Theatrical starts June 5, 2020
FRANCE, BANGLADESH, DENMARK, PORTUGAL - 2019 - 95MIN - COLOR - 1.85 - 5.1
A FILM BY RUBAIYAT HOSSAIN
Shimu, 23, works in a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Faced with difficult conditions at work, she decides to start a union with her co-workers. Despite threats from the management and disapproval of her husband, Shimu is determined to go on. Together the women must fight and find a way.
90 MINUTES - USA - 2007
A FILM BY RANI SINGH
FEATURING: BECK, NICK CAVE, ELVIS COSTELLO, DAVID JOHANSEN, GREIL MARCUS, BETH ORTON, LOU REED, ALLEN GINSBERG, BILL IVEY, HARRY SMITH, HAL WILLNER, BOB NEUWIRTH, SMOKEY HORMEL, PHILLIP GLASS, P. ADAMS SITNEY, PERCY HEATH, STEVE EARLE, PETRA HADEN, LUIS KEMNITZER, MOSES ASCH, JOHN COHEN, ED SANDERS
Prepare for an eclectic journey through ‘The Old Weird America’. Rani Singh's fast-paced and varied documentary tracks the history of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music from its initial compilation of 78 rpm records from rural Americana to its release on Folkways Records in 1952. Instrumental in helping inspire the urban folk revival of the 1960s, the Anthology continues to influence modern music. An incredible set of interviews reveal the lasting impact of the Anthology and Harry Smith. Popular music professor Greil Marcus takes us through the intricacies of the Anthology: its history, context and influence on music in particular as well as society as a whole. This film is also, in a way, a monument to the man Harry Smith, whose unique view on life as not only a collector, but also as one of the most important experimental film makers of the last century, shines through.
Theatrical starts April 22, 2020
1982 - 110 MINUTES - CANADA - ENGLISH
A FILM BY PHILLIP BORSOS
BRAND NEW 4K RESTORATION! COLOUR GRADED BY PRODUCER PETER O’BRIEN
In this film based on a true story, Bill Miner (Richard Farnsworth) is a fearless stagecoach robber in the days of the Wild West. After he is arrested and jailed for more than 30 years, he re-emerges into a bustling new world. But Miner cannot give up his old ways. Soon he pulls off a successful railway heist and goes on the lam in British Columbia, where he falls for bold photographer Katherine Flynn (Jackie Burroughs). But Miner was not built for settling down.
1964 - UK - 87 MIN - B&W - 1.75:1
A FILM BY RICHARD LESTER
FEATURING THE BEATLES
Meet the Beatles! Just one month after they exploded onto the U.S. scene with their Ed Sullivan Show appearance, John, Paul, George, and Ringo began working on a project that would bring their revolutionary talent to the big screen. A Hard Day’s Night, in which the bandmates play cheeky comic versions of themselves, captured the astonishing moment when they officially became the singular, irreverent idols of their generation and changed music forever. Directed with raucous, anything-goes verve by Richard Lester and featuring a slew of iconic pop anthems, including the title track, “Can’t Buy Me Love,” “I Should Have Known Better,” and “If I Fell,” A Hard Day’s Night, which reconceived the movie musical and exerted an incalculable influence on the music video, is one of the most deliriously entertaining movies of all time.
1999 - USA - 121 MIN - B&W - 1.85:1
A FILM BY JIM JARMUSCH
With Dead Man, his first period piece, Jim Jarmusch imagined the nineteenth-century American West as an existential wasteland, delivering a surreal reckoning with the ravages of industrialization, the country’s legacy of violence and prejudice, and the natural cycle of life and death. Accountant William Blake (Johnny Depp) has hardly arrived in the godforsaken outpost of Machine before he’s caught in the middle of a fatal lovers’ quarrel. Wounded and on the lam, Blake falls under the watch of the outcast Nobody (Gary Farmer), who guides his companion on a spiritual journey, teaching him to dispense poetic justice along the way. Featuring austerely beautiful black-and-white photography by Robby Müller and a live-wire score by Neil Young, Dead Man is a profound and unique revision of the western genre.
