14Amature content
Presented by Discover Charlottetown as part of The Ice City Festival. A man whose brain becomes magnetized unintentionally destroys every tape in his friend's video store. In order to satisfy the store's most loyal renter, an aging woman with signs of dementia, the two men set out to remake the lost films.
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Dir. Eric Cerisano, Canada, 2023. David Adams, Liam Cerisano, Alessandro Favasoli, Eric Cerisano. Presented by Red Rbn Films. Ticket price: $11. Donations welcome (all donations go towards the film festival fund). Two best friends on their way to the movies, take the wrong bus, and end up stranded in the middle of nowhere. Will they be able to make it to the movies on time? After all, they can’t miss the previews! For more information please visit: https://ericcerisano.wixsite.com/cantmissthepreviews.
14Aviolence.
Dir: Haruo Sotozaki, Japan, 2024. Natsuki Hanae, Akari Kito, Hiro Shimono, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Tomokazu Sugita. “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba first took the world by storm in 2018. The series follows Tanjiro Kamado, a young man whose family was tragically murdered by demons... However, his little sister, Nezuko, isn’t completely gone and is transformed into a demon herself. To save his sister Tanjiro enlists in the Demon Slayer Corps. What makes Demon Slayer stand out is its beautiful animation, stellar score, and intense fight scenes. The show’s first feature quickly became one of the highest-grossing anime films ever… Demon Slayer To the Hashira Training, takes new and previously released episodes and creates a cinematic experience... Demon Slayer: To the Hashira Training shows that this series is best seen on the big screen…. an incredibly enjoyable experience.” - Michael Thomas. Collider
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Dir: Haruo Sotozaki, Japan, 2024. Natsuki Hanae, Akari Kito, Hiro Shimono, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Tomokazu Sugita. “Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba first took the world by storm in 2018. The series follows Tanjiro Kamado, a young man whose family was tragically murdered by demons... However, his little sister, Nezuko, isn’t completely gone and is transformed into a demon herself. To save his sister Tanjiro enlists in the Demon Slayer Corps. What makes Demon Slayer stand out is its beautiful animation, stellar score, and intense fight scenes. The show’s first feature quickly became one of the highest-grossing anime films ever… Demon Slayer To the Hashira Training, takes new and previously released episodes and creates a cinematic experience... Demon Slayer: To the Hashira Training shows that this series is best seen on the big screen…. an incredibly enjoyable experience.” - Michael Thomas. Collider
PG- mature content
Dir: Steve Barron, 1984, US. Lenny von Dohlen, Virginia Madsen, Bud Cort. Presented by Seven's Pinballorama. Proof of purchase can be provided at Seven’s Pinballorama for 2 hours of play at the discounted rate of $11.00! An artificially intelligent PC and his human owner find themselves in a romantic rivalry over a woman. The agoraphobe from Twin Peaks is in top comedic form as he fumbles the lead from Candyman again and again in what is essentially 1984's Her.
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Presented by Discover Charlottetown as part of The Ice City Festival. Dir: Wes Anderson, USA, 2009. George Clooney, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wally Wolodarsky, Michael Gambon, Helen McCrory, Wes Anderson, Eric Anderson, Jarvis Cocker. Based on the beloved story by Roald Dahl, the film tells the tale of the noble, charming and fantastic Mr. Fox who uses his wits and cunning to outfox three dimwitted farmers who tire of sharing their chickens with the crafty creature.
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Dir: Mike Cheslik, US, 2024. Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, Olivia Graves, Wes Tank. “When his turn-of-the-19th-century applejack distillery is razed from under his ruddy nose by some of the titular critters, our hero Jean refocusses his life goals in the giddily adorable Hundreds of Beavers, director Mike Cheslik’s impossibly winning spin on love in the time of Castor canadensis. From the ruins of his booze factory, Jean is cast into the north-eastern snowscapes of the USA, every effort he undertakes to resurrect his capitalistic dreams thwarted by the buck-toothed rodents (as well as rabbits, raccoons, wolves, fish and a pesky woodpecker). It is only when Jean falls for ‘The Furrier’ and tasked by her father to deliver one hundred beaver pelts if he wants her hand in marriage, does the down-on-his-luck but always upbeat woodsman find the drive to succeed. The whole gloriously madcap, ‘Looney Tunes’-y spectacle ends on a scale so grandly inspired, its exalted status in film history is assured. Pummeling elegantly through slapstick setup, sight gag and lo-fi effects mastery over the course of their delirious romp, Cheslik and writer/leading man Tews craft a monochromatic masterwork ripe with the DNA of the silent film classics of Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.” – Simon Foster, SCREEN-SPACE.net
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Dir: Nance Ackerman, Canada, 2023. Presented by the PEI Invasive Species Council. Free Admission. A Q&A session on the invasive Hemlock Woolly Adelgid after the screening. Prod. by Teresa MacInnes, Sea to Sea Productions. From Sea to Sea Productions comes In the Quiet and the Dark, a cinematic and lyrical exploration of our last remaining North American Eastern Hemlock Forests and the people trying to save them. Vital to our ecosystem and climate, the giant Eastern Hemlock stands are under attack by a tiny insect - the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid. Respected Nova Scotia ecologist, Donna Crossland, has been sounding the alarm for years and believes that a small portion of the Hemlock can be saved by an effective chemical treatment of the trees. But not everyone agrees. Some naturalists here, and in New England, believe the decision to do absolutely nothing, is a viable option, choosing to study the decline instead of stopping it. Battling an enemy the size of a pinhead, this is a classic ecological David and Goliath story that follows Donna and her allies, on their journey to convince the government, and the public that action needs to be taken...now.
