Cinéma du Parc

Cute little cinema! Some alternative showings and usually one more slightly mainstream title. The rooms are nice, comfy chairs. The staff is so nice and friendly!
You can get a movie pass deal, now that is a treat! I think is $ 45 for 6 movies.

Relatively cheap and shows a lot of movies other cinemas don’t. Great alternative to the massive movie theatres that only show blockbusters.

I love this cinema.: lower prices, cool films that you won’t see anywhere else and the staff is super helpful and sweet. Comfy seats, yummy popcorn and obnoxious people seem to avoid the place. Art House cinema, gummy bears at the concession. what more could you ask for?

Je suis abonnée à leur infolettre depuis plus d’un an, à l’affût de films intéressants, indépendants et différents de ceux présentés dans les grosses salles habituelles. Hier, j’ai finalement décidé d’y faire un saut, à l’occasion du festival du film chinois de Montréal.
Je n’ai rien regretté de ma première visite. Le personnel est sympathique et souriant, rien à voir avec les ados blasés des cinémas du centre-​ville.
Les salles sont de petite taille, assez chaleureuses dans l’ensemble et relativement bien entretenues. J’ai cependant trouvé que l’écran était un peu petit et disposé haut au-​dessus de nos têtes, mais bon, ce n’était pas non plus la fin du monde.
Et si vous avez envie d’un pop corn ou d’une friandise, munissez-​vous de quelques pièces de monnaie, car le comptoir à nourriture n’accepte pas les cartes.
Dommage que le cinéma soit un peu loin de chez moi, parce que leur sélection de films me plaît énormément!

The Little Movie Theatre That Can. The film selection is solid, the month-​long themes are always exciting, the seats are super-​comfortable and Oscar Night is always a blast. Get yer art-​house movie fix right here. Pro tip: the 45 $ 6-​movie pass is still the best movie theatre deal in town.

Montréal is seriously lacking in committed repertory and art house cinemas.
I remember back in the day when when places like Cinema V in NDG, the Rialto in Mile End would regularly play hard-​to-​find art-​house films like «Watership Down» or old Alfred Hitchcock classics like «Vertigo» on a regular basis.
The multiplexes, video, DVD and Blu-​ray players have totally killed that old world. True, you can always find these films at places like Boîte Noire or online nowadays, but there’s something about the experience of going to cinema, getting comfortable in plush seats in a giant darkened room, usually with strangers and opening yourself up to a cinematic experience, watching films that make you think, show another reality or way of life, films which stick with your for days afterwards. Renting out a film or downloading one doesn’t have the same emotional resonance as spending a rainy Sunday afternoon in a darkened theater watching American film noire from the 1940’s or post WWII Italian realism. I know we still have the Cinematheque and Ex-​centris, but I personally find Ex-​Centris is too modern and the Cinematheque’s selections are often too obscure.
Thank God Cinema du Parc is still with us, I still remember when it was downtown and called Cinema de Paris and then the owners brought it to Park Avenue, smart move considering it’s the heart of the McGill ghetto, and close enough to the Plateau and Mile End. It’s true ticket prices have been steadily rising here in the past few years and are nearly comparable to the multiplexes and they are showing first run mainstream films here alongside art-​house and festival films, even then Cinema du Parc is a great place to take in a film, usually with a hyper-​literate crowd.

De belles petites salles, une programmation toujours originale avec des films qu’on né trouve pas ailleurs, des avant premières et la possibilité de louer une salle pour une projection privé. Ce cinéma est multi-​culturel proposant aussi bien des films que des représentations ou expo en tout genre.
N’hésitez pas à visiter le site et prévoir vos soirées.

Depuis la fermeture du cinéma Ex-​Centris, il né reste plus beaucoup de cinémas indépendants à Montréal. Le Cinéma du parc, malgré les difficultés inhérentes à son offre de films, continue à offrir une alternative aux Montréalais qui n’ont pas nécessairement envie d’aller voir la dernière superproduction américaine. La dernière fois que je suis allé au Cinéma du parc, c’était pour voir Born into This, un documentaire sur l’écrivain Charles Bukowski. La salle était d’ailleurs presque vide, mais au moins, ceux qui voulaient le voir en en ont eu l’occasion. Fait cocasse, un des rares spectateurs de la salle, sans doute un disciple qui prenait au sérieux les techniques d’écriture de Bukowski, s’est fait un devoir de boire un «six-​pack» de bières durant la projection.

Great little theater in montreal… not only do they show some pretty cool movies, but it’s way cheaper than the standard theaters.
also, note the Metro grocery store right next door, great place to stock up before the movie :)

Our favorite theatre in Montréal. The best place to go for international films, and cheaper and friendlier than the AMC 22.
If you go regularly, it pays to get the discount card which gives you a break on the price. Watch for special events, like student film festivals, director visits.
(An occasional opportunity to get interviewed by Radio-​Canada.)

Cinema du Parc was a great substitute for a video store when I was living in Montréal. The prices have been rising steadily over the years, alas, but the commitment to a wide range of second-​run, hard-​to-​find classics, and art-​house movies hasn’t wavered. But they still validate parking at Place du Parc, so it’s worth the trip.
In addition to watching old prints of Superman 2 and Drunken Master here, I remember a number of fun premieres, like a local horror movie with lots of blatant Christian symbolism (a guy dressed like Jesus got cannibalized by naked women) which played on Easter weekend. There was also a documentary on Kubrick, directed by his longtime producer, which was packed. In both cases, the directors were on hand to answer audience questions afterward.
They no longer put out a monthly schedule, which is a shame, since everyone I knew in the neighbourhood would use it as a cheap calendar in their kitchens – and there was enough different stuff playing to justify having it at hand.