June 17-23: New 35MM print of The Conversation! Plus 3 more classics from the 1970s. Montana Story; Into the Weeds; Illustrious Corpses and more!

See The Conversation's new 35MM print remastered under the supervison of director, Francis Ford Coppola!

Lonely wiretapping expert Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is hired to record a seemingly innocuous conversation in San Francisco's Union Square between two lovers. Upon re-hearing the tapes, however, Caul believes he may be putting the couple in danger if he turns the material over to his client (Robert Duvall).

Winner of Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival, 1974), and nominated for Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Sound nominations (Academy Awards, 1975)

See it in 35MM this week only!

Get swept away by the gorgeous landscapes, and engrossed in the family conflict of the new movie, Montana Story

“★★★★. Evokes a grandiose style of American frontier filmmaking, somewhere between John Ford and Kelly Reichardt.”—Globe and Mail

“Superb acting against the backdrop of the alluringly barren American heartland. Montana Story has an air of timelessness.” —Los Angeles Times

Two estranged siblings (Haley Lu Richardson, Owen Teague) return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved, confronting a deep and bitter family legacy.

“Montana Story opens a world of meaning that can pierce the heart.” —The New York Times

The Northman plays June 17-20. See the Viking epic on the big screen!

From visionary director Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) comes The Northman, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father's murder.

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INTO THE WEEDS, a tale of Man Vs. Corporation, June 21-23.

A portrait of a groundskeeper who suffered from deteriorating health possibly caused by herbicide.

"Through deft editing and a keen sense of detail, Baichwal manages to compress the case of Johnson vs. Monsanto Company into a superbly paced, tightly wound thriller." - Globe & Mail

"Provides another illustration of coldblooded corporate denialism in the face of widespread harm." - Variety

Davie Bowie's first starring feature was in 1976 with Nic Roeg's The Man Who Fell to Earth

Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. While developing a method to transport water, Thomas meets Mary-Lou (Candy Clark) and begins to fall in love with her. Just as he is ready to leave Earth, Thomas is intercepted by the U.S. government...

"Bowie's screen debut still fascinates whenever he's on-screen, and it's full of little reminders of how much has changed since the movie was made." - Seattle Times

"The most intellectually provocative genre film of the 1970s." - Time Out

June 18th and 21st!

Italian political thriller, Illustrious Corpses, plays for one show only on June 19! Based on the novel Equal Danger by famous Racalmuto author, Leonardo Sciascia (1971)!

"The Italian political thriller boasts grown-up filmmaking, of a now unfamiliar strain; it’s ominous, oblique, unrushed, and altogether grave." - The New Yorker

"Francesco Rosi’s film, released in 1974 when Italy feared a coup d’état, remains astute analysis of corruption." - The New York Times, J. Hoberman, 2021

"A dazzling example of fashionably radical Italian filmmaking — elegantly composed, breathlessly paced, photographed in the beautiful, drained colors of a landscape in mourning for the sun." - The New York times, Vincent Canby, 1976

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David Cronenberg's RABID (1977) plays for two shows only, June 19 & 23! Not only is RABID a gratuitous horror film about a viral contagion, but the lead actor is none other than famed American porn star Marilyn Chambers. If Cronenberg was courting Canadian outrage with his feature directorial debut, he was practically begging for controversy with his sophomore effort! See it on the big screen!

Final Chance to see Everything Everywhere All At Once. Catch it this week!

Tickets on Sale Now! The Phantom of the Open starts June 24th!

See the heart-warming British comedy starring Oscar Winner Mark Rylance, about the true story of Maurice Flitcroft, the worst golfer to ever the play the British Open.

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Montana Story

"Montana Story evokes a grandiose style of American frontier filmmaking, somewhere between John Ford and Kelly Reichardt. See it on the largest screen you can find." - Globe and Mail

From the acclaimed writer/directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel (What Maisie Knew, The Deep End) comes a neo-Western with an emotional tremor hiding beneath it. Two estranged siblings (Haley Lu Richardson, Owen Teague) return home to the sprawling ranch they once knew and loved, confronting a deep and bitter family legacy against a mythic American backdrop.

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The Conversation (New 35mm Print!)

A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.

New 35mm Print supervised by Francis Ford Coppola

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The Northman

From visionary director Robert Eggers comes The Northman, an action-filled epic that follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father's murder.

Prince Amleth is on the verge of becoming a man when his father is brutally murdered by his uncle, who kidnaps the boy's mother. Two decades later, Amleth is now a Viking who's on a mission to save his mother, kill his uncle and avenge his father.

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The Man Who Fell To Earth

Presented as part of our David Bowie; STARMAN series!

