Sept 17-23: We Turn 36! Celebrate With Throwback Admission Prices To Cinema Paradiso! Plus The Night House & Best Sellers Open!

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Help us celebrate the Princess's 36th birthday, cinema itself and the beautiful film music of Ennio Morricone. 1989 admission prices. Bring your friends and family! We will be accepting donations to the Food Bank of Waterloo Region.

In May 1989, the Princess was in its 4th year as KW's independent arthouse cinema. In the spring of that year, we were thrilled to premiere the winner of the 1989 Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Cinema Paradiso. All these decades later, we are thrilled to present it once again, not only as a celebration of our 36th birthday, but also as a celebration of cinema itself. There perhaps is no other film that encapsulates the love, community and heart created around a movie theatre, and of course, Ennio Morricone's beautiful score brings the sentiment poignantly alive. Join us! Welcoming remarks from John Tutt.


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Brand new this week is Best Sellers, with Michael Caine & Aubrey Plaza in this comedy/drama about a reclusive, cantankerous novelist who embarks on a publicity tour with his desperate publisher. Perfect for a weekend watch!

"Splendid vehicles for the enormous talent of Sir Michael Caine, now in his 89th year."


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Miss live theatre? The brand new documentary On Broadway should help you get your fix and it opens this weekend at the Twin! With Helen Mirren, Sir Ian McKellen, Hugh Jackman, Alec Baldwin and more.

"This smart and spirited film reminds us that there's still nothing in American entertainment like the Broadway ritual of hundreds of live, superbly talented performers playing to thousands of live, rapt theatergoers six nights a week." - WSJ 


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Halloween is closer than you think, so we're getting into the spirit of the season a little early with The Night House, starting at the Twin this Friday! 

"Intelligent, emotionally compelling and visually sophisticated, for fans of darker fare and old-fashioned spooky stories, The Night House is unmissable." - ABC


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Ghibli Fest continues this week with two screenings of the absolute classic, Kiki's Delivery Service. Make sure to scroll down and get advance tickets to these screenings, they sell fast! 

Plus, advance tickets are on-sale now for Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, which will be opening later this month. 


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Starting this weekend, we begin our celebration of the marvelous work of Italian composer, Ennio Morricone, who died in 2020. Morricone brought to cinema some of the most beautiful compositions ever made for film. His music  brought an extra depth and dimension to the films for which he composed; he truly was (arguably?) the best. We invite you to be transported watching these films the way they were intended: on the biggest screen with the biggest sound. Tickets are on sale now for Cinema Paradiso (Sept 18), Once Upon a Time in the West (Sept 19 & 24), followed by The Mission (Oct 1 & 3) and The Thing (Oct 9 & 10). Even more screenings to come.

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Last month we had "Oscar-winner Nic Cage" show his skills of in Pig. This month? We have wild & crazy Nic Cage in the brand new thriller, Prisoners of the Ghostland.

"Is 'Prisoners of the Ghostland.' as he claimed, truly the wildest movie Nicolas Cage has ever made? If not, it's certainly in the running." - The Thrillist


Also Playing...

If you didn't get a chance last week to see The Hidden Life of Trees and The Card Counter, both continue at the Twin with tickets on-sale now. 


COVID:19 Safety Update: On Wed. Sept 1, 2021, the Ontario government announced that proof of vaccination in select settings would be required of all Ontario residents. Beginning Sept. 22, 2021, all cinemas in Ontario will require patrons to provide proof of vaccination for COVID-19. Please go to the link for further details, as set out by the province of Ontario. We thank you in advance so much for your support through this year that has been devastating to the film industry, and particularly, independent cinemas. We hope that soon we will be able to gather again safely for the love of film, united in the spirit of community, which an indie cinema like the Princess truly represents.


Opening Sept 24th at the Twin

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See you at the movies!

FILMS SHOWING Friday September 17 to Thursday September 23
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Help us celebrate the Princess's 36th birthday, cinema and the beautiful film music of Ennio Morricone. 1989 admission prices! We will be accepting donations to the Food Bank of Waterloo Region

Ticket still available. Limited capacity! In May 1989, the Princess was in its 4th year as KW's independent arthouse cinema. In the spring of that year, we were thrilled to premiere the winner of the 1989 Oscar for Best Foreign Film, Cinema Paradiso.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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A reluctant author’s career is revived in Best Sellers, a new comedy/drama starring Sir Michael Caine and Aubrey Plaza

Lucy Standbridge (Aubrey Plaza) has inherited her father's publishing house, and the ambitious would-be editor has nearly sunk it with failing titles. She discovers she is owed a book by Harris Shaw (Michael Caine), a reclusive, cantankerous, booze-addled author who originally put the company on the map decades earlier.

