Up the Ante!
“Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something”
-Wilson Mizner
THIS NOVEMBER: Play your card rights and come on down to Bloor Street, because we’re stacking the deck in your favour! The Paradise Presents … UP THE ANTE: Ramblin’ and Gamblin’ at the movies! If you’re looking for some action, join us for seven high-rolling films all about the games we play and how they play us.
Programming by Lucy Walker
Guys and Dolls
- Sun, Nov 23
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Run Time: 149 min. Release Year: 1955
Starring: Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Blaine, Robert Keith
It's a living breathing doll of a musical!
Hard Eight
- Mon, Nov 24
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Run Time: 102 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1997
Starring: Philip Baker Hall, John C. Reilly, Gwyneth Paltrow, Samuel L. Jackson, F. William Parker
If you stay in the game long enough, you'll see everything, win everything, and lose everything.
California Split
- Wed, Nov 26
Midnite weekend screenings happen on Friday & Saturday nights,. so please be sure to arrive on Friday and/or Saturday night by 11:45pm for seating and the screening will start after midnight.
Director: Robert Altman Run Time: 108 min. Format: DCP Release Year: 1974
Starring: George Segal, Elliott Gould, Ann Prentiss, Gwen Welles, Edward Walsh
…Being the story of two bet-on-anything guys who happily discover something called a "winning streak."