Jan 23 - 30: Making Waves with Collective Arts, Cannes Lions, Les Misérables, new Herzog + A Beautiful Day for Author Aimee Reid!

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On Thursday of next week, we've got a very special evening at the Playhouse with Collective Arts Brewing! We've partnered up to bring you delicious beer along with a one-night-only screening of the craft documentary, Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound. "Just see this film. And then wonder if 'see' is any longer an adequate verb for the act of experiencing great cinema." - Financial Times

All this week, check out the best in advertising (and commercials!) on the big screen with the 2019 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Grab your marketing, advertising and creative friends and make a night of it!

Oscar films continue this week with the opening of Les Misérables, nominated for Best International Feature this year! This isn't the musical, but has a lot of similar themes... an intense and explosive film set in modern-day Paris. Also opening this weekend, the brand new Werner Herzog documentary, Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin. You know no one does documentaries like Herzog, and the late travel-writer's fascinating life is worthy of the Herzog treatment.

Director Todd Haynes has teamed up with Mark Ruffalo for Dark Waters, a whistle-blower/legal thriller that exposes ugly truths about DuPont Chemical (and teflon!) - this weekend for two shows only. On Saturday at 4:50, author Aimee Reid stops by to introduce A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood and sign her book, You Are My Friend: The Story of Mister Rogers and His Neighborhood! Grab copies at Epic Books The Sequel at the Playhouse!

Starting next week we begin our EXCLUSIVE run of the entire 2020 Oscar Shorts program. Live Action, Animated, and Documentary Shorts: the Playhouse will have them all, so if you want an edge on the Oscar pool (and if you enjoy truly excellent filmmaking), don't miss any of them! Click on the image and take a moment to check out showtimes....

Jojo Rabbit

"Taika Waititi knocks it out of der park with the meaningful lunacy of his anti-hate satire, which is equal parts Mel Brooks, Wes Anderson and Waititi’s own whimsical brilliance." - Toronto Star." -

Winner of TIFF 2019 Audience Award. Oscar Winner: Taika Waititi for Best Adapted Screenplay "Taika Waititi’s Jojo Rabbit (★★★★★) defies description. It is the story of a young wannabe Nazi named Jojo (Roman Griffin Davis) who dreams of serving the Führer and daydreams that Adolf Hitler (Waititi) is his best friend.

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Fleabag - National Theatre Live

Jan 23, 7pm. See the hilarious, award-winning, one-woman show that inspired the BBC’s hitTV series Fleabag, captured live to cinemas from London’sWest End.Written and performed by PhoebeWaller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve) and directed by Vicky Jones, Fleabag is a riproaring look at some sort of woman living her sort of life. Fleabag may seem oversexed, emotionally unfiltered and self-obsessed, but that's just the tip of the iceberg.With family and friendships understrain and a guinea pig café struggling to keep afloat, Fleabag suddenly finds herself with nothing to lose. Playing to sold-out audiences in NewYork and London, don’t miss your chance to see this ‘legitimately hilarious show’ (NewYorker), captured live to cinema.

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

"Starring Tom Hanks as the cherished children’s television host Fred Rogers, is one of those movies you didn’t know you needed...a movie that's both entertainment and spiritual toolkit - take from it what you need." - TIME Magazine

Oscar-nominated! Best Supporting Actor. Based on a 1998 Esquire profile, this is the story of bitter and troubled journalist Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys, The Americans), who gets tasked with interviewing the world’s most disarmingly kind TV host, Mr. Fred Rogers.

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2019 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity

AKA 'The World's Best Commercials.' The Festival Of Creativity (held in June in Cannes, France) is a mecca for advertising agencies from all over the world. Last year, over 90 nations were represented.

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Les Miserables

STC

"An enthralling, edifying, terrifying, sometimes funny and improbably stirring portrait of a multiethnic, polycultural cauldron where fury against injustice and neglect hovers near the boiling point." - Wall Street Journal

Oscar Nominated! Best International Feature. "There are no trilled notes, no stirring group musical numbers, no talk of castles on clouds in French-Malian director Ladj Ly’s directorial debut. You will hear, however, the songs of angry men, expressed in a way that drives home the point of their rage and rancor.

