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Chungking Express

Synopsis:

Calgary Cinematheque Presents: Chungking Express (1994)


Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express follows two heartbroken Hong Kong police officers drifting through a city where millions of people brush past one another without ever quite connecting. The loneliness the film captured in 1994 feels even more familiar now: we scroll past hundreds of faces a day, constantly connected yet rarely fully present. 

Through pop songs, chance encounters, and the restless rhythm of the city, Wong Kar-wai turns urban isolation into something you feel rather than simply observe. That feeling fully arrives in a cinema, where strangers share the same atmosphere, the same pauses, and the same passing moments in real time.


Written by Hanseul Jeong.


Genre: Comedy, Crime

Director: Wong Kar-Wai
Stars: Brigitte Lin, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu-wai                     
Running time: 1 hr 42 min 
Rating: PG




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Upcoming Showtimes
  • August 13 - 7:00pm
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Playtime

Synopsis:

Calgary Cinematheque Presents: Playtime (1967)


Jacques Tati's PlayTime is one of the miracles of cinema. By all rights, this is a work of art that should not exist, as the entire apparatus of commercial filmmaking is designed to prevent such a film. Tati, who staked his fortune on the project, built an enormous functioning city on the outskirts of Paris—paved streets, a power plant, working electricity, operating elevators, demountable towers—and shot the picture in 70mm with post-synchronized sound. 

The movie stands as an improbable marriage of the visual grammar of silent cinema and the monumental ambitions of the widescreen epic. Such spatial ambition and visual density are, at first, vertiginous and overwhelming; and then, simply, free and inevitable. What first appears as a genial satire of glass-and-steel modernity opens into something transcendent: a vision of human spontaneity and the insurgency of imagination that erupts through the bureaucratic postwar architecture of control and containment. 

The result, a movie with no real star, no conventional plot, no hierarchy of attention, is the pinnacle of the comedy of democracy. PlayTime demands to be seen on the biggest screen possible, from different seats in the theatre, over the course of a lifetime.


Written by David Telfer.


Genre: Comedy

Director: Jacques Tati
Stars: Jacques Tati, Barbara Dennek, Rita Maiden                       
Running time: 2 hr 35 min 
Rating: STC




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  • August 20 - 7:00pm
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Obvious Child

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A League of Their Own Presents: Obvious Child (2014)

For aspiring comedian Donna Stern, everyday life as a female twenty-something provides ample material for her relatable brand of humor. On stage, Donna is unapologetically herself, joking about topics as intimate as her sex life and as crude as her day-old underwear. 

But when Donna winds up unexpectedly pregnant after a one-night stand, she is forced to face the uncomfortable realities of independent womanhood for the first time. Donna's drunken hookup - and epic lapse in prophylactic judgment - turns out to be the beginning of an unplanned journey of self-discovery and empowerment.

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Director: Gillian Robespierre
Stars: Jenny Slate, Jake Lacy, Gaby Hoffmann            
Running time: 1 hr 24 min 
Rating: 14A (Coarse Language, Mature Subject Matter)
 

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Upcoming Showtimes
  • August 26 - 7:00pm
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Midsommar: Director's Cut

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Globe Cinema Presents: Midsommar: Director's Cut (2019)

Dani (Florence Pugh) and Christian (Jack Reynor) are a young American couple with a relationship on the brink of falling apart. But after a family tragedy keeps them together, Christian invites a grieving Dani to join him and his friends on a trip to a once-in-a-lifetime midsummer festival in a remote Swedish village. 

What begins as a carefree summer holiday in the North European land of eternal sunlight takes a sinister turn when the insular villagers invite their guests to partake in festivities that render the pastoral paradise increasingly unnerving and viscerally disturbing.

Genre: Horror, Drama

Director: Ari Aster
Stars: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor                        
Running time: 2 hr 51 min 
Rating: 18A (Sexual Content, Disturbing Content) 


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Upcoming Showtimes
  • August 7 - 7:00pm
  • August 8 - 7:00pm
  • August 9 - 3:00pm
  • August 9 - 6:30pm
  • August 12 - 8:00pm
  • August 13 - 7:30pm
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Network: 50th Anniversary

Synopsis:


Globe Cinema Presents: Network: 50th Anniversary (1976)

This media satire, directed by Sidney Lumet from a brilliantly incisive script by Paddy Chayefsky, is an X-ray of the corrupted soul of a corporate-dominated America, startlingly prescient in its anticipation of today’s outrage-driven news cycle. 

