We’re toasting Chinese Lunar New Year festivities (2023 – Year of the Rabbit) with a double header featuring two standout performances from one of our favourite actors, the incomparable (not to mention prolific) Tony Leung. Join us on Tuesday, January 31 for 4K restorations of modern Hong Kong cinema classics, including Wong Kar Wai‘s CHUNGKING … Read more
Inspired by the late Richard Wagamese‘s best-selling 2012 novel ‘Indian Horse,’ (which won the Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature in 2013), director Stephen Campanelli‘s faithful adaptation follows the story of Saul Indian Horse, who as a seven year old in late 1950s Ontario, is torn from his Ojibway family and committed … Read more
SENAPATHY is back in style! The much-awaited #Indian2 Trailer is OUT NOW, packed with breathtaking action and visuals that will keep you hooked. Senapathy, an ex-freedom fighter turned vigilante who fights against corruption. Senapathy returns to the country to aid a young man who has been exposing corrupt politicians in the country through videos on … Read more
Join the party! Come hang out with us for a FREE #CanFilmDay screening of INCENDIES, the devastating political thriller that launched filmmaker Denis Villeneuve (DUNE: Part One & Two, BLADE RUNNER 2049, ARRIVAL) to the highest level of international acclaim, earning him an Oscar nomination for Best International Feature in 2010. Nawal (Lubna Azabal), a … Read more
Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are formal and polite—until a discovery about their spouses creates an intimate bond between them. For the celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the film, Wong Kar Wai has revisited the … Read more
The creator of “Hamilton” and the director of CRAZY RICH ASIANS invite you to the event of the summer, where the streets are made of music and little dreams become big… IN THE HEIGHTS! Lights up on Washington Heights… The scent of a cafecito caliente hangs in the air just outside of the 181st Street … Read more
When a wealthy industrialist is found murdered in a small Mississippi town and an African-American man is picked up at the train station with a wallet full of cash, local Police Chief Bill Gillespie immediately assumes he has caught his culprit. He’s soon embarrassed to learn that the man he has arrested is Detective Virgil … Read more
Set in the German-Turkish community in Hamburg, grief-stricken Katja (Diane Kruger, took home the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in what many are calling, “the performance of a lifetime”) takes revenge for her family after her life falls apart when two neo-Nazis kill her husband and 6-year-old in a brutal bomb explosion. … Read more
Writer-director Maja Jacobs‘ IN GOD I TRUST is a film about the intense and unpredictable realities of race and religion in America. Inspired by true events, the film follows three characters and three story lines that all come together during a random encounter in a small Northern Idaho town. The film wastes no time testing … Read more
Given the current success of British-Irish playwright and filmmaker Martin McDonagh‘s latest, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, we thought the time was right to re-visit his feature debut, the 2008 cult-classic dark comedy IN BRUGES – the film which initially paired the fantastic foils Colin Farrell and Brendon Gleeson. Although not a “Christmas movie” per se, … Read more
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