No screenings currently scheduled.

NR

“Fast-paced and entertaining… Enhanced by a wealth of archival footage and clips.” Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter

For anyone who loves theater, this contemporary history of Broadway is a pure joy! As audiences prepare for the return of live theater after an unprecedented absence of 18 months, an all-star cast tells the inside story of the last time Broadway came back from the brink.

No screenings currently scheduled.

NR

"Intelligent, emotionally compelling and visually sophisticated, for fans of darker fare and old-fashioned spooky stories, 'The Night House' is unmissable." - ABC

Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth (Rebecca Hall) is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. She tries as best she can to keep it together -- but then nightmares come. Disturbing visions of a presence in the house calling to her, beckoning her with a ghostly allure.

No screenings currently scheduled.

NR

"Is 'Prisoners of the Ghostland.' as he claimed, truly the wildest movie Nicolas Cage has ever made? If not, it's certainly in the running." - The Thrillist

In the treacherous frontier city of Samurai Town, a ruthless bank robber (Nicolas Cage) is sprung from jail by wealthy warlord The Governor (Bill Moseley), whose adopted granddaughter Bernice (Sofia Boutella) has gone missing. The Governor offers the prisoner his freedom in exchange for retrieving the runaway.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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'Once Upon a Time in the West' is composer Ennio Morricone's “triumph. It’s one of the great scores all time, and launched that movie into another place: epic opera. It’s the ultimate in composing. You can’t get better and more profound than that.” - Director & composer, John Carpenter

"Renowned Italian director Sergio Leone had achieved what many believed to be the pinnacle of success in 1966, following completion of the last film of his famous Dollars trilogy, 'The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly'. Despite receiving universal accolades, he decided that he had said everything he wanted to say, and would not be returning to the Western genre.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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"Paul Schrader has spent much of his career peering into the dark abyss of troubled men's souls. He creates another subject eminently worthy of such examination in the title figure of The Card Counter..." - Hollywood Reporter

Paul Schrader is back with a vengeance with “The Card Counter,” his feature directorial follow-up to “First Reformed.” Schrader’s latest finds Oscar Isaac sinking his teeth into the kind of tormented male protagonist role that Schrader has perfected in the likes of “Raging Bull,” “Taxi Driver,” and more.

No screenings currently scheduled.

NR

"'The Hidden Life of Trees' uses the sensorial capacities of cinema to thrillingly visualize Wohlleben's observations" - NY Times

Renowned forester and author Peter Wohlleben discusses the life, death and regeneration of trees. "Based on the 2015 best-selling book of the same title, 'The Hidden Life of Trees' is a documentary both simple and startling." - Globe & Mail

No screenings currently scheduled.

COMING SOON. TICKETS ON SALE!

Sept 24 - 26, Original Princess. Tickets on sale now via Eventbrite. Limited capacity!

CO-PRESENTED WITH GRAND RIVER ROCKS! 

We're excited to bring back The 2021 Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour to the Princess & the big screen!

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"It's a unique, indelible and hilarious film, and certainly one of the best of its era." - Combustible Celluloid

New York City layabout Willie (John Lurie) and his dopey sidekick, Eddie (Richard Edson), get by on TV dinners and beer financed by haphazard card-sharking. Willie gets an unwelcome visit from his Hungarian teen cousin, Eva (Eszter Balint), but, just as he warms to her, she ditches him for her aunt in Cleveland.

No screenings currently scheduled.

18A

"Ducournau... delivers a mindblower that keeps you guessing for all of the film's excellent 108 minutes." - Globe & Mail

Thrillingly provocative and original, Titane reaffirms writer-director Julia Ducournau's delightfully disturbing vision.

WINNER OF THE 2021 Palme d'Or AT THE CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 

No screenings currently scheduled.

PG

Studio Ghibli series. "One of the most weirdly, wonderfully built worlds of Hayao Miyazaki." - LarsenOnFilm

“The first wholly Miyazaki film (and the movie that gave birth to Studio Ghibli) is 1984’s inventive, disturbing, and lyrical Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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