Cinema At The Centre

Starts:

Wednesday, March 10

6:30 PM

Ends:

Wednesday, March 10

8:30 PM

What is Cinema At The Centre/Downtown Docs?

Too many great independent films never reach the theatre. Millions of film fans never see them. Since 2004, Cinema at the Centre has showcased a wide array of independent, foreign, and classic films every month. Once shown, the Edmonton Public Library adds these films to its collection, and anyone may borrow them.

February 10

TRAFIC
a film by Jacques Tati, 1969
96 minutes
French w/English subtitles

Tati reprises his signature role as the bumbling Monsieur Hulot, who drives his ingeniously designed camper car to an auto show in Amsterdam. His on-the-road mishaps result in a series of sidesplitting gags and oddball demonstrations of the vehicle's gadgetry, all part of Tati's unique brand of thought-provoking slapstick comedy. Perhaps an appropriate contrast to the current global wake of environmental conflict, Trafic is "an imaginative, clever, gently humorous spoof of car culture and the drivers who are stuck in its gridlock." - Sean Axmaker, Turner Classic Movies

March 10, 2010

SUGAR
a film by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, 2008
114 minutes

Miguel Santos aka "Sugar" is recruited from the Dominican Republic as a pitcher to a US minor league baseball team, upon which he builds a kind of celebrity status for his impressive knuckle curve. However, as he shakily adjusts to leading a entirely different lifestyle in another country, Miguel begins to question his role on both the team and professional sports in general. Boden and Fleck, the team behind the Oscar-nominated Half Nelson, began work on film after hearing a number of testimonials from Dominican immigrants who arrive in North America to play baseball. "It is both sad and hopeful, but the film''s sorrow and its optimism arise from its rarest and most thrilling quality, which is its deep and humane honesty." - A.O. Scott, The New York Times

COMING SOON

April 21, 2010

BAGHEAD

May 12, 2010

35 RHUMS