A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

Wednesday, June 3
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

BACKROOMS (Kane Parsons & Dan Cohen, 2026 / 98 mins / Rating TBD) A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

Wednesday, June 3
Doors 8:45 pm | Movie 9:15 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

BACKROOMS (Kane Parsons & Dan Cohen, 2026 / 98 mins / Rating TBD) A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

Thursday, June 4
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

BACKROOMS (Kane Parsons & Dan Cohen, 2026 / 98 mins / Rating TBD) A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

Thursday, June 4
Doors 8:45 pm | Movie 9:15 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

BACKROOMS (Kane Parsons & Dan Cohen, 2026 / 98 mins / Rating TBD) A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

A group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing her clothes and reselling them at a lower price, what they call "fashion-forward philanthropy." With Keke Palmer, LaKeith Stanfeld, Demi Moore, Don Cheadle, Adam Devine, 

"It’s a lot, but that’s Boots’ style. The 'Adult Swim' energy is strong here and the satire is sharp in the way that shattered glass flying every which way from a shotgun blast is." (Rolling Stone Magazine)

"'I Love Boosters' paints another winning amusement park ride in the bright colors of its filmmaker’s politics." (AV Club)

Friday, June 5
Doors 3:15 pm | Film 3:45 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

I LOVE BOOSTERS (Boots Riley, 2026 / 18A / 105 mins) A group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing her clothes and reselling them at a lower price, what they call "fashion-forward philanthropy."

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

Featured intro and post-show Q&A
Building the BACKROOMS
with Danny Vermette (Production Design), Mica Kayde (Costume Designer)

Friday, June 5
Doors 6:15 pm | Movie 6:45 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

BACKROOMS (Kane Parsons & Dan Cohen, 2026 / 98 mins / Rating TBD) A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom. After a therapist's patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.

Friday, June 5
Doors 9:15 pm | Movie 9:45 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

BACKROOMS (Kane Parsons & Dan Cohen, 2026 / 111 mins / 14A) A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

“You keep dancing with the devil, one day he’s gonna follow you home.”

Join us at the Park Theatre for a special screening of Ryan Coogler's SINNERS, presented in its entirety (in 70mm!), followed by an in-person Q&A featuring the film's Oscar-nominated VFX supervisor Michael Ralla, and VFX producer James Alexander.

Following the massive success of both CREED and BLACK PANTHER franchises, American director Ryan Coogler is reunited with one of the stars of those films, Michael B. Jordan, in an entirely new vision of fear: SINNERS. One of the most critically acclaimed and talked about movies of 2025, SINNERS received numerous accolades and awards - including Oscars for Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, and for Best Cinematography.

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Jordan, in a dual role) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. With Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, and Delroy Lindo.

"'Sinners' is a redemption movie, a revenge movie with elements of Blaxploitation, and certainly a red-blood-soaked horror movie; it’s also deeply romantic and has the rhythms and audaciousness of some of our boldest musicals." (Filmspotting)

"It’s both a wildly ambitious meditation on American history and a rip-roaring good time." (Slate)

"It is a phantasm of Black Southern delights." (New York Magazine / Vulture)

"An awe-inspiring ode to what music means to communities and cultures." (Chicago Reader)

Presented in Partnership with Vancouver Post Alliance and with the generous support of Warner Brothers Pictures.

Saturday, June 6 Presented in Glorious 70mm
Doors 12:30 pm | Movie 1:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

Panelists Including:

Michael Ralla (VFX Supervisor - SINNERS)
James Alexander (VFX Producer - SINNERS)
Nick Marshall (VFX Supervisor - ILM)
Michael Ranalletta (Comp Lead - ILM) 
Anthony Zwartouw (CG Supervisor - ILM) 

SINNERS (Ryan Coogler, 2025 / 137 mins / 14A) Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

Featured intro and post-show Q&A moderated by Brian Sepanzik
Capturing the BACKROOMS
with Jeremy Cox (Cinematographer), Edward Douglas (VFX)

Saturday, June 6
Doors 5:30 pm | Movie 6:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

BACKROOMS (Kane Parsons & Dan Cohen, 2026 / 98 mins / Rating TBD) A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom. After a therapist's patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.

Saturday, June 6
Doors 8:45 pm | Movie 9:15 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

BACKROOMS (Kane Parsons & Dan Cohen, 2026 / 111 mins / 14A) A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

"Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?"

Celebrating its 30th anniversary Danny Boyle's iconic TRAINSPOTTING returns to theatres on June 5, 2026 in a 4K Restoration that was supervised by Boyle himself.

