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Cinema at the Centre
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Starts: Wednesday, January 08
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Ends: Wednesday, January 08
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Since 2004, Cinema at the Centre has shown a wide array of independent, foreign and classic films. Join us in our cozy theatre for a season of exciting and diverse flicks.
Wednesday, October 30 | 6:30 pm
THE LOVED ONES
Lola, an awkward high school misfit, asks hearthrob Brent to the prom. When he says no, she takes rejection poorly and enlists the help of her vengefully inclined father to kidnap her main crush on the night of the event. The Loved Ones is what happens when puppy love goes horribly, violently wrong. “A terrifying masterpiece…The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remade by John Hughes.” – Indiewire
This film contains graphic violence which some audiences may find disturbing.
Australia, 2009, 84 minutes, not rated
NOVEMBER FILMS
Wednesday, November 6, 6:30 pm
BLACK BOOK
Rachel (Carice van Houten), a beautiful Jewish woman living in German-occupied Holland during late 1944, escapes Nazi capture by passing for Aryan. She becomes a spy for the Dutch resistance uses her feminine charms to seduce a German commander and help take down the evil empire. An epic-scale war drama from director Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct, Starship Troopers).
Netherlands, 2006, 145 minutes, rated 14A, in Dutch with English subtitles
Wednesday, November 13, 6:30 pm
BUYING SEX
Timely and wise, this important documentary about the state of prostitution laws in Canada is a revelation. Those laws, forged in the 19th century, are now being challenged by both pro-prostitution and anti-prostitution forces, with no evident consensus about which way forward is either best or likely. Buying Sex carefully guides the viewer through a wide spectrum of disagreement, exploring the many points of view in this age-old yet contemporary debate.
Canada, 2013, 75 minutes, not rated
Wednesday, November 20, 6:30
BEFORE MIDNIGHT
Director Richard Linklater’s follow-up to indie classics Before Sunrise and Before Sunset, this gorgeously photographed meditation on love follows a talkative middle-class couple (Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke) as they tour Greece and attempt to pick up the pieces of their once sizzling romance. Some prickly issues emerge – divorce, resentment, infidelity – and their conflict demonstrates that even the finest example of true love has its complications.
USA, 2013, 109 minutes, rated 14A
Wednesday, November 27, 6:30
THE LOOK OF LOVE
Steve Coogan and director Michael Winterbottom continue their fruitful partnership with this epic portrait of the rise and fall of British nudie theater impresario Paul Raymond. The symbol of Soho, sex and sophistication from the swinging 60s to the 80s, Raymond almost single-handedly rewrote the cultural history of the UK with an empire of topless theaters and softcore magazines that would eventually make him the richest man in the country.
UK, 2013, 101 minutes, 18A
Event Location
Stanley A. Milner Library
7 Sir Winston Churchill Square
Edmonton, Alberta
T5J 2V4