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metroguide april 2019
cinema
Where community meets cinema
Police story 1 & 2
REMASTERED FOR THE BIG SCREEN
metro cinema at the Garneau · 8712 109 St. Edmonton
metrocinema.org
Rosie & the Riveters - April 27
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
Saturday, April 27 Rosie & the Riveters Folk
May 2019
Friday, May 31 Bobby Cameron Blues Cafe
June 2019
Saturday, June 1 Jeremy Fisher Singer/Songwriter Cafe
Bobby Cameron - May 31 Jeremy Fisher - June 1
FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT
WWW.FESTIVALPLACE.AB.CA
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TO PURCHASE TICKETS CALL OUR BOX OFFICE AT 780-449-3378
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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
FACEBOOK /metrocinema
cinema
TWITTER & INSTAGRAM @themetrocinema .org
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)
*Passes may not apply to special event rentals,
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.
Metro Cinema wishes to recognize that we work and live on Treaty No. 6 territory of
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.
This guide is published by © 2019 Eyesight Publishing
All Rights Reserved, Reproduction in whole or in part is
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Apollo 11 On The Sly
April Listings
Apollo 11 On the Sly: In Search of
USA 2019, 93 min, the Family Stone
Dir: Todd Douglas Miller USA 2017, 83 min,
A look at the Apollo 11 mission Dir: Michael Rubenstone
to land on the moon led by com- On the Sly: In Search of the Family
mander Neil Armstrong and pilot Stone is a documentary about Sly
Buzz Aldrin. Stone, his absence from the music
Opens April 1 scene, and one man’s quest to find
out what happened to the artist.
The Usual Suspects APR 2 @ 7PM
USA/Germany 1995, 106 min,
Dir: Bryan Singer No Man’s Land Film Festival
A sole survivor tells of the twisty 2019, Dir: Various
events leading up to a horrific gun Details at nomanslandfilmfestival.org.
battle on a boat, which began when Tickets available at Track ‘N Trail
five criminals met at a seemingly (10148 82 Ave).
random police lineup. APR 4 @ 7PM
APR 1 @ 9:15PM
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Ash is Purest White 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
Ash is Purest White Porco Rosso
China/France/Japan 2018, 137 min, Japan 1992, 94 min,
Dir: Zhangke Jia Dir: Hayao Miyazaki
English subtitles Transformed into a humanoid pig,
In an industrial city in China, a a pilot leaves his island only to
young dancer named Qiao falls in rescue victims from air pirates.
love with a mobster named Bin. APR 6 @ 1PM - English dubbed,
When a fight breaks out between free admission for kids 12 & under.
rival gangs, Qiao uses a gun to APR 8 @ 9:30PM - Japanese with
protect Bin and is sent to prison for subtitles, regular admission.
five years.
Opens April 5 20,000 Leagues
Under the Sea
The Room USA 1916, 105 min,
USA 2003, 99 min, Dir: Stuart Paton
Dir: Tommy Wiseau A ship sent to investigate a wave
The film widely considered the of mysterious sinkings encoun-
“Citizen Kane of bad movies” is ters the advanced submarine, the
back! Be sure to catch Tommy and Nautilus, commanded by Captain
his friends the for a screening of Nemo. Featuring a live score
this classic piece of so-bad-it’s- performed by Maggie Hardy.
good cinema. APR 7 @ 1PM
APR 5 @ 11:30PM
www.metrocinema.org 7
Eighth Grade Vera Drake
Eighth Grade Vera Drake
USA 2018, 93 min, UK/France 2004, REEL
Dir: Bo Burnham
REVOLUTION
125 min,
Metro Cinema Volunteer Dir: Mike Leigh
Appreciation Event Abortionist Vera Drake finds her
An introverted teenage girl tries to beliefs and practices clash with the
survive the last week of her di- mores of 1950s Britain, a conflict
sastrous eighth grade year before that leads to tragedy for her family.
leaving to start high school. APR 11 @ 6:30PM
APR 7 @ 3:30PM
Police Story
Il Postino Hong Kong 1985, 100 min,
Italy/France/Belgium 1994, Dir: Jackie Chan, Chi-Hwa Chen
108 min, English subtitles
Dir: Michael Radford, Massimo Troisi A virtuous Hong Kong Police Officer
English subtitles must clear his good name when the
Details at metrocinema.org. drug lords he is after frames him
Light snacks and drinks at 6PM, for the murder of a dirty cop.
screening at 7PM. Tickets $25. APR 12 & 21 @ 7PM
No Metro Passes.