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Dark Waters

STC

"Mark Ruffalo, a great actor of seemingly limitless range, brings a growing sense of moral outrage to this gripping Todd Haynes docudrama about a corporate lawyer who risks it all to take on the chemical companies he's been hired to defend." - Rolling Stone

"Todd Haynes, the director that brought us Carol, Far from Heaven and Velvet Goldmine, opts for a good old-fashioned corporate thriller with Dark Waters based on the 2016 New York Times article 'The Lawyer Who Became DuPont’s Worst Nightmare' by Nathaniel Rich.

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Uncut Gems

18A

Safdie Brothers Return To The Playhouse!

IT'S BACK AT THE PLAYHOUSE FOR TWO SCREENINGS ONLY!

Winner: Best Actor (Adam Sandler), National Board of Review. Nominated for 5 Independent Spirit Awards. Adam Sandler gives a terrific, career-best performance as a Manhattan jeweller with a perilous gambling habit in a rollicking, high-energy thriller

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Nomad: In The footsteps of Bruce Chatwin

STC

"Duplicating many of Chatwin's most notable journeys, Herzog evokes the late English wanderer's restless soul and curious fascination with profound issues that have long captivated the director." - Variety

"Bruce Chatwin was searching for a strangeness as he traveled to remote parts of the world, Werner Herzog says early in Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin.

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Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound

STC

"Making the work of a largely unsung group of technical artists accessible to the general moviegoer, Midge Costin's very enjoyable Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound presents a century-plus history of the evolution of sound in film.

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The 92nd Academy Awards: Oscars Live Broadcast at the Playhouse!

Pre-registration required! Sign up here! FREE with cash donation to 541 Eatery & Exchange OR non-perishable food donation to Hamilton Food Share.

Join us for a casual, come-as-you-are (or dress-to-the-nines, your choice!) evening celebrating the 92nd Academy Awards®! Red carpet starts at 6:30pm.

Enjoy Hollywood's most glamourous night in the grand comfort of the elegant Playhouse Cinema! Which of your favourites will take home the Oscar? Find out at the Playhouse's 1st Annual Oscar night! FREE with a donation to 541 Eatery & Exchange!

63 Up

"If you're coming to the series cold, there's enough filmed background to get you up to speed. And if you've become hooked at some point over the years, 63 Up makes for essential viewing." - National Post

"Michael Apted's Up series, which returns every seven years to interview the same group of subjects and see how life is going, long ago established itself as a humanist treasure.

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Dragnet Girl accompanied by the VOC Silent Film Harmonic

Feb. 13, 7:00pm. Co-presented by Collective Arts (with a *special complimentary beer* for legal age attendees!) "This silent gangster film, from 1933, directed by Yasujiro Ozu, seethes with sardonic comedy. It opens like a classic office melodrama, as Tokiko (Kinuyo Tanaka), a demure young secretary, is pursued by her wily boss. Then, after work, she heads to a boxing gym where her criminal boyfriend, Joji (Joji Oka), holds court. Ozu treats underworld swagger with brazen contempt yet adorns it with images of an uproarious visual ecstasy.

Blade Runner - The FINAL CUT

14A

“Ridley Scott's Blade Runner has seen five major iterations, from a 1982 work print used for test screenings through a 2007 cut released to theaters as "The Final Cut."

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Labyrinth

Presented as part of our David Bowie; STARMAN series!

"Jennifer Connelly stars as a self-absorbed teenager immersed in her own Renaissance Faire-esque fantasy world, until goblins accept her angry invitation to come kidnap her wailing toddler brother.

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Jan 23 - 30: Making Waves with Collective Arts, Cannes Lions, Les Misérables, new Herzog + A Beautiful Day for Author Aimee Reid!