Not only did Danny Boyle manage to put Irvine Welsh's "unadaptable" novel 'Trainspotting' on celluloid, but he did it with such kinetic, frenetic and phenomenally stylish aplomb that he also managed to craft one of the 90s most singularly defining films - and stars of its fantastic ensemble. Ewan McGregor commands the lead role of heroin addict Mark Renton, who stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends - including Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Begbie (Robert Carlyle), Spud (Ewen Bremner) and Tommy (Kevin McKidd). He even also has an underage girlfriend, Diane (Kelly Macdonald, in her film debut), along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.

"A brutal, often times funny, other times terrifying portrayal of drug addiction in Edinburgh. Not for the faint of heart, but well worth viewing as a realistic and entertaining reminder of the horrors of drug use." (Rotten Tomatoes)

"TRAINSPOTTING, buoyed by a great Brit Pop soundtrack and Brian Tufano's agile cinematography, captures the stoned-out, gut-churning experience of hardcore addiction with hallucinogenic acuity." (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Sunday, June 7
Doors 3:45 pm | Movie 4:15 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

TRAINSPOTTING (Danny Boyle, 1996 / 93 mins / 18A) Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom. After a therapist's patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.

Sunday, June 7
Doors 6:00 pm | Film 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

BACKROOMS (Kane Parsons & Dan Cohen, 2026 / 111 mins / 14A) A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom. After a therapist's patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.

Sunday, June 7
Doors 8:45 pm | Film 9:15 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

BACKROOMS (Kane Parsons & Dan Cohen, 2026 / 111 mins / 14A) A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

Monday, June 8
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

BACKROOMS (Kane Parsons & Dan Cohen, 2026 / 98 mins / Rating TBD) A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

A group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing her clothes and reselling them at a lower price, what they call "fashion-forward philanthropy." With Keke Palmer, LaKeith Stanfeld, Demi Moore, Don Cheadle, Adam Devine, 

"It’s a lot, but that’s Boots’ style. The 'Adult Swim' energy is strong here and the satire is sharp in the way that shattered glass flying every which way from a shotgun blast is." (Rolling Stone Magazine)

"'I Love Boosters' paints another winning amusement park ride in the bright colors of its filmmaker’s politics." (AV Club)

Monday, June 8
Doors 8:45 pm | Film 9:15 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

I LOVE BOOSTERS (Boots Riley, 2026 / 18A / 105 mins) A group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing her clothes and reselling them at a lower price, what they call "fashion-forward philanthropy."

A group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing her clothes and reselling them at a lower price, what they call "fashion-forward philanthropy." With Keke Palmer, LaKeith Stanfeld, Demi Moore, Don Cheadle, Adam Devine, 

"It’s a lot, but that’s Boots’ style. The 'Adult Swim' energy is strong here and the satire is sharp in the way that shattered glass flying every which way from a shotgun blast is." (Rolling Stone Magazine)

"'I Love Boosters' paints another winning amusement park ride in the bright colors of its filmmaker’s politics." (AV Club)

Tuesday, June 9
Doors 3:30 pm | Film 4:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

Tuesday 2-for-1 Tickets!

I LOVE BOOSTERS (Boots Riley, 2026 / 18A / 105 mins) A group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing her clothes and reselling them at a lower price, what they call "fashion-forward philanthropy."

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

Tuesday, June 9
Doors 9:00 pm | Movie 9:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

Tuesday 2-for-1 Tickets!

BACKROOMS (Kane Parsons & Dan Cohen, 2026 / 98 mins / Rating TBD) A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom. After a therapist's patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.

Wednesday, June 10
Doors 6:00 pm | Film 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

BACKROOMS (Kane Parsons & Dan Cohen, 2026 / 111 mins / 14A) A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

A group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing her clothes and reselling them at a lower price, what they call "fashion-forward philanthropy." With Keke Palmer, LaKeith Stanfeld, Demi Moore, Don Cheadle, Adam Devine, 

"It’s a lot, but that’s Boots’ style. The 'Adult Swim' energy is strong here and the satire is sharp in the way that shattered glass flying every which way from a shotgun blast is." (Rolling Stone Magazine)

"'I Love Boosters' paints another winning amusement park ride in the bright colors of its filmmaker’s politics." (AV Club)

Wednesday, June 10
Doors 8:45 pm | Film 9:15 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

I LOVE BOOSTERS (Boots Riley, 2026 / 18A / 105 mins) A group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing her clothes and reselling them at a lower price, what they call "fashion-forward philanthropy."

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom. After a therapist's patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.

