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metroguide march 2019
cinema
Where community meets cinema
The Female Gaze
March 7 - 13
metro cinema at the Garneau · 8712 109 St. Edmonton
metrocinema.org
Basia Bulat -February 24 William Prince - March 14
February 2019
Sunday, February 24 Basia Bulat Singer/Songwriter
March 2019
Friday, March 1 Dave Gunning and JP Cormier Singer/Songwriter
Saturday, March 2 Taggart and Torrens Comedy
Saturday, March 2 Jeremy Dutcher Indigenous
Saturday, March 9 Tommy Castro and the Painkillers Blues
Thursday, March 14 William Prince Indigenous
Friday, March 15 The Kingston Trio Folk | SOLD OUT
Saturday, March 16 Barra MacNeils Celtic
Sunday, March 17 Lizt Alfonso Dance Cuba: Cuba Vibra! Dance
Thursday, March 21 Slocan Ramblers Country
Friday, March 22 The Swingle Singers Classical/Vocal
Saturday, March 23 Samantha Martin and Delta Sugar Blues
Sunday, March 24 Carlos Del Junco and the Blues Mongrels Blues
April 2019
Thursday, April 18 Tim Isberg: 25 Years After: Songs and Stories of
a Canadian Soldier in Rwanda Singer/Songwriter
Saturday April 20 Classic Albums Live: AC/DC Pop/Rock
June 2019
Saturday, June 1 Jeremy Fisher Singer/Songwriter
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About Us
Metro Cinema is a community-based not-for-profit
society devoted to creating and fostering opportunities
for the exhibition of diverse and unique shared
cinematic viewing experiences in Edmonton.
metrocinema at the Garneau
8712 - 109 Street, • TEL 780 425 9212 metro
www.metrocinema.org
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cinema
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Ticket Prices: Metro Cinema Passes*:
Adults - $13 Night at the Movies - $30
Students/Seniors - $10 (2 regular admission, 2 medium drinks,
($8 matinee) 1 medium popcorn)
Children (12 & under) - $8 Six-Pack Adult - $60
Six-Pack Student/Senior - $50
Silver Screen - $300
(Unlimited admission for 1 year)
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festivals, or premium priced events.
Metro Cinema is grateful for the support of the Alberta Media Arts Alliance,
Alberta Media Production Industries Association, CJSR, FAVA, EYESIGHT PUBLISHING
and the Harper-Kennedy Fund at the Edmonton Community Foundation.
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the First Nations – the Cree, Cree-Iroquois, Nakoda Sioux, Saulteaux and Stony – and on
the traditional lands of Aboriginal peoples including the Métis, with holdings beyond
the official treaty with the Crown.
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Lords of Chaos The Room
march Listings
Cold War The Room
Poland/UK/France 2018, 89 min, USA 2003, 99 min,
Dir: Pawel Pawlikowski Dir: Tommy Wiseau
English subtitles The film widely considered the
A passionate love story between “Citizen Kane of bad movies” is a
two people of different back- monthly event! Be sure to catch
grounds and temperaments, who Tommy and his friends the for a
are fatefully mismatched, set screening of this classic piece of
against the background of the Cold so-bad-it’s-good cinema.
War in the 1950s in Poland, Berlin, March 1 at 11:30PM
Yugoslavia and Paris.
Opens March 1. Racetime
Canada 2018, 89 min,
Lords of Chaos Dir: François Brisson,
UK/Sweden 2018, 118 min, Benoît Godbout
Dir: Jonas Åkerland Frankie-Four-Eyes and his team
A teenager’s quest to launch face off against conceited new-
Norwegian Black Metal in Oslo in comer Zac, who is not above cheat-
the early 1990s results in a very ing a little to win a sled race. Free
violent outcome. admission for kids 12 & under.
Opens March 1. March 2 at 1PM
The Hunting Film Tour
Details at huntingfilmtour.com.
Tickets are $15 at Jimbows Archery
Edmonton (cash only) or online at
Eventgroove. No Metro Passes.
March 2 at 6:30PM
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Adaptation The Matrix
Pride in Politics: Identity, LitFest presents Susan
Class and Political Activism Orlean: The Library Book
UK/France 2014, 119 min, Live Event
Dir: Matthew Warchus Details at litfestalberta.org. Tickets
The Gender and Sexual Diversity on Eventbrite. Metro Passes: Silver
Caucus, Race Equity Caucus, and Screen only
New Democrat Youth of Alberta March 5 at 7PM
present a screening of Pride.
Details at act.albertandp.ca/pridein- Adaptation
politics. USA 2002, 115 min,
Admission is Pay What You Can. Dir: Spike Jonze
March 3 at 3:30PM A lovelorn screenwriter becomes
desperate as he tries and fails to
The Human Element adapt The Orchid Thief by Susan
University of Alberta Orlean for the screen.
