Oscar Weekend is Here! Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train on 35mm! Ukraine Benefit Screening & More!

Oscar weekend is here at the Playhouse and it's a great time to celebrate film! Grab tickets today to all screenings, including getting your free seats for our live Oscars broadcast!

This is a big weekend for us at the Playhouse, since we are screening a historic, 35mm film print, directly from Hollywood! Don't miss this rare chance to see Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train on 35mm!

Get tickets to Strangers on a Train in 35mm here!

"The power of the story - adapted from the novel by Patricia Highsmith - lies in its simplicity, and Hitchcock's piles on the sinister layers as only he can." - Empire Magazine

Opening March 25th! Oscar Nominated films do not stop this week at the Playhouse with the opening of the Best International Film nominee, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom

Get tickets to Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom here!

"Opening the doors to a land and people most Westerners know little about, the director crafts a crowd-pleaser in stunning, mostly unseen locations..." - Los Angeles Times

March 26th, 430pm! Please consider getting tickets to see our Ukraine Benefit Show: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, one screening only on Saturday.

Get tickets to Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors here!

All ticket proceeds will go to the Canada-Ukraine Foundation Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.

ALSO THIS WEEK AT THE PLAYHOUSE...

March 27th, 630pm! It's Oscar Weekend at the Playhouse and we have a FREE screening of the Oscars Broadcast, LIVE at the cinema! Come out with friends and family to take in the show, win prizes and more!

Get your free seat for the Oscars Broadcast here!

All we ask is that you please bring a food donation towards Hamilton Food Share when you arrive for the free screening of the Oscars.

March 31st, only! A very-special and artistic event at the Playhouse this week with Roger Beebe Live: Multi 16mm Projector Performance.

Get tickets to see Roger Beebe Live, here!

PRESENTED BY FACTORY MEDIA CENTRE & DANDELION FILM COLLECTIVE!

This is unlike anything you've seen before, if you've been craving a great art performance, this is it! See it at the Playhouse.

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See you at the movies this Friday!

Strangers on a Train on 35mm

A psychopath forces a tennis star to comply with his theory that two strangers can get away with murder.

In Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's thriller, tennis star Guy Haines (Farley Granger) is enraged by his trampy wife's refusal to finalize their divorce so he can wed senator's daughter Anne (Ruth Roman). He strikes up a conversation with a stranger, Bruno Anthony (Robert Walker), and unwittingly sets in motion a deadly chain of events.

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Ukraine Benefit: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

We are screening this classic of world cinema to fundraise for the Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis. Very rarely screened, this is a beautiful, poetic film. Please come out and support!

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is considered to be the most internationally heralded Ukrainian film in history and a classic of Ukrainian magical realist cinema.

All ticket proceeds will go to the Canada-Ukraine Foundation Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.

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Lunana: A yak in the Classroom

Oscar Nominated for Best International Feature Film

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The 94th Academy Awards: Oscars Live Broadcast at the Playhouse!

Pre-registration required! Sign up here!

FREE with non-perishable food donation to Hamilton Food Share.

We also will be accepting cash donations for the Canada-Ukraine Foundation: Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis Appeal.

Join us for a casual, come-as-you-are (or dress-to-the-nines, your choice!) evening celebrating the 94th Academy Awards®! Red carpet starts at 6:30pm.

Enjoy Hollywood's most glamourous night in the grand comfort of the elegant Playhouse Cinema!

Presented by Factory Media Centre & Dandelion Film Collective

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The Power of the Dog in 35mm

See it on our Cinemascope screen for this exclusive 35mm Engagement!

Nominated for 12 Oscars! Including: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor.

"The Power of the Dog is a made with artistry and command: it is one of Jane Campion's best." - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian ★★★★★

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Licorice Pizza

"Paul Thomas Anderson's sunniest movie yet, this San Fernando Valley palimpsest is so buoyant and bubbly, it practically floats off the screen." - Time Out

Nominated for 3 Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay)

The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

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The Worst Person in the World

"The kind of movie which reminds you just how beguiling top-tier cinema can be, Joachim Trier's 'The Worst Person in the World' is a triumph." - Awards Watch

Oscar nominated for Best Original Screenplay and International Film

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Time Bandits

A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.

Young history buff Kevin (Craig Warnock) can scarcely believe it when six dwarfs emerge from his closet one night. Former employees of the Supreme Being (Ralph Richardson), they've purloined a map charting all of the holes in the fabric of time and are using it to steal treasures from different historical eras.

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2021 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity

The World's Best Commercials!

Join us for the 2021 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity – AKA The World’s Best Commercials!

Representing almost every continent and spanning cultures from around the globe, the award-winning ads are a fascinating window to the world.

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Fantastic Planet

René Laloux's mesmerising psychedelic sci-fi animated feature won the Grand Prix at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival and is a landmark of European animation.

This animated tale follows the relationship between the small human-like Oms and their much larger blue-skinned oppressors, the Draags, who rule the planet of Ygam. While the Draags have long kept Oms as illiterate pets, this hierarchy shifts after an Om boy becomes educated, thanks to a young female Draag. This leads to an Om rebellion, which weakens the Draag control over their race.

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FREE SCREENING: C.R.A.Z.Y.

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Tribute to the late Jean-Marc Vallée on National Canadian Film Day

On Dec 25, 2021, Canada lost one of its best, most important filmmakers, Jean Marc Vallée. C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005) was his third feature film and the one that put him on the map.

Free screening! Part of National Canadian Film Day.

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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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Mothering Sunday

"Olivia Colman and Colin Firth star in this deeply affecting adaptation of Graham Swift’s bittersweet novel about secret love in post-WWI England." - TIFF

On a warm spring day in 1924, house maid and foundling Jane Fairchild (Odessa Young) finds herself alone on Mother's Day. Her employers, Mr. and Mrs. Niven (Colin Firth and Olivia Colman), are out and she has the rare chance to spend quality time with her secret lover.

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