Thursday, June 11
Doors 6:00 pm | Film 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

BACKROOMS (Kane Parsons & Dan Cohen, 2026 / 111 mins / 14A) A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom. After a therapist's patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.

Thursday, June 11
Doors 8:45 pm | Film 9:15 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

BACKROOMS (Kane Parsons & Dan Cohen, 2026 / 111 mins / 14A) A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

A group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing her clothes and reselling them at a lower price, what they call "fashion-forward philanthropy." With Keke Palmer, LaKeith Stanfeld, Demi Moore, Don Cheadle, Adam Devine, 

"It’s a lot, but that’s Boots’ style. The 'Adult Swim' energy is strong here and the satire is sharp in the way that shattered glass flying every which way from a shotgun blast is." (Rolling Stone Magazine)

"'I Love Boosters' paints another winning amusement park ride in the bright colors of its filmmaker’s politics." (AV Club)

Friday, June 12
Doors 3:15 pm | Film 3:45 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

I LOVE BOOSTERS (Boots Riley, 2026 / 18A / 105 mins) A group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing her clothes and reselling them at a lower price, what they call "fashion-forward philanthropy."

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

Featured intro and post-show Q&A
Shaping BACKROOMS
with Greg Ng (Editor), Eugenio Battaglia (Sound)

Friday, June 12
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

BACKROOMS (Kane Parsons & Dan Cohen, 2026 / 98 mins / Rating TBD) A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom. After a therapist's patient disappears into a dimension beyond reality, she must venture into the unknown to save him.

Friday, June 12
Doors 9:00 pm | Film 9:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

BACKROOMS (Kane Parsons & Dan Cohen, 2026 / 111 mins / 14A) A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

A group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing her clothes and reselling them at a lower price, what they call "fashion-forward philanthropy." With Keke Palmer, LaKeith Stanfeld, Demi Moore, Don Cheadle, Adam Devine, 

"It’s a lot, but that’s Boots’ style. The 'Adult Swim' energy is strong here and the satire is sharp in the way that shattered glass flying every which way from a shotgun blast is." (Rolling Stone Magazine)

"'I Love Boosters' paints another winning amusement park ride in the bright colors of its filmmaker’s politics." (AV Club)

Tuesday, June 16
Doors 3:30 pm | Film 4:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

Tuesday 2-for-1 Tickets!

I LOVE BOOSTERS (Boots Riley, 2026 / 18A / 105 mins) A group of shoplifters take aim at a cutthroat fashion maven by stealing her clothes and reselling them at a lower price, what they call "fashion-forward philanthropy."

A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

Tuesday, June 16
Doors 6:15 pm | Movie 6:45 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

Tuesday 2-for-1 Tickets!

BACKROOMS (Kane Parsons & Dan Cohen, 2026 / 98 mins / Rating TBD) A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

"Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?"

Celebrating its 30th anniversary Danny Boyle's iconic TRAINSPOTTING returns to theatres on June 5, 2026 in a 4K Restoration that was supervised by Boyle himself.

Not only did Danny Boyle manage to put Irvine Welsh's "unadaptable" novel 'Trainspotting' on celluloid, but he did it with such kinetic, frenetic and phenomenally stylish aplomb that he also managed to craft one of the 90s most singularly defining films - and stars of its fantastic ensemble. Ewan McGregor commands the lead role of heroin addict Mark Renton, who stumbles through bad ideas and sobriety attempts with his unreliable friends - including Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Begbie (Robert Carlyle), Spud (Ewen Bremner) and Tommy (Kevin McKidd). He even also has an underage girlfriend, Diane (Kelly Macdonald, in her film debut), along for the ride. After cleaning up and moving from Edinburgh to London, Mark finds he can't escape the life he left behind when Begbie shows up at his front door on the lam, and a scheming Sick Boy follows.

Smart, funny, sickly and sometimes just plain unconscious, Mark Renton became a hero of the times. Set in an underbelly of Edinburgh the city fathers never dreamed of, TRAINSPOTTING is the story of Mark and his so-called friends - a bunch of losers, liars, psychos, thieves and junkies. Hilarious but harrowing, the film charts the disintegration of their friendship as they proceed, seemingly inevitably, towards self-destruction. Mark alone has the insight and opportunity to escape his fate - but then again, does he really want to 'choose life'?

