May 17 - 23 | Come together at the Princess this long weekend!

Before you all get too excited, WE STILL DO NOT HAVE A LEASE!

So, what does this mean? It means that we are booking into June, with a plan to print a Film Guide for the Original for June 13 - July 26. Our weekly negotiations with the Huether Hotel appear to be going well and they have encouraged us to promote the fact that we will be staying on; however, we have learned that we are completely vulnerable without a lease (even after 34 years of a good tenancy). Thank you for your continued support and solidarity! We are hopeful but we must keep our powder dry.

The rest of May and early June are starting to fill up on the Original calendar. This Friday we open the very well-reviewed Indian film, SIR, and starting on May 21, look for a few showings of Werner Herzog's new documentary, MEETING GORBACHEV. It was a treat to see the legendary John Cleese in Kitchener recently, so we're keen to revisit his early work in MONTY PYTHON & THE HOLY GRAIL on May 24. We're also keen for another installment of DECONSTRUCTING THE BEATLES (May 23, 26). Scott Freiman examines Side One of Abbey Road this time.

Holding at the Princess this week is Tolkien (recommended!), The Grizzlies (highly recommended!), The Public (want to see) and Amazing Grace (highest recommendation!) In April, when we were given our "eviction" notice for June 1, we promised everyone that we would be screening films that were iconic to the Original, which naturally meant Rocky Horror. After 34 years of regular RHPS screenings, we think our Rocky Horror screenings are the longest-running in Canada. So, on the days that would have been our last, May 31 & June 1, we'll be doing the Time Warp again, and celebrating the Original at the same time. Tickets on sale now! Finally, this just in: limited edition "Beautiful Friendship" t-shirts are on sale at the Twin. There are only 50, so get one while you can!

FILMS SHOWING Friday May 17 to Thursday May 23

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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The Grizzlies

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"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.

"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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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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Deconstructing the Beatles: Abbey Road, Side 2

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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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Knock Down the House

May 23, 7pm, Twin. Community Screening presented by Catherine Fife, MPP for the riding of Waterloo. Registration required for this free event.

"Please join me for a free screening of Knock Down the House at Princess Twin Cinemas on Thursday May 23 from 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm.

"This film follows the incredible stories of four women who decide to run for office against all odds. At a moment of historic volatility in American politics, these women set themselves on a journey that changed their lives and country forever."

Doors: 6:30 pm
Movie: 7:00 pm

RSVP here: https://www.catherinefife.com/knock_down_the_house

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The Grizzlies (Cine Babies)

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

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Coming Soon to the Original

Red Joan

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"While Joan's early years are absolutely fascinating, it is the refreshing concept of Dench's elderly communist agent that gives this drama its real bite and edge." - Daily Mirror

“A good old-fashioned British spy thriller with a bewitching female heroine (or anti-heroine, if you will) played by the excellent actresses Judi Dench and (as her younger self) Sophie Cookson, Red Joan revisits the incredible real-life spy case of Melita Norwood. It is directed with a strong sense for character by Trevor Nunn, the former director of the Royal Shakespeare Co.

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The White Crow

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"Director Ralph Fiennes makes this hypnotic look into the young life of controversial ballet icon Rudolph Nureyev (Oleg Ivenko) a thing of bruised beauty and an exhilarating gift." - Rolling Stone

"The White Crow tells the story of ballet legend Rudolf Nureyev and his sensational escape to the west in the early 60s at the age of 23, while on his first European tour. Dance is represented as a transcendental experience of success, of leaving behind the past and reinventing the future.

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