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🏀 See two of the world’s greatest legends collide in a brand-new universe in our next film in the Klassic Kidz series! W...
06/06/2026

🏀 See two of the world’s greatest legends collide in a brand-new universe in our next film in the Klassic Kidz series! When basketball megastar Michael Jordan teams up with animated icon Bugs Bunny–get ready for “Space Jam!”

The National Basketball Association meets Warner Bros.’ Looney Tunes–with Jordan as a live-action hero entering a spectacular animated world. Captured by Bugs Bunny to foil a ghastly gang of space creatures, Jordan must play the basketball game of his life to save the beloved cartoon heroes from a hideous kidnapping scheme. Will Jordan beat the odds and get his Looney new pals out of a real jam?

🍿 "Space Jam" screens Saturday, June 13 at 1:30pm

🎟 Get tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/klassic-kidz-space-jam/

🍁 Join us for a special restoration screening of "Sudden Fury" with a post-screening Q&A with director Brian Damude!Fred...
06/06/2026

🍁 Join us for a special restoration screening of "Sudden Fury" with a post-screening Q&A with director Brian Damude!

Fred and his wife Janet have been experiencing problems in their marriage. But when she refuses to help him fund the building of a rural resort and, subsequently, reveals that she’s had an affair, Fred snaps, staging a car accident on a country road and leaving Janet for dead. What seems like a perfect crime, disguised as an accident, is spoiled by the unexpected arrival of Al, an innocent passer-by who, in his attempt to save Janet, quickly finds himself fingered as the most likely suspect in her murder…

📽 Apart of ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ presented in partnership with American Cinematheque!

🍿 "Sudden Fury" screens Sunday, June 14 at 6pm

🎟 Get tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/bleak-week-restoration-sudden-fury/

06/05/2026

🌎 Gudo is a Soul Keeper, a spirit who guides human souls into their next life. When he befriends a young girl named Yuri, he discovers that her untimely death has left her cursed with unresolved rage and regret. As Yuri’s soul teeters on the edge of annihilation, Gudo embarks on a dangerous journey to stop her from unleashing horrible destruction on both the human world and the spirit realm.

The directorial debut from Tommy Ng Kai Chung brings together the finest young talent from Hong Kong to create a poignant fantasy that boasts awe-inspiring action and captivating visuals.

🍿 "Another World" screens June 14, 16 & 18 at the ByTowne Cinema!

🎟 Get tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/another-world/

🎞 By the time he made "Ugetsu", Kenji Mizoguchi was already an elder statesman of Japanese cinema, fiercely revered by A...
06/05/2026

🎞 By the time he made "Ugetsu", Kenji Mizoguchi was already an elder statesman of Japanese cinema, fiercely revered by Akira Kurosawa and other directors of a younger generation. And with this exquisite ghost story, a fatalistic wartime tragedy derived from stories by Akinari Ueda and Guy de Maupassant, he created a touchstone of his art, his long takes and sweeping camera guiding the viewer through a delirious narrative about two villagers whose pursuit of fame and fortune leads them far astray from their loyal wives.

Moving between the terrestrial and the otherworldly, "Ugetsu" reveals essential truths about the ravages of war, the plight of women, and the pride of men.

📽 Apart of ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ presented in partnership with American Cinematheque!

🍿 "Ugetsu" screens Sunday, June 14 at 12:30pm

🎟 Get tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/bleak-week-ugetsu/

06/04/2026

📽 Suburban Tokyo, 1987. Imaginative eleven-year-old Fuki begins her summer break lonely and adrift – her kind, terminally ill father has landed once again in the hospital and her mother, distracted by the inevitability of his diagnosis, hasn’t much time for her daughter. Fuki responds to the situation not with tears but with placid curiosity about the prospect of death – becoming fascinated by the occult and experimenting with hypnotism. As the summer passes, Fuki encounters a string of lonely, imperfect adults, all of whom nudge her closer to an emotional truth she isn't quite ready to name yet.

Chie Hayakawa’s sophomore feature is a tender, often unsettling portrait of childhood grief and the sinuous imagination of an inquisitive young girl.

🍿 "Renoir" screens June 13, 15 & 16 at the ByTowne Cinema!

🎟 Get tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/renoir/

🎞 Back in 1996, Nicolas Winding Refn turned down a spot at the National Danish Film School to make his debut film, "Push...
06/04/2026

🎞 Back in 1996, Nicolas Winding Refn turned down a spot at the National Danish Film School to make his debut film, "Pusher."

