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Ryerson Theatre

THU.08.SEP at 5:30pm [2016]


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Maren Ade
An alternately hilarious and mortifying comedy about the fraught relationship between a repressed corporate consultant and her incessantly prank… 
CastPeter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller, Michael Wi…
LanguageGerman   CountryGermany
SP$14A

THU.08.SEP at 9:15pm [2016]


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Mia Hansen-Løve
A delicate and affecting tale about a middle-aged professor whose carefully structured life is thrown into disarray when her husband leaves her … 
CastIsabelle Huppert, André Marcon, Roman Kolink…
LanguageFrench | English | G…   CountryFrance | Germany
SP$14A

THU.08.SEP at 11:59pm [2016]


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Ben Wheatley
Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shootout and a game of survival. [Midnight Madness Open… 
CastBrie Larson, Armie Hammer, Cillian Murphy, S…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
MM$$18A

FRI.09.SEP at 11:30am [2016]


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Ben Wheatley
Set in Boston in 1978, a meeting in a deserted warehouse between two gangs turns into a shootout and a game of survival. [Midnight Madness Open… 
CastBrie Larson, Armie Hammer, Cillian Murphy, S…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
MM$$18A

FRI.09.SEP at 2:00pm [2016]


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Susan Johnson
Carrie, a person of high intelligence who graduated Harvard at 18, struggles to make sense of the world as it relates to morality, relationships… 
CastBel Powley, Nathan Lane, Gabriel Byrne, Vane…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

FRI.09.SEP at 6:15pm [2016]


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Onur Tukel
A reunion between two old school friends sparks a no-holds-barred war of attrition, in this outrageously madcap black comedy. 
CastSandra Oh, Anne Heche, Alicia Silverstone, C…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

FRI.09.SEP at 9:00pm [2016]


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Nacho Vigalondo
A going-nowhere party girl (Anne Hathaway) discovers a mysterious connection between herself and a giant monster wreaking havoc on the other sid… 
CastAnne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Dan Stevens, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
VAN$$14A

FRI.09.SEP at 11:59pm [2016]


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Kimo Stamboel, Timo Tjahjant…
Uwais plays a young man who washes ashore, an amnesiac with a serious head injury whose past comes back to haunt him shortly after being nursed … 
CastJulie Estelle, David Hendrawan, Chelsea Isla…
LanguageIndonesian   CountryIndonesia
MM$18A

SAT.10.SEP at 12:00pm [2016]


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Nacho Vigalondo
A going-nowhere party girl (Anne Hathaway) discovers a mysterious connection between herself and a giant monster wreaking havoc on the other sid… 
CastAnne Hathaway, Jason Sudeikis, Dan Stevens, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
VAN$$14A

SAT.10.SEP at 3:00pm [2016]


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Christopher Guest
Starring many of his regular troupe of actors, Christopher Guest’s new comedy takes place in the ultra-competitive world of sports mascots where… 
CastJennifer Coolidge, Jane Lynch, Fred Willard,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$PG

SAT.10.SEP at 6:00pm [2016]


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Vikram Gandhi
New York City, 1981. Inspired by true events, a young Barack Obama tries to find his way as a college student in a new city as he is faced with … 
CastDevon Terrell, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Ellar Co…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$PG

SAT.10.SEP at 9:00pm [2016]


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Juan Carlos Medina
In the notorious Limehouse district of 19th-century London, a series of murders have shaken the city. The crimes are so monstrous that the press… 
CastBill Nighy, Olivia Cooke, Douglas Booth, Dan…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$$14A

SAT.10.SEP at 11:59pm [2016]


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Greg McLean
A group of 83 American expatriates who work in a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, find themselves trapped in their workplace; a voice emits over t… 
CastJohn Gallagher Jr, Tony Goldwyn, Adria Arjon…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
MM$18

SUN.11.SEP at 11:45am [2016]


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Rebecca Zlotowski
Kate and Laura Barlow, two young American spiritualists in 1930s Paris, finish their world tour. Fascinated by their gift, a powerful French fil… 
CastNatalie Portman, Lily-Rose Depp, Emmanuel Sa…
LanguageEnglish | French   CountryFrance | Belgium
GALA$$14A

SUN.11.SEP at 2:45pm [2016]


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Dash Shaw
The title tells the tale in this inventive, beautiful and bizarre animated feature from acclaimed graphic novelist Dash Shaw, featuring the voic… 
CastJohn Cameron Mitchell, Reggie Watts, Jason S…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
VAN$14A

SUN.11.SEP at 5:15pm [2016]


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Andrea Arnold
Star, an adolescent girl from a troubled home, runs away with a travelling sales crew who drive across the American Midwest selling subscription… 
CastShia LaBeouf, Riley Keogh, and Sasha Lane
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$18A

SUN.11.SEP at 9:00pm [2016]


