering the art of mindfulness with their world-famous teacher Thich Nhat Hanh. Filmed over three years in France and the USA, this intimate and meditative film travels deep inside a world that seems far from our every- day, and reveals how the monastics transform suffering in themselves and in others through their deep enquiry into the nature of existence, suffering, and their true selves. A Fantastic Woman Co-presented by happy hearts mindfulness com- (Una Mujer Fantástica) munity, a small but growing group of practitio- ners who are committed to sharing compassion Chile/Germany/Spain/USA 2017, 104 min, Mom and Dad USA 2017, 83 min, Dir: Brian Taylor and mindfulness (mindfulnessedmonton.ca). Dir: Sebastián Lelio MAR 4 @ 9:30PM, MAR 5 @ 9:30PM Spanish with subtitles A teenage girl and her little brother must survive MAR 1 @ 7PM, MAR 2 @ 9:15PM, a wild 24 hours during which a mass hysteria of MAR 3 @ 7PM, MAR 5 @ 7PM, unknown origins causes parents to turn violently on their own kids. MAR 6 @ 9:30PM Marina, a transgender singer, faces scorn and discrimination after the sudden death of her older boyfriend, Orlando. She has little to gain from Orlando’s demise, but the viciousness of his son, the cold-heartedness of his ex-wife, and the intrusiveness of a detective from the Sexual Offenses Investigation Unit force Marina to not only clear her name, but also to demand the very thing no one seems willing to give her: respect. Oscar Nominee. Call Me by Your Name Coco Loving Vincent Italy/France/Brazil/USA 2017, 132 min, USA 2017, 105 min, Dir: Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molina, UK/Poland 2017, 94 min, Dir: Luca Guadagnino English, Italian, French, German & Hebrew MAR 30 @ 2PM, APR 2 @ 2PM Dir: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman Despite his family’s baffling generations-old MAR 2 @ 4PM, MAR 3 @ 4:45PM with subtitles ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an Loving Vincent explores the life and work of MAR 9 @ 9:30PM, MAR 10 @ 6:45PM, accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de Vincent van Gogh through an animation process MAR 13 @ 9:30PM la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel where 65,000 frames, shown at 24 frames per finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of In Northern Italy in 1983, seventeen year-old second, were individually hand painted by a col- the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Elio begins a relationship with visiting Oliver, lection of 125 painters. The film revolves around Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hec- his father’s research assistant, with whom he a man attempting to deliver one of van Gogh’s tor, and together, they set off on an extraordinary bonds over his emerging sexuality, their Jewish final letters to his brother in Paris during the journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel’s heritage, and the