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Blue

Synopsis:

Calgary Cinematheque Presents: Blue (1993)


Perhaps the best-known monochrome film in the history of cinema, Derek Jarman’s Blue is a profound audiovisual experiment, foregoing conventional representation to offer a single, saturated frame of Yves Klein blue. Far from a static work, however, Jarman’s project is also an intricate and affecting auditory collage, combining voice-over narration (read by actors John Quentin, Nigel Terry, and Tilda Swinton, and the filmmaker himself), music, and ambient sound elements. 

Released four months before the filmmaker’s death from AIDS-related complications, Blue is a landmark achievement of the New Queer Cinema. As Jarman scholar Jim Ellis has observed, this closing work “raises the issue of art’s responsibility to life, and the potential of art to effect change.” Blue yields an experience of cinema like no other, formulating a rich reflection on life, loss, and the possibilities of the medium itself.

Genre: Drama

Director: Derek Jarman
Stars: Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, John Quentin    
Running time: 1 hr 19 min 
Rating: PG 




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Upcoming Showtimes
  • October 23 - 7:00pm
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Family Plot

Synopsis:

Calgary Cinematheque Presents: Family Plot (1976)


The closing title of the series is the last work of cinematic master Alfred Hitchcock, a loose adaptation of Victor Canning’s The Rainbird Pattern, (1972) originally titled Deceit. With a witty script by Ernest Lehman and a John Williams score, Family Plot is a dark comedy set in sunny California, focused on a pair of grifters, spiritualist Blanche Tyler (Barbara Harris) and her unemployed actor boyfriend, George Lumley (Bruce Dern) as they pursue a missing heir for a cash reward. 

Film music scholar Jack Sullivan has described Family Plot as a “frenetic ballet of crisscrossing con artists,” which captures the film’s signature energies. In contrast to the violent set-pieces featured in Psycho (1960), and the later film Frenzy (1972), Hitchcock’s parting shot is a lighter work designed to amuse, calling back to earlier comedies like Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941) and The Trouble with Harry (1955).

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris      
Running time: 2 hr 00 min 
Rating: STC 




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Upcoming Showtimes
  • October 30 - 7:00pm
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Re-Animator: 40th Anniversary

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Globe Cinema Presents: Re-Animator (1985)

RE-ANIMATOR is the ultimate 1980s body horror experience, a joyously grotesque peer of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN, Lucio Fulci's THE BEYOND, and Sam Raimi's EVIL DEAD. Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is a new student at Miskatonic University. 

He also moonlights as a mad scientist, intent on perfecting a serum that “re-animates” corpses. Soon, everyone wants a piece of the action, including an evil professor and his army of neon-slimed deadites. With berserker direction from Stuart Gordon, career-defining roles from genre icons Barbara Crampton and Combs, and a scene of two adults chasing an undead cat in a basement, RE-ANIMATOR isn’t just a masterpiece of the horror genre—it’s a masterpiece of life.

Genre: Horror

Director: Stuart Gordon
Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Barbara Crampton, Bruce Abbott               
Running time: 1 hr 24 min 
Rating: 18A (Gory Violence, Sexual Violence)  


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Upcoming Showtimes
  • October 12 - 3:00pm
  • October 12 - 5:30pm
  • October 24 - 7:00pm
  • October 24 - 9:00pm
  • October 30 - 7:30pm
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Perfect Blue

Synopsis:


Globe Cinema Presents: Perfect Blue (1997)

Mima Kirigoe, a former pop idol, makes a bold transition into acting, taking on a role in a drama that includes a disturbing assault scene, and even releasing a provocative nude photo book. Her dramatic reinvention grabs public attention, but also provokes unease among her fans, her manager, and even herself as she struggles with the rapid shift from her days as a pop idol. As a stalker begins to shadow her, a screenwriter and a photographer are murdered one after another. “Did I kill them?” Mima begins to wonder if a split personality is gradually taking over, just like the character that she plays in the drama. Then “the other Mima” the pop idol who was supposed to have “graduated,” appears in front of her…

Perfect Blue marks the directorial debut of Satoshi Kon, who fascinated audiences around the world with Paprika, Millennium Actress, and Tokyo Godfathers. Hailed as the first animated film to feature an authentic psychological suspense story, this film was acclaimed at international film festivals and was released in theaters in Japan in 1998. Blending a play within a play, the story unfolds as fiction and reality, dreams and delusions, and cyberspace intertwine—like an optical illusion.

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Director: Satoshi Kon
Stars: Junko Iwao, Rica Matsumoto, Shinpachi Tsuji          
Running time: 1 hr 21 min 
Rating: 18A (Sexual Violence, Disturbing Content) 


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Upcoming Showtimes
  • October 12 - 3:30pm
  • October 12 - 6:00pm
  • October 16 - 7:30pm
  • October 19 - 3:30pm
  • October 24 - 7:45pm
  • October 24 - 9:30pm
  • October 29 - 7:30pm
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The Blair Witch Project on VHS

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Globe Cinema Presents: The Blair Witch Project on VHS (1999)

Three young documentary filmmakers travel to the small town of Burkittsville, Maryland in hopes of shedding some light on the local urban myth of The Blair Witch; an uncanny and mysterious legend that has been tied to multiple unsolved murders and the vanishing of several children.

What begins as an unsettling series of interviews with the town's population quickly devolves into the trio being hopelessly lost in the forested areas surrounding the town as they seek to find the answers to the mystery.

Not the first, but absolutely the most celebrated and infamous early examples of the found footage sub-genre, THE BLAIR WITCH is uniquely suited to be best seen on it's original VHS format. Enjoy the best of both worlds with this special one off halloween screening!

Genre: Horror

Director: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
Stars: Heather Donahue, Michael C. Williams, Joshua Leonard            
Running time: 1 hr 21 min 
Rating: 14A (Disturbing Content, Coarse Language) 


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Upcoming Showtimes
  • October 31 - 7:00pm
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Inferno

Synopsis:


Blackbyrd Myoozik Presents: Inferno (1980)

Riddled with secret but horrid suspicion, young American poet Rose Elliot writes to Mark, her musicology-student brother in Rome, about her startling findings in the dark, dank basement of her New York Art Deco apartment building. 

Pivoting around the cryptic knowledge hidden in the leather-bound book entitled "The Three Mothers", Rose is convinced that her aristocratic but damned abode is actually an ancient coven for Mater Tenebrarum, the malevolent Mother of Darkness. Little by little, as the siblings delve deeper and deeper into the occult, a mysterious disappearance and an endless string of gruesome killings will bring Mark closer and closer to a surreal nightmare. Where do the long and shadowy corridors of Rose's building lead?

Genre: Horror

Director: Dario Argento
Stars: Leigh McCloskey, Irene Miracle, Eleonora Giorgi       
Running time: 1 hr 46 min 
Rating: STC



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  • October 23 - 8:00pm
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The Suburbanators

Synopsis:

SoundUP YYC and CJSW Presens: The Suburbanators (1995)


The30th anniversary screening of Calgary director Gary Burns' debut followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker. Part of CJSW's funding drive.


Genre: Comedy

Director: Gary Burns
Stars: Joel McNichol, Stephen Spender, Stewart Burdett         
Running time: 1 hr 27 min 
Rating: STC 




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Upcoming Showtimes
  • October 22 - 7:00pm