Gallery Night at the Movies

In conjunction with the Toronto International Film Festival, The TOM’s Gallery Night at the Movies film series in one of our most successful and long-running programs. As an Official Film Circuit Centre, Gallery Night at the Movies provides local filmgoers an opportunity to see films that may not otherwise be available in our region, and supports the Canadian film industry, by providing filmmakers and distributors the opportunities to extend the reach and theatrical runs of their releases into the smaller communities across the country.

With a season running September to May, Gallery Night at the Movies brings the best of Canadian, foreign and independent film to the region. As we enter our 24th season, we are expanding our series to include 11 fabulous films, featuring highlights from TIFF and the Film Festival Circuit. Our films are screened at our local Cineplex Theatre, Galaxy Cinemas in Owen Sound, offering a true cinematic experience with all the amenities.

Seating is first-come-first served. Tickets and passes are non-refundable. Doors open 30 minutes before screen time.

Gallery Night at the Movies is sponsored by:

Scott Kocher, TD Wealth Private Investment Advice

Well in Hand Health Food Store

Owen Sound Subaru

Shannon Deckers, RE/MAX Grey Bruce Realty Inc.

I LIKE MOVIES - April 3rd at 1, 4, and 7pm

Chandler Levack’s first feature, I LIKE MOVIES, is set in Burlington, Ontario in 2003, when video stores were still going strong, and any kid with a camcorder could declare themself a filmmaker.

Lawrence Kweller (TIFF Rising Star Isaiah Lehtinen) has a video camera and a lone best friend, Matt (Percy Hynes White), who is happy to be co-star, cinematographer, key grip, and whatever else Lawrence needs to act out his artistic aspirations. But Lawrence also believes that being an artist means never having to say you’re sorry. He treats his friend terribly, treats his mother (Krista Bridges) even worse, and has little patience for the customers at the local Sequels video store where he works part-time, much to the dismay of his manager (Romina D’Ugo). He remains obsessed with getting into NYU Film School — surely everyone will recognize his genius, right? The true central question of I LIKE MOVIES isn’t whether Lawrence will alienate anyone who ever liked him, but whether he’ll be able to win them back once he does.

Toronto-based director Levack, whose short film We Forgot to Break Up was a Canada’s Top Ten selection in 2017, captures the period detail perfectly, right down to the pop culture references and the spacious video-rental franchise: you can practically smell the popcorn ground into the Sequels carpet. The movie’s emotional realism is just as accurate, showing us the roots of Lawrence’s monomania and everyone else’s psychological baggage, too. I LIKE MOVIES carefully lays the groundwork for a very specific sort of coming-of-age story.

“[W]riter-director Chandler Levack has pulled off a rare trick here by making a movie that feels warm and safe without coddling its protagonist.”

–Katie Rife,

IndieWire

 Tickets are available at the Gallery in person or by phone during regular Gallery hours.                                                                                     There may be last-minute tickets available at our table in the foyer of Galaxy Cinemas 30 minutes before show time.                                         We can accept cash-only at our table at Galaxy Cinemas.

LIVING- April 24th at 1, 4, and 7pm

In this remake of Akira Kurosawa’s 1952 film Ikiru, director Oliver Hermanus teams with Nobel- and Booker Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro to renew the timeless tale of a bureaucrat who rediscovers life’s capacity for passion and joy following a terminal cancer diagnosis.

Mr. Williams (Bill Nighy) is a buttoned-down, pinstripe-and-bowler hat–clad stereotypical English gentleman in 1952, with a mid-level bureaucratic job in a postwar London county council. Through his taciturn manner, he lets his staff know that maintaining the status quo on files is more important than progress. One day Williams receives a dire diagnosis from his doctor, and soon the tightly-held reins of his very prosaic life begin to loosen: he realizes that he isn’t facing death; he’s been living it. In charmingly awkward sequences, Nighy beautifully captures that specific lead-up to the end of life and the inevitably accompanying questions: did I accomplish anything? Will I leave anything behind?

While the heart of the film is Nighy’s understated lead performance, equally as masterful is the profound sense of time and place created by the craft elements, notably production design by Helen Scott (Mothering Sunday, TIFF ’21; Small Axe), and costume design by the multiple Oscar– winning Sandy Powell. It’s all captured on screen by cinematographer Jamie Ramsay (Mothering Sunday), who impresses with his creation of beautiful images filled with light. Deeply affecting and an utter treat for the senses, Living is as timeless a film as the message at its core.

“It’s a film that could have so easily smacked of an exercise, but its beauty feels thrillingly natural, and its considerable emotional power is honestly earned.”

–Robbie Collins,

The Daily Telegraph

 Tickets are available at the Gallery in person or by phone during regular Gallery hours.                                                                                     There may be last-minute tickets available at our table in the foyer of Galaxy Cinemas 30 minutes before show time.                                         We can accept cash-only at our table at Galaxy Cinemas.