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Friday, July 24 – Selma
-Presented
by the Public Service Alliance of Canada
-Synopsis: Although the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 legally desegregated the South, discrimination was still rampant in
certain areas, making it very difficult for blacks to register to vote. In
1965, an Alabama city became the battleground in the fight for suffrage.
Despite violent opposition, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) and his
followers pressed forward on an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, and their
efforts culminated in President Lyndon Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act of
1965.
Review: Selma offers a resounding rallying cry of “enough is enough” from the
onscreen Dr. King and from the director Miss DuVernay. Conversations are
growing and growing about the necessity for more representation from female and
minority voices behind the camera in Hollywood, and Selma couldn’t provide a better
example for the necessity of diversity on both sides of the frame. DuVernay
dramatizes this slice-of-history with a forcefully authentic voice. (Full Review)
Saturday, July 25 – Jurassic Park
-In
collaboration with Cellar Door Film Festival
-Synopsis: In Steven Spielberg's massive
blockbuster, paleontologists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Ellie Sattler (Laura
Dern) and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) are among a select group
chosen to tour an island theme park populated by dinosaurs created from
prehistoric DNA. While the park's mastermind, billionaire John Hammond (Richard
Attenborough), assures everyone that the facility is safe, they find out
otherwise when various ferocious predators break free and go on the hunt.
-Dinosaurs! Laura Dern! Pre-War Horse Spielberg!
Friday, July 31 – Dr. Strangelove
or: How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb
-Presented
by The
Diefenbunker Museum
-Synopsis: Peter Sellers and George C.
Scott star in Stanley Kubrick’s classic satire about what could happen if the
wrong person pushed the wrong button -- and it played the situation for laughs.
U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely insane, and sends his bomber
wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He thinks that the communists are conspiring to
pollute the "precious bodily fluids" of the American people.
Saturday, August 1 – Toy Story
Synopsis: Buzz + Woody = magic.
Friday, August 7 – Back to the Future
-Presented
by the Community Addictions Peer Support Association
-Synopsis: In this 1980s sci-fi classic,
small-town California teen Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is thrown back into the
'50s when an experiment by his eccentric scientist friend Doc Brown
(Christopher Lloyd) goes awry. Traveling through time in a modified DeLorean
car, Marty encounters young versions of his parents (Crispin Glover, Lea
Thompson), and must make sure that they fall in love or he'll cease to exist.
Even more dauntingly, Marty has to return to his own time and save the life of
Doc Brown.
-N.B. Valet
parking for DeLorean not provided.
Saturday, August 8 – Back to the Future II
-Synopsis: In this zany sequel,
time-traveling duo Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) and Dr. Emmett Brown
(Christopher Lloyd) return from saving Marty's future son from disaster, only
to discover their own time transformed. In this nightmarish version of Hill
Valley, Marty's father has been murdered and Biff Tannen, Marty's nemesis, has
profited. After uncovering the secret to Biff's success -- a sports almanac
from the future -- Marty and the Doc embark on a quest to repair the space-time
continuum.
-Back to back Backs!
Friday, August 14 –
Film TBA
-Presented
by the Queer Mafia
Saturday, August 15 –
Moonrise Kingdom
Synopsis: The year is 1965, and the residents of New Penzance, an
island off the coast of New England, inhabit a community that seems untouched
by some of the bad things going on in the rest of the world. Twelve-year-olds
Sam (Jared Gilman) and Suzy (Kara Hayward) have fallen in love and decide to
run away. But a violent storm is approaching the island, forcing a group of
quirky adults (Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Bill Murray) to mobilize a search
party and find the youths before calamity strikes.
Review: The story of child’s play in Moonrise
Kingdom provides the perfect fit for Anderson’s unique, quirky style. Set
to the bombastic kettle drums of the score by Alexandre Desplat, Moonrise
Kingdom is an unabashed celebration of the age of innocence. There’s always
been something childlike about the colourful whimsy of his earlier works like Rushmore
and The Royal Tenembaums, and both films feature characters that choose
arrested development in lieu of abandoning their youth. Moonrise Kingdom,
however, works at a higher level because the look, tone, and pace of Anderson’s
style are impeccably tailored for an adult’s nostalgia for lost youth. Moonrise
Kingdom lets viewers experience the joy of being a kid all over again. (Full review)
Friday, August 21 – The One-Hundred Foot Journey
-Presented by Ottawa Community Immigrant Services
Synopsis: Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal)
is an extraordinarily talented and largely self-taught culinary novice. When he
and his family are displaced from their native India and settle in a quaint
French village, they decide to open an Indian eatery. However, Madame Mallory
(Helen Mirren), the proprietress of an acclaimed restaurant just 100 feet away,
strongly objects. War erupts between the two establishments, until Mallory
recognizes Kadam's impressive epicurean gifts and takes him under her wing.
Saturday, August 22 –
The Wizard of Oz
Synopsis:
Follow the Yellow Brick Road. (Check the forecast beforehand!)
Friday, August 28 –
Rain date or surprise movie!
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