New Movies This Weekend! The Outfit Opens, Cult-Classic, Out of the Blue + A24's After Yang, Eraserhead & More!

New films and cult-classics come to the Princess this weekend! Plus, later next week have the KW local rock documentary, Rock this Town opening for limited screenings!

Finally, a great thriller (and gangster film) opening this weekend with the nail-biting feature, The Outfit. One of the best new films of 2022 arrives at the Princess!

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"A refreshingly grown-up, original work, as pleasingly assembled as a good crossword puzzle." - Hollywood Reporter

Premiering Friday at the Original, a rare, fully-restored cult-classic, Out of the Blue! See it while you can.

The 1980's indie classic, Out of the Blue opens this weekend in its new 4K, fully-restored glory!

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“Thumbs up! A bitter unforgettable poem about alienation. One of the unsung treasures among recent independent films.” - Roger Ebert

A24's new indie, sci-fi film, After Yang opens this weekend. A unique look into how AI & Tech could move into our lives even more... in a postive way.

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"A tender, fertile film about the sadness of beautiful things, After Yang reflects transience and permanence as twin states of being, inseparable and contradictory opposites through which we can trace the shapes of our lives." - Inverse

David Lynch's 1970's indie masterpiece, Eraserhead screens on Saturday, a hard-to-find on the big screen film that is a cult-classic no film lover should miss! Again on the 23rd, too!

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Film lovers, make it out this weekend! We'd hate for you to miss this limited screenings!

Held-Over! We have additional screenings of Death on the Nile, this weekend and all next week at the Twin!

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"Retro bliss from director and star Kenneth Branagh as he sets sail for Egypt with an all-star cast that keeps you guessing whodunit." - Peter Travers, ABC News

Starting on March 24!

The KW local music scene documentary, Rock This Town opens for 7 limited screenings, a lot of which are close to sold out! Get tickets as soon as you can!

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Rock This Town brings to life the exciting history of rock music concerts in KW from the 1960s & ‘70s. An insider’s look into the gritty reality of building the local live music scene.

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See you at the movies this Friday!

FILMS SHOWING Friday March 18 to Thursday March 24

The Outfit

An expert tailor must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night.

From the Academy Award-winning writer of The Imitation Game (Graham Moore) comes The Outfit, a gripping and masterful thriller in which an expert tailor (Academy Award winner Mark Rylance) must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night.

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Out of the Blue (1980) - 4K Restoration

A 40th anniversary 4K restoration of Dennis Hopper's "Easy rider of the 80's"

Don Barnes (Hopper) is a truck driver in prison for drunkenly smashing his rig into a school bus. Linda Manz (“Days of Heaven”) plays CeBe, his daughter, a young teen rebel and outsider obsessed with Elvis and the Sex Pistols.

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After Yang

In a near future, a family reckons with questions of love, connection, and loss after their A.I. helper unexpectedly breaks down.

When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake (Colin Farrell) searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife (Jodie Turner-Smith) and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.

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Eraserhead

David Lynch's breakthrough film that became an instant cult-classic

“When David Lynch's Eraserhead was released in 1977, another of the '70s 'midnight movies' that won fanatical repeat audiences, it still stood apart. It had a mesmerizing look and soundtrack, bizarre images that rattled, upset and fascinated audiences. And still do.

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Death on the Nile

"Branagh’s second Agatha Christie adaption is a classy, captivating whodunit." - Newsday

Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot's Egyptian vacation aboard a glamorous river steamer turns into a terrifying search for a murderer when a picture-perfect couple's idyllic honeymoon is tragically cut short.

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Licorice Pizza

"Paul Thomas Anderson's sunniest movie yet, this San Fernando Valley palimpsest is so buoyant and bubbly, it practically floats off the screen." - Time Out

Nominated for 3 Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay)

The story of Alana Kane and Gary Valentine growing up, running around and going through the treacherous navigation of first love in the San Fernando Valley, 1973.

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Rock This Town - Encore!

When live music rocked Kitchener-Waterloo! Featuring Q&A with producer Betty Anne Keller

Rock This Town brings to life the exciting history of rock music concerts in KW from the 1960s & ‘70s. An insider’s look into the gritty reality of building the local live music scene. A 70-minute documentary featuring interviews with music business pros plus performances by today’s musicians. Rock stars come and go but live music is here to stay!

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COMING SOON TO THE PRINCESS

Ukraine Benefit: Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

We are screening this classic of world cinema to fundraise for the Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis. Very rarely screened, this is a beautiful, poetic film. Please come out and support!

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is considered to be the most internationally heralded Ukrainian film in history and a classic of Ukrainian magical realist cinema.

All ticket proceeds will go to the Canada-Ukraine Foundation Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.

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Oscars 2022 (94th Academy Awards) Live Broadcast

In-person Oscars are back!

Pre-registration required. Sign up here.

FREE with non-perishable food donation to Food Bank of Waterloo Region.

We also will be accepting cash donations for the Canada-Ukraine Foundation - Ukraine Humanitarian Crisis Appeal.

Join us for a casual, come-as-you-are (or dress-to-the-nines, your choice!) evening celebrating the 94th Academy Awards®. Red carpet starts at 6:30pm.

Enjoy Hollywood's most glamourous night and celebrate the return of cinema!

WATERLOO - PADDLING FILM FESTIVAL 2022

Presented in partnership with Salus Marine Wear and Waterloo Wellington Canoe Club

Tickets ($20) on sale at the link!

The Paddling Film Festival is an international adventure film tour presenting the world’s best paddling films of the year whitewater, sea kayaking, canoeing, SUP, action and lifestyle in more than 120 cities and towns across Canada,
United States and around the world.

Lunana: A yak in the Classroom

Oscar Nominated for Best International Feature Film

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Memoria

From the extraordinary mind of Palme D’or winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and starring Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton, comes a intriguing drama about a Scottish woman, who, after hearing a loud ‘bang’ at daybreak, begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia.

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