DECISION TO LEAVE
Park Chan-wook (Oldboy) won the Cannes Best Director award for this twisting Hitchcockian detective thriller, one of his most enveloping and accomplished films
NOV 4-9. Get tickets! [1]
"The film is a box of secret compartments; just when you think you’ve got it all figured out, one more panel springs open." - Time Magazine
A Busan detective is increasingly obsessed with a murder suspect in a puzzling new case: a middle-aged businessman has mysteriously fallen to his death and his wife might be to blame.
THE ACE AND THE SCOUT
Plays Nov 7-9 & 11. Get tickets! [2]
Inspired by Canadian WWI flying ace Billy Bishop, two young soldiers crash the front lines in August 1918. With the Allies detained, their platoon must desperately hold out alongside legendary Anishinaabe sniper Francis "Peggy" Pegahmagabow.
Read about the inspiration and making of this uniquely Canadian movie! [3]
2022-2023 NEW YORK DOG FILM FESTIVAL
“Kimo & Jazz,” a coming-out story, is part of the NY Dog Film Festival.
Two Shows Only! Nov 5 - 6. Get tickets! [4]
2022 NEW YORK DOG FILM FESTIVAL is a collection of shorts celebrating the love between dogs, their people, and the groups that bring them together.
WORLD OF WONG KAR WAI
World of Wong Kar-Wai continues with IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE in a new 4K re-master!
TWO SHOWS ONLY: NOV 5-6 [5]
Two neighbours form a strong bond after both suspect extramarital activities of their spouses. However, they agree to keep their bond platonic so as not to commit similar wrongs.
“Uncommonly lavish filmmaking... the seductiveness of the story leaves us in a state of rapture. Feels like an extravagant valentine from Wong.” —Brian Eggert, Deep Focus Review
GRATEFUL DEAD MEET-UP AT THE MOVIES
Two shows only, Nov 8 & 12. Get tickets! [6]
There will be dancing in the aisles as the Grateful Dead return to cinemas worldwide for the 2022 Meet-Up At The Movies!
This year, we’re celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Europe ‘72, by bringing the previously unreleased Tivoli Concert Hall, 4/17/72 performance to the big screen, fully restored and remastered!
STARSHIP TROOPERS IN 35MM
Don't miss Paul Verhoeven's satiric, 1997, sci-fi, war-movie romance in 35MM!
Nov 3 & 7 only. Tickets here! [7]
Humans in a fascist, militaristic future wage war with giant alien bugs.
"Insanely subversive...functions as a visually dazzling science-fiction action picture, a philosophical challenge, and a hilarious, incisive comedy." - Groucho Reviews
IN BRUGES
With THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN --hopefully coming soon to the Playhouse-- now is a great time to revisit Martin McDonagh's brilliant debut, IN BRUGES, also starring Brendan Fraser and Colin Farrell.
Nov 9. See it on the big screen! [8]
Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray (Colin Farrell) and his partner (Brendan Fraser) await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.
"Endlessly surprising, very dark, human comedy, with a plot that cannot be foreseen but only relished. 4/4 stars." - Roger Ebert
"Gradually deepens from odd-couple comedy into Catholic-themed drama, but it remains marvelously funny throughout." - Chicago Reader
Filmed on location in Hamilton and near the Playhouse!
Meet Gail Maurice, the director of ROSIE, on Saturday Nov 12! Get tickets now! [9]
The feature-film debut of Métis writer-director-actor Gail Maurice brings us to the fringes of 1980s Montreal as seen through the eyes of a sweet and suddenly orphaned Indigenous girl.