June 21 - 27 | Echo in the Canyon; Pavarotti, Celebrate the Original & a contest

This week we begin our celebration of the Original Princess with a screening of the first film we ever showed: Michael Curtiz's 1942 classic, CASABLANCA, a film that gets better every time you see it. Join us as we tip our hat to the space that has been film central for KW for 34 years. New at the Twin is Ron Howard's acclaimed documentary of the world's most famous tenor, PAVAROTTI. Also, check out JOHN WICK Chapter 3 at the Twin, starring the immortal, the sad, the bad-ass Canadian, Keanu Reeves. Opening the Original on Friday is Jakob Dylan's homage to an incredibly creative time and place in American pop music, ECHO IN THE CANYON. Also new at the Original is THE SOUVENIR, a British film starring Tilda Swinton and featuring her daughter, Honor Swinton Byrne, as a film student in a doomed relationship with a Svengali character. Martin Scorsese executive-produced the film because he wants you all to see it. It's also about the love of film... Definitely a movie for us! About that contest: keep scrolling to the very end!

FILMS SHOWING Friday June 21 to Thursday June 27

Echo in The Canyon

"A richly evocative and entertainingly anecdotal overview of the 1960s Laurel Canyon music scene."- Variety

“Tightly framing the Los Angeles music scene with a focus on the mid-'60s emergence of folk rock in the city’s storied Laurel Canyon district, Echo in the Canyon deftly captures the diversity of influences that launched groundbreaking bands like The Byrds, The Mamas & the Papas and Buffalo Springfield to international acclaim.

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Pavarotti

"Pavarotti's larger-than-life personality shines in almost every scene. The singer's optimism is contagious, and his schoolboy-like wonder is jubilant. There's a lot to smile at here." - New York Times

From the filmmaking team behind the highly-acclaimed documentary THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK — THE TOURING YEARS, this riveting film lifts the curtain on the icon who brought opera to the people. Academy Award winner Ron Howard puts audiences front row center for an exploration of the world’s best-loved tenor.

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The Dead Don't Die

14A

"Jarmusch has brought the B-movie zombie flick back from the dead: this is a disarmingly intelligent riff on politics, parodies, and the futility of it all." - Film Inquiry

"Jim Jarmusch addresses the state of the nation and global ecological catastrophe in this deadpan zombie apocalypse movie that goes straight for the jugular by placing Steve Buscemi's racist farmer in a MAGA-style cap that simply states 'Keep America White Again'.

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The Souvenir

STC

"The Souvenir doesn't get under your skin. It clasps your hand tightly, and when it finally lets go, you will feel its absence." - Austin Chronicle

“Watching the films of Joanna Hogg, a late-blooming British master, is like watching a blank canvas become a work of art. Start with small details. Add in impressions and feelings. Build visual elements stroke by stroke, until near the end, the big picture emerges almost in real time, with full impact.

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John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

14A

"Buying a ticket to a John Wick movie is like signing control of your lizard brain away to the director, Chad Stahelski, for 130 minutes. Luckily, he knows what to do with it." - Film Comment

"Superior exercises in action-movie formalism, the John Wick movies evoke everything from Fritz Lang’s silent thrillers (in their imagining of vast, underground criminal networks) to Gene Kelly’s musicals (in their inventive and breathless fight choreography) to Brian De Palma’s self-aware genre pastiches (in their allusions to high art and the way they veer close to paro

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Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind

Special Encore Tribute Screening in memoriam to the remarkable career of Canada's own, Gordon Lightfoot

"From the song he refuses to perform to his admiration for Drake, a songwriting legend reflects on his lyrics and longevity with candour and humour.

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The Biggest Little Farm

“Joyful in all the best ways. It’s completely and utterly beautiful.” -Alex Billington, First Showing

Many of us have fantasized about it; cutting ourselves off from the hustle and bustle of the big city and escaping to a “simpler” life out in the country. But as much as we’d like to get closer to nature, nature is not always the most welcoming host.

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Casablanca: Princess Original's 38th Birthday Screening

It's our Birthday! Come celebrate with a screening of the first movie we ever showed, Casablanca!

Join us for a special screening of Casablanca to celebrate our 38th birthday! We're bringing it back to 1985 with prices!

$2.75 for Members

$3.75 for Non-Members

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The Dead Don't Die (Cine Babies)

14A

"Jarmusch has brought the B-movie zombie flick back from the dead: this is a disarmingly intelligent riff on politics, parodies, and the futility of it all." - Film Inquiry

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JT Leroy

STC

Unpeeling the layers of an all-American hoax. "Anchored by its two excellent leads, the movie is sympathetic and, for the most part, unsentimental." - New York Times

“Directed by Justin Kelly, JT Leroy is the first fictional treatment of one of history’s most twisty literary hoaxes. But it’s not primarily the story of JT LeRoy a.k.a. Laura Albert, the Brooklyn-raised 30ish woman who passed off her novels as the work of Jeremiah ‘Terminator’ LeRoy, a socially-phobic, homeless, transgender, AIDS-suffering teenage prostitute.

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The Fall of the American Empire

18A

"The Fall of the American Empire is like an economics class taught by Georges Simenon or Elmore Leonard. Denys Arcand has made a great, violent, socially relevant crime caper film." - Boston Herald

“Charged with alternating currents of droll wit, sardonic cynicism, and socialist-tinged idealism, writer-director Denys Arcand’s The Fall of the American Empire is a richly amusing rumination on the excesses and amorality of capitalism.

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Wild Rose

"A star is born? More like a supernova." - Time Out

“On parole, working-class Glaswegian single mum Rose-Lynn Harlan (Jessie Buckley) is desperate to kickstart her dream of making it in Nashville, whatever the cost to family and friends. Country music, proclaims the gobby singer, is ‘three chords and the truth’ – a mantra she’s had tattooed on her arm.

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Win a pair of passes to see CASABLANCA at the Original on June 26. Simply tell us the first film you ever saw at the Original Princess and who you were with (or by yourself). Send your response to [email protected]. We will randomly select 2 lucky winners. Winners will be notified Friday morning. Bonne chance!

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