Join us Monday March 2nd at 7:00 pm for ‘Clemency’ at the Aurora Cinema Centre. Tickets are $13.00 each or you can purchase a flex pass for $55.00. The flex pass is good for 5 admissions and never expire!
Cash only please, FYI the movie theatre no longer has an ATM. Ticket sales will stop at 6:55 pm so our film loving volunteers can catch the beginning of the film. Synopsis: Prison warden Bernadine Williams (Alfre Woodard) has been in charge during eleven death row executions, and the stress of carrying them out has taken a great toll on her emotional and physical health.
As the execution date for another inmate approaches, Bernadine gets to know him. Anthony Woods (Aldis Hodge) is a young African-American man who was convicted of shooting a police officer during a convenience store robbery 15 years earlier. He’s a silent man, keeping to himself. He only opens up somewhat during visits from his lawyer, who continues to main Anthony’s innocence.
Her interactions with Anthony show a quiet, gentle man. But Bernadine can’t listen to her emotions if she’s to remain the warden.
Category Archives: Fort St. John Film Society
FSJ Film Society: Sometimes Always Never
Join us Monday February 24th at 7:00 pm for ‘Sometimes Always Never’ at the Aurora Cinema Centre. Tickets are $13.00 each or you can purchase a flex pass for $55.00. The flex pass is good for 5 admissions and never expire! Cash only please, FYI the movie theatre no longer has an ATM. Ticket sales will stop at 6:55 pm so our film loving volunteers can catch the beginning of the film.
Synopsis: A man searches tirelessly for his missing son who he has not seen in years. When a body is located, the entire family’s life is turned upside-down and they must all learn how to reconnect with one another.
Rating: PG. sexual language
FSJ Film Society: A Song of Names
Join us Monday February 10th at 7:00 pm for ‘The Song of Names’ at the Aurora Cinema Centre. Tickets are $13.00 each or you can purchase a flex pass for $55.00. The flex pass is good for 5 admissions and never expire!
Cash only please, FYI the movie theatre no longer has an ATM. Ticket sales will stop at 6:55 pm so our film loving volunteers can catch the beginning of the film. Synopsis: A child befriends a Polish violin prodigy whose parents leave him in his family’s care. The two boys become like brothers until the musician disappears. Forty years later, he gets his first clue as to what happened to his childhood best friend.
Rating: PG, violence, coarse language
New Season for Film Society
It is time to have your say in what films we bring to Fort St. John starting January 2020.
Please pick 5 films you would like to see next year from the Film Circuit Release Schedule attached by Sunday November 17. Send us an email or a post or message on Facebook.
Stay tuned to see which films end up at the top of the list!
FSJ Film Society Presents After the Wedding
Join us Monday November 4th at 7:00 pm for “After The Wedding” at the Aurora Cinema Centre.Ticket sales will stop at 6:55 pm so our film loving volunteers can see the beginning of the movie. Tickets are $13.00 each or you can purchase a flex pass good for 5 films for $55.00- cash only please, the theatre’s ATM is not always working. Flex passes are good for any film of the season! Synopsis: Seeking funds for her orphanage in India, Isabelle travels to New York to meet Theresa, a wealthy benefactor. An invitation to attend a wedding ignites a series of events in which the past collides with the present as mysteries unravel.
Rating: PG coarse language
Fall Film Line up
Save the dates for our fall 2019 films! Monday evenings @ 7:00 pm. Tickets are available starting at 6:15 pm the night of the film. Tickets are $13.00 each or you can purchase a flex pass that is good for 5 films for $55.00.
- September 23- All is True
- September 30- The Public
- October 7- Where’d you go
- Bernadette October 21- The Farewell
- October 28- Wild Rose
- November 4- After the Wedding
FSJ Film Society: All is Well
TONIGHT THE FIRST OF THE FILM SOCIETY’S Monday Night at the Movies—Don’t miss it! A GREAT line up for this season starting tonight.
Join us Monday September 23rd at 7:00 pm for “All is True” at the Aurora Cinema Centre.Ticket sales will stop at 6:55 pm so our film loving volunteers can see the beginning of the movie. Tickets are $13.00 each or you can purchase a flex pass good for 5 films for $55.00- cash only please. Flex passes are good for any film of the season!
Synopsis: The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family. Haunted by the death of his only son, Hamnet, he struggles to mend the broken relationship with his wife and daughters. In so doing, he is ruthlessly forced to examine his own failings as a husband and father.
Rating: PG, coarse and sexual language.
Film Society Fall Schedule
It is time to have your say in what films we bring to Fort St. John next fall!
Please pick 5 films you would like to see next year from the Film Circuit Release Schedule attached by next Tuesday August 6. Send us an email or a post or message on Facebook. The sooner we submit our choices the better chance we have of getting the films we want!
Please note that we may not be able to bring films in the ‘coming soon’ category.
Stay tuned to see which films end up at the top of the list!
FSJ Film Society: Fahrenheit 11/9
Join us Monday May 6 for ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ at 7:00 pm at the Aurora Cinema Centre.Ticket sales will stop at 6:55 pm so our film loving volunteers can see the beginning of the movie. Tickets are $13.00 each or you can purchase a flex pass good for 5 films for $55.00- cash only please! Flex passes are good for next seasons films as well. Synopsis: Michael Moore’s political documentary uses humor and connect-the-dots investigative journalism to question the Bush administration’s motives for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The film argues that President George W. Bush and his inner circle used the media to further an agenda that exploited the 9/11 attacks. The close ties of the Saudis to the Bush family, the cynical profiteering of corporations and a political elite beholden to special interests are all cited as elements of a corrupt system.
Rating: PG coarse language, violence, drug use
FSJ Film Society Presents: The Fireflies are Gone
Join us Monday April 29 for the Canadian film ‘The Fireflies are Gone’ at 7:00 pm at the Aurora Cinema Centre.Ticket sales will stop at 6:55 pm so our film loving volunteers can see the beginning of the movie. Tickets are $13.00 each or you can purchase a flex pass good for 5 films for $55.00- cash only please!
Synopsis: La disparition des lucioles (The Fireflies are Gone) brings to life the trials and triumphs of Léonie (Karelle Tremblay), a teenager waiting to finish high school and escape her industrial town. The story is anchored by the strong friendship between Léo and her much older guitar teacher, Steve (Pierre-Luc Brillant), which defies expectations as it touches on the characters’ battling egos and negotiations of power.
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