Films playing at the Original Oct 7-13
Our WORLD OF WONG KAR WAI series begins with Days of Being Wild in a new 4k Restoration!
Three shows: Oct 7 - 9! [1]
With his lush and sensual visuals, pitch-perfect soundtracks, and soulful romanticism, Wong Kar Wai has established himself as one of the defining auteurs of contemporary cinema. The first film in a loosely connected, ongoing cycle, DAYS OF BEING WILD is a ravishing, existential, dreamlike drift through the Hong Kong of the 1960s in which a band of wayward 20-somethings pull together and push apart in a cycle of frustrated desire.
Included in this three-part series are IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE [2] and CHUNGKING EXPRESS [3], to be shown in the coming weeks.
Get the Led out! Don't miss THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME on the big screen!
Oct 7 & 8 ONLY! [4]
Filmed in 1973 over the course of a three-night stand at New York City's Madison Square Garden, this concert film shows Led Zeppelin at the apogee of their hard-rocking glory.
See Canada's Official Oscar entry for this year's Best International Feature: ETERNAL SPRING
Three shows only! October 9, 10 & 13 [5]
Eternal Spring is an exhilarating tale of determination to speak up for political and religious freedoms, no matter the cost.
"[An] original, moving tour de force, which deserves to be widely seen." - National Post
Just in time for spooky season, see Jordan Peele's new horror thriller NOPE, Oct 9 & 13 [6].
Two siblings who run a California horse ranch discover something wonderful and sinister in the skies above, and the owner of an adjacent theme park tries to profit from the mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon.
Kurosawa's epic RAN returns to the big screen in a 4K Restoration.
One Show Only. Oct 11 @ 7PM! [7]
In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him..
Special screening with a live performance by spokenword/singer-songwriter and former tree-planter, Scott Wicken.
Forest for the Trees: Oct 12 @ 7pm [8]
War photographer Rita Leistner turns her expert lens onto a community of tree planters who overcome grueling conditions and emotional difficulties to bring back the forest one tree at a time. Forest for the Trees is an arresting, never-before-seen immersion into the backbreaking labour of professional tree planting, a combination of high-intensity sport and industrial labour.
Tetsuo The Iron Man: Oct 6 & 8! [9]
Two shows only Oct 6 & 8! [9]
"A hysterical, histrionic ode to cyber-punk fetishism, TETSUO owes as much to William Gibson as it does the body horror cinema of David Cronenberg & the stop-motion theatrics of Jan Svankmajer." - Screen Slate
