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New Rose Hotel
Microcinema at NAC 354 St. Paul St., St. CatharinesDoors 7:00pm Screening 7:30pm Tickets $10 or pay-what-you-choose (door)New Rose Hotel USA, 1998. Abel Ferrara. 93 mins. R. Curated by NAC Member Tyler Adair A corporate raider (Christopher Walken) and...
Throne of Blood
Niagara Artists Centre 354 St. Paul St., St. CatharinesAkira Kurosawa's remarkable 1957 restaging of Macbeth in samurai and expressionist terms is unquestionably one of his finest works -- charged with energy, imagination, and, in keeping with the subject, sheer horror. - Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Belly (1998)
Niagara Artists Centre 354 St. Paul St., St. Catharines"Sanctimonious, silly, occasionally brilliant and exquisitely vivid, Hype Williams’s Belly crowned the decade in which hip-hop swallowed popular culture, and we never looked back." - Patrick Dahl, Screen Slate
Alice Sweet Alice
Niagara Artists Centre 354 St. Paul St., St. Catharines" constantly keeps the audience on its toes with a wealth of incidental detail, excellent set pieces and technical versatility." - Time Out
Persian Cinema Night 1 – Taxi (2015)
Niagara Artists Centre 354 St. Paul St., St. CatharinesBanned from making movies by the Iranian government, Jafar Panahi poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran.
Wakaliwood Double Feature – Who Killed Captain Alex? + Bad Black
Writer/director Nabwana Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey (AKA Nabwana IGG) is a major fan of Western action flicks and kung fu movies, and he crafted this film as something of an homage thereto, with a distinct Ugandan flavor.
Nemesis
Niagara Artists Centre 354 St. Paul St., St. CatharinesAlbert Pyun is the Werner Herzog of the b-movie. Not in content, but in the overwhelming desire to make a movie work...even if that means constructing an entire cyber-dystopia out of nothing but abandoned buildings and 100 pairs of cool sunglasses. - Letterboxd
Persian Cinema Night 2 – Taste of Cherry
Niagara Artists Centre 354 St. Paul St., St. CatharinesWhen people call movies "poems" they're embarrassing themselves except if they said that about the kiarostami film Taste of Cherry. - Dylan Gulela, Letterboxd
Double Feature: Bare Knuckles + The Muthers
Niagara Artists Centre 354 St. Paul St., St. Catharines70s Grindhouse Double Feature curated by Cult Canada's Will Foran
RABID DOG FILM NIGHT – Featuring WOLF JUICE and more!
Niagara Artists Centre 354 St. Paul St., St. CatharinesThe night kicks off with 25 of the most insane minutes of grindhouse you could ever witness - in 3D!
Analog Anarchy II – Audience Selects
Niagara Artists Centre 354 St. Paul St., St. CatharinesYou of strong will are invited to take part in the Analog Anarchy with the film being decided by the audience.
Anime Double Feature: Akira (1988) + Perfect Blue (1997)
"Akira's strangeness is very startling and sometimes bewildering. But there is a thanatonic rapture to its vision of a whole world ending and being reborn as something else." - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian; "Perfect Blue's success lies in the twisted, self-referential storyline that intercuts reality with fantasy so fluidly that viewers inevitably take on Mima's shattered point of view, unable to distinguish the truth until the stunning conclusion." - Tasha Robinson, Sci-Fi Weekly
The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 (2011)
A brave, unofficial and impressionistic history of the Black Power movement that America at one point tried to suppress–an informal history that could only be told by outsiders. The Black Power Mixtape was shortlisted for the prestigious Grierson Award for Best Documentary at the London Film Festival and won the World Cinema Documentary Editing Award at the Sundance Festival. - Movie Metropolis
Mikey and Nicky
Niagara Artists Centre 354 St. Paul St., St. Catharines"The movie grinds along its dark, mordant, and fascinating path until it culminates in one of the most emotionally harrowing scenes ever filmed." - Austin Chronicle
Hard Boiled
Niagara Artists Centre 354 St. Paul St., St. CatharinesA cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who’s working as a gangster hitman.
Curatorial Incubator v.18: Learning From the Local Reception
Niagara Artists Centre 354 St. Paul St., St. CatharinesVtape and NAC co-present the latest Curatorial Incubator V.18: Learning From the Local, a video program based on the idea of Toronto-ness (Vtape) and Niagara-ness (NAC)
Let the Right One In
Niagara Artists Centre 354 St. Paul St., St. CatharinesOskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.
A Man Escaped
Niagara Artists Centre 354 St. Paul St., St. CatharinesA captured French Resistance fighter during WWII engineers a daunting escape from a Nazi prison in France.
Persian Cinema Night 3 – Certified Copy
Niagara Artists Centre 354 St. Paul St., St. CatharinesWhile touring Tuscany, Italy, promoting his new book, English author James (William Shimell) meets French store owner Elle (Juliette Binoche), and the two hit it off, deciding to spend a free day together. As these two strangers get to know each other, however, it becomes clear there’s more to their new relationship than meets the eye.