Arts and Entertainment
February 5, 2024
From: Cinema Arts CentreThis week at the Cinema, we are opening the epic historical drama 'The Promised Land', starring Mads Mikkelsen.
You can also still see the award winning films 'The Zone of Interest' & 'American Fiction' - both of which were just nominated for 5 Academy Awards at the 2024 Oscars!
Special events this week include a screening of the 1938 classic 'The Adventures of Robin Hood', starring Errol Flynn, a lecture on hidden Hitchcock gems, the next program of our Winter 2024 Preview Club, an encore screening of the concert film 'Pet Shop Boys Dreamworld', and some iconic cult classics.
Make sure to check out our calendar for all of the screenings and special events coming up!
The Promised Land
starring Mads Mikkelsen
In 1755, the impoverished war hero Captain Ludvig Kahlen (Mads Mikkelsen) is given the task of building a colony for the King in a vast uninhabitable land. But he soon comes into conflict with the ruler of the territory, the merciless Frederik De Schinkel. When De Schinkel learns that a couple in his employ have escaped and taken refuge with Kahlen, he attempts to drive the captain away. But Kahlen will not waver and nobly takes up the unequal battle - not only risking his life, but also the family of outsiders that have formed around him. Directed by Nikolaj Arcel (The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo).
'The Promised Land' Review: Mads Mikkelsen Is Perfect
Showtimes
Fri: 1:35; 6:40; 9:20
Sat: 1:35; 6:40; 9:20
Sun: 1:55; 7:35
Mon: 2:05; 7:10
Tues: 2:05; 7:10
Wed: 2:05; 7:10
Thurs: 1:50
The Zone of Interest
Winner of both the Grand Prix and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival
Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture!
In his chilling, oblique study of evil, British director Jonathan Glazer (Under the Skin, Sexy Beast) situates the viewer at the center of frighteningly familiar banality. It’s summer in the mid-1940s, and a German family merrily idles by a river. Father Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) and mother Hedwig (Sandra Hüller) tuck their kids in bed at night. They entertain family and guests in their vast backyard garden on the weekends. In the mornings, she oversees chores with a cadre of housekeepers and cooks; he goes to work as head Commandant of Auschwitz Concentration Camp. Their domestic life is paradisiacal. Yet over the wall abutting their home, we can see smokestacks, and at night we hear screams and occasional gunshots. Loosely inspired by the 2014 novel of the same name by Martin Amis, Glazer has created a singular, unsettlingly timeless representation of inhumanity and our capacity for indifference in the face of atrocity, filmed and edited with aptly cold precision and punctuated with an ominous score by Mica Levi.
‘These people absolutely could be us’: Jonathan Glazer on his film about the mastermind of Auschwitz
The Real History Behind ‘The Zone of Interest’ and Rudolf Höss
How Jonathan Glazer’s ‘The Zone Of Interest’ Recreated The Horrors Of Auschwitz Purely Through Sound
Showtimes
Fri: 1:45; 4:15; 6:50
Sat: 1:45; 4:15; 6:50; 9:35
Sun: 12:05; 2:35; 5:05
Mon: 2:10; 4:40; 7:15
Tues: 2:10; 4:40
Wed: 2:10; 4:45; 7:25
Thurs: 2:00; 4:30; 7:05
American Fiction
Winner of People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF)
Nominated for 5 Academy Awards including Best Picture!
American Fiction is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
NY Times Critic's Pick: ‘American Fiction’ Review: The Pen Is Mighty, the Pressures Mightier
Showtimes
Fri: 1:30 (Open Captions); 4:10; 6:55; 9:35
Sat: 1:30 (Open Captions); 4:10; 6:55
Sun: 12:10 (Open Captions); 2:50; 5:30; 8:05
Mon: 2:00 (Open Captions); 4:45; 7:25
Tues: 2:00 (Open Captions); 4:45; 7:25
Wed: 2:00 (Open Captions); 4:40
Thurs: 2:05 ; 4:45; 7:25
Driving Madeleine
With mounting debts, his marriage struggling, and in danger of losing his license, Charles (Dany Boon), a taxi driver in Paris is running out of hope. Enter Madeleine (Line Renaud), a charming 92-year-old woman, who informs Charles that she is moving into a care home and would like to make some stops on what might be her last car ride through the city. Initially exasperated, Charles softens as their ride takes them through the locations of her life and we discover that she has had a very dramatic journey indeed.
‘Driving Madeleine’ Review: A Nonagenarian in Paris
Showtimes
Fri: 4:25
Sat: 4:25
Sun: 4:45
Mon: 4:55
Tues: 4:55
Wed: 4:55
Thurs: 4:40