Mar 1-7: Cold War, Oscar-Nominated Shorts & added matinees of Green Book

If you have tickets for our first film on Friday night, Cinema Paradiso, consider yourself lucky: we are sold out! Thanks so much for your support and enthusiasm for the Playhouse restoration. We can't wait to see everyone at the movies on March 1st and beyond!

If you didn't get a ticket for Cinema Paradiso and really want to see it, we will have a rush line (no guarantees, but it might be worth a shot!) The movie starts at 6:45. This movie isn't the only one we'll be showing: we have lots of great movies on tap, including the multiple Oscar-nominated Polish romantic drama, Cold War. Friday's screening will start at 9:30.

Rounding out the week you will find The Wife, starring Glenn Close in an Oscar-nominated performance as the talented spouse of a Nobel prize recipient; Free Solo, the Oscar-winner for Best Documentary Feature that will leave you amazed at the feat of one determined climber; the Palme d'Or winning drama, Shoplifters, from Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda; the 2019 Oscar-Nominated Animated Shorts (exclusive to the Playhouse -- watch for the Live Action Shorts next week) and added matinees of Best Picture winner Green Book. If you enjoy weekday matinees, the Playhouse will be the place for you!

FILMS SHOWING Friday March 1 to Thursday March 7

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Cinema Paradiso

SOLD OUT! Join us as we celebrate the return of movies to the Playhouse, Hamilton's oldest surviving, purpose-built cinema.

"★★★★★

"A famous filmmaker returns to the Sicilian village where he grew up. He reminisces about the projectionist at the local cinema, his best friend as a child, who taught him to love cinema.

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Cold War

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"Captivates and transcends barriers of language and culture. It's a gorgeous tale as rocky as it is romantic. " - Detroit News

Nominated for 3 Oscars! Best Foreign Language Film, Cinematography, Director. “Polish actress Joanna Kulig has been waiting for years to show what she can do, and in Cold War she gets the chance. She takes the role of a lifetime between her teeth, chomps on it, pounds it into the ground and never lets go for a second.

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The Wife

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"A slow burn that morphs from a simple domestic drama into a powerful mystery, the film is carried by the capable shoulders of the extraordinary Close, who seems poised for a Best Actress nomination and possibly more." - Punch Drunk Critics

Oscar-Nominated: Best Actress (Glenn Close) "Swedish director Björn Runge’s The Wife is a warts-and-all portrait of the long, committed marriage of a couple in old age.

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Free Solo

"Go figure that the year's most outrageously harrowing action movie turns out to be an arthouse doc from National Geographic." - Boston Globe

Oscar Winner: Best Feature Documentary. “Free Solo is a National Geographic head-spinner from husband-and-wife co-directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin. It is extreme in the extreme. The focus is on Alex Honnold, a free climber who gives the finger to gravity every time he suits up.

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Shoplifters

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"At once charming and heart-wrenching, this exquisitely performed film will steal the hearts of both art-house and mainstream audiences." - Variety

Oscar-Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film. “Master Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film Shoplifters is about a family, but a very different kind. The impoverished Shibatas live in cluttered, cramped contentment in Tokyo; dad Osamu (Lily Franky) and young son Shota (Jyo Kairi) help out by stealing from grocery stores.

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Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films - 2019

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The Oscar-Nominated ANIMATED Shorts. Eighty-one films had originally qualified in the Animated Short Film category for the 91st Academy Awards®. Members of the Short Films and Feature Animation Branch vote to determine the shortlist and the nominees.

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Green Book

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Winner of 3 Oscars! Best Picture; Best Supporting Actor (Mahershala Ali); Best Original Screenplay. Winner of 3 Golden Globes: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay. "Green Book is a road movie, a buddy comedy and a prestige studio release all at once.

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Capernaum

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"Lebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki brings an undeniable emotional pull to this harrowing portrait of a poverty-stricken child's fight to survive in the slums of Beirut." - Rolling Stone

Oscar-Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film. “Capernaum is an absolute heartbreaker about children in peril and the plight of undocumented people.

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They Shall Not Grow Old

"Peter Jackson has taken a mass of World War I archival clips from Britain's Imperial War Museum and fashioned it into a brisk, absorbing and moving experience." - New York Times

“A World War I documentary with colorized archival footage that
looks as new as the day it was shot. What sounds like an impossible
feat becomes a riveting reality in the hands of director Peter Jackson
and his New Zealand Weta crew of restoration miracle workers. In They

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A Quest To Uncover the Architectural Legacy of William Palmer Witton

Mar 13, 7:00pm. Understanding Hamilton’s Architectural History: A Journey, Serendipity and a Quest To Uncover the Architectural Legacy of William Palmer Witton. A talk by Robert Hamilton. Free. Learn more about the legacy of William Palmer Witton, the prominent local architect who designed some of Hamilton's most iconic buildings, including the Royal Hotel on James St., the Herkimer Apartments and the Playhouse Cinema!

The Room w/ Greg Sestero LIVE

SOLD OUT. Sat. Mar. 16, 9pm "oh, hai Mark!" Join Greg Sestero LIVE for a special screening of THE ROOM. (Tickets are available for Greg's WATERLOO appearance on Fri. Mar 15) The Playhouse is proud to present for the FIRST TIME EVER for Hamilton, the best worst movie ever, adored by fans world-wide, THE ROOM! Get ready to learn everything you ever wanted to know about THE ROOM from an interactive Q&A (as well as a signing and meet n’ greet) with actor and best-selling author of The Disaster Artist, Greg Sestero.

This Mountain Life

Mar. 14, 7:00pm. Special Presentation. Advance tickets online. “In This Mountain Life, director Grant Baldwin takes a broad look at mountain life, folding in multiple stories including a young man buried alive in an avalanche, a mother and daughter on a hiking expedition from Squamish to Alaska, and a bunch of skiing nuns.

Arctic

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"Mads Mikkelsen's virtuoso performance as a downed pilot trying to survive in the harshest of environments is the warm heart of this ice-cold killer of a movie." - Rolling Stone “It’s eyeball-freezing cold up there in the Arctic. You can feel it in this movie’s bones.

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