Metro Cinema Society: from Wed, February 22nd to Tue, February 28th

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A Dangerous Method

Director: David Cronenberg

Canada 2011, 99 min, 35mm

Feb 22, 24 & 27 @ 7pm
Feb 25 @ 1pm
Feb 25, 26 & 29 @ 9pm
Feb 26 @ 4pm

A look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) gives birth to psychoanalysis. From one of Canada’s most talented and respected filmmakers - David Cronenberg - known for his sense of dry... view more

Cafe de Flore

Director: Jean-Marc Vallee

Canada 2011, 120 min, Digital

Feb 22 @ 9pm

Powerful, propulsive, music-filled, this film is the latest from award - winning director Jean-Marc Vallée (_C.R.A.Z.Y._). It’s a love storybetween a man and a woman, and between a mother and her son. A mystical and fantastical odyssey on love and... view more

FAVA Video Kitchen

Director: Various

Canada 2012, Digital

Feb 23 @ 7pm

FAVA is proud to present new works from their introductory digital film course, Video Kitchen. Our students have been hard at work cooking up a fresh batch of short films and are ready to serve them up to an audience... view more

Turkey Shoot: Cool as Ice

Director: David Kellogg

USA 1991, 91 min, Digital

Feb 23 @ 9:30pm

When we ponder Vanilla Ice, we don’t think of James Dean. What the hell is he doing, then, in a remake of _Rebel Without a Cause_, the classic tale of teenage alienation and method acting? The original thrilled us with... view more

Killer of Sheep

Director: Charles Burnett

USA 1977, 83 min, 35mm

Feb 24 & 27 @ 9pm
Feb 25 @ 3pm
Feb 26 & 29 @ 7pm

_Killer of Sheep_ examines the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse. Frustrated by money... view more

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Director: Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones

UK 1974, 91 min, 35mm

Feb 24 @ 11pm

And now! At Last! Another film completely different from some of the other films which aren’t quite the same as this one is. King Arthur (Graham Chapman) and his knights Sir Galahad the pure (Michael Palin) , Sir Lancelot the... view more

Noir: Criss Cross

Director: Robert Siodmak

USA 1949, 87 min, 35mm

Feb 25 & 28 @ 7pm
Feb 26 @ 2pm

A first-rate, fatalistic urban nightmare, _Criss Cross_ comes from noir stalwart and stylist Robert Siodmak, one of the key contributors to the genre’s aesthetic. Burt Lancaster plays brooding armoured car guard Steve Thompson, whose life has been on a drunken... view more