18Amature content
Dir: Greydon Clark, 1983, US. Joe Don Baker, Leif Green, Jim Greenleaf. Presented by Seven's Pinballorama. Proof of purchase can be provided at Seven’s Pinballorama for 2 hours of play at the discounted rate of $11.00! When a top local businessman and his two bumbling nephews try to shut down the town's only video arcade, arcade employees and patrons fight back. Porky's meets Tron in this classic 80's sex comedy sleaze fest.
PG- some language, partial nudity and smoking.
Dir: Wim Wenders, Japan/Germany, 2023. Kôji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano. Academy Award Nominee for Best International Feature Film; Cannes Festival Winner, Best Actor and Ecumenical Jury Prize In Japanese with English subtitles. “In the days before the Internet, arthouse cinemas used to bring us the world: this is how moviegoers in America would have seen Kôji Yakusho, famous in his home country of Japan, in movies like Tampopo or Shall We Dance? For longtime moviegoers, Yakusho’s performance in Wim Wenders’ sublime Perfect Days is a kind of homecoming. His character, Hirayama, has either retreated from the world or is fully embracing it, depending on your perspective: He’s a Tokyo janitor who cleans public toilets for a living, driving from job to job accompanied by the music streaming from his van’s cassette deck. His daily companions are Patti Smith, Lou Reed, the Kinks, Nina Simone - artists who mark him as a music lover of a certain age, but who also bind the past to the present in an elastic embrace. Yakusho’s performance is a marvel of openness: Hirayama observes all that’s around him - the pattern of light on the waves of a river, the tracery of leaves on a tree he sees every day - as if taking the world in with every breath, and subliminally, he urges us to do the same.” - Stephanie Zacharek, Time Magazine
PGmature theme.
Dir: Pawo Choyning Dorji, Bhutan/Taiwan/France, 2024. Harry Einhorn, Tandin Wangchuk, Tandin Sonam. In English and Dzongkha with English subtitles. Audience Award Winner, Vancouver International Film Festival. “A droll political satire set in the year 2006 as the Kingdom of Bhutan transitions towards becoming the world’s youngest democracy… The ensemble comedy examines how the country’s upcoming mock elections affect the titular monk, a rural family, an election official, and a desperate liason from the city, all of whose lives collide in minor and major ways. After hearing about the upcoming mock elections on the radio, the elderly lama of the rural village of Ura requests that his attendant bring him two guns before the full moon - also the day of the elections - to ‘set it right.’ What exactly he means by this ominous and vague statement is left unanswered until the film’s charming denouement. As Tashi makes his way on foot in search of guns, election official Tshering arrives, observing as the rural population is taught how to vote… They are also instructed how to hold a rally. Villagers are arbitrarily split up and told to yell at each other… Tashi eventually locates an antique rifle owned by a remote farmer… This rare relic is also being sought by a seedy American collector, Mr. Ron… In a place whose greatest aim is its population’s happiness, Dorji’s The Monk and the Gun contemplates whether complete modernization of his country is worth the price of this very happiness.” - Marya E. Gates, RogerEbert.com
PG- violence, language and mature themes.
Presented by Discover Charlottetown as part of the Ice City Festival. Dir: Nicolas Roeg, US, 1990. Jasen Fisher, Mai Zetterling, Anjelica Houston, Rowan Atkinson. A nine year old boy and his grandmother discover adventure when they encounter the high witch and her diabolical plot to turn all of England's children into mice.