The Arts Council of New Westminster has made the difficult decision to postpone the start of our 19th season of Last Monday at the Movies. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic and the recommendations from the BC Government’s Provincial Health Orders, we have pushed our next season opener to January 2022, at the earliest. The public health and safety of our audience, volunteers, and staff is our top priority.

For those who purchased a 2019/2020 Last Monday at the Movies Season Pass, the March-June 2020 cancelled film dates will be credited and applied to your next Season Pass.

We look forward to seeing you again at the Massey Theatre sometime in 2022.

For questions or concerns please email programs@acnw.ca

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the spread of the COVID-19 virus, this event has been cancelled. The ACNW will be announcing credits for Last Monday at the Movies Seasons Pass holders in the coming weeks.

Drama/Romance
1h 40min

Director:  William Nicholson
Writers: William Nicholson
Stars:  Josh O’Connor, Bill Nighy, Annette Bening 
When: Monday, March 30, 2020, 7pm at Massey Theatre (doors open at 6:30pm).
Tickets: General Admission $9 – Seniors/Students $8
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Synopsis:
A couple’s visit with their son takes a dramatic turn when the father tells him he plans on leaving his mother after 33 years of marriage.

Trailer:

Drama/Romance
1h 23min

Director: Wanuri Kahiu
Writers: Wanuri Kahiu, Jenna Cato Bass
Stars: Samantha Mugatsia, Neville Misati, Nice Githinji
When: Monday, February 24, 2020 – 7:00 pm at Massey Theatre
Tickets: General Admission $9 – Seniors/Students $8
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SYNOPSIS:
Kena and Ziki long for something more. Despite the political rivalry between their families, the girls resist and remain close friends, supporting each other to pursue their dreams in a conservative society. When love blossoms between them, the two girls will be forced to choose between happiness and safety. Inspried by Monica Arac de Nyeko’s “Jambula Tree”, which chronicles a story of two girls in love in Uganda, “Rafiki” challenges deep rooted cynicism about same sex relationships among actors, crew, friends, and family in Kenya.

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Biography/Drama/History
101 Minutes

Director: Kenneth Branagh
Writers: Ben Elton
Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen 
When: Monday, January 27, 2020 – 7:00 pm at Massey Theatre
Tickets: General Admission $9 – Seniors/Students $8
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SYNOPSIS:
The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family. Haunted by the death of his only son, Hamnet, he struggles to mend the broken relationship with his wife and daughters. In so doing, he is ruthlessly forced to examine his own failings as a husband and father.

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Director: Sebastián Lelio    
Writers:   Alice Johnson Boher (adapted screenplay), Sebastián Lelio 
Stars: Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Caren Pistorius 
When: Monday, November 25, 2019 – 7:00 pm at Massey Theatre
Tickets: General Admission $9 – Seniors/Students $8
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SYNOPSIS:
A free-spirited divorcee spends her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. She soon finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with the joys of budding love and the complications of dating.

TRAILER:

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Director: Wash Westmoreland
Writers:  Richard Glatzer Wash Westmoreland (screenplay by) 
Stars:  Keira Knightley, Fiona Shaw, Dominic West 
When: Monday, October 28, 2019 – 7:00 pm at Massey Theatre
Tickets: General Admission $9 – Seniors/Students $8
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Synopsis:
After moving to Paris, author Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette agrees to ghostwrite a semi-autobiographical novel for her husband. Its success soon inspires her to fight for creative ownership and overcome the societal constraints of the early 20th century.

Trailer:

Drama, Romance
1h 34 min

Director:  Noble Jones
Writers: Noble Jones
Stars:John Lithgow, Blythe Danner, Derek Cecil 
When: Monday, September 20, 2019 – 7:00 pm at Massey Theatre
Tickets: General Admission $9 – Seniors/Students $8
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Synoposis:
Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come. Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use. In a small town somewhere in America, these two people will try to find love while trying not to get lost in each other’s stuff.

Trailer:

(Documentary)
1hr 24

Director:  Moss Mossanen

Stars: Beverley Bass, Reg Batson, Beulah Cooper |
When: Monday, June 24, 2019 – 7:00 pm at Massey Theatre
Tickets: General Admission $9 – Seniors/Students $8
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Synopsis:   
You Are Here – A Come From Away Story is an intimate feature documentary that goes deep into the community of Gander, Newfoundland where 38 airliners carrying over 6,500 passengers were forced to land after the terrorist attacks on 9/11. The film pulls back the emotional layers surrounding the five days during which the community housed, fed and cared for the dislocated passengers (or the “come from aways” in Newfoundland parlance). While their stories were the inspiration for the extraordinary Broadway hit musical, Come From Away, the documentary, You Are Here, reveals first-hand accounts of the great kindnesses and energetic resourcefulness the community showed their unexpected guests.

