April 21-27: Chevalier, John Lennon's Lost Weekend, Showing Up, Spirited Away Live on Stage, Judy Garland and more!

CHEVALIER Opens Thurs Apr 20!

April 20-27 at the Twin

Inspired by the incredible true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Bologne (Kelvin Harrison Jr. in a tour de force performance) rises to improbable heights in French society as a celebrated violinist-composer and fencer, complete with an ill-fated love affair and a falling out with Marie Antoinette (Lucy Boynton) and her court.

"From the costumes to the cinematography, music, direction and script, CHEVALIER shines like a bright spotlight that finally gives Joseph Bologne his due." - Screenrant

SHOWING UP Opens at the Original

A sculptor (Michelle Williams) preparing to open a new show must balance her creative life with the daily dramas of family and friends.

Kelly Reichardt's vibrant and captivatingly funny portrait of art and craft. Starring Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, Judd Hirsch and André 3000.

Shows April 21-27

The Lost Weekend: A Love Story

Four Shows: April 21 & 22 at the Twin; April 22 & April 26 at the Original

A love story that took 50 years to tell, "The Lost Weekend: A Love Story" explores the 18-month romantic relationship between John Lennon and his Chinese-American assistant May Pang.

"A fascinating, revealing, and sometimes moving portrait of John Lennon unmoored, trying to find himself in a world that had caught up to him." - Variety

See it on the big screen!

One Night Only! Monday April 24

"Much imitated and never surpassed, Quentin Tarantino's sprawling, galling crime compendium remains a pinnacle of pop-culture perfection." - Herald Sun

Studio Ghibli THE WIND RISES

April 22 and 23 at the Original

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki, THE WIND RISES is a work of ethereal complexity and immense beauty. Story: A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.

Live on Stage: Spirited Away

Hayao Miyazaki’s Academy Award-winning animated feature film comes to life in this first-ever stage adaptation, full of dazzling sets, captivating musical numbers, and wondrous puppets of beloved characters. Adapted and directed by Tony Award-winner John Caird (Les Misérables), two unique casts and performances were filmed during the show’s acclaimed 2022 run at Tokyo’s historic Imperial Theatre.

Special Presentation: April 23 and 26 All seats $15

Zonta Film Festival Starts April 27 at the Twin! Tickets Available Here

FINAL WEEK AT THE TWIN!

NEW FILM GUIDE FOR THE ORIGINAL!

Next time you're at the cinema, be sure to pick up the new Original Film Guide. You can also download it here!

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FILMS SHOWING April 21-April 27

Chevalier

Based on the true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, who rises to heights in French society as a composer before an ill-fated love affair.

Inspired by the incredible true story of composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges. The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Bologne (Kelvin Harrison Jr.

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The Lost Weekend: A Love Story

A love story that took 50 years to tell, "The Lost Weekend: A Love Story" explores the 18-month romantic relationship between John Lennon and his Chinese-American assistant May Pang.

"The Lost Weekend: A Love Story" explores the 18-month relationship (1973-1975) that John Lennon spent with May Pang, his Chinese American assistant turned lover (on Yoko Ono's insistence).

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Showing Up

Kelly Reichardt's vibrant and captivatingly funny portrait of art and craft. Starring Michelle Williams, Hong Chau, Judd Hirsch and André 3000.

A sculptor (Michelle Williams) preparing to open a new show must balance her creative life with the daily dramas of family and friends.

Added show in Waterloo at the Original on April 27 at 6:30!

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How to Blow Up a Pipeline

An explosive adaptation of Andreas Malm's treatise, How to Blow Up a Pipeline delivers a high-stakes eco-thriller ignited by riveting and complex antiheroes.

A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline. Daniel Goldhaber's taut and timely thriller is part high-stakes heist, part radical exploration of the climate crisis. Based on the controversial book by Andreas Malm.

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Summer Stock

Presented by the Registry Theatre with an introduction by Judy Garland expert, John Fricke.

While her actress sister, Abigail (Gloria DeHaven), roams with a stock theater company, country girl Jane (Judy Garland) stays home in rural Connecticut tending the family farm. Jane sees red when Abigail returns unannounced, stock company in tow, with plans to convert the family's barn into a venue for the troupe's musical revue.

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The Wind Rises

Oscar Nomination 2014! Best Animated Feature.

OSCAR NOMINATED - This decades-spanning epic from maestro Hayao Miyazaki is his most unique film to date.

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Pulp Fiction

"Tarantino weaves a patchwork of crime film history into something shiny and new. Peppered with great moments eaten up by actors working at the top of their game, Pulp Fiction's witty writing, pop culture-surfing, gleeful amorality, cult tuneology and hyperkinetic energy has redefined the crime genre for the foreseeable future.

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Champions

Every dream team starts somewhere.

Woody Harrelson stars in the hilarious and heartwarming story of a former minor-league basketball coach who, after a series of missteps, is ordered by the court to manage a team of players with intellectual disabilities. He soon realizes that despite his doubts, together, this team can go further than they ever imagined.

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A Good Person

Years after being involved in a fatal accident, Allison forms an unlikely relationship with her would-be father-in-law.

