Oct 11 - 17: Mind-blowing movies at the Playhouse this week!

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New this weekend at the Playhouse is the highly acclaimed documentary, Cold Case Hammarskjold. Opens this Friday at 630pm! The Washington Post states that "It's impossible to emerge from this film without being shaken to your core. Mission accomplished: Mind blown." Check it out for one of the most interesting mysteries you'll hear about this year.

We've got a ton of throwback films screening this weekend and next week, a trip down memory-lane feels much needed right now! Nostalgic films at the Playhouse this weekend with Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Taxi Driver, This is Spinal Tap, Wild at Heart, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly & Apocalypse Now: Final Cut all screening over the next week! Where else are you going to find films like this back on the big screen! Make sure to get your advance tickets below!

We're also re-visiting some films we've screened earlier this year that you might not have had a chance to see... Check out the family film (we lovedddd this one!) The Farewell on Wednesday & Thursday of next week. Lace up your runners for the funny, inspiring and heart-felt Brittany Runs a Marathon, returning on Tuesday & Wednesday of next week.

Three great documentaries are on tap, leading with the return of Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love on Saturday, as well as your final chance to see the new Ram Dass documentary, Becoming Nobody. Our Art, Design & Architecture series continues on Monday at 7pm with a screening of the Canadian architecture doc, Integral Man. Advance tickets below!

Get ready for our Halloween Double Feature Movie Party: The Big Lebowski & The Room “Careful, man, there’s a beverage here!” "You're tearing me apart, Lisa!" We're tying the room together this Halloween. Literally. Bust out your bathrobes, bowling shoes, spoons and footballs! Abide at the Playhouse October 31, we've got The Big Lebowski followed by The Room. Two cult classics with endless costume possibilities! We'll be serving White Russians, hot chocolate, good sarsparilla and pizza. See both movies for one price! Prizes for the best costumes! "This isn't 'Nam...." it's Halloween at the Playhouse. Advance tickets on sale now!

UPCOMING EVENTS

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October 25th - 900pm - AGH Film Festival Presents: Zephyr with John Price

October 30th - 730pm - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari w/ live soundtrack by VOC Silent Film Harmonic

November 15th - 800pm - Survivorman Les Stroud: Live in Concert

December 11th - 730pm - Reel Rock 14 - World Tour - Hamilton

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As always, get your movie tickets in advance below! See you at the cinema!

Cold Case Hammarskjold

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Winner of the Documentary Directing award at Sundance, Cold Case Hammarskjöld is a shocking, revelatory murder mystery about the 1961 plane crash that killed United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld.

"The titular protagonist of Cold Case Hammarskjöld is Dag Hammarskjöld, the secretary general of the United Nations who died in a plane crash in 1961, in what was then northern Rhodesia.

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Becoming Nobody

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“Becoming Nobody truly represents the core arc of Ram Dass’ teachings and life. His ability to entertain and his sense of humor are abundantly evident in a conversation that brings us around to address the vast question of ultimate freedom.

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Ennio Morricone Celebration: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

"Sergio Leone's grandiose 1966 western epic is nothing less than a masterclass in movie storytelling, a dynamic testament to the sheer, invigorating uniqueness of cinema." - Time Out

“Italian director Sergio Leone tells the story of The Good the Bad and the Ugly more with pictures than words. Examine the masterful scene in the cemetery. A fortune in gold is said to be buried in one of the graves, and three men have assembled, all hoping to get it. The actors are Clint Eastwood (the Good), Lee Van Cleef (the Bad), and Eli Wallach (the Ugly).

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Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love

"With a softened lens, British documentarian Nick Broomfield adoringly examines a fascinating relationship in a fascinating time that saw Cohen transition from a poet to a world-class songwriter." - Globe & Mail

Return engagement! “The Greek island of Hydra was Eden for a group of 1960s free-love artists and intellectuals who flocked to an idyllic paradise with sun-dappled beaches, cheap living and plentiful mind-expanding drugs to turn on, tune in, drop out.

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Taxi Driver

“Travis Bickle drives cabs all night. He can't sleep. But what he sees whilst cruising the NY city streets he finds so disgusting that it drives him to a climactic moment of violence, which some may deem equally disgusting.

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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

“Bill (Alex Winter) and Ted (Keanu Reeves) are cool dudes, but to their teacher, they're high school no-hopers. They fantasise about forming a rock band called 'Wyld Stallyns'; one day they'll pull themselves together and learn how to play guitar.

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This Is Spinal Tap

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"Reiner's brilliantly inventive script and smart visuals avoid all the obvious pitfalls, making this one of the funniest ever films about the music business." - Time Out

"This Is Spinal Tap, one of the funniest movies ever made, is about a lot of things, but one of them is the way the real story is not in the questions or in the answers, but at the edge of the frame. There are two stories told in the film: the story of what the rock band Spinal Tap thinks, hopes, believes or fears is happening, and the story of what is actually happening.

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Integral Man

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Art, Design & Architecture

“Integral House is an architectural marvel in Toronto built by Jim Stewart, a music lover who made a fortune writing calculus textbooks. Director Joseph Clement's debut film functions as both an inspiring tour of the home and a moving profile of Stewart, who gave architects Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe only two conditions: that the house have curves and a performance space.

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Brittany Runs a Marathon

"Bell draws laughter and tears out of her character's indignities but also invests us greatly in her desire to change her own life." - Globe & Mail

"Written and directed by first-timer Paul Downs Colaizzo and starring Jillian Bell in a performance that defines breakout, 'Brittany' not only goes places you won’t be expecting but it also manages to be simultaneously sympathetic and unsentimental, a picture with a laugh-out-loud sense of humor that can be as real as hell when it needs to be.

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Wild at Heart

"Funny, scary and brilliantly cinematic." - Time Out

The story, which begins in North Carolina, revolves around the love of Sailor Ripley (Nicolas Cage) and Lula Pace Fortune (Laura Dern). Between the sex and the chain-smoking, these two seem in danger of burning themselves down. They’re just two sweet, horny kids, except for their Lynch-load of psychological baggage.

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The Farewell

"Extraordinary on every level, Lulu Wang's The Farewell starring an award-caliber Awkwafina builds a funny, touching and vital film about what makes a family in any culture, leaving you with cathartic tears." - Rolling Stone

“‘Based on an actual lie’ is writer-director Lulu Wang’s way of introducing her (actually true) story; a sly title card to qualify the bittersweet dramedy of deception that follows.

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Apocalypse Now: Final Cut

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“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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AGH Film Festival Presents: Zephyr with John Price

Oct 25, 9pm -- An immersive 16mm film projection and live musical performance

ZEPHYR - Performing at the Ontario Cinepshere from Sylvain Chaussée on Vimeo.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with live soundtrack by VOC Silent Film Harmonic

Oct. 30, 7:30. Come see this iconic German Expressionist silent horror film --routinely cited as one of the greatest films ever made-- presented with live music accompaniment by the VOC Silent Film Harmonic, from Kitchener-Waterloo.

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Oct 11 - 17: Mind-blowing movies at the Playhouse this week!