The Arts Council of New Westminster along with the Massey Theatre Society, New West Film Fest, and the N Dub Film Club is proud to present:

The N Dub Film Club Screening

on Monday May 27th from 5:00-6:30pm on the big screen at the Massey Theatre. Screening a series of short films created during the current school by New Westminster Secondary Students from grades 10 through 12, the films will cover topics including climate change, mortality, friendship, and a humorous take on student life. Emceed by local author and former CBC personality, JJ Lee, the screening will include a Q&A session with the filmmakers. The event is free to the public to attend, however tax-deductible donations to the Arts Council of New Westminster are welcomed.

The Last Monday at the Movies film series will take place following the screening at 7:00pm, screening ‘Wild Rose’, a story of a musician from Glasgow with dreams of becoming a Nashville star.

Last Monday at the Movies movie series that takes place at the Massey Theatre in New Westminster, B.C. on the last Monday of each month. Last Monday at the Movies is a celebration of independent film showing the best of the Toronto International Film Festival Film Circuit. Now in it’s 17th season, films take place between September through June, excluding December. The films start at 7:00pm and are followed by Last Word, a post-film talk discussing the film’s topic, taking place directly after the film in the Plaskett Gallery.

For more information about films and how to purchase tickets, visit the website: acnw.ca/movies

(Drama. Music)
1hr 40

Director:  Tom Harper
Writers: Nicole Taylor
Stars: Julie Walters, Jessie Buckley, Craig Parkinson 
When: Monday, May 27, 2019 – 7:00 pm at Massey Theatre
Tickets: General Admission $9 – Seniors/Students $8
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Synopsis:   
Fresh out of prison, a Scottish woman juggles her job and two children while pursuing her dream of becoming a country music star. She soon gets her chance when she travels to Nashville, Tenn., on a life-changing journey to discover her true voice.

Trailer: 

The N Dub Film Club, Massey Theatrem and the Arts Council of New Westminster present:

The N Dub Film Club Screening

May 27, 2019
Massey Theatre
5:00pm – 6:30pm
Free!

Join us for a screening of works created by students of the N Dub Film Club from New Westminster Secondary School. Interviews with the film makers will share the meaning and intent behind their work. Come support the filmmakers of tomorrow!

The Woman Who Loves Giraffes

(Documentary)
1hr 23

Director:  Allison Reid
Writers: Allison Reid
Stars: Fred Bercovitch, David Chinchilla, Lisa Clifton-Bumpass 
When: Monday, April 27, 2019 – 7:00 pm at Massey Theatre
Tickets: General Admission $9 – Seniors/Students $8
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Synopsis:   
In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with mountain gorillas — in fact, before anyone, man or woman had made such a trip — 23-year-old Canadian biologist, Anne Innis Dagg, made an unprecedented solo journey to South Africa to become the first person in the world to study animal behavior in the wild on that continent. When she returned home a year later armed with ground-breaking research, the insurmountable barriers she faced as a female scientist proved much harder to overcome. THE WOMAN WHO LOVES GIRAFFES retraces the steps of Anne’s ground-breaking 1956 journey to South Africa to study giraffes in the wild — and discovers a startling contrast between the world of giraffes she once knew and the one it has become.

Trailer:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8901942/videoplayer/vi3978541593

Puzzle
(Drama)
1hr43

Director:  Marc Turtletaub
Writers: Polly Mann (screenplay by), Oren Moverman (screenplay by) 
Stars:  Kelly Macdonald, Irrfan Khan, David Denman  
When: Monday, March 25, 2019 – 7:00 pm at Massey Theatre
Tickets: General Admission $9 – Seniors/Students $8
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Synopsis:
A woman who has a talent for assembling jigsaw puzzles sneaks away from her suburban town and goes to New York City, where she partners with a man for a puzzle tournament in Atlantic City. As she experiences independence for the first time, she begins to view her value and the pieces of her own life in a whole new light.

Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX-TxPEXmJI

I Am Not Your Negro
(Documentary)
1hr 33

Director:  Raoul Peck
Writers: James Baldwin, Raoul Peck
Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, James Baldwin, Martin Luther King 
When: Monday, February 25, 2019 – 7:00 pm at Massey Theatre
Tickets: General Admission $9 – Seniors/Students $8
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Synopsis:
In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, “Remember This House.” The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin’s death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.

Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNUYdgIyaPM

Tea With The Dames   
(Documentary)
1hr 24

Director: Roger Michell
Stars: Dames Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Joan Plowright, and Maggie Smith
When: Monday, January 28, 2019 – 7:00 pm at Massey Theatre
Tickets: General Admission $9 – Seniors/Students $8
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Synopsis:
Together, they’re 342 years old. They’re in their seventh decade of cutting-edge, epoch-defining performances on stage and on screen. Funny, smart, sharp, competitive, tearful, hilarious, savage, clever, caustic, cool, gorgeous, poignant, irreverent, iconic, old, and unbelievably young. Special friends, special women and special dames: a chance to hang out with them all, at the same table, at the same time, and enjoy sparkling and unguarded conversation spliced with a raft of archive.

Trailer:

The Children Act  
(Drama)   
1hr 45min

Writer: Ian McEwan (screenplay by), Ian McEwan (based on the novel by)
Director: Richard Eyre
Stars: Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Ben Chaplin 
When: Monday, October 29, 2018 – 7:00 pm at Massey Theatre
Tickets: General Admission $9 – Seniors/Students $8
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 Synopsis:
In the midst of a marital crisis, a High Court judge must decide if she should order a life-saving blood transfusion for a teen with cancer despite his family’s refusal to accept medical treatment for religious reasons.

 Trailer:

Denial   
(Biography, Drama) 
1hr 49 mins

Writer: David Hare (screenplay), Deborah Lipstadt
(based on the book “History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier”
Director: Mick Jackson
Stars: Rachel Weisz, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Spall
When: Monday April 24, 2017 – 7:30 at Massey Theatre
Tickets: General Admission $9 – Seniors/Students $8
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 Synopsis:
Based on the acclaimed book “History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier,” DENIAL recounts Deborah E. Lipstadt’s (Academy Award winner Rachel Weisz) legal battle for historical truth against David Irving (Cannes Award winner Timothy Spall), who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier. In the English legal system in Defamation, the burden of proof is on the accused, therefore it was up to Lipstadt and her legal team to prove the essential truth that the Holocaust occurred. Also starring two-time Academy Award nominee Tom Wilkinson, the film is directed by Emmy Award winner Mick Jackson (“Temple Grandin”) and adapted for the screen by BAFTA and Academy Award nominated writer David Hare (THE READER).

 Preview:

The Meddler  
(Comedy)
100 min

Director: Lorene Scafaria
Writer: Lorene Scafaria
Stars:  Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne, J.K. Simmons
When: Monday February 27, 2017 – 7:30 at Massey Theatre
Tickets: General Admission $9 – Seniors/Students $8
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Synopsis:
With a new iPhone, an apartment near the Grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Lori, a successful (but still single) screenwriter, and smother her with motherly love. But when the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and forceful generosity to change the lives of others – as well as her own – and find a new purpose in life.

Preview:

The Dressmaker
(Drama)
1h 59min

Director: Jocelyn Moorhouse
Writer: Rosalie Ham (novel), P.J. Hogan
Stars: Kate Winslet, Judy Davis, Liam Hemsworth
When: Monday January 30, 2017 – 7:30 at Massey Theatre
Tickets: General Admission $9 – Seniors/Students $8
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Synopsis:
In early 1950s Australia, after working for many years as a dressmaker in exclusive Parisian fashion houses, Tilly Dunnage (Kate Winslet), a beautiful and talented misfit, returns home to the tiny middle-of-nowhere town of Dungatar to right the wrongs of the past.

Not only does she reconcile with her ailing, eccentric mother Molly (Judy Davis), and unexpectedly falls in love with the pure-hearted Teddy (Liam Hemsworth), but armed with her sewing machine and incredible sense of style, Tilly sets out to right the wrongs of the past and transform the women of the town.

Based on Rosalie Ham’s bestselling novel.

Preview:

Into the Forest  
(Sci-Fi, Drama; 1 hr 41 min)

Director: Patricia Rozema
Writer: Patricia Rozema and Jean Hegland
Stars: Ellen Page, Evan Rachel Wood, Max Minghella
When: Monday October 31, 2016 – 7:30 at Massey Theatre
Tickets: General Admission $10 – Seniors/Students $8
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Synopsis:
Set in the near future, this riveting and suspenseful apocalyptic drama follows two sisters, Nell (Ellen Page) and Eva (Evan Rachel Wood) who live in the Pacific Northwest with their kindly father, Robert. Nell is focused on her studies and Eva is training to be a dancer, but their peaceful lives are disrupted one day by what turns out to be a continent-wide blackout. Whereas at first the family bond together and try to make the most of their difficult circumstances, as time goes on, the challenges become more serious. In the wake of a shocking and violent confrontation that Robert has with a menacing passerby, the sisters must work together in order to survive in their increasingly treacherous new world.

