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FILMS SHOWING Friday February 23 to Thursday March 1

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Every year for the last eight years we have been presenting the Oscar Nominated Shorts (Live Action & Animated) for KW audiences. This weekend we open the Live Action Shorts at the Original; we have seen them and you should, too. This year's mix is timely, powerful and unforgettable. If you love "free," you'll want to make your way to Uptown for Winterloo. We are showing free family movies on Saturday and Sunday, thanks to the Uptown Waterloo BIA. Hope to see you there!

Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films - 2018

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For the eighth year in a row we are proud to offer the chance to see some of the Oscar nominated films that many people never see. The short film categories are full of amazing films - the unsung nominees that are worth their weight in Oscar gold.

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In the Fade

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Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign Language Film. "It's not hard to see why Kruger won the Best Actress prize at Cannes this year for her performance... German thriller "In the Fade" grabs from the get-go and never lets loose its grip." - New York Daily News

“Katja (Diane Kruger) is a young Hamburg woman married to Nuri (Numan Acar), a former drug dealer and ex-con who now runs a successful business as a translator and tax adviser to the city's Turkish community. Katja does the books and looks after their energetic six-year-old.

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The Final Year

"Barker has given us a film with much broader appeal, one that's not only absorbing but also essential in its depiction of humane, responsible leadership." - TheWrap

“With all the mayhem that has followed, the Obama years already feel somehow grassed over – a stately reminder of when politics was, well, kinda normal. This snappy, access-nearly-all-areas look at how his fiercely clued-up foreign policy team spent their final 12 months should feel almost nostalgic, then.

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The Post

"Spielberg offers a tight, lucid and highly satisfying account of the Pentagon Papers from the point of view of the Post and its publisher, Kay Graham." - Globe & Mail

Oscar-nominated! Best Picture, Best Actress. In 1971, the Washington Post joined with the New York Times in publishing the Pentagon Papers: leaked, classified documents revealing a long-running criminal cover-up by the United States government.

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Molly's Game

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"Words and cards are dealt in equal hand with Aaron Sorkin's poker drama, featuring Jessica Chastain at the center of a compelling film about fame, power and empathy." - USA Today

Oscar-nominated: Best Adapted Screenplay “Aaron Sorkin’s distinct verbal cadences have been so recognizable in a zillion movies and TV shows, it’s strange to think that he’s never directed any of them himself. Rise-and-fall poker tale Molly’s Game finally changes that.

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Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool

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"What an astounding actress Annette Bening is. And she's at her very best playing Gloria Grahame, a screen siren of the 1940s and 1950s, who faced a health crisis in her final days with the help of a new love (a terrific Jamie Bell)." - Rolling Stone

“Annette Bening is at her very best in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool playing Gloria Grahame, a screen siren of the 1940s and 1950s. The film picks up with the actress during her last years, from 1979 to 1981, when she died of breast cancer at the age of 57. Bening brings Graham to thrilling life as the complicated woman she was till the end.

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The Shape of Water

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"Del Toro is a world-class film artist and he proves it in this Cold War romance about a mute cleaning lady (Sally Hawkins, unforgettable) who falls for an amphibious creature. Dive in. There's magic in it." - Rolling Stone

Oscar Winner! Best Picture, Best Director, Score, Production Design

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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"Frances McDormand is phenomenal in this surefire awards contender from Martin McDonagh-it's a renegade masterpiece that will get you good. " - Rolling Stone

Oscar Winner! Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor When Mildred Hayes’ daughter was raped and murdered, the Ebbing, Missouri police talked a big game about finding the culprit. Nine months later, there have still been no arrests, and Mildred (Frances McDormand) takes it upon herself to protest.

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I, Tonya

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"'I, Tonya' is the Tonya Harding film you never knew you wanted: an outrageously entertaining reappraisal of the Olympic figure skater who, in 1994, was involved in a scheme to injure her main rival, Nancy Kerrigan." - Associated Press

Oscar Winner! Best Supporting Actress “The Tonya Harding of I, Tonya, played with ferocious energy by Margot Robbie, wants you to know two things about the bad and crazy stuff that happened during her career as a champion ice skater. It’s not her fault. Also, it’s not fair. You can take that at face value if you want.