Sustainability Council March 5 at 9:30PM
USA/Iceland, 76 min,
Dir: Matthew Testa The Matrix
Details at ualberta.ca/sustainability. – 20TH Anniversary
Free admission. USA 1999, 136 min,
March 4 at 7PM Dir: Lana Wachowski,
Lilly Wachowski
(as The Wachowski Brothers)
A computer hacker learns from
mysterious rebels about the true
nature of his reality and his role in
the war against its controllers.
March 6 at 9:15PM
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The Hitch-Hiker Capernaum
Life May Be Ice Blue
UK/Iran 2014, 80 min, Canada 2017, 104 min,
Dir: Mania Akbari, Mark Cousins Dir: Sandi Somers
English subtitles When home-schooled Arielle’s
A cinematic discourse between a long-estranged mother mysteri-
British director and an Iranian ac- ously returns to their isolated
tress and director, which extends family farm, it drives a wedge into
the concept of “essay film” with her seemingly-perfect relation-
startling confrontations in the ship with her father and reveals a
arenas of cultural issues, gen- chilling, dark past. Filmmaker in
der politics and differing artistic attendance.
sensibilities. March 8 at 6:30PM
March 7 at 7:00PM
Capernaum
The Hitch-Hiker Lebanon/USA/France 2018,
USA 1953, 71 min, 126 min, Dir: Nadine Labaki
Dir: Ida Lupino English subtitles
Two fishermen pick up a While serving a five-year sentence
psychotic escaped convict for a violent crime, a 12-year-old
who tells them that he intends to boy sues his parents for neglect.
murder them when the ride is over. Opens March 8
March 7 at 9:30PM
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Bohemian
Cold War Rhapsody
3 4 5 6
12:30PM Cold War
7PM The Human 7PM Susan 7PM
3:30PM Pride - Gender
Element - University of Orlean - Litfest 9:1
and Sexual Diversity
Alberta Sustainability 9:30PM
Caucus Alberta NDP
Council Adaptation
7PM Cold War
9:30PM Lords of Chaos
9:15PM Lords of Chaos
10 11 12 13
2PM Granny 7PM Melody 6
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9:15PM Desperately – Subtitled 9:30PM
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Light Tour
1PM The Little Prince 7PM
– French Film Fest 7PM Birds of Alge
3:30PM Invisible Essence: 9:30PM Birds of Passage Passage F
The Little Prince – 9:30PM Climax 9:30
French Film Fest P
7PM My Left Foot
9:15PM Climax
24 25 26 27
1PM The Fireflies Are 7PM Beyond Crisis
Gone – French Film Fest - Solar Energy Society of AB 7PM
3:30PM Ewir Amora Kelabi 9:30PM Ruben Brandt, 7PM Buzzard – Hors
9:30PM Thunder Road Collector Indie Spotlight: the M
31 Joel Potrykus 9:30
1PM All the Wild Horses
Bran
3:30PM Metro Manila
12 9:30PM The Artist & The PervertWEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
1 2
6:45PM Cold War 1PM Racetime
9PM Lords of
Chaos 6:30PM Hunting
11:30PM The Film Tour
Room 9:30PM Cold War
Climax
7 8 9
7PM Life
6:30PM 1PM Nausicaä
May Be
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15PM The he Wind – Dubbed
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3:30PM A League
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9:30PM The
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9:30PM he
Hitch-Hiker of Their Own female gaze
Capernaum 6:30PM Capernaum
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9:30PM The Milk Bar
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14 15 16 1PM War of .
6:30PM The the Buttons .
Theory of 7PM The Image 7PM When Margaux
verything Book – French Meets Margaux –
cience in the 9:30PM Climax Film Fest French Film Fest
Cinema 9:15PM Birds of 9:30PM Climax
9:30PM Passage MIDNIGHT Kilink!
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21 22 23 1PM Stuart Little
M Good Luck
7PM Ruben 3PM The Guardians –
eria – French 7PM Gandhi
Brandt, Collector French Film Fest
Film Fest
9:15PM Thunder 6:45PM Bohemian
0PM Birds of
REEL
Road
REVOLUTION
Passage Rhapsody MOVIE
PARTY
9:30PM Ruben Brandt,
Collector
28 29 30 1PM Kid Flicks - Best of
New York International
M All the Wild 7PM Colors Children’s Film Festival
ses – Doc of BOOM
BAP
CinemA 7PM All the Wild
Month Club
Horses 7PM Relaxer – Indie
0PM Ruben 9:30PM Thunder
ndt, Collector Road Spotlight: Joel Potrykus
9:30PM All the Wild
Horses 13A League of Their Own The Milk Bar
Nausicaä of the The Milk Bar
Valley of the Wind Canada 2019, 20 min,
Japan 1984, 117 min, Dir: Julia Grochowski
Dir: Hayao Miyazaki The Milk Bar is a psychedelic, free-
A warrior and pacifist, Princess flowing dream-scape of milkiness.
