Sept 18-24: Celebrate Our 35th Birthday with Casablanca; Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie in Radioactive; Domestic thriller, The Nest. Banff Mountain Film Festival & More!

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We can hardly believe the Princess Cinema has been showing movies for 35 years! The Princess is the longest-running independent arthouse under one management in Canada! We are as amazed as you! Our annual FREE FOR MEMBERS birthday celebration will be a little different this year, thanks to COVID-19. There may be physically-distanced seats available "at the door," for Casablanca (the first movie screened at the Princess) so if you'd like to join us for this happy occasion, feel free to show up and we might be able to accommodate you. Thanks so much for all the support over the years, KW. We couldn't have done it without you!

There are very limited tickets left to see The Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour 2020 this week at the Princess. Co-presented with our friends at Grand River Rocks, this is the ultimate in mountain adventures on the big screen! Get tickets now for this popular event. Ample physical distancing in effect. Cinema capacity reduced 80%!

The edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller, The Nest opens this Friday at the Twin. Jude Law & Carrie Coon deliver knock-out performances in this terrific film that is akin to a haunted house movie... without the ghosts. Only at the Princess!

Radioactive opens Friday at the Twin, a look at the life of pioneering scientist, Marie Curie. Oscar-nominated actress Rosamund Pike (Gone Girl) gives another stellar performance as the 2-time Nobel prize winner, whose discovery of radium and polonium laid the foundation for atomic energy. From the director of Persepolis. A Princess exclusive!

We're giving you a chance to see David Lynch's 1984 adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi classic, Dune, before Canadian director Denis Villeneuve's new version is released. This weekend at the Original, Saturday & Sunday only, see Lynch's Dune, a rare chance to experience it on the big screen! Cult-classic screenings continue this week with two screenings of Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, and a one-night-only screening of Tony Scott's True Romance on Thursday.

Jump-in and explore indigenous art with the documentary, Haida Modern next week... "In the 50 years since he carved his first totem pole and saw it raised on Haida Gwaii, Robert Davidson has come to be regarded as one of the world’s foremost modern artists" ... Limited screenings, get tickets! 

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Films Showing Sept 18 - Sept 24

Sept 18, 2020 is the Princess' 35th Birthday! To celebrate we are presenting the first film the Princess ever screened -- CASABLANCA -- and it's FREE for Princess Members & Princess weekly newsletter subscribers!
Take it from us, you can never see CASABLANCA too many times. It simply gets better and better, every time.

Tickets are limited to a maximum of 50. Due to physical distancing restrictions in the cinema and limited seating, we ask that you bring a friend! At the Twin, we have 2 seats together. If for some reason you are no longer able to attend, please let us know so we can offer the seats to someone else!

NR

"An elegant, eerie drama of marital distress." - Hollywood Reporter

Life for an entrepreneur and his American family begin to take a twisted turn after moving into an English country manor.

No screenings currently scheduled.

NR

"Rosamund Pike's refreshingly untamed performance as two-time Nobel-winning scientist Marie Curie does full justice to a defiantly unconventional life." - Rolling Stone

Pioneer. Genius. Rebel.

No screenings currently scheduled.

PG

“Gentlemen! You can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!”

“If any other director had optioned Peter Bryant's 1958 novel about inadvertent nuclear conflict, it would doubtless have become an earnest Cold War thriller, wagging a sober finger at the folly of war.

No screenings currently scheduled.

PG

In the far future, all interstellar trade depends on a spice found only on the desert world of Arrakis. When Paul Atreides and his family are sent to govern the planet, the stage is set for a tale of betrayal, murder and prophecy that will reveal the planet's secrets...

"Mammoth, unwieldy and completely ahead of its time." - Film4

"Derided, disowned, and debated endlessly, David Lynch’s weird venture into big budget sci-fi spectacle is a most fascinating disaster of genre making.

No screenings currently scheduled.

PG

"If you've read the novel, it's a glorious adaptation. If you haven't, it's still the first perfect comedy of 2020." - The Herald

"You don’t need to have read Charles Dickens' eighth novel to enjoy this fresh, contemporary, provocative and brilliantly comic adaptation, which is a marvellously nimble and accessible take on his weighty and most autobiographical book.

No screenings currently scheduled.

PG

A woman starts to question the suppressed status of females while running a housekeeping school for teenage girls in 1968 France.

Paulette Van Der Beck (Juliette Binoche) and her husband have been running the housekeeping school of Bitche in Alsace for many years. Their mission is to train teenage girls to become the perfect housewives at a time when women were expected to be subservient to their husband.

No screenings currently scheduled.

R

“It’s Tarantino’s gutter poetry that detonates True Romance. This movie is dynamite.” – Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

A rock ‘n roll adventure following two unlikely lovers who accidentally double cross the mob and hit the road towards Los Angeles. Featuring an all-star cast, slick direction from Tony Scott and an endlessly-quotable script by Quentin Tarantino, True Romance will have you saying “you’re so cool” all month long.

No screenings currently scheduled.

14A

Director Charles Wilkinson's evocative documentary beautifully explores how the artist Robert Davidson brought Haida culture back to its people.

In the 50 years since he carved his first totem pole and saw it raised on Haida Gwaii, Robert Davidson has come to be regarded as one of the world’s foremost modern artists. And yet, in the insightful interviews captured here, he retains a remarkably soft-spoken manner and a charming humility that belies what an influential figure he’s become in both the realms of art and activism.

No screenings currently scheduled.

Coming Soon

NR

Based on events from a 1998 lawsuit, PERCY follows small-town farmer Percy Schmeiser, who challenges a major conglomerate when the company’s genetically modified (GMO) canola is discovered in the 70-year-old farmer’s crops.

"Based on real events from a 1998 lawsuit, PERCY follows a small-town farmer who takes on a giant corporation (Monsanto) after their GMOs interfere with his crops. As he starts the fight against them, he realizes he's like thousands of other disenfranchised farmers around the world fighting the same battle.

No screenings currently scheduled.

R

"Effectively balancing humor and subtle pathos, Sofia Coppola crafts a moving, melancholy story that serves as a showcase for both Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson" - Rotten Tomatoes

"Sofia Coppola's sophomore film (following the gently assured The Virgin Suicides) is another exploration of delicate relationships and uncommunicated frustrations, this one in a beautifully composed atmosphere of isolation." - Seanax.com

No screenings currently scheduled.

NR

La Belle Époque is a sweet and inventive romantic comedy that deftly balances hearty laughs and heartwarming emotion.

"Cartoonist Victor (Daniel Auteuil) and psychoanalyst Marianne (Fanny Ardant) have been together for more than forty years. He has grown a little too comfortable with his old-fogey status while she still has a lust for life and a low boredom threshold. Marianne eventually throws Victor out on the street and considers it a long overdue act of liberation.

No screenings currently scheduled.

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