"A brutal, often times funny, other times terrifying portrayal of drug addiction in Edinburgh. Not for the faint of heart, but well worth viewing as a realistic and entertaining reminder of the horrors of drug use." (Rotten Tomatoes)

"TRAINSPOTTING, buoyed by a great Brit Pop soundtrack and Brian Tufano's agile cinematography, captures the stoned-out, gut-churning experience of hardcore addiction with hallucinogenic acuity." (Philadelphia Inquirer)

Tuesday. June 16
Doors 9:15 pm | Film 9:45 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

Tuesday 2-for-1 Tickets!

TRAINSPOTTING (Danny Boyle, 1996 / 93 mins / 18A) Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.

Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history.

The fifth annual edition in June 2026 expands to nearly 100 theaters across the U.S., Canada,U.K. and South and Central America, with each venue presenting its own original curated lineup of uncompromising films defined by unpleasant truths and raw empathy. The Park Theatre is delighted and honoured to take part in this monumental series, and sought selections from local filmmakers and friends of the venue when creating the series.

THE VIRGIN SUICIDES Selected by Oscar-winning local filmmaker Samantha Quan (ANORA, THE FLORIDA PROJECT, RED ROCKET)

In an ordinary suburban house, on a lovely tree-lined street, in the middle of 1970s America, lived the five beautiful, dreamy Lisbon sisters, whose doomed fates indelibly marked the neighborhood boys who to this day continue to obsess over them. A story of love and repression, fantasy and terror, sex and death, memory and longing. It is at its core a mystery story: a heart-rending investigation into the impenetrable, life-altering secrets of American adolescence. Featuring an epic soundtrack from the French electronic band AIR and memorable performances from Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Scott Glenn, Danny DeVito.

"Sofia Coppola's visually arresting adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides' cocktail-talk novel is pure aesthetic candy; her saturated colors, pitch-perfect '70s sensibility, and snapshot editing produce an unsettling modern fairy tale." (Time Out)

"A disarmingly poetic - and specifically female - vision of adolescence that it belongs in a category of its own." (Seattle Times)

Friday, June 19
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

Bleak Week Pass Here: https://tickets.theparktheatre.ca/events/41863-bleak-week-pass

Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history.

The fifth annual edition in June 2026 expands to nearly 100 theaters across the U.S., Canada,U.K. and South and Central America, with each venue presenting its own original curated lineup of uncompromising films defined by unpleasant truths and raw empathy. The Park Theatre is delighted and honoured to take part in this monumental series, and sought selections from local filmmakers and friends of the venue to curate the series.

Films in the series include:

The Virgin Suicides Selected by Oscar-winning local filmmaker Samantha Quan (ANORA, THE FLORIDA PROJECT, RED ROCKET)

Grave of the Fireflies Selected by Park Theatre Staff

In a Glass Cage Selected by Oscar-winning filmmakers Samantha Quan and Sean Baker (ANORA, THE FLORIDA PROJECT)

Husbands Selected by local filmmaker Sophy Romvari (BLUE HERON)

The Deer Hunter Selected by Oscar-winning cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw (SINNERS)

Hour of the Wolf Selected by local filmmaker Osgood Perkins (LONGLEGS, THE MONKEY, THE KEEPER)

The Celebration Selected by local actor Finn Wolfhard (STRANGER THINGS, IT)

Nightcrawler Selected by local filmmaker Zach Lipovsky (FREAKS, FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES)

Christiane F. Selected by Oscar-winning filmmaker Sean Baker (ANORA, THE FLORIDA PROJECT, TANGERINE)

Access to all of these films for just $40 (includes taxes and fees) See one or see them all for one sweet price!

“You keep dancing with the devil, one day he’s gonna follow you home.”

Join us at the Park Theatre for a special screening of Ryan Coogler's SINNERS, presented in its entirety (in 70mm!),

Following the massive success of both CREED and BLACK PANTHER franchises, American director Ryan Coogler is reunited with one of the stars of those films, Michael B. Jordan, in an entirely new vision of fear: SINNERS. One of the most critically acclaimed and talked about movies of 2025, SINNERS received numerous accolades and awards - including Oscars for Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, and for Best Cinematography.

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Jordan, in a dual role) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back. With Hailee Steinfeld, Jack O’Connell, Wunmi Mosaku, and Delroy Lindo.

"'Sinners' is a redemption movie, a revenge movie with elements of Blaxploitation, and certainly a red-blood-soaked horror movie; it’s also deeply romantic and has the rhythms and audaciousness of some of our boldest musicals." (Filmspotting)

"An awe-inspiring ode to what music means to communities and cultures." (Chicago Reader)

**Presented in Partnership with Vancouver Post Alliance and with the generous support of Warner Brothers Pictures.**

Friday, June 19 Presented in Glorious 70mm
Doors 8:30 pm | Movie 9:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

Assigned seats - $20 (includes taxes and fees)

SINNERS (Ryan Coogler, 2025 / 137 mins / 14A) Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history.

