June 24-30: Beautiful Scars with Tom Wilson in attendance! Phantom of the Open, Official Competition, and Two Great Classics!

June 24th Beautiful Scars opens with Tom Wilson in attendance for Q&A!

"In 2014, at age 53, Tom Wilson, with a stack of gold records and stories aplenty, found out quite accidentally that he had been adopted. Soon afterward he learned that his biological parents were Mohawk from the Kahnawake community, just outside of Montreal." - Variety

Many Tom Wilson fans, Hamiltonians, music lovers and folks who enjoy a darn-good book will have read Wilson's best-selling biography 'Beautiful Scars: Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and the Road Home.' This movie is a chance to gain new insights, hear new commentary, and see new growth from Tom.

Don't Miss out on this special movie; get your tickets now! Tom Wilson in attendance Opening Night!

Opening Friday: Feel-good sports film, The Phantom of the Open, starring Oscar-winner, Mark Rylance!

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN tells the heartwarming, true story of Maurice Flitcroft (Mark Rylance), a dreamer and unrelenting optimist. This humble crane operator managed to gain entry to the British Open qualifying in 1976, despite never playing a round of golf before. He shot the worst round in Open history and drew the ire of the golfing elite, but became a folk hero in the process. Don't miss this entertaining, feel-good, true sports tale!

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Five shows only! See the new Spanish comedy OFFICIAL COMPETITION!

Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas star as two egomaniacs commissioned by a millionaire to make a movie together in this sharp comedy skewering wealth, art, and pride.

"Every line delivery is immaculate, and Cruz in particular proves that she is a comic behemoth who has too long been laid dormant." - Little White Lies

"Seeing Cruz and Banderas show off their comedic chops is definitely a pleasure... will leave viewers on a high." - indieWire

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Don't miss the final installment of our David Bowie STARMAN series!

"In this captivating World War II drama from Nagisa Oshima (In the Realm of the Senses), David Bowie regally embodies Celliers, a British officer interned by the Japanese as a POW. Rock star Ryuichi Sakamoto (who also composed this film’s BAFTA-winning score) plays the camp commander, obsessed with the mysterious blond major, while Tom Conti is the British lieutenant colonel Lawrence, who tries to bridge the emotional and language divides between captor and prisoner. Also featuring actor-director Takeshi Kitano in his first dramatic role, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is a multilayered, brutal, at times erotic tale of culture clash, and one of Oshima’s greatest successes." - Janus

See Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence June 25 & 28 only!

See Charlie Chaplin's first 'true sound' film, THE GREAT DICTATOR on the big screen!

"In his controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin offers both a cutting caricature of Adolf Hitler and a sly tweaking of his own comic persona. Chaplin, in his first pure talkie, brings his sublime physicality to two roles: the cruel yet clownish “Tomainian” dictator and the kindly Jewish barber who is mistaken for him. Featuring Jack Oakie and Paulette Goddard in stellar supporting turns, The Great Dictator, boldly going after the fascist leader before the U.S.’s official entry into World War II, is an audacious amalgam of politics and slapstick that culminates in Chaplin’s famously impassioned speech." - Janus

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Coming to the Playhouse July 15th, the much anticipated, Memoria!

From the extraordinary mind of Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a intriguing drama about a Scottish woman, who, after hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.

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Beautiful Scars

Runner Up at HOT DOCS 2022 for Audience Award

"In 2014, at age 53, Tom Wilson, a singer-songwriter from Hamilton, Ontario, with a stack of gold records and stories aplenty, found out quite accidentally that he had been adopted. Soon afterward he learned that his biological parents were Mohawk from the Kahnawake community, just outside of Montreal.

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The Phantom of the Open

A heart-warming British comedy starring Oscar Winner Mark Rylance, the true story of Maurice Flitcroft, the worst golfer to ever the play the British Open.

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN tells the heartwarming true story of Maurice Flitcroft (Mark Rylance), a dreamer and unrelenting optimist. This humble crane operator from Barrow-in-Furness managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship qualifying in 1976, despite never playing a round of golf before.

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Official Competition

Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas star as two egomaniacs commissioned by a millionaire to make a movie together in this sharp comedy skewering wealth, art, and pride.

"Having surveyed his legacy and finding it lacking in prestige, an octogenarian millionaire pharmaceutical tycoon (José Luis Gómez) decides to finance a great work of cinema. He purchases the rights to a Nobel Prize–winning novel about sibling rivalry and entrusts the property to enigmatic auteur Lola Cuevas (Penélope Cruz).

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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Presented as part of our David Bowie; STARMAN series!

During World War II, British soldier Jack Celliers (David Bowie) is captured by Japanese forces and held in a prison camp by the honor-bound Capt. Yanoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto). Yanoi and gruff Sgt. Hara (Takeshi) become intrigued with Celliers' open defiance in the face of their staunchly old-world ideas about cowardice and shame. Meanwhile, a translator, Lt. Col.

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Chaplin Sundays: The Great Dictator (1940)

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

After dedicated service in the Great War, a Jewish barber (Charles Chaplin) spends years in an army hospital recovering from his wounds, unaware of the simultaneous rise of fascist dictator Adenoid Hynkel (also Chaplin) and his anti-Semitic policies.

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Downton Abbey: A New Era

"Downton Abbey: A New Era is cinematic escapism at its finest" - Chicago Reader

From award-winning creator Julian Fellowes comes the motion picture event DOWNTON ABBEY: A NEW ERA. The much-anticipated cinematic return of the global phenomenon reunites the beloved cast as they go on a grand journey to the South of France to uncover the mystery of the Dowager Countess' newly inherited villa.

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Crimes of the Future

"This is what the work of a visionary filmmaker looks like. Forget the new flesh. Long live the old Cronenberg." - Rolling Stone

As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux), Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances.

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Kaufman's Comedies: Adaptation

115 min.

Presented as part of our Kaufman's Comedies Series!

Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald (Nicolas Cage). While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep), Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre.

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Men

"A visually gorgeous, heady, deeply unsettling horror film..." - Washington Post

In the aftermath of a personal tragedy, Harper (Jessie Buckley) retreats alone to the beautiful English countryside, hoping to have found a place to heal. But someone or something from the surrounding woods appears to be stalking her.

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Murina

"Winner of the Caméra d’Or at Cannes this year, Murina is a psychological drama that brings to the surface the hidden violence between parents, lovers, and their children. " - TIFF

Tensions rise between restless teenager Julija and her oppressive father Ante when an old family friend arrives at their Croatian island home. As Ante attempts to broker a life-changing deal, their tranquil yet isolated existence leaves Julija wanting more from this influential visitor, who provides a taste of liberation over a weekend laid bare to desire and violence.

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Giant: 4K Restoration

Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.

Wealthy Texas rancher Bick Benedict (Rock Hudson) shakes things up at home when he returns from a trip to the East Coast with a love interest, the refined Leslie Lynnton (Elizabeth Taylor). Bick and Leslie get married, but she clashes with his sister, Luz (Mercedes McCambridge), and wins the admiration of the ambitious young Jett Rink (James Dean).

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