AGH film series 
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WINTER 2010
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AMREEKA
Wednesday, February 17 at 7:00 pm
Director: Cherien Dabis, USA 2009, 96 min. Rated 14A
Location: Empire Jackson Square 6 Cinemas
www.amreeka.com
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Amreeka chronicles the adventures of Muna, a single mother who leaves the West Bank with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land of small town Illinois. In America, as her son navigates high school hallways the way he used to move through military checkpoints, the indomitable Muna scrambles together a new life cooking up falafel burgers as well as hamburgers at the local White Castle.
 (on-line sales end midnight the day prior to screening)
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HIGH LIFE
Wednesday, March 3 at 7:00 pm
Director: Gary Yates, USA 2009, 80 min. Rated 18A
Location: Empire Jackson Square 6 Cinemas
www.highlifemovie.com
Producer Robin Cass in attendance!
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They say crime doesn't pay, but people still try! Dick is a down-on-his-luck morphine addict and hospital orderly whose job gives him convenient access to his poison. Dick is reunited with his old buddy Bug, who's fresh out of a stint in prison. After Bug helps to get Dick fired, the two hatch a drug-addled plan to grab enough money to allow them to live on easy street forever. But plans never go quite as expected...
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BRIGHT STAR
Wednesday, April 7 at 7:00 pm
Director: Jane Campion, Canada 2009, 119 min. Rated PG
Location: Empire Jackson Square 6 Cinemas
www.brightstarthemovie.com
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London, 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year old English poet, John Keats, and the girl next door, Fanny, an outspoken student of fashion. This unlikely pair started at odds; he thinking her a stylish minx, she unimpressed by literature in general. It was the illness of Keats’ younger brother that drew them together. Keats was touch by Fanny’s efforts to help and agreed to teach her poetry. Together they rode a wave of romantic obsession that deepened as their troubles mounted. Only Keats’ illness proved insurmountable.
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THE HORSE BOY
Wednesday, April 21 at 7:00 pm
Director: Michael Orion Scott, USA 2009, 93 min. Rated PG
Location: Empire Jackson Square 6 Cinemas
www.horseboymovie.com
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This powerful documentary is part travel adventure, part insight into shamanic tradition and part intimate look at the autistic mind. In telling one family’s extraordinary story, the film gives voice to the thousands who display amazing courage and creativity every day in the battle against the mysterious and heartbreaking epidemic.
(on-line sales end midnight the day prior to screening)
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FREE First Friday Films
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Friday, March 5 at 7:00 pm
Paradise
Director: Jesse Rosensweet, Canada 2007, 7 min 49 s. Not Yet Rated
National Film Board of Canada
Location: Art Gallery of Hamilton
A stop-motion animated short that is told using tin toys from the 1950s that move around on metal posts inside an "automated" world, this visual story follows John as he goes about his daily routine only to begin to question his very existence and the role that he plays in his automated world.
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City on the Move: 1940 and 1967
20 min each. Not Rated
A documentary film provided by History and Heritage about the City of Hamilton in
1940 and 1967 produced by the Hamilton Real Estate Board to promote Hamilton.
These gems are not to be missed!
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Friday, May 7 at 7:00 pm
RIP: A Remix Manifesto Chapters 1-13
Director: Brett Gaylor, Canada 2008, 80 min. Rated 14A
National Film Board of Canada
Location: Art Gallery of Hamilton
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Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores the issues behind copyright in the information age. Using mash-up artist Girl Talk as its central protagonist, this film draws the lines of battle in the war of ideas. |
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Generously
sponsored by:
START TIME:
All screenings begin
at 7:00 pm unless
otherwise posted.
LOCATIONS:
(please check each film)
1) Empire Jackson Square 6 Cinemas
Jackson Square,
2 King St. W.,
downtown Hamilton.
Underground Parking is $1
with cinema validation
(after 6:00 pm).
2) Art Gallery of Hamilton
123 King St. W.,
downtown Hamilton.
3) Westdale Theatre
1014 King St. W.,
Westdale (west Hamilton).
ADMISSION:
(unless otherwise posted)
AGH Members $6
Students/Seniors $8
General $10
Tickets are available in advance from the AGH Front Desk during Gallery hours, on-line (closes midnight prior), by phone, or at the venue after 6:30 pm on the evening of the screening. Taxes are included in the ticket price.
Call 905-527-6610 ext. 232, or e-mail film@artgalleryofhamilton.com.
AGH film is generously sponsored by Turkstra Lumber.
The AGH gratefully acknowledges Empire Theatres, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Hamilton and VIEW magazine. For current media releases, click here.
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*Not all films had been rated
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