The fifth annual edition in June 2026 expands to nearly 100 theaters across the U.S., Canada,U.K. and South and Central America, with each venue presenting its own original curated lineup of uncompromising films defined by unpleasant truths and raw empathy. The Park Theatre is delighted and honoured to take part in this monumental series, and sought selections from local filmmakers and friends of the venue when creating the series.

GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES Selected by Park Theatre Staff

Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata's poignant animated drama GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES is a devastating meditation on the human cost of war, a tale of survival as heartbreaking as it is true to life. Based on the re-tellings of survivor Nosaka Akiyuki, the film has been universally hailed as an artistic and emotional tour de force that is both beautiful, yet at times brutal and horrifying. Now digitally remastered and restored, it is one of the rare films that truly deserves to be called a masterpiece

As the Empire of the Sun crumbles upon itself and a rain of firebombs falls upon Japan, the final death march of a nation is echoed in millions of smaller tragedies. This is the story of Seita (Tsutomu Tatsumi) and his younger sister Setsuko (Ayano Shiraishi), two children born at the wrong time, in the wrong place, and now cast adrift in a world that lacks not the care to shelter them, but simply the resources. Forced to fend for themselves in the aftermath of fires that swept entire cities from the face of the earth, their doomed struggle is both a tribute to the human spirit and the stuff of nightmares. Against all odds, the orphaned siblings must rely completely on each other and struggle to stay together and alive.

"GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... This film proves, if it needs proving, that animation produces emotional effects not by reproducing reality, but by heightening and simplifying it, so that many of the sequences are about ideas, not experiences. It belongs on any list of the greatest war films ever made." (Roger Ebert)

Saturday, June 20
Doors 2:00 pm | Movie 2:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

Bleak Week Pass Here: https://tickets.theparktheatre.ca/events/41863-bleak-week-pass

GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES "Hotaru no Haka" (Isao Takahata, 1988 / 90 mins / PG / Japanese with English subs) In the latter part of World War II, a boy and his sister, orphaned when their mother is killed in the firebombing of Tokyo, are left to survive on their own in what remains of civilian life in Japan. The plot follows this boy and his sister as they do their best to survive in the Japanese countryside, battling hunger, prejudice, and pride in their own quiet, personal battle.

Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history.

The fifth annual edition in June 2026 expands to nearly 100 theaters across the U.S., Canada,U.K. and South and Central America, with each venue presenting its own original curated lineup of uncompromising films defined by unpleasant truths and raw empathy. The Park Theatre is delighted and honoured to take part in this monumental series, and sought selections from local filmmakers and friends of the venue to curate the series.

IN A GLASS CAGE Selected by Oscar-winning filmmakers Samantha Quan and Sean Baker (ANORA, THE FLORIDA PROJECT)

IN A GLASS CAGE tells the story of an ex-Nazi child abuser named Klaus who is paralyzed and relies on an iron lung to live. A young man named Angelo arrives to nurse the sadistic patient. But as it turns out, Angelo was one of Klaus's victims years before. Inspired by the true story of 15th century French knight Gilles de Rais, this psychological thriller is considered Spanish filmmaker Agusti Villaronga’s masterpiece.

“This film was eventually discovered by adventurous horror connoisseurs, who quickly placed it alongside 'Salo' and 'Cannibal holocaust' in the pantheon of beautifully-made cinematic atrocities."
(Nathaniel Thompson, MONDO DIGITAL)

"As creepy as they come, leaving a lingering chill that only time can warm." (Los Angeles Times)

Saturday, June 20
Doors 9:00 pm | Movie 9:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

Bleak Week Pass Here: https://tickets.theparktheatre.ca/events/41863-bleak-week-pass

IN A GLASS CAGE (Augusti Villaronga, 1986 / 112 mins / 18A / Spanish w. English subtitles) A mysterious teenager named Ángelo cares for Klaus, a German doctor with a dark past who lives trapped in an iron lung.

Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history.

The fifth annual edition in June 2026 expands to nearly 100 theaters across the U.S., Canada,U.K. and South and Central America, with each venue presenting its own original curated lineup of uncompromising films defined by unpleasant truths and raw empathy. The Park Theatre is delighted and honoured to take part in this monumental series, and sought selections from local filmmakers and friends of the venue when creating the series.

