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Memories of Murder

Synopsis:


Globe Cinema Presents: Memories of Murder (2003)

1986. In a rural district of South Korea, two women have been recently raped and murdered. Working on the case are detectives Park Doo-man and Cho Yong-koo. Their efforts are impeded by some sloppy crime scene procedure by the police. Their methods of solving cases are also quite basic, essentially amounting to beating confessions out of suspects. 

All this leads to nothing and the police chief brings in a more sophisticated and intelligent detective from Seoul, Seo Tae-yoon. With his arrival the methods improve but they still don't have the killer. Then another woman is found murdered and a pattern emerges.

Genre: Drama, Crime

Director: Bong Joon Ho
Stars: Song Kang-ho, Kim Sang-Kyung, Kim Roe-ha                
Running time: 2 hr 11 min 
Rating: 14A (Coarse Language, Violence) 


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Upcoming Showtimes
  • May 10 - 3:00pm
  • May 13 - 7:30pm
  • May 15 - 7:30pm
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Born in Flames

Synopsis:

The Calgary Cinematheque Presents: Born in Flames (1983) 


The first feature film by iconoclastic artist Lizze Borden, Born in Flames was shot guerilla style on weekends in pre-gentrification New York over a period of five years. Set ten years after a socialist-democratic revolution in the United States, the film explores the ways that marginalized groups such as women, people of colour, and queer people continued to be targeted and suppressed, and the efforts of community-organized intersectional groups to fight back. 

The film follows two women-run pirate radio stations, a women’s revolutionary army, and a socialist newspaper and focuses on the role that communication and direct action play in combating the propaganda of the ruling authorities. With a punk soundtrack and rebel sensibility, Born in Flames reminds us just how long the fight for equality for these marginalized groups has been ongoing and how far it has yet to go. We dedicate this film to women, people of colour, and LGBTQ people in Alberta and around the world who continue to fight against governments that seek to minimize them, imprison them, and erase them.


Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi

Director: Lizzie Borden
Stars: Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield                     
Running time: 1 hr 30 min 
Rating: R (ID Required for Admission) 




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Upcoming Showtimes
  • May 21 - 7:00pm
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The Battle of Algiers

Synopsis:

The Calgary Cinematheque Presents: The Battle of Algiers (1966) 


A groundbreaking neorealist film, this acclaimed classic depicts the organization and activities of the guerilla revolutionaries of the National Liberation Front in Algeria in their battle for freedom against the French colonialist armies that attempted to suppress and destroy them. 

An incredible filmmaking achievement, with a beloved score by Ennio Morricone, Battle of Algiers is often ranked among the greatest films of all time, and has influenced real world guerilla movements, been studied by counterinsurgency agencies, and influenced future filmmakers such as Paul Thomas Anderson’s recent Best Picture winner One Battle After Another. We dedicate this film to Arab populations battling against colonialist forces all across the Middle East.


Genre: Drama, War

Director: Gillo Pontecorvo
Stars: Brahim Hadjadj, Jean Martin, Yacef Saadi                       
Running time: 2 hr 01 min 
Rating: STC 




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Upcoming Showtimes
  • May 28 - 7:00pm
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Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

Synopsis:

The Calgary Cinematheque Presents: Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (1993)


This documentary by Abenaki activist Alanis Obomsawin emerged as a real time response to the 1990 Oka Crisis in which a Mohawk protest of the expansion of a golf course onto their land was met with a police barricade and later military siege of the Mohawk reserves which lasted 78 and led to two fatalities - one on each side. Obomsawin inserted herself and her shifting crew into the crisis as it occurred, documenting events from the Mohawk side. 

The film served as a key counter to the portrayal of the conflict in Canadian mass media, and the crew’s presence is thought to have partially de-escalated matters. A landmark in Indigenous filmmaking, we include Kanehsatake to remind our audience that Canada is not innocent of colonialism or oppression. We dedicate this film to the Indigenous leaders and activists of Canada who find themselves continually forced to fight for recognition of their legal rights.


