To-do: Week starting 4/2
Gabourey Sidibe from "Precious"
THURSDAY
Lee Daniels’ Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning Precious (with Mo’Nique and Mariah Carey) opens.
Elia Suleiman’s semi-autobiographical The Time That Remains plays at ACMI until Sunday.
The Spierig Brothers’ vampire movie Daybreakers opens.
Alan Parker’s blue collar soul movie The Committments (1991) at Moonlight.
Ridley Scott’s dystopian sci-fi noir Bladerunner (1982) at Rooftop.
Tommy Wiseau from "The Room"
FRIDAY
Sidney Lumet’s 1978 Motown-styled Wizard of Oz remake The Wiz (starring Michael Jackson and Diana Ross) at ACMI today and Sunday.
Cinema Fiasco present Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) starring Vincent Price at the Astor.
SATURDAY
Tommy Wiseau’s stunningly awful cult film The Room opens at Nova.
Matinee sessions of Screen Machine favourite Summer Hours (from Olivier Assayas) at ACMI today thru to Monday.
Peter Weller from "Robocop"
Joel Schumacher’s teen vampire movie The Lost Boys (1987) with Corey Haim, Corey Feldman and Kiefer Sutherland at Rooftop.
SUNDAY
Paul Verhoeven’s violently satirical sci-fi Robocop (1988) at the Astor.
Zoolander (2001) at Rooftop.
MONDAY
A strange double-feature at Astor: Antonioni’s portrait of 1960s counter-culture Zabriskie Point (1969) and The Coen Brothers’ crime comedy Fargo (1996).
Martine Carol from "Lola Montes"
TUESDAY
Ghostbusters (1984) at Rooftop.
WEDNESDAY
Opening night for this year’s Cinematheque season with a Max Ophuls double feature: Lola Montès (1955) about the romantic exploits of the 19th century cabaret dancer and La Ronde (1950) about the illicit affairs between a prostitute, a soldier, a chambermaid, her employer’s son, a married woman, her husband, a young girl, a poet, an actress and a count.
Benicio Del Toro in "Guerilla"
Part 2 of Steven Soderbergh’s portrait of revolutionary leader Che Guevera Guerilla at the Astor.
Tarkovsky’s existential sci-fi Stalker (1979) about two people brought to the Zone, a site with the potential to fulfil one’s innermost desires at Rooftop.