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Nick Cannon
Nick Cannon directs and stars in this high-energy musical about a young man from Brooklyn who gets caught up in the vibrant Kingston music scene… 
CastNick Cannon, Whoopi Goldberg, Busta Rhymes, …
LanguageEnglish   CountryJamaica/USA
SP$14A

SUN.11.SEP at 11:59pm [2016]


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Adam Wingard
After discovering a video showing what he believes to be his sister's experiences in the demonic woods of the Blair Witch, James and a group of … 
CastValorie Curry, Corbin Reid, Brandon Scott, W…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
MM$14A

MON.12.SEP at 12:00pm [2016]


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Jeff Nichols
This film celebrates the real-life courage and commitment of Richard and Mildred Loving, who waged a decade-long legal battle that led to the ov… 
CastJoel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Marton Csokas, Ni…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$PG

MON.12.SEP at 3:15pm [2016]


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Jim Jarmusch
Paterson is a bus driver in the city of Paterson, New Jersey. He adheres to a simple routine, writing poetry and observing the city on his route… 
CastAdam Driver and Golshifteh Farahani
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$PG

MON.12.SEP at 6:15pm [2016]


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Alexandre Lehmann
Meeting by chance when they return to their tiny California hometown, two former high-school sweethearts reflect on their shared past through th… 
CastMark Duplass and Sarah Paulson
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$18

MON.12.SEP at 8:45pm [2016]


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Owen Harris and Joe Wright
Charlie Brooker’s anthology series continues to tap into the collective unease within the modern world, each stand-alone episode a sharp and sus… 
CastGugu Mbatha-Raw, Mackenzie Davis, Bryce Dall…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom/South…
PRIME$14A

MON.12.SEP at 11:59pm [2016]


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Julia Ducournau
When a young vegetarian undergoes a carnivorous hazing ritual at vet school, an unbidden taste for meat begins to grow in her. 
CastGarance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Nait Ou…
LanguageFrench   CountryFrance/Belgium
MM$18A

TUE.13.SEP at 12:00pm [2016]


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Ben Younger
This film tells the incredible true story of one of the most inspiring and unlikely comebacks in sports history. Vinny “The Pazmanian Devil” Paz… 
CastMiles Teller, Katey Sagal, and Aaron Eckhart
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$14A

TUE.13.SEP at 3:00pm [2016]


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George Nolfi
Set against the backdrop of San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1964, this cross-cultural biopic chronicles Bruce Lee’s emergence as a martial-arts sup… 
CastBilly Magnussen, Xia Yu, and Philip Ng
LanguageMandarin   CountryChina
SP$PG

TUE.13.SEP at 6:00pm [2016]


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Nathan Morlando
Mean Dreams is a tense coming-of-age thriller about a 15-year-old boy who steals a bag of drug money and runs away with the girl he loves. While… 
CastSophie Nélisse, Josh Wiggins, Bill Paxton, a…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
SP$14A

TUE.13.SEP at 9:00pm [2016]


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Ana Lily Amirpour
A savage dystopian cannibal fairy tale set in a Texas wasteland where society's rejects are just trying to make ends meat. Ana Lily Amirpour’s … 
CastSuki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Giovanni Ribis…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
VAN$18A

TUE.13.SEP at 11:59pm [2016]


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Morgan Spurlock
The film will feature exterminators, sanitation workers, mobsters, activists, Nobel scientists and historians explaining where rats came from an… 
CastMorgan Spurlock
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
MM$14A

WED.14.SEP at 12:00pm [2016]


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Robin Swicord
Bryan Cranston stars as a successful lawyer and family man who disappears from his own life and observes his baffled loved ones from a hiding pl… 
CastBryan Cranston, Jennifer Garner
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

WED.14.SEP at 3:00pm [2016]


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Kim Nguyen
This film is set in the Great North, near the North Pole, in a modern town where about 200 souls live precariously in minus 50 degree weather, a… 
CastTatiana Maslany and Dane DeHaan
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
SP$$14A

WED.14.SEP at 6:00pm [2016]


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Walter Hill
This jaw-droppingly audacious revenge thriller from the great Walter Hill (The Warriors, 48 Hours) stars Michelle Rodriguez as a lowlife killer … 
CastMichelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver, Anthon…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
SP$18

WED.14.SEP at 9:00pm [2016]


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Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch recounts the hard-rocking history of Iggy Pop and The Stooges, who burst out of Michigan in the late ’60s with a savage and endless… 
CastIggy Pop, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton, James …
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
DOC$18

WED.14.SEP at 11:59pm [2016]


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Colm McCarthy
A scientist and a teacher living in a dystopian future embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie. 
CastGemma Arterton, Glenn Close, Paddy Considine…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
MM$14A

THU.15.SEP at 11:30am [2016]


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James Franco
James Franco directs and stars alongside a fine cast -- including Vincent D’Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Selena Gomez and Nat Wolff -- in this adapta… 
CastJames Franco, Nat Wolff, Selena Gomez, Vince…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

THU.15.SEP at 2:30pm [2016]