Preview:

Remember
(Drama, Thriller; 95 min)

Director: Atom Egoyan
Writer: Benjamin August
Stars: Christopher Plummer, Dean Norris, Martin Landau
When: Monday March 30 – 7:30 at Massey Theatre
Tickets: General Admission $10 – Seniors/Students $8
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Synopsis:
With the aid of a fellow Auschwitz survivor and a hand-written letter, an elderly man with dementia goes in search of the person responsible for the death of his family.

Remember tells the story of Zev Guttman (Academy Award Winner Christopher Plummer), a 90-year-old struggling with memory loss who is living out his final years in a serene retirement home. A week following the death of his beloved wife Ruth, he suddenly gets a mysterious package from his close friend Max (Academy Award Winner Martin Landau), containing a stack of money and a letter detailing a shocking plan. Both Zev and Max were prisoners in Auschwitz, and the same sadistic guard was responsible for the death of both their families-a guard who, immediately after the war, escaped Germany and has been living in the U.S. ever since under an assumed identity. Max is wheelchair-bound but in full command of his mental faculties with his guidance, Zev will embark on a cross-continental road-trip to bring justice once and for all to the man who destroyed both their lives.

Preview:

Grandma
(Comedy, Drama, Family; 79 min)

Director: Paul Weitz
Writer: Paul Weitz
Stars: Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Marcia Gay Harden
When: Monday February 29 – 7:30 at Massey Theatre
Tickets: General Admission $10 – Seniors/Students $8
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Synopsis:
A teenager facing an unplanned pregnancy seeks help from her acerbic grandmother, a woman who is long estranged from her daughter.

Lily Tomlin stars as Elle who has just gotten through breaking up with her girlfriend when [her] granddaughter Sage unexpectedly shows up needing 600 bucks before sundown. Temporarily broke, Grandma Elle and Sage spend the day trying to get their hands on the cash as their unannounced visits to old friends and flames end up rattling skeletons and digging up secrets.

Preview:

Learning to Drive
(Comedy, Drama, Romance; 90 min)

Director: Isabel Coixet
Writer: Sarah Kernochan
Stars: Patricia Clarkson, Ben Kingsley, Grace Gummer
When: Monday January 26 – 7:30 at Massey Theatre
Tickets: General Admission $10 – Seniors/Students $8
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Synopsis:
As her marriage dissolves, a Manhattan writer takes driving lessons from a Sikh instructor with marriage troubles of his own. In each other’s company they find the courage to get back on the road and the strength to take the wheel.

Isabel Coixet was born in Barcelona. Since her debut feature, Too Old to Die Young (89), she has directed Things I Never Told You (96), My Life Without Me (03), which played at the Festival, The Secret Life of Words(05), Elegy (08), Map of the Sounds of Tokyo (09), Another Me (13), and a segment of Paris, je t’aime (06). Learning to Drive (14) is her latest feature.

Preview:

What We Did on Our Holiday
(Comedy, Drama; 95 min)

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Writer: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant
Stars: Kyle Catlett, Helena Bonham Carter
When: Monday November 30 – 7:30 at Massey Theatre
Tickets: Adults $10 – Seniors/Students $8
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Review:
Doug and Abi take their kids on a family vacation. Surrounded by relatives, the kids innocently reveal the ins and outs of their family life and many intimate details about their parents. It’s soon clear that when it comes to keeping a big secret under wraps from the rest of the family, their children are their biggest liability.

Doug and Abi are taking their three children on a trip to Scotland for a big family gathering. They are in the midst of a difficult divorce, and have asked the kids to keep it a secret from their extended family. But as the inevitable feuds kick in, a completely unexpected turn of events involving the children causes further tensions to rise to the surface. And with the repercussions that ensue – hilarious and emotional in equal measure – the family are forced to put aside their differences and work together or else risk losing what they hold most dear.

I’ll See You in My Dreams
(Comedy, Drama; 92 min)

Director: Brett Haley
Writer: Marc Basch, Brett Haley
Stars:Blythe Danner, Martin Starr, Sam Elliott
When: Monday October 26 – 7:30 at Massey Theatre
Tickets: Adults $10 – Seniors/Students $8
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Review:
A widow and former songstress discovers that life can begin anew at any age.

