City Cinema

02/06/2026

The Art of Adventure is here for two nights only, Tuesday and Wednesday! In 1957, world renowned wildlife artist, Robert Bateman and spirited biologist, Bristol Foster embark on an global expedition in a Land Rover called "The Grizzly Torque". This is the story of that amazing journey.

Best Documentary Award, Available Light and Forest City Film Festivals.
Audience Award, Victoria Film Festival.
Mountain Culture Award, Whistler Film Festival

01/06/2026

01/06/2026

Tonight!

In our ciné-concert partnership with Roving Picture Shows, we present the silent film science fiction masterpiece “Metropolis” – with a live improvised score by Chris Coupland of Trio from Mars.

Set in a futuristic city split between wealthy elites above ground and oppressed workers below. The son of the city’s ruler discovers the workers’ suffering after meeting a woman who calls for unity. Meanwhile, a scientist creates a robot that incites chaos and rebellion. One of the most celebrated movies in cinema history...For the first time, Lang’s vision... which has influenced contemporary films like “Blade Runner” and “Star Wars,” seems complete. — The New York Times

For this ciné-concert, keyboardist Chris Coupland from award-winning Trio from Mars will improvise a live score, on his Wurlitzer and other keyboards, but also on City Cinema acoustic piano, beautifully restored recently by Max Keenlyside. Many thanks to William Alexander for the poster.

Incorporating more than 25 minutes of newly discovered footage, this 2010 restoration of METROPOLIS is the definitive edition of Fritz Lang’s science fiction masterpiece. The film’s dazzling visual design and special effects are more striking than ever. And the integration of scenes and subplots long considered lost endows METROPOLIS with even greater tension and emotional resonance, as it dramatizes the conflict between wealthy über-capitalists and rebellious subterranean laborers—orchestrated by a diabolical scientist capable of destroying them all.

“Metropolis” 1927 silent film by Fritz Lang
Live improvised score by Chris Coupland of Trio from Mars
City Cinema Monday June 1 at 7pm
Tickets $20 at the door, $15 for students

28/05/2026

What a wonderful movie.

Playing Wednesday to Sunday May 28-31.

"Witness comes billed as a thriller, but it’s so much more than a thriller... This is, first of all, an electrifying and poignant love story. Then it is a movie about the choices we make in life and the choices that other people make for us. Only then is it a thriller – one that Alfred Hitchcock would have been proud to make... Harrison Ford has never given a better performance in a movie. Kelly McGillis, the young actress who plays the Amish widow, has a kind of luminous simplicity about her; it is refreshing and even subtly erotic to see a woman who doesn’t subscribe to all the standard man-woman programmed responses of modern society... Witness arrives like a fresh new day. It is a movie about adults, whose lives have dignity and whose choices matter to them. And it is also one hell of a thriller." - Roger Ebert

25/05/2026

Just 3 shows left for The Christophers, and then the classic Academy Award-Winner Witness plays Thursday to Sunday. And then it's June! Here 's our line-up, you can check out the trailers at https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMr8UwI1IDxCMgvZilOq_o5yE0dwktrRG&si=Cnf6aDASFIiUooqZ

23/05/2026

It.s Saturday! Last chance to see Monica's News at 2:00, and then The Christophers opens at 7:00 tonight. The latest from Steven Soderbergh it stars Ian McKellan as an aging artist whose children plot to steal a famous set of his paintings with the help of a young artist who becomes his assistant. Here's the trailer!

20/05/2026

Monica's News, filmed in Nova Scotia by P.E.I. filmmaker Pamela Gallant, opens tonight and plays until Saturday! Includes the bonus short film A Space for Sara by another Island filmmaker, Donna Davies. Both will be at the cinema tonight and there will be a Q&A afterwards!