Jan 19 - 25 | Two new films sure to be Best Picture Oscar nominees

FILMS SHOWING Friday January 19 to Thursday January 25

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Two highly anticipated and highly acclaimed films premiere at the Princess this Friday. Each film is a finely crafted probe of the human heart --although very different-- and both are utterly unforgettable. When the Oscar nominations are announced at 8am on January 23rd, you will find Phantom Thread and Call Me By Your Name have multiple nominations, along with the other films we're showing at the Princess right now.

A friendly reminder to watch our website closely for added shows at the Original. These screenings (mostly matinees) are not in the printed Film Guide, so check our website (online calendar and home page) to catch bonus screenings at the Original.

Phantom Thread

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In his final film, Day-Lewis reunites with Paul Thomas Anderson to deliver a masterful performance as a society dressmaker beguiled by a young waitress

Nominated for 6 Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress. "False gods strut through the movies of Paul Thomas Anderson: rapacious oilmen, well-endowed porn stars, inventors of new religions and spinners of old lies.

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Call Me By Your Name

14A

"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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The Shape of Water

14A

"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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Lady Bird

14A

"'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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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

14A

"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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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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Tomorrow (Demain)

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Winner of the César Award (French Oscar) for best documentary. "Provides a comprehensive look at ways in which activists, organizers and everyday citizens are trying to make the world a better, greener, more sustainable place." - Hollywood Reporter

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

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Wonder - CINE BABIES - Jan. 24

Auggie Pullman (Jacob Tremblay) was born with a facial deformity and has had 27 surgeries in order to help him to breathe, see, and hear without a hearing aid, but he still looks different from other kids. He's been homeschooled up to now by his mother, Isabel (Julia Roberts), but now that he's 10, she's decided he should go to school with other children at the beginning of fifth grade.

HEAL - The Documentary

Jan. 25, 7pm, Twin. 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.