In this vibrant, funny, and heartfelt film, a widow and former songstress discovers that life can begin anew at any age. After the death of her beloved dog, Carol finds the everyday activities that have given her life structure – her regular bridge game, gardening, a glass of wine or two – have lost their luster. With the support of three loyal girlfriends, Carol decides to embrace the world, embarking on an unlikely friendship with her pool maintenance man, pursuing a new love interest, and reconnecting with her daughter.

Boy Choir
(Drama; 103 min)

Director: François Girard
Writer: Ben Ripley
Stars: Dustin Hoffman, Kevin McHale, Josh Lucas
When: Monday September 28 – 7:30 at Massey Theatre
Tickets: Adults $10 – Seniors/Students $8
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Review:
Stet, a troubled and angry 11-year-old orphan from a small Texas town, ends up at a Boy Choir school back East after the death of his single mom. Completely out of his element, he finds himself in a battle of wills with a demanding Choir Master who recognizes a unique talent in this young boy as he pushes him to discover his creative heart and soul in music.

Stet is struggling to get by in a tough neighborhood with an overwhelmed single mom. His school principal is convinced his angelic singing voice is worth championing, but Stet has no idea how it might help him face his dark realities. A sudden accident lands Stet at one of the most elite private boychoir schools in the country. It may be his only hope, but he doesn’t fit in. He has never studied music and is filled with a rage he cannot express. Yet, Stet’s inner grit brings forth an astonishing sound. And the more he sings, the more his passion grows and he begins to catch everyone’s attention. At the same time, no boy singer’s voice can last – or survive adolescence. Change is coming, but with it, a lesson that endures: to make the absolute most of what you’ve got in the moment.

Summer is almost gone, sad to say. The good news is that our new Monday at the Movies season is here. And we have some interesting movies lined up.

Mark your calendar for the following:

September 28th – Boy Choir
October 26th – I’ll See You in My Dreams
November 30th – What We Did On Our Holiday

Note – these titles have been confirmed but are still subject to change…

Early Bird Movie Passes

Season passes for 2015/16 are still available for early bird price of $60 until September the 28th.Reservation for the passes can be made by phone (6o4-525-3244) or email and then you can pick up the pass at the September Movie.

The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet
(Action, Adventure, Drama; 105 min)

Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Writer: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume Laurant
Stars: Kyle Catlett, Helena Bonham Carter
When: Monday June 29 7:30 at Massey Theatre – tickets at the door $9.

Review:
A ten-year-old cartographer secretly leaves his family’s ranch in Montana where he lives with his cowboy father and scientist mother and travels across the country aboard a freight train to receive an award at the Smithsonian Institute.

T.S. Spivet is a 10-year-old prodigy with a passion for cartography and scientific inventions. He lives on a ranch in Montana with his mother who is obsessed with the morphology of beetles, his father (a cowboy born a hundred years too late), and his 14-year-old sister who dreams of becoming Miss America. His twin brother Layton died in an accident involving a firearm in the family’s barn, which no one ever speaks of. T.S. was with him, measuring the scale of the gunshots for an experiment, and he doesn’t understand what happened. One day, T.S. receives an unexpected call from the Smithsonian museum telling him that he is the winner of the very prestigious Baird prize for his invention of a perpetual motion machine and that he is invited to a reception in his honor where he is expected to give a speech. Without telling anyone, he sets out on a freight train across the United States to reach Washington, D.C.

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Mr Turner
(Biography, Drama, History; 150 min)

Director: Mike Leigh
Writer: Mike Leigh
Stars: Timothy Spall
When: Monday May 25 7:30 at Massey Theatre – tickets at the door $9.

Review:
An exploration of the last quarter century of the great, if eccentric, British painter J.M.W. Turner’s life.

Mr. Turner explores the last quarter century of the great if eccentric British painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851). Profoundly affected by the death of his father, loved by a housekeeper he takes for granted and occasionally exploits sexually, he forms a close relationship with a seaside landlady with whom he eventually lives incognito in Chelsea, where he dies. Throughout this, he travels, paints, stays with the country aristocracy, visits brothels, is a popular if anarchic member of the Royal Academy of Arts, has himself strapped to the mast of a ship so that he can paint a snowstorm, and is both celebrated and reviled by the public and by royalty.

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The Imitation Game
(Biography, Drama, Thriller; 114 min)

Director: Morten Tyldum
Writer: Graham Moore
Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley
When: Monday Apr 27 7:30 at Massey Theatre – tickets at the door $9.