Nausicaä desperately struggles to This world premiere event features
prevent two warring nations from performances, milk cocktails, and
destroying themselves and their a screening of the film.
dying planet. March 9 at 9:30PM
March 9 at 1PM – English dubbed,
free admission for kids 12 & under Granny Power
March 11 at 9:30PM – Japanese Canada/USA 2014, 78 min,
with subtitles, regular admission Dir: Jocelyne Clarke,
Magnus Isacsson
A League of A documentary about the Raging
their Own Grannies, an organization of funny,
USA 1992, 128 min, creative, courageous, and hip older
Dir: Penny Marshall women all over the world who use
Two sisters join the first female song and satire to protest injus-
professional baseball league and tice, demonstrate against war, and
struggle to help it succeed amidst promote environmental awareness.
their own growing rivalry. – Live Performance by Edmonton
March 9 at 3:30PM Raging Grannies
March 10 at 2PM
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15RBG Melody Makers, Should’ve Been There
RBG Melody Makers,
USA 2018, 98 min, Should’ve Been
Dir: Julie Cohen, Betsy West There
The exceptional life and career of Canada/UK 2017, 97 min,
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Dir: Leslie Ann Coles
Bader Ginsburg, who has devel- Melody Maker Magazine’s Chief
oped a breathtaking legal legacy Contributing Photographer Barrie
while becoming an unexpected pop Wentzell tells the story of the rise
culture icon. and fall of the magazine, which
March 10 at 4:45PM marked the end to a style of rock
n’ roll journalism that no longer
On the Basis of Sex exist’s today. With a live music
USA 2018, 120 min, performance by Dana Wylie at
Dir: Mimi Leder 6:30PM.
The true story of Ruth Bader March 12 at 7PM
Ginsburg, her struggles for equal
rights, and the early cases of a his- Climax
toric career that lead to her nomi- France/Belgium/USA 2018, 95 min,
nation and confirmation as U.S. Dir: Gaspar Noé
Supreme Court Associate Justice. English subtitles
March 10 at 6:45PM French dancers gather in a remote,
empty school building to rehearse
Desperately Seeking Susan on a wintry night. The all-night
USA 1985, 104 min, celebration morphs into a halluci-
Dir: Susan Seidelman natory nightmare when they learn
A bored suburban housewife, their sangria is laced with LSD.
seeking escape from her life, Opens March 14
suffers amnesia after an acci-
dent, wakes up, and is mistaken for
a free-spirited New York City drifter
named Susan. March 10 at 9:15PM
16 www.metrocinema.orgBirds of Passage Kilink!
Le livre d’image War of the Buttons
(The Image Book) – 25th Anniversary
– French Film Fest UK/France/Japan/USA
Switzerland/France 2018, 84 min, 1994, 94 min, Dir: John Roberts
Dir: Jean-Luc Godard The children of Ballydowse &
English subtitles Carrickdowse engage in battles
Nothing but silence. Nothing but a in which they cut off the buttons,
revolutionary song. A story in five shoe-laces, belts and braces of
chapters like the five fingers of a hand. their captured opponents. Free
March 15 at 7:00PM admission for kids 12 & under.
March 16 at 1PM
Birds of Passage
Colombia/Denmark/Mexico 2018, Kilink!
125 min, Dir: Cristina Gallego, Turkey 1967, 90 min,
Ciro Guerra Dir: Yilmaz Atadeniz
English subtitles English subtitles
During the marijuana bonanza, a Known by many names, the man
violent decade that saw the origins in the skull mask is the ultimate
of drug trafficking in Colombia, anti-hero. There will be a short
Rapayet and his indigenous family talk discussing the history of the
get involved in a war to control the character and then a screening of a
business that ends up destroying custom edited rework of two films,
their lives and culture. Kilink vs the Flying Man and Kilink
Opens March 15 in Istanbul. Screens in the Metro
lobby Gallery.
March 16 at MIDNIGHT
www.metrocinema.org 17Le Petit Prince My Left Foot
Garneau Ghost Light Tour Invisible Essence: The
Live Event Little Prince
Get a rare glimpse at the history – French Film Fest
and hidden spaces of Edmonton’s Canada 2018, 90 min,
grand Art Deco Garneau Theatre in Dir: Charles Officer
this historical building tour. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s tran-
March 17 at 11AM scendent story suggests an ethical
philosophy about life and a univer-
Le Petit Prince (The Little sal code of respect for humanity.
