Sept 27 - Oct 3: TIFF's Opening Film Comes To The Playhouse! Once Were Brothers, Amelie, Midnight Madness, Toni Morrison & More!

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If you've ever pulled into Nazareth, and felt 'bout half past dead, well... this documentary is for you! Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertston & The Band opened the Toronto International Film Festival this year and now the Playhouse is getting the film's EXCLUSIVE Hamilton Premiere! Catch it as it opens this Friday at 7pm! Continues all weekend long and into next week!

Friday at 455pm is the opening screening of the brand new Fiddler on the Roof documentary, Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles. We've partnered with the Hamilton Jewish Federation to bring you this one-of-a-kind documentary that breaks down not only the theatrical draw of the musical, but the cultural impact it's had as well. Continues all weekend, into next week! 

It's better to help people than garden gnomes! It's so true, and we hope you love our Friday night screening this weekend of the cult-classic film, Amelie! Wow, what a treat to catch a film like this back on the big screen! It's going to be a busy evening, so grab those advance tickets at the link below! 

Speaking of cult-classic films, Midnight Madness returns to the Playhouse this Saturday for an 11pm screening of the John Carpenter classic, They Live! Plus, while we're at it with vintage screenings, on Thursday of next week our Cine Italia series continues with a 645pm screening of the Oscar winning film Life is Beautiful! Get tickets for both films below! 

Sunday & Monday this week are filled with informative documentaries, like the new Toni Morrison doc, The Pieces I Am screening on Sunday at 235pm. On Monday, our Art, Design & Architecture series continues with a documentary called Sign Painters, a look into the world of the dying art of sign painting! Wednesday we bring back the film Maiden, which looks at how Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook in charter boats, became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World in 1989.

Two musical films round out our programming this week, with The Beatles film, Yesterday continuing and the Bruce Springsteen film, Blinded By the Light opening up! Not to be missed! 

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As always, get your movie tickets in advance below! See you at the cinema! 

NR

Tribute to Robbie Robertson. “With Robertson’s deep timber and vivid recollections – as well as quips from his mentor Ronnie Hawkins, interviews with fellow rock luminaries and a dizzying amount of rock and roll archival clips – it’s an entertaining account of Robertson’s journey through monumental music moments.” - NOW" - Variety

On Aug 9th, 2023, the great, legendary Canadian guitarist and songwriter, Robbie Robertson, died. In his honour, we present the 2019 documentary (directed by Oscar-winner, Daniel Rohr) based on Robertson's memoir, Testimony. 

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STC

‘Max Lewkowicz’s Fiddler: A Miracle of Miracles provides an entertaining overview of how the unlikely success Fiddler on the Roof came to be.

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14A

"The sort of magical work that reminds us how truly fine movies at their best can be." - Mountain Xpress

“In the role of Amélie, a waitress in a Paris cafe, 23 year-old Audrey Tautou is utterly captivating. Ditto the movie. There’s magic in it.

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PG

"If you want to feel joy, head straight to Yesterday. It’s a heartfelt and humorous tale from Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) and screenwriter Richard Curtis (Love, Actually) about a struggling musician (Himesh Patel) who wakes up in an alternate reality where he’s the only person aware the Beatles ever existed.

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14A

"A fantastically subversive film, a nifty little confection pitting us vs them, the haves vs the have-nots." - Variety

They Live, John Carpenter’s 1988 paranoid freakout, deserves to be thought of as a masterpiece, an artist’s defiant last grab at substance before losing the thread. It’s a cheesy but lovable movie about a working-class hero (WWF wrestler 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper), struggling to find work in a harshly class-riven Los Angeles.

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PG

"Toni Morrison was a treasure, and 'The Pieces I Am' paints a luminous portrait of this cherished writer." - The Advocate

“Toni Morrison’s artistic, cultural and historical legacies are by now firmly established, which doesn’t prevent Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am from revealing them anew and setting them out in an appreciative, and appropriate, package.

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PG

City of Waterloo Neighbourhood Volunteer Appreciation

Being hailed by critics as the feelgood movie of the year, Blinded by the Light is a British comedy-drama by Gurinder Chadha (Bend it like Beckham) inspired by the life of journalist Sarfraz Manzoor and his love of songs by Bruce Springsteen.

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G

"It's a dive into the toolboxes and tricks of the sign painter, and a lift to the rooftops they lower themselves off of to work, too.' - Milwaukee Journal

Art, Design, Architecture. Co-presented by Collective Form.

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STC

“A sort of seafaring Battle of the Sexes, Maiden is an enlivening bit of documentary filmmaking about an all-female sailing crew that takes on harsh oceanic conditions and even rougher treatment from the sexist international sailing community.

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PG

Italy's 1999 Best Foreign Language Oscar Winner!

"Life Is Beautiful is the role Roberto Benigni was born to play. The film falls into two parts. One is pure comedy. The other smiles through tears. Benigni, who also directed and co-wrote the movie, stars as Guido, a hotel waiter in Italy in the 1930s.

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PG

"Life might be imitating art or vice versa, who knows? One thing is certain: The Peanut Butter Falcon is a wonderful piece of art." - Globe & Mail

The Peanut Butter Falcon is a sweet, funny and heartfelt look at friendship and strength. Zak, played by Zack Gottsagen who has Down syndrome, lives in a retirement community where Eleanor (Dakota Johnson) works and cares for him. Most of his days are spent watching an old wrestling video about his hero, Salt Water Redneck (Thomas Haden Church).

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NR

“One of the giants of American television news broadcasting gets an extended close-up in Mike Wallace Is Here, a compulsively engrossing account of a career notable for its gutsy, confrontational attitude toward the power brokers in business and politics.

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NR

"Bell draws laughter and tears out of her character's indignities but also invests us greatly in her desire to change her own life." - Globe & Mail

"Written and directed by first-timer Paul Downs Colaizzo and starring Jillian Bell in a performance that defines breakout, 'Brittany' not only goes places you won’t be expecting but it also manages to be simultaneously sympathetic and unsentimental, a picture with a laugh-out-loud sense of humor that can be as real as hell when it needs to be.

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STC

Winner of the Documentary Directing award at Sundance, Cold Case Hammarskjöld is a shocking, revelatory murder mystery about the 1961 plane crash that killed United Nations secretary-general Dag Hammarskjöld.

"The titular protagonist of Cold Case Hammarskjöld is Dag Hammarskjöld, the secretary general of the United Nations who died in a plane crash in 1961, in what was then northern Rhodesia.

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