Theatrical starts January 17, 2020
2018 - USA - 95 MINUTES - COLOUR - 1,85: 1
A FILM BY ROB GARVER
VOICE OF PAULINE: SARAH JESSICA PARKER
In a field that has historically embraced few women film critics, Kael was charismatic, controversial, witty, and discerning. Her decades-long berth at The New Yorker energized her fans (“Paulettes”) and infuriated her detractors on a weekly basis. Her turbo-charged prose famously championed the New Hollywood Cinema of the late 1960s and ‘70s (BONNIE AND CLYDE, NASHVILLE, CARRIE, TAXI DRIVER) and the work of major European directors (François Truffaut, Bernardo Bertolucci), while mercilessly panning some of the biggest studio hits (THE SOUND OF MUSIC, MIDNIGHT COWBOY, DIRTY HARRY).
USA - 90 MINUTES - COLOUR
A FILM BY BILL HANEY FILM
NARRATED BY WOODY HARRELSON
Jim Allison: Breakthrough is the astounding, true story of one warm-hearted, stubborn man’s visionary quest to find a cure for cancer.
Today, Jim Allison is a name to be reckoned with throughout the scientific world — a 2018 Nobel Prize winner for discovering the immune system’s role in defeating cancer — but for decades he waged a lonely struggle against the skepticism of the medical establishment and the resistance of Big Pharma.
Jim Allison: Breakthrough takes us into the inspiring and dramatic world of cutting-edge medicine, and into the heart of a true American pioneer, in a film that is both emotionally compelling and deeply entertaining.
USA – 2013 – 95 MIN – COLOUR - FEATURE - IN ENGLISH
WITH BRIT MARLING, HAILEE STEINFELD, MUNA OTARU, SAM WORTHINGTON, KYLE SOLLER,
A FILM BY DANIEL BARBER
Based on Julia Hart’s revered 2012 Black List screenplay, and directed by Academy Award® Nominated Daniel Barber (Harry Brown), The Keeping Room is a tense and uncompromising tale of survival that also shatters both gender and genre conventions.
Theatrical starts December 20, 2019
139 MINUTES - DCP - COLOUR - 2.39:1 - 5.1 - IN PORTUGUESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY KARIM AÌNOUZ
Rio de Janeiro, 1950. Eurídice, 18, and Guida, 20, are two inseparable sisters living at home with their conservative parents. Although immersed in a traditional life, each one nourishes a dream: Eurídice of becoming a renowned pianist, Guida of finding true love. In a dramatic turn, they are separated by their father and forced to live apart. They take control of their separate destinies, while never giving up hope of finding each other.
2019 - 29 MINUTES - CANADA
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER RON MANN
Inside Kenk is a half-hour documentary film, based on the successful 2010 graphic novel “KENK: A Graphic Portrait”, chronicling the life of Toronto’s Igor Kenk, the Slovenia-born man dubbed "the world’s most prolific bicycle thief" by The New York Times. The film, written and directed by Jason Gilmore aims to bring to life Kenk’s story, his flawed yet compelling personality and the remarkable, shocking revelation - unforeseen even by his most vocal detractors - that Kenk had been hoarding thousands of stolen bicycles in locations around the city. Told through a collection of present day interviews with various affected parties, interspersed with animated sequences in the original graphic novel style, that recount Igor’s personal story and the lead up to his arrest, culminating in a candid sit-down interview with Igor Kenk today.
Theatrical starts November 29, 2019
2019 - FRANCE - 115 MINUTES - ENGLISH - FRENCH
An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda’s new feature documentary sheds light on her experience as a director, bringing a personal insight to what she calls “cine-writing”.