Review:
During World War II, mathematician Alan Turing tries to crack the enigma code with help from fellow mathematicians.

Based on the real life story of legendary cryptanalyst Alan Turing, the film portrays the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team of code-breakers at Britain’s top-secret Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II.

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Grace of Monaco (Drama, biography 103 min)

Director: Olivier Dahan
Writer: Arash Amel (screenplay)
Stars: Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth, André Penvern
When: Monday Mar 30 7:30 at Massey Theatre – tickets at the door $9.

Review

Set in 1962, six years after her celebrated Wedding of the Century.

GRACE OF MONACO is an intimate snapshot of a year in the life of the twentieth century`s most iconic Princess – Grace Kelly – as she strived to reconcile her past and her present, a yearning for a return to the big screen with her newfound role as a mother of two, monarch of a European principality and wife to Prince Ranier III.

Official Trailer

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My Old Lady (Comedy 107 min)

Director: Israel Horovitz
Writers:  Israel Horovitz (screenplay), Israel Horovitz (play)
Stars: Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith
When: Monday Feb 23 7:30 at Massey Theatre – tickets at the door $9.

Review
Mathias Gold (Kevin Kline) is a down-on-his-luck New Yorker who inherits a Parisian apartment from his estranged father. But when he arrives in France to sell the vast domicile, he’s shocked to discover a live-in tenant who is not prepared to budge.

His apartment is a viager – an ancient French real estate system with complex rules pertaining to its resale – and the feisty Englishwoman Mathilde Girard (Maggie Smith), who has lived in the apartment with her daughter Chloé (Kristin Scott Thomas) Click for Full Review.

Official Trailer

The Trip To Italy (Comedy 108 min)

Director: Michael Winterbottom
Writer:  Michael Winterbottom
Stars: Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Rosie Fellner
When: Monday Jan 26 7:30 at Massey Theatre – tickets at the door $9.

Review
When London’s Observer commissions Coogan to write a series of restaurant reviews the egotistical  would-be superstar rounds up his cheerful friend Brydon to set out for La Bella Italia. Retracing the steps of the great romantic poets Percy Shelley and Lord Byron the pals pile into a quintessentially Italian Mini and take off from Piermonte to the son-dappled Amalfi Coast.

A savory mixture of character comedy, spectacular landscapes, the interaction with the surroundings, using ancient history as rich comedy fodder. The Trip to Italy is marvelous, witty fun and something for everyone.

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Official Trailer:

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Director: Jonathan Teplitzky
Writers: Frank Cottrell Boyce (screenplay), Andy Paterson (screenplay)
Stars: Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Stellan Skarsgård
When: Monday 24 7:30 at Massey Theatre – tickets at the door $9.

Review
On an afternoon in 1983, Eric Lomax (Colin Firth), a quiet, middle-aged radio and railway enthusiast meets bubbly Patti (Nicole Kidman) on a Scottish train. Their courtship is quick and a wedding soon follow, but on their wedding night, Patti finds that her groom has terrible nightmares that almost immobilize him and he won’t explain why.

Patti turns to Eric’s friend Finlay (Stellan Skarsgård), who tells her Eric’s secret: during WWII, along with thousands of other British soldiers captured by the Japanese, Eric was forced to work on the construction of the Thailand-Burma Railway—the so-called Death Railway. When a secret radio he built was discovered, he was brutally tortured by a Japanese officer.

Though it’s decades later, Eric discovers the Japanese interpreter who tormented him is still alive and sets out to confront him in an effort to put closure on his haunted past.

Based on the bestselling memoir by Eric Lomax.

The Trailer

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The Grand Seduction
Director: Don McKellar
Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Brendan Gleeson, Liane Balaban

Massey Theatre 7:30pm
tickets at the door $9.

120 terrible liars seeking one experienced doctor. The Grand Seduction a charming comedy in a jaw-dropping setting. A small fishing village must procure a local doctor to secure a lucrative business contract.

Watch the Trailer

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Season passes for 2014/15  are still available for early bird price of $60 until September the 15th.

Reservation for the passes can be made by phone (6o4-525-3244) or email and then you can pick up the pass at the September Movie (Our Man in Teheran).

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Summer is almost gone, sad to say. The good news is that our new Monday at the Movies season is here. And we have some interesting movies lined up.

Mark your calendar for the following:

• Sep 29: Our Man in Tehran
• Oct 27: The Grand Seduction
• Nov 24: The Railway Man

Note – these titles have been confirmed but are still subject to change…

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Tim’s Vermeer
 June 30 at 7:30 Massey Theatre
Directed by Teller
Starring: Tim Jenison, David Hockney

Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did 17th century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer manage to paint so photo-realistically – 150 years before the invention of photography?