APR 7 @ 7PM Police Story 2
Hong Kong 1988, 122 min,
Design and Game Awards Dir: Jackie Chan
Live Event English subtitles
Details and tickets at designand- A dedicated Hong Kong cop’s un-
gameawards.com. No Metro usual policing methods result in his
Passes. 18+ No Minors. demotion to traffic duty, despite his
APR 10 @ 7PM success in fighting crime. Mean-
while, an old enemy is released from
prison and sets out to get revenge.
APR 12 & 21 @ 9:15PM
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780.435.2674
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APRIL 2019 SCHEDULE
SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY W
1 2 3
7PM On the Sly:
7PM
In Search of the
7PM Apollo 11
Family Stone
9:15PM The Usual 9:30
Suspects - Ind
Joe
9:15PM Apollo 11
Apollo 11 APRIL FOOL’S DAY
7 1PM 20,000 8 9 10
Leagues Under the
Sea (1916)
3:30PM Eighth Grade 7PM Apollo 11 7PM
9:30PM Porco Rosso
– Metro Volunteer 9:15PM Ash is Gam
Appreciation Event – Subtitled
Purest White 9:30P
7PM Il Postino
9:30PM Ash is Purest
White
14 15 16 17
7PM Paddling 7PM
12:30PM What is Flo
Film Festival
Democracy? Hocke
9:30PM
9:30PM Reservoir Dogs 9:15
Reservoir Dogs
– 30th
NATIO
F
21 11AM Garneau Ghost 22 23 24
Light Tour 12:30PM They Shall
12:30PM CatVideoFest 2019 Not Grow Old
2:30PM Viva SUNDAY 2:30PM CatVideoFest
Las Vegas CLASSICS 7PM Al Purdy
2019 B
4:30PM Jimi Hendrix: 4:15PM Spider-Man: Into Was Here
Electric Church the Spider-Verse
7PM Police Story
9:15PM Police Story 2 7PM The Favourite
28 29 30
Dreamspeakers
Dreamspeakers Dreamspeakers International
International Film and International Film and Film and
Rubaboo Arts Festivals Rubaboo Arts Festivals Rubaboo Arts
Festivals
10WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY
4 5 6
1PM Porco Rosso
M All the Wild 6:45PM Apollo 11
7PM No Man’s – English Dubbed
Horses 8:45PM Ash is
Land Film 3:30PM Apollo 11
0PM Relaxer Purest White
Festival 6:45PM Ash is Purest
die Spotlight: 11:30PM The
9:30PM Apollo 11 White
el Portrykus Room
9:30PM Apollo 11
11 12 13 1PM The Kid
6:30PM Vera Who Would Be King
Drake 3:30PM Painkiller: Inside
M Design and 7PM Police Story
the Opioid Crisis .
me Awards 9:15PM Police
7PM Ramen Shop .
REEL
PM Apollo 11 Story 2
REVOLUTION
9:30PM Ash is 9:15PM Tom Jones
Purest White MIDNIGHT Sid & Marty:
Puppet Punks
18 19 12PM 20
6:45PM Do 10AM Saturday Morn-
M Flin Peter Rabbit
the Right Thing 2:15PM They Shall ing All-You-Can-Eat-
on: A BOOM
Not Grow Old Cereal Cartoon Party!