HUSBANDS Selected by local filmmaker Sophy Romvari (BLUE HERON)

The trailblazing independent auteur John Cassavetes pushes his raw, uncompromising emotional realism to its limit in this unflinching portrait of masculinity in crisis. Cassavetes joins Ben Gazzara and Peter Falk—both of whom would become key collaborators of the director’s—playing a trio of middle-aged Long Island family men who, following the sudden death of their close mutual friend, channel their grief into an epic, multiday bender that takes them from Manhattan to London in a desperate, debauched quest to feel alive. By turns painfully funny and woundingly perceptive, this “comedy about life, death, and freedom” (as its tagline stated) stands as perhaps the most fearless, harrowingly honest deconstruction of American manhood ever committed to film.

"Few films capture with such life-affirming wonder the despair, hatred, and incomprehension that drives the sexes together and apart." (The New Yorker)

"If Cassavetes' hipster cine-language has lost a little of its age and the innovative improv style won't be for everyone, the themes he tackles, riffed by a masterful group of actors, remain enthralling." (Empire Magazine)

Sunday, June 21
Doors 1:00 pm | Movie 1:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

Bleak Week Pass Here: https://tickets.theparktheatre.ca/events/41863-bleak-week-pass

HUSBANDS (John Cassavetes, 1970 / 117 mins / 14A) The quiet, simple family lives of Gus, Harry and Archie (John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk) are shattered when their best friend, Stuart, has a heart attack and dies suddenly. Now facing their mortality, the three men fall into their own midlife crises. First by spending their days playing basketball and nights drinking, and eventually by ditching their families altogether for a sudden getaway to London, where they face the temptation to cheat on their wives for the first time.

Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history.

The fifth annual edition in June 2026 expands to nearly 100 theaters across the U.S., Canada,U.K. and South and Central America, with each venue presenting its own original curated lineup of uncompromising films defined by unpleasant truths and raw empathy. The Park Theatre is delighted and honoured to take part in this monumental series, and sought selections from local filmmakers and friends of the venue when creating the series.

THE DEER HUNTER Selected by Oscar-winning cinematographer Autumn Durald Arkapaw (SINNERS)

In 1968, Michael (Robert De Niro), Nick (Christopher Walken) and Steven (John Savage), lifelong friends from a working-class Pennsylvania steel town, prepare to ship out overseas following Steven's elaborate wedding and one final group hunting trip. In Vietnam, their dreams of military honor are quickly shattered by the inhumanities of war; even those who survive are haunted by the experience, as is Nick's hometown sweetheart, Linda (Meryl Streep).

One of the most acclaimed films of the 1970s, THE DEER HUNTER was nominated for nine Academy Awards, and won five (including Best Picture, Director, Best Supporting Actor, Best Sound, and Best Editing. With John Cazale, George Dzundza.

"This movie has qualities that we almost never see any more -- range and power and breadth of experience, all fully sustained throughout three hours of film that leave us exhausted and satisfied by the end." (New York Magazine / Vulture)

"One of the most ambitious, affecting, American movies ever made. Amazing." (Detroit Free Press)

Sunday, June 21
Doors 4:15 pm | Movie 4:45 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

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THE DEER HUNTER (Michael Cimino, 1978 / 183 mins / 18A ) The lives of a group of friends are forever changed by the Vietnam War.

Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history.

The fifth annual edition in June 2026 expands to nearly 100 theaters across the U.S., Canada,U.K. and South and Central America, with each venue presenting its own original curated lineup of uncompromising films defined by unpleasant truths and raw empathy. The Park Theatre is delighted and honoured to take part in this monumental series, and sought selections from local filmmakers and friends of the venue to curate the series.

HOUR OF THE WOLF Selected by local filmmaker Osgood Perkins (LONGLEGS, THE MONKEY, THE KEEPER)

HOUR OF THE WOLF ("Vargtimmen") is Ingmar Bergman's spin on the demons that plague his fellow creative artists. The strangest and most disturbing of the films Bergman shot on the island of Fårö, the film stars Max von Sydow as a painter who, while spending a summer in voluntary exile with his pregnant wife (Liv Ullmann), is visited by bizarre and disturbing visions. When the couple are invited to a nearby castle for dinner, things start to go wrong with a vengeance, as a coven of sinister aristocrats hastens the artist’s psychological deterioration.

This is a film that has something to say about the dangers of artists becoming too self-centered and self-involved. HOUR OF THE WOLF is a gripping film is charged with a nightmarish power rare in the Bergman canon, and contains dreamlike effects that brilliantly underscore the tale’s more horrific elements.

