July 29-Aug 4: CatVideo Fest, Fire of Love, Three Colours in 4K, Raiders of the Lost Ark in 35mm and more Marcel the Shell!

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Tuesday, July 26, 2022 - 12:10pm

This week we have the CatVideo Fest; Raiders of the Lost Ark in 35mm; Three Colours BLUE in a 4K remaster; hit doc Fire of Love; more Marcel the Shell with Shoes On; John Carpenter's They Live! and HALLELUJAH, the new Leonard Cohen doc has been extended; and National Theatre Live with PRIMA FACIE. Read on!

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The Playhouse is excited to bring back the CATVIDEO FEST co-presented by the Burlington Humane Society!

CatVideoFest is a compilation reel of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses. CatVideoFest is a joyous communal experience, only in theaters, and raises money for cats in need.

Every ticket supports the Burlington Humane Society!

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Back on the big screen! Krzysztof Kieślowski's triumphant Three Colours Trilogy comes to the Playhouse in a new 4K restoration! BLUE opens Friday. See it on the big screen while you can!

In the first film of the Three Colours trilogy, Juliette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic death of her husband and young daughter. Shot in sapphire tones and set to an extraordinary operatic score, BLUE is an overwhelming sensory experience.

Four shows only! July 29-31, Aug 2

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Special Presentation! Rare chance to experience RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK in 35mm!

"'Raiders of the Lost Ark' is an out-of-body experience, a movie of glorious imagination and breakneck speed that grabs you in the first shot, hurtles you through a series of incredible adventures, and deposits you back in reality two hours later -- breathless, dizzy, wrung-out, and with a silly grin on your face. It wants only to entertain. It succeeds" - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

Tickets going fast! July 30 & 31 Only!

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“One of the year’s few awe-inspiring documentaries -- a visually ravishing record, a bustling adventure." —Wall Street Journal.

FIRE OF LOVE tells the story of two French lovers, Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of our planet, while simultaneously capturing the most explosive volcano imagery ever recorded. 

“Spectacular... You have to see it in a theater to experience the enormity of it.” —FilmWeek (NPR)

Get your tickets now! Aug 1 - 4

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Held over due to cuteness! MARCEL THE SHELL WITH SHOES ON continues!

"A feature-length expansion of the viral short film, it represents a genre unto itself: half live-action, half stop-motion animation, all captured in a faux-documentary style. It has a heart as big as its title character is small." - Barry Hertz (The Globe & Mail)

Tickets on sale now!

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One night only! Is John Carpenter's THEY LIVE more relevant than ever? You decide!

You see them on the street. You Watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this Fall. You think they're people just like you. You're wrong. Dead wrong.

Rowdy Roddy Piper stars as a homeless drifter who stumbles across a box full of hyper-advanced sunglasses that provide him with the sight to view skinless spacemen who are subliminally enslaving humans.

July 29 Only. Tickets going fast! 

Held Over due to Popular Demand! HALLELUJAH: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song. Keep scrolling for tickets!

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Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A journey, A Song

“There is a religious Hallelujah, but there are many other ones. When one looks at the world, there's only one thing to say, and it's Hallelujah. That's the way it is.” — Leonard Cohen

HALLELUJAH: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song is a definitive exploration of singersongwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, “Hallelujah.” This feature-length documentary weaves together three creative strands: The songwriter and his times; the song’s dramatic journey from record label reject to chart-topping hit; and moving testim

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Three Colours: Blue - New 4K Restoration

"In the devastating first film of the Three Colors trilogy, Juliette Binoche gives a tour de force performance as Julie, a woman reeling from the tragic death of her husband and young daughter.

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They Live

14A

"A fantastically subversive film, a nifty little confection pitting us vs them, the haves vs the have-nots." - Variety

“They Live, John Carpenter’s 1988 paranoid freakout, deserves to be thought of as a masterpiece, an artist’s defiant last grab at substance before losing the thread. It’s a cheesy but lovable movie about a working-class hero (WWF wrestler 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper), struggling to find work in a harshly class-riven Los Angeles.

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National Theatre Live: Prima Facie

NR

Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) makes her West End debut in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s award-winning play.

Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; cross examining and winning. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge.

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Raiders of the Lost Ark in 35mm

PG

Renowned archeologist and expert in the occult, Dr. Indiana Jones, is hired by the U.S. Government to find the Ark of the Covenant, which is believed to still hold the ten commandments. Unfortunately, agents of Hitler are also after the Ark. Indy, and his ex-flame Marion, escape from various close scrapes in a quest that takes them from Nepal to Cairo.

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Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

PG

The story of a tiny shell who searches for his long-lost family.

Marcel is an adorable one-inch-tall shell who ekes out a colorful existence with his grandmother Connie and their pet lint, Alan. Once part of a sprawling community of shells, they now live alone as the sole survivors of a mysterious tragedy.

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Fire of Love

NR

“One of the year’s few awe-inspiring documentaries -- a visually ravishing record, a bustling adventure." —Wall Street Journal

Fire of Love tells the story of two French lovers, Katia and Maurice Krafft, who died in a volcanic explosion doing the very thing that brought them together: unraveling the mysteries of our planet, while simultaneously capturing the most explosive volcano imagery ever recorded.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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The Duke

NR

Director Roger Michell's final movie is a charming comedy/drama set in 1961 depicting the infamously true story of how Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington was stolen from the National Gallery by an unlikely thief.

In 1961, Kempton Bunton, a 60-year old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history.

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Three Colours: White - New 4k Restoration

NR

The Three Colours Trilogy Gets a New 4k Restoration

"The most playful and also the grittiest of Kieślowski’s Three Colors films follows the adventures of Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a Polish immigrant living in France.

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Mad God

NR

"For animation and sci-fi fans with strong stomachs and adventurous tastes... MAD GOD is a must. There’s never been a movie quite like it: an unflinching tour through the darkest recesses of a brilliant artist’s mind." - Los Angeles Times

Directed by Phil Tippett, the world's pre-eminent stop motion animator. A corroded diving bell descends amidst a ruined city and the Assassin emerges from it to explore a labyrinth of bizarre landscapes inhabited by freakish denizens.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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Ali & Ava

NR

Ali and Ava, both lonely for different reasons, meet and sparks fly. Over a lunar month a deep connection begins to grow, despite the legacy of AVA’s past relationship, and ALI’s emotional turmoil at the breakdown of his marriage.

Both lonely for different reasons, Ali and Ava meet through their shared affection for Sofia (6), the child of Ali's Slovakian tenants, whom Ava teaches. Ali finds comfort in Ava's warmth and kindness and Ava finds Ali's complexity and humor irresistible. Over a lunar month, sparks fly and a deep connection begins to grow.

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Apocalypse Now: Final Cut

14A

“Apocalypse Now is a movie that drove Coppola to the brink of both financial ruin and actual madness. Its first release was two-and-a-half hours, an overwhelming psychedelic horror vision of will and inhumanity.

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The Black Phone

14A

Never talk to strangers

Finney, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer's previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn't happen to Finney.

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