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metrocinema MAY / JUNE 2018 guide WHERE COMMUNITY MEETS CINEMA JAPANESE MASTERS THE RIDER NORTHWESTFEST THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW INDIAN HORSE PRIDE FEST FILMS LAWRENCE OF ARABIA JANE AUSTEN FILM FEST METAMORPHOSIS RA POEM FO THE PLANET JUNE 22 - 24 metrocinema at the Garneau 8712 - 109 Street, Edm AB T6G 1E9 www.metrocinema.org metrocinema.org 1 july 18 - 29, 2018 taste EDMONTON ONE BITE AT A TIME EDMONTON’S BEST food DISHES, BEVERAGES, CANADA’S LARGEST FREE OUTDOOR CONCERT SERIES and much more NEW LOCATION - FEDERAL BUILDING PLAZA 99 AVE. & 108 ST. TASTEOFEDM.CA METRO CINEMA .ORG METRO RETRO Page: 8 MUSIC DOCS P agE: 7 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 S UNDAY CLASSICS Student/Senior Six Pack $50 AFTERNOONPage: 10 TEA PG A E: 14 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/Projectionist Ryn Climenhaga – Programming Assistant/ House Manager Owen Armstrong – Projectionist METRO CINEMA IS GRATEFUL FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE ALBERTA MEDIA ARTS ALLIANCE, Tola Adeshina, Robyn-Lynn Toll ALBERTA MEDIA PRODUCTION INDUSTRIES ASSOCIATION, CJSR, FAVA, VUE WEEKLY – House Managers AND THE HARPER-KENNEDY FUND AT THE EDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION. Jennifer Fehr, Lucy Ford, William Latham, Tim Rechner, Shania Taylor METRO CINEMA RECOGNIZES OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND WISHES TO – Front of House Reps ACKNOWLEDGE THE PAPASCHASE FIRST NATION ON WHOSE UNCEDED LAND THE GARNEAU THEATRE OCCUPIES. metroguidecinema NEW RELEASES Page 6 HOMO-CIDAL Drag Show Lowlife - To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything, Julie The Endless Newmar The Rider Fight Club Meditation Park Sleepless in Seattle – 25th Anniversary You Were Never Really Here Call Me By Your Name Indian Horse SPECIAL SCREENINGS Best Friends: Volume Two & EVENTS Page 17 Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story NorthwestFest 2017 World’s Best Commercials The Uncertainty Has Settled Metamorphosis The Rocky Horror Picture Show Local Filmmakers SERIES & REPERTORY Page 7 - Concert for Geo Music Docs - Ewir Amora Kelabi - What We Started - All Aboard - Concert For George (2003) Japanese Masters Tommy Wiseau’s The Room - Late Spring (1949) Night Gallery - Tokyo Story (1953) – 65th Anniversary - Mystery Movie Night 2 - An Autumn Afternoon (1962) BAD GIRLS MOVIE CLUB - Boys Beware…Cat Fight - Ugetsu (1953) – 65th Anniversary - I, TONYA Metro Retro - Tokyo Olympiad (1965) - Clerks A Long Road to Peace - Super Fly (1972) Pride Festival / Rainbow Visions Bad Girls Movie Club - Venus (2018) - I, Tonya - Between The Shades Reel Family Cinema Design Canada - Early Man CALENDAR Page 12 - Babe - Rio - Fantastic Mr. Fox - Free Willy - Willow Afternoon Tea - Iron Road - Becoming Jane – AustenFest - Mansfield Park – AustenFest The Cinema of Psychedelia - The Visitor (1979) CINEMA OF PSYCHEDELIA Sunday Classics - THE VISITOR - To Kill A Mockingbird - Lawrence of Arabia Sci-Fi Cinema - Liquid Sky - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - 40th Anniversary Metro Movie Party! - Napoleon Dynamite Staff Pics - Full Metal Jacket Art Docs - Floyd Norman: An Animated Life Kink on Screen - Tom of Finland NIGHT GALLERY - MYSTERY MOVIE NIGHT 2 4 metrocinema.org GOING OUT? WE'RE OPEN LATE 10015 82 Ave (Whyte Avenue) STAYING IN? WE DELIVER! 780 469 3517 Order [email protected] after the credits roll... M AY & JUNE 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 Lowlife USA 2017, 96 min, Dir: Ryan Prows English & Spanish with subtitles MAY 13 @ 9:30PM, MAY 15 @ 9:30PM What happens when you throw together a fallen Mexican wrestler with serious rage issues, a just-out- of-prison ex-con with a re- grettable face tattoo, and a recovering junkie motel owner in search of a kidney? Set amidst the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles, Lowlife zigzags back and forth in time as it charts how fate—and a ruthless crime boss—connects three down-and- out reprobates mixed up in an organ harvesting scheme that goes from bad to worse to off-the- rails insane. The Endless USA 2017, 112 min, Dir: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead MAY 17 @ 9:30PM, MAY 18 @ 7PM, MAY 19 @ 4PM, MAY 20 @ 9:15PM, MAY 21 @ 9:15PM, MAY 22 @ 7PM, MAY 24 @ 9:15PM This mind-bending