Genre: Documentary

Director: Alanis Obomsawin
Stars: Jack Burning, Herbie Barnes, Alanis Obomsawin                        
Running time: 1 hr 59 min 
Rating: PG (Coarse Language) 




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  • June 4 - 7:00pm
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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

Synopsis:

The Calgary Underground Film Festival Presents: Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)


In celebration of the 10th Anniversary of POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING, join CUFF for an Off the CUFF screening on June 3 at Globe Cinema. When it becomes clear that his solo album is a failure, a former boy band member does everything in his power to maintain his celebrity status.

ABOUT THE FILM
After a two-year, sold-out, worldwide tour, Conner4Real (Andy Samberg) is the biggest name in music. Go behind the scenes as Conner faces a crisis of popularity after this sophomore album flops, leaving fans, sycophants and rivals all wondering what to do when Conner4Real is no longer the dopest star of all.

Produced by Judd Apatow (TRAINWRECK, SUPERBAD, KNOCKED UP) and created by The Lonely Island, the film blends pitch-perfect pop parody with the group’s signature digital-short absurdity. POPSTAR is packed with rapid-fire jokes and a deep bench of cameo appearances from major figures across comedy and music.

SCREENING DETAILS
Wednesday, June 3 @ 7:00 pm
Globe Cinema (617 8 Ave SW)
Tickets: $12 ($10 for members, students and seniors)

OFF THE CUFF is a year-round series presented by the Calgary Underground Film Festival. For those films we just can't make work with our festival dates, we go off the CUFF.


Genre: Comedy, Music

Director: Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone 
Stars: Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer                          
Running time: 1 hr 27 min 
Rating: 14A (Nudity, Coarse Language, Substance Abuse) 




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Upcoming Showtimes
  • June 3 - 7:00pm
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Tuner

Synopsis:

The Calgary International Film Festival Presents: Tuner (2025)



A gifted piano tuner's meticulous skills for tuning pianos lead him to discover an unexpected aptitude for cracking safes, turning his life upside down.


Genre: Crime, Drama

Director: Daniel Roher 
Stars: Leo Woodall, Dustin Hoffman, Havana Rose Liu                            
Running time: 1 hr 49 min 
Rating: STC 





Upcoming Showtimes
  • May 25 - 7:00pm
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The Princess Bride

Synopsis:


Globe Cinema Presents: The Princess Bride (1987)

A high-spirited adventure that pits true love against inconceivable odds, The Princess Bride has charmed legions of fans with its irreverent gags, eccentric ensemble, and dazzling swordplay. A kid (Fred Savage), home sick from school, grudgingly allows his grandfather (Peter Falk) to read him a dusty storybook—which is how we meet the innocent Buttercup (Robin Wright, in her breakout role), about to marry the nefarious Prince Humperdinck (Chris Sarandon) though her heart belongs to Westley (Cary Elwes). 

The wedding plans are interrupted, however, by a mysterious pirate, a vengeful Spaniard, and a good-natured giant, in a tale full of swashbuckling, romance, and outrageously hilarious spoofery. Directed by Rob Reiner from an endlessly quotable script by William Goldman, The Princess Bride reigns as a fairy-tale classic.

Genre: Adventure, Comedy

Director: Rob Reiner
Stars: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Robin Wright                          
Running time: 1 hr 38 min 
Rating: PG  


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Upcoming Showtimes
  • May 15 - 7:00pm
  • May 16 - 7:30pm
  • May 17 - 3:30pm
  • May 17 - 6:30pm
  • May 20 - 7:30pm
  • May 21 - 7:30pm
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Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair

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Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair‘ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history.⁠ ⁠

A harrowing, yet powerful lineup of films defined by stark imagery, unimaginable tragedies, existential fear, nihilism and shocking acts of brutality, this series features the world’s leading filmmakers who wholly embrace a cinema of despair in pursuit of unpleasant truths and raw empathy.