Daniel (Morgan Freeman) is brought together with Allison (Florence Pugh), the once thriving young woman with a bright future who was involved in an unimaginable tragedy that took his daughter's life. As grief-stricken Daniel navigates raising his teenage granddaughter and Allison seeks redemption, they discover that friendship, forgiveness, and hope can flourish in unlikely places.

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Spirited Away: Live on Stage

Based on the animated feature film by Hayao Miyazaki. Special Presentation. All Seats $15

Hayao Miyazaki’s Academy Award®-winning animated feature film comes to life in this first-ever stage adaptation, full of dazzling sets, captivating musical numbers, and wondrous puppets of beloved characters.

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Seeing Through the Wall: Meeting Ourselves in Palestine & Israel

Seeing through the Wall is not a history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict since 1948, with all its moral complexities and tragic suffering on both sides, but a look at the present everyday life of Palestinians. It invites and challenges viewers to question their own assumptions and prejudices.

This documentary follows 18 Americans and Jews visiting Israel and Palestine as they seek to understand what life is like in Palestine / Occupied Territories and in East Jerusalem. The journey becomes an intense encounter with the people they meet, and also with their own preconceptions. For many of them, the experience is transformative.

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Zonta Film Festival 2023

ZONTA FILM FESTIVAL KW

FILMS THAT MATTER, INSPIRED BY WOMEN

Zonta Film Festival (ZFF) is an annual event that showcases award winning, inspiring and thought-provoking films, highlighting incredible stories of women change-makers through the lens of women.

This is one of the signature fundraising events of the Zonta Club of Kitchener-Waterloo and proceeds go to various local and international projects dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls. 2023 is the eleventh year of the festival.

This year, ZFF will be featuring Quant, And Still I Sing, Coded Bias, The Grizzlies, Subjects of Desire and Safe Haven.

Dosed: The Trip of a Lifetime

A mother of four is allowed to treat her end-of-life anxiety with psychedelic mushrooms, embarking on a journey of transformation and discovery.

A loving mother of four is granted the legal right for medical use of magic mushrooms. She then embarks on a remarkable journey of personal transformation and healing while exploring lesser known possible cures for cancer, like cannabis oil. This story of courage and resilience calls into question everything we think we know about the human body, mind, and spirit.

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Polite Society

Big trouble. Little sister.

A merry mash-up of sisterly affection, parental disappointment and bold action, POLITE SOCIETY follows martial artist-in-training Ria Khan who believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood.

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Nuclear Now

Director Oliver Stone passionately presents the possibility of meeting the challenge of climate change through the power of nuclear energy.

Beneath our feet, Uranium atoms in the Earth’s crust hold incredibly concentrated energy. Science unlocked this energy in the mid-20th century, first for bombs and then to power submarines. The United States led the effort to generate electricity from this new source.

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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

An award-winning animated film based on the short stories of Haruki Murakmi.

A lost cat, a giant toad, and a tsunami help an unambitious salesman, his frustrated wife, and a schizophrenic accountant save Tokyo from an earthquake and find meaning in their lives.

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The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (Extended Edition)

14A

Gandalf and Aragorn lead the World of Men against Sauron's army to draw his gaze from Frodo and Sam as they approach Mount Doom with the One Ring.

PRESENTED BY FAIRWEATHER BREWING COMPANY

WATCH TOLKIEN'S FANTASY COME TO LIFE ON OUR 30FT WIDE CINEMA-SCOPE SCREEN. THE ONLY 'SCOPE' SCREEN IN HAMILTON!

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Goldfinger

Don't miss out on seeing on the big screen the iconic Bond film that will leave you both shaken and stirred!

Goldfinger is where James Bond as we know him comes into focus - it features one of 007's most famous lines ("A martini. Shaken, not stirred.") and a wide range of gadgets that would become the series' trademark.

But is it the best James Bond? You be the judge!

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Rod the Stormtrooper: The Final Episodes

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The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1

"Colour us stoked that a Twilight movie even strays into evil-fetus territory." - Time Out

At last, Bella (Kristen Stewart) and Edward (Robert Pattinson) are getting married. When Jacob (Taylor Lautner) finds out that Bella wants to spend her honeymoon as a human, he is horrified -- for Edward's passion could accidentally kill her.

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The Spy Who Loved Me

"Not only Roger Moore's best, but one of the few Bond films that can stand apart from the series as a superb action movie." - Northwest Herald

Nobody does it better! Get ready to dive into the action with THE SPY WHO LOVED ME. This 1977 James Bond classic sees Roger Moore in action as 007, teaming up with the Soviet Agent XXX, played by the stunning Barbara Bach. Together, they must take down the evil Karl Stromberg and his henchman Jaws, who plan to start a nuclear war and create a new underwater civilization.

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Mafia Mamma

14A

Toni Collette stars as the suburban mom, turned Mafia Don!

An American mom (Toni Collette) inherits her grandfather's mafia empire in Italy. Guided by the firm's consigliere (Monica Bellucci), she hilariously defies everyone's expectations as the new head of the family business.

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