Prince) – French Film Fest With every new generation that dis-
France 2015, 108 min, covers the fable, the Little Prince’s
Dir: Mark Osborne inspiring legacy is cemented.
English Subtitles March 17 at 3:30PM
A little girl lives in a very grown-up
world with her mother, who tries My Left Foot
to prepare her for it. Her neighbor, – 30th Anniversary
the Aviator, introduces the girl to Ireland/UK 1989, 103 min,
an extraordinary world where any- Dir: Jim Sheridan
thing is possible, the world of the Christy Brown, born with cerebral
Little Prince. palsy, learns to paint and write with
March 17 at 1:00PM his only controllable limb—his left
foot.
March 17 at 7PM
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19Ruben Brandt, Collector Stuart Little
Gandhi Stuart Little
UK/India/USA 1982, 191 min, REEL
REVOLUTION
– 30th Anniversary
Dir: Richard Attenborough Germany/USA 1999,
This acclaimed biographi- 84 min, Dir: Rob Minkoff
cal drama presents major The Little family adopt a charming
events in the life of Mohandas young mouse named Stuart, but the
Gandhi, the beloved Indian leader family cat wants rid of him. Free
who stood against British rule over admission for kids 12 & under.
his country. March 23 at 1:00PM
March 21 at 7PM
Bohemian Rhapsody
Ruben Brandt, Collector UK/USA 2018, 134 min,
Hungary 2018, 96 min, Dir: Bryan Singer
Dir: Milorad Krstic The story of the legendary rock
A psychotherapist suffers violent band Queen and lead singer Fred-
nightmares inspired by legendary die Mercury, leading up to their
works of art. Four of his patients, famous performance at Live Aid in
expert thieves, offer to steal the 1985.
works, since he believes that once March 23 at 6:45PM
he owns them, the nightmares will
disappear. La disparition des lucioles
Opens March 22 (The Fireflies are Gone)
– French Film Fest
Thunder Road Canada 2018, 96 min,
USA 2018, 92 min, Dir: Sébastien Pilote
Dir: Jim Cummings English subtitles
A police officer faces a personal A frustrated teenager frees herself
meltdown following a divorce and from her mother’s influence and
the death of his mother. her narrow life in a small industrial
Opens March 22 town to find out who she really is.
March 24 at 1:00PM
20 www.metrocinema.orgColors All the Wild Horses
Ewir Amora Kelabi Colors BOOM
BAP
Ethiopia 2016, 85 min, USA 1988, 120 min, CinemA
Dir: Sewmehon Yismaw Dir: Dennis Hopper
English subtitles An experienced cop and his rookie
Based on the true story of Zekarias partner patrol the streets of East
Mesfin, the film chronicles his Los Angeles while trying to keep
struggle to survive in Ethiopia first the gang violence under control.
as an internally displaced person March 28 at 7:00PM
after being orphaned at a very
young age, then later as a refugee All the Wild Horses
traversing the sweltering Sinai and Mongolia/South Africa/UK/USA/
Sahara deserts. Ireland 2017, 90 min,
March 24 at 3:30PM Dir: Ivo Marloh
All the Wild Horses documents the
Buzzard Mongol Derby horse race, the lon-
- Indie Spotlight: Joel Potrykus gest and toughest horse race in the
USA 2014, 97 min, world, and easily the most epic and
Dir: Joel Potrykus dangerous, as it leads through 650
Paranoia forces small-time scam miles of Mongolian steppe, desert
artist Marty to flee his hometown and mountain ranges.
and hide out in a dangerous De- Opens March 27
troit. With nothing but a pocket full
of bogus checks, his Power Glove,
and a bad temper, the horror metal
slacker lashes out.
March 26 at 7:00PM
www.metrocinema.org 21Relaxer The Artist-The Pervert
Kid Flicks - Best of New York with the ultimate challenge—the
International Children’s unbeatable level 256 on Pac-Man—
Film Festival and he can’t get off the couch until
Kid Flicks includes the he conquers it. This is a survival
best short films from New story set in a living room.
York International Children’s Film Opens March 30
Festival, the largest film festival for
kids and teens. Each year, NYICFF The Artist &
scours the globe for the best new The Pervert
films from around the world. Free Germany/USA/Austria 2018, 96 min,
admission for kids 12 & under. Dir: Beatrice Behn, René Gebhardt
March 30 at 1:00PM Georg is a famous Austrian com-
poser, his wife Mollena a renowned
Relaxer American kink educator. Together
– Indie Spotlight: Joel Potrykus they live in a public kinky relation-
USA 2018, 91 min, ship. This film documents their
Dir: Joel Potrykus lives between perversion, art, love
With the impending Y2K apocalypse and radical self-determination.
fast approaching, Abbie is faced March 31 at 9:30PM
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