Taking place in June, the fifth year will see the festival expand to nearly 100 theatres across the United States and Puerto Rico, Canada, England, Scotland, Mexico, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile. Each venue will curate it’s own lineup of films.


Individual film tickets: $13
Full festival pass: $35


Lineup and individual tickets:

Twin Peaks: The Return - Part 8 "Gotta Light?" & Night of the Living Dead (1968) Double Feature | Friday, June 12th @ 7:00 PM | BUY TICKETS


Enter the Void (2009) | Saturday, June 13th @ 7:00 PM | BUY TICKETS


The Vanishing (1988) | Sunday, June 14th @ 7:00 PM | BUY TICKETS


Punishment Park (1971) | Monday, June 15th @ 7:00 PM | BUY TICKETS


Funny Games (1997) | Tuesday, June 16th @ 7:00 PM | BUY TICKETS


Cure (1997) | Wednesday, June 17th @ 7:00 PM | BUY TICKETS


Come and See (1985) | Thursday, June 18th @ 7:00 PM | BUY TICKETS



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Upcoming Showtimes
  • June 12 - 7:00pm
  • June 13 - 7:00pm
  • June 14 - 7:00pm
  • June 15 - 7:00pm
  • June 16 - 7:00pm
  • June 17 - 7:00pm
  • June 18 - 7:00pm
Twin Peaks: The Return Part 8

Twin Peaks: The Return Part 8 "Gotta Light?" & Night of the Living Dead Double Feature - Bleak Week

Synopsis:

Festival Pass: $35


Globe Cinema and American Cinematheque Presents: Twin Peaks: The Return Part 8 "Gotta Light?" & Night of the Living Dead Double Feature - Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair

Kick off Bleak Week with a grim double feature of Twin Peaks: The Return Part 8 "Gotta Light?" and George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968).

The pivotal episode of David Lynch’s triumphant return to Twin Peaks 25 years later, Part 8 “Gotta Light?” marks a massive shift in the series’ tone while heralding the birth of all evil depicted brilliantly by the Manhattan Project nuclear testing in New Mexico. What follows is one of the most unhinged and vivid nightmares Lynch has conjured setting the stage for the series’ climax.

Alongside the birth of evil, we have the original sin and horror found in the seminal zombie classic; George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. A paranoid and desperate fight for survival against hordes of the recently unearthed that culminates in one of the most cynical and bleak endings to a film already littered with suffering and despair. 

Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair‘ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history.⁠ ⁠

A harrowing, yet powerful lineup of films defined by stark imagery, unimaginable tragedies, existential fear, nihilism and shocking acts of brutality, this series features the world’s leading filmmakers who wholly embrace a cinema of despair in pursuit of unpleasant truths and raw empathy.

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Twin Peaks: The Return Part 8 "Gotta Light?"

Director: David Lynch
Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Leslie Berger, Robert Broski           
Running time: 56 min 
Rating: 14A


Night of the Living Dead

Director: George A. Romero
Stars: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman           
Running time: 1 hr 36 min 
Rating: 14A (Violence, Frightening Scenes)


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Upcoming Showtimes
  • June 12 - 7:00pm
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Enter the Void - Bleak Week

Synopsis:

Festival Pass: $35


Globe Cinema and American Cinematheque Presents: Enter the Void (2009) - Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair

Tokyo's nasty underside, seen primarily through the eyes of Oscar, a heavy drug user, whose sister Linda is a stripper. Oscar also has flashbacks to his childhood when trauma upends the siblings. Oscar's drug-fed hallucinations alter Tokyo's already-disconcerting nights, and after the police shoot him, he can float above and look down: on his sister's sorrow, on the rooms of a love hotel, and on life at even a molecular level. The spectrum's colors can be beautiful; it's people's colorless lives that can be ugly. And what of afterlife, is there more than a void?

Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair‘ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history.⁠ ⁠

A harrowing, yet powerful lineup of films defined by stark imagery, unimaginable tragedies, existential fear, nihilism and shocking acts of brutality, this series features the world’s leading filmmakers who wholly embrace a cinema of despair in pursuit of unpleasant truths and raw empathy.

Genre: Drama


Director: Gaspar Noe
Stars: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy             
Running time: 2 hr 41 min 
Rating: R (Disturbing Content)



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Upcoming Showtimes
  • June 13 - 7:00pm
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The Vanishing - Bleak Week

Synopsis:

Festival Pass: $35


Globe Cinema and American Cinematheque Presents: The Vanishing (1988) - Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair

Rex and Saskia are on holiday, a young couple in love. They stop at a busy service station and Saskia disappears. Rex dedicates the next three years trying to find her. Then he receives some postcards from her abductor, who promises to reveal what has happened to Saskia. The abductor, Raymond Lemorne, is a chilling character to whom Rex is drawn by his intense desire to learn the truth behind his lovers disappearance. The truth is more sinister than he dared imagine.

Genre: Mystery, Thriller


Director: George Sluizer
Stars: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Gene Bervoets, Johanna ter Steege               
Running time: 1 hr 47 min 
Rating: PG



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  • June 14 - 7:00pm
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Punishment Park - Bleak Week

Synopsis:

Festival Pass: $35


Globe Cinema and American Cinematheque Presents: Punishment Park (1971) - Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair

A pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types across the desert in a type of capture the flag game. The soldiers vow not to interfere with the rebels' progress and merely shepherd them along to their destination. At that point, having obtained their goal, they will be released. 

The film crew's coverage is meant to insure that the military's intentions are honorable. As the representatives of the 60's counter-culture get nearer to passing this arbitrary test, the soldiers become increasingly hostile, attempting to force the hippies out of their pacifist behavior.

Genre: Drama, Thriller


Director: Peter Watkins
Stars: Patrick Boland, Kent Foreman, Carmen Argenziano                 
Running time: 1 hr 31 min 
Rating: 14A (Coarse Language)



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Upcoming Showtimes
  • June 15 - 7:00pm
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Funny Games - Bleak Week

Synopsis:

Festival Pass: $35


Globe Cinema and American Cinematheque Presents: Funny Games (1997) - Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair

Michael Haneke’s most notorious provocation, Funny Games spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men. In a series of escalating “games,” the sadistic duo subject their victims to unspeakable physical and psychological torture over the course of a night. 

A home-invasion thriller in which the genre’s threat of bloodshed is made stomach-churningly real, the film ratchets up shocks even as its executioners interrupt the action to address the audience, drawing queasy attention to the way that cinema milks pleasure from pain and stokes our appetite for atrocity. With this controversial treatise on violence and entertainment, Haneke issued a summation of his cinematic philosophy, implicating his audience in a spectacle of unbearable cruelty.

Genre: Drama, Crime


Director: Michael Haneke
Stars: Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Muhe, Arno Frisch                   
Running time: 1 hr 48 min 
Rating: 14A (Violence, Disturbing Content)



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Upcoming Showtimes
  • June 16 - 7:00pm
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Cure - Bleak Week

Synopsis:

Festival Pass: $35


Globe Cinema and American Cinematheque Presents: Cure (1997) - Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair

Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s arresting international breakthrough established him as one of the leaders of an emerging new wave of Japanese horror while pushing the genre into uncharted realms of philosophical and existential exploration. 

A string of shocking, seemingly unmotivated murders—each committed by a different person yet all bearing the same grisly hallmarks—leads Detective Takabe (Koji Yakusho) into a labyrinthine investigation to discover what connects them, and into a disturbing game of cat and mouse with an enigmatic amnesiac (Masato Hagiwara) who may be evil incarnate. Awash in hushed, hypnotic dread, Cure is a tour de force of psychological tension and a hallucinatory journey into the darkest recesses of the human mind.

