May 10 - 16 | The Grizzlies, Tolkien, & WPL presents The Public

We are booking week to week at the Original for the month of May. Lease negotiations are coming along. We don't have a lease yet, but the eviction has been retracted so that means we are booking films into June. As soon as we have a lease at the Original, you all will be the first to know. We aren't there yet, so please stay vigilant. We remain hard at work to save the Original!

Keep updated of our upcoming films by visiting our website's Coming Soon section regularly and reading this weekly e-blast. Also, follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you want to see what's coming up at the Original, check our online calendar (or better yet, bookmark it). Showtimes are updated every Tuesday afternoon.

New at the Princess this week is Tolkien, The Grizzlies, The Public and a special one-night-only screening of the Audience Award winner at this year's Banff Mountain Film Fest, The Bikes of Wrath. Some of the films we have coming this month to the Original include Sir, Meeting Gorbachev, Peterloo, Monty Python's Holy Grail... more films TBA!

FILMS SHOWING Friday May 10 to Thursday May 16

The Grizzlies

14A

"Bracingly unsentimental and transcendently moving at the same time." - Hollywood Reporter

"Set in 2004 in tiny Kugluktuk, Nunavut – an isolated town with the highest suicide rate in Canada – the movie casts Pride’s Ben Schnetzer as Russ Sheppard, a young white guy who arrives in the Arctic to spend a year teaching high-school English before trading up to a cushy private school in Halifax.

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Tolkien

"Lord of the Rings allusions are the hook. Fans will enjoy spotting the references, but the real story is about a generation scythed down by war." - CNET

The Lord of the Rings continues to be one of the most-read, most beloved book series of all time, and with good reason. The level of thought and detail imbued in its pages gives it an air of authenticity that can make it easy to forget that someone actually had to make it all up. But what drove the man who devoted his life to the creation of this fictional world?

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The Public (Food Bank Fundraiser)

Friday, May 10, 7pm, Twin. Join us for this special screening of Emilio Estevez's new film, The Public. The film had its world premiere at last year's Toronto International Film Festival and stars Michael Kenneth Williams, Alec Baldwin, Christian Slater, Jena Malone and Emilio Estevez.

The opening screening is presented in partnership with the Waterloo Public Library and the Food Bank of Waterloo Region.

The Public.

"Writer-director-star Emilio Estevez turns a library occupied by homeless citizens as ground zero for our under-fire democracy. Bravo!" - Rolling Stone

The United States was founded on organized rebellion, its First Amendment celebrating "the right of the people peaceably to assemble." But what happens when the outcasts of American society assemble in the very home of free expression? Drawing on the clash of perspectives now galvanizing America and beyond, Emilio Estevez has crafted a drama that returns politics to a human level.

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Amazing Grace

"Sydney Pollack's unfinished documentary, unearthed and reassembled after nearly 50 years, is a priceless gift to music fans." - Newsday

Added shows! “‘We are here for a religious service,’ gospel legend Reverend James Cleveland reminds his audience in Los Angeles’s New Temple Missionary Baptist Church at the start of Amazing Grace.

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Stockholm

14A

"Lately Ethan Hawke can do no wrong. He, Noomi Rapace and Mark Strong make this quirky, but true, bank robbery movie come alive." - Film Inquiry

Stockholm, based on a real-life event that took place in Sweden in 1973, shows how the phrase "Stockholm syndrome," in which victims eventually side with their kidnappers, came into existence.

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The Bikes of Wrath - Waterloo

STC

Special Presentation. Audience Award Winner - 2018 Banff Mountain Film Festival

"The movie follows five Australians as they attempt to cycle 30 days for 1,600 miles from Sallisaw, Oklahoma, to Bakersfield, California, retracing the route taken by the Joad family—characters in the John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath.

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Tolkien (Cine Babies)

STC

"Lord of the Rings allusions are the hook. Fans will enjoy spotting the references, but the real story is about a generation scythed down by war." - CNET

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Coming Soon to the Original

Sir

"This deeply memorable effort was shot with beautifully simplicity, sometimes with dazzling colours and intoxicating music, but largely in closed spaces that reveal much about their inhabitants... " - Georgia Straight

"Sir is ostensibly a Mumbai-set romance about the sparks that fly between a servant and her well-to-do employer. But if you take away the slow-brewing attraction that serves as an appealing logline, you still have a mighty fine picture about a village girl who wants to defy the patriarchy and stand on her own two feet in the city.

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Deconstructing the Beatles: Abbey Road, Side 2

STC

Composer Scott Freiman's love for The Beatles runs so deep, he's considered one of the world's foremost Fab Four scholars (yes, scholar). Freiman combines his love of The Beatles with his experience as a composer, producer and engineer to deliver unique educational lectures about the creative process of the Beatles.

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Meeting Gorbachev

"Gorbachev turns out to be one of the most fascinating political figures of our time. All thanks to Herzog's keen eye." - The Wrap

Werner Herzog and André Singer's riveting documentary, filled with unforgettable archive materials and based on three long interviews, provides incredible access to, arguably, the world's greatest living politician. Now 87 and battling illness, the visionary Mikhail Gorbachev, former General Secretary of the U.S.S.R, has mellowed and slowed down.

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Monty Python and the Holy Grail

14A

Stratford Festival Presents Monty Python and the Holy Grail!

This special presentation will feature DOOR PRIZES and a chance to WIN TICKETS to the Stratford Festival's 2023 production of SPAMALOT, now on stage at the Avon Theatre!

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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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