This cult classic established him as an uncompromising filmmaker of great talent. The Pusher Trilogy showcases his skill in blending moody atmospherics and frenetic action, revealing the humanity in violent criminals and how any pusher is just one bad deal away from ruin.

The resulting trilogy – newly restored in 4K – stands as a masterful reinvention of international crime cinema, as poignantly human as it is brutally and viscerally realized.

See all 3 films on the same day at the ByTowne Cinema!

🗓 ONE DAY ONLY - Saturday, June 13th

🍿 Pusher I: 6:30pm
🍿 Pusher II: 9pm
🍿 Pusher III: 11pm

📽 Apart of ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ presented in partnership with American Cinematheque!

🎟 Get tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/events/bleak-week/

06/03/2026

🏛️ Art, ambition, and power collide when an unknown architect is hired to construct a French monument.

In 1983, François Mitterrand decided to launch an international architectural competition for the flagship project of his presidency: the Grande Arche de la Défense, aligned with the Louvre and the Arc de Triomphe! To everyone’s surprise, Otto von Spreckelsen, a professor in Copenhagen, won the competition. Overnight, this 53-year-old, unknown in France, arrived in Paris where he was propelled to the head of this monumental construction project. And while the architect intended to build the Grande Arche exactly as he had envisioned it, his ideas would very quickly clash with the complexities of reality and the vagaries of politics.

🍿 "L’Inconnu de la Grande Arche (The Great Arch)" screens June 12, 15 & 18 at the ByTowne Cinema!

🎟 Get tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/linconnu-de-la-grande-arche-the-stranger-of-the-great-arch/

🎹 Michael Haneke ("Funny Games") directs this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control with "The P...
06/03/2026

🎹 Michael Haneke ("Funny Games") directs this riveting study of female sexuality and the dynamics of control with "The Piano Teacher", an adaptation of a controversial 1983 novel by Elfriede Jelinek.

Isabelle Huppert delivers an icy but quietly seething performance as Erika, a middle-aged piano professor at a Viennese conservatory who lives with her mother, in a claustrophobically codependent relationship. Severely repressed, she satisfies her masochistic urges only voyeuristically until she meets Walter (Benoît Magimel), a young student whose desire for Erika leads to a destructive infatuation that upsets the careful equilibrium of her life.

📽 Apart of ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ presented in partnership with American Cinematheque!

🍿 "The Piano Teacher" screens Friday, June 12 at 6pm

🎟 Get tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/bleak-week-the-piano-teacher/

📽 Stéphanie (Léa Drucker), a police officer working for Internal Affairs, is assigned to a case involving a young man se...
06/02/2026

📽 Stéphanie (Léa Drucker), a police officer working for Internal Affairs, is assigned to a case involving a young man severely wounded during a tense and chaotic demonstration in Paris. While she finds no evidence of illegitimate police violence, the case takes a personal turn when she discovers the victim is from her hometown.

Set against the backdrop of the gilets jaunes protests, "Dossier 137 (Case 137)" is a gripping, socially-charged thriller that was selected for official competition at the Cannes International Film Festival back in 2025.

🍿 From award winning director Dominik Moll ("Harry, He's Here to Help"), "Dossier 137 (Case 137)" screens June 5, 7 & 10 at the ByTowne Cinema!

🎟 Get tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/dossier-137-case-137/

06/02/2026

📽 Fiercely independent 90-year-old Agatha Bock lives alone on her family farm. Despite health challenges, she defiantly tends to her land, cultivating heirloom seeds passed down through generations. Employing antiquated techniques, Agatha plants and harvests her expansive field of watermelons, beans, flowers, herbs, and vegetables entirely by hand. Without a car, cell phone, running water, or even a functioning landline, Agatha’s meditative processes and daily rituals form a vivid counterpoint to the rapid pace of contemporary life. Made intentionally with sensory sensitive viewers in mind, the film carves out a (mostly) calm space in a chaotic world.

Shot by an all-female crew over six years on 16mm film, the project captures the handmade materiality inherent in both the medium of film and Agatha’s tactile world.

🍿 "Agatha’s Almanac" screens June 12, 14 & 17

🎟 Get tickets now: https://www.bytowne.ca/movies/agathas-almanac/

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