Genre: Horror, Crime


Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Stars: Masato Hagiwara, Koji Yakusho, Tsuyoshi Ujiki                     
Running time: 1 hr 51 min 
Rating: 18A (Gory Violence)



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Upcoming Showtimes
  • June 17 - 7:00pm
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Come and See - Bleak Week

Synopsis:

Festival Pass: $35


Globe Cinema and American Cinematheque Presents: Come and See (1985) - Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair

This legendary film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in what is now known as Belarus, teenage Flyora (Alexei Kravchenko, in a searing depiction of anguish) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. 

Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty—rendered with a feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov’s subjective camera work and expressionistic sound design. Nearly blocked from being made by Soviet censors, who took seven years to approve its script, Come and See is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made.

Genre: Drama, Thriller


Director: Elem Klimov
Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius                       
Running time: 2 hr 22 min 
Rating: 18A (Brutal Violence)



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Upcoming Showtimes
  • June 18 - 7:00pm
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Athiradi

Synopsis:

York Cinema Presents: Athiradi (2026)


An energetic student, Samkutty, revives a banned college festival-unleashing a rivalry that turns celebration into chaos

Genre: Action, Comedy

Director: Arun Anirudhan
Stars: Basil Joseph, Tovino Thomas, Zarin Shihab               
Running time: 2 hr 37 min 
Rating: PG  




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Upcoming Showtimes
  • May 15 - 9:30pm
  • May 17 - 6:00pm
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Karuppu

Synopsis:

York Cinema Presents: Karuppu (2026)


A lawyer becomes possessed by a deity and battles injustice affecting marginalized communities.

Genre: Action, Comedy

Director: RJ Balaji
Stars: Suriya, Trisha Krishnan, George Maryan                
Running time: 2 hr 30 min 
Rating: 14A (Violence)  




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Upcoming Showtimes
  • May 16 - 3:00pm
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Farewell My Concubine Uncut 4K Restoration

Synopsis:

Amoment Books Presents: Farewell My Concubine Uncut 4K Restoration (1993)


Farewell My Concubine is a 1993 Chinese epic historical drama film, directed by Chen Kaige, starring Leslie Cheung, Gong Li and Zhang Fengyi.

Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) and Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) grow up enduring the harsh training of the Peking Opera (Jing-Ju) Academy, where instructors regularly beat the students to instill in them the discipline needed to master the complex physical and vocal techniques of this ancient art. As the two boys mature, they develop complementary talents: Dieyi, with his fine, delicate features, assumes the female roles (Dan-Jue) while Xiaolou plays masculine warlords (Sheng-Jue). Their dramatic identities become real for Dieyi when he falls in love with Xiaolou, who fails to fully reciprocate his affections and marries a courtesan, Juxian (Gong Li), creating a dangerous, jealousy-filled romantic triangle.

Hailed as a “cultural achievement” (The New York Times) and widely considered one of the most important motion pictures ever made, FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE is a “gorgeous, intoxicating epic” (Los Angeles Times) that is both “visually spectacular” and “sumptuous in every respect” (Time Out). Spanning 50 years from the early 20th century to the tumultuous Cultural Revolution, Chen Kaige's passionate, exquisitely shot film captures the vast historical scope of a changing country while revealing the intimate and touching details of a unique, tender, heartrending love story. Based on the bestselling novel by Lillian Lee, it was selected as one of the “100 Best Films in Global History” by TIME Magazine, was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, and remains the only Chinese-language film to ever win the Palme d’Or.

This film is the latest restored uncut 4K version (20 minutes longer than its original Miramax theatrical release) .

*Presented in original Mandarin with English subtitles* 


Genre: Drama, Romance

Director: Kaige Chen
Stars: Leslie Cheung, Fengyi Zhang, Gong Li                  
Running time: 2 hr 51 min 
Rating: 14A (Coarse Language, Mature Subject Matter)  




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Upcoming Showtimes
  • May 31 - 2:30pm