thriller follows two brothers who receive a cryptic video message inspiring them to revisit the UFO death cult they escaped a decade earlier. Hoping to find the closure that they couldn’t as young men, they’re forced to reconsider the cult’s beliefs when confronted with unex- plainable phenomena surrounding the camp. As the members prepare for the coming of a mysterious event, the brothers race to unravel the seem- ingly impossible truth before their lives become permanently entangled with the cult. The Rider USA 2017, 104 min, Dir: Chloé Zhao MAY 18 @ 9:30PM, MAY 19 @ 6:45PM, Meditation Park MAY 20 @ 3:45PM, MAY 21 @ 7PM, You Were Never Really Here Canada 2017, 94 min, Dir: Mina Shum MAY 22 @ 9:15PM, MAY 23 @ 9:15PM, UK/France/USA 2017, 90 min, MAY 23 @ 7PM MAY 24 @ 7PM Dir: Lynne Ramsay Maria has spent decades of devoted marriage dutifully excusing the prejudices and vices of “A horse’s purpose is to run in the prairies; a MAY 25 @ 9:30PM, MAY 26 @ 7PM, cowboy’s is to ride.” So, what does a cowboy her husband Bing. But when she discovers become when he can no longer ride? This is MAY 28 @ 9:30PM another woman’s thong in his pocket, she’s no the question at the centre of Chloé Zhao’s The A traumatized veteran, unafraid of violence, longer able to turn a blind eye to his indiscre- Rider, and the defining conflict for its protago- tracks down missing girls for a living. When a job tions. Flushed out of her domestic sanctum, she nist, Brady Blackburn. A skilled rodeo cowboy spins out of control, Joe’s nightmares overtake engages in some unintentionally comic sleuthing and horse trainer, Brady suffers a near-fatal him as a conspiracy is uncovered leading to what that not only uncovers clues to Bing’s clandes- accident that abruptly halts his career and may be his death trip or his awakening. tine activities but also introduces her to new East forces him to contemplate what a new life Van communities and ultimately sets her on a could look like. (Kerri Craddock, TIFF) course to self-discovery. 6 metrocinema.org SERIES & REPERTORY MUSIC DOCS Music Docs is a monthly film series featur- ing music documentaries, from classic to contemporary. Curated by Tim Rechner, and co-presented with CJSR, Blackbyrd Myoozik, and Steamwhistle. Love & Bananas: An Elephant Story Indian Horse Cambodia/Thailand/USA 2018, 77 min, Canada 2017, 101 min, Dir: Ashley Bell Dir: Stephen S. Campanelli JUN 8 @ 7PM, JUN 10 @ 1PM, JUN 1 @ 7PM, JUN 2 @ 3:30PM JUN 12 @ 7PM, JUN 13 @ 9:30PM In late 1950s, eight-year old Saul Indian Horse A team of elephant rescuers, led by world is torn from his Ojibway (Anishnaabe) family and renowned Asian elephant conservationist Lek committed to one of Canada’s notorious Catholic Chailert, embark on a daring 48-hour mission Residential Schools. Saul is denied the freedom across Thailand to rescue a 70-year old captive to speak his language or embrace his Indigenous blind Asian elephant and bring her to freedom. heritage while he witnesses horrendous abuse What We Started by his caretakers. Despite this, Saul finds salva- USA 2017, 90 min, tion in the unlikeliest of places — hockey. His 2017 World’s Best Commercials Dir: Bert Marcus, Cyrus Saidi talent leads him away from the misery of the @ 7PM school, eventually to the Pros. But the ghosts of Cannes Lions International MAY 1 Through an artfully crafted narrative and Saul’s past are always present, and threaten to Festival of Creativity stunning visual techniques, the film delves detail his promising career and future. World 2017, 112 min, Dir: Various into the highly popular world of electronic JUN 15 @ 9:30PM, JUN 16 @ 7PM, dance music, providing backdoor access to a widely misunderstood, self-driven and JUN 17 @ 4:30PM, JUN 20 @ 9:30PM well-insulated industry on its way to global An annual collection of award winning TV, cinema, domination. The narrative leads with the and social media commercials from the most legacy of Carl Cox and following with new- prestigious advertising competition in the world. comer, Martin Garrix, as the film explores the The judges at the 2017 Cannes Festival Of Creativ- parallels between Cox’s undeniable influence ity sifted through 5000-plus entries to select and hand in the evolution of dance music and winners of their coveted Bronze, Silver, and Gold Garrix’s formation of mainstream genres and Lions, and the result is 112 minutes of the most global fame.