At a struggling television network, ambitious executive Diana Christensen (Faye Dunaway) finds herself with a hit on her hands when disgruntled newscaster Howard Beale (Peter Finch) goes off script, transforming himself into a mad-as-hell prophet railing against the ills of modern society. But can she control the populist revolution they have unleashed on the airwaves? Garnering four Oscars, including for Dunaway, Finch, and Chayefsky, this no-holds-barred New Hollywood classic remains as fearlessly funny as it is unnervingly relevant.

Genre: Drama

Director: Sidney Lumet
Stars: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch                
Running time: 2 hr 01 min 
Rating: 14A (Coarse Language) 


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Upcoming Showtimes
  • August 7 - 7:30pm
  • August 8 - 7:30pm
  • August 9 - 3:30pm
  • August 9 - 6:00pm
  • August 14 - 7:00pm
  • August 15 - 7:30pm
  • August 16 - 3:30pm
  • August 16 - 6:30pm
  • August 19 - 7:30pm
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The Samurai and the Prisoner

Synopsis:


Globe Cinema Presents: The Samurai and the Prisoner (2026)

When Lord Murashige Araki (Masahiro Motoki) rises up against the tyrannical Nobunaga Oda (Bando
Shingo), he finds himself besieged within the walls of his own castle. Isolated, he is confronted with a series of mysterious crimes that shatter the fragile order of his court, plunging the fortress into fear and suspicion. 

With Oda’s army closing in and a traitor hiding among his ranks, Murashige is forced into an uneasy alliance with Kanbei Kuroda (Masaki Suda), a brilliant yet dangerous strategist held prisoner in the dungeon. Helped by his wife Chiyoho (Yuriko Yoshitaka) and his most loyal generals, Murashige must
uncover the truth before the castle falls.

Genre: Drama

Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Munetaka Aoki, Tasuku Emoto, Yamato Kochi                  
Running time: 2 hr 27 min 
Rating: PG 


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Upcoming Showtimes
  • August 14 - 7:30pm
  • August 15 - 7:00pm
  • August 16 - 3:00pm
  • August 16 - 6:00pm
  • August 18 - 8:00pm
  • August 19 - 7:00pm
  • August 22 - 3:30pm
  • August 23 - 3:00pm
  • August 24 - 7:00pm
  • August 25 - 7:00pm
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D Movies: Maximum Overdrive

Synopsis:


The Dandy Brewing Company Presents: Maximum Overdrive (1986)

When Earth passes through the tail of Rea-M rogue comet, the machines come to life and start to kill mankind. A group of survivors is under siege from fierce trucks at the Dixie Boy truck stop gas station and they have to fight to survive.

The Dandy Brewing Company raises a cold beer to cinema’s most glorious trainwrecks in all their cringe-worthy splendor. Trash classics and a full-sensory experience for lovers of the unlovable. Bad Movies, Great Booze, every month from Dandy Brewing Co.

Genre: Action, Comedy

Director: Stephen King
Stars: Emilio Estevez, Pat Hingle, Laura Harrington            
Running time: 1 hr 38 min 
Rating: 14A (Coarse Language, Violence) 


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Upcoming Showtimes
  • August 14 - 9:30pm
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Videodrome

Synopsis:


Blackbyrd Myoozik Presents: Videodrome (1983)

When Max Renn goes looking for edgy new shows for his sleazy cable TV station, he stumbles across the pirate broadcast of a hyper-violent torture show called Videodrome. As he struggles to unearth the origins of the program, he embarks on a hallucinatory journey into a shadow world of right-wing conspiracies, sadomasochistic sex games, and bodily transformation. 

Starring James Woods and Deborah Harry in one of her first film roles, Videodrome is one of writer/director David Cronenberg's most original and provocative works, fusing social commentary with shocking elements of sex and violence. 

With groundbreaking special effects makeup by Academy Award®-winner Rick Baker, Videodrome has come to be regarded as one of the most influential and mind-bending science fiction films of the 1980s.

Genre: Drama, Horror

Director: David Cronenberg
Stars: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits                   
Running time: 1 hr 27 min 
Rating: STC 


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  • August 20 - 8:00pm