May 3 - 9: New! The Mustang, High Life, plus: more Aretha, Women at War & Barry Lyndon

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Hot off the presses! The new Film Guide has arrived for the Playhouse. Pick yours up at the Playhouse or look for them in the city's independent cafes, book stores, record shops and other fine vendors. If you know of a shop that would be a good location for our Film Guides, let us know! We have lots of premieres coming up for Hamilton film lovers, so check our online calendar and Coming Soon so you don't miss out!

The Mustang

14A

"Matthias Schoenarts delivers a superb performance in Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre's directorial debut, a beautiful film about redemption and reform. " - Seattle Times

“The Mustang, set in a remote prison compound nestled in the Nevada desert, is a lyrical movie. It’s about the bond between a hardened prisoner and a wild horse, and it’s been made, by the first-time director Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, in a style of great-plains minimalism.

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Amazing Grace

"Sydney Pollack's unfinished documentary, unearthed and reassembled after nearly 50 years, is a priceless gift to music fans." - Newsday

Added shows! “‘We are here for a religious service,’ gospel legend Reverend James Cleveland reminds his audience in Los Angeles’s New Temple Missionary Baptist Church at the start of Amazing Grace.

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High Life

18A

"This space oddity from Rob Pattinson and the great French filmmaker Claire Denis will mess with your head and blow your mind. It's a hell of a ride." - Rolling Stone

Part mystery. Part thriller. Part dystopian horror. High Life is already being hailed as a masterpiece and future classic.

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Woman at War

"An artful fable that examines what it really means to save the world, Benedikt Erlingsson's 'Woman at War' is the rarest of things: A crowd-pleaser about climate change. " - Indiewire

Back by popular demand! “The droll absurdity of Nordic cinema acquires an eco-terrorism edge in Woman at War, a movie filled with dualities and one singular performance.

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Barry Lyndon

14A

"It's gorgeous to look at, with its reverse zooms that slowly widen to stunning rural panoramas, its beautiful framing, its delight in decorative detail. You feel you are watching a masterclass in how to recreate the look and feel of the late 18th century." - Sunday Times

“‘I demand satisfaction!’ These words echo throughout Stanley Kubrick’s sedate, sumptuous eighteenth-century satire, as men in outrageous frocks challenge one another to pistols at dawn over matters of love and honour. But any audience member who goes seeking the same is liable to leave disappointed: for all its dry wit and visual splendour.

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Doors Open Hamilton

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Built in 1914, the Playhouse Cinema is Hamilton’s oldest existing cinema. Explore the theatre and appreciate the beautiful beaux arts architecture and ornamental plaster work that decorates the lavish interior. Watch and enjoy a collection of short and silent films during your visit. This site was also the voting location for the 1946 Steel Workers Union strike that changed labour laws across Canada.

Learn more about Doors Open Hamilton and check out some of the other buildings and sites to explore: https://www.doorsopenontario.on.ca/en/hamilton/playhouse-cinema

Gloria Bell

14A

"It is a flat-out showcase for Moore, and it’s simply invigorating to see an actress of her caliber capture a character so memorably." Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com

Carefree middle-aged divorcee Gloria (Academy Award winner Julianne Moore) works at an office by day and dances at clubs by night, unshackled from responsibility and relationships. But when she meets Arnold (John Turturro), she plunges into a new romance she never expected - with all the highs and lows she thought she’d left behind.

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Lolita

14A

Stanley Kubrick series

“How did they make a movie out of Lolita? teased the print ads of this Stanley Kubrick production. The answer: by adding three years to the title character's age. The original Vladimir Nabokov novel caused no end of scandal by detailing the romance between a middle-aged intellectual and a 12-year-old nymphet.

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Never look Away

14A

"The title of "Never Look Away" is deliciously ironic: This is one of the most mesmerizing, compulsively watchable films in theaters right now." - Washington Post

Oscar Nominated: Best Foreign Language Film. “Just nominated for an Academy Award as Best Foreign-Language Film and for the extraordinary cinematography of Caleb Deschanel, Never Look Away concerns itself with love and war and the limitless reach of art.

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Stockholm

14A

"Lately Ethan Hawke can do no wrong. He, Noomi Rapace and Mark Strong make this quirky, but true, bank robbery movie come alive." - Film Inquiry

Stockholm, based on a real-life event that took place in Sweden in 1973, shows how the phrase "Stockholm syndrome," in which victims eventually side with their kidnappers, came into existence.

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The Public

Presented in partnership with the Hamilton Public Library.

The United States was founded on organized rebellion, its First Amendment celebrating "the right of the people peaceably to assemble." But what happens when the outcasts of American society assemble in the very home of free expression? Drawing on the clash of perspectives now galvanizing America and beyond, Emilio Estevez has crafted a drama that returns politics to a human level.

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Red Joan

14A

"While Joan's early years are absolutely fascinating, it is the refreshing concept of Dench's elderly communist agent that gives this drama its real bite and edge." - Daily Mirror

“A good old-fashioned British spy thriller with a bewitching female heroine (or anti-heroine, if you will) played by the excellent actresses Judi Dench and (as her younger self) Sophie Cookson, Red Joan revisits the incredible real-life spy case of Melita Norwood. It is directed with a strong sense for character by Trevor Nunn, the former director of the Royal Shakespeare Co.

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May 3 - 9: New! The Mustang, High Life, plus: more Aretha, Women at War & Barry Lyndon