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Lady Bird

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"'Lady Bird' is a perfect coming-of-age comedy for anyone who's ever had teenage wanderlust, fought with their parents, fostered a love-hate tension with their hometown or popped Communion wafers in secret." - USA Today

Nominated for 5 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress. "Her name is Christine, but she calls herself Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan), and she would prefer that friends, relatives and acquaintances do the same.

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Darkest Hour

"Hello, Oscar! Gary Oldman gives the performance of the year as Winston Churchill in director Joe Wright's rip-roaring take on the celebrated Prime Minister's first tumultuous month in office." - Rolling Stone

Nominated for 6 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Actor. “Joe Wright directs this undeniably exciting and beguiling account of Winston Churchill’s darkest hour in 1940, as Hitler’s forces gather across the Channel, poised to invade.

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HEAL - The Documentary

Feb. 25, 2:15pm, Twin. Back by popular demand! A documentary film that takes us on a scientific and spiritual journey where we discover that by changing one’s perceptions, beliefs, and emotions, the human body can heal itself from any dis-ease.

The Economics of Happiness

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'The Economics of Happiness' features a chorus of voices from six continents calling for systemic economic change.

Co-presented by Divest Waterloo, The Working Centre and Princess Cinemas.

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A Room with a View

A rare chance to see this Merchant-Ivory art-house hit from the 1980s. Part of our Daniel Day-Lewis retrospective

“James Ivory’s first adaptation of EM Forester’s work is incredibly fresh and arresting film-making: moving and amusing, swooningly romantic and socially ferocious – nothing less than a full-frontal (in every way) assault on your soul.

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CINE BABIES - I, Tonya - Feb. 28

American figure skating champion Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie), once one of the best female figure skaters in the world, struggles to make it in the competitive sport. Coming from an abusive family and living in a trailer park, she beats all the odds to make it to the top of the sport.

Just before the 1995 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Tonya's main competition, teammate Nancy Kerrigan (Caitlin Carver), is viciously attacked by a masked assailant who hits her in the leg with a baton, in an attempt to break it. Suspicion soon falls on Tonya, who has the most to gain from Kerrigan's injury.

Cine Babies -- every Wednesday at 1:00pm at the Twin

Call Me By Your Name

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"One of the very best films of the year. Guadagnino, a master cinema sensualist, and his award-caliber actors Chalamet, Hammer and Stuhlbarg create a love story for the ages and a new film classic." - Rolling Stone

Nominated for 4 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actor and Best Song. “Luca Guadagnino’s latest is a ravishment of the senses with a strong narrative tethering all the churning feelings and sensuous surfaces.

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Ferdinand

FREE Winterloo screening! Presented by Uptown Waterloo BIA

“Turning a classic children's book into a movie isn't always an easy task. But the six (yes, six) writers of Ferdinand have done an able job of translating the 1936 book to the screen for the second time.

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Happy Feet

Winterloo screening. Free! Presented by Uptown Waterloo BIA

Son of Memphis (Hugh Jackman) and Norma Jean (Nicole Kidman), Mumble (Elijah Wood), a sweet little ball of penguin fluff has one big problem: no matter how hard he tries, he can’t sing a single note. In a world where every penguin attracts their soul mate through their own special heart-song, he cannot ever truly belong. But as it happens, Mumble is a brilliant tap-dancer!

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The Room: 20th Anniversary!

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"To make a movie so bad it's good you need vision, drive, luck and obsessive vanity. Fortuitously Tommy Wiseau appears to possess all of these qualities, combined with a total lack of acting talent." - The Guardian

Celebrate 20 years of The Room!

“Tommy Wiseau’s The Room may be the first true successor to the Rocky Horror throne. Wiseau's Johnny is the noblest of boyfriends and most capable of lovers. But none of that satisfies his fiancée Lisa, a wicked Jezebel whose boredom with Johnny manifests in a brazen affair with his best friend.

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