BAP
ey Town CinemA 4:30PM Spider-Man: 1:45PM The Favourite
5PM Roadkill 9:30PM But I’m Into the Spider-Verse 4:20PM Breaking Habits
h Anniversary A Cheerleader 7PM CatVideoFest 7PM Sing-A-Long
2019 Monty Python and
ONAL CANADIAN 9:30PM The the Holy Grail
FILM DAY Favourite
25 26 27
7PM CatVideoFest
2019
9:30PM Dreamspeakers
9:30PM Jimi 7PM Man
Breaking International Film and
Hendrix: Running
Habits Rubaboo Arts Festivals
Electric
Church
Monty Python and
Police Story the Holy Grail11Tom Jones Sid & Marty: Puppet Punks
The Kid Who Ramen Shop
Would Be King Japan 2018, 89 min,
UK 2018, 120 min, Dir: Eric Khoo
Dir: Joe Cornish A young man who is curious about
When young Alex stumbles upon his deceased parents’ past takes a
the mythical sword Excalibur, he food journey to Singapore where he
soon unites his friends and en- uncovers more than just delicious
emies to save mankind from the meals.
wicked enchantress Morgana and APR 13 @ 7PM
her army of supernatural war-
riors. Free admission for kids 12 & Tom Jones Banned
under. UK 1963, 128 min, in
Alberta
APR 13 @ 1PM Dir: Tony Richardson
Tom Jones is a country boy who
Painkiller: Inside the becomes one of the wildest play-
Opioid Crisis boys in 18th-century England.
Canada 2018, 43 min, APR 13 @ 9:15PM
Dir: Matt Embry
This documentary seeks to tell the Sid and Marty:
story behind the Fentanyl epidemic, Puppet Punks
to raise awareness and end the 90 min
stigma of addiction, by educating An evening examining the genre
viewers on how it is affecting the twisting world of Sid and Marty
country. Panel discussion follow- Krofft. Rare clips and some weird
ing the screening. Free admission, stories too, join us as we explore the
with suggested donation to Moms insane career of the Puppet Punks.
Stop the Harm. Tickets $6. Screens in the Metro
APR 13 @ 3:30PM lobby Gallery.
APR 13 @ MIDNIGHT
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What is Democracy? Flin Flon:
Canada 2018, 107 min, A Hockey Town
Dir: Astra Taylor Canada/ USA 2017, 73 min,
This documentary examines the Dir: Dustin Cohen
philosophy behind the concept of Filmmaker Dustin Cohen explores
Democracy, from ancient Athens to a small Canadian mining town’s
modern Greece and the American obsession with its junior hockey
Civil Rights movement. Free ad- team, The Flin Flon Bombers.
mission, with suggested donation Presented in partnership with
to Edmonton’s Food Bank. NorthwestFest.
APR 14 @ 12:30PM APR 17 @ 7PM
Reservoir Dogs Roadkill
USA 1992, 99 min, Canada 1989, 80 min,
Dir: Quentin Tarantino Dir: Bruce McDonald
When a simple jewelry heist goes 30th Anniversary
horribly wrong, the surviving crimi- A rock’n’road movie about a girl
nals begin to suspect that one of who makes her way through the
them is a police informant. Canadian back country, where she
APR 14 & 16 @ 9:30PM meets the weirdest people and
learns to drive. Help Metro cel-
Paddling Film Festival ebrate National Canadian Film Day.
Details at paddlingfilmfestival.com. APR 17 @ 9:15PM
Tickets $15. Metro Passes: Silver
Screen passes only.
APR 16 @ 7PM
14 www.metrocinema.orgDo The Right Thing Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
Do the Right Thing BOOM They Shall Not Grow Old
BAP UK/New Zealand 2018, 99 min,
USA 1989, 120 min, CinemA
Dir: Spike Lee Dir: Peter Jackson
30th Anniversary A documentary about World War I
On the hottest day of the year on a with never-before-seen footage to
street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant commemorate the centennial of
section of Brooklyn, everyone’s hate the end of the war.
and bigotry smolders and builds APR 19 @ 2:15PM & APR 22 @ 12:30PM
until it explodes into violence.