Spanning a decade, Jenison’s adventure takes him to Delft, Holland, where Vermeer painted his masterpieces, to the North coast of Yorkshire to meet artist David Hockney, and eventually to Buckingham Palace to see the Queen’s Vermeer.

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Philomena
May 26 at 7:30 Massey Theatre
Directed by Stephen Frears
Starring: Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark

Philomena Lee (Judi Dench), along with many other unwed women, was forced by Catholic authorities in 1950s Ireland to give up her child for adoption.

After 50 years of searching for her son without any luck, Philomena convinced a recently unemployed and unapologetically cynical journalist named Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan) to help her.

Based on the celebrated book by Martin Sixsmith

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The Invisible Woman
April 28th at 7:30 Massey Theatre
Directed by Ralph Fiennes
with actors: Ralph Fiennes, Felicity Jones, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Hollander

Based on Claire Tomalin’s nonfiction book The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens

Nelly (Felicity Jones) is  haunted by the past. At 18, she met Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes), then 45 and at the height of his career.

Nelly was a budding actress who had appeared in a play he’d adapted – and the two embarked on a relationship that had to be kept secret, given that he was married with 10 children.

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Twenty Feet from Stardom
March 31 7:30pm at the Massey Theatre
(tickets $9 at the door)

The oscar nominated Movie Twenty Feet from Stardom was on Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival and shines the spotlight on the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the lat 20th century.

Twenty Minutes from Stardom is a tribute to the unsung voices that changed the sound of popular music, and a reflection on the sacrifices and rewards of a career spent harmonizing with others and standing next to the spotlight.

DIRECTOR – Morgan Neville
PRODUCER – Gil Friesen

Read the full synopsis…

Trailer

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Note: The schedule has changed since we put this post up (no matter how carefully we try and plan…)

We showed our first movie of the new season last night. It was “Before Midnight” – an interesting movie that requires some reflection afterwards.

Many of you asked what is coming next. So this is what we have so far – reviews for each will be posted closer to the time:

February 24th The Reluctant Fundamentalist
After graduating from Princeton a young Pakistani man named Changez (Riz Ahmed) tries to find success on Wall Street. However, he instead finds himself caught between the conflict of his American dream, a hostage crisis, and the call of his family’s homeland.

Based on Mohsin Hamid’s 2007 novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the story centers around struggling between success in a new way of life and the ties to an old one.

March 31st –  Twenty Feet from Stardom
The oscar nominated Movie Twenty Feet from Stardom was on Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival and shines the spotlight on the backup singers behind some of the greatest musical legends of the lat 20th century. Twenty Minutes from Stardom is a tribute to the unsung voices that changed the sound of popular music, and a reflection on the sacrifices and rewards of a career spent harmonizing with others and standing next to the spotlight.

April 28th The Invisible Woman
In 1885 the newly reinvented Nelly (Felicity Jones) is a happily married mother and school teacher. Yet, she’s haunted by the past. At 18, she met Charles Dickens (Ralph Fiennes), then 45 and at the height of his career. Nelly was a budding actress who had appeared in a play he’d adapted – and the two embarked on a relationship that had to be kept secret, given that he was married with 10 children.

Based on Claire Tomalin’s nonfiction book The Invisible Woman: The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens.

May 26th – Philomena
Philomena Lee (Judi Dench), along with many other unwed women, was forced by Catholic authorities in 1950s Ireland to give up her child for adoption.

After 50 years of searching for her son without any luck, Philomena convinced a recently unemployed and unapologetically cynical journalist named Martin Sixsmith (Steve Coogan) to help her. Based on the celebrated book by Martin Sixsmith.

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This month, come and watch Unfinished Song! For details…

Still Mine
September 30th 7:30pm
Principal Cast: James Cromwell, Geneviève Bujold
Official Selection, 2012 Toronto International Film Festival®

Nominated for seven Canadian Screen Awards Cromwell, who won a Canadian Screen Award for this role, has never been more powerful or sincere than in his portrayal of Craig, a man of integrity and gentle determination.

Irene, Geneviève Bujold, creates an endearing woman who is both fragile and steadfastly willful. Driven by these deep performances, the story unfolds slowly and methodically as the camera sweeps from graceful landscapes to intimate interiors. The aesthetic is understated and beautiful, much like everything else about this moving film.

