Jan 31 - Feb 6: Oscar Shorts... Animated, Live Action & Documentary! Plus National Theatre Live Returns!

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Starting this Friday, 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 above and take a moment to check out showtimes....

This weekend, National Theatre Live returns to the Playhouse with two screenings of Noël Coward’s provocative comedy Present Laughter. 1pm on Saturday & Sunday, don't miss your chance, these kinds of theatrical experiences only come around so often... And 'hot priest' Andrew Scott from Fleabag season 2 is wonderful in this! 

The Oscar nominated (and hugely impactful film) Parasite comes back to the Playhouse, with added screenings on February 3rd 4th and 5th! Plus two more screenings after the Oscars on the 11th & 13th! South Korean film goes for the Best Picture Oscar, for the very first time! 

Speaking of the Oscars, the Academy Award nominated film, Bombshell opens this weekend, see this for it's timely (and true) story + unbelievable acting performances from Charlize Theron & Margot Robbie. 

Werner Herzog is a filmmaking icon & we've got his newest documentary, Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin continuing this weekend... a film that Seventh Row is calling "The result of engaging with Chatwin's ideas while allowing the viewer to re-evaluate them is one of Herzog's more thought-provoking films in years." Get tickets! 

JUST ANNOUNCED: March 8th, 3:00pm. The one-and-only FERRON on International Womens' Day! Rare show in Hamilton. Ferron is one of Canada's most famous and enduring folk singers. Not to be missed! Hit the image below to get tickets. 

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Animated Shorts. For over a decade, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on Jan. 31st.With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary

No screenings currently scheduled.

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Documentary Shorts - Part 1. For the 15th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on Jan. 31st.With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary

No screenings currently scheduled.

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Documentary Shorts - Part 2. For the 15th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on Jan. 31st.With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary

No screenings currently scheduled.

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Live Action Shorts. For the 15th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films, opening on Jan. 31st.With all three categories offered – Animated, Live Action and Documentary

No screenings currently scheduled.

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"Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, John Lithgow at the top of their game in a solid recap of sexual harassment at Fox News." - Chicago Sun-Times

Nominated for 3 Oscars!

No screenings currently scheduled.

Feb 1 & 2, 1:00pm. Matthew Warchus directs Andrew Scott (BBC’s Sherlock, Fleabag) in Noël Coward’s provocative comedy Present Laughter.

As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine’s colourful life is in danger of spiralling out of control. Engulfed by an escalating identity crisis as his many and various relationships compete for his attention, Garry’s few remaining days at home are a chaotic whirlwind of love, sex, panic and soul-searching.

Captured live from The Old Vic in London, Present Laughter is a giddy and surprisingly modern reflection on fame, desire and loneliness.

What the critics say:

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"Imagine a high-wire act where the acrobat suddenly leaps to a higher wire, then to another that's higher still. It's the best way I can think of to describe the giddy thrill of watching Parasite, a masterpiece of serial surprises." - Wall Street Journal

Winner of 4 Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, Best International Feature, Best Original Screenplay). "An exhilarating and furious indictment of class struggle, Parasite might be the masterpiece South Korea's Bong Joon-ho has been working toward his entire career.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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"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.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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"The story is moving, the acting remarkable and the music glorious." - St. Louis Jewish Light

It’s 1951, and a major musical event is about to enliven London’s classical scene. The evening depicted in this movie’s opening will feature a young violin virtuoso, Dovidl Rapaport, playing a program of Bruch and Bach.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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“Midnight Family provides a stark snapshot of how truly broken the healthcare system is in Mexico City, where fewer than 45 public ambulances serve a population of 9 million.

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"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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"Schwartzberg’s film quickly proves to be one of the year’s most mind-blowing, soul-cleansing and yes, immensely entertaining triumphs.” RogerEbert.com

“‘We are the wisdom of a billion years,’ Brie Larson dreamily narrates over what is not a new Marvel epic but rather a documentary of epic proportions about what director Louie Schwartzberg hopes everyone comes to view as a genuinely earthly marvel: mushrooms.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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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!

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.

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“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."

No screenings currently scheduled.

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"State-sanctioned execution and the spiritual toll it exacts on those involved are explored in “Clemency,” which made history when Chukwu became the first black female director to win the Sundance Grand Jury Prize." - LA Times

MUST END FEB 18! "In this shattering second feature from writer-director Chinonye Chukwu (alaskaLand) Alfre Woodard plays Bernadine Williams, an emotionally restrained prison warden who is about to oversee her twelfth execution by lethal injection.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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