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St. Andrews Film Society Presents: Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story

W.C. O'Neill Arena Complex - Theatre 24 Reed Avenue, Saint Andrews, NB, Canada

Any Other Way: The Jackie Shane Story (2024, Canada, documentary, 98 mm., rated PG). For National Canadian Film Day, we bring you an award-winning Canadian documentary by Michael Mabbott andLucah Rosenberg-Lee that tells the story ofJackie Shane, a pioneering and prominent transgendersinger in Toronto in the 1960s who disappeared from public life after 1971. Dennis […]

St. Andrews Film Society – Young@Heart

W.C. O'Neill Arena Complex - Theatre 24 Reed Avenue, Saint Andrews, NB, Canada

Young@Heart (2007, UK, documentary, 107 min., rated PG). Set in Massachusetts, this British documentary follows a New England chorus of 24 senior citizens (average age of 80) as they rehearse and perform rock and pop songs in 2007. Stephen Walker’s documentary won 24 film-festival Audience Awards. A must-see for those who love music and want […]

St. Andrews Film Society – Testament

W.C. O'Neill Arena Complex - Theatre 24 Reed Avenue, Saint Andrews, NB, Canada

Testament (2023, Canada, comedy-drama, 115 min., rated PG. in Frenchwith English subtitles). This beautiful French-Canadian comedy-drama was written and directed by Denys Arcand, one of Canada’s greatest filmmakers. Rëmy Girard (representing the 82-year-old Arcand’) is wonderful as a 70 something retired archivist living in a retirement home who is trying to get his head around […]

St. Andrews Film Society – Origin

W.C. O'Neill Arena Complex - Theatre 24 Reed Avenue, Saint Andrews, NB, Canada

Origin (2023, US, drama, 141 min., rated PG). Ava DuVernay’s moving and timely biopic concerns the life of Isabel Wilkerson, a woman coping with a devastating personal tragedy while writing her incredible seminal book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (published in 2020). Wilkerson (played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor in a sublime performance), travels through Germany, […]

St. Andrews Film Society – Robot Dreams

W.C. O'Neill Arena Complex - Theatre 24 Reed Avenue, Saint Andrews, NB, Canada

Robot Dreams (2023, Spain/France, animated comedy-drama, 102 min., PG) This is a story about the unique and amazing friendship between a dog and a robot in NewYork City in 1984. Based on the graphic novel by Sara Varon, Pablo Berger’s heartwarming (if oftensad) family-friendly film won countless awards for Best Animated Feature of 2023. Gorgeouslyanimated, […]

St. Andrews Film Society – The Sessions

W.C. O'Neill Arena Complex - Theatre 24 Reed Avenue, Saint Andrews, NB, Canada

The Sessions (2012, US, comedy-drama, 95 min., rated 18A). John Hawkes and Helen Hunt are terrific as a poet paralyzed from the neck down and the sex surrogate he hires to lose his virginity, in Ben Lewin’s touching and funny film. Film critic Todd McCarthy writes:“It argues in favour of living a full life, whatever […]

St. Andrews Film Society – Anatomy of a Fall

W.C. O'Neill Arena Complex - Theatre 24 Reed Avenue, Saint Andrews, NB, Canada

Anatomy of a Fall (2023, France, drama, 152 min., rated PG).Destined to become a classic, this French courtroom drama, written and directed by Justine Triet,concerns a German writer (Sandra, played brilliantly by Sandra Huller) accused of murdering herFrench husband in their house in the French Alps. The courtroom scenes are riveting. Winner of thePalme d’Or […]

St. Andrews Film Society: The Holdovers

W.C. O'Neill Arena Complex - Theatre 24 Reed Avenue, Saint Andrews, NB, Canada

The Holdovers (2023, US, comedy-drama, 133 mm., rated PG). For this holiday season, we offer one of the best Christmas films made in this century. Directed byAlexander Payne, The Holdovers features an outstanding performance by Paul Giamatti as adepressed and crotchety New England boarding school teacher in 1970 who finds himselflooking after stranded students during […]

$5.00

St. Andrews Film Society: Angry Inuk

W.C. O'Neill Arena Complex - Theatre 24 Reed Avenue, Saint Andrews, NB, Canada

Angry Inuk (2016, Canada, documentary, 85 mm., rated PG). Written and directed by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, this award-winning Canadian documentary defends theInuit seal hunt, which is essential for survival in many Inuit communities. That struggle for survival, shown against a background of international campaigns against the seal industry, is led by a new tech-savvy generation of […]

$5.00

St. Andrews Film Society: Io Capitano

W.C. O'Neill Arena Complex - Theatre 24 Reed Avenue, Saint Andrews, NB, Canada

lo Capitano (2023, Italy/Belgium/France, drama/adventure, 121 mm.,multiple languages, rated l4A). Two sixteen-year-old boys from Senegal travel across Africa to get to Italy, where they hope to find jobs to support their large families back home. Matteo Garrone’s gorgeous empathetic film is based on real stories about African migrants and features terrific writing and acting. Nominated […]

$5.00

St. Andrews Film Society: The Leisure Seeker

W.C. O'Neill Arena Complex - Theatre 24 Reed Avenue, Saint Andrews, NB, Canada

The Leisure Seeker (2017, US, comedy-drama, 112 mm., rated PG). In June, we lost one of Canada’s greatest actors, who grew up in and near Saint John. We want tocelebrate Donald Sutherland’s amazing career by offering one of his most recent films, TheLeisure Seeker, in which he and Helen Mirren deliver terrific performances as an […]

$5.00

St. Andrews Film Society: Call Jane

W.C. O'Neill Arena Complex - Theatre 24 Reed Avenue, Saint Andrews, NB, Canada

Call Jane (2022, US, drama, 121 mm., rated PG). Phyllis Nagy’s film about abortion activists in the US in 1968 (before Roe vs. Wade) is, unfortunately, very timely today as Americans prepare to go to the polls. Elizabeth Banks plays a woman in suburban Chicago who is suddenly confronted with a life-threatening pregnancy and discovers […]

$5.00

St. Andrews Film Society Presents – Brother

W.C. O'Neill Arena Complex - Theatre 24 Reed Avenue, Saint Andrews, NB, Canada

(2022, Canada, Drama, 119 min., Rated 14A) For Black History Month, we begin with a film that presents the experience of two Black Canadian brothers growing up in the Scarborough district of Toronto in the early 1990’s. Written and directed by Clement Virgo, Brother stars Aaron Pierre and Lamar Johnson (both are terrific) as Francis […]

$4.00

St. Andrews Film Society – Top Hat

W.C. O'Neill Arena Complex - Theatre 24 Reed Avenue, Saint Andrews, NB, Canada

Top Hat - (1935, US, musical, 101 min., rated G) What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon in January than revisiting this delightful classic, a musical full of comedy and romance, not to mention the incredible dancing skills of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. They play Jerry and Dale, who meet in London where […]

$3.00 – $4.00
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