Sept 18-24: New Movies - Cinema Exclusives! Dev Patel as David Copperfield, Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie, a domestic thriller, Lynch's Dune & a Kieslowski masterpiece

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Let us entertain you this weekend with The Personal History of David Copperfield. From Director Armando Iannucci (The Death of Stalin, In the Loop, VEEP) and starring Dev Patel (Oscar-nominated actor, LION) this film is a delightful adaptation of Dickens' classic.

The edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller, The Nest opens this Saturday. Jude Law & Carrie Coon deliver knock-out performances in this terrific film that is akin to a haunted house movie... without the ghosts. Only at the Playhouse!

Radioactive opens Friday, a look at the life of pioneering scientist, Marie Curie. Oscar-nominated actress Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) gives another stellar performance as the 2-time Nobel prize winner, whose discovery of radium and polonium laid the foundation for atomic energy. From the director of Persepolis. A Playhouse exclusive!

We're giving you a chance to see David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi classic, Dune, before Canadian director Denis Villeneuve's new version is released. This weekend, Friday & Saturday only, see Lynch's Dune, a rare chance to experience it on the big screen!

On Thursday Sept 24, we have a special, one-night-only showing of the late, great Krysztof Kieslowski's The Double Life of Veronique, with an introduction by Hamilton filmmaker, Terrance Odette! This is a rarely screened, gorgeous film and it might be your only chance to ever see it in a cinema. Don't miss it!

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The Personal History of David Copperfield

"If you've read the novel, it's a glorious adaptation. If you haven't, it's still the first perfect comedy of 2020." - The Herald

"You don’t need to have read Charles Dickens' eighth novel to enjoy this fresh, contemporary, provocative and brilliantly comic adaptation, which is a marvellously nimble and accessible take on his weighty and most autobiographical book.

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The Nest

"An elegant, eerie drama of marital distress." - Hollywood Reporter

Life for an entrepreneur and his American family begin to take a twisted turn after moving into an English country manor.

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Radioactive

"Rosamund Pike's refreshingly untamed performance as two-time Nobel-winning scientist Marie Curie does full justice to a defiantly unconventional life." - Rolling Stone

Pioneer. Genius. Rebel.

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Dune (1984)

In the far future, all interstellar trade depends on a spice found only on the desert world of Arrakis. When Paul Atreides and his family are sent to govern the planet, the stage is set for a tale of betrayal, murder and prophecy that will reveal the planet's secrets...

"Mammoth, unwieldy and completely ahead of its time." - Film4

"Derided, disowned, and debated endlessly, David Lynch’s weird venture into big budget sci-fi spectacle is a most fascinating disaster of genre making.

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The Double Life of Véronique

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"It is a romance about those moments we all sometimes have when we think we see ourselves at a distance." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

With introduction by Hamilton filmmaker, Terrance Odette

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The Artist's Wife

The wife of a famous artist tries to contact his estranged family before his dementia worsens.

Claire (Lena Olin) lives a domestic life in the Hamptons as the wife of celebrated artist Richard Smythson (Bruce Dern). Once a promising painter herself, Claire now lives in the shadow of her husband's illustrious career. While preparing work for his final show, Richard's moods become increasingly erratic, and he is diagnosed with dementia.

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Haida Modern

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Director Charles Wilkinson's evocative documentary beautifully explores how the artist Robert Davidson brought Haida culture back to its people.

In the 50 years since he carved his first totem pole and saw it raised on Haida Gwaii, Robert Davidson has come to be regarded as one of the world’s foremost modern artists. And yet, in the insightful interviews captured here, he retains a remarkably soft-spoken manner and a charming humility that belies what an influential figure he’s become in both the realms of art and activism.

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THE 21ST ANNUAL ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS

The Animation Show of Shows is the finest selection of award-winning animated shorts from the last 16 years

The ANIMATION SHOW OF SHOWS, a curated selection of the “best of the best” animated short films created by students and professionals around the world, returns to Ontario premiering for the first time in Hamilton at the Playhouse Cinema. Theatre staff, management and guests will adhere strictly to prescribed health and safety protocols.

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Pink Floyd: The Wall

"The film is explosively wild, raw, primitive, sometimes inarticulate. It is also totally theatrical and compelling. It's film as primal scream; seething with anger, alienation and despair." - Boston Globe

"The 1982 film version of the rock opera Pink Floyd: The Wall is without question the best of all serious fiction films devoted to rock. Alan Parker, a director who seemed to deliberately choose widely varied projects, here collaborates with Gerald Scarfe, a biting British political caricaturist, to make what is essentially an experimental indie.

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Duck Soup

Fueled by inspired silliness and blessed with some of the Marx brothers' most brilliant work, Duck Soup is one of its -- or any -- era's finest comedies.

Arguably the Marx Brothers' funniest film, this comedy masterpiece contains several famous scenes, including the hilarious mirror sequence. A wealthy widow offers financial aid to the bankrupt country of Freedonia on condition that Rufus T. Firefly be made leader. But his chaotic, inept regime bumbles into war with neighboring Sylvania.

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La belle époque

La Belle Époque is a sweet and inventive romantic comedy that deftly balances hearty laughs and heartwarming emotion.

"Cartoonist Victor (Daniel Auteuil) and psychoanalyst Marianne (Fanny Ardant) have been together for more than forty years. He has grown a little too comfortable with his old-fogey status while she still has a lust for life and a low boredom threshold. Marianne eventually throws Victor out on the street and considers it a long overdue act of liberation.

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