Thomas Jerome Newton (David Bowie) is an alien who has come to Earth in search of water to save his home planet. Aided by lawyer Oliver Farnsworth (Buck Henry), Thomas uses his knowledge of advanced technology to create profitable inventions. While developing a method to transport water, Thomas meets Mary-Lou (Candy Clark), a quiet hotel clerk, and begins to fall in love with her.

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Illustrious Corpses (1976)

A detective stumbles upon a murder plot involving the Italian Communist Party.

Amid strikes and demonstrations, after an eerie tour of Palermo’s catacombs,
with its 8,000 skeletons and mummified bodies, a judge is shot dead in broad

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RABID (1977)

A young woman develops a taste for human blood after experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into blood-thirsty zombies, leading into a city-wide epidemic.

Picking up where the taboo-busting SHIVERS left off, RABID is the next-level iteration of Cronenberg’s obsession with sexual body violence in the form of a late nite creature feature. After a motorcycle accident, former adult film star Marilyn Chambers wakes up in a hospital with new skin and a new appetite.

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Into the Weeds

A portrait of Dewayne Johnson, a Bay Area groundskeeper who suffered from deteriorating health possibly caused by herbicide.

Dewayne Johnson, a Bay Area groundskeeper, suffered from rashes in 2014 and wondered if they were caused by the herbicide he'd been using for the past couple years. As his health deteriorated, Johnson became the face of a David-and-Goliath legal battle to hold a multi-national agrochemical corporation accountable for a product with allegedly misleading labelling.

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Everything Everywhere All At Once

Led by an outstanding Michelle Yeoh, 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' lives up to its title with an expertly calibrated assault on the senses.

WINNER OF 7 OSCARS: BEST PICTURE, DIRECTOR, ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY and three acting Oscars! When an interdimensional rupture unravels reality, an unlikely hero must channel her newfound powers to fight bizarre and bewildering dangers from the multiverse as the fate of the world hangs in the balance.

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The Phantom of the Open

A heart-warming British comedy starring Oscar Winner Mark Rylance, the true story of Maurice Flitcroft, the worst golfer to ever the play the British Open.

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPEN tells the heartwarming true story of Maurice Flitcroft (Mark Rylance), a dreamer and unrelenting optimist. This humble crane operator from Barrow-in-Furness managed to gain entry to The British Open Golf Championship qualifying in 1976, despite never playing a round of golf before.

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Beautiful Scars

Runner Up at HOT DOCS 2022 for Audience Award

"In 2014, at age 53, Tom Wilson, a singer-songwriter from Hamilton, Ontario, with a stack of gold records and stories aplenty, found out quite accidentally that he had been adopted. Soon afterward he learned that his biological parents were Mohawk from the Kahnawake community, just outside of Montreal.

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Official Competition

Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas star as two egomaniacs commissioned by a millionaire to make a movie together in this sharp comedy skewering wealth, art, and pride.

"Having surveyed his legacy and finding it lacking in prestige, an octogenarian millionaire pharmaceutical tycoon (José Luis Gómez) decides to finance a great work of cinema. He purchases the rights to a Nobel Prize–winning novel about sibling rivalry and entrusts the property to enigmatic auteur Lola Cuevas (Penélope Cruz).

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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence

Presented as part of our David Bowie; STARMAN series!

During World War II, British soldier Jack Celliers (David Bowie) is captured by Japanese forces and held in a prison camp by the honor-bound Capt. Yanoi (Ryuichi Sakamoto). Yanoi and gruff Sgt. Hara (Takeshi) become intrigued with Celliers' open defiance in the face of their staunchly old-world ideas about cowardice and shame. Meanwhile, a translator, Lt. Col.

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Chaplin Sundays: The Great Dictator (1940)

Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

After dedicated service in the Great War, a Jewish barber (Charles Chaplin) spends years in an army hospital recovering from his wounds, unaware of the simultaneous rise of fascist dictator Adenoid Hynkel (also Chaplin) and his anti-Semitic policies.

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Crimes of the Future

"This is what the work of a visionary filmmaker looks like. Forget the new flesh. Long live the old Cronenberg." - Rolling Stone

As the human species adapts to a synthetic environment, the body undergoes new transformations and mutations. With his partner Caprice (Léa Seydoux), Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen), celebrity performance artist, publicly showcases the metamorphosis of his organs in avant-garde performances.

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National Theatre Live: Prima Facie

Jodie Comer (Killing Eve) makes her West End debut in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s award-winning play.

Tessa is a young, brilliant barrister. She has worked her way up from working class origins to be at the top of her game; defending; cross examining and winning. An unexpected event forces her to confront the lines where the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge.

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