June 7-13: Win tickets to Biggest Little Farm, plus masters in the house!

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If you ever dreamed of gettin' back to the land and settin' your soul free, we have the movie for you. The Biggest Little Farm follows John and Molly Chester, a couple who trade big city life to start a farm outside Los Angeles. Their story will inspire you and we have tickets to give away, so keep scrolling to the end of this newsletter!

Also opening this week is the latest film from the great British filmmaker, Mike Leigh (Mr. Turner, Secrets & Lies, Happy-Go-Lucky). Peterloo tells the true story of the 1819 massacre of innocents protesting for workers' rights and parliamentary reform. It's an important, eye-opening and gripping tale, passionately told by a master director.

We go to the vaults this week and dig out David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (an absolute MUST SEE on the big screen); Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (ditto... don't come alone!); John Huston's The Maltese Falcon (Bogart at his best as Sam Spade!); and Bill Mason's Waterwalker (hope to see all you canoe-heads out for this rarely screened --and newly restored-- NFB classic)!

Yoga enthusiasts and spiritual-seekers will want to check out Iyengar: The Man, Yoga, and the Student's Journey and we're giving you one more chance to see the heart-felt, feel-good doc You Are Here: A Come From Away Story.

Don't forget to keep scrolling to win tickets! (ps/ We're ready to go to press so look out for the new Playhouse film guide next week. Lots more great movies coming soon!)

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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Peterloo

14A

"Mike Leigh's most lavish canvas, his most politically charged, his most electric epic... an uncompromising, uncompromised masterpiece: in ravishing moment after ravaging moment" - NPR

Manchester, 1819: a period of famine after the Napoleonic Wars leads to increasing radicalism among working people. Their demands for reform horrify the authorities, leading to the violent suppression of a major demonstration at St Peter’s Field.

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The Aftermath

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"Audiences will enjoy this unusual love story: for its performances, its strong sense of time and place, and its vivid reminder that a war's official end is never really anything of the kind." - Daily Telegraph

Keira Knightley delivers one of her best performances in this love triangle period drama. Reunited with her estranged officer husband Lewis (Jason Clarke) when he is stationed to Hamburg, they are forced to confront the ruins of the city after it was razed to the ground in World War II.

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The Gardener

An intimate tour of one of the world’s foremost private gardens, Les Quatre Vents.

Co-presented by Royal Botanical Gardens. “The Gardener is a documentary reflecting on the meaning of gardening and its impact on our lives.

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Psycho

A woman arrives at a strange motel, having arranged to meet her lover. There she encounters Norman (Perkins), seemingly controlled by his mother. She decides to take a shower...

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Mulholland Drive

14A

“Mulholland Drive is as brilliant and disquieting as anything Lynch has ever done. It is psychotically lucid, oppressively strange, but with a powerfully erotic and humanly intimate dimension that Lynch never quite achieved elsewhere. It is a fantasia of illusion and identity; a meditation on the mystery of casting in art as in life: the vital importance of finding the right role.

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Iyengar: The Man, Yoga, and the Student's Journey

STC

“Hailed as ‘the Michelangelo of yoga’ and considered to be one of the most important masters in the world, B.K.S. Iyengar is credited with bringing the ancient art of yoga to the modern masses. Born in Southern India 100 years ago, the legendary guru is the founder of Iyengar Yoga, a form of Hatha known for its rigorous mental and spiritual focus.

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Waterwalker

Waterwalker, is the late Bill Mason’s ‘Canoe Odyssey’ - a feature length collection of Bill's best canoeing shots from a life spent filming and photographing the wilds of Algonquin, near North shield country and north of Superior rivers and lakes and shorelines. It has become a classic of canoe filmmaking.

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The Maltese Falcon

“John Huston made his debut as a film director with The Maltese Falcon after several years as a film writer. His entrance into the directorial field was noteworthy, with display of keenest knowledge in tempo development and handling of the various players. Huston also wrote the script solo, endowing it with well-rounded episodes of suspense and surprise.

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You are Here: A Come From Away Story

STC

“This story sure has legs – and why shouldn’t it? The way the people of Gander, Newfoundland, opened their hearts to travellers rerouted to their town during the 9/11 attacks on the twin towers is the perfect emotional foil for the brutal violence of that day.

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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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All is True

"All Is True is just what you would want for a Shakespeare biopic directed by Kenneth Branagh - it's touching and impeccably well-acted, with great turns from the director and on-screen wife Judi Dench." - Daily Mirror (UK)

"When it comes to Shakespeare movies, you know you’re in good hands with Kenneth Branagh. In All Is True, the British actor and director does double duty in front of and behind the camera, speculating about the Bard’s bittersweet final years. This handsome film is wondefully acted and clearly made with no shortage of compassion and love.

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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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June 7-13: Win tickets to Biggest Little Farm, plus masters in the house!