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Sung-su KIM
A shady cop finds himself in over his head when he gets caught between Internal Affairs and the city’s corrupt mayor, in this scintillating crim… 
CastJung-min HWANG, Woo-sung JUNG, Ji-hoon JU, D…
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
SP$14A

THU.15.SEP at 6:00pm [2016]


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Jordan Roberts
In this charming and moving adventure story, an eight-year-old boy (Jacob Tremblay, Room) becomes convinced that he actually hails from the step… 
CastJacob Tremblay, Vera Farmiga, Virginia Madse…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA / Mongolia
SP$PG

THU.15.SEP at 9:00pm [2016]


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Pete Travis
Tommy Akhtar — cricket fan, devoted son and deadbeat private eye — is just emerging from another hangover when his next case walks through the d… 
CastRiz Ahmed, Cush Jumbo, James Floyd, Billie P…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$14A

THU.15.SEP at 11:59pm [2016]


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André Øvredal
Cox and Hirsch play father and son coroners who receive a mysterious homicide victim with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to identif… 
CastBrian Cox, Emile Hirsch, Ophelia Lovibond
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
MM$14A

FRI.16.SEP at 12:00pm [2016]


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Jim Sheridan
A once vibrant and lively beauty in her youth, Roseanne McNulty has spent the majority of her adult life confined to a mental hospital in rural … 
CastVanessa Redgrave, Rooney Mara, Theo James, E…
LanguageEnglish   CountryIreland
GALA$$14A

FRI.16.SEP at 3:00pm [2016]


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Benedict Andrews
When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at an older man's workplace looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten to unravel his new lif… 
CastRooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn, and Riz Ahmed
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$14A

FRI.16.SEP at 6:00pm [2016]


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Hubert Davis
On a continent where dreams are often displaced for necessity and survival, the game of basketball brings hope to many young men in Africa. Masa… 
CastMasai Ujiri, Peter Amegbor, Sodiq Seyi Awogb…
LanguageEnglish   CountryCanada
DOC$G

FRI.16.SEP at 8:30pm [2016]


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Noel Clarke
Writer-director-star Noel Clarke completes the British crime-drama trilogy he began with KiDULTHOOD and AdULTHOOD, in this gritty tale of an ex-… 
CastNoel Clarke, Arnold Oceng, David Ajala, Corn…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUnited Kingdom
SP$14A

FRI.16.SEP at 11:59pm [2016]


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Paul Schrader
Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation, Dog Eat Dog is the story of three men who are all out… 
CastNicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Louisa Krause
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
MM$18A

SAT.17.SEP at 12:00pm [2016]


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Susan Johnson
Carrie, a person of high intelligence who graduated Harvard at 18, struggles to make sense of the world as it relates to morality, relationships… 
CastBel Powley, Nathan Lane, Gabriel Byrne, Vane…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$14A

SAT.17.SEP at 3:00pm [2016]


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Mira Nair
This vibrant true story follows a young girl from the streets of rural Uganda whose world rapidly changes when she is introduced to the game of … 
CastDavid Oyelowo, Lupita Nyong'o, and Madina Na…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUganda, South Africa…
GALA$$PG

SAT.17.SEP at 6:15pm [2016]


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Katherine Dieckmann
A lyrical, emotionally rich drama tracking Darcy as she travels the Deep South with her friend in an effort to process her grief over the loss o… 
CastHolly Hunter, Carrie Coon, and Kim Coates
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$14A

SAT.17.SEP at 9:15pm [2016]


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Christopher Guest
Starring many of his regular troupe of actors, Christopher Guest’s new comedy takes place in the ultra-competitive world of sports mascots where… 
CastJennifer Coolidge, Jane Lynch, Fred Willard,…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
SP$$PG

SAT.17.SEP at 11:59pm [2016]


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Kôji Shiraishi
The vengeful spirits of the Ring and Grudge series face off. After viewing a legendary cursed videotape, Natsumi discovers she has only two day… 
CastMizuki Yamamoto, Tina Tamashiro, Aimi Satsuk…
LanguageJapanese   CountryJapan
MM$14A

SUN.18.SEP at 12:00pm [2016]


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Kelly Fremon
The Edge of Seventeen follows high school junior Nadine (Hailee Steinfeld), who is already at peak awkwardness when her all-star older brother D… 
CastHailee Steinfeld, Woody Harrelson, Kyra Sedg…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$14A

SUN.18.SEP at 3:00pm [2016]


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Kim Jee woon
The latest from cutting-edge director Kim Jee woon is an epic-scale period thriller about a double agent sent to infiltrate a band of freedom fi… 
CastSong Kang ho, Han Ji min, and Gong Yoo
LanguageKorean   CountrySouth Korea
SP$14A

SUN.18.SEP at 6:30pm [2016]


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Denis Villeneuve
When mysterious spacecraft touch down across the globe, an elite team, led by expert linguist Louise Banks, are brought together to investigate.… 
CastAmy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, a…
LanguageEnglish   CountryUSA
GALA$$PG

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