"'Hour of the Wolf' works magnificently." (Roger Ebert)

"It is unthinkable for anyone seriously interested in movies not to see it." (The New York Times)

Monday, June 22
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

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HOUR OF THE WOLF "Vargtimmen" (Ingmar Bergman, 1968 / 89 mins / PG / In Swedish with English subs) An artist in crisis is haunted by nightmares from the past in Ingmar Bergman's only horror film, which takes place on a windy island. During "the hour of the wolf" - between midnight and dawn - he tells his wife about his most painful memories.

Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history.

The fifth annual edition in June 2026 expands to nearly 100 theaters across the U.S., Canada,U.K. and South and Central America, with each venue presenting its own original curated lineup of uncompromising films defined by unpleasant truths and raw empathy. The Park Theatre is delighted and honoured to take part in this monumental series, and sought selections from local filmmakers and friends of the venue to curate the series.

THE CELEBRATION Selected by local actor Finn Wolfhard (STRANGER THINGS, IT)

The Danish Dogme 95 movement that struck world cinema like a thunderbolt began with THE CELEBRATION, Thomas Vinterberg’s international breakthrough, a lacerating chamber drama that uses the economic and aesthetic freedoms of digital video to achieve annihilating emotional intensity.

On a wealthy man’s sixtieth birthday, a sprawling group of family and friends convenes at his country estate for a celebration that soon spirals into bedlam, as bombshell revelations threaten to tear away the veneer of bourgeois respectability and expose the traumas roiling beneath. The dynamic handheld camera work, grainy natural lighting, cacophonous diegetic sound, and raw performance style that would become Dogme hallmarks enhance the shattering visceral impact of this caustic indictment of patriarchal failings, which swings between blackest comedy and bleakest tragedy as it turns the sick soul of a family inside out.

"A funny, volatile, visually dynamic story about the unraveling of one extended family during the course of a patriarchal 60th-birthday dinner." (Entertainment Weekly)

"At a time when filmmaking so often falls back on the familiar, its effect indeed manages to be excitingly inventive and pure." (New York Times)

Tuesday, June 23
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

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THE CELEBRATION "Festen" (Thomas Vinterberg, 1998 / 101 mins / 14A ) At Helge's 60th birthday party, some unpleasant family truths are revealed.

Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history.

The fifth annual edition in June 2026 expands to nearly 100 theaters across the U.S., Canada,U.K. and South and Central America, with each venue presenting its own original curated lineup of uncompromising films defined by unpleasant truths and raw empathy. The Park Theatre is delighted and honoured to take part in this monumental series, and sought selections from local filmmakers and friends of the venue when creating the series.

NIGHTCRAWLER Selected by local filmmaker Zach Lipovsky (FREAKS, FINAL DESTINATION: BLOODLINES)

Los Angeles denizen Louis Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) survives by scavenging and petty theft. He stumbles into a new career as a cameraman and -- armed with a camcorder and police scanner -- begins nocturnal forays across the city in search of shocking and grisly crimes. When he catches the eye of a shopworn news director (Rene Russo) who welcomes the chance to raise her station's ratings, Louis goes to increasingly greater lengths to catch the "money shot." With Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Bill Paxton.

"A mesmerizing cipher, Lou is a spiritual descendant of Robert De Niro's Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver, and of the withholding protagonists in the existential French crime films of Robert Bresson and Jean-Pierre Melville" (TIME Magazine)

"Make no mistake, 'Nightcrawler' is a major work for everyone involved." (Film School Rejects)

Wednesday, June 24
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

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NIGHTCRAWLER (Tony Gilroy, 2014 / 117 mins / 14A) A petty thief desperate for work muscles into the world of crime journalism and becomes the star of his own story as he blurs the line between observer and participant.

Presented in partnership with the American Cinematheque, ‘Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair’ is an annual film festival showcasing some of the greatest works of cinema from across the globe that venture into the darkest sides of humanity and the bleakest points in human history.

The fifth annual edition in June 2026 expands to nearly 100 theaters across the U.S., Canada,U.K. and South and Central America, with each venue presenting its own original curated lineup of uncompromising films defined by unpleasant truths and raw empathy. The Park Theatre is delighted and honoured to take part in this monumental series, and sought selections from local filmmakers and friends of the venue when creating the series.

CHRISTIANE F. Selected by Oscar-winning filmmaker Sean Baker (ANORA, THE FLORIDA PROJECT, TANGERINE)

Adapted from actress and musician Cristiane Felscherinow’s harrowing account of her teenage years, CHRISTIANE F. depicts the impact of West Berlin’s mid-to-late-70s heroin epidemic on one of its youngest and luckiest survivors. On the cusp of fourteen, David Bowie-worshipping Cristiane begins slipping out from under the watch of her divorced mother and spending time at hip discotheque Sound. There she falls in love with Detlev , whose recent experiments with heroin soon have her hooked.

