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The Hard Part Begins

The Hard Part Begins

Veteran country musician Jim King (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’s Donnelly Rhodes) has spent decades honing his craft, but he has yet to find success beyond the small-town touring circuit. With a prominent record label circling his current band, King and Country, Jim may be on the brink of a professional breakthrough, but the rest of his life is in disarray. From a suicidal son (Death Wish II’s David Daniels) and a terminally ill friend (Phobia's Neil Vipond) to a rocky romance with his bandmate Jenny (Pinocchio's Birthday Party's Nancy Belle Fuller), Jim's life is hard – and it’s only getting harder.

Rush to Judgment  (4K Restoration)

Rush to Judgment (4K Restoration)

Theatrical Starts November 22, 2023

USA – 1967 – 124 MIN – BLACK & WHITE - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY EMILE DE ANTONIO
BASED ON THE BOOK BY MARK LANE

Mark Lane and de Antonio, for the first time, create a vivid, frank legal brief which asks the still unanswered question: who killed John F. Kennedy?

A critique of the Warren Commission’s report on the murder of President John F. Kennedy.

*Restored to 4K for the 60th anniversary of the JFK assassination

Archangel (4K Restoration)

Archangel (4K Restoration)

Theatrical Starts November 14, 2023

1990 - CANADA - 77 MINUTES - ENGLISH
A FILM BY GUY MADDIN

Literally a film like no other, this weird, wild and extraordinary photoplay is both melodrama and deadpan parody. With striking black and white cinematography and stylized set design, Guy Maddin tells a tale of obsessive love in the arctic Russian town of Archangel, where Bolsheviks, White Russians and German Huns converge during World War I.

September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (4K Restoration)

September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (4K Restoration)

Theatrical Starts Spring 2026

DIGITAL RESTORATION BY SPHINX PRODUCTIONS PRODUCED WITH THE GENEROUS FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF TELEFILM CANADA

CANADA - 1994 - 92 MINUTES
A FILM BY BY LARRY WEINSTEIN
WITH WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS, BETTY CARTER, NICK CAVE, ELVIS COSTELLO, LOU REED

September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill is a visually arresting and musically rich tribute to the legendary German-American composer Kurt Weill. Directed by Larry Weinstein and made in collaboration with visionary music producer Hal Willner, the film was originally released in 1994, and is now digitally rerstored by Sphinx Productions for re-release in September 2025.

Careful (4K Restoration)

Careful (4K Restoration)

1992 - CANADA - 100 MINUTES - ENGLISH
A FILM BY GUY MADDIN

Guy Maddin’s early masterpiece takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents —adult, child and animal!—must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche. But sexual frenzies teem in this world of repression, setting off incestuous love triangles and quadrangles with deadly consequences. Bathed in lurid, luminescent tints, Careful resembles a vintage melodrama from another planet—something that could only emerge from the singular mind of Maddin.

Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux (4K Restoration)

Tales from the Gimli Hospital Redux (4K Restoration)

Theatrical starts September 30, 2022

1988 - 64 MINUTES - B&W - 4K - STEREO - MANITOBA, CANADA - IN ENGLISH + ICELANDIC
A FILM BY GUY MADDIN
FEATURING: KYLE MCCULLOCH, MICHAEL GOTTLI, ANGELA HECK, MARGARET ANNE MACLEOD, HEATHER NEALE, DAVID NEALE, CAROLINE BONNER

Set during a smallpox epidemic in the village of Gimli, Manitoba near the turn of the century, Tales From The Gimli Hospitalis a dreamlike, elliptical film which explores the jealousy and madness instilled in two men who share a hospital room "in a Gimli we no longer know." The two men, Einar (Kyle McCulloch) and Gunnar (Michael Gottli) are friends at first, until they reveal their darkest secrets to each other. Tales of creeping pestilence, unconsummated passions, reckless envy and necrophilia are told, climaxing in a deadly battle between the two patients, now rivals. Does a better world await these two lost souls on Earth...or in Heaven?

Hockey Night (4K Restoration)

Hockey Night (4K Restoration)

THEATRICAL BEGINS DECEMBER 17, 2016

4K REMASTER!
CANADA – 2015 – 95 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY PAUL SHAPIRO
FEATURING: MEGAN FOLLOWS, RICK MORANIS, GAIL YOUNGS

When a young girl wants to join her high school's hockey team as goalie, she meets with resistence, but also gets support, especially from the star forward of the team.

Point of Order (4K Restoration)

Point of Order (4K Restoration)

Theatrical Starts Spring 2026

NEW 4K RESTORATION
USA – 1965 – 97 MIN – BLACK & WHITE - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
A FILM BY EMILE DE ANTONIO

DIGITAL RESTORATION BY THE WISCONSIN CENTER FOR FILM AND THEATRE RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON AND SPHINX PRODUCTIONS

The great demagogue, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, at bay before the establishment. Lawyer Welch: "Have you at long last, sir, no sense of decency?" Silence and the end of a meteoric career.