Monday Night at the MoviesBoychoir
May 4, 2015 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm USA Rated PG | Drama | 109 minutes From acclaimed Canadian director François Girard (Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould, The Red Violin) comes a drama that the entire family can enjoy: the story of a gifted eleven-year-old boy who must struggle against the odds to find his voice. Stet (newcomer Garrett Wareing)…
Phoenix
April 27, 2015 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm Germany Rated PG | German with English subtitles | 98 minutes Petzold established himself at the forefront of the group of contemporary German filmmakers known as the Berlin School. Following the success of his previous film, Barbara, Petzold returns with another story of a fiercely determined woman — and the deeply divided society to…
Keep On Keepin’ On
April 20, 2015 Showing 7:00pm USA 2014 Rated R | Biography/Music | 86 minutes Special Presentation: Fundraiser for Orangeville Blues and Jazz Festival. Tickets $15 at Booklore A documentary that follows jazz legend Clark Terry over four years to document the mentorship between Terry and 23-year-old blind piano prodigy Justin Kauflin as the young man prepares to compete in an elite, international competition….
Still Alice
April 13, 2015 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm USA Rated PG | Drama | 90 minutes A joint fundraiser with the Alzheimer’s Society The always extraordinary Julianne Moore (Maps to the Stars, What Maisie Knew) rightfully earned an Oscar for her revelatory performance as a renowned linguistics professor struggling with the effects of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. The fact that Dr. Alice Howland…
Two Days, One Night
March 23, 2015 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm Belgium/France French with English subtitles Rated PG | Drama | 95 minutes In the new film from master filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, a working-class Belgian mother (Marion Cotillard, The Immigrant, Rust and Bone) loses her job but has a fighting chance — and one weekend — to get it back. Almost immediately after…
Rosewater
February 2, 2015 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm USA, 2014 103 minutes Rated 14A In 2009, Iranian Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari was covering Iran’s volatile elections for Newsweek. One of the few reporters living in the country with access to US media, he also appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, in a taped interview with comedian Jason Jones. The interview…
Red Army
February 23, 2015 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm USA/Russia A documentary in Russian with English subtitles 87 minutes A smash hit at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival, director Gabe Polsky’s exhilarating documentary chronicles the rise and fall of Soviet hockey in the 1980s. During the Cold War battles between East and West played out in sports as much as international politics,…
My Old Lady
January 26, 2015 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm USA Rating: PG Dramedy 107 minutes For more than fifty years, the plays of Israel Horovitz — from The Indian Wants the Bronx (which launched the careers of Al Pacino and the late John Cazale) to the more recent What Strong Fences Make — have spoken to us fearlessly, often playfully, about the world…
Pride
January 12, 2015 Showings 4:30, 7:00 and 9:10pm United Kingdom Rating: 14A Comedy | Drama 120 minutes Margaret Thatcher’s iron-fisted rule over 1980s Britain prompted waves of political protest. Perhaps the most amazing response of all occurred when Welsh coal miners and London lesbians and gays found a common cause. Pride tells the story of that unlikely alliance; it was never obvious,…
Love Is Strange
November 10, 2014 USA/France, 2014 Rated 14A 98 minutes Screened to critical acclaim at Sundance, Berlin and Tribeca, the poignant sixth feature by celebrated writer-director Ira Sachs (Keep the Lights On, Married Life) is a captivating modern-day love story about a couple whose decades-long relationship is upset by a drastic and unexpected change in their lives. Painter Ben (John Lithgow, Dreamgirls, Kinsey)…