Friday November 14 to Thursday November 20, 2014

FILMS SHOWING Friday November 14 to Thursday November 20

Birdman

14A

Oscar Winner! Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography

Oscar Winner! Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography A fading actor (Michael Keaton) best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play.

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The Maze Runner

Based on the bestselling novel by James Dashner, this adventure thriller for young adults follows a young boy named Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) who finds himself trapped within a giant, deadly maze with a group of other kids.

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My Old Lady

Despondent New Yorker Mathias Gold (Kevin Kline) ventures to Paris with plans of liquidating the apartment inherited from his late father, but runs into an unexpected roadblock when he discovers that the flat is currently inhabited by his father's former lover, an elderly Englishwoman named Mathilde Girard (Maggie Smith), and her adult daughter Chloé (Kristin Scott Thomas).

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Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story

Dr. Alison Blay-Palmer will introduce Just Eat It at the Nov 13 7pm screening. Dr. Blay-Palmer is a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, and her research is about sustainable food systems.

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Rome, Open City

TBA

This was Roberto Rossellini’s revelation, a harrowing drama about the Nazi occupation of Rome and the brave few who struggled against it. Rome, Open City is a shockingly authentic experience, conceived and directed amid the ruin of World War II, with immediacy in every frame.

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Emptying the Skies

TBA

Based on a magazine essay written by noted best-selling novelist Jonathan Franzen for The New Yorker and widely republished around the world, Emptying the Skies chronicles the rampant poaching of migratory songbirds in southern Europe. Songbird populations have been drastically declining for several decades, and a number of species face extinction imminently.

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Kill the Messenger

14A

“San Jose Mercury News reporter Webb, spent his entire career believing in the value of searching for and then fearlessly reporting the truth. He doesn't yet believe what he's later told, that some stories are just too true to tell, that the truth may set you free but it can also ruin your life.

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The Sower

YBA

“In The Sower (Le Semeur), director Julie Perron casts a slow and speculative gaze on seed cultivator Patrice Fortier, creating a particularly Canadian landscape portrait.

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Force Majeure

14A

“Screenplay seminars prattle on about the “inciting event” that drives a story. In Force Majeure, the latest brilliantly testing, laugh-as-you-wince experience from Swedish writer-director Ruben Östlund, this event is a moment that changes everything. His film unfolds over a five-day skiing holiday for Tomas and Ebba, and their two children.

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