APR 18 @ 6:45PM Spider-Man: Into the
Spider-Verse
But I’m a USA 2018, 117 min,
Cheerleader Dir: Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey,
USA 1999, 85 min, Rodney Rothman
Dir: Jamie Babbit Teen Miles Morales becomes the
A naive teenager is sent to rehab Spider-Man of his reality, crossing
camp when her straitlaced parents his path with five counterparts from
and friends suspect her of being a other dimensions to stop a threat
lesbian. With a live drag performance to all realities.
by HOMO-CIDAL before the screening. APR 19 @ 4:30PM & APR 22 @ 3:30PM
APR 18 @ 9:30PM
CatVideoFest 2019
Peter Rabbit Various 2018, 72 min, Dir: Various
USA/Australia 2018, CatVideoFest is a joyous commu-
95 min, Dir: Will Gluck nal experience, only available in
Feature adaptation of Beatrix Pot- theatres—a compilation reel of the
ter’s classic tale of a rebellious latest and best cat videos. Partial
rabbit trying to sneak into a farm- proceeds to a local animal welfare
er’s vegetable garden. Free admis- organization.
sion for kids 12 & under. Opens April 19
APR 19 @ 12PM
www.metrocinema.org 15The Favourite Cartoon Party!
The Favourite Breaking Habits
Ireland/UK/USA 2018, 119 min, UK 2018, 87 min,
Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos Dir: Robert Ryan
In early 18th century England, In the town of Merced, CA, a com-
a frail Queen Anne occupies the mune of activist nuns run an illegal
throne in a court where everyone cannabis farm, which they use to
from the servants to the queen make medicine for everything from
herself is playing the game and epilepsy to cancer, fighting against
manipulating others to get what the authorities, the sheriff and local
they want. cartels.
Opens April 19 APR 20 @ 4:20PM &
APR 24 @ 9:30PM
Saturday Morning All-You-
Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Sing-A-Long Monty
Party! Python and the
150 min, Curator: Kier-La Janisse Holy Grail
The cartoon lineup is always a UK 1975, 91 min,
mystery, but you’ll see both faves Dir: Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones
and obscurities spanning the 40s King Arthur and his Knights of the
through the 80s, all punctuated Round Table embark on a surreal,
with vintage commercials and low-budget search for the Holy
PSAs! Grail, encountering many very silly
Adults: $16, Students/Seniors: obstacles.
$14, Kids (12 & under): $12. APR 20 @ 7PM
Admission includeS cereal.
APR 20 @ 10AM
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17Viva Las Vegas Jimi Hendrix: Electric Church
Garneau Ghost Light Tour Al Purdy Was Here
Live Event Canada/USA 2015, 90 min,
Get a rare glimpse at the history Dir: Brian D. Johnson
and hidden spaces of Edmonton’s The story of Canada’s leading poet
grand Art Deco Garneau Theatre in and the A-Frame cabin he built.
this historical building tour. Includes live performances by Kat
APR 21 @ 11AM Cameron, Michael Gravel, Jason
Lee Norman and Thomas Trofimuk
Viva Las Vegas as musicians and artists come to-
SUNDAY
USA 1964, 85 min, CLASSICS gether to tell the tale of Al Purdy.
Dir: George Sidney APR 23 @ 7PM
Race car driver Lucky Jackson
goes to Las Vegas to earn money to Man Running
pay for a new engine for his motor Canada 2018, 90 min,
car. Working as a waiter, he still Dir: Gary Burns
finds the time to court young Rusty Edmonton Premiere.
Martin. Seniors get 2-for-1 admis- A doctor runs in a grueling 24-
sion at the doors. hour, 100-mile ultramarathon over
APR 21 @ 2:30PM rugged mountain terrain as he
avoids the aftermath of a recent
Jimi Hendrix: Electric incident in his medical practice.
Church Filmmaker in attendance.
USA 2015, 89 min, APR 26 @ 7PM
Dir: John McDermott
This documentary presents the Dreamspeakers
legendary guitarist’s historic International Film and
performance at the 1970 Atlanta Rubaboo Arts Festivals
Pop Festival before the largest Details at dreamspeakers.org.
US audience of his career, of over April 27 - May 1 at Metro Cinema.
300,000 people.
APR 21 @ 4:30PM & Apr 25 @ 9:30PM
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