Working with first-time actors and shooting on location with real-life regulars of Zoo Station’s notorious drug cruising scene, director Uli Edel unflinchingly captures the degradation of each phase of junkie life, from underage prostitution to brutal withdrawals to the seemingly endless vows to “go straight.” Bowie himself appears in a concert performance of “Station to Station”; the film’s soundtrack is a virtual compendium of the epochal musician’s celebrated “Berlin period” and a perfect sonic evocation of nightclubbing’s dark side. With Natja Brunckhorst, Christiane Lechle, Thomas Haustein.

"It is one of the most unremittingly grim portraits of drug addiction ever filmed." (Roger Ebert)

"A sad, sordid look at the horrors of drug addiction, and 'horrors' is the operative word.." (New York Times)

Thursday, June 25
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

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CHRISTIANE F. "Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo"  (Uli Edel, 1981 / 132 mins / NR / German w. English subs ) A teen girl in 1970s Berlin becomes addicted to heroin. Everything in her life slowly begins to distort and disappear as she befriends a small crew of junkies.

We're sharpening up our favourite Samurai swords and wiggling our big toes in celebration of the Park Theatre's exciting acquisition of a "new" 70mm film projector with screenings of Quentin Tarantino's epic KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR. This presentation unites Volume 1 and Volume 2 into a single, unrated epic--presented exactly as he intended, complete with a new, never-before-seen anime sequence. (We're being told that The Bride is headed into "the moratorium vault" for some time, so this could be the last time to see KILL BILL on the big screen - don't say we didn't warn you!)

Uma Thurman stars as The Bride, left for dead after her former boss and lover Bill ambushes her wedding rehearsal, shooting her in the head and stealing her unborn child. To exact her vengeance, she must first hunt down the four remaining members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad before confronting Bill himself. With its operatic scope, relentless action, and iconic style, KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR stands as one of cinema's definitive revenge sagas--rarely shown in its complete form and now presented with a classic intermission. With Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, David Carradine, Shin'ichi Chiba, Chia-Hui Liu, and Julie Dreyfus.

"If it’s an extravagant demand of time it’s an even more extravagant pleasure, the rare film worth a trip out to the cinema for full immersion." (Wall Street Journal)

This film includes a brief intermission. Don't forget to stay through the credits after Part 2 to catch an exclusive "lost scene"!

Saturday, June 30
Doors 6:30 pm | Movie 7:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR (Quentin Tarantino, 2006 / 275 mins / 18A) The Bride must kill her ex-boss and lover Bill who betrayed her at her wedding rehearsal, shot her in the head and took away her unborn daughter. But first, she must make the other four members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad suffer.

We're sharpening up our favourite Samurai swords and wiggling our big toes in celebration of the Park Theatre's exciting acquisition of a "new" 70mm film projector with screenings of Quentin Tarantino's epic KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR. This presentation unites Volume 1 and Volume 2 into a single, unrated epic--presented exactly as he intended, complete with a new, never-before-seen anime sequence. (We're being told that The Bride is headed into "the moratorium vault" for some time, so this could be the last time to see KILL BILL on the big screen - don't say we didn't warn you!)

Uma Thurman stars as The Bride, left for dead after her former boss and lover Bill ambushes her wedding rehearsal, shooting her in the head and stealing her unborn child. To exact her vengeance, she must first hunt down the four remaining members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad before confronting Bill himself. With its operatic scope, relentless action, and iconic style, KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR stands as one of cinema's definitive revenge sagas--rarely shown in its complete form and now presented with a classic intermission. With Vivica A. Fox, Daryl Hannah, Lucy Liu, Michael Madsen, David Carradine, Shin'ichi Chiba, Chia-Hui Liu, and Julie Dreyfus.

"If it’s an extravagant demand of time it’s an even more extravagant pleasure, the rare film worth a trip out to the cinema for full immersion." (Wall Street Journal)

This film includes a brief intermission. Don't forget to stay through the credits after Part 2 to catch an exclusive "lost scene"!

Tuesday, June 30
Doors 6:30 pm | Movie 7:00 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.

Tuesday 2 for 1 Tickets!

KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR (Quentin Tarantino, 2006 / 275 mins / 18A) The Bride must kill her ex-boss and lover Bill who betrayed her at her wedding rehearsal, shot her in the head and took away her unborn daughter. But first, she must make the other four members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad suffer.