Theatrical starts October 18, 2019
2018 - USA - 101 MINUTES
A FILM BY JOCELYN DEBOER AND DAWN LUEBBE
FEATURING JOCELYN DEBOER, DAWN LUEBBE, BECK BENNETT, NEIL CASEY, MARY HOLLAND, D’ARCY CARDEN
A deliciously twisted comedy set in a demented, timeless suburbia where every adult wears braces on their straight teeth, couples coordinate meticulously pressed outfits, and coveted family members are swapped in more ways than one in this competition for acceptance.
Theatrical starts October 11, 2019
2019 - POLAND - DRAMA - 2.39 - 90 MIN - IN ITALIAN, ENGLISH and POLISH WITH ENGLISH AND FRENCH SUBTITLES
A FILM BY JACEK BORCUCH
CAST: KRYSTYNA JANDA, KASIA SMUTNIAK, VINCENT RIOTTA, ANTONIO CATANIA, ROBIN RENUCCI, LORENZO DE MOOR
Maria Linde, a free-spirited, Jewish Polish Nobel Prize winner, lives in Tuscany surrounded by warmth and chaos in her family’s villa. A loving mother and grandmother, she also fosters a secret flirtation with the much younger Egyptian man who runs a nearby seaside inn. After a terrorist attack in Rome, Maria refuses to succumb to the hysterical fear and anti-immigrant sentiment that quickly emerge, deciding in her acceptance speech of a local honor to boldly decry Europe’s eroding democracy—but she is unprepared for the public and personal havoc her comments wreak.
Theatrical starts October 4, 2019
2019 - 107 MINUTES - ENGLISH - USA
A FILM BY ADAM BOLT
A breakthrough called CRISPR has given us unprecedented control over the basic building blocks of life. It opens the door to curing diseases, reshaping the biosphere, and designing our own children. Human Nature is a provocative exploration of CRISPR’s far-reaching implications, through the eyes of the scientists who discovered it, the families it’s affecting, and the bioengineers who are testing its limits. How will this new power change our relationship with nature? What will it mean for human evolution? To begin to answer these questions we must look back billions of years and peer into an uncertain future.
2002 - 5 MINUTES - COLOUR - CANADA
A FILM BY LARRY WEINSTEIN
VOCALISTS: BARBARA HANNIGAN, DOUG MACNAUGHTON
A humourous "domestic opera" about an upwardly mobile couple in their mid thirties who can't resolve an argument about the cap being left off the toothpaste.
2005 - CANADA
A FILM BY LARRY WEINSTEIN
Eight comedic mini-operas, each depicting a different stage of a romantic relationship.
"The entire process of love, pain and the whole damn thing is uniquely played out in the mock-opera, Burnt Toast... TV is rarely this good... Weinstein's established visual style... is applied here... with striking effect." - The Globe and Mail
Theatrical starts September 6, 2019
2019 - UK/ USA - 81 MINUTES
A FILM BY: JAMIE CATTO
FEATURING: RAM DASS, JAMIE CATTO
Becoming Nobody truly represents the core arc of Ram Dass’ teachings and life. His ability to entertain and his sense of humour are abundantly evident in a conversation that brings us around to address the vast question of ultimate freedom. Becoming Nobody is the quintessential portal to Ram Dass’ life and teachings.
CANADA - COLOUR - 1990
A FILM BY LARRY WEINSTEIN
John Weinzweig – the most vociferous advocate for new music Canada has ever seen, is given a “soapbox” for his powerful ideas and wide-ranging and often beautiful music.
CANADA - COLOUR - 1995
A FILM BY LARRY WEINSTEIN
A full length original tragic-comic opera with sends up a great political leader whose downfall was his colossal ego.
52 MINUTES - CANADA - COLOUR - 2001
A FILM BY LARRY WEINSTEIN
A loving musical tone poem at once tragic and celebratory that evokes and explores Ravel's illness-plagued final years, when he was able to produce music but couldn't write it down.
