Rare Film This Weekend with The Power of the Dog on 35mm! Plus, A24's After Yang, Cult-Classic, Out of the Blue & More!

35mm film continues this weekend at the Playhouse with a rare chance to see the Best Picture Nominated film, The Power of the Dog on 35mm film! 3 screenings only, this weekend!

We got lucky this weekend and happened to land a 35mm film print of The Power of the Dog. Check it out all this weekend, it's the best way to take in and see this Oscar Nominated film!

Get tickets to see The Power of the Dog in 35mm!

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 ★★★★★

The 1980's indie classic, Out of the Blue opens this weekend in its new 4K, fully-restored glory!

Get tickets to see Out of the Blue here!

“Thumbs up! A bitter unforgettable poem about alienation. One of the unsung treasures among recent independent films.” - Roger Ebert

A24's new indie, sci-fi film, After Yang opens this weekend. A unique look into how AI & Tech could move into our lives even more... in a postive way.

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"A tender, fertile film about the sadness of beautiful things, After Yang reflects transience and permanence as twin states of being, inseparable and contradictory opposites through which we can trace the shapes of our lives." - Inverse

COMING THIS WEEK AT THE PLAYHOUSE

David Lynch's 1970's indie masterpiece, Eraserhead screens on Saturday, a hard-to-find on the big screen film that is a cult-classic no film lover should miss!

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Film lovers, make it out this weekend! We'd hate for you to miss this limited screening!

Starting on Monday, the 21st, we have the new (and super-fun) Foo Fighters horror film, Studio 666 opening at the Playhouse.

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"Not every Foo Fighter survives the band's devilishly fun horror flick 'Studio 666,' but they all go down rockin'." - Metro Weekly

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See you at the movies this Friday!

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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Out of the Blue (1980) - 4K Restoration

A 40th anniversary 4K restoration of Dennis Hopper's "Easy rider of the 80's"

Don Barnes (Hopper) is a truck driver in prison for drunkenly smashing his rig into a school bus. Linda Manz (“Days of Heaven”) plays CeBe, his daughter, a young teen rebel and outsider obsessed with Elvis and the Sex Pistols.

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After Yang

In a near future, a family reckons with questions of love, connection, and loss after their A.I. helper unexpectedly breaks down.

When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake (Colin Farrell) searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife (Jodie Turner-Smith) and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.

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Eraserhead

David Lynch's breakthrough film that became an instant cult-classic

“When David Lynch's Eraserhead was released in 1977, another of the '70s 'midnight movies' that won fanatical repeat audiences, it still stood apart. It had a mesmerizing look and soundtrack, bizarre images that rattled, upset and fascinated audiences. And still do.

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Studio 666

"Not every Foo Fighter survives the band's devilishly fun horror flick 'Studio 666,' but they all go down rockin'." - Metro Weekly

In STUDIO 666, Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock history to record their much anticipated 10th album. Once in the house, Dave Grohl finds himself grappling with supernatural forces that threaten both the completion of the album and the lives of the band.

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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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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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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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Lunana: A yak in the Classroom

Oscar Nominated for Best International Feature Film

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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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