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The Arts Council presents  “Quartet”
by Dustin Hoffman
Massey Theatre June 24 at 7:30pm

Review:
Beecham House is abuzz. The rumor circling the halls is that the home for retired musicians is soon to play host to a new resident. Word is, it’s a star.

For Reginald Paget (Tom Courtenay), Wilfred Bond (Billy Connolly) and Cecily Robson (Pauline Collins) this sort of talk is par for the course at the gossipy home. But they’re in for a special shock when the new arrival turns out to be none other than their former singing partner, Jean Horton (Maggie Smith)

For full review…

Stars:
Maggie Smith, Tom Courtenay, Billy Connolly

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The Arts Council presents Oscar nominated “Midnight’s Children”
by Canadian Producer Deepa Mehta
Massey Theatre May 27th at 7:30pm

Just as India has proclaimed independence from Great Britain on August 15, 1947 at the stroke of midnight, Saleem Sinai, the illegitimate son of a poor Hindu woman, is born in a Bombay Hospital.

At the same time, in the same hospital, Shiva, the son of wealthy Muslims, is also born.

Knowing that she was condemning the rich born boy to a life of poverty, a nurse switches the two newborn babies. As Saleem grows up, he discovers he has telepathic powers, as do all of India’s other 1,000 “midnight’s children”. They can all speak to each other, but only Saleem has the power to bring them all together.

Saleem and Shiva lives wind up mysteriously intertwined as they grow up in an India far different than the one their parents grew up in.

The official movie trailer:

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The Arts Council Presents: “Picture Day”
Written & Directed By Kate Melville.
Massey Theatre April 29th 7:30pm

Kate Melville will be introducing her much acclaimed movie at the Massey and will be on hand for a Q & A session.

Award winner at Whistler, Toronto, Calgary, Victoria, Riverrun, Sudbury and Windsor Film Festival.

A rebellious teenager (Tatiana Maslany, Grown Up Movie Star) forced to repeat her last year of high school is caught between adolescence and adulthood — and between two very different male admirers — in this charming and vibrant debut feature from writer-director Kate Melville.

One of the most charming and vibrant debut features by a Canadian filmmaker in recent memory, Kate Melville’s Picture Day features rising star Tatiana Maslany as Claire Paxton, a teenage girl who has all the freedoms of adulthood but none of the responsibilities. Forced to repeat her last year of high school due to bad grades and absenteeism, Claire still prefers to cut class whenever feasible and spends her nights clubbing, living on the fringes of the adult world she’s almost part of.

Smoothly directed by Melville, Picture Day sketches a scruffier, less upscale version of the world inhabited by Noah Baumbach’s lost adolescents. The film is anchored by an extraordinary performance by Maslany, who more than delivers on the promise evident in Grown Up Movie Star. Together, Maslany and Melville have created a protagonist as unique, infuriating, complex and memorable as the heroines of New Waterford Girl, Emporte-moi or Double Happiness.

All pass holders are entitled to bring one guest for FREE! Meet Kate at Last Monday at the Movies, an event not to be missed!

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Beasts of the Southern Wild
Monday, Feb 25

“For once, you can believe the hype. Sundance narrative jury prize winner Beasts of the Southern Wild was surely one of the best films at 2012’s (mostly mediocre) Sundance fest, and it’s an added feather in the Sundance cap that the project was nurtured for over three years in the Institute’s labs before filming began…”
Ray Greene – Box Office (full review…)

The Trailer:

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To Rome with Love
R, 1 hr. 52 min.
Comedy
Directed By:Woody Allen
Written By:Woody Allen

Monday, January 28
Massey Theatre

To Rome with Love is a kaleidoscopic comedy movie set in one of the world’s most enchanting cities. The film brings us into contact with a well-known American architect reliving his youth; an average middle-class Roman who suddenly finds himself Rome’s biggest celebrity; a young provincial couple drawn into separate romantic encounters; and an American opera director endeavoring to put a singing mortician on stage. (www.rottentomatoes.com)

The Artist, screening on Monday June 25th at 7:30pm at the Massey Theatre.

Summary
In the 1920s, actor George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is a bona fide matinee idol with many adoring fans. While working on his latest film, George finds himself falling in love with an ingenue named Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo) and, what’s more, it seems Peppy feels the same way. But George is reluctant to cheat on his wife with the beautiful young actress.

The growing popularity of sound in movies further separates the potential lovers, as George’s career begins to fade while Peppy’s star rises.

Rating PG-13

The Artist, 10 Oscar nominations, Oscar for: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Director. Three Golden Globes Awards

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A quick reminder of our Monday Movie tomorrow (Feb 27) – The Way. For more information click here…

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